User talk:JaGa/Archive 18
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You Are Always Welcome
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Thank you for your message. The boredom is that my knowledge in English is mediocre and I often turn to the on-line translator. So, I am always afraid that my texts are incorrect or incomprehensible. It is true that for London I shall have of notice some error. Regards Lézard (talk) 11:13, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
James George Barbadoes
Thank you for your comments and corrections, I would like to make this wikipedia as accurate as possible. Once the corrections are made will the "disambiguation pages" warning be removed from the Top of the James George Barbadoes Wikipedia?
Bot notification for disambig page creators?
Would it be possible to create a bot that finds instances where an editor moves an existing page with incoming links, and then creates a disambiguation page at the original title, and leave a note (after a suitable time) asking that editor to please fix the incoming links resulting from that page move? An example of what I have in mind would be this message I recently left to a User who has been doing exactly that. Cheers! bd2412 T 16:44, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
Correction
Thanks for your message.I fixed my article Al-Meshkhab district according to your advise.Bassammahdi (talk) 16:54, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
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Orphaned images
Hi Jason. Is there any chance that http://toolserver.org/~jason/orphaned_images.php and http://toolserver.org/~jason/Verwaiste_Bilder.php will become available on toollabs one day? I miss your tools. --Leyo 18:02, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
- (talk page watcher) no need to miss them. Find them at http://tools.wmflabs.org/dplbot/. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 19:11, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
- Great. Then, some link fixing is needed. I've already completed this in de.wikipedia. --Leyo 22:14, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
- Done also in en.wikipedia. --Leyo 16:58, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
Problem with DPL Bot
DPL Bot added a notice to the disambig Ainslie Wood of multiple links. Most relate to Template:Local Nature Reserves in Greater London, which is on almost all the pages listed on the disambig fix list, but I fixed this on 26 April. However, DPL Bot still keeps putting up the out of date notice. Can you advise what the problem is and how to fix it? Thanks. Dudley Miles (talk) 21:07, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
erroneous DABlink message
I just received a DPL bot message with the following non-boilerplate contents:
The message about Æ was accurate, and I've fixed that link. But while I also edited Mantra recently, I don't remember linking to katha... and in fact the Revision History says:
- The version history of Mantra is being searched for katha as plain text
- 500 versions found
- Comparing differences in 06:36, 24 September 2012 between 250 and 251 while coming from 499:OO [Search from here]
- Comparing differences in 10:47, 20 March 2011 between 374 and 375 while coming from 250:OO [Search from here]
- Comparing differences in 19:09, 24 November 2010 between 436 and 437 while coming from 374:OO [Search from here]
- Comparing differences in 03:15, 2 October 2010 between 467 and 468 while coming from 436:OO [Search from here]
- Comparing differences in 07:24, 11 September 2010 between 482 and 483 while coming from 467:OO [Search from here]
- Comparing differences in 09:12, 26 July 2010 between 489 and 490 while coming from 482:OO [Search from here]
- Comparing differences in 04:03, 17 July 2010 between 492 and 493 while coming from 489:OO [Search from here]
- Comparing differences in 00:58, 15 July 2010 between 493 and 494 while coming from 492:OO [Search from here]
- katha was already present in the first revision found dating from 13:36, 28 June 2010.
- There are probably earlier revisions. [Search from here]
- Execution time: 28 seconds
Please {{ping}} me if you want to discuss this. --Thnidu (talk) 19:38, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!
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Just wanted to drop you a line and say how much I LOVE the DPL bot. One of the best I have seen. SO useful!!!! Zackmann08 (talk) 18:12, 2 May 2015 (UTC) |
dplbot and related tools
[1] and related pages have not been updated/run in over 2 days. Special:Contribs/DPL bot shows useless edits to User:JaGa/Short leaderboard because the tool has not been updated, but the bot is still updating from old data. KonveyorBelt 22:40, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
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Downloading "Disambiguation pages with links" data
Is there a way to download the data on the "Disambiguation pages with links" page? Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 13:29, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
- I would like to download the data so I can compare against articles in a couple projects so these articles can be corrected. Please let me know if it's possible. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 13:16, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
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JA GA, PLEASE ACCEPT THIS TOKEN AND SIMPLE NOTE OF THANKS...FROM A VERY SIMPLE MAN.
