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• Hello Technical 13:

Please consider participating in this week's vote for TAFI's upcoming Week 17 collaboration. Last week's voting did not receive many participants. Thanks for your consideration. Northamerica1000 (talk · contribs) 16:35, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 15, 2015)

The wheel is one of the most famous and useful inventions in the history of technology Hello, Technical 13. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: History of technology Previous selections: Garbage picking • Antagonist Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:14, 6 April 2015 (UTC) •

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Buzzword template not displaying correctly

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Hi Technical, long time no speak! Since you're a whiz with technical stuff I figured I'd bug you. :) The buzzword template isn't displaying properly at Wikipedia:Template messages/Cleanup#Style of writing. Text in the example reads:

This article appears to '. Specific concerns may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article if you can.

It should read:

This article appears to contain a large number of buzzwords. Specific concerns may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this template page if you can.

I don't see anything glaringly wrong in the markup, so I'm thinking that maybe there's something within the template that isn't compatible with the markup? If you could give it a look, that would be appreciated. Also, I left a note on the talk page so if you do eventually figure out what's up, if you could reply there and close out my request, that would be appreciated as well. Look at all this work I have for you today! Do my bidding!! Much appreciated! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:40, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

• Taken care of and explanation left on talk page. Happy editing. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 17:58, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you my friend! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 18:00, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

Fix

I saw your fix for when an empty second parameter is passed to Template:Buzzword. I think this is a highly unlikely possibility, and the number of transclusions of this template is not that high. In other words, I think the fix is more costly in code than the gain. The suggestion is the revert the edit. I'd like you're opinion on this. Debresser (talk) 21:45, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

• Not only likely, it exists and doesn't cost much code wise. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 01:41, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

I see. It is definitely not standard code for maintenance templates. Debresser (talk) 07:39, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Category:AfD debates relisted 3 or more times again

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Would you be able to figure out how to get Category:AfD debates relisted 3 or more times to go out of the category Category:Administrative backlog, depending on if it is actually backloged or not, in the same manner as Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old? It just sits at the top of the list, despite being empty. --kelapstick^(bainuu) 02:28, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

• WP:JOBQUEUE issue. I had to actually change something on the page and change it back to force it to purge and clear out. It would have cleared itself eventually (job queue has run slow for quite some time now, could have taken a month or two). — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 09:35, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
  • Thanks. --kelapstick^(bainuu) 11:49, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 16, 2015)

A saxophone is an example of an aerophone. Hello, Technical 13. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Aerophone Previous selections: History of technology • Garbage picking Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 01:25, 13 April 2015 (UTC) •

This week's article for improvement (week 17, 2015)

A satellite image demonstrating the Geography of Niger Hello, Technical 13. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Geography of Niger Previous selections: Aerophone • History of technology Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:08, 20 April 2015 (UTC) •

Infobox station parameter purge

Hi Technical 13. Would you be interest in opining here? Alakzi (talk) 21:47, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

•  Already done — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 22:00, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

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Spooge FLY

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I hadn't realized I'd made this block so recently. But ... it was because "spooge" is a slang term for semen.

I cannot remember whether it was a user-reported complaint, or whether the bot got it.

I realize it's an obscure reason, but I don't feel comfortable overruling that one myself. You can start a username request for comment if you want. Daniel Case (talk) 16:11, 20 April 2015 (UTC).

• Dan, thanks for your quick reply. I've no need to file any RfC. I just wasn't aware of the slang term and figured I'd ask. :) — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 16:14, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

No problems. The range of potentially offensive words amazes even me sometimes. Daniel Case (talk) 16:25, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

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• Hello Technical 13:

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Infobox college football player

Hey, T13. Are you available to help and/or give advice with layout and design issues for the revised template? There is a sandbox version under development here: [1]. There will be additional formatting issues involving internal margins, internal justification, lists, graphics, colors, etc. Please let me know ASAP. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 18:00, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

• lol There you are. I was wondering when you were going to come back and visit to work on this some more... That last section got archived about a week after I bumped it and that was a week or two ago... My last comment in User_talk:Technical_13/2015/1#Infobox ...the next step is for you to put together some test cases and tell me "this line should be... and that line should be more like... " and visual references are very good in cases where we are trying to similarly produce and effect available in another box. still applies. :) Your sandbox looks good, what specific tweaks do you need help with? — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 21:47, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

history revision statistics

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hi, the history revision statistics link is down again, sorry about this, thank you for your time--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:54, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Ditto, pretty please: https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-articleinfo/index.php?article=Germanwings_Flight_9525&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia Best wishes and thanks for your hard work, --Mareklug ^talk 06:44, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

• @Ozzie10aaaa and Mareklug:, as I stated in both WP:VPT#Labs is going to be slow and WP:VPT#revision history statistics link, xTools will likely be offline until we move into our own instance or at very least until T2000 is resolved. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 17:15, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

out of sheer curiosity, how many days are we talking?--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 17:48, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

