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E-mails

You can use "Email this user" in the panel on the left, but I will probably reply on your talk page, or the article talk page, as discussions should be open and on the record.
I have experienced problems with e-mails not being delivered, so please leave me a message on this page if I have not replied within 48 hours.

Broadcasted

The Wiktionary definition of Broadcasted states the use is proscribed, so it should not be used. The word also appears on Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings/B

Broadcasted appears in some dictionaries, but others, e.g. Chambers state "Sorry, no entries for Broadcasted were found".
Broadcast appears in all dictionaries, and should be used as COMMONALITY - "Wikipedia tries to find words that are common to all varieties of English".

A July 2019 search for Broadcast gave over 200,000 uses, compared with a search for Broadcasted which gave just 74.
Of these 74, 15 are redirects to "Broadcast" articles, 16 refer to a Canadian TV award and 5 relate to a 1924 cartoon. The rest are quotations.

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diligence
I appreciate your work, when you make corrections to a page I created, when I take a look at your Userpage, I realise you deserve this barnstar. --- An@ss_koko(speak up) 19:40, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, congrats, Arjayay, for your diligence, and for making even a very subtle edit of findind and removing a single word that was repretitive. And thank you too.Robert Jan van de Hoek (talk) 03:31, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion

- Sorry, I don't write articles to order, and please do not ask multiple editors, such as you have, as you could have editors wasting their time creating multiple articles in parallel - Arjayay (talk) 18:07, 16 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
As I have explained above I don't write articles to order, and I'm not interested in writing this one - please stop pestering - Arjayay (talk) 14:11, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sailing article editor award

WikiProject Sailing article editor award
For finding and fixing my dumb mistakes when creating new articles, like in Trac 14. - Ahunt (talk) 14:40, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mahar

There is no such thing as excess bold, bold is bold. You can take survey weather the page is becoming difficult to read or not. Don't use your subjective opinion to generalize. Raje Ranveer (talk) 10:16, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No Raje Ranveer, that is not my "subjective opinion"
MOS:NOBOLD is quite specific: "When not to use boldface. Avoid using boldface for emphasis in article text." Please keep to Wikipedia's Manual of Style - Thank you - Arjayay (talk) 10:22, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ok Raje Ranveer (talk) 10:34, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding phone scam

In regards to User:Arjayay/Kenyan phone scam, have you considered asking for edit filter 793 to be updated with these phone numbers? That would automatically prevent them from being added to any articles. –Darkwind (talk) 07:38, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Darkwind - I'll give it a go, but I've not had much joy with abuse filter requests in the past - Arjayay (talk) 08:35, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Darkwind - strangely enough, that request worked - thanks - Arjayay (talk) 18:44, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Umm.... why would you roll back changes and revert to broken links on pages? The whole site in question lapsed last year and is missing all the links below. This is probably not a complete list, and doesn't include the 301s that now point to irrelevant pages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bridge_Association OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/sec/glossary/a/abahistory.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preempt OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/Conventions/Rule23.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landy OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/Conventions/landy_convention.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relay_bid OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/Conventions/RelayBids.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Schenken OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/LGlossary/LifeMasters.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Woolsey OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/Conventions/WoolseyDefenseTo1NTOpenings.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohan_convention OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/Conventions/MohanDefenseNT.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3ALebensohl Http/1.1 Service Unavailable http://homepage.mac.com/bridgeguys/Conventions/Lebensohl.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lawrence_(bridge) OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/Books/LawrenceMichael/MLBooks.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightner_double OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/doubles/lightner_double.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_double OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/doubles/SnapDragon.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Kantar OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/Books/KantarEddie/EKBooks.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muiderberg_convention OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/Conventions/muiderberg_muiderbergh.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_squeeze OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/squeeze/guard_squeeze.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Wagar OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/LGlossary/LifeMasters.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Sobel_Smith OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/LGlossary/LifeMasters.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Peterson OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/LGlossary/LifeMasters.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_Battle_of_the_Century OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/sec/glossary/c/culbertson_lenz_match_1931.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Sherman OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/LGlossary/LifeMasters.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Solomon OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/LGlossary/LifeMasters.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Young OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/LGlossary/LifeMasters.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein_Al_Oweini OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/SGlossary/StampsLebanon.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_vs._unusual OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND. https://www.bridgeguys.com/Conventions/unusual_over_unusual.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8802:1600:AA00:387B:2CCF:AC36:29F0 (talk) 16:15, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]


