User talk:Tris Wilson/Archives/2014/June

VacationValet Channel ref. account

As far as I know i'm the only one with access to this account, additionally I was under the impression that I was well within the posting policies of wikipedia/media. The quagmire of registration with all entities and ultimately being on target with every instance of registration is really quite impossible. Could you please point out the mistake, if any, I've made in posting or registration; after my review, I found none. I'm completely agreeable to making any necessary changes or corrections with regards to my account. Thank you, James(VacationValet Channel); and as a foot note I need to correct it to it's further extrapolation of (The VacationValet Channel, so as to abbreviate to TV2C.com); again another registration process. Thanks, again — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.151.46.222 (talk) 16:35, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

What I'm saying is that the account name implies that you are editing on behalf of a group - it doesn't matter who has access. However, if you want to change your username, you can go here and follow the instructions - all your edits will be re-attributed. I hope this doesn't discourage you from editing - Wikipedia is really a great place. It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 17:00, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

delsort.js

I really appreciate the script. :) Little thing: Could you perhaps make it context sensitive...i.e., only appearing on AfD pages? I think you could use something like this:
if (wgPageName.indexOf('Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/') != -1 && wgPageName.indexOf('Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Log/200') == -1) {
Keep up the good work! —Theopolisme (talk) 23:58, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Should be working now - I'll test in a bit. It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 00:44, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Almost working, just need to change 200 to 201. It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 00:49, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Reverted an edit in "Anti-establishment"

Hey there. I'm not wedded to it, but I think I was helping by adding dead prez into Anti-establishment. They fit extremely well with the other information already on the page--albeit I think I would agree if someone proposed that the entire page needed a major overhaul that might end up with no mention of dead prez.

Nonetheless: What? Why? Did you read the article? Are you familiar with the works of dead prez?

70.171.7.240 (talk) 13:57, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Looking more closely at the edit, I see what you mean. I'll go ahead and revert it, and if you want, I can remove the warning. Thanks for letting me know. It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 13:59, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

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Sarfaraz Saifi

Hi, I removed the BLP prod that you added to Sarfaraz Saifi because another editor added a source. If you believe that the article still does not meet inclusion criteria feel free to initiate an AfD or traditional prod. J04n(talk page) 15:26, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

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You should have assumed good faith by leaving a message on my talk page instead of taking me for a common troll. Do you even know who I am? I made that edit because I believed it to be constructive, and I can't believe you would revert it without consulting me. If you do something like that again, I will report you for arbitration. —72.215.153.100 (talk) 19:10, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Your edit looked like an unconstructive edit. It didn't help the page... why would you redirect the page? This is vandalism, especially since you WP:EDITWARred to re-add it. Even if it was constructive, Fox didn't need permission to readd it; see WP:BRD. Arbitration is unnecessary here. If you really think Fox violated a core Wikipedia policy, feel free to report it at WP:ANI. Vacation9 19:43, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

User space

Hi. I'm so sorry because I didn't save my subpage in my user space but I don't know how to do it. I come from pt:WP and there we have Subpages categories. Here I d'ont understand how to do it. Is a little confusion. Nini ^✉ 18:03, 8 February 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nini00 (talk • contribs)

Sorry I'm so sleepy! I wrote "usuário" instead "user" even on my signature! It happens, first 24 hours here Nini ^✉ 18:11, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that. I believe you're looking for how to save subpages in your userspace. This can be done by simply creating a page starting with, in your case, "User:Nini00/". If you wanted to create an article on a Potato, you would do "User:Nini00/Potato". Hope this helped. Vacation9 19:38, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

"Shiny Thingy" on VoxelBot

IMO, it clutters VBot's userpage. There is already a vandal info template on the page. Vacation^nine Public 15:46, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Fine... :) It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 16:09, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

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{{Help me}} Can users !vote on AfDs concerning pages they have created? (the answer is probably staring at me in the face in the policy, but, you know, I never can see those ;)) It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 00:07, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Yes. Why ever not? There is only one creator, so that's just one !vote in a mix of others. As you have indicated it's not a vote - it's up to the editors to put a case for keep or delete with reference to the policies.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 00:43, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

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Decline of Lenzman article

Hello,

I noticed you just declined my article on Lenzman. The main reason being 'the golden rule' (significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent) Well I looked up the golden rule and one of the sources is an interview in Mixmag, a leading dance music magazine. I'm not sure how that doesn't qualify under the golden rule?