• This is a Labs level maintenance and as such, the xTools team has no idea how long that will take. I know that @Nakon and MusikAnimal: were working on getting us moved into our own instance, but I have no idea how far they have gotten or how much longer that will be. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 19:08, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

• Hello Technical 13, just to let you know that I left a note about this for Coren recently, as I didn't know who to ask. Best wishes, Sarah (SV) ^(talk) 19:41, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

Change a misspelled sandbox title

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Poopers, T-13, I created a sandbox essay, User:Atsme/sandbox_Adovacy_ducks and misspelled Advocacy in the title. Is there any way to change it? Atsme (talk · contribs) 18:52, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Atsme: You can WP:MOVE the page. This will leave a redirect behind; if you like, you can add a {{db-user}} to that and an admin will delete the incorrectly-spelled redirect. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:03, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you Redrose64 - that worked beautifully. Atsme (talk · contribs) 19:51, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 18, 2015)

Hydroelectric dams use hydropower to generate electricity Hello, Technical 13. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Hydropower Previous selections: Geography of Niger • Aerophone Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:08, 27 April 2015 (UTC) •

Hillary Rodham Clinton - Move Discussion

Hi,

This is a notification to let you know that there is a requested move discussion ongoing at Talk:Hillary_Rodham_Clinton/April_2015_move_request#Requested_move. You are receiving this notification because you have previously participated in some capacity in naming discussions related to the article in question.

Thanks. And have a nice day. NickCT (talk) 18:55, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

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An example of home appliances is this washing machine and clothes dryer combination. Hello, Technical 13. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Home appliance Previous selections: Hydropower • Geography of Niger Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Sent by Northamerica1000 using mass messaging on 00:33, 4 May 2015 (UTC) •

More help with my template

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You may not remember me, but I was the one who inquired about tables a while ago (I inquired here: User talk:Technical 13/2015/1#Help With Tables/Templates) I have since figured out what I wanted to change about the table; I want it to line up a little neater. For example: I would like the 10 after barrels in the template to line up with all of the other descriptions, regardless of them being on different show-hides. I also want to know how to change the template's color. Finally, I want a default width that doesn't change when I open show-hides -- I want the width to remain constant no matter what show-hides I open or close. Donkey Kong Fanatic (talk) 03:33, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

• Sorry about the delay in response DKF. All of those things are things you should figure out by trial and error and I don't have hard set answers to. Google CSS3 and whatever it is that you want to set or change, and I'm sure you'll find plenty of answers to your questions. Good luck! — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 02:39, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

Question about a user script

Greetings, I recently stumbled onto User:Equazcion/CatListMainTalkLinks.js that seems to add a link when viewing categories to view the associated talk page or main page when the appropriate page is viewed in the category (Article shows up as Article (talk) and Article talk shows up as Talk:Article (main)). This script seems like it would be highly useful for WikiProject tagging and the code seems to indicate that it should light the corresponding page in red if that page doesn't exists. The script does not appear to be working however. I was going to leave User:Equazcion a note about it but it looks like they stopped editing and you have been answering most of the technical questions. I just figured I would skip the middle man and come straight here so to speak. I hope that's ok. I'm fairly new so I don't want to do things out of process or violate protocol. Giraffasaurus (talk) 22:02, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

• I can take a look into it, but it may take me awhile to get to it due to this being Spring finals and next week starts Summer semester. So, I'll likely not being able to dig in too much until June sometime. If you are willing to wait, that is fine, but if you are in a hurry I can suggest possibly @Jackmcbarn, Anomie, and Writ Keeper: or one of the other JavaScript capable people. Happy categorizing! — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 13:42, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
  • No problem I'll ask one of them. Good luck with finals. Giraffasaurus (talk) 17:21, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

File:Technical 13/SandBox/imageTesting

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I noticed File:Technical 13/SandBox/imageTesting when looking at {{OTRS pending}} templates that had been in place too long. Are you still using it? Were you looking into a bot solution for tagging OTRS pending images that have been in place too long? If so, please see Wikipedia:OTRS_noticeboard#Proposal_to_move_to_dated_pending_and_received_categories, which may be of interest. --B (talk) 22:00, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

• Hey B, I have no recollection of that file specifically, yet I can see it had something to do with the development of User:Technical 13/Scripts/helpOTRS which is a rebuild of a script I did to assist Ronhjones per request on his talk page at the time. I am happy to see Mlpearc, Ktr101 and EuroCarGT are also using the script. I had thought Ron would delete that page when he was done testing to make sure it did what he was hoping for, but he must have forgotten or overlooked that. Anyways, I've tagged it for G7 and it should be gone shortly. I'll happily take a peak at your proposal in the next couple days and offer what I can. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 22:53, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

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This week's article for improvement (week 20, 2015)

The food industry is a complex, global collective of diverse businesses that supply much of the food and food energy consumed by the world population. Hello, Technical 13. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Food industry Previous selections: Home appliance • Hydropower Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: EuroCarGT (talk) 00:14, 11 May 2015 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

Your revert - IRC nick parameters

Hi, thanks for your comments when reverting me here, but I'm not sure if you understand the confusion experienced as a helper on that IRC channel. While I do see you in -helpers from time to time, these days I rarely see you in -help itself, so it's hard to grasp where your reasoning stems from. I do welcome your explanations.

