User talk:Anomie/Archives/2015

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Merge candidates?

Came across {{Vague}} while fixing Civil rights movement, and Vague appears to do the same job as {{Ambiguous}} (except for the visible wordings). Both are inline ambigs that populate Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification. To me, Vague and Ambiguous are merge candidates; thought I'd check with you first. – Paine Ellsworth ^CLIMAX! 17:09, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

It doesn't matter to me. But it seems like "vague" would be for something being generally unclear while "ambiguous" would be where it's a choice between several specific options. Anomie ⚔ 00:35, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Okay, that works for me, too. Joys! – Paine 14:23, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 133#Custom notices on user .js and .css pages

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 133#Custom notices on user .js and .css pages. Thanks. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 14:57, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2015 January 23

Your AnomieBOT closed five unresolved file deletion discussions citing that ″Image does not exist. If the file name in the header contains a typo, feel free to correct the typo and un-close this discussion″ which was completely false in all five cases.

Thank you in advance.--The Theosophist (talk) 13:47, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

link classifier -- has anyone mentioned deprecated Javascript?

Hi, Anomie. Has anyone contacted you about your page User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js needing update because of deprecated Javascript parameters? I use an adapted version of this page at Simple English Wikipedia, and I was notified that it uses deprecated parameters that need to be replaced. Everything in it came from your version, so I imagine that yours will need to be changed, too. The only differences in my version are that some category names, etc. are different on simplewiki, and I think I removed some things that we don't use there. Anyway, I was just asking because if you were going to change yours, it would be easier for me to re-adapt than to figure out what needs to be changed in my version (because I don't really "speak" Javascript). Let me know. I'd appreciate a ping in your reply. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 09:54, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

I'm not seeing any deprecation warnings here. Anomie ⚔ 15:45, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Anomie, this is in response to my {{JS migration}} project. I don't see any deprecations in your code that will cause it to stop functioning although you may want to bring it up to MW:CC/JS at some point and switch your $.ajax calls to use mw.Api() at some point. I'd be happy to propose a replacement at some point, but I do not have time right now as I've just started this JS migration project and have a bunch of scripts that will cease to function to look at fixing first. Anyways, Auntof6, if you need some assistance updating that script, I'd be happy to do so. :) — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 16:10, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Technical 13, I'd appreciate the help. I'm puzzled as to how my script there needs updating if Anomie's here doesn't, because mine was derived directly from Anomie's. I'll contact you on simplewiki about mine. --Auntof6 (talk) 17:59, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

I can't say I'm all that font of mw.Api instead of $.ajax. Anomie ⚔ 15:42, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Entirely up to you Anomie. I trust your judgement and decision on the matter, as I consider you informed and educated enough on the matter to decide for yourself. :) Happy coding! — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 19:22, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	This is bad. I barely date my {{cn}} tags anymore because I know AnomieBOT will come in a while. Ankit Maity _{«T § C»} 16:23, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! Anomie ⚔ 20:09, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

AnomieBOT

Mentioned here. Not really a problem with the bot itself, but thought I'd let you know anyway. Regards, Samsara 00:11, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Misuse made worse

Hi, with this edit, AnomieBOT made an invalid usage worse. Is it possible to trap for absent parameters? --Redrose64 (talk) 21:56, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Hmm. It might be possible to look for "{{{" in the resulting text and avoid substing if it's found. I wonder if that'd generate many false positives. Anomie ⚔ 14:07, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Weirdness with date

In this edit, AnomieBOT adds a date to {{fact}}, just like it should, but somehow the page ends up in Category:Articles with unsourced statements from May 2,014, with a comma in the year. Any idea why? I've requested help at WP:VPT. Nyttend (talk) 08:37, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Without even looking, I bet it's inside a field of an infobox that's supposed to contain only numbers... Yes, I was right. You probably want to put the {{fact}} in |population_footnotes=. Anomie ⚔ 11:15, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! I expanded the VPT thread by asking for help in finding other pages with this problem, e.g. Category:Wikipedia articles needing clarification from September 2,014. Any ideas? Nyttend (talk) 15:05, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Removing personal information from history of user page

Hi,

Is it allowed for admins to remove information that can be used to identify people from a person's user page's history. I had such stuff there but have since removed it. It's still in the history though. Transcendence (talk) 19:20, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