Hello IP from Irvine California
Why are you listing all these links? - Have I reverted any of them ? - NO I HAVE NOT - so they are totally irrelevant
You removed links like
Both of which you claimed were broken links, (twice for the Flannery link) and neither of which are
I accept that the New minor forcing link was broken, but you appear to be trying to replace all the bridgeguys.com links with bridgebum links - which clearly looks like spamming - Arjayay (talk) 16:34, 25 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
STOP Arjayay. You are wrong!. This is not spamming. The old links to Bridge Guys have become WRONG because the original website domain has been taken over by a financial institution having niothing to do with contract bridge. The changes you are reverting are correct. Pay attention to the contact of the link and not just that it exists. Please and thank you. Newwhist (talk) 11:34, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
No Newwhist, the two links above, which are the two I warned the IP about replacing, claiming that they were broken, were not, and still are not, broken - I have reverted myself on the two links which were broken - Arjayay (talk) 11:40, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
YES Arjayay. The two links are to a financial institution. Look at all their tab links. Yes, they provide some contract bridge related material but this is a meme for "Payday Loans & Cash Advances". The link is a commercial advertisement and should be removed. Look at the whole site not just the meme come-on. Newwhist (talk) 11:55, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
OK Newwhist, now you have explained it fully, I understand your objections - however, The IP should have used a different edit summary, not claimed that these were broken links - Arjayay (talk) 11:59, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

sorry,

next time ill add the reference.UMAGPR (talk) 12:06, 26 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Broadcasted" and other fixes

Hey Arjayay, have you ever used AWB? I've noticed over the years that you are on top of fixing grammar issues like "broadcasted" and whatnot. AWB is an amazing tool. With it, you could create find/replace rules based on all your personal peeves, then create article lists and automatically comb through those pages and apply your changes, without having to do it all manually.

For example, some guy made the idiotic mistake of adding |country = [[Tamil Nadu]] to Tamil TV articles. Somebody helped me set up a regex formula that will search for variations of this string and replace them with "|country = India". I can then create a list of articles to comb through based on, say, a category like Category:Tamil-language television soap operas, and process those pages. It's pretty cool. And once you load up your find/replace preferences with useful stuff like changing "-Present" to "–present", "ex husband" to "ex-husband", "broadcasted" to "broadcast" or whatever you want, you can make lots of improvements at once instead of doing it one-by-one. Anyway, if you want to save yourself some time, check it out. There is a bit of a learning curve, but I'm sure you'll get the hang of it. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 19:02, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Cyphoidbomb - thanks for the suggestion
I have always avoided automated or semi-automated edits, as I like to "feel" in control (control freak alert) - and after 320K manual edits it hasn't been a problem, although perhaps I could be more efficient.
I have a very slow internet connection, which is why you often add a user-talk warning, after I have edited an article, before I can add my warning, so I get an edit-conflict.
Thanks again for the suggestion - I will look into it - Best wishes - Arjayay (talk) 08:47, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I won't try too hard to convince you. I will say though that if slow internet is a concern, it might wind up being a faster way to edit, because it doesn't require the loading of graphics like each page of Wikipedia does. It's just raw page text. Take care, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 15:18, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Quick note on User:Arjayay/Kenyan phone scam

Thanks for the list, actually been following up on the issue and it seems those are teens trying to seek recognition or something. Megan Barris (Lets talk📧) 19:35, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Megan Barris - I suspected that it was more sinister than that.
It looks extremely similar to the Nigerian phone scam, from 2017 or earlier, where if you used the mobile number to phone up one of the universities, they wanted your card details etc. before they sent you an application pack.
Of course they weren't the university - not all the universities in Nigeria use exactly the same mobile phone number - they wanted the card details to skim your bank account. - Arjayay (talk) 08:34, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Edit in talk page of Kanchenjunga

I shared my views and knowledge in the talk page. If you disagreed with me, you could have reply in it instead of deleting my comment. Bhattarai1237 (talk) 10:57, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bhattarai1237
Wikipedia is not interested in your "views and knowledge" - only in what has already been published in reliable sources. More specifically, you have changed several project categorizations, despite not being a member of those projects and only having had an account for less than a day - please stop. - Arjayay (talk) 11:02, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for informing but talk page is surely for the discussion. Bhattarai1237 (talk) 12:02, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bhattarai1237
Yes you can discuss things on the the talk page, that is what it is for, but the discussion must be based on reliable sources, not your "views and knowledge", and you should cite these sources to support your contributions to the discussion.
Please see Help:referencing for beginners for how to cite sources - best wishes - Arjayay (talk) 12:08, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Translating and/or spelling