BE WELL, -RONALDSeawind Alliance (talk) 21:44, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks so much from Origen 22 (researcher = writer, not editor nor actor).... Seawind Alliance (talk) 21:47, 4 June 2015 (UTC) |
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POTD notification
Hi JaGa,
Just to let you know, the Featured Picture File:San Francisco Ferry Building (cropped).jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on June 27, 2015. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2015-06-27. Thank you for all of your contributions! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:52, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
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DPLbot
I don't see why I should have to opt out. I never opted in. It is your responsibility as a bot owner to make sure DPLbot behaves responsibly. It is not my responsibility, as a humble editor, to mend your ways. Now please delete your DPL bot warning from my talk page, because it had no place to be there in the first place: complete abuse of your bot to start whacking shit on people's talk pages.
Do I make myself clear? I don't like bots, and I don't like yours. I am not going to talk or reply to a bot but the person who owns the bot, namely you. Si Trew (talk) 09:16, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
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Rejected reference to Spintronics
I cannot figure out what is wrong with the additional reference that I proposed to the Spintronics page. Don't you wish any additional references to this page, or the form of the reference was wrong? This is a standard reference to a paper published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP). What is wrong with it? Thank you.--TooOldMan (talk) 13:36, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
- The reference was fine, it's just you added a link to Rashba (click on it, you'll see the problem) instead of Emmanuel Rashba. I went ahead and took care of it. Nice contribution to the article, by the way. Cheers, --JaGatalk 23:14, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
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Where is the template
I suppose the notification DPL bot drops in task #2 is a template somewhere. Where can it be found? Or is it part of the source code? Debresser (talk) 18:23, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
- It's part of the source code. It's customized to give the right type of message depending on the number of articles to fix. --JaGatalk 02:56, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
- I don't remember why I started to be interested in this. Perhaps the template opens a new section without leaving a whiteline between sections. Debresser (talk) 20:07, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
- I'd appreciate it if you could look into this. Debresser (talk) 09:56, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
- No problem. Could you show me an example? --JaGatalk 14:10, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
- Yes, that was the reason. Here you have a diff. [2] Debresser (talk) 16:33, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
- Did you have a chance to fix this? Debresser (talk) 08:40, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
- No problem. Could you show me an example? --JaGatalk 14:10, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
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[[Harry, Braun, Democratic Presidential Candidate
Dear (JaGa), Thank you for noticing the defective Wikipedia link to "Constitutional Conventions." I failed to include (United States) in the link, but have now corrected the problem, thanks to your careful observations. Thank you again.Harry W Braun III (talk) 12:36, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
Dear (JaGa), Thank you for noticing the defective Wikipedia link to "Constitutional Conventions." I failed to include (United States) in the link, but have now corrected the problem, thanks to your careful observations. Thank you again.Harry W Braun III (talk) 12:37, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
Respect to the AUC link in List of haunted locations in Colombia: Thank you :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juandavid ph (talk • contribs) 21:50, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
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DPL Databases
DPL databases are not publicly readable (such as by tool), the database should end with _p
. — Dispenser 04:17, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Not true. Have you tried lately? --R'n'B (call me Russ) 11:16, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
- Didn't see
p50380g50692__DPL_p
when I search the other day. — Dispenser 21:47, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
- Didn't see
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Move Watch
I said so on AN, but I guess this is a better place for the discussion. I'm already active at WMF Tools Labs (or whatever the right incantation is) and I'm up for a bit of development, if you're looking for someone to help out with Move Watch, or to take it over. I'm not familiar with the original tool - I guess I'm thinking something along the lines of querying for the database for the n users with the most page moves in the past m days and plot them as points on a scatter chart, with one axis the number of moves and the other axis the time since account creation. Each point on the chart is then a link to the editor's user page. Sound about right? n and m default to something like 1000 and 60, and I'm guessing an option for logarithmic axes will be useful. GoldenRing (talk) 14:56, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
- I'm going to have to review it myself - it's been a while since I bothered with it. If I remember correctly, I couldn't get the information I needed from the database, so I put together some crazy page content reading thing. I'm sure there's a much better way to do it, but for now I'm just going to see if I can get it working again. --JaGatalk 22:42, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
