User talk:Andy M. Wang/Archive 4

Problamistic User Uanfala
It had been extended edit war by Uanfala.


 * Despite nearly 10 Wikipedians not agreeing with his views on talk pages of effected Talk pages.
 * He cherry picks and tries to define dialects in to Language.
 * Wikipedia is not a dictionary.
 * Wikipedians can not cherry pick.
 * Wikipedians can not impose a point a view.
 * Wikipedians move with consensus.
 * Wikipedia is an informational project. It can not misguide about language hierarchy.
 * Only standardisation of few dialects can not make them language. However few follow this rule for defining Hindko Saraiki Potwari as language. He cherry pick those.
 * Even those "few" along with "opposite others" have details whether "Explicit" or "Implicit" which demonstrate a common hierarchy Language Family: Indo European, Branch: Indo Iranian, Sub branch: Indo Aryan, Macro Language: Punjabi, Language: Western Punjabi, Dialects: Potwari Hindko Saraiki and many others, Sub dialects: North Hindko South Hindko.
 * All such linguistic sources are mentioned / added by many wikipedians.
 * If we accept Uanfala version of "cherry pick" and "Defining" then we will end up with a dilemma mentioned by User Flipro on this move request for 30 odd Punjabi dialects.

Time to report User Uanfala for topic ban for Cherry picking, Forum shoping, Edit warring, ignoring talk page consensus on western punjabi diffrent dialect talk pages. Please you being a registered senior editor start the proceeding for Topic Ban and violation of 3Rs. 39.60.232.41 (talk) 01:38, 2 November 2016 (UTC)₯€₠€₯
 * Consider registering for an account. Your IP is very dynamic, and it's very difficult to keep track of your own contributions. Your case would be more visible if edits could be associated with 1 account. You have received several talk page notices at other IPs and you have not responded. I have been involved only to the extent of closing discussions and satisfying move requests. If you have a complaint, consider posting at WP:ANI along with a direct talk page post on Uanfala's talk page.
 * Commenting on specific diffs that would hurt your case: this appears to be POV pushing. Edits such as this are uncited and unsupported. This is also unsupported with a reliable source. This contains another unsupported claim in the edit summary. Whereas edits such as this and this are supported with references to what appears to be reasonable scholarly works. At first glance, this appears to be a reasonable effort to clean up on sock edits.
 * Regarding the recent edit history of Western Punjabi, Ghebi dialect, and Chhachi dialect, both you, Uanfala, and many others have undoubtedly edit warred, and possibly violated WP:3RR. Uanfala's own disregard for 3RR received a ping/warn already, but it appears that a number of editors may be as guilty. Regarding [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/39.60.232.41&offset=20161102014800&limit=16 your recent pings], you do appear to be WP:FORUMSHOPPING, which could hurt your case. I believe editors like and  have had recent editing conflicts with, so they would be able to help your case more than I can. If they want wide admin attention, WP:ANI is your forum. At the moment though, I haven't been able to discern without a doubt whether Uanfala's edits impose a point of view, but they seems to be based in reliable sources and common names, and am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, if there's any. I'd prefer to stay out of this for now. — Andy W. ( talk ) 04:32, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Untitled
Andy M. Wang I need to talk to you about Castlebridge University. Can you send your contact info via Wikipedia's email? Marchro (talk) 23:16, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I have opted not to receive email for now. Is there anything private that can't be discussed on talk pages? Is this about Special:Diff/724924044? — Andy W. ( talk ) 23:22, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi. Thanks for the quick reply. Nothing private. I saw your post about Castlebridge University that used to be in Hawaii. I'm wondering where you got the information you used in the post. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marchro (talk • contribs) 15:23, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
 * The extent of my involvement with the edit request was back in June, when 174.95.188.52 posted an edit request for List of unaccredited institutions of higher education, and I answered it as insufficiently sourced. I'm unaware if I've been involved further, and I honestly have no knowledge or context for this Castlebridge University. If you'd like to make an edit request to List of unaccredited institutions of higher education, please consider backing up your text with reliable sources, and an another editor will be able to enact it. — Andy W. ( talk ) 16:10, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Confusing closure comment
Your summary at Talk:Pennsylvania Station (New York City). It sounds like you could be saying that there is a consensus to move and that it is unlikely there would be strong opposes for that. Maybe instead "Not moved: there are strong opposes, making it unlikely there is a consensus to move."? DMacks (talk) 18:18, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Ahh, not what I meant. Clarified, thanks for the ping — Andy W. ( talk ) 18:21, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
 * And thanks for the quick-fix! DMacks (talk) 19:00, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

