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Hello! Are you using ~~~~ when signing? Wouldn't that use your sig configured at Special:Preferences and add the datestamp? I ask because it appears the datestamp in your signature is wrapped in a <small> tag, and it uses   entities as spaces, and finally adds a <br/> tag at the end. This is not good because bots and scripts are not able to interpret it as a valid wiki-inserted datestamp (e.g. archiving bots, timezone changing scripts, etc). On some pages this could conceivably cause bots to malfunction entirely. Please consider allowing the software to insert the datestamp for you. Thanks! — MusikAnimal ^talk 11:37, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Some bots and scripts are not that smart, it is true. I have always believed that the answer to this is to make the software as smart as it needs to be, though opportunities to remove non-functional anomalies should be taken. This seems broadly to be consensus. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:12, 2 June 2015 (UTC).

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Just allow me to ask, what is the rationale for retaining your nonstandard date format? You just want it to be smaller than the rest of your signature? This seems trivial considering the implications. We allow for custom signatures, so the bots have only the datestamp to reliably determine where a comment ends and when it was posted. I am very confused because I see that you are using Lowercase sigmabot III for archiving on your talk page, which I also use, yet your post from 2 May on my talk page was never archived. I have removed the added formatting from your datestamp to see if the bot will now archive it. — MusikAnimal ^talk 12:29, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

I've removed the non-breaking spaces in the timestamp. Let us see if the lowered intelligence requirement triggers a change in behaviour. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:00, 4 June 2015 (UTC).

Hell yeah!

Hi there. Thanks for the info! Cani get a hell yeah — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.255.233.247 (talk) 11:45, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

I guess you got it! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:55, 5 June 2015 (UTC).

Reference errors on 4 June

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 Fixed All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:30, 5 June 2015 (UTC).

can you look into this?

I tried to clean up Soybean Car but other editors thought I was a vandal. All of the refs in the Sources section are already refs in the body of the article. I also tried to get rid of dead links and blog posts etc. Can you check it out. 118.93.90.74 (talk) 02:53, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

• I have replicated some of the minor changes.
• The blog in external links may well be appropriate even if it is not suitable for a reference.
• Dead links should not be removed unless an alternative source is supplied, sometimes this is an archive version of the dead link.
• The conversion to "sfn" would remove the duplication. This was proposed on the talk page a little while ago, and is in progress now. You can discuss on the talk page.
• You should at all costs avoid edit wars, even, and perhaps especially if you are right.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:55, 6 June 2015 (UTC).

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Wikidata weekly summary #161

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • RfC on usage of Wikidata on German-language Wikipedia
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Pigsonthewing and aude were at State of the Map US to talk about Wikidata/OpenStreetMap cooperation and more
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  • The English-language Wikipedia has decided to deprecate Persondata in favour of Wikidata.
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  • The results are in for the Wikimedia Foundation's board election. One name should sound familiar to you ;-)
  • Addshore created new maps of the geocoordinates on Wikidata. More coming.
  • Sylvain made an overview of the overlap in topics that the biggest Wikipedias have.
  • Wikidata has passed German Wikipedia in number of items with images (743850 dewp articles vs. 804885 items) - now only second to English-language Wikipedia.
  • Catalan Wikipedia is moving Taxon IDs to Wikidata.
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• Development
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  • The Content Translation tool now automatically connects translated articles to Wikidata. (Thanks Content Translation developers!) Previously translated but unconnected articles have been connected by a bot. (Thanks Amir!)
  • Code review of the extensions written by a team of students to improve the constraint reports and make it possible to automatically check our data against other databases. A first version will go live soon pending further codereview and fixes.
  • Two new methods have been added to the lua library provided by Wikibase: wikibase.resolvePropertyId and wikibase.entity:getBestStatements.
  • Further work on making unserializable values editable in the UI (This can happen for example if a property is deleted.)
  • Made the Wikidata JSON dumps available on Labs in the standard dumps location there (/public/dumps).
  • Worked on automatically creating a redirect when merging items via the API.
  • Rewrote the script that generates a map image based on geocoordinates in Wikidata. (Result see above.)
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 3.0
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Comments at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/American politics 2/Proposed decision

At Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/American politics 2/Proposed decision, with the exception of arbitrators and clerks, all editors must create a section for their statement and comment only in their own section. Therefore, please move your comments into your own section. Thank you. L235 (t / c / ping in reply) 18:00, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi Rich, my apologies on spelling your name "Frambrough". L235 (t / c / ping in reply) 03:18, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

NP, probably gave anyone who saw it a giggle. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:47, 8 June 2015 (UTC).