@Transcendence: The specific diffs should be reported at Special:EmailUser/Oversight for the right people to hide it from everyone (even admins). See WP:OVERSIGHT for details. Anomie ⚔ 13:28, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! Transcendence (talk) 06:46, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

help

I am suffering from the problem of being IP blocked, do you have a solution?--बेनुपराज पौडेल (talk) 12:26, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

You seem to be able to edit. Anomie ⚔ 12:30, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Usurpation

Hi, would you please check my usurp request: Misbeliever → Kacir. Your bot responded. Thank you.--Kacir (talk) 11:44, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

There is nothing I can do for you besides give advice, as I am not a 'crat. Your best bet would be to use the "Kacir" account to post there and confirm what you said with the "Misbeliever" account, in which case I'd expect the 'crats to disregard the red flags the bot raised. Anomie ⚔ 13:35, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you.--Kacir (talk) 15:27, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Sockpuppet

Please block User:Mikeis1996. I am not 99% sure, but 100% sure that this is a sockpuppet. It's a genre warrior, who is very obsessed with editing articles related to the band The Calling. He has been adding post-grunge to a lot of their songs which are far from post-grunge, such as Wherever You Will Go. This has been going on with a lot of account's the previous two years! It's very annoying! He's adding sources for his edits, but his claims are never in the sources that he uses! It's so damn annoying to reverted his edits over and over again! Several of his sockpuppets have been blocked, but most often, it takes a while before they are blocked, although his account's are very easy to recognize because he does the same edits on every single account! Please block this user! Te og kaker (talk) 22:41, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Need help!

Hello, Anomie. On the Governors and Senate election page can you please edit the predictions? If you cold, that'd help loads!!! Bye! Mydabo. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mydabo (talk • contribs) 02:02, 14 April 2015

Re: monobook

If I create those monobook.css and monobook.js pages on other Wikiprojects (Commons, Wikiquote, etc.) will they work there? Will redirects show up in green, for example? bd2412 T 03:30, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

If you have your skin set to Monobook there, and either adjust the lines to include them from enwiki or copy the whole thing to the other wiki, they should generally work. For linkclassifier in particular, you'd probably also have to adjust the category lists and possibly the intentionaldab regex to match what the other wiki uses for everything to work, but redirects and disambiguation pages should at least be highlighted. Anomie ⚔ 11:19, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Africa satellite orthographic.jpg

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Africa satellite orthographic.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you object to the listing for any reason. Thank you. Jc pag 2012 (a.k.a. John Carlo) from Wikipedia 00:06, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

phab:T96957

Hey, thanks for your work yesterday on phab:T97536. If you had time, do you think you could check out phab:T96957? I think this is a pretty important one from a user experience point of view; right now some requests are rejected and no reason is immediately apparent from the rejection email (see Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard#Should we start directing users to Special:GlobalRenameRequest?) (special:permalink/659891476). –xeno^talk 20:17, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	'twas a pleasure working with you on the arb clerkbot. Your replies were prompt and accommodating to the needs of the clerks. Thanks for all of your contributions. --L235 (t / c / ping in reply) 00:47, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! Anomie ⚔ 23:43, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

BOTREQ: Redirects to lists, from the things they are lists of

Hi,

Is this a task that might appeal to you? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:16, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

If there were a Village pump discussion where sufficient people indicated they thought such redirects were a good idea, maybe. Anomie ⚔ 12:43, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Seyed Ali Mirlohi Falavarjani

Hi Anomie, I noticed that you are asking for more refrences for Seyed Ali Mirlohi Falavarjani. Can you please comment what else can be done. I think all refrences have been listed showing the person info(I can read Persian/Farsi). Seyed Ali Mirlohi Falavarjani is a university founder and highly regarded and scientific figure in Iran, not a political one. I know a few graduates from Islamic Azad University of Falavarjan working in Canada where i'm living. Thanks for advise in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2Free2 (talk • contribs) 23:00, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

You seem to be very confused. User:Iranianson added the {{notability}} template in this edit and User:AnomieBOT merely added the date to it. I didn't do anything to the article at all. Anomie ⚔ 01:49, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

LinkClassifier

I was going to ask you to fix linkclassifier per Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Tech_News:_2015-24 but it looks like you've already done so. Thank you! --NeilN ^{talk to me} 01:39, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Siteinfo.namespaces in JSON2

