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Proposed deletion of File:Mickey au Camp de Gurs (cover).jpg

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Re: illegal picture on NF1 page

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Can this image be removed as i think its illegal and dirty

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurofibromatosis_type_I

I found it while searching up mu condition

Its the first image it appears to a medical photo but its very indecent and with sick people out there I think it best removed

I dont know how to contact support or report it that's why I posted it on you as you seem to be a administrator or editor

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Note, IP has made and then withdrawn this same request at WP:AN. DMacks (talk) 19:30, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@DMacks: Thanks for the heads up. This is the WP:AN report. —Bruce1ee 23:08, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 60

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About lint errors

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Hi there @Bruce1ee, how do you find and fix the lint errors in an article? 98𝚃𝙸𝙶𝙴𝚁𝙸𝚄𝚂 09:51, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Have a look at Wikipedia:Linter, in particular the "How you can help" section. Special:LintErrors lists the current lint errors, and on each page linked there is a "Help" button at the top right, which explains how that category of errors should be fixed. Another list of current lint errors is Firefly's report. Installing the "lintHint" gadget can also be very helpful (see User:PerfektesChaos/js/lintHint for instructions). If you need any further help, you're welcome to ask me here. Otherwise there is a linter discussion page at Wikipedia talk:Linter. —Bruce1ee 10:15, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

HNAHLAN

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The contents I added are genuine and Administrator of Page remove it! Sad. Sailographicscsc (talk) 12:44, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The sources you cited are not reliable. Blogs are not reliable sources. —Bruce1ee 12:53, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi!

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Greetings, I occasionally come and make edits on en.wiki, I am normally a patroller on tr.wiki, I need your help as I don't know this place. I can't find the info boxes on my profile that link to my TR page and say "this user is a patroller on Turkish Wikipedia" etc. Can you help me? YG01 (talk) 18:33, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

YG01, is {{User wikipedia/New page reviewer}} what you are looking for? – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:47, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes I was looking for this thank you, how can I access the other boxes? YG01 (talk) 21:00, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There are other boxes listed in the documentation for that template. You can also click on the category links at the bottom of {{User wikipedia/New page reviewer}}. Does that help? – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:21, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Jonesey95: Thanks for responding to this. —Bruce1ee 21:50, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The categories don't show up for me, I guess because I'm not an approved user on en.wiki, thank you for your help. @Jonesey95 YG01 (talk) 08:14, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Those categories should appear for everyone. They are Category:User rights templates and Category:New Page Patrol userbox templates. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:39, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your help, unfortunately it doesn't show up for me. Our wiki is very different. For example, on our wiki the number of changes etc. is shown on the user page, but not on yours. Also, does en.wiki have the right to whitelist? I'm sorry, I've really overwhelmed you, I apologise... @Jonesey95 YG01 (talk) 16:25, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On en.WP, I have a script or a gadget that adds text to the top of User pages like "1,252 revisions since 2005-03-15 (+6 days), 44 editors, 101 watchers". That may be what you mean. It is not a standard feature that all editors see. As for whitelisting, I don't know what you mean. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:39, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What I mean is that while the Turkish Wiki has information about such users, the English Wiki has a blank space... What I mean by White List is that users who do not require version control are given to users who are trusted by us, and the burden of version control is lightened. YG01 (talk) 21:16, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You could ask at tr.WP how that information is displayed on User pages. It looks like a customized piece of code that we do not have at en.WP. As for the white list, the en.WP list of user rights is at Wikipedia:User access levels. You could ask at Wikipedia talk:User access levels about the equivalent to the tr.WP white list. We may have the same thing but call it by a different name. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:43, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your information, I apologise for disturbing you :) YG01 (talk) 17:31, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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CS1 error on List of time capsules

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Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page List of time capsules, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

  • A "missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 07:14, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done. —Bruce1ee 07:31, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

T Y

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Thank you for correcting my errors in Blini. Lesson learned. 2601:589:407E:C490:2D90:E773:E898:8A75 (talk) 23:38, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My pleasure. —Bruce1ee 23:40, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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@7&6=thirteen: Thank you very much! —Bruce1ee 15:22, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 61

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A barnstar for you!

