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GA Review of 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game

Hi John, I'll be spending the next few days reviewing the article, 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game to see if it meets WP:GOOD. Let me know if you have any comments. Thanks. Cobyan02069 (talk) 21:17, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Responded at Talk:2016 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game/GA1. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:40, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Deletion of Victor Ike

Hello John, Please can you explain your deletion of that article "Victor Ike" It was a soft redirect and was created using the appropriate template for such. I'm still working on it and It did not qualify for a speedy or any other deletion since we having pages like that is very normal. I would appreciate if you can restore it regards Tracy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tracy Williams (talk • contribs) 19:34, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

@Tracy Williams: First, I didn't delete the article; I'm not an administrator here and do not have permission to delete or restore anything. However, yes, I did nominate the article for deletion. I did this because it was re-created almost immediately after the end of the deletion discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Victor Ike; it thus qualified for speedy deletion as explained here. Your best course, I think, is to contact the administrator who closed the deletion discussion, Northamerica1000 (talk · contribs), who might be willing to restore it as a draft for improvement. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:03, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Hi John,

Thanks for the reply. i will contact Northamerica1000.

Best regards

Tracy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tracy Williams (talk • contribs) 21:24, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

I tried contacting Northamerica1000, but it's stated on the page i clicked on "talk" that Northamerica1000 is presently taking a semi-wikibreak. please who else can i contact to rectify the problem? Regards Tracy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tracy Williams (talk • contribs) 21:37, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

@Tracy Williams: I suggest you leave a message there anyway. I've had a look at the history of that talk page - the "semi-wikibreak" notice has been there for months, yet Northamerica1000 has made over 500 edits in the last week. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:46, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks John. please how do i send him a message, when i click the talk page or {You've got mail) on his page, it direct me to a different page. i'm a little confused not to send the message to the wrong person.

Regards Tracy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tracy Williams (talk • contribs) 22:16, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

@Tracy Williams: The usual way to leave a message at User talk:Northamerica1000 would be to click the "New section" link at the top, where it says "Read / Edit / New section / History". There's a "how to" guide and video at Help:Using talk pages. But I see that you found a different way to leave a message, so that's OK. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:05, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks John for the help, i really appreciate it. Regards -Tracy — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tracy Williams (talk • contribs) 19:15, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

User:Naraht/Mixed Greek Latin

Please refresh, and/or if possible, let me know what I would need to do to refresh this. Thank You. (Note I tried using insource:/[A-Z][Α-Ω]/ for a search but it never returned)Naraht (talk) 14:22, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

@Naraht: Done using the AWB database scanner. I'd happily give you click-by-click instructions, but first you'd have to download and install AWB, and download 13GB of compressed database dump - probably not worth it.

I already use AWB (currently also working on cleaning up Category:Pages using infobox university with unknown parameters , and with the bigger fixes to the parameters, used AWB, but I'm now down at the fiddly bits), and I've got 289GB free on my laptop.Naraht (talk) 15:49, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

@Naraht: OK then... You can get database dumps from the dumps server: search for "enwiki" and then you'll need a "pages-articles.xml.bz2". Or, someone has created a torrent of the latest dump which may make downloading it easier; that's listed at meta:Data dump torrents. I use "bunzip2.exe" to uncompress the download. Long ago I wrote an AWB database scanner tutorial which is mostly correct for this task too. This one is simpler since it is just mainspace. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:02, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

I'll set that up to do when I have my laptop at home overnight. That's not a small file. Since this is a work laptop, installing torrent would not be advised 1/2 :) Also, after I get this working, I may want to check the templates as well, but none of the other spaces would make sense, I think.Naraht (talk) 16:15, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

The built-in Wikipedia searches are deliberately crippled so that no one can monopolise the server. This search correctly runs the insource regular expression, but only because the incategory part first selects only nine articles. The server is coded to give up very quickly if it is asked to run a regular expression on all five million articles. AWB took about 30 minutes to compile the results on my laptop. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:32, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Sounds reasonable, a little bit more stress than just looking for Algeria. I tried incategory:"Historically black universities and colleges in the United States" insource:/[Α-Ω][A-Z]/ and it return *very* quickly with useful information. The other thing that I've figured out since the first time that I did searches is that I can stick [Α-Ω][A-Z]|[A-Z][Α-Ω] in the search box and have all of the ones in the article pretty quickly.Naraht (talk) 15:49, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

