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Brilliant prose gap

Thanks for dropping in to the "brilliant prose" page! This is fascinating history.

Here I see that Larry redirected BrilliantProse to Brilliant prose on 23 March 2001. Apparently by that date the CamelCase problem was solved. I assume this was a cut-paste move because the modern page move hadn't been developed yet. The last version before the move was 22:47, 21 February 2001 but at the target the oldest version is 19:50, 14 November 2001‎. Can you locate the history gap in Tim Starling's data or at least fill in between March 23–August 17, 2001? Thanks, wbm1058 (talk) 15:58, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

@Wbm1058: Yes, it was a cut-and-paste move between "BrilliantProse" and "Brilliant prose". I'm generally reluctant to import history when there are large gaps, but I've imported the March–August 2001 page history into Wikipedia:BrilliantProse (because that seemed to make the most sense) and changed the page accordingly. Despite how it may appear from my contribs, I haven't been up all night doing this ... I've been doing a few other things ... but I just happened to notice your message. Graham87 18:37, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Super! Perfect! So I guess ~3 months August–November 2001 are still lost "forever" on any page with multiple edits in that window, or at least until another backup surfaces? wbm1058 (talk) 19:58, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

@Wbm1058: Yep, that's correct. Graham87 03:45, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Import

Hi, Graham! I am only interested in translating the two pages into English; that is, no other projects at this time. If the pages are imported into my namespace, then I can try to figure it out from there. The pages are: http://de.wiki.x.io/wiki/Seese_(L%C3%BCbbenau/Spreewald) and http://de.wiki.x.io/wiki/Schloss_Seese — Preceding unsigned comment added by DaveStgt (talk • contribs) 14:53, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

Block notices

Howdy. Just letting you know you forgot to put a block notice on User:Zabooba, which led the user to be confused and email ArbCom, instead of just being able to read their talk. No biggie, but thought you'd want to know :) CaptainEek ^{Edits Ho Cap'n!}⚓ 01:38, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

@CaptainEek: Thanks, but I omitted the notice on purpose, thinking that there wasn't any point in wasting a page creation on such a, well, rather out-there user who may well be a block-evading sock. I take your point that it might have been better for all parties if I'd added it, however. I've taken the liberty of revoking their talk page access after their latest rant, this time with an appropriate note. Graham87 03:49, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Those recent edits to Whiskey Rebellion's lead

I know you probably know but anyway...looks like some kind of class assignment might be going on since both of those additions are from editors who seem to be from the same community college...1/they both say so on their user pages or in their sandboxes & 2/both their user names end in the community college's initials & 3/their sandboxes have such similar edits. I am not quite sure if it is possible to search out the class or if the instructor is here on WP somewhere... Shearonink (talk) 06:23, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

@Shearonink: Yeah ... see my contribs. I've been going through the recent contribs of the users whose names link to Pellissippi State Community College in userspace and am about to leave a message at User talk:Webuckpstcc, who appears to be the instructor. Graham87 06:26, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

@Shearonink: I've written my message there. If you have anything to add, feel free. Graham87 06:42, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

The PSTCC History Project

Hey Graham87,

Just curious as to why you are reversing the addition of scholarly citations to Wikipedia articles. Is it just because we are students, or do you personally disagree with the addition of the particular sources we are citing?

Thank you, Gabriel VerBerkmoes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gcverberkmoespstcc (talk • contribs) 13:24, 1 October 2021 (UTC)

User talk:Utkarsh555

Hi , @Graham87: a user moves your usertalk and userpage to another username.please do anything.Best Regards. Maniik ^{🇮🇳Any Help🇮🇳? Contact Me.} 08:26, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Champ Butler