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The Minor barnstar
Thanks for fixing the styling code on WWRZ! I wanted to update the logo and clean up the page, but I'm not used to editing images, just text and references. Simsnet (talk) 19:58, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Simsnet: It was a pleasure. Help:Pictures and Wikipedia:Extended image syntax can be helpful. —Bruce1ee 22:05, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Stanisław Wyspiański, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Legion. Such links are usually incorrect, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of unrelated topics with similar titles. (Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.)

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 Fixed. —Bruce1ee 00:25, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image File:Hornby Railways logo.jpg

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Happy First Edit Day!

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@The Herald: Thank you! Nineteen years – it feels like a lifetime. —Bruce1ee 06:02, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

</small>

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Hi. Got your message about using </small>. I’ll be closing all “<small>” with “</small>. Sorry about the inconvenience. Thanks for fixing it. I‘ll be doing it right from now on. Tektonson (talk) 11:57, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Tektonson: Thanks, that will be a great help. —Bruce1ee 13:23, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Heyarchanashah (talk) 09:05, 20 March 2024 (UTC)Why my blog reference is deleted?

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Hi put useful information related to content and i took references from that blog only and write it on my own, then what's the problem with that. Heyarchanashah (talk) 09:05, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The source you cited is a blog, and is not a reliable source. —Bruce1ee 09:12, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Exultet

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Dear Bruce1lee, Thanks for correcting my lint error in Exultet. I hope you enjoyed the addition of this external link. Polla ta deina (talk) 08:54, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Polla ta deina: No problem. I haven't watched that video, but I'll keep it in mind. —Bruce1ee 09:03, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

FYI

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We both erred on Last meal it seems. IP's reply Thought you might like to know. Hope you have a great weekend. Zinnober9 (talk) 20:33, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Zinnober9: Thanks for the heads up. I've struck out my warning on the ip's talk page. —Bruce1ee 22:25, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 62

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dolderbahn railcar No. 1

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Thanks again for the gadget tip

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And kudos for fixing those misnested <p> errors on Philippines pages yesterday. I was trying to talk/guilt the editor into fixing these themselves and fixed just the template page that gave rise to most of the 1500+ errors, but you just took care of business without second thoughts. Gamapamani (talk) 15:58, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Gamapamani: My pleasure, glad I could be of help. —Bruce1ee 16:56, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pls add Evan McGregors latest series!!

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I don’t know how yet myself! Thank you! MichCtnative (talk) 14:21, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please link the article you are referring to, and what series you want added. —Bruce1ee 15:06, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Bridge loan page

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Copied from User talk:Jrealestates:

"Hello, I'm Bruce1ee. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added to Bridge loan have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. —Bruce1eetalk 11:36, 16 May 2024 (UTC)"

Hello @Bruce1ee,

I've checked out the other links cited on this page:
"What do people in the UK call 'bridging'?". www.bridgingloan.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
Guide to bridging loans Financial Times. 3 February 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
Brief history of the bridging finance sector Mortgage Finance Gazette. 4 August 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
And others.
The information I've included is not only fresh but also comes from reputable source, including experts who are actively involved in the field of bridge loans. This makes it a reliable and relevant source of information.
Please help.

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The link you added (hardmoneylenders.io/blog) is not acceptable because:
  • it is a blog, which are generally not regarded as reliable sources (see WP:BLOG)
  • it is a commercial website offering loans, which is promotional and not permitted on Wikipedia (see WP:LINKSPAM)
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Neoplasticism

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We had an edit conflict at Neoplasticism, I should have tagged it as inuse. Would you run your lint errors bot again please? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 12:15, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JMF: Sure. I replaced "upright 0.75" with "upright=0.75" per Wikipedia:Extended image syntax#Using "upright" (strangely the page still rendered correctly, and linter didn't pick this up). I also removed "thumb" from the infobox per WP:INFOBOXIMAGE —Bruce1ee 13:34, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of programs broadcast by Asianet

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My mistake. If you look at the edit history, you can see the personal attacks which I was trying to revert. Not sure why it only did the most recent. I will go and do everything else manually. Again, my mistake. CNMall41 (talk) 10:06, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem, don't worry about it. —Bruce1ee 10:14, 28 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Katja Herbers

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Her birthday is EASILY sourced from multiple places. Instead of removing the data, why not go LOOK IT UP YOURSELF. Do they have the ability to do that in South Africa still??