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Daisy (advertisement)‎

I asked Daniel Case but i trust you as well. Can you take a look at Daisy (advertisement)‎? An IP edited the article and has messed things up - i tried to fix it but i could use help - especially because the IP seemed to think the Daisy girl messing up her numbers was scripted - it wasn't, it was just the child actress being a three year toddler and toddlers don't know their numbers that well and do not have the ability to truly act or follow a script. Paul Austin (talk) 14:46, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

I didn't see any issue after your edit there. User:Daniel Case reverted to the version before the IP. I have reinstated the further reading. If someone has the book, it might be easier to check minor details such as the actor's age at the time of shooting. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:04, 13 June 2015 (UTC).

Special:AbuseFilter/686

Hi Rich. Is this filter being monitored? It seems to be a bit too broad currently for any disallow/warn actions to be taken, but I was wondering if you're checking the caught edits. Thanks, Sam Walton (talk) 20:01, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

This was based on a request at Village Pump (IIRC). I have browsed the log a few times and caught a few things. I really need to present the filter log to the BLP noticeboard, and see if they can make regular use of it.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:11, 14 June 2015 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #162

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Should we have a Wikidata User Group?
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Thanks to everyone who participated in the Wikidata:Menu Challenge which made Wikidata shine at A Taste of Stockholm. The live results are still up at https://wikimedia-sverige.github.io/tastydata .
  • Upcoming: Donostia-San Sebastián Wikidata Editathon
  • Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata in Paris
  • News about Wikidata FIST
  • Review of the big interwiki link migration
  • Timeline of Christopher Lee films
  • Wikidata map - 19 months on
  • A challenge was raised to calculate the degrees of separation to Kevin Bacon. Already one routine has been produced, the next step is to use live data so that we can work on reducing the number of intermediary steps.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • ViziData has been improved significantly
  • Wikidata Visualization Challenge winners announced: first prize to ViziData.
  • New paper: Peer-production system or collaborative ontology development effort: what is Wikidata?
  • Jura1 posted some data around property usage on items about people
  • Tpt is interning at Google now to free up more content from Freebase for us. He's adding more data to the Primary Sources Tool.
• Did you know?
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• Development
  • Deployed arbitrary access on all Wikivoyage and Wikiquote projects and announced the next ones. See d:Wikidata:Arbitrary access for more.
  • More fine tuning on entity usage tracking (relevant for arbitrary access)
  • Fixed bug that sometimes allowed multiple properties to have the same label in a given language (phabricator:T102148)
  • More work on automatically creating redirects when merging items
  • More code review of the Wikidata Quality extensions (improved constraint reports and checks against 3rd party databases). Starting to look good for a first deployment.
  • The sitelinks heading hierarchy changed and includes a “Site links” heading now that is only shown on mobile. This is a DOM change needed to make Wikidata work better on mobile.
  • Started working on having PHPCS coverage for the major Wikibase.git code base to find small code issues more easily
  • Prepared Wikibase.git for the DataModel 3.0 switch
  • Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 1.4
  • Released Wikibase Internal Serialization 1.4
  • New releases of several DataValue components, including DataValues Number 0.5, DataValues JavaScript 0.7 and ValueView 0.14.5
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WMCA

This article is largely uncited and uses emotional POV language such as "reliable". Can you take a hacksaw to it? Paul Austin (talk) 18:51, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

The article would certainly benefit from more citations. It should also cover New World A'Coming. I don't find the language that POV, maybe more of a tone issue. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:18, 19 June 2015 (UTC).

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SP interview

Hey Rich, how are you seeing three-word lines on your screen? For me, it only makes the blockquote a little narrower, but I still have 24 words on the first line. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 23:13, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:21, 19 June 2015 (UTC).

Ah, a narrow screen. How does it look now? I've used upright= instead, so that it (should) sync to the size of your default image, rather than be hardcoded. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 23:23, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Well it's a 24 inch screen...

I now see something like:

[I saw] carcasses of slaughtered

pigs in the kitchens of Muslim

houses, mines in the driveways of

Croat houses, [and] booby-trapped

Serb houses. But what really

affected me was the random

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:29, 19 June 2015 (UTC).

