User talk:Buffbills7701/Archive 1

Ninja
Did you want a userbox like this? Mat ty. 007 18:33, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Adminship
Many thanks for your note Buffbills, I am flattered, but for now I am far too busy in real life. Moonraker (talk) 02:37, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Reply
After once again going over it after seeing that other consoles not part of certain generations were placed in those templates due to the time of their release, I've decided to place the consoles back in the template. Nintendocan (talk) 20:22, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Admins
Admins, I have noticed that a certain IP address is creating "articles" on Template talk:Serbia-writer-stub. Should I attempt to speedy delete it per G2? Or should we take the "articles", and turn them into the AFC? buffbills (talk)
 * I took care of it. Thanks for the heads up.--v/r - TP 13:28, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Wycombe Boys
Hello, and thanks for taking an interest. Unfortunately the article you've found is also a hoax on a wiki that appears to allow such things. It says the team reached the last 16 of the UEFA Europa League, and were FA Cup runners up in 2012. These competitions are for major professional clubs, not boys teams. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 12:29, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

A brownie for you!

 * Thanks! buffbills (talk) 20:39, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: One True Vine
Hello Buffbills7701. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of One True Vine, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A9 does not apply if the artist has an article. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 02:20, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Guess I didn't fully read A9. Thought it was basically like A8. buffbills7701 02:23, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

ANI vs. AIV
Yo, Buffbills! Thanks for reporting the vandalizing IP; I've blocked. Just so you know, though, these kinds of things don't need to be reported at ANI; we actually have a specialized board for them at Administrator intervention against vandalism, or AIV for short. It's a little bit quicker and easier to report them there. No worries, though; thanks again! Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 14:00, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I'm kinda new here, so I didn't know that. buffbills7701
 * Yep! Like I said, it's no big deal; it happens a lot, and it gets admin attention either way, so it still works. Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 14:04, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Recruiting Center
Sounds good to me. I'll post the first steps over at WikiProject Good articles/Recruitment Centre/Recruiter Central/Archives/Buffbills7701 and we will go from there. Wizardman 15:21, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

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Secret Page
I found your secret page! Mat ty. 007 17:11, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Congrats! Your treat is coming right away. What treat would you like? buffbills (talk) 17:12, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * How did you reply before I posted the message??? Mat  ty  .  007  18:25, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
 * What do you mean? buffbills7701 19:55, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Whoops, I mis-read the times. Sorry! Mat  ty  .  007  20:29, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Some bubble tea for you!

 * Thanks! I thought that reviewing it was a bit hard, but once I got the hang of it, it was really easy.  Again, thanks! buffbills7701 01:08, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Just wanted to offer you two minor technical suggestions, if you don't mind. First, when you create a review, don't change the "reviewer" text up at the top; this confuses the bot that manually updates WP:GAN. Second, don't forget when promoting an article to add it to the main GAs list (not just the recent passes list), like so. Thanks again for your help in reviewing. I particularly appreciate your ambition in taking on some big topics! Those often sit in our queue for far too long. -- Khazar2 (talk) 13:28, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Scotland in the Modern era GA
Many thanks for your review of the article. I also appreciate you taking on some of these long articles.--  SabreBD  (talk ) 18:22, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I just want to get the longer ones out of the way so they don't have to wait 4 months before getting reviewed. buffbills7701

VisualEditor
Hey Buffbills7701,

I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :).

So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere.

What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default.