I meant the search box in the editor. I may have to go back to the original list of latin homographs in my latin list but keep *all* greek letters in my greek list, SΦS (Swing Phi Swing) and GΦG (Groove Phi Groove) *are* allowed, but AΦA needs to be changed to ΑΦΑ.Naraht (talk) 16:15, 27 March 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for April 18

Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited 2013 Missouri Tigers football team, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Andrew Wilson. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

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 Fixed I still claim that Andrew Wilson was better than the garbled "Wlson" -- John of Reading (talk) 10:25, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi again!

Hello John of Reading! Could you please take a quick look of the template in my sandbox and fix the formatting so that a border or a box appears that the text should be in (if you can)? Just like template:ombox. Thanks!—‎Lost Whispers _talk 15:01, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

@Lost Whispers: I'm not sure I know enough HTML to do that. If you want a message to look like an {{ombox}}, why not format it by calling ombox? Failing that, if you view the HTML source of a page that displays an ombox, you'll see that the formatting uses table/tr/td rather than nested divs. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:10, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

@John of Reading: the twist is that I don't know ANYTHING about programming! I'm mainly contributing to writing articles, and can edit some simple things. does this help you try to fix it though?—‎Lost Whispers _talk 16:27, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

@Lost Whispers: Ah, you're trying to get ombox-like formatting on a wiki that doesn't have anything similar? If that's the case, I think you'd better ask for help at WP:VPT. I don't know enough to help you this time. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:44, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

Not a problem! Thanks for the replies.—‎Lost Whispers _talk 17:44, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

non-humans are not allowed in WP

I regret to say that non-human beings, especially angels, are not allowed to edit WP --Dd1495 (talk) 13:54, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

@Dd1495: On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog - or an angel, maybe. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:57, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

See message

• Please see User talk:Anthony Appleyard#Wikipedia:Article wizard/Not quite yet. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:33, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

@Lepricavark: Thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 05:39, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

please help translate this message into your local language via meta

The 2016 Cure Award

In 2016 you were one of the top ~200 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:08, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

"There are many reasons why a total number of edits usually does not indicate quality of work, quality of an editor, or significance of contributions" -- John of Reading (talk) 19:46, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Born ≠ borne

Hi John of Reading, many thanks for tidying up behind my appalling spelling and careless typing. The polishing that you do is a major factor in improving WP's credibility. Acad Ronin (talk) 15:06, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

@Acad Ronin: Thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 15:59, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

I think people underestimate the role of typos and poor writing in undermining credibility. If you are sloppy in things I can see easily, can I trust you to be careful in things I can't? Cheers, Acad Ronin (talk) 16:22, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Just a mistake

Hi there John of Reading, seen your edit summaries here and here. Yeah these two edits were just a mistake on my part, the article is on my computer, so I must have made a typo when writing in the article title, and copied the reference to save time writing it out again in the other article. That's why the same mistake was found in multiple articles. Thanks for fixing. Cmr08 (talk) 00:18, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Fixed this in several other articles, and found where it came from. When I saved the article on my computer a number of years ago, the typo was in the file name I used to save it. Cmr08 (talk) 00:24, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	Thanks you for the cleanup on 2016 Dallas Cowboys season. WikiVirusC (talk) 14:15, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

@WikiVirusC: Thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 14:17, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

UC Berkeley/ Nobel laureates

I would like to thank you for rectification.[1] Ber31 (talk) 05:39, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	Thanks you for the cleanup on 2016 Dallas Cowboys season. WikiVirusC (talk) 14:15, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

@WikiVirusC: Thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 14:17, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

UC Berkeley/ Nobel laureates

I would like to thank you for rectification.[2] Ber31 (talk) 05:39, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Great job

Thank you for the wizard article update; this page helps most. Allyhall321 (talk) 21:25, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Assistance

§ Hi,

I've contributed here since March 2017. Will it be okay for me to create new pages? I've also discovered that there are many rules and regulations. How much should I know about them? Ber31 (talk) 05:54, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