Map problems
Hi. There is currently map problems in many articles, for example see 2014–15 UEFA Europa League and 2014–15 UEFA Champions League. Does this have something to do with your recent edits at Module:Location map or perhaps you can help me figure out the problem? Qed237&#160;(talk) 14:14, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Further information tells me map in 2016 Allsvenskan seems to be working. Qed237&#160;(talk) 14:14, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I just found the problem in Template:Location map Europe, not sure what is going on. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 14:19, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, looks like the issue with Template:Location map Europe was resolved. It isn't high-risk (<400 transclusions), but wouldn't object to the RFPP itself. 2016 Allsvenskan may have been working because the change was still queued up at that point, maybe. — Andy W. ( talk ) 18:38, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I realised that it was only a problem on European map (Allsvenskan uses map of Sweden), which is why I was able to locate the problem at Template:Location map Europe and revert the editor who had changed it. <i style="font-family:Sans-serif"><b style="color:blue">Qed</b><b style="color:red">237</b>&#160;<b style="color:green">(talk)</b></i> 11:57, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Your message on my talk page
Hi Andy. That copy-paste move was just a mistake by me. My reason for moving that page was legit, but I thought copy-paste would work like typical moves. After I saw my mistake I request an admin to fix it and he fixed it. I'm an experienced. I'm on English Wikipedia since 2012 and I have several user rights. Especially I'm familiar with moving process. It was just a careless edit by me. Because I thought redirected name (original name of article before recent moves) has complete revision history too. When I realized I was wrong, I tried to fix it. --Wario-Man (talk) 20:05, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
 * And I don't why I tried copy-paste method. Complete carelessness. It was a big mistake. Sorry. --Wario-Man (talk) 20:15, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
 * , okay thanks, it's all good. I didn't see this initially. If you ever have issues with moves, WP:RMT may be the best venue to resolve some of these things, cheers — Andy W. ( talk ) 20:17, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

John Rutherford (sheriff)
Here's another that probably needs to move before Jan 3 as he was elected to Congress. Not sure if we should wait a month or so or do it now....I'll leave it up to you to start the discussion and do the timing if that's OK......Pvmoutside (talk) 22:59, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi I don't any have context... did I move some related page earlier? Anyway, if the parenthesized dab becomes outdated in January, unless someone gets around to moving it, you start an RM around late Dec (?) and the page'll probably get moved in a week. — Andy W. ( talk ) 23:33, 13 November 2016 (UTC)

Malplaced moves
Hi! I just now saw your edit changing the instructions for handling malplaced dab-page redirects. That's not a problem for me—I'll start showing up at WP:RMT. But I'm curious: why would RMT be better than db-movedab? — Gorthian (talk) 01:04, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, that was bold on my part, mostly because a good chunk of movedab requests that populate admin CSD could be handled with swaps now. I suggested something similar before, and someone working with dabs also brought it up at WT:PMVR. Unless revisions at dab redirs are completely uncalled for (never explicitly saw this in these requests), these are not admin-specific anymore. Another reason is that I believe requests listed at WP:RMT are reliably handled within 24 hours, whereas entries in the CSD category have taken 5 days sometimes. WP:RMT is a "central" venue that also allows quick follow-up questions, and any request that's potentially questionable lends itself naturally to a full RM (with a convenient link offered by ). Hope that sounds reasonable.
 * If anyone at WT:DAB disputes this, feel free to undo the changes. — Andy W. ( talk ) 01:18, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Very, very few people seem to know about malplaced dab pages, even at WT:DAB, so I doubt there will be any reverting going on. I've seen enough page histories now to know roughly how a "round-robin" swap works. But how is a swap different from what used to happen? Did a page have to get deleted completely first? (Obviously, I'm not an admin!)— Gorthian (talk) 01:49, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi, I suppose I meant WT:WPDAB :) I made some more revisions here. Non-admin page movers (as of June 2016) can move a page and have the option not to leave behind a redirect from the former title to the new title, an option which is not available to most users. The option allows these users (of which I'm part) to swap pages. A swap depends on this option to "vacate" a title to open up the option for the next move, so to speak (full process here). To solve a technical WP:MALPLACED dab, a page mover can move (completely vacate) the base page to another location to allow the misplaced dab page to be moved without being blocked. I updated (and simplified) the instructions because these actions are no longer admin-specific as of May 2016, so these requests don't "pollute" the category with requests that could be enacted by some non-admins. Hope this helps! :) — Andy W. ( talk ) 02:36, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Not named after Professor Sign
Concerning this edit, there is no apparent reason why the initial "s" in "sign" should be capitalized. I changed it to lower case. Michael Hardy (talk) 17:42, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, absolutely, that was my error (might have been hasty). — Andy W. ( talk ) 18:39, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Guinea-Bissau Creole deletion request
Hi Andy M. Wang. Kwami is helping me sort out the confusion with Guinea-Bissau Creole vs Upper Guinea Creole and made the deletion request on my behalf. The text on the page "Upper Guinea Creole" is about "Guinea-Bissau Creole". I am familiar with the topic and Kwami is an expert on the subject, so he would not have assited without first making sure that it made sense. I would be grateful for your assistance. Rui &#39;&#39;Gabriel&#39;&#39; Correia (talk) 02:10, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
 * and, sure, I'd be willing to help. What about the RM that happened on the talk? Have circumstances recently changed? Just want a clarification here before anything happens, thanks — Andy W. ( talk ) 02:14, 15 November 2016 (UTC)