The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

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C.A. Peñarol GA Reassessment
I wanted to let you know I revised the article and copy-pasted the text to Word so as to check any typos and spanish words that could have remained. I corrected every mistake I saw. I reckon its prose is good enough to be GA, though I think those mistakes had to be corrected. I have also taken away unnecessary flag icons. I've replied saying this same thing, in Talk:C.A. Peñarol/GA2, but just wanted to make sure to inform you.—Nuno93 (talk) 03:06, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

GA reviews
Hey buffbills, I notice you closed another review today, Talk:Steve_B%C3%A9gin/GA1, and while I haven't dug into the validity of the complaints there yet, it looks like it may have been a bit hasty. I know you're training with User:Wizardman--could I suggest that you wait for him to comment before closing your next review? This is what the mentor system is there for, after all. It might avoid some conflict like the Eric/Drmies thread above to have an experienced user look at these and comment prior to closing. It's common for GA reviews to say open for one to two weeks while various points are being discussed, so there's no harm in waiting. I'm glad you're interested in the project, and hope you stick with it--I just think you should slow down a bit and get some second opinions while you're getting acculturated. Cheers, -- Khazar2 (talk) 17:32, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Replied on the mentor page, but agree with Khazar. That should not have been failed, so I undid that. Articles should only be failed if there's serious issues too great to address in a week. A couple unsourced sentences is entirely within the guidelines of a hold, and a writer could address those within an hour, realistically. Wizardman  17:40, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Revert at your talk page
Sorry for reverting you talk page. I saw that at huggle and became curious. Anyway that looked like personal attack and I reverted that. But that edit maybe gone to Gilliam cause I made a late. But never mind that was reverted. Happy editing. Also you are doing great. Go like this. Cheers.-- Pr at yya  (Hello!) 09:34, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

WikiCup 2013 June newsletter
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VisualEditor newsletter
Hey Buffbills7701. We've just rolled out a new version of the VisualEditor :). Changes and patches include:


 * Newly added templates now list their available parameters if TemplateData is available;
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 * Feedback dialog is no longer chased off the screen by typing (bug 50538)
 * Fixed the Monobook issues around z-indexes (bug 50241)
 * Undoing an image resize doesn't make everything look bad
 * In the image dialog, "Caption content" is now just "Caption"
 * Tweaked tooltip references to VisualEditor to instead talk about "source mode"

Those are the big ones; more coming at the end of this week or early next week :). It's a short list, but the load issue took up a lot of time, as did TemplateData, and are both pretty big changes. If you've got any questions, drop them on my talkpage. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 01:16, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

WP:MOTD
Hi buff, and welcome to the Motto of the day project! benzband ( talk ) 09:15, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Articles_for_creation/Marie-Françoise_Roy
Hello Buffbills7701 You have rejected the above suggested article, saying it lacks references. (Or reliable references). I would very much like to correct that, and have indeed tried a few times, but could you be more specific, please? I have linked to a portrait of Ms Roy, [http://www.ihes.fr/~carbone/papers/women.pdf| Women in mathematics. Why not you] where most of the facts may be found and to the list of presidents of the French math soc. for the fact that she was a president. Would it help with a reference to the interview [http://www.espace-sciences.org/archives/science/13583.html| Marie-Francoise Roy. Profession mathematicienne] (in French) LFajstrup (talk) 15:18, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, although it's too late for me to switch it. It already has been accepted. buffbills7701 16:38, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

thanks for approving my article
Thank you for approving my first article! How can I get the vandalism off my article?
 * I honestly don't know how to answer that for you. It is obviously not a hoax, because there are reliable sources, and I don't know what Mindy Dirt was thinking. buffbills7701 02:22, 8 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Could you post that it is not a hoax/vandalism on that particular talk page so that no one accidentally deletes it? Then, I've just read, all you have to do is remove the code that references the hoax/vandalism from my article.  You can do it but I can't do it on my own article.  If this doesn't make sense then let me know and I can explain it for you.