@Ber31: I've left you one of the standard "welcome" messages at User talk:Ber31; I hope those links are useful. I see from your contributions that you've understood the need to add references to support your new text. If you keep doing that then a new article should be fine. I suggest you work your way through the questions in the Article wizard, and when you get to the end choose the option to create a draft article. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:25, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

I would like to thank you for the fabulous welcome. :-) Ber31 (talk) 06:34, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Requested input

Hello, I frequently see you contribute to articles listed in Wikipedia:WikiProject Korea/Popular culture and would very much appreciate your input on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Korea/Popular culture#Eradication of variety show sections so that a conclusion towards variety show appearances can be made. Thanks. Abdotorg (talk) 19:14, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

@Abdotorg: Well, perhaps I do edit those articles frequently. But that's only because they turn up on my lists of articles containing spelling mistakes. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:18, 9 June 2017 (UTC)

Was this what you intended...

In this edit, you allowed the AWB robot to edit the title of an article.

Was this intended? When we find what we think are errors in spelling, grammar or punctuation, in quoted material, don't we leave those errors as-is? Geo Swan (talk) 09:55, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

@Geo Swan: Yes, I usually allow AWB to change the style of quote marks used in cited titles. This is recommended at Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Quotations at "Typographic conformity". I do change spellings or fix grammar in quoted text, sometimes, usually with an edit summary to describe my reasoning; I've written more about that here. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:51, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Lionel Balagalle

An article that you have been involved in editing—Lionel Balagalle —has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. 2402:4000:BBFE:D32A:5AA:F07F:9085:5B81 (talk) 15:03, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Encouragement to proofread

Greetings. Might I have your comments or ideas on this? --LilHelpa (talk) 11:51, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

@LilHelpa: I'll have a think... -- John of Reading (talk) 12:38, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks!

Not sure how I did that; saw the typo and then placed my cursor in the wrong spot. --Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:21, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

@Fuhghettaboutit: It happens... -- John of Reading (talk) 12:45, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

Talk:2016 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship Game/GA1

John of Reading, you were kind enough to make some comments about issues with the nominated article, and also to make some edits to improve it. There are still a number of issues, as I noted in my own comments a few weeks ago.

Are you intending to do any further work on the article? As it stands, it does not currently meet the GA criteria, and the nominator has yet to make any edits to address the issues that have been raised. Please let me know your plans. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 22:07, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset: No, I'm not planning to make any more edits to the article or the review. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:36, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I have closed the nomination as unlisted. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:19, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Precious three years

Precious

Three years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:32, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Thank you for the reminder! -- John of Reading (talk) 05:52, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Add a page

Hello John, I was wondering if you could help add a page about a public figure. Thejoeplumb (talk) 16:17, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

@Thejoeplumb: Not really - despite the huge numbers of hours I put in here, improving and fixing articles, I have surprisingly little experience in actually writing new articles! But, having seen your post at the Help Desk, I have to agree with the advice given to you there. If you are planning to write about yourself, this is unlikely to turn out well. See Wikipedia:Autobiography for more. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:49, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

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Gacy

Hi. Thanks for your edits to the above article. Just so you know, the reason I made that edit was because there were two differing instances of why and how that particular victim disappeared in the text (travelling by train to Waukegan or travelling by bus to meet a contractor) before I spotted the error and thus made the edit. Regards.--Kieronoldham (talk) 14:15, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

John Wayne Gacy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Fair enough! There's a lot to keep track of when editing that article. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:15, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Manoek Siyam's edits looked like linkspam

The edits by User:Manoek Siyam that you reverted looked like attempts to get people to go to some site from which to download a (purported) Canon printer driver, so, over and above all the other damage he did, he also committed WP:LINKSPAM. Thanks for reverting them. Guy Harris (talk) 19:07, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

@Guy Harris: It seems an odd link to want to spam, but, yes, it didn't belong in any of those articles. -- John of Reading (talk) 19:38, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Note on 'vandalism'

