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2016

peace bell

Thank you for your support and thoughts, with my review, and the peace bell by Yunshui! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:55, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Let's hope it's not the Cloister bell! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:46, 31 December 2015 (UTC).[reply]

Yes, click on bell for the soft sound of peace (and jest) ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:20, 2 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that there has been enough work on references to delete the tag. What do you think?

Ella Bully-Cummings

Cheers, --Beth Wellington (talk) 16:49, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think so. However the text did not reflect the references in a number of cases I looked at. The most egregious was saying that three people called the traffic stop a setup, when in reality only one of them is cited as saying it "looked like a setup".

The section tag on the personal life should stay though.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:18, 4 January 2016 (UTC).[reply]

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Portrait-Beard Andrew Jackson.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Fram (talk) 17:15, 4 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know. I wonder who could have done such a thing? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:56, 4 January 2016 (UTC).[reply]

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--Ipigott (talk) 14:46, 5 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Rich, great to see you unleashed again! would it be possible to update Wikipedia:Articles with UK Geocodes but without images and ideally set some sort of regular refresh on it? The current list is extremely stale because of the Arbcom problem, and it would be much simpler for newbies if we didn't have to ask them to manually remove ones where they'd added an image. I was also wondering if it could perhaps be subdivided into two or three separate lists, the current one includes Bermuda and also British South Atlantic territories despite them not being covered by the Geograph. Ideally I would like two lists, one covering the UK and the other Eire - that would give us some good exercises for newbies with a high proportion of articles having images already on commons. ϢereSpielChequers 15:16, 5 January 2016 (UTC)::[reply]

Unleashed is a relative term. It's more like I have managed to wriggle my big toe free! But I will see what I can do. Will probably recode from scratch, I have some ideas. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:26, 7 January 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Great. Instructions for it are currently at User:WereSpielChequers/image adding - at least one step drops out if we can get the list regularly refreshed. One of the risks of the current system is that people can easily choose the wrong river or village if the names are duplicated; The Geograph has a lovely facility for finding nearby images - I don't know if their code is as openly licensed as their images. If we can get something based on geocoding and nearby images then we could make this more than the UK. Another possible route would be to look at articles which lack images but which have intrawiki links to articles illustrated from commons. ϢereSpielChequers 19:56, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

04:36, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Just to let you know that your comments re: A. Parker may have been somewhat misplaced. DS (talk) 21:14, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I thought I was very careful in what I said.... Maybe not careful enough. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:16, 12 January 2016 (UTC).[reply]

should we merge the history of CountryAbbr into Country abbreviation? Frietjes (talk) 15:05, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if we should. If you look at {{Country abbreviation/sandbox}} there is nothing left of the original. However I have no objection. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:57, 12 January 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Hi- any chance of some semi-protection? I know I should go to the heavilly-backlogged WP:RPP, but we're getting caned by IP vandals atm. Check recent history. Cheers. _Fortuna ^{Imperatrix Mundi} 18:47, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sadly (or otherwise) not an admin. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:53, 12 January 2016 (UTC).[reply]

On consideration, you may consider that a lucky escape perhaps! Apologies for bothering you; hopefuly there is a compliment in there somewhere, though... cheers! _Fortuna ^{Imperatrix Mundi}

The Wikimedia Foundation is currently running a consultation on the value and planning process of Wikimania, and is open until 18 January 2016. The goals are to (1) build a shared understanding of the value of Wikimania to help guide conference planning and evaluation, and (2) gather broad community input on what new form(s) Wikimania could take (starting in 2018).

After reviewing the consultation, we'd like to hear your feedback on on this survey.

In addition, feel free to share any personal experiences you have had at at a Wikimedia movement conference, including Wikimania. We plan to compile and share back outcomes from this consultation in February.