That's a 24-inch screen? I wouldn't have guessed that based on the image dimensions. To replicate what you're seeing on my 15.6-inch screen, I have to increase my font size to 30. What resolution are you at? 1920x1080? Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 23:56, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

1920x1200. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:58, 19 June 2015 (UTC).

Adminship

Hi Rich! I see you're one of the top five editors on Wikipedia, with over a million edits. You've been around over a decade — and you're still not an admin? That's unbelievable! With your permission, I'd like to nominate you :-) David Cannon (talk) 13:17, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

David, you are welcome to nominate me. You should be aware that I had adminship removed a few years ago, see WP:ARBRF. The finding that said I had used my admin-tools incorrectly was vacated a short while later.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:19, 19 June 2015 (UTC).

• Hey Rich. Where was the discussion that vacated that finding? It's a bit annoying that a link to that discussion was not placed on that page (I know that's not your fault). I find it darkly humorous that your arb case has it's own shortcut. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:25, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

I created the short-cut a few minutes ago. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:29, 19 June 2015 (UTC).

• Nevermind. Found it. --Hammersoft (talk) 19:27, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

That's great. In that case, I'll put your name forward as soon as another nomination of mine has been processed (i.e. in a few days). Just a question — if the Arbcom ruling was vacated, why weren't your admin privileges restored automatically? In my book, they should have been! David Cannon (talk) 08:27, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

To answer that I would have to put myself in the mind of ArbCom, at which endeavour I have been moderately unsuccessful. They might well reply that RFA is always available, that I didn't ask, that my other sins are so egregious they could not consider it, that it didn't occur to them, or any of a thousand other reasons. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:57, 20 June 2015 (UTC).

Good points...

Just wanted to chime in that your comments here were spot on. Sorry if this disturbs your drama free days notice on the page, but wanted to let you know I agree with at least your original statement.--MONGO 05:54, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Does not disturb at all! And your message is much appreciated, I don't know if it is wise to bring up these points, but it reassures me that it is right. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:40, 21 June 2015 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #163

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • German language Wikipedia closed its RfC on usage of Wikidata data. As a result Wikidata data can be used on the project as long as it happens through a template and it has a non-Wikimedia reference.
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Office hour on IRC. We talked about cool things that happened around Wikidata over the past 3 months got an update on upcoming developments and Freebase and more. You can read the log.
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • en:South Pole Telescope is a nice example of an infobox completely filled from Wikidata.
  • Q20150617 was created on 2015-06-17
  • More data from Freebase have been added the Primary Sources Tool. There is also a page to help the mapping of Freebase properties.
  • Nice new manual for MixnMatch
  • The new nature.com/ontologies links to external ontologies and datasets; among them Wikidata.
  • National Gallery of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum now have entries for all their paintings on Wikidata thanks to wiki project Sum of all Paintings
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: takeoff and landing capability, Discogs label ID, Discogs master ID, Discogs artist ID, Encyclopaedia Metallum band id, investor, second surname in Spanish name, CulturaItalia ID, BerlPap identifier, Mapillary id, National Library of Ireland authority
  • Newest WikiProjects: Cross Items Interwikis
• Development
  • Made a small API breaking change to wbeditentity and wbgetclaims modules. Details can be seen in the commit message of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/217885/
  • Worked more on unit support
  • Fixed an issue where you'd sometimes select the wrong value when entering a statement unintentionally (phabricator:T98471)
  • Switched the whole code base to make use of DataModel 3.0
  • The concept of “claims” no longer exists in Wikibase, as all places in the software work with statements. We are making this more and more explicit in the code.
  • The autoloading mechanism of the extension changed, see phabricator:T100813
  • More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for deployment. They'll improve constraint checking and provide checks against 3rd party databases.
  • Special:UnconnectedPages had to be reworked (thanks Amir!) because of huge performance issues. Because of this it loses some functionality (being able to specify where the list starts and limiting the list to pages that have local interwiki links). We're working on bringing functionality back without the performance penalty.
  • Bene* created a SPARQL abstraction layer for PHP called Asparagus: https://github.com/Benestar/asparagus
  • Enabled arbitrary access on arwiki, cawiki, eswiki, huwiki, kowiki, rowiki, ukwiki, viwiki, and usage tracking on dewiki, ruwiki, cswiki and all s3 wikis. (ruwiki and cswiki get arbitrary access on June 23)
  • Finishing work on improved handling “invalid” values and statements with deleted properties.
  • Small breaking DOM change: Wikibase no longer adds its own h1 tag but uses MediaWiki's default .firstHeading element. (phabricator:T93534)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
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Former Naval Person listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Former Naval Person. Since you had some involvement with the Former Naval Person redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. The Theosophist (talk) 09:40, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of GreenFacts for deletion

