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Proposed deletion of File:CydeWeys RefConv.png


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Edit summary incorrectly links to CFDS
Hi Cyde, recent edits such as show Cydebot using the edit summary "Speedily moving category… per CFDS" for cases that were not speedy, and appear to be properly listed by MER-C here  under the heading ;Categories for discussion/Log/2019 May 23

I can't see anything wrong with MER-C's listing.

Please check Cydebot's coding for the attribution. It is linking correctly to the CFD log for deletions, but seems to be stating "Speedily" for all moves/merges. Here e.g. Category:Thai desserts was also incorrectly recorded by Cydebot as speedy; see correct listing at CFDW. – Fayenatic  L ondon 14:06, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

Fixed it. This change was the cause, because it changed the section header for moves (by one character). I've modified the bot to allow the presence of a comma there and it's correctly picking up moves now. Perhaps not everyone realizes that WP:CFDW is in machine-readable format, and that seemingly trivial layout/formatting changes aren't. -- Cyde Weys  16:21, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

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Category:Alumni of Hospitalfield House
Hi, I have removed the remains of a speedy template from Category:Alumni of Hospitalfield House which was left by Cydebot in 2015. Please could you let me know if I should have left it (and why). The text was:


 * TSventon (talk) 08:21, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, you were right to remove it.
 * For a period of time, CydeBot was blanking one line of the cfr-speedy template, in this case, instead of removing all six lines.
 * Looking at other Cydebot edits in category namespace on the same day in 2015, with a character change of about -100, I see that more categories still have the template lines, e.g. Category:Glacial erratics of Oregon and Category:Frisians. The lines do not do much harm, but cause (i) extra white space at the top of the page and (ii) confusion to editors such as yourself.
 * There were others that were left at the time with the template lines, but those have since been removed in other edits (e.g., manual; double removal by Cydebot after a later re-nomination).
 * Cyde, is there any way you could trace and remove those dud lines left behind by Cydebot? can you at least figure out the range of dates concerned? I note that we discussed this before (User_talk:Cyde/Archive029, User_talk:Cyde/Archive030) but it seems to be a more widespread issue than we thought. Note that it did not end after that discussion in 2014.
 * might you have any suggestions for how to trace & remove them?
 * – Fayenatic  L ondon 09:37, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I used some insource searches to find remaining parts of the substituted CFD templates. I think I got them all, but let me know if there is anything outstanding. (I am not watching this page, so please ping me if you want my attention.) —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 02:30, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

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Hello, I was recently patrolling some "Wikipedia:__" pages, and I noticed that the first part of the " Userbox" article was changed into arabic from (I'm guessing something from the Quran?). As I do not have rollback rights, I decided to contact an admin to see if they could potentially do something about this (and maybe check the page to see if it needs future protection).

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Where do Yearbooks fall under Copyright laws?
I'm interested in uploading a photograph of my high school, Scotia-Glenville Senior High School in Schenectady County, New York, to the school's page. I'd also like to use it on my sandbox (I plan on using my sandbox as an outline for an art project). The problem is, I do not know where yearbooks fall under copyright laws. Could you help? --Daniel Jackson 2001 (talk) 23:28, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

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I blocked Cydebot since it was emptying and deleting the categories listed at WP:CFDW#Retain even though they were not in the "Empty then delete" section. If you update the script or disable the task and want Cydebot unblocked, please let me know. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 04:37, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of File:ChimpThinker.jpg


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Hi there! In your edits to the article Homeric simile, you included the sentence "In the words of Peter Jones, Homeric similes 'are miraculous, redirecting the reader's attention in the most unexpected ways and suffusing the poem with vividness, pathos and humour.'" This quote was flagged as needing a reference, which is true, but the intro to the quote ("in the words of Peter Jones") is identical word-for-word with the analysis in this essay: https://www.studymode.com/essays/Homeric-Vs-Virgilian-51926663.html. Was this intentional, and is there anything that I can do to help?Kokopelli7309 (talk) 17:37, 13 November 2020 (UTC)User:Kokopelli7309

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