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Benson article

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Please sir, your article on the author "Benson" is very poorly written, you have been editing for a decade + before me so I can't really tell you much. Article lacks citation, article has Poor punctuations, subject of article barely passes WP:GNG, a new editor can err in this manner but an experienced editor like yourself should know that before an article goes live it should be perfected, upon orientation Wikipedia makes us understand that we are not engaging in a race and you shouldn't have to put up articles urgently, I suggest you at least furnish your articles with proper reference so as to eliminate notability issues if you want to keep creating articles like the aforementioned article Celestina007 (talk) 19:46, 1 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Please feel free to improve the article. Compare, for example with this one. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:50, 1 March 2017 (UTC).Reply
(talk page watcher) For the benefit of anyone else curious, this appears to be about Benson E. Hill. PamD 22:11, 1 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Port Isaac

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...is being promoted on Windows 10. Interesting to see the pageviews.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 08:52, 2 March 2017 (UTC).Reply

WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.2

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Wikidata weekly summary #250

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Listas parameter work

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Hi Rich, could you take a quick look at this and tell me if I'm doing this correctly? I'd like to help eliminate the backlog, but I want to make sure I'm going about it properly. Lepricavark (talk) 16:52, 7 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Ok, I think I've got the hang of it now, aside from one question. In an article with a parenthetical description after the name, such as Rich Rodriguez (baseball), am I supposed to include the parenthetical material in the listas parameter? Lepricavark (talk) 17:13, 7 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
After some consideration a couple of months ago, it seems that the answer is no - it's not necessary (any more). It seems that the software will sort identical "listas" values as if the article name were appended. This provides the same sort order as if we had included the parenthetical. And most people probably don't include it so it makes sense to go witth that. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:09, 7 March 2017 (UTC).Reply
Ok, thanks for the clarification. Lepricavark (talk) 20:08, 7 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Denton Halt railway station

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Hi Rich; please revert your move of Denton Halt railway station - we've been carefully moving them in the other direction for some years now. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:43, 8 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

I have done so. I can see no reason to disambiguate a halt though. It's like saying "Denton Station station". All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:53, 8 March 2017 (UTC).Reply
Thank you; see WP:NCUKSTATIONS - the thing about halts is that the word "Halt" was normally actually shown on the nameboards on the platforms. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:38, 8 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
Indeed. Like with universities. So perhaps we should have "Cambridge University university" or "Warwick University redbrick university". While a fait accompli was achieved in 2007, no consensus was arrived at on the talk page of the guideline you refer to: and if it had been I would argue that names ending in Station, Halt, Junction, Interchange, Terminus and the like should be excluded, for reasons of redundancy. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:30, 9 March 2017 (UTC).Reply

Note to self

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Chage to numbered list. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 09:25, 10 March 2017 (UTC).Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #251

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Spelling of Encyclopædia Britannica categories

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I see you moved category "1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica articles with no significant updates‎" to "1911 Encyclopædia Britannica articles with no significant updates‎". I didn't see any discussion on this change (I created the category and I'm still populating it) but maybe I missed it. @PBS:, are you aware? And I concur that the æ spelling is strictly correct. I have AWB paste-more setting that uses the "ae" spelling and there are still 417 pages with that spelling. Should they all be edited - is this a work in progress, or is the category redirect supposed to be adequate?

Also, there is still a notable inconsistency. Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica contains 14 subcategories, some with ae and some with æ. Do you plan to rename them all? David Brooks (talk) 04:54, 16 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