She was born Oct 19, 1980. This is public, verfied, and not secret. 2601:600:8E81:4450:1DB:5BEB:552C:91E6 (talk) 07:35, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Have you read the warning messages on your talk page? The onus is on you to cite a reliable source in the article stating her date of birth. —Bruce1ee 07:40, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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FYI

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Be wary of lint issues on Darshan filmography right now. Dealing with a sock on that and Darshan (Kannada actor) who keeps messing with things, or tediously fiddling with/changing images. If you see a new image on Darshan filmography and they are a new, mobile editor, they have asked someone to make changes on their behalf (while pinging others in that request), and have updated boxoffice revenue on Indian films, you should revert the edit(s) on sight and let User: Abecedare know of the probable WP:duck. Zinnober9 (talk) 16:08, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll keep an eye on those two articles. —Bruce1ee 17:11, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

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this is Annointed777 - just wanted to say thank you for the fix… and I’m sorry that I made a mistake!! But thank you sooo much. I appreciate it! 71.38.116.19 (talk) 19:49, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know which edit you are referring to. —Bruce1ee 22:55, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I found it – no problem, glad I could help. —Bruce1ee 23:10, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 63

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Question and help!

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I noticed that on a few pages, you fixed "lint errors." I couldn't find what they were. Thanks for the help. Also, can you fix page names? Studies of the Enzyme D-Alanyl-D-Alanine Carboxypeptidase from Bacillus stearothermophilus should be Structural Studies of the Enzyme D-Alanyl-D-Alanine Carboxypeptidase from Bacillus stearothermophilus.

Thank you so much for helping me on my wiki journey! JoeK2033 (talk) 12:17, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JoeK2033: I've moved Studies of the Enzyme D-Alanyl-D-Alanine Carboxypeptidase from Bacillus stearothermophilus to Structural Studies of the Enzyme D-Alanyl-D-Alanine Carboxypeptidase from Bacillus stearothermophilus. The old page is now a redirect pointing to the new page. I've also updated the link to the new page on Janet Frost. —Bruce1ee 13:11, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm a bit apprehensive about messing with linking redirects because I don't want to make any mistakes. I've noticed that some of my recently created pages have been reviewed. In contrast, others like Structural Studies of the Enzyme D-Alanyl-D-Alanine Carboxypeptidase from Bacillus stearothermophilus and The Country Club of Farmington, 1892-1995 have not been reviewed yet. Should I be doing something specific so these pages get reviewed? JoeK2033 (talk) 18:25, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You don't need to do anything to get your new pages reviewed. New pages are reviewed by new page patrollers and sooner or later someone will stop by and review your page. —Bruce1ee 22:42, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Nafeyyyy

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Thanks for the report. That led me down a bit a of checkuser rabbit hole and I found several more accounts doing the same thing on other articles. If you see any more like that, please could you let me know? I'll take all the link spammers you want to give me because they're usually organised SEO types rather than misguided newbies but I'm particularly interested in anything related to Dubai/the UAE. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:51, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@HJ Mitchell: ... and thanks for blocking this user. I'll keep a lookout for Dubai/UAE and other link spammers and forward them on to you. —Bruce1ee 12:00, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@HJ Mitchell: You may be interested in this user spamming redspider.ae —Bruce1ee 10:35, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! That led me to several more spam accounts, and more still that were already blocked. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 11:04, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@HJ Mitchell: You may also be interested in Independentcontributors (talk · contribs) who is spamming Dubai/UAE articles. —Bruce1ee 07:24, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the tip. Checkuser shows nothing interesting on that one, which is unusual. They're not in Pakistan, which is where most of the Dubai spam comes from, but they're not in Dubai either so it's almost certainly paid-for SEO. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:51, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Inadvertent display of Sounding Rocket article revision

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I am sorry for you having to revert my sandbox efforts to the external links on the sounding rockets page. I have extensive research on Sounding Rockets and missiles in general. As I feel that Wikipedia is encyclopedic and should provide researchers with as many useful leads as reasonable, I am working upon a revision of the Sounding Rockets page. The current page (August 2024) is very deficient in extent and content. For example it states "The basic elements of a sounding rocket are a solid-fuel rocket motor." All early Sounding Rockets were liquid fueled. Witness the See Also section which lists several such as Aerobee and the V-2. There were also sounding rockets which used artillery for example the Martlet series. There was the air launched Sparoair series. I am most sorry that my sandboxing of external links entries were inadvertently posted. Many are for aged sources which are not easily proofed to avoid problems that the Wikipedia templates are poorly designed to handle.