 * The only RM I see is to fix a typo. What am I missing? I don't know anything about the topic, but Glottolog and Ethn. both give it the name 'Upper Guinea Crioulo', which is presumably why it's where it is. Looks like there's a second use of the name (Glotto. 'Upper Guinea Portuguese', which is less accurate than calling it Creole) that includes Upper Guinea Creole proper, Cabo Verde Creole and Papiamento. Moving to Guinea-Bissau Creole would avoid the ambiguity, but I don't see that it's supported by refs. — kwami (talk)


 * Hi Andy M. Wang. I can't even figure out what that request is, not sure if it a move request because of the incorrect spelling or what. Then, the arguments made by Pedro do not hold any water. His argument here that calling the creole after the name of the country is wrong because the creole is much older then the country is absurd. It is name given by linguists, not what ist speakers call it — they refer to their language by various names, variations of Kriol, Kiriol, Kriolu, Purtuguis etc., as is amply set out in the various articles within the group The simple fact of the matter is that "Upper Guinea" refers to both Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, as it says here:

[Apologies for taking time to reply, internet broke down] Rui &#39;&#39;Gabriel&#39;&#39; Correia (talk) 02:55, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
 * "From one side of the Atlantic to the other, lay a group of Portuguese-based Creoles that are present in three countries of West Africa (Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and Senegal) and in the Netherlands Antilles. These Creoles are genetically related, in spite of the geographic distance, and they are known together as the UGC (Upper Guinea Creoles",
 * Okay,, , I started an RM discussion. If there's consensus, the page will be moved in a week. — Andy W. ( talk ) 04:45, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I will follow developments. Rui &#39;&#39;Gabriel&#39;&#39; Correia (talk) 09:31, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Requested move
Hi. Can you relist this requested move, as I don't think it achieved enough discussion. The point you made about Wales being a destination might suggest that we rename the article to Evacuations of civilians in England during World War II. However, assuming only evacuations happened in England (which is not the case), I think it's irrelevant: evacuations occurred in Germany also, but seem to have been confined mostly to western and northern parts. Yet the article has the name of the country in it, not the names of regions, areas or islands of the country. The wiki article for that is specific to children, of course. Also, Japan has an article which uses the country name. In Japan, the evacuations seem to be centered around the southern prefectures. Particularly the large islands of Shikoku, Kyushu and Honshu. Yet the article uses the country name. Presumably the evacuations which took place in the Soviet Union were confined to the west of that country. Yet the article uses the name of the country, and not any geographical region or administrative subsets.

As for evacuations in other parts of the UK: one source for Northern Ireland here, proof of evacuations in Wales and evacuations in Scotland.

Thanks for your help. --98.122.20.56 (talk) 21:09, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
 * The extent of my involvement was a comment in the RM itself. I think your best way forward is to ping the closer directly,  and explain your evidence. He may re-open if indeed you reach an agreement that there was not enough discussion. If you are unable to reach an agreement, your next venue is probably a move review, but again, ping the closer first before you try this. Thanks, hope this helps — Andy W. ( talk ) 21:15, 15 November 2016 (UTC)


 * All right. Thanks for the advice, Andy. I appreciate it. I'll probably get around to it soon. --98.122.20.56 (talk) 03:46, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I suggest you simply create a new move discussion at this point in time. I closed it over four months ago so relisting it would seem strange.  Anarchyte  ( work  &#124;  talk )   05:33, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Endorsed here — Andy W. ( talk ) 05:35, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