I was just browsing around and noticed that even in JSON2, the siteinfo.namespaces collection is a JSON object rather than an array. Is there a good reason for this (even if just BC) or should I add an entry on Phabricator? – Robin Hood ^(talk) 03:37, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

That could be changed: the criterion is "what would API users find most useful", and I could see an argument for an array like with query.pages. Anomie ⚔ 10:55, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Okay, as you've likely already seen, I created a task for it. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 16:51, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

Bot

Your bot seems to have fallen asleep. Regards — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:02, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

Labs is currently having an outage (email); once it's back up I'll probably have to restart several of the tasks. Anomie ⚔ 12:22, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

BioLinkBot denial

Hi, just a quick policy question since you took care of dealing with the bot BioLinkBot I'm working on. It was denied because I've been doing human edits using the bot account, to discuss its value during the approval process mostly.
I have the feeling that I should make the "unblock request" from my Talk page Lykyd but since the "Blocked" block exist on the one of the bot, this is where I did it. Should I move this ?
Lykyd (talk) 01:39, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Add Reference needed dates

Myself Dongar Kathorekar (talk) 04:19, 29 June 2015 (UTC). I have added refimprove n many reqd tags in articles related to Maharashtra. Please give them their dates. Dongar Kathorekar (talk) 04:19, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Note

Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_May_6#Category:Wikipedia_protected_edit_requests

CFD closed : ) - jc37 20:27, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

I'll move the category tomorrow - is that okay with you? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:41, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, just seen that you are away. I'll wait. Regards and happy holidays — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:34, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
@MSGJ: Thanks. To avoid further delay while we try to synchronize, I went ahead and made the move myself. There's probably still some cleanup needed though. Anomie ⚔ 14:25, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Template:Verifiability

Transclusion count is low, id est twenty-six. Unprotect or downgrade? --George Ho (talk) 19:16, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

It doesn't matter to me. Anomie ⚔ 22:31, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

What's your decision? I don't mind either way. --George Ho (talk) 12:12, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

AnomieBOT making a bad guess

here AnomieBOT made a guess at filling in a refname reference. Unfortunately, it guessed wrongly, linking to the ODNB article on Ernest Cassel, rather than the article on H. H. Asquith which was intended. Many article use "ODNB", "odnb" (or, as in this case, "ondb") as a refname, but usually they will intend the article about the subject of our article. Not sure what you could do about this, but thought it worth flagging up. I spotted this because it had also failed to fill in another reference and had helpfully marked that. DuncanHill (talk) 15:49, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

My RfA

Pavlov's RfA reward

Thank for !voting at my recent RfA. You voted Oppose so you get only one cookie, but a nice one. (Better luck next time.)
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:58, 16 July 2015 (UTC).

Another JSON2 issue/question

This is similar to my previous question, except that in this case, there is a change and I'm not sure there was meant to be. Compare the imagelimits and thumblimits outputs for siteinfo.general between version 1 and version 2. Was this added indexing intentional? It's not mentioned in "Using the new JSON results format", so I thought I'd double-check. – Robin Hood ^(talk) 22:33, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Yes. Despite those configuration options tending to use sequential integers, they're used within MediaWiki as associative arrays. Anomie ⚔ 23:31, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Ah, got it. Thanks! – Robin Hood ^(talk) 17:54, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	Now, linkclassifier is on gadgets page of Turkish Wikipedia. Thanks for all. Mavrikant (talk) 19:08, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! Anomie ⚔ 12:39, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Removing flag icons from language info boxes

Hi. Per this discussion, could you add coding to remove flag icons from transclusions of {{Infobox language}}? Flags are acceptable under | nation= and | minority= (which are for official national and minority languages), but not anywhere else. (I expect most inappropriate flags to be under |state=, |states=, or |region=, but sometimes they crop up elsewhere, such as the language name.)

As per the response there, we have one other editor agreeing that we should follow MOS advice for language articles. The stale request has been listed at wikiproject languages/open tasks for 3½ years w no objections.

Posting again on the WP:LANG talk page, with link here. — kwami (talk) 01:53, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

No objection. Please do. --Taivo (talk) 02:28, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

@Kwamikagami: I'll give it a little time in case anyone wants to object after seeing it again just now. Ping me next week to make sure I don't forget. Anomie ⚔ 12:44, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

@Anomie: Ping! — kwami (talk) 19:01, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Done Anomie ⚔ 21:50, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

@Anomie: Re. this edit, per this request, flags are acceptable where the language is official (under |nation= or |minority=); it's only a problem elsewhere.