Can you please explain what I've done wrong, because I've done my utmost to make this article work.

Thank you,

Teye — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.106.109.136 (talk) 01:35, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Oh wow... I was looking at the "External links" section. I am extremely sorry. Please add the review tag back, I'll see if I can get another uninvolved editor to accept. Thanks for letting me know. It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 23:14, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

That would be much appreciated. The review tag is back on! Many thanks... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.106.109.136 (talk) 09:51, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

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List of Rivers by name.

Hi Fox Wilson, Hope you read my reply regarding the speedy deletion of the 'List of Rivers by name' Do you genuinely think a list would be not worth hosting on Wikipedia? regards James emmans — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jemmans (talk • contribs) 15:04, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Please look at the reason given for deletion, which I believe was A10. This means that the subject of the article or list is already covered somewhere else on Wikipedia, in this case, List of rivers covered it. It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 19:19, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Sandbox categorized

Hi Fox Wilson, by including Hello in your sandbox template, your userpage appears categorized in Category:English words and Category:Greeting words and phrases. I am using the former as an example category for what kind of articles belong to all the subcategories of Category:Words and phrases by language and I'm not sure how to remove your sandbox from the category without adding noinclude tags in Hello. Hoverfish Talk 18:40, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Oh, sorry about that. I was testing ParserFunctions, and I guess I forgot to clear my sandbox. I've gone ahead and cleared it, thanks for telling me. It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 19:17, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

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your revert

here was not helpful. Please make yourself familiar with the new interwiki feature of Wikidata. Thx. -- 109.48.76.201 (talk) 23:14, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Oops, missed that. I guess I was confused because I wasn't seeing any interwiki links on the page... My mistake. I'm still rather confused about interwikis with Wikidata -- I'll see what I can do. Thanks. It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 01:20, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

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"revert promo"

Help me understand this. Tree Proximity (talk) 13:37, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

I reverted it because it seemed to be promotional material -- although it was sourced, it's not a very good thing to put in the lead section. Thanks for editing! It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 14:46, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Special:DoubleRedirects

I am not sure what happened but it seems like your bot has generated a number of double redirects somehow. I also operate a bot to fix double redirects and do not want to make this look like a turf war. I realize fixing double redirects is a thankless and mindless task and suggest cooperation perhaps? -- A Certain White Cat ^chi? 01:27, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

I'm not the one who coded that part of the bot -- you could talk to Vacation9 about that. In short though, it's doing that as part of a fix for Romanian characters, it won't/shouldn't fix double redirects unless it moved a page as well. It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 11:28, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Your delsort script

Hi there. I just noticed that you were developing User:Fox Wilson/delsort.js, which made me very happy because I've been waiting for a good delsort script for ages. :) I tried adding it to my vector.js, though, and it doesn't seem to be working. (The buttons appear on AfD pages, but nothing happens when you click them.) Is the script in a usable state? I'd love to get it working properly. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 15:02, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) It works for me - have you purged the page in your browser? If so, do any errors show in your javascript console? Vacation9 15:09, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Yep, I purged the page. I got the following error when I tried clicking on one the "academics and educators" delsort link at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Complete Set Character (probably a good job it didn't work this time, because that's definitely the wrong category):

Error: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected end of data

Source File: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fox_Wilson/delsort.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript

Line: 89

I'm using Firefox 18.0.2 at the moment. Any ideas? — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 15:20, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Interesting... it worked for me ([1]) I'm using Chrome. Line 89 gets edit tokens; do you mind visiting this link a few times and telling me if you get any errors (obviously don't say what it includes)? Vacation9 15:25, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Nope, no errors from that link at all. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 15:27, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