• It's a temporary away mostly due to the passing of my ex's mother of whom I was fairly close to. She finally passed (I know that looks heartless, but please read on) after living in misery battling cancer for 20 years. The last 5 years or so she was unable to function much on her own and was only kept alive by her selfish children and boyfriend who wanted to collect her checks and was living on life support most of the time. I will return at some point, I just need some more time for reflection and prayer.

I'm confused about the supposed benefit of using WPhelp### over Guest###. In any given day, I see tens, if not over a hundred, instances of the WPhelp nick. The conversation often ends up something like this: WPhelp98392 asks, "Can you help me with my draft?" The helper says, "WPhelp89643: Do you understand conflict of interest?" Then WPhelp98392 says, "Sorry what?" And the the helper must explain with !public. Sometimes the helpee will say "I really have to look at the numbers to see who is who." On the contrary, I see few Guest### nicks, and while they are confusing, they are definitely not as widespread as the instances of WPhelp. These users came from the template #wikipedia-en-help ^connect which does not supply a nick parameter.

• That's not entirely where Guest nicks come from, please see my response on the talk page for an explanation of exactly how it works (I think) and why it is that way. Also, I explain that when I do visit -help, I have no interest in answering AfC related questions, which is filtered for me by those people having WPhelp nicks.

It takes a long time to manually squint to look for each WPhelp's number if not using autocomplete, and when using autocomplete, you really do run the risk of autocompleting the wrong nick. If you remove the nick parameter, just like the way it is in current freenode webchat, then helpees would ideally choose their own username as the nickname field, eliminating the amount of asking, "What is your username?" In short, it would be easier to deal with Guest### nicknames (the few that we'd have) than the piles of confusing WPhelp usernames when everyone literally has almost the same nickname and nobody knows what's going on, with the added benefit of perhaps helpees supplying their usernames. IRC is already a confusing environment for newbies - better to make it less confusing if possible. Kikichugirl (talk · contribs) 03:03, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Making them ALL Guest nicks, actually makes your complaint that "It takes a long time to manually squint to look for each WPhelp's number if not using autocomplete, and when using autocomplete, you really do run the risk of autocompleting the wrong nick." worse by making them all Guest. "If you remove the nick parameter, just like the way it is in current freenode webchat, then helpees would ideally choose their own username as the nickname field" - they have that option anyways, and if they don't it is because someone removed some of the other parameters that were set. I'd be happy to restore those parameters. "In short, it would be easier to deal with Guest### nicknames (the few that we'd have)" - actually, it wouldn't. It would be back to before you joined when they were ALL Guest because the simple names they pick are registered or in use already. That is where we were back when I added the parameter upon consensus in IRC a year or two ago. Anyways...

• Thank you for stopping by Kikichugirl. Unfortunately, this isn't the place to discuss it. Please see the discussion started on the template's talk page and feel free to ask further questions there. Happy editing! — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 11:46, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Use of brackets in hidden messages

I can understand the dislike of italics, but the re-addition of brackets makes no sense. Sure maybe its good for those who use WikiEd, but as of right now, all other templates don't use the brackets (ex {{Uw-vandalism1}} or {{Unsigned-unk}} (<- silly template anyway)) If I'm not mistaken, it's usually go with the past method unless there is consensus to change it right? EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 14:52, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

On an entirely unrelated note, your Wikibreak notice has been up for awhile now... EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 14:55, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

• I put a full description and started a talk page discussion for the italics on Template talk:Please see#Forced italics?. There are actually other templates out there where brackets are used in comments. It is a benefit to those who use wikEd to be able to open the page for the template in a new tab easily (which is useful for quick access of the documentation). It has no drawbacks to those not using wikEd and is not visible to anyone not editing the page. This throws it into the "previous discussion and consensus not needed" subsection of Wikipedia:Template editor.

  I'm aware of that, yet my circumstances haven't yet become conducive to allowing me to devote large chunks of time back to editing enwp directly (I've been working on toollabs:wikiviewstats and toollabs:xtools most recently when I do have some free time) — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 15:05, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

TPS: I've always wondered about bracketed wiki-links in hidden text messages, too, and whether it serves any known purpose. I often see folks attempting to link birth places, etc., in the input data for Template:Persondata. As far as I know, this does nothing but add unneeded text characters. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:13, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

• Yeah, Dirtlawyer1, WP:wikEd actually turns them into clickable links (which is AWESOME and one of the only reasons I use wikEd half the time). — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 15:39, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1: You can make Persondata visible - including those links - by adding

table.persondata { display: table !important; }

to Special:MyPage/common.css. More at WP:PDATA. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:46, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Sure, guys, but persondata "links," made visible by use of a script that very few readers use, are still redundant to the links to the same information presented in the article's infobox (e.g., birth date, birth place) and text. I also question whether such persondata "links" are effective -- doing it properly would require that such persondata be disambiguated for common place names (e.g., Perth, Birmingham, Santa Fe, Marion, Dunedin, Charleston, Melbourne, Lincoln, Washington, etc., etc.). Nevermind WP:OVERLINK. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 16:15, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