Thanks for the heads-up I shall try to be more careful in the future.

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No problem. —Bruce1ee 22:29, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Question and help!

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Hi Bruce, thanks for letting me know. Could you clarify why they were considered inappropriate? This will help me understand and address any issues properly. Panda toy shop (talk) 10:15, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The link you added is an online shopping site, which is promotional and not permitted on Wikipedia (see WP:PROMOTION). Also the article you linked is a blog, which is not a reliable source. —Bruce1ee 10:32, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Books & Bytes – Issue 64

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Lint source

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TY for delinting 'Perfume Delight' photo Gallery. Offender |Thumb|. Source was Wiki Commons' photo addition wizard. I posted photos to Commons. Wizard provided those copy-and-paste links, the lint source. (above my paygrade) TomStonehunter (talk) 14:26, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@TomStonehunter: I'm not familiar with the Commons photo addition wizard, but I suspect that it includes "thumb" as a file option, which is intended for photos outside galleries. However, inside galleries the "thumb" must not be used. See Help:Gallery_tag#Loading in images for more information. —Bruce1ee 15:46, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
TY again.TomStonehunter (talk) 11:27, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Baghir A. Suleimanov

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Thank you for your tireless efforts to fix lint errors. It often happens that you and I are working on the same page at the same time. This happened just now in Baghir A. Suleimanov. You saved before I did, but you missed the point of what was really wrong here. What was really wrong is that there was an external link in the article body, instead of in the External links section at the end. See what I saved right after your save. Cheers! —Anomalocaris (talk) 08:40, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Anomalocaris: Yes, I saw your edit (moving the external link from the infobox to External links), and I should have spotted that and moved it myself. Anyway, thanks for fixing my oversight. —Bruce1ee 08:55, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for picking up after me

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Thank you muchly for cleaning up after me! You see I am a very intelligent and experienced WP editor, which is why I often absentmindedly forget to punch in stuff like necessary syntax for all that markup stuff. And get distracted by checking a link in an article and then going off to edit that new shiny thing instead and not paying much attention to the edit I was already working on. Enjoy this WikiCookie in appreciation (substitute at will your preferred choice of comestible). In the future you are cordially invited to drop me a reminder/finger-wagging on my talk page when I leave messes around when editing. Thanks again and have a great day! --Slowking Man (talk) 18:25, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My pleasure, happy to be of help. —Bruce1ee 23:16, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

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Can you check my draft page please and review the content Draft:Legends PR Company Saudianjournalist (talk) 09:12, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed a citation (the "first" and "last" options in {{cite web}} were incorrectly used) and I moved the infobox to the top of the page. The article content seems fine, but I haven't checked the sources. —Bruce1ee 09:38, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
okay thank you ! let me know your idea if you can help and move this page
thank you Saudianjournalist (talk) 09:44, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'd suggest you first submit your draft for review before moving it (click the "Submit the draft for review!" button). —Bruce1ee 10:09, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'd suggest finding better uses of your time besides getting blocked from Wikipedia. OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:25, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request for removal of material

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Hi, I wonder if you would perhaps consider deleting the thread above re: author Mark Dawson, here [1].

The material that the user seems to have been keen should be installed on the Mark Dawson article has twice been removed from that article, presumably on the basis that it is poorly sourced, potentially defamatory and non-BLP compliant. That being the case, I'm not sure that it is a very good idea for the material to be shown in great detail on a user talk page.

This issue came to my attention after the user in question became the subject of a thread at WP:COIN (here [2]) after twice failing to have an article about himself installed on Wikipedia and due to a long history of WP:SELFCITE. Apart from the non-BLP compliant nature of the material he details in great length in the thread above, there are also, I suspect, plausible concerns that the user may be linked in some way to the story (as all of his previous activity on Wikipedia has been on topics to which he has a personal connection). Failing that, it would seem that either WP:RGW or WP:POINT may be in play.