The problem is that it's parsing the data before it's ready. You or Fox need to change xhr.readyState==4 on line 88 to xhr.readyState==4 && xhr.status==200, then it should all be perfect. Vacation9 15:33, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Ok, I updated the script, and I tried clicking on the "academics and educators" delsort link at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Complete Set Character again. This time there were no errors! ...but the script still didn't do any deletion sorting. :( I'm afraid I shall have to continue this conversation tomorrow - sleep is calling. Thank you for all your help so far! — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 15:43, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Alright, see you in the morning. Sorry to hear you're still having problems; you purged the page correct? It must be a local JavaScript issue or something, or a Firefox issue. I'll look into it later. Vacation9 15:45, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Yep, I purged the page. Otherwise I would have got the old error again, I assume. Anyway, g'night. :) — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 15:46, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

For when you wake up, I tried it in Firefox 18.0.1 and it worked perfectly... if there are no errors, I don't know... do you have a "disable Javascript" security option somewhere? I'm a Chrome user. Vacation9 17:07, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

And I *just* now notice this. I'll fix the script. It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 22:48, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Nevermind, you're an admin, didn't notice that :P It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 22:50, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

User:Ais523/adminrights.js is a handy script. Vacation9 22:54, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

I just tried delsort.js in Safari/iOS, and it worked fine. Will experiment with some different setups later on. — Mr. Stradivarius on tour ^{♪ talk ♪} 06:59, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Aha! I've found the cause of the problem - the script doesn't work when you are logged into the secure server. On the normal server it works fine for me, but on the secure server clicking on a delsort link does nothing. Would this be difficult to fix? — Mr. Stradivarius on tour ^{♪ talk ♪} 09:25, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Oh, that makes some sense. Should be able to implement something by the end of the day if all goes well. It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 11:11, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into it for me. :) — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 11:43, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Vacation9 provided a quick fix,, and I have updated the script. Now it also works on the secure server! Woo! I'm guessing it would break if someone tried to use it through the old secure server, though, but that doesn't strike me as such a pressing need. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 12:59, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Also, I couldn't resist adding a link to the AfD discussion to the edit summary for the delsort page. I usually check the AfDs directly from the watchlist without bothering to open the delsort page itself, so I thought adding this to the script might be useful. Of course, feel free to revert it or tweak it however you want, though. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 13:12, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

I meant to do that at one point :) so it's definitely for the better It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 13:19, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

I hope you don't mind, but I also created some documentation for the script at User:Fox Wilson/delsort, and I tweaked the edit summaries to link to it. Your script now has its very own shortcut - WP:FWDS (that's short for Fox Wilson Deletion Sorting). This is the last time I'll mess with your page, I promise, and feel free to undo any of my changes (or to choose a different shortcut). — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 14:58, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Quite frankly, I really don't mind :) At some point, I'll probably create a user-configuration option though, so that might be useful. It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 17:02, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

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VoxelBot errors

I want to inform you about some errors made by your VoxelBot. VoxelBot performed task named "Replacing incorrect Romanian characters with correct characters", but during this replaced bot replaced not only Romanian, but also Turkish characters, which is not correct replacement. Here are some examples:

• Article Temeşvar Eyalet was named in Turkish, not in Romanian. This was province of Ottoman Empire whose official language was Turkish and character "ş" is shared by both languages, Turkish and Romanian. However, character in this name was not Romanian but Turkish. Your both renamed "Temeşvar" to "Temeșvar" and as far as I know there is no such letter in Turkish. Can you please revert name of that page to correct Turkish title?
• In some articles, bot also changed other Turkish names and transformed Turkish character into Romanian one. Here are examples: [2], [3]. Can you please correct these errors? Also, you should not perform more similar tasks with this bot so that further damage is not made. So far, I noticed that only shared Turkish-Romanian character "ş" is wrongly transformed by a bot, but you should check for other possible similar characters in two languages before you proceed with bot tasks. Thank you. 178.253.204.37 (talk) 14:49, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Please check this: S-comma - "This letter however was not part of the early Unicode versions, and not in the predecessors like ISO/IEC_8859-2 and Windows-1250, which is why Ş (S-cedilla) is often used in digital texts in Romanian. S-cedilla was introduced for computers for the sake of the Turkish language, and later it was used unchanged also for the Romanian language." 178.253.204.37 (talk) 15:00, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