John - I received your note concerning edits I made to the current events portal, which you suggested may have amounted to vandalism. In fact, I was trying to reverse someone else's edit (with little success), as the article claimed that India, rather than Pakistan, had won the ICC Champions Trophy. Despite repeated efforts - which may, in retrospect, have looked like vandalism - the article simply wouldn't reflect my edit, which in turn was attempting to reflect reality. No misuse of the site nor vandalism intended. I note that it has now been put right. 82.13.68.127 (talk) 10:52, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining! This edit changed "Trump" to "Drumpf", which didn't look constructive. Do you perhaps have a humorous Trump-related browser extension installed? If so, you'd better turn it off when editing Wikipedia. You wouldn't be the first Wikipedia editor to have made that mistake. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:22, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

That's exactly what I've got! I shall take your advice and do exactly that - thank you! 82.13.68.127 (talk) 16:25, 12 September 2017 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hi John, thank you so much for contributing to Wikipedia! I am actually producing a podcast episode about unsung heroes, such as the people who go out of their way to contribute to the benefit of thousands of strangers. I'd love to include a short phone call with you where I'd just say thanks "in person." Let me know if that's something you'd be willing to let me do! Thanks!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aballstaedt (talk • contribs) 23:19, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

@Aballstaedt: No thank you. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:19, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	For your bot-mediated assistance to my lists of prehistoric life by US state articles. Abyssal (talk) 15:06, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

@Abyssal: Thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 16:02, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

Process of fixing Portal:Current events archive pages

Hi! Would you take a look at my process for fixing the archives that I've been using. Does it seem like this is an appropriate method of working with these pages or would you recommend some other method? Thanks! 00:29, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

@RossO: I've seen your edits in my recent changes feed. Your method looks pretty efficient to me, and I had been wondering what tools you were using. I believe you've nearly finished? -- John of Reading (talk) 06:09, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Yes, just one more month to go; (Dec 2004) should be done today. I'm just surprised that there aren't more efficient tools beyond bookmarklets. I did some work with iMacros in previous wikis that worked well, but for the 23 months I needed here, bookmarklets worked pretty well. I was hopping that there was some sort of lower level tool (SQL-like?) that would make things easier to apply the same changes to multiple pages at once. I think once I get my head wrapped around Lua a bit better, I might tackle some more automation in the Archives. But mostly all of this is in preparation for getting the Portal to be mobile-friendly and use a limited number of library/template resources to provide the layout and look-and-feel. Thanks for the sanity check. — RossO (talk) 17:12, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

AWB/Tasks

Is it customary to overstep someone who has already stated they began working on a task, as you did at Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks#Fix_a_lint_error_in_a_user.27s_signature? I'll avoid helping out in the future if that is the case. — nihlus kryik  (talk) 06:35, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

@Nihlus Kryik: I am very sorry to have caused offence. I believed I had found a more efficient solution, and believed I was a suitable editor to offer help, having a bot account available. I failed to check your user page, where I would have seen that you also have a bit account. I have withdrawn my BRFA. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:48, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

You don't need to withdraw it by any means (I didn't expect you to); I was just taken back by the forwardness. Feel free to continue your BRFA as you are probably closer (or at) a better solution at this current moment. — nihlus kryik  (talk) 06:52, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

@Nihlus Kryik: OK, I've re-instated the BRFA. If it's any help, my real-life social skills are just as poor. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:11, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Help

Can you please help me  ?! Nation Chakma 2017 (talk) 06:54, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

@Nation Chakma 2017: I've left you some "getting started" links on your talk page, User talk:Nation Chakma 2017. Your edit at Reema Debnath hasn't worked because "Father", "Mother" and "Sister" are not among the parameters listed in this documentation. You could try using "father", "mother" and "relatives" instead; but, better, would be to leave this information out of the box at the top right because these relatives do not have Wikipedia articles. Note, though, that Wikipedia only aims to summarise information that has already been published elsewhere. Much of the information in that article has no references to tell readers where it has come from. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:10, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Automated Tasks for the Paleozoic articles

Sorry to bother you, but I was hoping you could run basically the same tasks you performed on the Lists of Mesozoic life by state for the lists of Paleozoic life by state. User:Kanashimi is waiting to perform some tasks that require the preceding ones to have been performed first and I thought I'd ask you if you were available. There's a message on the bot request page with the details. If you're busy I understand, I was just trying to avoid keeping Kanashimi waiting any long than I had to since it's been a few days. Abyssal (talk) 17:36, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