New page reviewer granted
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 * Be nice to new users - they are often not aware of doing anything wrong.
 * You will frequently be asked by users to explain why their page is being deleted - be formal and polite in your approach to them too, even if they are not.
 * Don't review a page if you are not sure what to do. Just leave it for another reviewer.
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wp:RfPP
FYI: You added your request for reducing level to the increasing level section. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 00:08, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Argh, thanks, fixed self — Andy W. ( talk ) 00:11, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Group changes
Per your request your extended user groups have been removed. Feel free to drop me a note or post at WP:PERM should you have a need for them in the future. If applying at PERM, please include the diff link above (it is also in your right log) to make it easy for the reviewing administrator to see this was self requested. Best regards, — xaosflux  Talk 16:22, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

RM closure of Tropical Storm Jebi (2013)
Hi. I just saw that you closed this RM Discussion as no consensus. However, the only oppose !vote was made against deletion of the articles, indicating that that commenter probably misunderstood the point of the discussion, and that comment should have been discounted. --Paul_012 (talk) 18:59, 20 November 2016 (UTC) Paul_012 (talk) 18:59, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I've listed the discussion at Move review. --Paul_012 (talk) 04:52, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

A pie for you!

 * Ditto. If you're gone because of real-life obligations that preclude participation at the present time, that's fine. If you're on break due to any on-wiki issues, please do come back here, and let's sort it out. You were on my short-list of potential administrators, and it's always a shame to see such editors leave. Best regards, wbm1058 (talk) 16:45, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer - RfC
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Precious
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:47, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection policy RfC
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Happy holidays!
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Your Edit
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:72.142.10.110&oldid=715161888 not your page, not your comment==not your privilege to remove it (see WP:TPG). 72.142.10.110 (talk) 19:12, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
 * The edit you raw link to happend in April 2016, and you quote from  when they twice reverted your perculiar deletions of Andy's own comment on his own talk page five days ago. Get over it, and get editing. I've posted you a welcome message. If you have any questions, you are always welcome to ask me on my talk page, although you are guaranteed quicker feedback at the Teahouse. Happy editing, — Sam Sailor 19:53, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Disputed non-free use rationale for File:Cindy-sherman-untitled-153.jpg
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 * , from what I can see, File:Cindy-sherman-untitled-153.jpg was uploaded by on 29 August 2014. Let me know if there's anything else I should do, but I believe you contacted the wrong party...? Cheers, — Andy W. ( talk ) 03:42, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Scratch that, I see that it's resolved — Andy W. ( talk ) 04:52, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I only added the template to your user talk page because it appears from the file's edit history that you were the editor who added the non-free use rationale for the Cindy Sherman article. If that was not the case, then I apologize for any confusion this may have caused. -- Marchjuly (talk) 02:06, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Pageswap
Andy....I applied for adminship (alas, my request was rejected) because I've been trying to move pages to update animal species taxonomy on a regular basis and didn't want to bother other admins for such mundane tasks. Most pages move without issue, but some if links were created in redirects, they lock and I can't move them. During the RfA, some admins suggested your pageswap tool, which I tried installing after getting approval as a pagemover. The button appears below the move button, but when I plug in the page on where it should be moved to, nothing happens.......I'd like to get this working to stop bothering other admins......please help! The page I am trying to move is Cape pygmy owl to Baja pygmy owl....Pvmoutside (talk) 14:31, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for letting me know. I believe you've installed the script fine.
 * To swap Cape pygmy owl and Baja pygmy owl, you should be able to go to the Cape pygmy owl page directly, click "Swap" (which should be next to the "Move" option), enter "Baja pygmy owl" in the prompt, click OK several times (when it asks about moving talk pages, click OK), and it should just work. (Make sure you then update the moved redirect's target) If the "Swap" button is still not doing anything, I think it may be due to your browser's JavaScript settings...? Do you see any prompts that are popping up when you click "Swap"?
 * Another thing you can do, if you don't feel comfortable with swaps, you can post at WP:RMT any time, and someone would be able to help you relatively quickly (at least in my experience) Hope this helps — Andy W. ( talk ) 18:41, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, just did some tests... When the first prompt says Swap "Cape pygmy owl" with:, and you type in Baja pygmy owl and click okay, the next prompt takes a few seconds... maybe it depends on your Internet connection, the servers' load I think? I suggest wait 20 seconds. If you still see nothing after that long (really shouldn't take that long), it may be some JavaScript settings in your browser. (It's also a bit of a design issue in my script I suppose) Let me know if you have updates, I'm curious. Thanks — Andy W. ( talk ) 19:02, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
 * nope....nothing, even waiting for 20 seconds.....Pvmoutside (talk) 11:29, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for the update... my best guess then is that your browser is blocking subsequent JS prompts. (It works fine for me in Firefox 53.) WP:VPT may have some other ideas? Sorry, wish I was able to help a valuable editor such as yourself to a better extent, but in the meantime, you should be able to manually swap the pages with 3 redirect-suppressed moves, or request at WP:RMT. Hope this isn't too much of a barrier. Feel free to let me know if there's anything else you need — Andy W. ( talk ) 00:04, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Swapped — Andy W. ( talk ) 03:36, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Page mover granted
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Implementing MOS:JR change
Hello. There was a change last year to MOS:JR, eliminating the comma before Jr. and Sr. This affects many article titles. I have been working on and off for months to implement these moves, about half of them requiring a request at WP:RMT. It has been suggested that I request the WP:Page mover right and use your pageswap.js script, eliminating the need to involve admins. Can you describe how to do these moves using your script, for the non-technical user? Thank you. &#8213; Mandruss  &#9742;  12:42, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for letting me know! I think I was able to help you on some of these JR SR moves a while back with swaps. I outlined a general case here, but in other words: click "Swap" (appears next to "Move") and simply follow the prompts:
 * Enter the new page title.
 * In general, click OK when it asks about moving talk pages (and subpages like archives and good article nominations), though I have some tips below
 * At the "Move reason" prompt, enter your intended summary, and you're good to go. (There's a final confirmation before it attempts any action, so don't worry about title typos.)
 * The script doesn't update redirects by design, so after the swap, update any involved to point to the new page title.
 * FYI about my own swap approach (a bit detailed here): if one page has a talk (or subpage) and the other page doesn't, a swap will "redlink" these pages, which is likely undesirable, especially if they have incoming links. I occasionally move the talk page (or subpage) separately, i.e. swap the mainspace pages, and later do a redirect-preserving move on the talk page (or subpages).
 * I hope this helps. Please let me know if I should clarify anything! Cheers, — Andy W. ( talk ) 20:11, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