I'm in charge of this area of the bot, so I'll answer your concerns. These types of errors were discussed in the BRFA and, sadly, are unavoidable since the bot is an automated editor and can't detect this. This is hopefully an isolated incident. I rolled back the edits you mentioned, but the article title seems Romanian from looking at the lead. This shouldn't happen any more since from now on it will be running on strictly Romanian articles. Those pages were from the Banat category which was safe to run on because the other two countries which Banat is located in don't use that character. Thanks for letting me know! Vacation9 15:04, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Well, I would disagree that Banat region is safe area for bot tasks. That territory was part of Ottoman Empire for about two centuries and that is why Turkish names are used in some Banat articles. Let now go back to Temeşvar Eyalet article. Title of that article is not Romanian. Please check what changes bot made there: [4]. From a second paragraph you can see how this Ottoman province was named in different languages. You can see that Temeşvar, Tımışvar or Tamışvar are Turkish names for the province, while Romanian name is Eialetul Timişoarei or Paşalâcul Timişoara. From diff which I provided is clear that bot changed Turkish name of the title and also changed all Turkish names in article itself. "Temeşvar" is Turkish name only, not used in Romanian. You really should correct that. 178.253.205.140 (talk) 10:15, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

I've rolled back and corrected that one, thank you. Please not the bot is finished now. I was told in the Bot Request that Banat was a safe area, but I guess not. Happy editing, and let me know if you find more. Vacation9 14:59, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

I did found few more: [5], [6], [7]. 178.253.202.142 (talk) 08:07, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Just a mistake

I was going to write they have a lot of animals but my sister erased it and also made that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.222.216.186 (talk) 20:33, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) No worries. —Theopolisme (talk) 00:23, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Judy Chicago's Article

Hi there, how are you? I am very familiar with the guidelines on biographical entries on Wiki and also with what is considered an appropriate number of sources. What I am saying to you here is that the sources cited don't count because they are 1, fraudulent, 2, citing information that does not actually appear in the texts they cite. To my mind, this would seem to urgently need some sort of BLP tab - is there one that you would suggest that is appropriate for 1, fraud, 2, plagiarism, 3, slander of a living person? Thank you for your hard work! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.14.175.114 (talk) 20:45, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

You can use {{verify credibility}} for sources. I would *highly* recommend starting a thread on the article talk page if you haven't already done so. Thanks for editing, and being WP:CIVIL. It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 20:49, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your message! I started a discussion on the talk page when I first noticed that incorrect AND plagiarised information (two different things) appeared on a page devoted to a living relative of mine. Thank you for the information and again for the hard work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.14.175.114 (talk) 20:52, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

You're welcome! Just an FYI: Don't forget to WP:SIGN your posts! :) Thanks again for editing. It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 23:00, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Forum for meta-changes?

I have an idea for a wikipedia addition. I think it would be nice to be able to follow arguments as opposed to "just" non-controversial knowledge. Imagine that there would be pages with hypothesises, stating clearly in a preluding section (or in some kind of endnote like todays sources) which premisses are used to evaluate the hypothesis. In the page for the hypothesis, both pro- and con- arguments would be listed. Also, it would be nice to have a section of consequences, i.e. other hypothesises that need the current argument to hold up to scrutiny. In this way, for well-managed topics, it would be possible to follow a chain of arguments back to the roots without clogging the text with proofs and doubts unnecessary to the average reader. If this idea is successful, it might mean that scientists would start using wikipedia as the place of universal evaluation and stating of arguments, making them available to the public. Now, my question to you is, if I want to advocate such an idea, where do I take it? Is there a forum for meta changes somewhere, or a group to join or something like that? Best Regards, Peter. --PeterVargen (talk) 10:38, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Meta is the place. Vacation9 13:07, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