Your mass deletions of mentions of this singer from a number of articles, which I originally added, seems somewhat over-zealous to me. You’ll see that I’ve undone most of them. Many of these removals are inconsistent with what is already listed on those articles - other, equally “non-notable” figures, which you have not removed. What appears to irk you is that Champ Butler is a newly-created article. Perhaps you’re only focusing on these additions, rather than what is already in the list articles. Based on what was already in the articles, Butler seemed a reasonable addition. I can see that according to notability guidelines for cover versions of songs, a track list inclusion isn’t enough as a source; okay, I can probably find contemporary Billboard magazine sources for those songs instead. Not charting with a song doesn’t consistently apply to all artists on these lists, as some were album tracks; however, they may be more notable as artists. Not all, though. I also take exception to your comment here at this edit summary. It comes across as patronising and unnecessary: "rv, per the relevant guideline, we need a ref that asserts that that recording is notable compared to all others ... since you've only jus ... since you've just created the article on the singer I don't think that's going to happen". Whether an article has just been created or not is surely irrelevant. Although funnily enough, that is one removal of CB which I can accept, since he probably wouldn’t be considered as notable as others on the list. TrottieTrue (talk) 14:13, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Soghomon Tehlirian

Thanks for working on that article! A minor thing: about this edit, Pasha is a title and not a part of the guy's name. Ottoman-era Turks did not have family names, so he's properly referred to as "Talaat"

WhisperToMe (talk) 16:02, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

@WhisperToMe: Thanks for the note and the correction; I almost never edit in that subject and just have that page on my watchlist due to vandalism that stuck around for a while. Graham87 16:10, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

Incomplete archiving template on Talk:José Padilla (criminal)

Hi Graham87. Your edit to Talk:José Padilla (criminal) in August 2021 to implement archiving with a bot template appears to be incomplete. Can you drop by the page some time and fix what you intended the bot archiving template needed to be? I cannot work out how to fix it. Thanks in advance, your edit will be enough of a response. - Cameron Dewe (talk) 23:39, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Heinz Trökes for En pages

Hi Graham87

Thank you very much for your quick response and of-course, I know that Wiki is not a translation service. I will do my best (Note by importing administrator: Done @JanManu: I'm only doing this for you because you seem to be an experienced editor on the German Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a translation service. I've fixed your formatting. Graham87 15:16, 21 October 2021 (UTC)) Great ! --JanManu (talk) 15:32, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

A message of admiration!

Hi! I recently read Wikipedia:Colons and asterisks and thought I'd give using Wikipedia via a screen reader a go. I used Windows 10's built in narrator. I just want to say that firstly, I don't know how you do it (I would hope "professional" screen readers are better!) and secondly, is there anything we (and by that, I mean myself and other editors) can do to better? ~TheresNoTime ^{(to explain!)} 13:00, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

@TheresNoTime: Thanks for the kind words! Yeah Narrator's not the best (though it's better than it used to be); the easiest-to-install option that's used often on Windows is NVDA. Basically half the knack of using a screen reader efficiently is learning how to filter the info you're hearing (and especially when to cut off speech once you've heard enough), and the other half is learning to understand synthesised speech at several hundred words a minute, as comically demonstrated after the first chorus of this song. As for things other editors can do to help users like me, I can't think of anything special that's not in the guidelines/conventions already. Graham87 13:13, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi Graham, about the last point you made (I can't think of anything special that's not in the guidelines/conventions already., something I have wanted for a long time would be for MOS:ACCESS to be codified as policy, which would help a lot in certain cases. However, since I don't think it would be feasible to get the whole thing to be policy in one go, especially the color section, I would like to ask you which sections you think make the most impact on people like you. -- Asartea ^{Talk | Contribs} 14:42, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

@Asartea: Probably the structure and LISTGAP sections. I'm meh on the practical benefits of upgrading it to a policy though; it was discussed back in 2007. Graham87 14:54, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Hmmm, I can see that, but having seen massive RFC's run on the question: do we really need a inaccessible color scheme on this table, I can see having it policy be useful when someone needs a quick whack on the head. It seems in 2007 this was also a issue based on the start of that RFC, and considering I'm still running into it in 2021 and it shouldn't be hurting anyone I think it has uses (and once a basic policy stands it becomes much easier to add the rest of the guideline into it). One more question, would you happen to know any other editors with disabilities who I could ask about what they would like to see? -- Asartea ^{Talk | Contribs} 15:00, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

@Asartea: Yeah makes sense. I like accessibility's usual state of relative calm though :-) ... there's so much other craziness going on on Wikipedia. One person I can think of with accessibility needs different from mine is Moxy, but it'd probably be better to have this conversation somewhere like the accessibility talk page. Graham87 15:17, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