Hey man. I am trying to get the Grafhorst page (English) the recgonition it deserves. Can u help me with translating! From a Grafhorst resident. PonkyVDK (talk) 21:08, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi PonkyVDK - I don't speak Dutch, and only went to that page because I was correcting uses of "the The"- not because I have any interest in, or knowledge of, that subject.
Having run the Grafhorst "reference" [1] through Google translate, it seems to repeatedly say that the history is unknown, and then make lots of guesses
I have no idea if roelpost is a reliable source but that reads more like a blog than a historical source, and it does not include any citations to explain where they got their information from, so very little can be based upon that article.
Sorry to be negative, but I don't want you wasting your time - Best wishes - Arjayay (talk) 13:34, 30 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hey man! I appeciate you replying to me, i feel honored.


I have some written citations from before 1000 where the vikings went on a raid across the long river "The ijssel" which includes "Ganzendiep" (Near Grafhorst). But you are right about written documentation. There is not much to be found here. (It only goes "across the Ijssel")

Folklore tells us mostly they have been here.

I hope in the future to make some archeological digsites!

Again, i appreciate your reply. And i feel what you mean by it.

But i cannot seem to lay it to rest, i want to look further!

Ps : if my english is bad, It aint my native language Also i appreciate your work.

Greetings Ponky PonkyVDK (talk) 23:12, 30 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Internet censorship topic

Hi. Internet censorship topic is Semi-protection and I can't add information about internet shutdown in Iran, at the Shutdowns part of the topic. It's link of the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship

There are some useful things about Iran internet shutdown, you can help me to add (only two or three sentence is enough): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–2020_Iranian_protests#Internet_shutdown

♡Thanks HappyBird6858 (talk) 13:01, 30 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi HappyBird6858 - This is a subject I know nothing about, so would not be happy editing that page.
if you want to make changes to a semi-protected page, try and edit the page and it should set up a semi-protected edit request on the article's talk page.
Add the specific text you want adding, and/or deleting, explain exactly where in the article it should go and cite your sources. It will then be dealt with by an editor patrolling Semi Protected Edit Requests.
Please do not do what you are currently doing, going round pestering numerous editors with the same vague request - they can't help you, because they don't know what you want - Arjayay (talk) 13:15, 30 July 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Request for an article

Hi I’m Rahul Kumar Pandey, an Indian entrepreneur! I want a Wikipedia page of mine to be created, if it’s possible to update me! My email id : redacted Raaahulpandey (talk) 10:53, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Raaahulpandey - I don't write articles, other than for subjects I am interested in, and I have redacted your e-mail address to reduce the amount of spam you my otherwise get - Arjayay (talk) 11:20, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

I m trying to helping parents and children to get the right information about schools, admission dates, fees. In India most of the schools at primary level doesn't have website and it's difficult for parents and student to get right information about schools. I m not promoting anyone just trying to give direction.

If this is an issue then I think Wikipedia should look into this. It's all about providing right information to right people. Happy searching — Preceding unsigned comment added by Indianguide23 (talk • contribs) 14:52, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No Indianguide23 - You, and the IPs you are also using, are clearly trying to promote uniapply.com by repeatedly adding promotional spam links to several of our articles.
Using Wikipedia for promotion is clearly against our terms of use, and such links will be deleted on sight.
I suggest you stop trying to add these links before your website is also blacklisted on Wikipedia - which can also affect your posts on other sites - Arjayay (talk) 15:01, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I m not sure if you have checked or not. As of now I have changes in one page and added few cite. I hope you check the content and link before "deleting on sight". One of the link belongs to the actual schools. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Indianguide23 (talk • contribs) 15:23, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note for the archive - indeffed as sock of User:EducationMaster1 - Arjayay (talk) 16:18, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have created {{Uw-Draft-link|articleName}}, a new user warning template for warning users that a link to draft space is inappropriate. If you are going to be finding and fixing such issues, please consider using this new template. It should be substituited, as most user warning templates are. Full details are in the template's documentation. Please tell me if you think this is a good idea. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 20:58, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks DES: I'd been using a set text, which I'd stored, but your template covers it all - Thanks again - Arjayay (talk) 08:57, 1 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Having now played with it, DES, I can now see a possible slight improvement - you have used a capital D for draft - but as shown at Wikipedia:Template index/User talk namespace, other than links to noticeboards using initials such as {{ANI-notice}} and {{NPOVN-notice}} all the other templates are lower-case throughout, and my fingers are used to using lower case - I tried lower case, as in Information icon Please do not introduce links in actual articles to draft articles, as you did to test. Since a draft is not yet ready for the main article space, it is not in shape for ordinary readers, and links from articles should not go to a draft. Such links are contrary to the Manual of Style. These links have been removed. Thank you. but as shown, this doesn't work - Could this easily be changed? - Arjayay (talk) 10:50, 1 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Change made to {{Uw-draft-link|articleName}}, You are right about consistency. No major problem. Thanks. DES (talk)DESiegel Contribs 19:56, 1 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