@David Brooks "WP:BEANS"! @Rich Farmbrough Please do not rename any other of these categories without a consensus to do so.
There was a WP:RM AT Talk:Encyclopædia_Britannica#Requested move initiated by my in June 2013 to move Encyclopædia Britannica to Encyclopaedia Britannica which was closed with no consensus. So there is no consensus to use Encyclopædia Britannica over "Encyclopaedia Britannica" and for these hidden maintenance templates I think that having the characters "ae" available on the keyboard outweighs the pedantic use of "æ", so I would support a move back for this template. -- PBS (talk) 09:37, 16 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
The vast majority of the hidden categories are only added by templates, therefore there is no difficulty over keyboards etc.
Yes the name of the work is "Encyclopædia Britannica", correcting a mis-spelling seems like a good idea. I am fixing the mis-spellings in main-space, though it may take some time (this will include the category). This is something I did a few years ago, it is surprising how many have appeared since. Similarly there were mis-spellings of various other encyclopaedias that should be "Encyclopedia" - I will also look at those if I get time.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:33, 16 March 2017 (UTC).Reply
I agree. The correct spel;ing is Encyclopædia Britannica, and when I see it misspelled I make the correction, too. 7&6=thirteen () 21:36, 16 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
I'm only mildly opposed to neutral on this, but I would have appreciated a discussion or announcement because, as I said, I have AWB text-paste set up with the "ae" spelling. I spelled the category that way because the majority of EB1911-related categories separate the vowels. If you're willing to do the work of editing 400+ pages and the templates, go ahead. I also endorse PBS's comment about difficulty of typing ("the vast majority" doesn't mean "all"), although that's mitigated because I rely on the AWB paste, or copy-paste from somewhere else. David Brooks (talk) 01:00, 17 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
I have wrapped the category up into a template {{EB1911 article with no significant updates}}, this solves the problem for both parties. The name of the category no longer appears on the page, so if will not register if someone in the future does an AWB search for "Encyclopaedia Britannica", or "Encyclopædia Britannica", and it will allow for any future expansion of the template for example adding a notes= parameter to allow notes to be kept inside the template, rather than as has been done up to now with them being added as hidden comments after the category, and also perhaps the adding of a date parameter so that it is known when the template was added. These issues can be discussed on the talk page of the template. -- PBS (talk) 07:57, 18 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, I Was going to suggest that it should be triggered by {{EB1911}}, as a separate issue, but I'm sure this will work nicely. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 08:09, 18 March 2017 (UTC).Reply
Sounds good. Existing items have been moved. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 08:09, 18 March 2017 (UTC).Reply
Thanks much, PBS. You've done the job I briefly considered but just got too lazy, and thanks for editing the 400+ articles. I'll comment more later (out of time this morning) but a brief note: separately, Trivialist has been tidying up by editing Rich's new category to the old one (not a criticism; I assume he has not seen PBS's update). As a result there are still 9 articles with the raw Category markup. I'll change them to the template later unless someone else finds them. David Brooks (talk) 18:10, 18 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
Correct; I was just cleaning up soft-redirected categories. (Needed something to do for a few minutes. :) ) Trivialist (talk) 18:12, 18 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, and PBS and Trivialist, for paying attention to this dusty corner of WP. I've made a few edits to the docs for the category and template, and fixed those 9 stray articles that used the category directly; I'll keep an eye out for recurrences.
Rich, that's true, but the ae versus æ spelling is an orthogonal point and would require revisiting the non-consensus proposal from 2013. As nobody seemed energized by the inconsistency among categories (see here), I really don't see the need for effort. Countering PBS's point, though: I never type out these category names in full. I either auto-complete, copy-paste, or use macros.
Just a reminder of how I see the difference between the category and the {{Update-EB}} flag. The category is for articles like "Jean-Claude-Marie-Achille Idiot (1742–1807) was a French poet. He is best remembered for the epic C'est trop long." (which is almost certainly still true). The emphatic template is for "Bhuger supports an industry of rice and tanning. Its sulphurous springs are known for curing women's ailments." (which may still be true for all I know, but probably not).
Finally, I'm not sure that {{Update-EB}} with section=yes does the right thing category-wise, but it's rare. David Brooks (talk) 22:25, 18 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
Well I think on the whole we have moved forward, which is a Good Thing. I'm not too bothered about the naming of hidden maintenance cats, though I feel rather lazy for not going and filing a comprehensive rename request. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:32, 18 March 2017 (UTC).Reply

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Weekly Summary #252

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Editing restrictions bot?