Untitled (Peasant Girl, spinning)
Hi there,

I'm not familiar with how to communicate on this platform, however you have incorrectly changed the page I wrote for Elihu Vedder's painting "Peasant Girl, spinning". You changed the page name and the name of the work to "Peasant Girl Spinning. The title assigned by the artist and which has always been attributed to this work is "Peasant Girl, spinning". With the comma, and the uncapitalized 's' in "spinning".

Elihu Vedder was meticulous about the naming conventions of his own works. It is correctly listed in the inventory of works he sold in 1867 in The Digression of V (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1910). I could go into greater detail why naming conventions are important to Vedder's works of the late 1860s (multiple, precisely and individually titled versions of similar works exist), but that's really not relevant. What you did was introduce erroneous information based on a formatting convention that does not apply to this artist's works.

Please could you stop changing my article. I would like to know what your credibility or authority as an art historian is - but you have changed the article I spent a long time writing. I am sorry this is the only way I know how to reach out - I am trying to learn wikipedia and would like to be able to contribute more content from my research, but just imagine how demoralizing it is when someone changes your article to the wrong information. I have several more articles about individual paintings by Vedder but how can I add them if someone with no authority on the information will simply change them???

Best,

George

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:585:c101:ef80:dd48:63b5:860e:294a (talk) 03:43, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Followed up here on the talk page, thanks. I'm taking your post(s) as a move request — Andy W. ( talk ) 16:04, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * (Just for personal reference, Special:Diff/723289921) — Andy W. ( talk ) 16:08, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

Swap bug?
Hi,

I don't know if this is just me being incompetent but the swap tool you made is very useful, however it seems to suppress talk page redirects without prompting me, any ideas?