@Abyssal: I'm busy just now, but could get it done in the next 24 hours. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:59, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

Great! No need to hurry. Abyssal (talk) 18:01, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

@Abyssal: Done, and I've commented at WP:Bot requests. I've also posted at Wikipedia talk:Notifications#Another failed ping, but the page is back on my watchlist now, so you don't have to worry about pinging me from that thread. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:17, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Hey, John. Could you run that "sp." removal procedure for the following huge list of articles in the comment? Abyssal (talk) 01:25, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

@Abyssal:  Done - also removed "spp." entries from some of the pages I'd looked at before. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:55, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

Could you please run the "sp remover" for the following lists? Abyssal (talk) 13:30, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

@Abyssal: Aren't those already done? My "find and replace" didn't find anything to do in any of those articles. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:36, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Array slicing

Sorry about that. My list got refreshed somehow to include that page again. Thanks for fixing it. Nihlus 15:21, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

@Nihlus: No problem! I fixed a bunch of these in mainspace a while ago, found myself about to make exactly this mistake at Array slicing, and thought I'd better watchlist it. -- John of Reading (talk) 15:24, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Conesus Lake

Thanks for letting me know about the typo I checked the book and it was spelled correct there. Those books are full of typos though. Thanks Bacardi379 (talk) 23:52, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

@Bacardi379: Thank you for checking! I'll whizz through the others in the next day or two. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:17, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Watkins Electric Music

Dear John of Reading,

I got a ticking off from you for editing the w-e-m page to put matters right. This I did at the request of Mrs June Watkins the current director of w-e-m Ltd and wife of the late Charlie Watkins. I am a personal friend of the family, my addition was reviewed and approved by Mrs Watkins. Everything I said was true and I ask that you ring Mrs Watkins who will verify it. I do not understand all your Wikipedia jargon and neither do I have the time or patience to learn and fully understand it all. I just wanted to say what was right and truthful on behalf of my dear friend Mrs June Watkins and the late Charlie Watkins.

I know its highly unlikely that you would telephone Mrs W in order get verification directly from the horses mouth, but as its your job to do so I sincerely hope that you do so. I will call her this morning to advise her of the slim possibility that you might at sometime soon give her a call.

I did reply directly to the email you sent me yesterday, but don't know if it would have come back directly to you or the writer. I can provide a copy of that reply if you so wish. Sincerely,Jack Plug (talk) 08:43, 24 October 2017 (UTC) Jack Plug

@Jack Plug: No, I won't be telephoning anyone. Wikipedia articles only aim to summarise what has already been published elsewhere, so information known to you personally or obtained by me over the telephone cannot be included. This is one of Wikipedia's core policies - more at Wikipedia:No original research. I have removed the telephone number from your post to protect Mrs Watkins' privacy. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:49, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

WP:CLEAN

	Hello John of Reading: You are invited to join WikiProject Cleanup, a WikiProject and resource for Wikipedia cleanup listings, information and discussion. To join the project, just add your name to the member list. North America1000 05:08, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Some falafel for you!

κλείνω συγνώμη . Παράνομη απόδειξη διώκεται από το Νόμο. Gioannania18220 16:35, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

@Gioannania18220: Hmm. I was going to suggest that you might do better at the Greek-language Wikipedia, but it looks as if you are indefinitely blocked there. -- John of Reading (talk) 16:45, 30 October 2017 (UTC)

Douglas Abdell orphan tag

Dear John of Reading, I write you ref.: Douglas Abdell I think the orphan issue are solved. It's possible to remove the tag? Thank youFulfonso (talk) 12:33, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

@Fulfonso: Yes, I've removed the tag with this edit. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:43, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Vandalism warning

I didn't vandilise any page but I got a warning that said I did? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.171.201.71 (talk) 16:36, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for getting back to me. If you didn't make the edit, please ignore my message. As it says as the bottom of User talk:86.171.201.71, "Some IP addresses change periodically, and may be shared by several users. If you are an IP user, you may create an account or log in to avoid future confusion with other IP users". -- John of Reading (talk) 17:02, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Hi