AN/TPS-43 vandal

I had to revert your warning on Talk:AN/TPS-43 on an unblock template. This is a known case of one user in Colombia constanly putting extraneous images in the article, non-stop since 2006 (check article's history). At this point the article is semi-protected so he now has fun on the Talk page. He is blocked on sight for one year. He uses whatever unblocked IP he can find in his country. Please keep an eye out and revert then report to AIV. thanks! -- Alexf^(talk) 20:29, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikify has been deprecated

Hi Fox! Just dropping you a note to let you know that {{wikify}} has been deprecated in favor of more specific templates, such as {{underlinked}}. Since the release version of AWB is still automatically adding {{wikify}}, I suggest you install the latest SVN snapshot instead, which has a lot of fixes in it. Thanks, and happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 02:21, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Will do, thanks for letting me know. It's a Fox! (Talk to me?) 02:21, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

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delsort.js

Hi, I was looking through the code in delsort.js and wanted to point out that you can drop the edittoken API request by using mw.user.tokens. There's some documentation at mw:RL/DM#user.tokens. Legoktm (talk) 07:11, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, that certainly saved several lines :) It's a Fox! (What did I break) 13:31, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

This is a test

Hello. This message is to inform you that an article that you wrote recently, {{{1}}}, has been tagged with a notability notice. This means that it may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines. Please note that articles which do not meet these criteria may be merged, redirected, or deleted. Please consider adding reliable, secondary sources to the article in order to establish the topic's notability. You may find the following links useful when searching for sources: "{{{1}}}" – news · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images. Thank you for editing Wikipedia! It's a Fox! (What did I break) 13:27, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

A couple comments. I think it would be good to include a "call to action" here, that is, suggesting that the problem might be addressed by things like adding sources or sourcing indvidual claims that would show notability via GNG or an SNG, respectively. Maybe even just the GNG bit, like {{notabilty}} does, and/or phrasing that suggests that non-notable articles may be eligible for deletion? Second, for long-term tagged articles, is it at all possible (and this might be a stretch) to make note of the fact that they've been tagged a really long time? Anyway, really cool either way, just some suggestions. Cheers, --j⚛e decker^talk 17:42, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

I edited a bit, how is that? Suggestions appreciated. It's a Fox! (What did I break) 00:31, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

I added some blurb about adding sources, and included the {{find sources}} template. {{find sources}} itself might need some tweaking in order to make this look pretty, though. — Mr. Stradivarius on tour ^{♪ talk ♪} 03:20, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Oooh, better. Cool! --j⚛e decker^talk 07:04, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

delsort.js

Thank you for making this script. I haven't been able to get it to work. Have I installed it incorrectly? User:Mkdw/monobook.js. I use chrome and clicked both refresh on the browser and the purge button I added to the Wikipedia tool set. Mkdw^talk 01:00, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Hmm, it's not working for me in vector either. Maybe an issue related to the recent update? — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 01:41, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Probably the edit token thingy, I'll see what I can do. It's a Fox! (What did I break) 01:59, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

I found something interesting. I got Fox's version to work, but it covers up the other tabs. See the two below screen shots.

• User:Fox Wilson/delsort.js
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/delsort.js

Also when I click the button it prompts me for a manual input of the category instead of a drop down menu. Mkdw^talk 03:35, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Quite frankly, it was designed more for Vector :) I'll do a Monobook version which places the links in the Interaction area. Should be done in a few minutes. It's a Fox! (What did I break) 13:43, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

 Done use delsort-monobook.js instead of delsort.js. Links will be placed in the "interaction" area in the side panel. It's a Fox! (What did I break) 13:51, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Xaiml

What do you suggest that I do to keep the Xaiml page? I feel that the page is relevant and useful. Just tell me what should be done and I will do it.