- Note that I've come up with my own tool, independently: See movestats. Is that the sort of thing that MoveWatch was intended to show, or was there more to it? GoldenRing (talk) 09:17, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
- Hey, that's really nice. That's it, but mine was more of a plain list format that gave grand totals for all pagemoves. I'll probably try to fire it up and show you the result. --JaGatalk 15:45, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
- Well, I've got it working again. Here's the page. Not pretty, but aimed squarely at getting a quick idea of who's moving what. --JaGatalk 13:29, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
- I see. I might try to incorporate some of that information into my graphical display when I get a couple of hours (eg use colour to show rough edit count). GoldenRing (talk) 14:08, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
- Well, I've got it working again. Here's the page. Not pretty, but aimed squarely at getting a quick idea of who's moving what. --JaGatalk 13:29, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
- Hey, that's really nice. That's it, but mine was more of a plain list format that gave grand totals for all pagemoves. I'll probably try to fire it up and show you the result. --JaGatalk 15:45, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
- Note that I've come up with my own tool, independently: See movestats. Is that the sort of thing that MoveWatch was intended to show, or was there more to it? GoldenRing (talk) 09:17, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
Just wanted to say Kudos! for getting Move Watch back up and working again!! --IJBall (contribs • talk) 05:13, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
Importing your DPL bot
Hi JaGa, I like your disambig bot very much and I think it could be very usefull in the Hebrew Wiki as well. When I asked about it, I was told by bot owners in the HeWiki to ask you if it's possible to import it with an easy translation. So, Is it? Liadmalone (talk) 01:38, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
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DPL bot
Hi JaGa, I've just been notified by your bot and I'm considering how feasible is using it on my homewiki (it.wiki), then I have some questions for you. Does it run from labs? Do you release sourcecode in any way? Are you interested in running it elsewhere? What does it take to change localisation? Did I make too many questions? --Vituzzu (talk) 13:55, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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It dawned on me today how incredibly useful, practical, and unobtrusive DPL Bot is. An excellent job that enhances the encyclopedia. Gamaliel (talk) 12:27, 22 September 2015 (UTC) |
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Hi and thank you for pointing out my mistake. On the page there are visible co-ordinates for Rothes Castlewhich have been there in full view rather than a link but I do not know how to fix this. Please help. Thanks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dingerwarren (talk • contribs) 14:05, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
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DAB Fix list; Still down?
Thanks for maintaining the Dab Fix list; it's a great tool, but I note that it has been down for a few days (at least, when I've tried). I did notice the forthcoming maintenance warning, but wondered when it might be back? Klbrain (talk) 15:17, 11 October 2015 (UTC) All looking fine to me for the last few days.Klbrain (talk) 23:12, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
Ron Holden
We are not sure why nobody has done a page on entertainers. Many singers are also entertainers. Ron's a good example, but we have removed the link to The Entertainer per your request. User:Cozgem. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.185.179.187 (talk) 19:26, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
CONCERNING JOE COLEMAN REFERENCE -
Please be so kind as to explain what you stated against addition of the page for Joe Coleman as any person reading the page in question would know who he and his father are and were ... Seems these far too many Wikipedia editors know nothing, or very little, about what they are editing / correcting / removing whereas we are sports historians / researchers / biographers, with more than 55 years of working experience, and in this particular instance know and knew both of the Colemans, son and father ...
Seems your time woiuld be much better spent on the many corrections on too many pages which are totally, completely wrong, adjusting bad or poor grammar, and so on, and not making continuing errors in removing accurate, true sections like recent important additions we made to the page for TOM CHEEK, per example, which neither his family nor we appreciate ...
In other words, why not do some solid thinking and some proper, further research before sending out waste of your time notices such as this ' disambiguation ' rubbish ...
Thank you very much for taking time to read this response.
PLEASE BE SO KIND AS TO SEND YOUR RESPONSE TO - CLAYMARSTON@HOTMAIL.COM -
COLONEL77
COLONEL77 (talk) 14:15, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
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Disambiguation pages with links
Hi! Wanted to ask one question about Disambiguation pages with links. How did you deal with redirects? I have a similar query for Latvian Wikipedia, where redirects are ignored, but it would be nice to include them. Maybe you could post the SQL query here? --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 11:58, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
PAGANISM a recognised religion in europe but not in america. Why not?