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GA reassessment of C.A. Peñarol
I do not believe that an article you listed earlier today, C.A. Peñarol, meets the GA criteria, and I have consequently opened a GA reassessment, which you can find here. Eric  Corbett  21:33, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree with this request. Eric's previous comment, which you removed here, can in no way be construed as a personal attack. Drmies (talk) 21:59, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * And seriously, you made that claim again, here--come on now. That article has problems, the GA review was not thorough enough, those are facts. Stating obvious facts is not an "attack". Drmies (talk) 22:00, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not arguing with the review, it's just the attack that really annoys me. He said that he's just stating the obvious, but as an old saying goes, "If you've got nothing nice to say, don't say it." buffbills7701 22:03, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Huh? He can't say nothing. Eric (and me too) is a Good Article writer and reviewer. If he sees an article that's listed as a GA and it does not meet the standards, how can he say nothing? It is not an attack. Drmies (talk) 22:07, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty positive that there is a nicer way to say it than basically, you stink. buffbills7701 22:08, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I didn't say that you stunk. I said your GA reviews are sub-standard, which they are. You rush them, you don't read the article properly, you insist on things that are not part of the GA criteria such as citations in the lead ... in short you're not a very good GA reviewer. And the consequence of that is that you make the GA process a laughing stock. Eric   Corbett  22:13, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * How about a deal. I take a short WikiBreak from GA, until I can be better at reviewing. Deal? buffbills7701 22:16, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * In what way would a short break magically transform you into a better GA reviewer? Here's a different deal. Let me help you with your next GA review. I'd also suggest that you might like to try writing a GA yourself before reviewing the work of others. Eric   Corbett  22:27, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll take your deal about helping me. I don't want to create one because I know how hard it is, and I really felt that C.A. Peñarol deserved the GA. Also, I'll just tell you that I'm too busy today to review another one. How about tomorrow? buffbills7701 22:33, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * You're rushing it again. Take some time to try and write a GA yourself. How can you assess the work of others if you've never done that work yourself? Eric   Corbett  22:37, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Fine. I'll try writing one. buffbills7701
 * GA reviews are hard. If they wouldn't be, we wouldn't have a backlog. Any help is much appreciated but, as Eric points out, it requires experience--which can be gained by writing and by studying the comments on one's writing. There's ins and outs (I pointed out the flag issue), and in this case the prose really wasn't up to par. It's not your fault that it wasn't, but you can't pass it without doing a really detailed review/copy edit. If it were me, I'd have turned it down for prose issues: just look at this edit I just made, and I'm not even convinced that I brought the level up to GA status, consistently. Lots of the ins and outs go well beyond that, and knowing that takes fairly intimate knowledge of WP:MOS (the earlier remark on citations in the lead are a case in point). I think that Eric and I both have a reputation for being hard-asses (or, in Dutch, "comma fuckers), but GA level requires that, in my opinion. The thing to do, if you want to continue reviewing (and again, we welcome the help), is to learn. I've been here for years and I'm still learning, and Eric is the best there is. (I'm not buttering him up--he don't need no more butter.) You made friends with Wizardman? Good--Wizardman is a pro as well. And feel free to ask us; you might not always hear what you want to hear, but we'll give it to you straight. Best, Drmies (talk) 22:49, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * C.A. Peñarol looks good to me, being a well informed football-soccer fan, but I don't really know what GA means. What's exactly the problem with it  Mr. Corbett?  Listing specific errors means something, but just saying your opinion is just that, your opinion.Fussballspieler11 (talk) 03:57, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Jordan Older
You just moved a terrible and promotional hoax from AfC to main space. Please check the log for the AfC page (here), and be more careful in the future. FYI, the article was turned down seven or eight times in a row, and it was no better than the piece of crap you just promoted to encyclopedic status. Mindy Dirt (talk) 01:42, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Just a curious onlooker here, but what makes you say this is a blatant hoax? The claims are sourced, and links like, , and seem like they'd be difficult to fake. -- Khazar2 (talk) 01:58, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
 * How's your Swedish? This has nothing, just that he at one point was a 33-year old soccer player who played in Brazil. This--well, it's not the New York Times, and it says nothing more than he "played professionally in Brazil and Europe, had founded King Sports Management and Ventura County FC to help young players realize their dream of playing professionally in Europe". And does that Brazilian site look reliable to you? Mindy Dirt (talk) 02:38, 8 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Dear Mindy, Actually it says "top division in Brazil" on an official professional Swedish team web site, and the Brazilian site Futebol Interior is the top news agency for the Sao Paulo area and one of the top news sources in Brazil, it is very reliable, very high reputation. There should be no question about the facts, I can understand if you don't like the way the article is written, but again it's my article, not yours and all the guidelines of Wikipedia noteablity are met.  Notability for Association Football is outlined here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28sports%29#Association_football and here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Football/Fully_professional_leagues and says: 2. Players who have appeared, and managers who have managed, in a fully professional league, will generally be regarded as notable. See a list of fully professional leagues kept by WikiProject Football.  The list of fully professional leagues list all 3 leauges (serie A in Brazil and serie A in sao paulo and USL Professional League) which there are official stats verifying the data in the article.  There is an abundance of evidence so I'm really perplexed as to why this article is being attacked by you when the facts are shown to be true in 2 news articles written in reputable newspapers, 2 official professional team web sites, 1 offical league game day report from the USL Professional League, and I found these additional references listing and backing up and corroborating the subject as appearing in the USL Professional Leauge:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Football/Fully_professional_leagues Defunct Leagues