Thank you,

DevynCJohnson (talk) 13:43, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

The reason given was notability. I found that the subject of the article did not meet the notability guideline, this isn't exactly something you can correct. It's a Fox! (What did I break) 22:52, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

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Purely from the 'history standpoint,' have you considered changing the edit summary to /* Article notability notification */ new section? —Theopolisme (talk) 19:56, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Doing so now. It's a Fox! (What did I break) 20:02, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Done. It's a Fox! (What did I break) 20:03, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Fab! :) —Theopolisme (talk) 20:08, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

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Fixed now. Thanks for letting me know. It's a Fox! (What did I break) 10:30, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Barry Pring

Thank you for your feedback here, I am working to demonstrate it falls within wikipedia guidelines for inclusion. NorthLondoner NorthLondoner (talk) 22:47, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Fox, NorthLondoner was my name when I was quite active on Wikipedia a few years ago. Then, coming back, I asked for my user name to be changed to my real name - Graham Phillips. I guess it only changed the name on my talk page though, rather than actual username. So, that's that :) NorthLondoner 10:23, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Ok, I looked at the rename logs and in in the CHU archives, and you technically shouldn't be able to login as NorthLondoner anymore if I'm correct. That's odd. It's a Fox! (What did I break) 10:30, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Fox :) I figured everything would just go under my real name - Graham Phillips - but when the NorthLondoner stayed, I just let it stand. Btw, I've done some work on Pring, what do you think? NorthLondoner NorthLondoner (talk) 11:35, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

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Not again...

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Hooray! *ahem* yes I'll fix in a bit. It's a Fox! (What did I break) 19:25, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Oh, I didn't see this. Fixed 30 minutes ago. In the future, try to notify both of us. It looks like I wasn't referring to an absolute path so it was having errors reading a file. Vacation9 19:33, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Oh, alright. Vacation9: Can you commit the new/fixed code? Thanks. It's a Fox! (What did I break) 19:37, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

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Did I really just do that @_@ It's a Fox! (What did I break) 21:18, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

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abl== duplicate check in delsort ==

Hi there, I was wondering if you could do some form of duplicate delsort tagging checks. I just stepped on Gene93k's toes and we both tagged an AFD within minutes with the same delsort. diff. A minor issue, but it could easily happen either like that with near simultaneous edit, or conversely in long AFDs you might find delsorting might be overlooked and duplicated days or weeks apart. Fantastic tool, glad to have it back, but can you add Australia to the default list, or make the list customisable? Cheers, The-Pope (talk) 16:12, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Probably should add the customization info to the documentation :) And I'll take a look at the issue, hadn't thought of this before. Thanks! It's a Fox! (What did I break) 23:04, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

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You recently denied my request to edit Element Mobile's wiki page without siting any reason, can you explain why my request was denied and what I can do to get the changes posted? The Opening section on the page is outdated and is not supported by valid links. I am proposing that the following edit be implemented (below). Thank you! Akbemis (talk)

Element Mobile started in business on Jan. 8, 2011 when it moved customers from the former company network to its own, new mobile switching equipment. The first three months of this transition were marked by service outages and customer complaints. While most of the service issues were resolved in the first quarter of 2011, a number of customers filed complaints with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. Element Mobile and DATCP reached a $248,000 settlement on April 25, 2012 remediating all customer complaints. One of Element Mobile’s key purposes for being created was to ensure that the people and businesses of its Central Wisconsin service area would have access to leading mobile phone and data services. Since Element Mobile was formed, mobile services and options for customers in the market area have grown substantially. The number of Android-based smart phone choices has grown from one to several, high-speed data usage doubled; and the number of smart phones bought jumped from 600 to 7,000. In early 2012, Element Mobile customers reached milestones such as 500 million minutes used and one billion text messages sent.

I found that it was written in a slightly promotional tone. If you want, and when I get the chance, I can look it again and perhaps we can work something out. Also, if you're closely related to Element Mobile, you may wish to read WP:COI. Thanks for editing!

It's a Fox! (What did I break) 00:17, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

I would appreciate any help! I am open to editing what I wrote, my main concern is that the article is accurate. Let me know what you need me to do. I look forward to your response. Akbemis (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:03, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

I just wanted to let you know that I am working on removing the promotional language from the article I posted before, I will be posting the new version this week. I appreciate any help in the process of getting this page corrected. Thank you! Akbemis (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:05, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

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Saw vandalism on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory_(season_6), and had trouble logging on, so I could edit/reverse to an older version. Had to fire up a new browser. Spend a good 15 minutes, but was totally unable to find it again. Finally had enough sense to click View history, and found you had made the edit I was a bout to make Good job! RipRapRob (talk) 15:03, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

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Hello,

We spoke a few weeks ago about some edits I proposed to the Element Mobile page, I rewrote the content and requested an edit on Element Mobile's talk page. I would appreciate any feedback you can give me on my changes or any help you can provide in getting this change approved.