Thanks, Dr Strauss   talk  10:06, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for letting me know! I wouldn't say this is a bug, more like a feature. I think [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Talk%3ANeutral+unit+of+construction+%28airlines%29 this is one of your examples]? I mitigated this [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Neutral_unit_of_construction_(airlines)&action=history by recreating Talk:Neutral unit of construction (airlines)] to fix this issue. After swapping A and B (and a single talk), I need to re-create redirect Talk:A separately, although you could also swap only A and B and afterwards perform a regular move of Talk:A to Talk:B (preserving a redirect).
 * In a bit more detail, the reason I decided against fixing redlinks is a scenario such as: Swap A, Talk:A, Talk:A/subpageX, B, Talk:B/subpageY. After the swap, the pages are A, Talk:A/subpageY, B, Talk:B, Talk:B/subpageX, with previously existing pages Talk:A, Talk:A/subpageX, and Talk:B/subpageY redlinked. Or should these newly redlinked pages turn into redirects? I personally don't think so, and it seems largely dependent on context, hence my tool has avoided these issues for now.
 * In short, I'd recommend: Perform the swap. If the other page (and talk, (and subpages if any)) is a redirect, fix its target. Check your own contribs for redlinked talk pages and create them as redirects as necessary. (especially if there are incoming links (Special:WhatLinksHere)) Hope that makes sense! — Andy W. ( talk ) 19:50, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Definitely, thank you for the detailed explanation, that makes sense. Best,  Dr Strauss   talk  19:53, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Missing dependency declarations
Hi, I was looking at User:Andy_M._Wang/pageswap.js and I notice that it does not ensure/declare it's dependency on the resource loader modules mediawiki.util and mediawiki.api, of which it is making use. These modules are loaded on almost every page, so it likely won't cause a problem too often, but you should really fix that because it is good practice, and will make it easier to maintain in the future. Please see: ResourceLoader/Developing_with_ResourceLoader. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 09:16, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for that resource! That was very helpful. I believe I've corrected the issue by using mw.loader.using . — Andy W. ( talk ) 06:21, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

User:Andy_M._Wang/closeRM.js
Hi, the script User:Andy_M._Wang/closeRM.js did not declare/ensure it's dependency on resourceloader module mediawiki.util. I've corrected this. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 09:55, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Very belated thanks! — Andy W. ( talk ) 06:21, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

Question about pageswap
Hello! I've been using your pageswap tool for a few months now and have noticed a common thing when swapping pages. My question is why does the redirect not link to the new page name (see here for an example)? I have to manually go in and change the redirect when IMO it would make more sense for the redirect be the new page title automatically... Hoping you can help on this. Thanks, Corky Buzz by the Hornet's Nest   04:03, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, this was a design decision on my part for several reasons, including the fact that the 3-move swap operation already has plenty of latency (in my humble opinion), that the "swap" operation could be one on either of the pages to be swapped (including on the redirect), and there's generally some ambiguity on how to deal with the talk pages, subpages (if they exist), and talk subpages (if they exist) of either page to be swapped. I think I found some cases where the redirect(s) point to some completely unrelated or new page, and these cases have to handled on a case-by-case basis. Some of the talk or subpages may be redirects, and some may not be. After a swap, there is potential to redlink a number of talk/subpages when the other page does not have talk/subpages of the same names/positions, if that makes sense. I figured that handling these cases was out of scope, and that the script (for now) should do nothing except make sure the two selected pages (and its talk/subpages) are swapped, nothing else.
 * So, for now, yes, I'd manually correct examples such as your example here. Hope that makes sense...? — Andy W. ( talk ) 16:08, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Makes perfect sense! Thanks for your help! Corky Buzz by the Hornet's Nest   00:05, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Question About Adding Parameter to Infobox US university ranking
Hi there. You seem to be an expert on this. Several users now have brought up adding the annual US College ranking from Times Higher Education to the Infobox US university ranking template. I'm having trouble figuring it out. Could take a look at the page and tell me what I'm doing wrong/help me out? Thanks! Pdyusmep (talk) 03:36, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi . A couple users already replied at Template talk:Infobox US university ranking. Apparently an IP added this param to the doc without placing a request to update the main template itself. I can add your requested param to sandboxes and submit an edit req if I have time (I don't have edit access since I gave up the right by choice). However, it's unclear from discussions that we've determined that the ranking is notable yet., who is a template editor, says, quote, If it is notable enough (provide proof), then we can add it. I suggest you continue the discussion there and get a WP:CONSENSUS of sorts first. Hope that helps — Andy W. ( talk ) 12:41, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your direction. Looks like we have a discussion going. All the best. Pdyusmep (talk) 13:13, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Pageswap
Hi. Just wondering if it's possible to request a feature for your pageswap script? Would it be possible to update  to something like , where an editor could manually set their own moveReasonDefault in their personal common.js?

Just that I personally use the pageswap script solely for WP:RMTR, and it would allow me to automatically fill in the prompt with "[ [WP:RMTR]]" each time. This wouldn't change anything for other editors that don't want a default value, but may help other editors looking for the same thing.