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Hi Rich, as you may recall I requested a bot to ease the new archiving process at WP:RESTRICT. You marked the request with   Doing... on February 13 and I've not heard anything else since then. I've spent the last couple hours trying to do it manually and it is mind-numbingly tedious and I'm not even close to being done with just the arbcom restrictions, so I'm wondering if this is really going to happen or if I should keep slogging through it manually. Thanks. Beeblebrox (talk) 01:33, 23 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

I'll try and take a look at this, this evening. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:19, 23 March 2017 (UTC).Reply
That'd be great. I actually got it most of the way done, and may finish it manually as this initial culling has required some human judgement to make a few exceptions to the rules, but I can't imagine doing this once a month in perpetuity. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:58, 23 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Your AWB edit here on Erika Grey

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I noticed your edit referenced in the title above.

Just a timely update: The latest relisting is already 1 day past espiry, and you might want to read the VfD page, here: permalink, and weigh in before it's too late. Just saying. Thanks.96.59.177.243 (talk) 05:17, 23 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Thanks

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Thanks for fixing my rusty editing just now, though we did conflict as i was trying to save my fixing of it too. Have a nice day Jenova20 (email) 10:18, 23 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Regarding Template:Use dmy dates and similar

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Hi. I've seen you adding the template to several articles. The template's documentation page says to "Place this template near the top of articles that use the dd mmm yyyy date format". Why, then, are you adding it at the bottom? ~barakokula31 (talk) 19:46, 23 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

It's neat and tidy and out of the way, and doesn't annoy people. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:51, 23 March 2017 (UTC).Reply
I don't think I've seen anyone else placing it at the bottom. Have people complained about it being in the way or annoying them previously? ~barakokula31 (talk) 20:00, 23 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
People do regularly complain about maintenance tags at the top, and I believe that the more cruft we have at the top the harder it is for new editors to see past the wikicode to editable text. It is effectively a categorization-only template, therefore placing it at the bottom with the categories makes sense. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:04, 23 March 2017 (UTC).Reply
I'm with Rich on this one, and indeed, am one of those who does put it at the bottom, along with {{use British English}}; these get placed after the navboxes but before the defaultsort & cats. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:16, 23 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
The template's documentation says that "The template is useful to the editors to quickly know which date format is to be used when adding new dates into an article", so it is not "effectively a categorization-only template". I don't want to be rude, but I feel that you should ask people if they're fine with it being placed at the bottom (and if there is consensus to do so, the documentation should be amended accordingly) before doing the opposite of what's recommended.
Also, if the documentation is to be changed (and other users, such as User:Redrose64 above, are to become involved), then I don't think a user talk page is the appropriate venue for this discussion. ~barakokula31 (talk) 20:35, 23 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
Out of interest I'm running some stats, but they will take a while to cook. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:33, 23 March 2017 (UTC).Reply

Normans article.

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Do you have the ability to place the Normans article on protection or semi-protection? It has a history of being persistently vandalized by anonymous accounts, as its history page shows. Thanks. Esnertofidel (talk) 09:22, 24 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

I don't, however there are a number of talk-page stalkers who do, and may be willing to take a look. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 09:33, 24 March 2017 (UTC).Reply
@Esnertofidel: I can, but I really shouldn't protect it directly because I am not familiar with that page and its perceived disputes. It seems to be quite a low level: two bad edits yesterday, one a week earlier, some a week before that. In matters like this, it's best to avoid going to specific individuals, instead you should file a request at WP:RFPP which will gain the attention of several admins simultaneously. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 11:16, 24 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
That's probably to lowlevel for protection even these days. Protection was initally developed for pages that were vandalisd every few minutes. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:21, 24 March 2017 (UTC).Reply
So basically, it's not worth bothering to try and keep an article free of vandalism even when its history page is visibly riddled with constant reversions, because of... reasons. Glad to see we're all enthusiastic about making Wiki a better place. Bye. Esnertofidel (talk) 10:29, 25 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
That's not a fair summary. The question about protection is whether the damage done outweighs the benefit. If it does, then imposing it does not make Wikipedia better, it makes it worse. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:44, 25 March 2017 (UTC).Reply