User talk:Mikeblas

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The file is in-use at Feelings (David Byrne album). -- mikeblas (talk) 14:48, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Convenient Discussions

Hey, Mike. I saw your comment on Talk:Main Page and am coming here to suggest that you should try out Wikipedia:Convenient Discussions! I saw you had an error in lining up columns which Convenient Discussion makes easier when using a talk page. I do get that Wikipedia has many, many accessibility issues but CD has helped myself read talk pages more easily. Thanks, Cowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 01:02, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your note! I think I'm using Convenient Discussions already. (How can I be sure?) The thing is, it doesn't always work and I often have to drop back to the regular source editor. It's that the "Reply" button (or link, or text ...?) does nothing: clicking it doesn't open the editor window for a new response. No error, no message, no popup. Just nothing. -- mikeblas (talk) 02:04, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

@Mikeblas, So unlike on commons or any other project, you have to press the little circle refresh button that is on the left of your screen if you can see it. You can also view settings for it if you scroll all the way to the bottom of a talk page (like where the “Powered by MediaWiki” thing is) and click “Convenient Discussion settings”. Thanks! Cowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 02:06, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

Privateers Cup

Hey Mike, if you go to the Vesrix V8 Supercars stats pages you can find where each driver finished each year. Like this link to Terry Finnigan's profile you'll see that in 1997 he finished third in the Privateers Cup. Its a laborious process going through each drivers and forming a finishing order for each year, but it's accurate records from pre-Natsoft era.

Happy to discuss further.Bjcook (talk) 01:20, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

OK. But I'm not sure why you've told me this. -- mikeblas (talk) 01:32, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

You the 1998 table. Bjcook (talk) 02:32, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Your sentence no verb.

I think you're talking about the 1998 Australian Touring Car Championship article. Since this issue is about the content of that article, it should be discussed on that article's talk page. See you there! -- mikeblas (talk) 03:05, 23 February 2025 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Istituto Centrale per gli Archivi

The article Istituto Centrale per gli Archivi has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No significant coverage in independent reliable sources to establish notability. The external link merely shows that it exists not that it is notable.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. JoeNMLC (talk) 19:59, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. This is a national government agency, so I would've thought it intrinsically notable. Plenty of information is available at it:Istituto Centrale per gli Archivi which can be translated and moved here. I have provided a rough translation of the lede of that article, along with a reference and some other improvements. Also, I removed your {{prod}} template. -- mikeblas (talk) 22:16, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in research

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of a group of Wikipedians to better understand their experiences! We are also looking to interview some survey respondents in more detail, and you will be eligible to receive a thank-you gift for the completion of an interview. The outcomes of this research will shape future work designed to improve on-wiki experiences.

We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in this survey, which shouldn’t take more than 2-3 minutes. You may view its privacy statement here. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns. Kind regards, Sam Walton (talk) 16:34, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Samwalton9 (WMF), thanks. I'm wondering how you will know if I participated in the survey or not. -- mikeblas (talk) 19:20, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

@Mikeblas I believe there should be a way to provide your username at the end of the form. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 07:57, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

Samwalton9 (WMF): There wasn't. I was asked only one question, then the survey ended. The URLs you're posting are not unique. So it's clear that there's no gift, since you won't know who completed the survey.

But now I see the gift is for an interview, not this survey. But then there's no invitation for the interview, so ... what's really going on here? -- mikeblas (talk) 15:25, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

@Mikeblas Ah, I see. The first few questions are 'screeners' - we were only looking to ask additional questions and interview editors who answered those questions in certain ways. It sounds like in this case you weren't quite who we were looking to interview, apologies for any confusion! Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 15:42, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation, Samwalton9 (WMF). Pretty crummy experience, so I'll probably not feel too eager to complete future questionnaires. -- mikeblas (talk) 17:18, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

I'm sorry to hear that. Unfortunately it can be hard to target the right users 100% of the time, so we have to send these surveys out to a broad set of editors, and then narrow down via those screener questions until we find the people we want to hear from. We'll try to make this clearer in the future. Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 09:55, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

Vandalism warning

I would kindly advise you to stop with the removing of content without a sufficient explanation or justification on the Australian opinion polling page. Your actions constitute vandalism, and if you disregard this warning and continue vandalizing the page, I will report you. 2607:FEA8:7221:F600:583F:397:5F08:7637 (talk) 20:08, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

My edits are not vandalism. Please see the note I added to the talk page. -- mikeblas (talk) 20:47, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

It may not be vandalism, but the way you went about it without warning was wrong. Furthermore, a fellow admin has stated that your actions are not in line with the exceptions of the 3 revert rule. https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_warring#Exemptions Furthermore, removing the graphs would badly compromise the article, and such a drastic action should not be implemented arbitrarily. 2607:FEA8:7221:F600:583F:397:5F08:7637 (talk) 20:56, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

3RR doesn't apply here as nobody (yet) violated the revert rule. If you wish to discuss the content, you should do so on the talk page instead of trumping up claims of vandalism. -- mikeblas (talk) 21:02, 20 March 2025 (UTC)