I have no connection to the subject of the article, I just felt that given the user's history you might consider deleting (or even revdelling?) the thread. Kind regards, Axad12 (talk) 04:21, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Axad12: No problem, I've deleted it. Of course the thread will still be visible in my talk page history. I don't know if it should be permanently deleted. —Bruce1ee 06:44, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No me neither, but the material is also still visible in the edit history for the article in question so I don't suppose it matters one way or the other if it's on the edit history here as well. I mentioned the possibility of it being revdelled at COIN, but I've leave that decision for others to make.
Many thanks, Axad12 (talk) 07:52, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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CS1 error on Najas guadalupensis

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Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Najas guadalupensis, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

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Please fix format here, thanks Cenderabird (talk) 16:54, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I can't work out how the table is supposed to look. If you can guide me, I should be able to fix it. —Bruce1ee 17:13, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
OK I think I've fixed it. Please check. —Bruce1ee 17:29, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

List of Kasautii Zindagii Kay cast

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I apologize, I reverted some vandalism by restoring the the article to a prior edit. Your edit was marked as reverted.

List of Kasautii Zindagii Kay cast is meant to be a redirect to to the series article. IP user 203.99.184.247 has been warned multiple times to either add that info to the series article or go through the proper draft process for a new page.

Again, I apologize that your edit was reverted in the process.

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@RCSCott91: Not a problem. Don't worry about it. —Bruce1ee 23:03, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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 Fixed —Bruce1ee 07:57, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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User: Janocoaches

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Hi. I blanked that user's page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Janocoaches) immediately after you proposed it for deletion. For the same reasons as you proposed it for deletion. Was that not the correct thing to do? I hadn't noticed the proposal. Worrying that I've done completely the wrong thing. Sir Nuttingham (talk) 10:39, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Sir Nuttingham: It's better to leave the speedy deletion tag on the page, but I think we had an edit conflict, so don't worry about it. Blanking the page is also fine. —Bruce1ee 10:50, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Updates for editors

  • Wishlist item A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding, autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page.
  • The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such Ctrl+B for bold and Ctrl+I for italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. [3]
  • Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: bswiki, elwiki, euwiki, fawiki, fiwiki, frwikiquote, frwikisource, frwikiversity, frwikivoyage, idwiki, lvwiki, plwiki, ptwiki, urwiki, viwikisource, zhwikisource. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
  • View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable.

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  • The CodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing Ctrl+, and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion".
  • Advanced item Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard and the list in the Description of the task T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April. [4]
  • Advanced item The New PreProcessor parser performance report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities. [5]

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  • A Language community meeting will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at Wiki Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.

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  • Two new parser functions were added this week. The {{#interwikilink}} function adds an interwiki link and the {{#interlanguagelink}} function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with MOS: on English Wikipedia conflict with the mos language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia.
  • Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [6]
  • Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF). [7]
  • This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
  • View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed. [8]

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  • Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.

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  • The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
  • Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide. [9]
  • The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
  • The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. [10]
  • The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates. [11]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:) [12]
  • Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. [13]
  • Recurrent item View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. [14][15]

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  • Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. [16]
  • Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
  • The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [17]

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Lint error cleanup

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Hi Bruce1ee; I appreciate your cleanup efforts, but this edit to K. T. Jaleel papered over a series of blatant WP:NOR that had recently been added; this kind of cleanup can "launder" bad edits from watchlists. The last edit before your edit even had BLP annotation tags attached to the summary. I only caught it because I had an old tab open before you made the lint fix. OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:45, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ohnoitsjamie: Sorry, I missed that. Normally I first check for vandalism and BLP violations, but I slipped up on this one. —Bruce1ee 15:57, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! In other oversights, I just now realized that I forgot to warn them after reverting the first time. OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:02, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tedious Featured article candidate Linter fixes

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Thanks for your many edits like this one. I was not looking forward to fixing them. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:47, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonesey95: No problem. As you said, it is tedious work – but I'll dig in from time to time. —Bruce1ee 23:31, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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