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A bowl of strawberries for you!

I apologize for my silly error, and hope this bowl of strawberries will help to make amends. Thank you for your work reverting vandals, and sorry for confusing you with the original vandal. ~Adjwilley (talk) 04:12, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! No harm done. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:39, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A belated barnstar for you!

The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar
The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar is awarded to the winners of the Disambiguation pages with links monthly challenge, who have gone above and beyond to remove ambiguous links. Your achievment will be recorded at the Hall of Fame.
This award is presented to R'n'B, for successfully fixing 3057 links in the challenge of January 2012. Nick Number (talk) 14:01, 20 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

RussBot re-creating deleted category

Hi, I noticed that RussBot re-created a category redirect page a few minutes after I deleted it as unnecessary: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/Category:1609_in_the_Southern_Netherlands

Is this intentional? – Fayenatic London 08:31, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

No, it's not intentional. It's effectively a race condition. The bot loads a list of categories with redirect templates, then processes it; you must have deleted the category after the list was loaded but before it reached this item. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 11:33, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
"Processes it"? Is it seeking to deal with any contents in the category, for which it needs the redirect to exist? Well, I guess I can just ignore it. I noticed that you picked up a similar one shortly afterwards – thanks. – Fayenatic London 12:24, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
To be more specific, the bot touches each category redirect, so that if the page was in Category:Wikipedia non-empty soft redirected categories or a similar maintenance category before the bot ran, it will be cleared out. That requires saving the category page, which results in creation if the page has been deleted in the meantime. I will take a look at the code to see if it's possible to prevent this. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 14:19, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New Jersey English

Hi! Why should we not consider the page New Jersey English a disambiguation page? Would it be appropriate to make it so, since it already seems to have the basic appearance of a disambiguation page? Wolfdog (talk) 00:39, 23 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Is it because there's a reference on the page? Wolfdog (talk) 20:21, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
More to the point, there isn't any dialect commonly referred to as "New Jersey English." Rather, we have a list of dialects, each of which is commonly known by a different name, but is spoken by some people in New Jersey. The fact that there is a reference is collateral; if the page were suitable to be a disambiguation page, we could simply delete the reference. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 20:38, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
So are you in favor of deletion then? Wolfdog (talk) 21:25, 20 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
No, not if the list can be supported by reliable sources like any other Wikipedia article. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 13:32, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Tropang TNT seasons

Why did you set protection for this empty category? Liz Read! Talk! 14:15, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If you read the deletion log and protection log entries for this page, I think the reason will be fairly clear. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 15:05, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
If a category is empty and there is no {{empty category}} tag on the category, it is valid to delete it. Just because another category points to it, it's not being utilized. All it needs is one article to be assigned to it and it will no longer be empty but I don't see a valid reason in the log for keeping it. Liz Read! Talk! 20:53, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You're elevating form over substance. You marked the category for deletion, and it was deleted by another admin, all in accordance with policies. But then when another admin undeleted it, the correct response would have been to contact me and find out what was going on before deleting it a second time. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 21:15, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Global System for Mobile Communications <--> GSM

Hi R'n'B. Why was this swap "improper"? I had added a merged-from and merged-to banner on the respective talk pages. The reason for the swap is, that GSM should direct to the disambiguation page than directly to the mobile standard... Nightwalker-87 (talk) 21:30, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • WP:CUTPASTE explains that you shouldn't "rename" a page by cut and pasting its text into a different title, because it is important to maintain the complete page edit history in one place. The correct approach is to use the Wikipedia move function; or to request a move at WP:RM if you aren't able to do it yourself. Also, was this change discussed anywhere before you did it? Changing the name of a widely-linked article without discussion (regardless of how you do it) is rarely a good idea. Finally, for technical reasons, if this move were to be done, the correct solution would be to move GSM (disambiguation) to GSM after moving the article about the mobile standard, rather than leaving the latter title as a redirect. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 21:44, 28 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, I understand, and thank you for the revert also. I'll request a move at WP:RM soon and hope to initiate a discussion with this procedure. Nightwalker-87 (talk) 13:01, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sea Witch

Hey, since you're so concerned about retaining the outright nonsense that is Wikipedia's sea witch article—which does not contain a single reliable source—rather than the logical redirect to witchcraft, why don't you take that itchy revert finger and actually try to do something about improving it rather than simply wasting the time of other editors? :bloodofox: (talk) 02:32, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Territorialism primariy topic discussion

It would be great to get your perspective on the further discussion at Talk:Territorialism#Merging. Thank you, -- Natalya 21:27, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Britannia's Fist

Thank you for looking over the article; I would like some more input as to how you would suggest making the page less of a plot summary and more of an encyclopedia article. The series was published in the last ten years, so I really have no idea what cultural impact its had, and what reviews I've seen are from Amazon rather than more respectable names.

Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Britannia%27s_Fist_Trilogy

Gunpowderpatron (talk) 17:29, 11 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know anything about this book series (despite having indulged in various other alternative history novels in my time), so I can only offer very general suggestions. Has it won any awards? Has it been cited by any literary critics as influential? Is it discussed in any military history journals? If the answer to all of these is "no," then there would be some question as to whether the books even meet the minimal standard of notability. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 20:43, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Russian Karaites

Hi Russ, I see you ask people here to call you Russ so I hope it is ok for me to do so. Thank you for the WP:MOSDAB edit to the Russian Karaites page. I am not very familiar with the Manual of Style yet so I wanted to check with you to see if it is ok to edit the Subbotnik line to something like this?

a type of Molokan-Subbotnik drawn towards Karaite Judaism also called Subbotnik-Qaraimits (субботники-караимиты).

Would that be OK? I don't know if you can read Russian (I use google translate) but here are some links on the subject [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]. The main references I have used for the suggestion I post here is from Bulgakov and Т.И. Буткевич Best regards. YuHuw (talk) 21:48, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't read Russian, alas. But WP:MOSDAB says, among other things, that when writing an entry for a disambiguation page, "Include exactly one navigable (blue) link to efficiently guide readers to the most relevant article for that use of the ambiguous term. Do not wikilink any other words in the line." Your entry has three links. The purpose of a disambiguation page is to guide readers to the article they are looking for when they use an ambiguous title such as "Karaite Jews". The entry you suggest above would offer them three different articles, with no indication of which one (if any) actually discusses a group of people referred to as "Russian Karaites." --R'n'B (call me Russ) 23:22, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I think I have come up with a creative and constructive solution. Could you look over this new stub if you have a chance please? Qaraimits YuHuw (talk) 07:09, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Merger discussion for Family tree of Muhammad

An article that you have been involved in editing—Family tree of Muhammad —has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. 89.240.87.162 (talk) 20:16, 29 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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