Why are pagans persecuted and derided in America? Why is paganism not taught in schools in Britain? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.126.102.56 (talk) 01:56, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
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The Melody-Maker
Thank you for letting me know about the incorrect link on The Melody-Maker.I have corrected it with your help.Atlantic306 (talk) 11:24, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
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Mobile friendlier
Put <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0">
on every dplbot page and iOS Safari/Android will stop rendering pages to a virtual 980px wide screen (Its all very IEtastic). — Dispenser 00:15, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Move watch down?
JaGa, I think Move Watch is down again, as no longer seems to be returning any results. Just so you know... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 07:19, 10 November 2015 (UTC)
An expanded bot role
Could DPL Bot take on the role discussed here? Or could you help to create a bot for that role? Thanks! —Swpbtalk 17:25, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
- So I tried quickly building it off my mosdab_checker.js script. It shows the before and after status of an article. Its a long way from being bot ready. — Dispenser 04:40, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
DPL Bot links
Hey JaGa. The dablinks and dab solver links used by DPL Bot don't seem to be working anymore (I get a 404 at least). I think it should be a simple fix, just change, for example with dab solver, http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py/Article_title
to http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dab_solver.py?page=Article_title
. Likewise with dablinks, the change would be from http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dablinks.py/Article_title
to http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/dablinks.py?page=Article_title
. Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 13:38, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
- Fixed Those are supported links which broke with a feature I added over the weekend. — Dispenser 16:35, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks! Jenks24 (talk) 06:31, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:Glossary of baseball index
Template:Glossary of baseball index has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 01:47, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
--Meher Mansion (talk) 14:16, 14 November 2015 (UTC)Thank you for pointing out the disambiguation pages which I have rectified.
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List of California Colleges and Universities
Silly Bot - you removed all of the counties that Wikipedia asked for in the page "List of California Colleges and Universities" ... I spent a lot of time adding them. I will try again so please don't delete the counties. Backgammom (talk) 01:45, 24 November 2015 (UTC)Backgammom
- (talk page stalker) @Backgammom: Silly human. First of all, there is no page called List of California Colleges and Universities. I guess you probably meant List of colleges and universities in California. Second, JaGa's bot didn't remove anything from that page. The human user who did revert your edit left you a message on your user talk page saying what he did, and why he did it. Perhaps you overlooked it. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 11:11, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for calling to my attention my inadvertent error on the Newburgh (town), New York page. You are 100% correct. It was NOT my attention to link to a disambiguation page. I believe I have now corrected it. I did not know Mr. Gross was a former resident of Newburgh until I read his obit in the New York Times last week. I am now searching for that newspaper so that I can add it as a source. Nghtownclerk (talk) 15:00, 24 November 2015 (UTC)nghtownclerkNghtownclerk (talk) 15:00, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Advice on the Teamwork Barnstar
Greetings JaGa.
If you'll kindly check my talk page you'll see that another user recently awarded me a Barnstar. While I much appreciate barnstars (as evidenced from my user page), I fear this particular case is inappropriate because the barnstar he used was the Teamwork Barnstar, and it does not appear that it was given to any other users as part of a "team". I was about to graciously decline when I decided to look up the origin of the Teamwork Barnstar in order to help craft my declination message. I see in the archives that you are the originator of this barnstar and that your initial proposal had that it could be given to an individual. As the progenitor of this award I'd like to know your thoughts, should I decline it or do you still believe it can be given to an individual?
Ironically when I finally get some time to look over all his work on the VAW squadrons I was going to either give that user a barnstar and/or nominate him for a wikiproject level award (I just don't have time in this part of the year)
Cheers, Gecko G (talk) 23:41, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Nomination of Coimbatore-Salem MEMU for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Coimbatore-Salem MEMU 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/Coimbatore-Salem MEMU 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. — Jeff G. ツ (talk) 05:29, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
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The bot works really well- I rely on you messages but have you ever considered making it less verbose- after nearly 20,000 edits I don't need a welcome, or to shilly shally around. I just want the meat. I am concerned that the email tells me on the first line - the article name, and gives a link to dabsolver. This is so I can see the meat in the email summary without having to open it. Similarly in the message- it is a bit jarring for a serial offender- how about
Hi.Looking at Council house, there is a wikilink to Labour party, which is a disambiguation page.
Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles it should be refined.Read the [[User:DPL bot/Dablink notification FAQ|FAQ]]{{*}} Join us at the [[Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links|DPL WikiProject]].
- I would like to do something like that, but I'm not sure how I would differentiate those who want the short message from others. Some sort of opt-in scheme? I'll give it a think, but it'll be some time before I could get to it. Thanks for the suggestion! --JaGatalk 02:08, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
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Apamin structure
Hi JaGa... I saw your structure for apamin on your user page, and am sorry but I need to point out it has two errors. There are bare C atoms on either side of one of the disulfide links. I suspect these should be CH2's, or even just have the C labels removed, but the structure as shown indicates C atoms with only two bonds. Regards, EdChem (talk) 12:36, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
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Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages - violation
Disambiguation pages#Given names or surnames "Articles only listing persons with a certain given name or surname, known as anthroponymy articles, are not disambiguation pages, and this Manual of Style does not apply to them."
By applying disambiguation rules to list articles you are violating Wiki standards and disambig rules. Please stop your bot. You have created great confusion. Please revert all the damage you have done to list articles.
Example: List of people with surname Spencer [edit] Shortcut: WP:APOLIST The Spencer (surname) has a good deal of content, so adding the full list of people with the surname would be excessive. There are enough persons with that surname to support its own list. List of people with surname Spencer is not a disambiguation page; it is a List.
Thank you. Jrcrin001 (talk) 18:50, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Can you provide a diff showing a specific edit made by User:DPL bot to the page List of people with surname Spencer? I am unable to find any such edits. Or, if that is not what you mean, please clarify. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 19:27, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
- I got the same message from this editor. It's nonsense. bd2412 T 19:47, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
Many thanks for bot alert re my inadvertent link to the disambiguation page re stakeholders. Have corrected to stakeholders .--Observer6 (talk) 10:33, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
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I noticed that you don't really follow what is going on on the talkpage of your bot. That is not good (and I am sure there must be some guideline that bot operators must be attentive to talkpages of their bots). Please tell me I am wrong. Debresser (talk) 16:05, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
- You're wrong. :) Not responding is not the same as not checking, so rest easy. --JaGatalk 19:54, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
- I am glad to be wrong. Still, editors have a right to have their concerns addressed. Debresser (talk) 22:28, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
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Thank you
Thank you for advising me that I had mistakenly linked to a disambiguation page - I have corrected that link
Bebe Jumeau (talk) 11:13, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, not a robot, JaGa. I just want to thank you for bringing to my attention the disambiguation link notification for March 18[edit] you provided. I will check to make sure all is OK. Also, I had a cookie, thank you, and it wasn't stale!Magdalamar (talk) 17:53, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
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Help with introducing a photo, please!
Hello JaGa. As you have been so patient with my disambiguations, I am getting the hang of it finally, could you advise me please on how to get a photo into an Infobox? The subject is John Young, City architect and surveyor. I have been sent a scan from the London Metropolitan Archives of his b/w 1860s photo and I have their permission to reproduce, providing I mention them and give the reference. I know I have to get it onto Wikimedia, but I have no idea of the pixels, or how to do it. I seem also to be jammed on the Infobox template, but can't see why. If you had a moment, I would be most grateful. --Po Kadzieli (talk) 00:11, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
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Thank you, JaGa, for nudging me from my stupor!
- Thank You so much, JaGa, for nudging me awake,
- after I had groggily double bracketed a word
- that then started pointing in scads of desperately disparate directions
- while I lay, still stupidly sleeping :—(
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Am currently creating an article and i am through. Could you just check it for me? Thank you Dantunkuran (talk) 11:04, 12 April 2016 (UTC) |
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Thanks so much!!! I corrected the entry!!!BinaryPhoton (talk) 11:40, 14 April 2016 (UTC)BinaryPhoton
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