Canadian Soccer League (1987–1992) (defunct) [70] (USSF Division 2 Professional League, USL First Division andUSL Second Division [70], and North American Soccer League[71] were also fully pro leagues, but are now defunct). Women's Professional Soccer (2009-2011) [72][dead link]; Women's United Soccer Association(2001–2003) (defunct) [73]; National Soccer League (1977–2004)[71][72][73][74]

http://soccerstats.us/bios/jordan-older/ and http://soccerstats.us/teams/san-diego-gauchos/stats/

The above two are not 100% complete because they didn't track the other teams overseas or even the other USL teams that the subject played for so I didn't include them in the list but do you really think that I created soccerstats.us and entered all statistics of all the players in the history of American soccer from 1986 to 2013 as a HOAX? Do you really think I hacked into the USL soccer league's official web site and planted the game day stats there? Do you really think I traveled to Brazil and the Palos Verdes News and planted two independent news articles in two different newspapers in two different countries that backup the claims? One reference should be enough, but I have over 10! Please give up your attack of my article and use some common sense and logic. Just take a look at some of the other soccer player articles from players in the 1990's (there are thousands in that category American Soccer Players, it looks like) 99% of them have far less references but are not being attacked so I'm wondering if someone has a personal agenda here? Just seems a little odd. This is my first article I've written and it's being attacked with a different reason every day since I wrote it, is this normal? Based on the daily negative attention the subject MUST be notable, ha ha :) I want to thank everyone who has taken time to think logically and support the article and hope you keep watching it for more of these harassing attacks that are based on thin air.  Thanks again everyone. Fussballspieler11 (talk) 02:16, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Adel Shirazy page
hello. i need your help for adel shirazy page. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Adel_Shirazy) all my sources are used in Farsi wikipedia as reliable sources. plz help me buffbills7701 ! - Adelsoft (talk) 13:38, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I feel that there just isn't enough information. What I meant to put was not enough context.  There just isn't enough to satisfy someone who doesn't know the topic. I also noticed that it didn't sound very encyclopedic. If you could fix those, I would happily accept it.buffbills7701 13:41, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
 * tnx ! but i think Adel Shirazy Fan page on Facebook is a good source for "known person" link = https://www.facebook.com/sensei.shirazy
 * plz help me ! What kind of resources can I add? For example, can I use Adel Shirazy link in Google Search ? tmx for every things - Adelsoft (talk) 14:11, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
 * You don't need more resources. That was my error.  You need just to expand the article a bit more, and change the wording into something more encyclopedic. buffbills7701 14:18, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Tnx ! I've changed it & expand ! Please check and verify if it is correct.
 * Thank you for your wonderful support. - Adelsoft (talk) 15:57, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

thanks again, but...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Older I hate to bother you but there is another note on the article I created. Could you remove it? The subject was one of the pioneers and most elite players in American soccer history and qualifies for notability "officially" based on the USL Pro Leauge official game day stats link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28sports%29#Association_football Players who have appeared, and managers who have managed, in a fully professional league, will generally be regarded as notable. See a list of fully professional leagues kept by WikiProject Football.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Football/Fully_professional_leagues Defunct Leagues