P.S. I've been a proponent of persondata, and have added and/or completed the template for over 2,000 bio articles that I have watch-listed -- I'm not against the use of persondata. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 16:20, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

I know that linking within Persondata is unnecesssary - I commented at Wikipedia talk:Persondata/Archive 7#Overlinking in Persondata. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:46, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

RR, I read your linked comment -- I agree. We're on the same page. I'll take your above comment about making Persondata visible in the spirit of "Hey, have you seen this cool function before?" Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:51, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

status of #wikimedia-api IRC channel

Hello there. I stumbled across #wikimedia-api ^connect No one is there but wm-bot. It looks like you set it up and trained wm-bot to answer some questions in 2013, http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-API/20130824.txt.

• The logs suggest It gets less than one message a month.
• It's mentioned in m:IRC/Channels#Unsorted_channels, but AFAICT nowhere else.
• I checked with anomie and he'd never heard of it: "I'd have just used #mediawiki, #wikimedia-dev, or #wikimedia-tech"
• The mw:API help pages recommend #mediawiki ^connect for API questions.

So maybe we should retire it. On the other hand,

• "The Data and developer hub encourages third-party developers to access Wikimedia data sets and use our APIs" and that's a big part of my job as WMF Technical Writer, so maybe we should dedicate an IRC channel for this initiative. What do you think?

Thanks for working on API stuff and everything else.

-- SPage (WMF) (talk) 20:22, 20 April 2015 (UTC) , spagewmf on IRC

• Replying on IRC. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 20:32, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

More technical stuff on the Hillary Clinton move request

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The editor in the Support section (#56) who posted the long list of languages has requested "Please feel free to collapse the list if you can figure out a way without messing up the numbering. I couldn't do it." The normal collapse template appears to make the subsequent !votes start back at #1. Can you figure out a work-around? (If not, no biggie.) Softlavender (talk) 09:44, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

• Softlavender, those are always a pain to do, but it is done. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 14:47, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

You could have fixed the numbering by changing the next support vote, from

#'''Support''' - I'm only mildly in favor of ... 23:09, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

to

#<li value=57>'''Support''' - I'm only mildly in favor of ... 23:09, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

- putting a <li> tag with an explicit value= attribute after a # forces a list item to take that number. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:02, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

• I'm aware of that RR64, but I opt to avoid that because inevitably someone comes around not understanding what it is for or how it works and removes it or it gets misconfigured in some other way. The way I did it allows for errors in that section because it is self contained and most people will avoid touching it out of fear because it is a huge jumbled mess. ;) — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 15:13, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

RR64, I'll also note that last I knew, li value was deprecated http://tekkie.flashbit.net/css/replacement-for-deprecated-ol-li-start-value-html-attributes — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 15:18, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

It may have been deprecated in HTML 4.01, but Wikipedia serves HTML 5, where it is not deprecated. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:39, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

• Wasn't aware they had undeprecated it. Thanks, learn something every day. Still didn't use it for the other reason. lol — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 15:46, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

• Hi, thanks all. (I'm not familiar with HTML at all.) I'm glad a work-around was achieved. Softlavender (talk) 00:24, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Talk:United_Synagogue#Discussion_re_recent_edit_war

Please visit the section and read my introduction carefully. Thank you. --Dweller (talk) 10:51, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Template talk:Infobox person

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Template talk:Infobox person. Legobot (talk) 00:10, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

ANI Notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 02:25, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

AfC helper script

Also, I almost forgot to ask: the AfC script used to have an append feature, what happened to it? Cheers, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:57, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

• FoCuSandLeArN, I'm sorry but I have no idea what that script does anymore as I've been told I'm generally not welcome to contribute to that project anymore by the project dictators (or at least that is my interpretation of what I have been told and it has soured me towards the project in general). I have no issue with that and have found other things to do with my time to be productive. I do hope you find out the answer to your question (I'd suggest asking on the project talk page). Happy editing! — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 19:20, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

I'm sorry to hear that! I've been away for a while, so I missed a lot of stuff that's happened. No biggie, I was just wondering because it made things a tiny fraction easier. I always considered you a valuable Wikipedia asset, and hope to continue working together. As for me, I'm not reviewing as expediently as before, but rather providing guidance and quality assurance to the whole process as much as I can. I find this more rewarding, because constructive feedback in this little corner of the encyclopaedia goes a long way with new editors, and ultimately increases the quality of submissions. Best, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 22:00, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Been around for years and I still learn things one would think I should already know