@Asartea: Redo ping. Graham87 15:49, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

November songs

On Graham's concert day, 3 DYK, Brahms depicted + sadly Aga Mikolaj (listen!). May the roads that we travel make us meet again! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:21, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Wow! RIP, she's gone far too soon. I listened to some of the Strauss and Mozart ... she had an amazing voice! Graham87 02:23, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

thank you! - "juxtaposition of the sublime and the trivial" + 3 more subjects who recently died + the inevitable arbcom + Advent is better (only that was the last singing for the year) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:33, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Assuming I understood your user page right, happy birthday and best wishes!! Mathsci (talk) 03:31, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

@Mathsci: Yes you did, and thanks very much! Graham87 03:35, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Best wishes, Graham, and I hope you had (since I guess it's now over) a very happy birthday. — JohnFromPinckney (talk / edits) 18:06, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, John, it was a good day. Graham87 02:16, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Questioning your revert of Twelve Apostles edit

Hi, you reverted my edits in The_Twelve_Apostles_(Victoria) http://en.wiki.x.io/w/index.php?title=The_Twelve_Apostles_(Victoria)&action=history

saying:

it was correct before, as outlined in The Age ref

But that very The Age ref

https://web.archive.org/web/20091001164816/http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-news/sister-not-apostle-crumbles-into-sea-20090928-g87j.html

says:

"In 2005, the Twelve Apostles were reduced to eight when a large stack crumbled into the sea."

so it agrees with the claim that there were originally nine, which is what is stated in the latest version of the official site: "There were nine rock stacks at the beginning of the 21st century."

https://www.parks.vic.gov.au/places-to-see/parks/port-campbell-national-park/things-to-do/twelve-apostles

which you replaced with an older, archived one.

So if you care about being coherent with the known references, I respectfully suggest you revert your reverts :-)

--Kai Carver (talk) 21:01, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi again, in your reply (on my talk page) you said:

> that Age ref also says the rock formation that collapsed in 2009 was *not* one of the Twelve Apostles

Sure. But the crumbled stack that ref mentions reducing the nine to eight is from 2005, so presumably not that wrongly-identified 2009 one.

So why not let the Wikipedia article match that ref and the most current official documentation about the site?

--Kai Carver (talk) 16:55, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Well we clearly disagree. You say something "strange" is going on. It doesn't seem so to me. But I'm done trying to convince you. I left a copy of my arguments on the article's Talk page, in case they could be of use to someone else.

http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Talk:The_Twelve_Apostles_(Victoria)#Originally_eight_or_nine_stacks%3F

--Kai Carver (talk) 16:46, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Yebble

Hi Graham. Yes so pleased you have sorted out the Yebble page for me. It was my first attempt and welcome your assistance. The story of Samuel Issacs is one that needs to be told and I think this is a major step forward. Now that the page is published I can also edit some more information in. Thanks for your interest in Western Australian history, especially the Sussex location region. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GHC411 (talk • contribs) 01:12, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi Graham. Again thanks for the responses. I am struggling to find how to reply to you being a novice. Yes perimeter road can be verified using www.landgate.wa.gov.au/mapviewer which has all the official road names shown (better than using the unofficial maps like Google maps). With regards to Yebble citation this should be "Landgate, original Crown Grant". I will be a few extra geographic features and roads to the list on Sam Isaacs. Please cite and correct these edits to Landgate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GHC411 (talk • contribs) 02:16, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

Creation of new accounts blocked on campus

Hi Graham, I am an academic librarian who is about to help dozens of students create their own WP accounts. Unfortunately I see that the creation of new accounts from this campus has been blocked. I ask that you rescind this as soon as possible. After they have created their accounts I will be leading them in doing their first 10 edits in sandbox mode, then we will be having an edit-a-thon on the subject of Native American Tribes in Oklahoma, USA. Thanks in advance!