Canadian Soccer League (1987–1992) (defunct) [70] (USSF Division 2 Professional League, USL First Division andUSL Second Division [70], and North American Soccer League[71] were also fully pro leagues, but are now defunct). Women's Professional Soccer (2009-2011) [72][dead link]; Women's United Soccer Association(2001–2003) (defunct) [73]; National Soccer League (1977–2004)[71][72][73][74]

...

Brazil 	BRA 	CONMEBOL 	Campeonato Brasileiro Série A[17] 		Yes Campeonato Brasileiro Série B[17] 		Yes Campeonato Paulista Série A1[18][dead link]

The previously provided references are engouh but you can personally, maybe not officially, satisfy your own curiousity about the veracity of my article by looking at the additional references that I didn't think were good enough to include and there are some old newspaper clippings and photos on the subject's Facebook, these show even more professional teams and information about the player but it was never available online. I was able to email him and get him to place them under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license outlined at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. This was C.Fred's suggestion. I think you "can" use these pictures but they shouldn't be needed. He's also played in the Swiss Cup (which qualifies him as notable) and other fully professional teams in the USL but there are no records online because these were before the time of the Internet, but they are references in the articles on his Facebook. Thanks for your time (again) :) So I was wondering if you could delete the request for notability proof and keep a watch on my page for these hackers since you are the one who official approved my article in the first place? Fussballspieler11 (talk) 03:35, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter
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Good article reviewing
Hi, I saw one of your comments "GA on hold, lead is unsourced" which struck me as rather odd. you do realize that according to guidelines the lead shouldn't really be sourced? I suggest you read Manual of Style/Lead section to avoid making this easy mistake in future. Cheers, and happy reviewing!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld  10:17, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks! First barnstar I've gotten! buffbills7701 14:26, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Medopad article rejected
Hi Buffbills7701,

You have just rejected the article for Medopad. Could you perhaps give some more detailed reasons why? (i.e. which sentence you find not objective)

Thanks a lot in advance!
 * The company's strategic partners include Intel,InterSystems, and Vodafone. Investors are Sandbox, Bupa, Guys and St Thomas Charity, as well as Bayer. That sentence is very advertise-like, because it isn't very important, and, it just sounds like an advertisement. If you could fix that, I'm sure someone else will be able to accept it. buffbills7701 14:36, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Help me admin !!
hello ! thank you for every things ! plz check my page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Adel_Shirazy) and tell me more about how to verify it ! all informations on it are correct with sources ! i can expand it but i don't have enough source for additional information ! wikipedia users are not read carefully my article & just trust to previous user decision ! can you help me ? i need your help ! - Adelsoft (talk) 19:38, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Adelsoft, I'm not an admin. In fact, you can do every single thing I can right now.  I'll see if I can help you. buffbills7701 19:40, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

AFC/R
Thanks for helping with all my redirect requests! 2001:18E8:2:1020:2471:1719:86D3:F5A6 (talk) 20:57, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. buffbills7701 21:08, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Foul play
—————————→ User:GiantSnowman just deleted TWO important comments I made. I'm officially calling foul play now and would like him punished for this and my article protected. It's simply wrong and unfair to not allow another Wikipedia editor to have free comment on his own page. As far as I can tell he has no more rights than I do. Even if he is an admin I am calling foul play, unfair block of my freedom of speech, whatever its called on here. It's simple NOT OKFussballspieler11 (talk) 22:35, 10 July 2013 (UTC)