If not, no problems! If so, that'd be great! Let me know. Thanks. --  Alex TW 07:39, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi,, this is Yes check.svg Done. That was a nice suggestion, thanks! — Andy W. ( talk ) 15:03, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Amazing, thanks! --  Alex TW 20:54, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

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failed third move
Hi. Long time no see. While performing round-robin, I got the error "Fail on third move Draft:Move/Robin Bush (historian) -> Robin Bush (historian)". I did it manually. But when I checked the pages individually, and my contrib history; all looked fine except the history of Robin Bush. Would you please take a look into it? Thanks a lot in advance. Also pinging, as he can history that we cant. — <span class="monospaced" style="font-family: monospace, monospace;">usernamekiran (talk)  06:22, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I've taken care of the move btw. I also realised you haven't edited in two months. I hope everything is fine. Best, — <span class="monospaced" style="font-family: monospace, monospace;">usernamekiran (talk)  07:07, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Massretarget
Hi Andy, I hope you are well? Just an idea for a future update of Massretarget: stick in an R avoided double redirect in the Redirect category shell. Thanks, Sam Sailor 07:36, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, that's a good suggestion, thanks! For my reference: Special:Diff/844583314 vs Special:Diff/844583217. I'll see if I can get around to this at some point — Andy W. ( talk ) 13:57, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing out that template, I wasn't aware it existed either. I'll have to go back and add that to a bunch of redirects. —Compassionate727 (T·C) 20:09, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Traditional African religion
Have you read Talk:Traditional African religions/Archive 3?

I know that you had moved the page following this request, but I would want to know if you can agree with the reversal to original title. Thanks.  Occult Zone  (Talk • Contributions • Log) 20:19, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the link... I wasn't aware of the previous RM when I moved as unopposed. I could agree with the reversal, but since the page has had its current title for 19 months, perhaps another RM could clarify the issue? I suppose you could just move it and cite the issue... consider me a neutral party to this — Andy W. ( talk ) 04:14, 27 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for checking it. That discussion was pretty lengthy and it thoroughly debunked the argument that was used in the RM from 8 November 2016. Many particular religions have numerous sects, beliefs and practices but it is under same roof. For technical reasons I can't move the page. You have no issue with the reversal and I had lodged a request on WP:RMT.  Occult Zone  (Talk • Contributions • Log) 09:09, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

Suggestion: Retarget after page swap
Hi Andy, after the end of 3 step page move. a redirect ends up pointing to itself on the original page location, This is not correct. After every pageswap, this has to be manually retargeted to the new page location. Can this step alse be included in the automated script. Should be easy to include. cheers. -- D Big X ray ᗙ  13:11, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * , good idea! (Hope you are well, Andy.) Sam Sailor 14:53, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi :)
 * , this might be the third or fourth time I've heard this suggestion... I've highlighted a number of reasons I decided against the retargeting here and here, for example. I also outlined a number of things that I personally think might be out of scope for the tool. I guess it's debatable and there's not a right answer, how hands-on and how intervening the tool actually should be. How would the tool handle cases where A redirects to B, but a subpage of Talk:B redirected to Talk:A? Reverse that redirect too? There are also cases where three pages' contents need to be swapped (happens more frequently with 2-dab scenarios). What to do about the redirect page?
 * I must admit that I've thought more about the corner cases than solutions to them, but so far, I say that pageswap is just a tool to swap the histories of two pages, and not intervene and correct redirects.
 * If you really insist, let me know, and I'll put more thought into making the correction. Thanks for your feedback though. Happy editing, — Andy W. ( talk ) 00:17, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I do have a separate tool for correcting double-redirects (including self redirects). I didn't design this for mass usage however, and this isn't really well-advertised. The tool, when installed, is also somewhat intentionally difficult to navigate to (this is a mass retarget tool) When I've been performing swaps, I do use both these scripts. Maybe this helps save some time? — Andy W. ( talk ) 00:19, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Andy, Please accept my sincere thanks for taking out time to respond to this 4th time. I am sure, there are lot of corner cases. but the tool is primarily used to move over redirect. e.g. Redirect R points to Article A. and they need to be swapped such that the end results is A is a redirect pointing to article at R. But at the end of this, the contents and page histories are swapped but, Location A ends up with a "redirect to itself" at A. I can understand why it is caused, but this is something that is believe is undesirable. If the complexity allows it and it doesnt have a major side effect, I would request you to kindly agree to adopt this suggestion. specially since this is a popular and widely sought after suggestion (me being the 4th user to ask this). -- D Big X ray ᗙ  11:39, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I can't give guarantees due to real-life commitments, hope you understand. If the tool will support retargeting, I definitely want to make it a thorough check (if A is a redirect to itself, if A has redirecting subpages, if Talk:A is a redirect to itself, and if the talk page has subpages... and prompt to retarget everything and anything related to page A reasonable... I might need to check the status of R for sanity, just talking out loud). I'll look into it in the next few days... again, no guarantees — Andy W. ( talk ) 01:51, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