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Hello. Regarding this edit summary, I often use the term "null edit" when revising a poor edit summary. I do this because after one of the first times I described such an action as a "dummy edit", I received a hostile response from the IP I had just reverted; quite possibly because he thought I was calling him "dumb-y". That incident stuck in my mind and some time after that I just decided to use "null edit" to avoid such misunderstandings in the future. I got the idea from seeing one or more editors doing the same thing. Little did I know (until now) that "null edit" has a specific and very different meaning here. Racerx11 (talk · contribs) 22:44, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

• Indeed. Happy editing! — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 23:01, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 21, 2015)

Left: Czech bramboráček, a bread made of potato dough, being deep fried. Right: The Royal Navy Trafalgar class attack submarine HMS Tireless (S88) sits on the surface of the North Pole, the northern polar ice cap on Earth Hello, Technical 13. The following are WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selections: Deep frying Polar ice cap Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/2015/21/3 Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/2015/21/4 Wikipedia:Today's articles for improvement/2015/21/5 Previous selections: Food industry • Home appliance • Hydropower Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Nominate an article Review nominations Have your say in future selections Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 01:35, 18 May 2015 (UTC) •

Today's articles for improvement

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HTML5

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T96387

So I notice you are big into implementing HTML 5 compliancy (a good thing), and I wondered if you could explain why the wikitext edit box still provides users to option to use <big>...</big> if it is now deprecated (Wikipedia:HTML5#big). Shouldn't it be replaced with {{Big}} or <span style>...</span >, or is there a reason that I should know why it hasn't. Thanks in advance! EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 05:48, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

• I'm not sure which "wikitext edit box" you are referring to. I may have it turned off or hidden somehow by my use of WP:wikEd. If it is an interface thing, I can't personally change it but I know that Edokter, Redrose64 or any one of the other administrators who have worked on similar interface pages (MediaWiki:Edittools) would be happy to remove it or update it to something appropriate. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 13:12, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

To be exact, the <big>...</big> element is marked as obsolete in HTML5, which is stronger than deprecated. It's not in Edittools - which these days is loaded from MediaWiki:Gadget-charinsert-core.js (and is still discussed at MediaWiki talk:Edittools). --Redrose64 (talk) 13:21, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

@Redrose64: I was referring to Help:Edit toolbar under the advanced tab. I thought this was turned on for everyone, but maybe it is just a default on for newer users? Directly above the edit window for me, under the advanced tab. EoRdE6^{(Come Talk to Me!)} 13:36, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

I think that it's part of the MediaWiki software, and so I don't think that it's locally configurable; you could ask at WP:VPT. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:14, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

mw:Extension:WikiEditor to be exact, and yes, it is customizable (in JavaScript). I agree 'big (A+)' is somewhat 'anachronistic', and probably should be replaced. This is best raised in Phabricator. For now, while obsoloete, it is still in use on meany pages and is therefor still whiltelisted. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 16:12, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

• Ugh... Okay. Yeah, I'll see what I can do to fix that. Thanks for the information of where it is Edokter. I'll see if I can't work up a patch for the extension tomorrow or Sunday. This should be a really easy on to do. Would you suggest it should be updated to <span style="font-size: larger;">...</span> as that is the css the most closely resembles the effect of <big>...</big> (yes, I realize how it is rendered is browser specific, but so is the big tag itself). — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 16:21, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

I think that is the best option. Maybe give it class "big" so it can be styled. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 16:28, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

• I was thinking classed too. Should I just add the class and then have it defined in MediaWiki:Common.css? I guess it doesn't hurt to have it classed and styled in-line other than !important will have to be used to override it. I'll sleep on it.. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 16:41, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

It shouldn't require local CSS. Any classed CSS should go into shared.css. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 16:57, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks Ed. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 17:01, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

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• Thank you for your contributions, and congratulations on the award! --L235 (t / c / ping in reply) 15:58, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
• I Like what you do and how you do it. . Buster Seven Talk 18:49, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

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"Removing POV"

Re. Special:Diff/659739938, how's that POV? It's the stated aim of the proposal. PhantomTech idea isn't to saddle us with extra JavaScript and an extra step just because. Alakzi (talk) 20:06, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

• "For the purpose of..." is pushing a POV. CENT is for "KISS what is it" not "what's it for" and "how's it work" and "when will it happen"... Just, "what is it". — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 21:45, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
  • I've not come here to receive a rephrasing. How is it to "push a POV" to say what the proposal's aim is, as it's been explained by its author? How do the proposal's implementation specifics help to answer "what is it"? Also, please do not under any circumstances mark your reversions to my edits as "minor". Alakzi (talk) 21:55, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
    • Apparently it's been explained by the author in a POV way (that's the norm). T:CENT isn't the place to have a discussion. "There is a proposal to do this" is all that belongs in there. If people want to know why or how then they can click the link and read the proposal. As far as marking as minor goes, that is the default setting when clicking Twinkle's "AGF rollback". If you don't want them marked as minor any more, I'll have to click on "Vandal Rollback". Your choice. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 22:07, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
      • Literally, the text could be replaced with "there's a proposal to do this", and it'd make very little difference; you've been focussing on the technical implementation of the proposal, but that's only part of it. If the sincerity of the author is in doubt, "for the purpose of" could be substituted with "with the stated aim of". No, it's not the Twinkle default; check your settings. Alakzi (talk) 22:15, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
        • Yes, it is my default Twinkle setting. Doesn't change the facts: If you don't want them marked as minor any more, I'll have to click on "Vandal Rollback". Your choice. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 22:18, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
          • Sometimes I feel so tired. . . What's the meaning of "default"? There's no override; it is, simply, your setting. If you don't want them marked as minor any more, I'll have to click on "Vandal Rollback". I don't care how you go about it; what I care about is that you do not flag your reverts to any of my edits as minor. Sheesh. Alakzi (talk) 22:35, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
• You have - for the third time - flagged your revert in a content dispute as minor. Please consult WP:MINOR. Alakzi (talk) 14:49, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