 * I explained my removal of your comments very clearly. I have not blocked your freedom of speech, stop over-reacting. Make your coometns again without introducing mass copies of copyrighted websites! I should not be punished for anything - and it's not your article in the slightest per WP:OWN. I suggest you read that and stop acting like only you have the rights to edit the article. GiantSnowman 22:39, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

VE newsletter
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 * Notices are now shown if you're editing a protected or semi-protected page (50415)
 * The template inspector will no longer invite you to insert parameters that are already being used (50715)
 * Same as above, but with aliases (50717)
 * Parameter names in the template dialogue now word-wrap (50800)
 * The link inspector will not show in the top left if you hit the return key while opening it (49941)
 * Hitting return twice in the link editor will no longer introduce a new line that overwrites the link (51075)
 * Oddly-named categories no longer cause corruption (50702)
 * The toolbar no longer occasionally covers the cursor (48787)
 * Changing the formatting of text no longer occasionally scrolls you upwards (50792)

Not specific bugs, but other things; cacheing is now improved, so people should stop seeing temporary breaking when the VisualEditor updates, and RTL support has received some patches. I hope this newsletter is helpful to people; I'll send out another one with the next deployment :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 10:03, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

But Pilger really does need a proper hair-cut!
Comrade, I've read "A Secret Country"... and on page 200 and whatever, Pilger appeared to presume that Princess Michael of Kent is a bloke. --Shirt58 (talk) 13:29, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Hey there
I've never used wiki before today, only have an account here. What's AFC? Thanks. Sidspyker (talk) 14:03, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Click on this link to find out. WP:AFC buffbills7701 14:21, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Ah, well... I think a better idea would be to put the article in my Sandbox until I finalize it with all the formatting, linking, etc, etc... but thank you for that, page is useful. Sidspyker (talk) 14:52, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

I-84 Exit numbers in Massachusetts
I undid a revision that you had done changing exit numbers on I-84 in Massachusetts. Someone had changed the exit numbers earlier this week to incorrect numbers and I changed them back to what the exit numbers are. I know these exits and the state of Massachusetts still lists them as 1, 2 & 3. I can take pictures of them if needed but I have no idea why you undid that edit. Can you substantiate that. Thanks! Dbroer (talk) 18:18, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

VE newsletter
Hey Buffbills7701! Another set of patches :). Today we have:


 * Required template parameters are now automatically added to new templates (50747)
 * Templates with piped links now display correctly when you alter them (50801)
 * If your edit token expires, you're now informed of it (50424).
 * You still won't be able to save - that's due to be fixed on Monday :).

More on Monday, I suspect. Hope you have a good weekend :). I should also have some news about the IP launch pretty soon. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 13:11, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

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The Rockets themselves haven't announced anything yet. There was a moratorium in place, so no one was formally signed until after July 10. They didn't officially sign Howard until today. Zagal e jo^^^ 01:33, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I just realized that it wasn't published today, so you would be right. Sorry. buffbills7701 01:36, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

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Please note also that  your  signature is redirecting to Lamest edit wars. Could you please correct  that  for me per WP:CUSTOMSIG and WP:SIG. Thanks. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 02:41, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Report
Welcome aboard! You can start by drafting some interview questions for our report on WikiProject Freedom of speech using this sandbox. For ideas about what to ask in your interview, check out our previous interviews and be sure to browse the WikiProject's page and talkpage. Let me know when your questions are ready and I'll show you how to invite participants to respond. The interview with WikiProject Freedom of speech is currently scheduled to run August 7. Once you have your first interview under your belt, you can start picking your own topics. –Mabeenot (talk) 22:43, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
 * OK. Thanks! I'll start doing it once I get a chance to. buffbills7701 00:12, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Some feedback on your questions: You first question is good, however the followup "Can you describe exactly what your WikiProject does" may be a little blunt. Something like "please describe your project's goals" would be friendlier. I don't think you need the definite article "the" before "freedom of speech" in the third and fourth sets of questions. You may want to expand the questions about the freedom of speech category, perhaps by asking how the categorization aids in building these articles and what tasks still need to be done to flesh out the categorization.