Kind regards, James — Preceding unsigned comment added by James E. Scholz (talk • contribs) 16:47, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

Edit to add: I have asked my students to create their accounts at home as you suggested. This should resolve the issue. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by James E. Scholz (talk • contribs) 17:20, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

school

Hello, 205.237.30.142 is the IP in our school. Please don't block it forever. Could you please allow students to create an account even if the IP is currently blocked? Can you modify the block setting? Joe Pig (talk) 15:19, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

OK, I'm waiting for him. Joe Pig (talk) 17:28, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

How am I being disruptive?

@Graham87, you reverted my edit to Fear of needles and sent me this message:

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Fear of needles, you may be blocked from editing. Graham87 04:14, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

How is making a single edit considered disruptive editing? Your message even links to the disruptive editing page, which states in the very first sentence that disruptive editing is a "pattern of editing". I'm not sure how you can consider one edit to be a pattern. In addition, you never make any sort of remark as to how my edit could be considered unconstructive and constitute vandalism. Also, I really don't appreciate such an aggressive, confrontational message as the first interaction out-of-the-blue from a complete stranger. When your very first message to someone you've never interacted with before is a curt message that contains what amounts to an accusation of vandalism and a veiled threat of blocking, you yourself are in danger of violating Wikipedia's policy on civility. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.145.175.99 (talk) 19:15, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

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Structural equation modeling

Hello Graham. I noticed that you today removed an example (tourism) and its reference from Structural equation modeling. Your edit summary referred to a hyphen-fix, so I wonder if this was a mistake. Please could you clarify? There may be a very good reason for removing tourism as an application of SEM, along with its reference. I have not reverted your edit. Thanks very much. --Wavehunter (talk) 16:21, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. --Wavehunter (talk) 16:43, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Photovoltaic power station

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Import

Hello, I tried to import the German article of Sebastian Steudtner. Thereby I have expressed myself wrong. Sebastian is an internationally successful surfer, so it makes sense to create his Wikipedia article also on the English Wikipedia. For example, he has already started a world record attempt, so it would be quite relevant. I have already translated everything from German and now I would like to ask you for help to realize this. Agathakastenhuber (talk) 16:04, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

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Protection on Arthropoda redirect

Hi, I'm not sure why the redirect Arthropoda was protected by you in 2008; possibly the story is more complicated than the log reveals. Do you think the protection could be lifted now? The target page, arthropod, currently seems to be doing fine without protection. William Avery (talk) 22:03, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

@William Avery: If you filter the log like this, it's easier to see that I wasn't the original protecting admin; I just restored the protection after a history merge. The redirect was originally protected by NawlinWiki in response to page-move vandalism by Grawp, who has moved on to other things. Since the protection is no longer needed, I've gone and undone it. Graham87 03:25, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Happy holidays

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	Hi Graham87, May you have a bright and beautiful holiday season, thank you for all you do for the encyclopedia and the community. Have a happy and healthy 2022! Netherzone (talk) 17:20, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2022!

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Issue

Not sure why this was described as an "inappropriate comment" where I know from you that the user is no longer with us. I had mentioned "family" in there and made the talk page watchers know that I was thanking this user for the contributions made over the years as well. That is a strange revert. Iggy (Swan) (Contribs) 16:56, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

@Iggy the Swan: That should be brought up with Liz, who made the revert, not me. For what it's worth I agree that sending Christmas greetings to a deceased person is ... decidedly odd. Even if done with the best intentions. Graham87 17:07, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

From what I see, I would think the version I did a year ago fits in better than what I did yesterday. Even if I did do with the best intentions, Liz certainly stepped in and removed the entire section. I first seen that revert as a controversial edit but I certainly did not revert it back to my version in case I go into edit warring myself about this. Iggy (Swan) (Contribs) 17:14, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

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Draft:The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers

Hey, I noticed that two days ago you deleted a version of this page as created by a block evader. Given the submitter's contribution history is just creating this page in one edit and then submitting, I'm afraid this is another instance of the same. Can you take a look? Rusalkii (talk) 19:03, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

@Rusalkii: Thanks for the note; deleted, blocked, and tagged as a sockpuppet of Allenroyboy. Graham87 02:37, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Pity, it wasn't a bad draft, at least to my inexperienced eye. Rusalkii (talk) 02:50, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

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