about wanting to get holliday messages on my userpage

Hello Mr. 13 This is dfrr i would like to get holliday messages on my talk page every year whenever the holliday islike for example Christmas or New Year's. so is there any way this can happen?.Thank you and have a great dayDfrr (talk) 18:43, 30 April 2015 (UTC)(Talk to me:-))

• It's on one of my todo lists someplace. I'm fairly pre-occupied for the next month or so. I'll make sure you are on my list. :) — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 20:05, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Quote box position question

I removed the quote box as it messed up your page. It's at my Talk Page User talk:Atsme Thx Atsme (talk · contribs) 16:26, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

• I don't understand what you are talking about. What did you remove from my page? I also don't understand why there is a request for help from me on your talk page or what exactly the request is asking for. If I was to guess, I'd say pick whatever image you want the quote to be above or below and add the code directly before or after that image's code. I'm guessing it is because it is putting it in order on the page based on all elements with that specific float which is how "float" works. I hope this is helpful, although I fear it might not be, good luck. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 17:39, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Question: is there a way to anchor (align left) a quote box inside a particular section of an article so that a specific paragraph wraps it? Has nothing to do with images but that is where it keeps ending up. Re: what I removed was the quote box I included in my post to you because it bled outside your blue text area. I posted it to my TP so you could see it. I thought maybe you could help or point me in the right direction to get help. Atsme (talk · contribs) 19:49, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

On the face of it, it might not seem to be to do with images, but wrapping text around either an image or a quote box uses the "float" feature of web design. It doesn't matter if floated objects are images or text boxes, whether they're left- or right-aligned: they're displayed in the same vertical sequence as they occur in the code. That is, if you have in the page code: a right-aligned floating object (like an image); then some text; finally a left-aligned floating object (like a quote box), the upper edge of that quote box cannot be displayed any higher than the upper edge of the image. They might be on the same horizontal line though. This means that if the image is displaced downwards - such as by an infobox - it will also displace the quote box. In most browsers (some versions of IE excepted), the text will move upwards to fill any gaps that may have been caused by those displaced objects. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:36, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, Redrose - I imagine left aligned images would also be displaced downward by the TOC? Atsme (talk · contribs) 22:22, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

The TOC isn't normally floated, so it displaces everything that is after it in the wikicode - this is why the first section heading is below the TOC, not alongside it. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:54, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, kindly. Atsme (talk · contribs) 23:05, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

de-orphaning script

I wasn't even aware of this script, so my opinion isn't really valid at this point. I like the idea, however I usually just manually de-orphan pages and don't participate in many drives...let's see what the others have to say. In any case, I wish to thank you for your work thus far! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 14:28, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

I'm with User:FoCuSandLeArN on this. I was probably aware of the script at some point in the past but have no opinion about it's future direction, other than broadly supporting the automation of things that can be automated without biting the newbies. Stuartyeates (talk) 21:26, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Deorphaning script

Hello,

It's nice that you are getting progress in building your deorphaning script. In response to your comment, I think you could debug it first so it could be tested out first, and then when it's ready, the scoring could be added afterwards. I would like to know where I could find this script so I could use it to help with the backlog.

Thanks. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 02:27, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

• MrLinkinPark333, a description, todo list for known issues/planned features, and instructions for adding it for your own use can be found on User:Technical_13/Scripts/OrphanStatus and its talk page. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 03:02, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Mass messages to user categories

In the future, when you send mass messages to user categories, can you make sure that you remove any pages that aren't root user pages (such as User talk:Jackmcbarn/Userboxes)? Thanks, Jackmcbarn (talk) 19:14, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

• I don't have a problem doing that, would you mind explaining why? Did it cause MMS to get hung up? Did it cause you to get multiple notifications? Thanks. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 02:50, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Dribbdle

Hi T13. I've now restored the article and moved it to draft space Draft:Dribbble -- Diannaa (talk) 02:37, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

May 2015

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(untitled gibberish)

UserGogo212121 Hello Technical 13 Which license upload photo wikipedia then not delete it --Gogo212121 (talk) 16:40, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

• Gogo212121, I have no idea what you are asking, or why you are asking it here. I've looked at your user page and your talk page to see if I could get any clue as to why you might be asking me here, and came up empty on that front but found that you've been previously blocked by Ymblanter for posting gibberish to talk pages. Please try and clarify, I'd hate to see you be reblocked for something so trivial if there is just some kind of language barrier or something. Perhaps try posting in your native language? — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 16:59, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

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You've got email.

