User talk:Billinghurst/Archives/2015/January

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Reply to Need to listen
Hello, Thank you for telling me. I apologize for all that. I hope you do not make it to the blacklist domain. I just want to add some information in the web page to the reader wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tazrif (talk • contribs) 14:53, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for getting back to me. Reading those pages is important. This is an encyclopaedia, not a a collection of links, so we should always hesitate with adding an external link that is not a reference, we need to test the value of the link, and ask does it really improve the article. — billinghurst  sDrewth  15:00, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks response. I am new to wikipedia editing and I am just exploring how to add stuff and citation on the page. I didn't realize people will respond and revert my changes so quickly. I hope you could give me some tolerance and I will try my best editing the page

How can you remove the history.
Hi Billinghurst,

Are administrators allowed to remove the history off the articles that have been edited.

If yes, could you do me a favor

Could you skim through any car articles and see the posts that User:EurovisionNim did between 7th July-23 September and wipe out the contributions that he did please.

Do you best and if you can't don't bother

60.224.249.55 (talk) 09:43, 16 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Administrators can undertake revision deletion per the guideline. If you believe that there are edits that need such actions then please follow the process indicated on that page. — billinghurst  sDrewth  10:03, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

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Overlinking?
You removed a bunch of links from the Korra page that I'd added as "overlinking." They were unique within the article (and were also kind of placeholders pending a List of Characters from Legend of Korra page (or expanded Avatar Universe Characters page), so ... why is that overlinking? (I am not aware of a style guide to this effect, but there are so many styleguides that I don't even know. Is there one here? Other Avatar Universe pages seemed to be linked like that, so I followed suit.) Solarbird (talk) 05:28, 17 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Links are for pertinence to the article, and in the infobox linking all those descriptive words which were pertinent to the other articles, but not that article. If the other articles are like that they too are overlinked, and it was becoming a blue sea. Please see WP:OVERLINK. Multiple linking to the same page is unnecessary and it would have been better to have a universal link to the list of characters to the page in a SEE ALSO section at the tail of the article. — billinghurst  sDrewth  05:46, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

User talk:Zero0000
There was another personal attack left at User talk:Zero0000 which has now been reverted - here, so it looks like a couple more revisions need to be hidden. Squinge (talk) 12:41, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

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Thomas Thomas (surgeon)
I was wondering if this guy had an obituary in a Sydney newspaper. I'm drawing an almost entire blank otherwise in verifying his existence. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:18, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Not many obits come through regular newspapers these days, and I think that a professional journal. where it is more likely if he had been a fellow of the RACS, so you may try and contact them . I see an image here. Too late for death records (stop 1985 for NSW). Family history data is a NULL.


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 * — billinghurst  sDrewth  11:31, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

OK, thanks. I'm working on Wikidata and these unreferenced articles that come by can turn out to be hoaxes. The photo suggests not ... Charles Matthews (talk) 11:48, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

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