I have expanded the article about Rikard Wolff. A very well known Swedish singer who sadly died today. Could you please take a look at that article. Any help is appreciated. Cheers.BabbaQ (talk) 14:44, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

I fixed some typos, but GoingBatty did most of the work -- John of Reading (talk) 06:48, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Romance author

Hi John! I’m looking for some help. I’m tryimg to create a new page for a romance author (S.M. Soto) and I’m having trouble. Would you be able to create one for me? I check out your pages daily! JenniferMoorebookish (talk) 00:18, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

@JenniferMoorebookish: To be honest, I'm not a good person to ask, as I haven't written many articles myself. I've left you some introductory links on your talk page; the "Your first article" link should be of use. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:26, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

tortoise protection group,

John I removed the facebook link and replaced with the following all of which are legitimate sources, please re-publish what you removed on the tortoise protection group wikipedia page/ .

https://www.cites.org/

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/endangered-species-application-to-move-from-a-permitted-address

https://www.cites.org/

regards tortoise man.

I have resubmitted my submission with verified sources only. I hope this is satisfactory now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tortoise man (talk • contribs) 22:39, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

@Tortoise man: These pages do not even mention the Tortoise Protection Group. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:36, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

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Edits that make no changes

Edits like this are really not very useful since they change nothing about the display of the page. Unless you are changing something else as well, it's probably better to avoid edits that don't have any appreciable change to the page. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:20, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

@Koavf: I would have thought that correcting a category sort key was a useful change. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:58, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you and excuse me! ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:06, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi!

I see that you are very active in small fixes. Could you please help me with this? Thank you! --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 14:39, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

@ExperiencedArticleFixer: I will have a look at these once I've finished my current spelling list. However, I'm unlikely to save any edits where the only changes are AWB general fixes. -- John of Reading (talk) 13:54, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewing

Hello, John of Reading. As one of Wikipedia's most experienced Wikipedia editors, Would you please consider becoming a New Page Reviewer? Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines; currently Wikipedia needs experienced users at this task. (After gaining the flag, patrolling is not mandatory. One can do it at their convenience). But kindly read the tutorial before making your decision. Thanks. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 21:13, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

@Insertcleverphrasehere: No, sorry. Yes, I have a very high edit count and have been around for a while, but I don't trust my judgement when it comes to areas such as NPP, AFC or XFD. -- John of Reading (talk) 20:00, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewing 1.1

NPP = "I" Never Played Polo AFC = "🇺🇸" "🏈" CONFERENCE XFD = X-RAY FILM DEVELOPER BETA-TESTER [🇺🇸 COACH Z | #USNavy ⚓] 05:46, 10 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by COACH ZARLINO (talk • contribs) 05:46, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Another prehistoric life by state bulk article request

Hey, John. A few months back you helped me out quite a bit with a series of lists of the prehistoric life of US states and I was hoping I could rely on your technical expertise again for a similar operation. On September 21st you replaced the first instance of each capital letter in the format "* †[[A" with a block of code:

--A-- <!-- Please hide unwanted images in comments like this one so that they may be easily restored later if we change our minds and the image is wanted again --> {{Compact ToC}} * †''[[A

Could you do that again for the following commented out list of articles? Abyssal (talk) 15:19, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

 Done -- John of Reading (talk) 15:54, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

I've edited the nowiki'd heading markup since it would confuse the archiving bot.

Thanks, John! Do you mind performing the same operation for a few more articles? Thanks. Abyssal (talk) 01:31, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Also  Done -- John of Reading (talk) 07:21, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

RfC at Robert E. Lee

As a recent contributor to Robert E. Lee, you are receiving this notice for an RfC at of a proposed restatement of a wp:primary source which contains more points than the existing block quote from the letter. The primary source is a 1856 letter of Lee’s to his wife from Texas as found at Alexander Long, Memoirs of Robert E. Lee: his military and personal history (1886), p. 82-83. Opponents have seen wp:original research in the proposal as drawing conclusions not found in the primary source. A rewrite of the first proposal follows an edit break. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 09:08, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