--Floquenbeam (talk) 13:34, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

OneClickArchiver

Hi! I was just using OCA to archive some stuff on WP:ANI and WP:AN. When I went to archive a section on WP:AN, it proceeded to create a new page rather than archiving to the most recent existing one. I've pinged you on WP:AN. The script looked for Archive 1, note the space, instead of finding Archive271. Would you mind having a look into the script and see what might be causing this? Regards. Blackmane (talk) 03:05, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

• I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that WP:AN isn't properly configured for OneClickArchiver as it is probably set up for Cluebot instead of Miszabot (lowercase sigmabot) and as such it doesn't have a proper |counter= parameter and as such it's defaulting to 1. I'm just about to head to bed, but if my hints here are wrong or or can't figure it out, I'll look into it tomorrow. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 03:36, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Invitation to comment on VP proposal: Establish WT:MoS as the official site for style Q&A on Wikipedia

You are being contacted because of your participation in the proposal to create a style noticeboard. An alternate solution, the full or partial endorsement of the style Q&A currently performed at WT:MoS, is now under discussion at the Village Pump. Darkfrog24 (talk) 21:40, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Stop messing with the Wikipediholism Test.

You're discouraging people from editing by edit warring. James1011R (talk, contribs) 16:17, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

• James1011R feel free to have a discussion on the talk page and establish a consensus.
  • Don't take Department of Fun pages too seriously. Consensus isn't required or even recommended for every edit. James1011R (talk, contribs) 23:06, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Good God, that page has seriously degraded since I last saw it, probably 6-7 years ago. It should be shot and put out of its misery. --Floquenbeam (talk) 20:46, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Stop mass notifications

Stop mass notifying users of the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Wikipediholism test. You're notifications are a violation of WP:Canvassing and are interfering with editors' ability to patrol recent changes. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 06:39, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

• Falls under WP:APPNOTE as everyone has self identified as interested in the topic by adding one of the related userboxes to their user page and as such isn't a WP:CANVASS violation.

The audience must not be selected on the basis of their opinions—for example, if notices are sent to editors who previously supported deleting an article, then identical notices should be sent to those who supported keeping it. Do not send notices to too many users, and do not send messages to users who have asked not to receive them. Notifications must be polite, neutrally worded with a neutral title, clear in presentation, and brief—the user can always find out more by clicking on the link to the discussion. Do not use a bot to send messages to multiple pages. The {{Please see}} template may help in notifying people in a quick, simple, and neutral manner.

I've not selected based on what I expect their opinions might be since I'm notifying everyone who has previously interacted including users that used both the real old version and the new one. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 06:44, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

As a side note, it's almost 3AM here, I'll send out the rest later tonight or Monday probably. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 06:46, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

As one of the notified users, I do consider it spam and I disagree that the mere presence of the userbox implies any further interest. —烏Γ ^(kaw), 07:00, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

@Technical 13: You're kidding right? Right from what you quoted: Do not send notices to too many users and Do not use a bot to send messages to multiple pages. If I add a userbox to my page saying I've requested rollback rights before, it doesn't mean I want a message on my talk page every time there's something going on related to rollback rights. It certainly doesn't justify someone disrupting recent changes patrollers to get all those notifications out, (especially for a humor page) something you seem to have ignored in your reply. PHANTOMTECH (talk) 08:02, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

• I don’t consider a few hundred too many, and I am most certainly not a bot, unlike LegoBot who would have sent out notifications had I made it an {{Rfc}}. I still don't know why you seem to think messages sent by me have anything to do with new page patrol considering I'm autopatrolled and pages I make don't get marked as new unless something has been broken. If that's the case, then autopatrolled needs to be fixed, so please do explain that. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 14:14, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Pages that you make most certainly do get marked as new, see all the N in this list or the many entries here. So do mine. So do Jimbo's - nobody is exempt. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:42, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

• Dude. You've notified a few hundred people about a humor page? C'mon, there's no way that that is a worthwhile use of anyone's time. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 14:57, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Also, they said about recent change patrolling, not new page patrolling, which makes a lot more sense. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 15:04, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi!

Hi Technical 13! I think you are so busy. This is just a reminder. If you have any comment about the discussion, it's very helpful for the project. This is not an compulsion at all. If you have any concerning or you have something not clear, I respect that :). Thanks! --Was a bee (talk) 12:14, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

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Wikipedia Adventure nominated for deletion

Hi, I'm notifying you of a discussion where I mentioned you because you have been involved with The Wikipedia Adventure. You can comment here: Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure_(2nd_nomination). Cheers, Jake Ocaasi ^{t | c} 15:39, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

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Do not waste my time...