Not a problem to remove, but not s.t. that needs to be repeated if ppl revert. Thanks — kwami (talk) 23:16, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Ugh, sorry I missed that. Fixing now. Anomie ⚔ 12:10, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Five minutes to help make WikiProjects better

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Invitation to subscribe to the edit filter mailing list

Hi, as a user in the edit filter manager user group we wanted to let you know about the new wikipedia-en-editfilters mailing list. As part of our recent efforts to improve the use of edit filters on the English Wikipedia it has been established as a venue for internal discussion by edit filter managers regarding private filters (those only viewable by administrators and edit filter managers) and also as a means by which non-admins can ask questions about hidden filters that wouldn't be appropriate to discuss on-wiki. As an edit filter manager we encourage you to subscribe; the more users we have in the mailing list the more useful it will be to the community. If you subscribe we will send a short email to you through Wikipedia to confirm your subscription, but let us know if you'd prefer another method of verification. I'd also like to take the opportunity to invite you to contribute to the proposed guideline for edit filter use at WP:Edit filter/Draft and the associated talk page. Thank you! Sam Walton (talk) and MusikAnimal ^talk 18:22, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

User:Anomie/VPA

User:Anomie/VPA was apparently made for Wikipedia talk:Village pump/Archive 8#Section edit links on VPA. It often shows up as a distraction in my searches of terms used on the village pumps. Is it still needed? PrimeHunter (talk) 12:26, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Blanked. Anomie ⚔ 20:44, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

TfD clerking task expansion?

Hi Anomie, I have a question for you about AnomieBOT's TfD clerking task. TfD has been building up very large backlogs lately, often to the point of overrunning the transclusion limits on the main WP:TFD page. There aren't many people actively closing TfDs at the moment. Last week I collected all the then-open nominations in a single list at User:Opabinia regalis/TfD, much like AfD does, and I've been finding it much easier to coordinate closes from this format rather than the bloated TfD page. Your bot is parsing closed nominations already, to identify when a day's log should be removed from WP:TFD; could it also maintain a subpage with links to open discussions over 7 days old? Seems better to do that than for me to run my wheel-reinventing script every so often when I get a round tuit :) Thanks! Opabinia regalis (talk) 04:59, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

So your proposal is to replace the transclusions under Wikipedia:Templates for discussion#Old discussions with a list of links to the unclosed discussions? That's not a bad idea, but should probably be discussed at Wikipedia talk:Templates for discussion first. Anomie ⚔ 11:29, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

No, my proposal is to make a new subpage, e.g. Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Old unclosed discussions or some such, containing a list of links to unclosed discussions. That wouldn't change the presentation of WP:TFD, but would just facilitate bookkeeping the way the mathbot-curated AfD list does. I suppose I might subsequently propose transcluding that page under Wikipedia:Templates for discussion#Old discussions rather than the full logs as currently done, but I think that would be unnecessary if we could get a handle on the backlog, which in turn is much easier with a smaller list to work from. I am the only admin frequently doing this at the moment, and the process is already working fine hosted in my userspace, but I posted over at WT:TFD#Proposed modification for managing old unclosed discussions in case anyone has any other preferences. Thanks! Opabinia regalis (talk) 21:21, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

linkclassifier

Hi Anomie, thanks for creating User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js! (which I added to my monobook). There is an option there for "deletion – The target page is in one of the many "X for deletion/discussion" categories, or certain speedy deletion categories" but that is imho, not very helpful when creating new articles which were previously deleted (the creator in most cases, being non-admins, not aware of the existence of the previous version(s) of the article). So I wonder if you will be able to update the script to include provision for previous deletion (preferably two different variants, one for XFD and another for PROD/SPEEDY).