The Editor's Barnstar

Occasionally known as the Deletionists' Barnstar. Sometimes, text removal is the most effective editing. This barnstar is awarded to individuals that display particularly fine deletions, omissions, reductions, reversions, blocks, bans, and other removals.

This barnstar was introduced by Guanaco on June 18, 2004.

UMAGPR (talk) 07:04, 1 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Just to let you know...

...No need to issue a level 4im warning after a level 4. Level 4im are for exceptionally serious vandalism. Other than that, once you have issued a level 4 warning (sometimes, even after a level 3), you can report the editor in question to a noticeboard. Cheers. Salvio 17:04, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please help me, I need your help

Hello, Arjayay, I am user: Ryhetu , some days before Iam created an article Laudi Khela but now it is Nominated for Deletion by someone, iam a new comer wikipedian and I can't understand why it is Nominated for deletion , so I request to you please help me or rectify this article if possible. Thanks Ryhetu (talk) 01:46, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ryhetu - This is not a subject I know anything about - I just improved your English.
You need to argue your case at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Laudi Khela referring to policies and the fact that you have added more references since the original nomination.
Do not remove the AFD tag again, as this will not work (as happened last time, a bot will come and put it back), and you will be seen as being disruptive. Good luck - Arjayay (talk) 07:34, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for edit

I appreciate your catching that pesky double "and" in the article on Allibone. Belastro (talk) 05:51, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No worries Belastro, it's what us Wikignomes do - best wishes - Arjayay (talk) 07:27, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Charles J. Moore

I am new to Wikipedia and I am not sure I am using the right page to email you. There is no Email User in the panel on the left. I am Captain Charles J. Moore's Media Assistant and am trying to make corrections to his Wikipedia history. It is a daunting task. I have made minor changes to the Main Page which were easy. However, I have sent nearly two hours reviewing "Hot to edit an image" and trying to change the image on the Main Page and have not been successful. I get just so far hit publish and nothing happens. If you could guide me I would appreciate it. Savveouroceans — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saveouroceans (talk • contribs) 14:37, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Saveouroceans - I have moved your post to the bottom and added a title. Please sign all posts on talk pages with 4 tildes ( ~~~~ ) which will add your signature and a timestamp.
As "Charles J. Moore's Media Assistant", you have a clear WP:Conflict of interest, so should not be editing his page, but proposing changes on the article's talk page.
Looking at the edits you have made, you have deleted cited information and half of the references, and added multiple unsourced statements. Moreover, even if the information was sourced, the style of your edits is unacceptable.
Please understand two things, which are frequently misunderstood:-
  1. Our article Charles J. Moore is Wikipedia's article about him, not Charles J. Moore's article, and he has no say in what is included/excluded, which is determined by Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.
  2. Wikipedia is not interested in what the article subject, their website, company, management, employees, PR agents, relatives, friends or anyone else connected to them, in any way, say about them.
    Wikipedia is only interested in what reliable, independent sources, who have no connection whatever with the subject, have published about them, and those statements need to be sourced.
Having looked at your edits, I have little option but to revert them. Please read and follow Wikipedia:Conflict of interest which is summarised in Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide
Thank you - Arjayay (talk) 15:19, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Arjayaym I want to thank you for your detailed message, information and guidelines. Before I saw your message earlier today, I added the material again to see what would happen, not knowing what I was doing was wrong. I have to study the guidelines and rules carefully. I was unable to put the tildes in the right place, etc. therefore could not apply this reply in the correct way.

Again, thank you for your diligence and help. I now better understand Wikipedia's platform. It's not easy.

Best regards, Saveouroceans :Saveouroceans (talk) 01:17, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Hello Arjayay, thank you for reverting the article Ayodhya to its previous state. However, Dhumadansu2 is still changing the spellings. --Rook6 (talk) 09:45, 9 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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