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The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GreenFacts_(2nd_nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Co-op Pilot Results & Mentoring

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Adminship

It's humbling to have been supported in my RfA by someone with the depth and breadth of your experience on these shores. I'm grateful for your kind words, and shall do my best to live up to them. Many, many thanks.--Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:44, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #164

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Ateliers Wikidata
  • Upcoming: Wikimania. There will be several talks and workshops related to Wikidata. Say hi at the "Ask Us Anything" session for Wikidata if you're there.
  • Reductionism
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Which geographic areas do different Wikipedias cover? How does it compare to Wikidata? Markus has a beautiful answer
  • Wikiproject Molecular Biology and AskPlatypus are shortlisted for the OpenData Award \o/ This is the award Wikidata won last year.
  • Paper on vandalism on Wikidata. Lydia is in touch with them to figure out how to best use the insights for us.
  • Reasonator got some updates: it is now using external ID formatter URLs, has monolingual string support and better social network links
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: number of children, MovieMeter movie identifier, MovieMeter director ID, Foursquare venue ID, BoxRec ID, Biblioteca Nacional de Chile catalogue number, sortkey, properties for this type, patron, Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Google Scholar ID, Dutch Senate person ID, Trismegistos ID, Wikisource index page
  • Newest External tools: Wikidata Compare
  • Showcase items: none. Yours next week?
• Development
  • Jonas joined the team and Adam is back \o/
  • Deployed arbitrary access to ruwiki and cswiki
  • Machine readable versions (in various formats) of Wikibase entities will be advertised in their page heads as alternate link. (phabricator:T96298)
  • Fixed property label on item pages not scrolling anymore (phabricator:T94588)
  • More work on getting the Wikibase Quality extensions ready for release. The part doing constraint violation checks should go to test.wikidata.org next week. The part doing checks against 3rd party databases will still take a bit longer but is also shaping up nicely.
  • Made it possible to create items even when another user is mass-creating items (phabricator:T103796)
  • Bene* worked more on making Wikidata work nicely on mobile
  • Fixed weird issue with cursor jumping around in sitelink input field (phabricator:T103489)
  • Fixed an issue where it was not possible to edit a statement after you removed its only reference (phabricator:T103603)
  • Lydia will be traveling for much of July. Expect her to be a bit less responsive during that time.
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Nifty template

This template Template:Establishment category by year by country looks pretty useful compared to template:estcatCountry, it seems to work correctly where it has been used for example at Category:2014 establishments in Thailand. Did you find any problems or is it ok to roll out more generally? Thanks, Tim! (talk) 09:35, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. I hesitated to spend more time on it because it would have caused conflict at the time to "roll it out" (and would have been very labour intensive). Potential issues I can see are:

• It could do with some user documentation, even if it's just one line.  Done
• It doesn't automatically support establishments by year by continent, which would be nice.
• It might be better to suppress or change the "See also: 2013 disestablishments in Foo" line where the category does not exist. On the other hand this may be considered a valuable hint to get that category created (and populated).
• It might be worth considering what we should do if the category is empty. A tracking category could perhaps be added.
• It might be worth creating a parallel "disestablishments" template.  Done at the time...

I'm not aware of any problems where the category name is well formed.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:29, 28 June 2015 (UTC).

It does assume that certain parent categories exist. They probably should exist if the category itself does. This is not the case, for example with Category:2013 establishments in Rivers State.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:33, 28 June 2015 (UTC).

Also it may have issues with BC/BCE years. This could be fixed pretty easily.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:20, 28 June 2015 (UTC).