Thank you --Akbemis (talk) 15:29, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

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VoxelBot's task four hasn't been running in over a month. Is it broken? Command and Conquer Expert! ^{speak to me...}_{review me...} 21:51, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

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Responded on my talk page. VoxelBot was doing its job, talk to User:Future Perfect at Sunrise who actually redirected the page. Vacation9 21:21, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

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Elizabeth Grosz

Dear Fox

I am Elizabeth Grosz, the subject of the page that I tried to delete. I would really like to remove it and all traces of me from wikipedia if possible. Can you help?

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<e.grosz@duke.edu>

Delsort script

Thanks for your script. I have it installed in my commons.js and the drop-down menu is fine. However I want to add "Australia" to that menu. I have this in my script, but it does not show "Australia" in the drop-down menu. Indeed I can not see how it could work as the defineLink statements are in your script, However this is what your document appears to me to be saying how to do it.

importScript('User:Fox Wilson/delsort.js'); // Deletion sorting script WP:FWDS

defineLink("Australia");

What am I misunderstanding early in the morning? --Bduke (Discussion) 21:54, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

That should work. I'll look into it; in the meantime, I've added Australia to the list of defaults. Thanks for letting me know about this. It's a Fox! (What did I break) 23:58, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

It is not showing in the menu, all the others are there as in your script. However I can see it at the end of your script. Odd. --Bduke (Discussion) 08:08, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Sounds like a caching problem. Last time this happened, I just had to wait a while. I'll look into that as well :) It's a Fox! (What did I break) 19:41, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Indeed. It is OK now. Thanks. --Bduke (Discussion) 10:35, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

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Hello. I see that you have a couple of hundred edits less than me, have been around four months less than me, yet you have reviewer and rollback rights. I'm jealous. Where do I get them from?--Launchballer 14:42, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Additional user permissions can be requested at WP:RFPERM. It's a Fox! (What did I break) 14:58, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

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Sorry to bother you if the correct thing to do is just wait longer, however I am curious in regards to the status of List of Detroit Red Wings draft picks. Voxelbot archived the FLC nomination at 10:01 on 24 July and added the featured list star to the article two minutes later. However the talk page has not been updated with the {{ArticleHistory}} template. I would do it manually but the instructions specifically say not to. I've never been involved in the Featured List/Featured Article process before, so I don't know how long this usually takes.

Thank you for your time. Rejectwater (talk) 13:00, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm not too sure about that, you'll have to talk to User:Vacation9, as he operates that part of the bot. It's a Fox! (What did I break) 15:28, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Will do, thanks. Rejectwater (talk) 17:43, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

You wouldn't happen to be aware of the status of User:Vacation9 on Wikipedia, would you? They did not respond to a note on their talk page and have not posted any contribution since July 9. Regards, Rejectwater (talk) 02:18, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure of his on-wiki status, however, I've seen him around in IRC, so I'll send him a ping. It's a Fox! (What did I break) 15:23, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

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Question regarding FWDS

Hey, Fox Wilson. So, I installed both your delsort script and the AFD close script, but after I installed your script, the buttons for the closing script just disappeared, and only your script still worked. Would you happen to know what causes this? Thanks, TCN7JM 12:55, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

I do not know, but I will take a look at it. Thanks for reporting this. It's a Fox! (What did I break) 02:07, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

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Article Feedback Tool update

Hey Fox Wilson. I'm contacting you because you're involved in the Article Feedback Tool in some way, either as a previous newsletter recipient or as an active user of the system. As you might have heard, a user recently anonymously disabled the feedback tool on 2,000 pages. We were unable to track or prevent this due to the lack of logging feature in AFT5. We're deeply sorry for this, as we know that quite a few users found the software very useful, and were using it on their articles.

