User talk:Adavidb/Archive 14

Women in Red World Contest
Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!

Runner-up error
Please don't replace all those runner-ups in tennis articles as it is correct as is. Per conversations and consensus when used in this particular instance (tallying the number of runner-up placing) it is runner-ups, not runners-up. Most of the time you would be correct with runners-up, but when in this form "Singles: 26 (10 titles, 16 runner-ups)", runner-ups is the correct spelling. It has taken tennis project a long time to get these corrected (and we still aren't done). Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 04:07, 11 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you. —ADavidB 05:09, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * You're welcome. —ADavidB 07:07, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Missouri S&T Help
Thanks for all your help editing and adding to the Missouri S&T projects I've been working on. Jmnbqb (talk) 06:00, 22 January 2018 (UTC)


 * You're welcome. —ADavidB 07:08, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

Prince George's County, Maryland
Hi, Adavidb. To answer, I'm referring to MOS:POINTS. Cheers, 142.161.81.20 (talk) 22:22, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Nicole Lapin and Jack Dorsey
Dear Administrator: In the article devoted to Nicole Lapin, the reference no. 58 is not related to Jack Dorsey: https://www.instagram.com/p/lxky2vBO3X/

Soleil222 (talk) 18:00, 28 January 2018 (UTC)


 * I'm not an administrator for Wikipedia, though agree the web site linked in that reference citation did not support a dating relationship between Lapin and Jack Dorsey. Thus, I removed that citation. —ADavidB 03:39, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Reference Tool
Hello,

I noticed you added extra info to the references on List of Missouri University of Science and Technology alumni, and I was wondering if there was a tool or gadget that you used to get that info. Also, I'm trying to use cite templates instead of making references from scratch, and I was curious what all automation or usage that gives you. All I know is that it helps with bots tracking dead URLs.

Thanks, Jmnbqb (talk) 22:46, 10 February 2018 (UTC)


 * I made the changes you mentioned "by hand". Early in my wiki editing I was advised to use 'cite' templates.  I 'resisted', but found that they do promote consistent display formatting, and will identify errors during a 'show preview' if something is needed and not provided, or if dates are not formatted properly.  I've dabbled with the reFill tool, though I have yet to catch on to using it. —ADavidB 23:35, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Hallmark Channel criticism section
Do not add criticism section to this article as they are considered biased against the subject per WP:CRITS. It was rightly removed. Spshu (talk) 14:25, 21 February 2018 (UTC)


 * It is not a section on criticism. It is a section on censorship, in which the Hallmark Channel openly engages.  I did not add the section, though I did restore and update it per WP:NPOVHOW.  Reliable sources were included to report a problem the subject encountered with this practice.  Criticism is noted, as well as a view that the affect is only mild.  I believe outright removal of all such content is misguided and not in accordance with policy.  If the section title is of primary concern, I'm fine with changing it. —ADavidB 14:38, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Can you explain ...
Can you explain this edit, which changed "full proof" to "foolproof"? Paul August &#9742; 00:22, 7 March 2018 (UTC)


 * As the edit summary shows, I was using the AWB utility. While I visually scan AWB's edit suggestions before applying them, I didn't catch and intercept this incorrect one.  Thanks for reviewing the edit; I see that this part of it is now corrected. —ADavidB 07:06, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request for Theodore Roosevelt
Some sources I found to add for the "assassination attempt" section. "Schrank was immediately disarmed, captured and might have been lynched had Roosevelt not shouted for Schrank to remain unharmed. Roosevelt assured the crowd he was all right, then ordered police to take charge of Schrank and to make sure no violence was done to him."

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.254.235.63 (talk) 07:02, 7 March 2018 (UTC)‎
 * Thanks. Though delayed, I've updated the article with this content. —ADavidB 12:55, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Administrator?
Hi there! Who's the administrator? Something's happened and I need to talk to him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/203.224.132.96 Regards. Soleil222 (talk) 10:28, 11 April 2018 (UTC)


 * To contact an administrator, you can post to the administrator's noticeboard. —ADavidB 10:56, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Marlon Bundo's A Day in the Life of the Vice President
Gatoclass (talk) 12:02, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

You're right.
Thanks for the correction. It will be interesting to see where the investigations and prosecutions go.

Jack Ruby died unconvicted of the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald. Activist (talk) 12:36, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Pence infobox
You had an extra "I" in relatives 😉... so it wouldn't show since it was spelled relatiives... I fixed it! Corky 06:59, 9 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks! —ADavidB 07:09, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Copyrighted
Is this picture copyrighted it the guy that did those vandalism edits on Toys R’ Us. He used it as his own work

ARMcgrath (talk) 20:34, 15 May 2018 (UTC)


 * The center logo certainly appears to not be his "own work", as it is used at https://www.clarin.com/ (Clarín (Argentine newspaper)). Text on that web page is in Spanish, though at the bottom there is a copyright notice with references to intellectual property registration and proprietary graphical art. There is no Argentine state/province named "Clarín", nor did I find any municipality by that name. —ADavidB 05:22, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I've nominated the image for deletion. —ADavidB 06:07, 16 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for resolving the problem. The second I saw that i found it fishy along with two others that he posted. Happy Wiki ARMcgrath (talk) 07:32, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Refactoring quotes
Please pay attention to what you are editing when you remove content based on MOS:NOTE. Where "remember that" appears in a quote, it must remain. We do not revise quotes to align with advice and policies intended only to govern content written in the encyclopedia's voice.  General Ization Talk  15:11, 16 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I missed the "blockquote" tag in one such edit.  In the other, there is no clear indication that it's a direct quotation. —ADavidB 15:20, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Except that the sentence that introduces the section reads "An assessment by the classical scholar Percy Gardner in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition reads:" and that the following paragraphs, including the one you edited, are contained within a quote template. This is often a problem with attempts to apply policies to articles en masse; you really must read each article carefully to know if and how the policy applies. Thanks.  General Ization  Talk  15:25, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Acknowledged —ADavidB 16:03, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
impressive! thank you!

Shushugah (talk) 23:06, 20 May 2018 (UTC) 

Bill de Blasio and Hernández
Thanks for your recent edits of the Wikipedia article on Bill de Blasio. I have one concern:


 * I see "" multiple places. I'm surprised it doesn't give an error:  A construct like "" should appear only once.  Other references to that same citation should appear as " ".

What am I missing?

DavidMCEddy (talk) 22:46, 27 May 2018 (UTC)


 * That is odd. The AWB utility named them all, but didn't follow through and use just the name for the repeats.  I went ahead and did that last part manually, and will be on the lookout for similar shortfalls in my future use of AWB.  I'll also have to see about reporting the issue to the AWB programmers. Thanks for pointing it out. —ADavidB 23:16, 27 May 2018 (UTC)