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VE newsletter
Hey Buffbills7701; hope you had a decent weekend :). We've got a pile of patches, some of which went out on Monday, some yesterday:


 * If you insert wikitext such as links or section headers, you get a notice in the top right corner (over the save button). It doesn't go away until click, though once dismissed you don't get another one that edit. (49820)
 * If your edit token expires, VE fetches a new one for you so you can save. (50424)
 * If the page is empty of content but does have something non-content (like a category or an HTML comment), VE no longer crashes on load - (50289)
 * sub tags are no longer removed ((49873)
 * If you type at the end of links, they now extend
 * Templates now only take a single click to insert
 * Clear annotations clears links (50461)
 * The link inspector stays open when you click to another item (50895)
 * Typing after multi-byte characters no longer creats pawn icons (51140)
 * Resizing thumbnails that have a default size set now works (50645)
 * References made by tag:ref now display properly (50978)
 * The VE is integrated with the spam blacklist (50826)
 * Feedbacl link goes to the right language (47730)

There are a lot more improvements coming, but that's it for Monday and Tuesday. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 08:13, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

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VE newsletter
Hey Buffbills7701. The newest updates: Along with some miscellaneous language support fixes. That's all for today; as always, let us know if you spot more bugs. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:48, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Links now don't extend over space/punctuation/workbreaks when you type (51463)
 * Users with the "minoredit" preference set get working functionality (51515)
 * You can tab to buttons in dialogs, including the save dialog (50047)
 * We now show the (or ) message as an edit notice (51459)
 * You can scroll dialog panels like in transclusions' templates' parameter listings (51739)
 * Templates that only create meta-data and no display content at all (like Template:Use dmy dates) now can't be deleted accidentally or deliberately, but still don't show up (51322)
 * FlaggedRevisions integration (49699)
 * Edit summary will get the section title pre-added if you launched from a section edit link (50872)

Ping
Hey, thanks for commenting on my RFA. I'm not sure if you saw the follow up comment, so I thought I'd let you know the edit count is actually 7442. (The 2600 number being thrown around above was contributions to article space only.) ~Adjwilley (talk) 23:00, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

WP:REDACT
Hi Buffbills, I reverted the change to your own comment on Requests for adminship/Adjwilley. Normally, this is fine to do except that another editor already made a reply to your opinion, and changing your initial opinion makes the reply look nonsensical. It's best, in this case, to use tags or make another reply below so as to not deprive the original context of the comment per WP:REDACT. I, Jethrobot drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 00:52, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

History of AlphaLAW products
Hi there! You have reviewed and declined a new article I have written on the history of AlphaLAW. I think you comment was something along the the lines of reads like marketing rather than an encyclopaedia entry. I would disagree especially as this is history and not a current product. All of the references are to external publications such as The Law Society of England and Wales. There are no references from AlphaLAW as it does not have anything from itself published on the web.

Please can you review the article again bearing in mind that it is not a sales piece (as this stuff is no longer sold) and all of the references are from respected publications and NOT from either MSS or AlphaLAW which are no longer trading.

Many thanks.

AfC!
Hey, Buffbills, and welcome to AfC. I'm the  one  sean , and you'll see me around AfC and the Teahouse a lot. First off, thanks so much for spending your time on Wikipedia, and especially on AfC. However, it's generally good policy not to re review the same article over and over, like you did with AlphaLAW. It's fine, no harm done, just wanted to inform you about it for future endeavors. That said, I wanted to give you this.