@TheVirginiaHistorian: Thank you, but I just fixed a typo. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:08, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

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@Buster7: Thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 19:48, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Seasons' Greetings

...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 22:48, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

@Bzuk: Thank you, from a grey and damp south. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:15, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

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@Insertcleverphrasehere: My earlier reply is still at the top of this page. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:08, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

Apologies John. — Insertcleverphrasehere ^{(or here)} 08:12, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

@Insertcleverphrasehere: No problem! -- John of Reading (talk) 08:14, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

Chateu Skvorec and Skvorec

Dear John, I would like to ask you for help. There is an article about Skvorec Castle, that I,ve published about 8 years ago. I think that "Castle" is apropriate defenition for these types of structure, but for some reasons someone, called iaroslavvs renamed Castle to french Chateu and eagerly defend his point of view. I'm not against french words in English, but in all other texts (e.g. Skvorec, that edited by you) we use "Castle". Can you halp, please

Kind regards, Dmitryeremeev Dmitryeremeev (talk) 04:03, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Help needs

Dear John, Can you clarify this issue as a native speaker, please... This is written by iaroslavvs to mysels regarding Skvorec Castle.

As for your other reproaches: "chateau" vs. "castle" – regarding to your poor level of English, I'm afraid that your argumentation in this case doesn't interested me at all. Of course, Czech term zámek (not the same meaning like Russian замок!) or its German equivalent schloß can be translated by two English words, "castle" or "chateau", which depends on architectural style of the building and the epoch in which it was founded/rebuilded. In this context, I would also like to point out that using of this word isn't limited to French-speaking setting! In Czech/Slovak area, something like e.g. this, this or this is usually understood as a "castle" (hrad) while this, this or this are some examples of "chateaux" (zámek). When we consider when the building, the rest of which you own, was built (18th century), its architectural style (predominantly Baroque) and its size, location and finally, how was called both in Czech and German, it is clear to me that it is a chateau not a castle! Yet, it is possible that my comprehension of this quite special English term is incorrect – but I would like to be corrected from a native speaker, preferably any neutral colleague-Wikipedian, not from yourself, whom English is obviously even worse than mine. Dmitryeremeev (talk) 04:54, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

@Dmitryeremeev: I'll leave you to discuss this issue on Iaroslavvs's talk page. Is the building mentioned in other English-language sources? What name do they use? -- John of Reading (talk) 17:39, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Skvorec castle

Dear John, I would also apreciate if you can have a llok to Skvorec Castle {Chateu:-( article for general grammar and style correction. Seems like too many mistakes there Dmitryeremeev (talk) 06:19, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

@Dmitryeremeev: I've fixed some spellings and tried to improve the grammar here and there. That's all I was doing in the Škvorec article. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:39, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Thank you indeed. All available virtual and printed sources use a "castle" since ever. Some castles has started to use "chateau" definition for commercial purposes, but I"m absolutely disagree with "Chateau" for Skvorec castle, since it's history started from latin word Castrum. Moreover, I don't see any reason why we should mislead people with french word - I'm doubt that french use Castle in french language:-). Dmitryeremeev (talk) 18:07, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

@Dmitryeremeev: To take this further you should post the sources on the article talk page. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:23, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

Skvorec castle

Dear John, Thank you indeed for your editing. Wish you very happy New Year... Sincirely yours Dmitry Dmitryeremeev (talk) 17:49, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Reverts aren't for maintenance

Please don't do that. Just edit the page and remove the old tag. When you do it via reverting, it triggers notices, including (for those of who have that feature turned on) via e-mail. Tends to raise blood pressures unnecessarily. >;-)  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ<  14:32, 1 January 2018 (UTC)

@SMcCandlish: I wasn't aware of that constraint. I will try to remember in future. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:48, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Hello there!

Wanna Be Friends? --2601:205:C100:424D:6DF1:BBAC:2936:7BBF (talk) 16:31, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

We could improve an encyclopedia together! -- John of Reading (talk) 07:13, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Sure! --2601:205:C100:424D:880C:D02F:8A3F:E329 (talk) 23:14, 5 January 2018 (UTC)