I have one application area immediately in mind. There is some effort of article creation going on the redlinks listed in the article List of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers (created by me) and I noticed that at least two of the entries listed there, Sophie Morel and Louis Billera were previously rejected at AFC (before being accepted by DGG). The idea is to use the find-replace function (of any text editor) and check by page previews if any of the entries listed there got previously deleted. Solomon 7968 18:39, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

There aren't any good API queries to check whether many pages were each previously deleted, much less to determine why (which can be impossible to determine when canned summaries weren't used). It would require one query per title, which would be excessive to be run on every pageview. Anomie ⚔ 20:25, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. Much of what you said (API queries etc.) went over my head but I get that it is technically unfeasible. I added a very brief note on this line in User:Anomie/linkclassifier. Solomon 7968 02:32, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Unwatch gadget update

Hi Anomie. I spent last night hacking your unwatch script so that when you unwatch a page, all list items for that page and the associated page are removed from the watchlist, not just the list item that you clicked on the link for. Would you be ok with adding that code to User:Anomie/unwatch.js? Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 03:17, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Go ahead. I note you could use the xor operator (ns ^= 1;) instead of the testing for mod-2 then incrementing or decrementing. Anomie ⚔ 14:01, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Ok, done, thanks. It never crossed my mind to use bitwise xor before, but I see there's a lot of places where it can come in handy. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 15:02, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Stupid question

About Wikiproject tagging - is it OK to give you a list of pages, that needs tagging, not categories? Or it's job for some AWB bot? --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 19:17, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

A list of pages could be done, although someone with AWB might get to it faster. Anomie ⚔ 01:53, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

OK, thanks. Forgot to say Hi in my first post, sorry :) --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 07:43, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

SNES Article Which You Had Nominated for Promotion Is Being Reviewed

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Thanks

Thanks for pointing out the helpful guide at WP:Creating a dated maintenance category! — JJMC89 (T·C) 02:04, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for actually doing it! Anomie ⚔ 14:21, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

OAuth application approval

Hi Anomie, can you approve OAuth consumer proposal named "WAM [1.0.1]" on meta-wiki? OAuth is used for editing pages in meta-wiki which is done for the meta:Wikipedia Asian Month judging process.

You can try the tool out on Tool Labs. (and source code is available on GitHub)

Click "Judging" on the navbar > OAuth authorization > "id.wikipedia.org" > "Kenrick95" > any one of the "judge" > click yes/no/pending; and it will reflect on "meta:Wikipedia_Asian_Month/Judging/id.wikipedia.org/Kenrick95". If you have any questions, feel free to ask me back. Thanks. Kenrick Talk 13:39, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Smoke exhaust ductwork

Hi there!

Your bot tagged the above mentioned article as unreferenced. I added some references. Could you take a look and see if you would agree that it's now referenced enough?--Achim Hering (talk) 21:13, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

(1) This isn't my bot's talk page. (2) If you had commented on the bot's talk page, you would have seen something useful in the edit notice: "If you are here because you think AnomieBOT added {{citation needed}} or another maintenance tag to an article, please check again. AnomieBOT only added the current date to a maintenance tag added by another editor in a previous edit." Anomie ⚔ 21:29, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Uw-imagepermission

Template:Uw-imagepermission has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Steel1943 (talk) 22:49, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Template documentation

Some time ago, I created a proposal for a "Template documentation:Foo" namespace. You commented to say that you thought that "Documentation:Template:Foo" would be better. I have since convinced myself that you are correct, and as a first step toward that ideal, I created a further, less grandiose proposal: simply auto-transclude documentation without moving or changing it. I did believe, anyway, that that proposal would be for the best regardless of any grand master plan.

That proposal was closed as having positive consensus, but requiring "not-already done" development work, so, having no knowledge about how to change Mediawiki itself, I created a pending bug report indicating that template documentation should be automatically transcluded. I also formulated three plans to go forward, at User:Thisismyrofl/Templates proposal, and since the first one (yours) was so much better than the others, I neglected the others.

You are quite knowledgable about wikis, much more so than myself. Would you take a look at my (first) plan on my user subpage? Do you think it's a good idea, or do you have criticisms (any at all)? Edge cases to consider? If you like the plan, then how would you suggest I move forward? − Thisismyrofl (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:39, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Neelix list

Hi! How did you get the list of 50,000+? It's not complete because it doesn't show all the deleted redirects. This shows he made 62,715 redirects and 4,595 have been deleted. But I can only see the first 10,000. Do you know how I can see them all? Thank you. —Мандичка^YO 😜 16:37, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

I made the list using the databases on Tool Labs. I don't know of an easy way offhand to list the deleted redirects using publicly-accessible information, you'd have to go through Special:DeletedContributions/Neelix and find which are redirects versus something else. Anomie ⚔ 16:53, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Apologies

Sorry about the other day. --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 02:08, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, wrong user talk! --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 22:03, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

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