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Hello!
Hello Buffbills7701! Thanks for the cookies :P So you showed up at a perfect time. I have had trouble figuring out when and how to change the title of a wiki article after consensus is reached. If you could help me this would be great. Thanks in advance. Youssefbassil6 (talk) 20:06, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
 * There should be a drop-down list next to the watchlist star, and if you put your mouse over it, there should be an option saying move. Click on that and then change it to where you want it to be. You should only switch it if it is an obvious mistake. If it's not, and you would like a consensus, report it here. For more, see this page too. buffbills7701 21:06, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2013 July newsletter
We're halfway through this year's penultimate round, and the competition is moving along well. Pool A's currently leads overall, while Pool B's  is second. Both leaders are WikiCup veterans, and both have already scored over 600 points this month. If the round were to end today,, with 274 points, would be the lowest-scoring participant to make it through. This indicates that participants will need a score comparable to last year's (573, the highest ever) to qualify for the final. The high scores this year are a testament both to the quality of participants and to the increased focus on significant content (eligible for bonus points) in this year's competition. So far this round, both Sasata and have made up over half of their score through bonus points, with, for example, high importance FA koala earning Sasata a total of 440 points (from a multiplier of 4.4) and high-importance GA sea earning Cwmhiraeth a total of 216 points (from a multiplier of 7.2). Other articles on important topics submitted this round include a featured article on the Norman conquest of England by, and good articles on Nobel laureate in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz, Nobel laureate in physics Hans Bethe, and the noted Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū. These articles are by, and Sturmvogel_66 respectively.

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I see that your interview with WikiProject Freedom of Speech is set for publication. Congrats! Have you had time to think about which WikiProject you would like to interview for your next WikiProject Report? Finding an active project can be difficult. You'll also want to keep in mind that we want to avoid doing the same projects over and over again except in cases where the project is extremely active. Come up with a few ideas, check to see if we've interviewed them before, and then let me know what you want to do. If you need any help picking a project, just let me know. –Mabeenot (talk) 02:36, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

Advice regarding CSD:G13
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VisualEditor newsletter for 06 August 2013
It's been almost two weeks since the last newsletter, and a lot of improvements have been made during that time. The main things that people have noticed are significant improvements to speed for typing into long pages, scrolling and deleting  on large pages. There have also been improvements to references, with the latest being support for list-defined references, which are s defined inside a block. Users of Opera 12 and higher have had their web browser removed from the browser black-list, mostly as a result of work by a volunteer developer. Opera has not been fully white-listed yet, so these users will get an additional warning and request to report problems.

Significant changes were made to the user interface to de-emphasize VisualEditor. This has cut the use of VisualEditor by approximately one-third. You can read about these at VisualEditor/Updates/August 1, 2013, but they include:


 * Re-ordering links to the editors to put "Edit source" first and VisualEditor second
 * Renaming the link for VisualEditor to "Editbeta"
 * Disabling the animation for section editing.
 * Changing all labels for the classic wikitext editor to say "Edit source", regardless of namespace.

There have also been many smaller fixes, including these:


 * Horizontal alignment of images working correctly on more pages
 * Categories with ':'s in their names (like Category:Wikipedia:Privacy) now work correctly
 * Magic JavaScript gadgets and tools like sortable tables will now work once the page is saved
 * Keyboard shortcut for "clear annotations" - now or
 * Fixed corruption bugs that led to duplicate categories and improper collapsing when multiple new references were added in a row.
 * Improvements to display elements: The save dialog in Monobook is restored to normal size, pop-up notices on save now look the same in VisualEditor as in wikitext editor , and the popup about using wikitext has a link to the definition of wikitext that now opens in a new window

Most of the Wikimedia Foundation staff is traveling this week and next, so no updates are expected until at least August 15th. If you're going to be in Hong Kong for Wikimania 2013, say hello to James Forrester, Philippe Beaudette, and the other members of the VisualEditor team.

As always, if you have questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at VisualEditor/Feedback and ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 23:22, 6 August 2013 (UTC)