With thanks,

I JethroBT (WMF) (talk), from Community Resources 23:46, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I couldn't help but to notice what you were working on in Lua. I wrote what I think it is you're trying to do in Module:Sandbox/Jackmcbarn. Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:30, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please, when you "manually" create 17 misspelled template redirects in a row (Template:ISO 3166 code Yemen Ḩajjah Governerate and the like) and then have to move all 17 a few minutes later, either uncheck the "leave a redirect behind" box when moving them, or tag them for G7 deletion? Keeping these around serves no purpose. Fram (talk) 11:48, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Fram: Only administrators, bots and global rollbackers can move without redirect. Rich is in none of those groups. --Izno (talk) 12:10, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I had forgotten that that box was admin-only. Rich, Could you please tag them as G7 or is it fine by you if an admin simply deletes them as recent implausible redirects? A RfD discussion for these seems like overkill. Fram (talk) 12:35, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You may delete them if you wish. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:23, 14 January 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Incidentally, four days isn't a few minutes... All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:27, 14 January 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Oops, you're right, I was misled by the double redirect thing somehow. I'll delete them now. Fram (talk) 08:11, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• 17 creations in 9 minutes is well, well within the capabilities of a human not using any automation other than ctrl-c/ctrl-v. Since many of these titles are similar, using ctrl-c/ctrl-v for much of it would be a natural thing to do. --Hammersoft (talk) 16:39, 15 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes, but creating the same misspelling seventeen times in a row? Fram (talk) 10:26, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • You're right, if the first one was correct, he would have performed 16 correct ctrl-c/ctrl-v actions, however, if he would have typed the first wrong because he thought that spelling was correct, he would probably have typed the same typo 16 times. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 10:50, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
      • The ctrl-c / ctrl-v argument was surely about the body of the pages, not about the title though? In any case, all rather academic, pages are deleted, right ones created (by Rich), and all discussion done here, on his user talk page. Fram (talk) 11:05, 18 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
        • Ctrl-c/ctrl-v can be done with titles just as well as with bodies. I see no reason to believe this was not done manually. --Hammersoft (talk) 21:07, 19 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, in your edit of 16 October 2009 of Route 10 (MTA Maryland), user:SmackBot introduced inconsistent definitions of <ref name="btco.net">. Would you kindly sort this out? —Anomalocaris (talk) 23:23, 13 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

 Done All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:35, 13 January 2016 (UTC).[reply]

1. Al-Shirqat
2. Biescas
3. Novska
4. Ogulin
5. Pleternica
6. San Buenaventura, Francisco Morazán
7. Slatina, Croatia
8. Tampines

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:43, 15 January 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Hello RF, and happy Wikipedia @ 15. This is to notify you of Wiki Loves Nigeria Writing Contest organized by the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria to commiserate the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia. The contest will start on 28 January 2016 and end on 29 February 2016. Please help to suggest articles on notable Nigeria-related topic here and if you like to be part of the jury, add your name here. Thanks for your participation. Warm regards Wikic¤l¤gy^{t@lk to M£} 08:13, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

hi Rich, Whixley made the list despite having a couple of images in a gallery. ϢereSpielChequers 14:31, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, gotta love galleries. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:32, 23 January 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Incidentally I now have a nice list of UK places (well including one French place) that just needs trimming by those with images. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:34, 23 January 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Thanks, look forward to it. ϢereSpielChequers 19:27, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

User:Rich Farmbrough/temp127 and User:Rich Farmbrough/temp138 is the untrimmed list. Too big for one wiki-page. Probably has some bugs still. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:18, 23 January 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Although saving 127 is giving:

Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon. Please try again in a few minutes.

Sigh. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:26, 23 January 2016 (UTC).[reply]

T124564 applies. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:37, 23 January 2016 (UTC).[reply]

There are many advantages to having multiple smaller lists, if they can be done geographically they are more likely to prompt photographers to visit places we have no pictures for, and they should also be of interest to wikiprojects. at the same time they can be transcluded together to give the appearance of large lists. ϢereSpielChequers 04:06, 24 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

They load faster too! But many of these have images so until I've pruned the list decisions on chopping it up can't be made. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:54, 24 January 2016 (UTC).[reply]

Added a comment on the Talk page for this article, about your recent edits. Please take a look, thanks. Battling McGook (talk) 22:07, 24 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Rich, since you were involved in this discussion last December, and the editor involved seems to me to be renewing the exact same editing behavior discussed there, could you take a look at current discussion on the article's Talk page and its recent edit history and see if you think further action is needed? Thanks ... General Ization ^Talk 00:34, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I'm a user from Wikipedia in Italian language. I casually discovered some minutes ago that all the links in Wikipedia:London Gazette Index (created by you 5 years ago) needs to be updated. For example, the current link to the 5 November 1688 issue (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/2396/pages/1) now redirects to the home page of The Gazette website (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/), but fixing like this (http://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/2396/page/1) it can be easily restored. In brief: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/ must be replaced with http://www.gazette.co.uk/London/ and the final 's' of words like "issues", "pages", "supplements" (and so on) must be removed from the old URL addresses. Good luck! --Mess (talk) 23:00, 27 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you I will see if this can be corrected. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:26, 28 January 2016 (UTC).[reply]