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Melting point ref for carbon

The end of the first paragraph of Carbon#Characteristics has the details along with several cites. I'm not sure which details are most significant or how to word a summary for them as relevant to the other article. DMacks (talk) 01:25, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

DMacks, I'll take a look at it if I get the time -- feel free to revert my edit if you feel it is appropriate. It's a Fox! (What did I break) 23:04, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

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Hey,

What happened to this project we were supposed to be working on?

TheOriginalSoni (talk) 23:55, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

User:TheOriginalSoni, I've been incredibly busy with school recently, more than I'd like to be. It's still on my list of things to do -- I'll send you a ping on IRC (hopefully soon) when I'm free to work on the project. Sorry about that :\ It's a Fox! (What did I break) 00:45, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

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Hi, Fox! Thank you for taking over the tasks done by GimmeBot on closing nomination pages from the Featured article process. I've just encountered an issue that ... I might not be able to explain well, but I'll try.

This is Dr Pda's articlehistory script, which is used to detect items that belong in articlehistory: User:Dr pda/articlehistory.js. It was the script that User:Maralia, User:Gimmetrow, User:Dr pda and I used when we initially built all of the articlehistories for every FA, and it has continued to be useful for finding missing oldids in articlehistory events.

I've just encountered some FAs whose articlehistory templates do not contain oldids from the date of promotion (sample), and when running the articlehistory script so I can add them, I'm finding that <something, don't know what> about your edit summaries when updating articlehistory for FAs is not being picked up by the script, meaning I have to manually locate the missing oldids to add them to the articlehistory template. I suspect it's related to keywords that the script searches for in the talk page history. If you could adjust your edit summaries to account for <whatever> the script uses, the script can continued to be used. I'm not sure if I'm explaining this well ... but appreciate any help you can give. Regards, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 00:37, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

SandyGeorgia, that part of the bot is maintained by Vacation9. I'll let him know about the issue, and we'll hopefully get it fixed soon. Thanks for letting us know. It's a Fox! (What did I break) 02:08, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

@Vacation9: I just looked at the script, and what Sandy's asking for could be accomplished with a simple change to the edit summary used by Voxelbot when adding articlehistory:

Updating Article history

Updating {{Article history}}

Adding brackets would make Voxelbot's edits match the patterns used by the script to find articlehistory-relevant edits. Thanks. Maralia (talk) 04:54, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks all! (By the way, if Vacation knows for what time period the bot wasn't adding oldids on FA page closes, I could work back through the archives to add them). Whenever I see something awful in an FA (which is becoming more and more frequent), it's helpful to be able to click on the oldid to see if the bad stuff was in the promoted version. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:38, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Another (less pressing) issue with the bot, which I think was identified quite early on but I thought had been fixed, is that it sometimes mixes up just who has closed a nomination. This is a recent example, where I actually archived the nom but Graham is 'credited' with doing so after the bot has done its thing. As I say, not as urgent as some other things but curious, and something I hope can be addressed when you guys get a chance. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 22:39, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

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I see you have not been editing for a while. The wiki-kitten misses you :) Cheers,

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Heh, thanks :) /me goes back to reverting vandalism It's a Fox! (What did I break) 17:01, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

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VoxelBot down

VoxelBot hasn't made a single edit in several hours. I suspect that it's down. K6ka (talk | contribs) 11:35, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Looks like that's a problem left over from the Labs migration, I'll have it fixed in a bit. Thanks for reminding me :) It's a Fox! (What did I break) 01:23, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Looks like you got it back up and it made two edits two days ago, but nothing since then. Mojoworker (talk) 21:45, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Strange. I've been getting job scheduling emails from Labs, so it's possible that it just doesn't need to edit. I'll look at it again... It's a Fox! (What did I break) 21:47, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Seems like it did the same thing - ran twice (at 00:00 UTC and then half an hour later) then didn't run again. That was about 17 hours ago. Strange indeed. Mojoworker (talk) 16:58, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Still down since you restarted it on 21 March 2014. Any idea why it starts up at 00:00 UTC and runs only twice (then and half an hour later at 00:30 UTC) and then quits? Mojoworker (talk) 19:09, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

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