Thanks Rich, I'll have look if I can try it out. The problems you highlight exist with the other template anyway - in fact I spent a bit of time yesterday filling in red categories from Wikipedia:Database reports/Categories categorized in red-linked categories/5 where it had been used. Tim! (talk) 05:56, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

Minor edit request

Your comment at Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Rich_Farmbrough_2#Questions_for_the_candidate included a reference to User:NewYorkBrad. The red color of that link left me concerned. I'm relieved to see that you meant (I assume) User:Newyorkbrad. Could you change it? I would, but I'm extremely careful about editing comments of others especially given the small possibility that you deliberately intended the red link for some reason.--S Philbrick(Talk) 13:36, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for pointing that out. You are welcome to make spelling/typo corrections to any of my comments. I have, in the distant past, attempted subtle subtexts on Wikipedia. These attempts have all been dismal failures. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:43, 29 June 2015 (UTC).

Thank you for helping out at the Teahouse

I mean that sincerely. You were brave to agree to be nominated for RfA, and you are handling things with aplomb. I wish you well. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 07:05, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Much appreciated. Feedback is not only supportive, but useful. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:46, 30 June 2015 (UTC).

Nominated for adminship

Hi Rich! I've nominated you for restoration of adminship. (About time I kept my promise to do so:-)) David Cannon (talk) 12:14, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. It will be instructive to see what happens. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:22, 27 June 2015 (UTC).

Good luck. --Fæ (talk) 12:25, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi Rich, I'll lend my support. Good luck! Audit Guy (talk) 12:48, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you both. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:44, 27 June 2015 (UTC).

• @Davidcannon: The new RfA was reverted shortly after it was initiated as it was located on the page of Rich's old RfA. I have copied the nomination to Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Rich Farmbrough 2 and formatted it. When ready for !voting, please transclude this RfA to the main RfA page and follow the instructions at the top of the request page. Thine Antique Pen (talk) 15:45, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

  Thanks. I have accepted the nom, and answered the standard questions. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:46, 27 June 2015 (UTC).
  

  Would you like me to transclude the nomination? Thine Antique Pen (talk) 21:35, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

  That would be good, thanks. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:51, 27 June 2015 (UTC).
  

  Done, good luck! Thine Antique Pen (talk) 00:00, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

  well it was unanimous last time, it is unanimous so far this time! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:40, 28 June 2015 (UTC).
  

  Hi Rich, So sorry to note the negative trend. I wanted to contribute but I don't think my supporting vote would make a difference! Perhaps, should things change......My best wishes to you though. Audit Guy (talk) 05:09, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

  Well, I've put in my bit. Hope it helps. Best wishes Rich! Audit Guy (talk) 09:47, 28 June 2015 (UTC)

  Thanks, your !vote is important. If there is a broadly 50/50 split that is valuable data - in fact whatever the result is the information is useful. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:40, 29 June 2015 (UTC).
  

• Perhaps this came a little too early for some people ... try again in maybe 2022 ;) — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:59, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

  To paraphrase John Maynard Keynes, to influence current affairs it is better to do something while we are still alive to do it. --Fæ (talk) 10:12, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

  I'll second that! Audit Guy (talk) 10:45, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

  There are certainly one or two "opposes" who suggest another year or two would change their minds. While a "pass" seems incredibly unlikely, the current balance is far more positive than certain people have suggested it would be. Admin tools are useful, but not essential. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:49, 30 June 2015 (UTC).
  

  It isn't so much that it came too early, but that there is a bloc of voters at contentious RFAs who will oppose the first time and support the second almost irrespective of the gap since the last incident. Hopefully this RFA will pass, but if it doesn't another in 2016 will probably pass and certainly do much better than this, whereas I'm pretty sure that if Rich had waited another year before running there would have been some people opposing because in effect it was his first attempt to regain the tools. Sad that this sort of thing is necessary, but if you let people vent their spleen in this RFA and then keep your nose clean for a few months the next RFA will be much easier. Nothing really negative is being diffed from the last 24 months, and unless someone finds something recent then I would hope the percentage of support will steadily rise, probably to more than 60% but it could even end in the discretion zone. ϢereSpielChequers 13:50, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Undoing a move you made back in 2008

Hi Rich, could you move Good manufacturing practice back to Good Manufacturing Practice? The capitalization is pretty much standard worldwide. Thanks, Heaviside glow (talk) 18:33, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for asking:

• Ngrams says otherwise (area under blue curve plus area under red curve > area under green curve).
• Wikipedia style is to "Use lowercase, except for proper names: Titles are written in sentence case." See WP:LOWERCASE.
• I think you would need an admin to move the page, since the redirect has been edited.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:09, 30 June 2015 (UTC).