User talk:John of Reading

Happy New Year John of Reading!

Happy New Year!

John of Reading,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. ツ Pdebee.^{(talk)(guestbook)} 17:39, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year 2016}} to user talk pages.

Dear John,
Thank you for your help and for everything else you do in support of our encyclopedia.
I wish you a great New Year in 2016!
With kind regards;
Patrick. ツ Pdebee.^{(talk)(guestbook)} 17:39, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Wisconsin Green Party for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Wisconsin Green Party is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wisconsin Green Party 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.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Me-123567-Me (talk) 18:24, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Inactive portal

Oops! What's the correct tag for this? ww2censor (talk) 22:34, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

@Ww2censor: I've added {{Outdated}}, which seems to fit. That portal really does need some loving care and attention... -- John of Reading (talk) 22:40, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, I dont' think there is an inactive portal template. I've been watching for years but nothing happens even though some racing pages are edited. Cheers ww2censor (talk) 23:02, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

University of St Andrews

Please check refs, number 20 and 21 - the quotes on 21 should be left in, but is the format OK? Please check 20 as it does not immediately go to the history section Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.182.146.167 (talk) 08:32, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

This has already been asked at the Help desk. That should be enough. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:41, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

Help searching for "|?]]" at the end of categories

I'm trying to find Category\:Astronomical objects discovered in \d\d\d\d\|\?\]\], but "incategory:" doesn't have this functionality, and "insource:", it seems, only works inside templates. Do you know if there's a way to find these without a database scan?   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  16:39, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

@Tom.Reding: Well, after twenty minutes experimentation I've made it work! It seems that the \d construct is not part of this variant of the regular expression syntax. Recoding the year as [0-9]{4} leads to a search that works: [1]. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:07, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Good god. You are the man. Yeah, I spent 1.5 hours searching before coming here. But, I'm glad we didn't take the brute-force (database) method, otherwise losing this very practical advice. Thanks! :)   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  17:20, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

@Tom.Reding: Though Help:Searching/Regex#Character classes says that [0-9] doesn't work properly either. When I next download a database I'll do a scan anyway to see if we're missing thousands of matches. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:32, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

Luckily, in the meantime, I've made better use of my time by downloading enwiki-20151201, which should contain a few more than the 109 matches you found above, since I've been doing some category maintenance. I've just started unzipping it, which will take a little over an hour. I'll let you know what I find.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  17:43, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

DB Scanner returns 113 matches for Astronomical objects discovered in \d\d\d\d\|\?\]\] for 20151201, a few more than 109, as expected. It also shows that [0-9] indeed processes all 10 digits, instead of the stated first four ([0-3]).   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  19:24, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

My archiving hero!!!!

Thanks a gazillion for fixing the Occupation page archiving. I have some serious mindblock going on when it comes to that feature. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 15:40, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi

I created an article about singer Carina Jaarnek today. She died yesterday. If you want to, take a look.--BabbaQ (talk) 12:58, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi Wenckzw

WLU is stealing files again. Will you stop him please. See other specified dissociative disorder and Dissociative identity disorder and dissociative identity disorder and OSDD and DDNOS and tylas Okay? Thank you my friend. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.241.199.89 (talk) 20:58, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I don't understand this message. I'm not an administrator, so I probably can't give you the kinds of help you are looking for, anyway. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:03, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Just another now-blocked sock of FrankEM. Meters (talk) 02:14, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response to my suggestion/question

Thanks for adding watcher to the glossary so quickly. Now here's a question occasioned by my message: is this the appropriate place to say thanks (it looks like it, from other similar comments left here) or is there some other part of the Wikipedia universe for that?