With completely and utterly pointless and inane templates. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 20:08, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

• Please don't be WP:UNCIVIL with me Lukeno94. I was just trying to politely ask you to be mindful and not call a good-faith user a troll (which is a personal attack). I wasn't aware of it until the IP asked why they were being called a vandal for trying to help on #define vandalism. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 12:51, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

• It is not a personal attack to call a spade a spade. The IP's last edit summary was trolling, pure and simple. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 14:03, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

hi...history revision statistics link is down

I left a note at village pump technical, but that was a few days ago, any help would be great thanks (I left a note with Musik Animal too, but nothing yet)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 20:37, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

• Ozzie10aaaa I've restarted all xtools, let me know if I need to do it again. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 22:15, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

sorry to bug you, but its still down...--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 00:50, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

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The Arbitration Committee has enacted the following temporary injunction, which supersedes all other provisions:

Technical 13 (talk · contribs) has recently made several postings that constitute personal attacks. More than one has had to be suppressed as it was potentially libelous, and this would normally have resulted in an indefinite block from editing. The Arbitration Committee has decided however that as this case had been accepted before those comments were made, and there are unrelated allegations that merit investigation, Technical 13 will be allowed to present evidence in his defence if he chooses, and grants him the following limited exception to that block:

For the duration of this case, he is prohibited from making any edit that is not both (a) directly relevant to the case, and (b) on one of the pages or talk pages of this case. Any comment that may constitute a personal attack or libel if posted publicly must be submitted only via email to the Arbitration Committee, and must not be posted on wiki.

If he breaches this restriction, or makes any comments deemed to be uncivil or personal attacks, he will be blocked indefinitely and may only comment on the case via email to the Arbitration Committee.

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Technical 13 arbitration evidence phase closing soon

As a listed party to this case, this is a notification that the evidence phase of this case is closing soon on 30 June. If you have additional evidence that you wish to introduce for consideration, it must be entered before this date. On behalf of the committee, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 16:14, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikiviewstats

You are my/our only hope to resurrect this useful and excellent tool. :-) Please help with it. --Andyrom75 (talk) 17:48, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Somalis

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Somalis. Legobot (talk) 00:04, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Proposed decision posted for Technical 13 arbitration case

Hi Technical 13, in the open Technical 13 arbitration case, a motion has been proposed which relates to you.  Please review this decision and draw the arbitrators' attention to any relevant material or statements. Comments may be brought to the attention of the committee on the proposed decision talk page. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:26, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Technical 13 closed

This arbitration case has been closed and the final decision is available at the link above. The following motion has passed and been enacted:

1. Technical 13's indefinite block is converted to an indefinite ban imposed by the Arbitration Committee. Technical 13 may appeal this ban at any time to the Arbitration Committee if he wishes to return to editing.
2. Technical 13 is limited to one account, and may not edit through any account other than "Technical 13". He is explicitly denied the right to any sort of clean start.

For the Arbitration Committee, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:26, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Discuss this at: Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Technical 13 closed

Arbcom Block

You have been indefinitely blocked by the Arbitration Committee.
If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you should review the guide to appealing blocks, then appeal by emailing the Arbitration Committee (direct address: arbcom-enwikimedia.org).

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Administrators: This block may not be modified or lifted without the express prior written consent of the Arbitration Committee. Questions about this block should be directed to the Committee's mailing list.

-- Euryalus (talk) 22:13, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Friendly reminder

Just a reminder you said you would review the new discussions when you have some time. As I said there, some editors are construing the results of the proposal and !vote more/less broadly than others... The original "Formal poll" asked for editors to be "stating an opinion based on policy or guidelines in favour of or opposed to the use of flags to represent a driver's or team's nation in Formula 1 articles. Some editors (and the contested edit to the MOS) are taking the close to apply to areas other than Formula 1. Clarification and rationale would be helpful.

That's what you get for trying to be helpful – as they say, no good deed goes unpunished . Thanks again. Mojoworker (talk) 18:30, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

• Bumping thread. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 18:36, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
• Bumping thread. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 09:36, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
• Bumping thread. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 02:17, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

• Yet again, I'm so sorry I'm so slow to get to this, I'm finishing up Spring finals and starting summer classes (had to take an away class that starts a week earlier so I get no break between semesters here) which is really chewing up my time. All I can say is WP:SOON™ — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 02:17, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

• Bumping thread for 30 days. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 12:31, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

— {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 12:31, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

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• Bumping thread. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 02:20, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

• Bumping thread for 30 days. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 12:31, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

— {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c) 12:31, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Not topicon

Template:Not topicon has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. -- Sam Sailor ^Talk! 18:29, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:TheShadowCrow/sandbox/Lilit Galojan

User:TheShadowCrow/sandbox/Lilit Galojan, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:TheShadowCrow/sandbox/Lilit Galojan and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:TheShadowCrow/sandbox/Lilit Galojan during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Ricky81682 (talk) 10:41, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:TheShadowCrow/sandbox/Alain Boghossian

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MfD nomination of User:TheShadowCrow/sandbox/Tigran Ruben Yesayan

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