Suggestions
Having been a long time user of your pageswap tool, I have to admit it's pretty great. I think I have a few things, or rather wrinkles, that could be improved upon, but it's okay imo. What I was thinking is instead of the current OK, Cancel dialog, we have one window to handle everything, just two radio buttons, move talk and move subpages and hit OK. That would make the chances of messing up much harder. @ me if you consider it, thanks a lot for your hard work! --<span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Geneva,sans-serif"> QEDK ( 後  ☕  桜 ) 17:43, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Might address this if I find an adequate amount of time in the next months or so, no guarantees — Andy W. ( talk ) 18:15, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Yet another Pageswap suggestion
Any way to make pageswap work from Special:MovePage? For example, when someone submits a move request, it shows up with a link like. It would be great if I could run PageSwap from this page and have the target, destination, and reason automatically filled in by parsing the URL. --Ahecht (<span style="color:#FFF;background:#04A;display:inline-block;padding:1px;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK PAGE ) 23:25, 17 December 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 00:04, 18 December 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 19:46, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅, Right now I end up copy pasting this edit summary and the new page name every time i make moves. If this can be incorporated somehow, that would be great. -- D Big X ray ᗙ  23:38, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I mocked this up in my userspace at User:Ahecht/pageswap.js. The relevant diff to enable the basic functionality is here. The diff for the additional code that also modifies the error text to include a swap link is here. --Ahecht ([[User talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#04A;display:inline-block;padding:1px;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK
 * Thanks . Take a look at Special:PermaLink/816035463. You can define a default "move reason" in your common.js, like this, for example — Andy W. ( talk ) 18:27, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
 * In the case of links generated by RMassist, the reason is different each time. --Ahecht ([[User talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#04A;display:inline-block;padding:1px;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK
 * Ahecht is 'correcht' ! . Andy, The Reason generated by RMassist is basically the phrase added by the Move requestor, along with his name. This reason is helpful to the other page watchers who can read the edit-summary and understand the reasons for the move. -- D Big X ray ᗙ  20:00, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

Stranded talk pages
Pageswap seems to be leaving behind a lot of talk pages that redirect to themselves. In other words, the article gets moved correctly, but the talk page doesn't. Talk:Forever (group) is one current example (assuming no one has fixed it before you see this message). --R'n'B (call me Russ) 17:22, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
 * That's because did not perform steps 3 and 4 in the swap routine. (fixed for now) Talk page redirect retargeting, as I've highlighted repeatedly, is still out of scope of the pageswap tool (also already had a discussion about this earlier). I think if I were to address some feature requests, I would actually want to overhaul the tool (the existing code is not that great looking back at it). Can't guarantee that I have the time these days — Andy W. ( talk ) 18:12, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Oops, sorry, I'll be more careful in future. -- wooden  superman  09:39, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox Korean name
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Hi, you seem like someone who works to maintain Infobox Chinese. Due to this I invite your participation in this discussion, thanks. DanielleTH (Say hi!) 15:34, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Khalil Gibran
In case you are interested, a renaming request of this article is open. 92.184.96.202 (talk) 23:35, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

Your access to AWB may be temporarily removed
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Red 11 (film)
Hello,

I need help to pageswap the edit history of my new page Red 11 (film) with the redirect page Red 11. I do not know how to do this change. I would like to move the work and history of Red 11 (film) to the unnecessary extra disambiguation of Red 11. Can you help me? Cardei012597 (talk) 22:22, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, I see some page history at Red 11. Looks like you need a WP:HISTMERGE, which requires administrator permissions, and I've requested this now. Cheers. — Andy W. ( talk ) 13:08, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
 * If the admin deems the pages to have had separate histories (which is defensible now that I look at this more closely) and is not mergeable, request the move at WP:RMT and follow the instructions there. If it gets challenged, it will move to a full requested move discussion. (I'm not active, and don't have the permissions to swap right now) — Andy W. ( talk ) 13:14, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

I prefer not to do a histmerge. I have requested for speedy deletion on the empty redirect. Under Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion, G6. Technical deletions, deleting redirects or other pages blocking page moves. The original redirect was for an incomplete, poorly sourced, version of Red 11, with different editing histories. I believe this method will be more efficient, so that once the empty redirect Red 11 is deleted, I can swiftly move Red 11 (film) in its place. Cardei012597 (talk) 19:03, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

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Clse RM script
Hi Andy, hope you're well, and sorry to bother you! I've been trying to install this script of yours, but it just hangs on the 'Installing' box. And my .js doesn't like the code if I try and add it manually. Any suggestions? Cheers! SN54129 16:10, 4 February 2022 (UTC)

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