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 * Thank you very much. :) -- Dalba (talk) 17 Mordad 1391/ 14:08, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

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Stefan2 (talk) 22:46, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

آیا در ویکیپدیای انگلیسی خرابکاری نمیشود؟
با سلام و احترام دوستان عزیز آیا به علت بی حوصلگی خودمان دوستان گل ایرانی را از ویرایش باز داریم. تنها علت اینکه نمی توان با ای پی ایران وارد شد خراب کاری است باتشکر — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rafayaa (talk • contribs) 07:43, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi, please speak English or leave a message on my talk page on Persian Wikipedia. Also please explain what has happened, I have no clue what you are talking about. Thanks. -- Dalba 14 Mordad 1392/ 07:55, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

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Deleting Farhad Mahdavi
Hi, The article Farhad Mahdavi is in good mode I think and there is no reason for deleting it, It have good and strong sources. please advice Tranceman2000 (talk) 05:31, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

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ITN for Mahafarid Amir Khosravi
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Mahafarid Amir Khosravi
I see you are interested in Mahafarid Amir Khosravi. Any chance you could help expand the English article by translating from the well-referenced Persian article? It looks there is some interesting/useful material there based on a rough machine translation, but I'm not confident enough in the translation to add the material myself.

Also, this discussion may be of interest to you.

Thanks, ThaddeusB (talk) 20:29, 24 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I tried to translate a few more lines. Unfortunately many links in the Persian article are dead and some information in the article are somewhat technical and I'm afraid I may not be able to give an accurate translation. Anyway, thanks for correcting my grammatical errors, I really appreciate it. Dalba 23:30, 24 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks, that was very helpful - the background material was precisely what I was most interested in. I have a couple questions.


 * Does "در گزارشی آمده‌است که وی دویست و نودمین ثروتمند جهان می‌بود.[۵][۶" say that he was the 219th richest person in the world?
 * "همچنین سرمایه آغازین «شرکت توسعه سرمایه‌گذاری امیرمنصور آریا» در ۲۸ خردادماه ۱۳۸۵ برابر با ۵۰ میلیون تومان بوده که بر اساس صورت جلسه هیئت مدیره همین شرکت در تاریخ ۳۰/۱۱/۱۳۸۷ به ۲۰ میلیارد تومان افزایش پیدا کرده‌است. [۹] [۱۰]" - The machine translation suggest this says in 2006 the company was worth US$50 million and by 2008 it worth 20 billion Rupees. I suspect at least one of the currency translations is wrong. What does it actually say?
 * --ThaddeusB (talk) 00:31, 25 May 2014 (UTC)


 * That's right. The Alef website has compared Khosravi's wealth with Forbes list of wealthiest people in the world and concludes that he would be 219th richest person. (2012/04/08)
 * Actually both currencies are wrong. On 2006/06/18 it was worth 50 million Tomans and on 2009/02/18 the value was increased to 20 billion Tomans (×400). Both source links are dead but I found which provide the same information. Dalba 01:14, 25 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I figured the currency was wrong, but had no way of knowing what was correct.  The article is looking really good now. --ThaddeusB (talk) 03:01, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Yadkard Tool
Dear Dalba, It seems that the Yadkard citation tool doesn't work for the Noor library (or RTL test, I guess). Is there any possibility for me to install the Toolserver version for myself? gratefully, Taha (talk) 23:23, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for reporting the issue. It should be fixed now. Nonetheless note that the resultant sfn's citation style may be inconsistent with the standard style of on Persian Wikipedia.
 * Running the Toolserver version on your PC sure is possible, but I think it isn't worth it. The code is too old and does not include many of the features included in the current version...
 * Can't promise, but I may be able to setup another Persian version of Yadkard on WMFLabs by the end of August (or maybe sooner if all goes well). Regards Dalba 09:27, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, it works now. It will be great if you setup the Persian version, too. Regards, Taha (talk) 15:29, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

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Question about story and usage of yadkard / yadfa
Hi, I'm auditing tools I can find that help with citations and references. In doing so, I stumbled upon yadkard via wikitech and am curious about the story behind the bot, especially if yadfa is in use on the Farsi wiki! If you have any information about usage for either bot, I would love to know more. Thanks a lot, Mattsenate (talk) 01:21, 21 October 2014 (UTC).
 * Hi, As you already know this is a bot to create Wikipedia citations. I wrote it because I found creating citations a boring task that most users, even some experienced ones, are not willing to follow. . . (Creating shortened footnotes can be even trickier). At first it only supported Google books URLs, but was gradually extended to other websites, especially some Persian websites that provided a standard RIS, BibTex or EndNote output. Later the code was extended to include DOIs, ISBNs, and other websites. The program is open source and the source code is available at https://github.com/5j9/yadkard under GPL3 license.
 * About the usage, I really don't follow statistics, but now that you asked I looked at the access log and it seems that yadfa script is being invoked nearly 10-20 times a day, which probably is far less than what one would expect, but given our smaller community and the fact that I have not promoted it much and many users don't know about it, it makes sense.
 * There are some suggestion to create an API so JavaScript citation tools on fawiki can directly use the output and facilitate it's usage, but because I'm not good at JavaScript—actually I'm not a professional programmer, just doing this as a hobby—these have mostly remained suggestions.
 * I hope these information were helpful. :) -- Dalba 29 Mehr 1393/ 03:33, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

User:AnomieBOT/shutoff/DeletionSortingCleaner‎
It seems odd to stop the bot when your complaint is that it wasn't removing an entry from a deletion sorting page, rather than just raising the issue on the bot's talk page.

The problem turned out to be that this edit changed the bit of the substed template that the bot looks for to decide if the discussion was closed. I've updated it now. Anomie⚔ 12:23, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, sorry. I was actually looking for the bot's talk page. I don't know how I've ended up submitting the message there. My apologies, won't happen again. Dalba 26 Esfand 1393/ 13:24, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
 * That page is linked from the bot's edit summaries, which is probably how you got there. The intention of that page is to be able to stop the bot if it is making damaging edits. Thanks for reporting the problem, it must have been happening since 2013 and no one else noticed! Anomie⚔ 11:16, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks, dear Farid. But I have to say that I'm not an administrator. Dalba 09:50, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

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tools.wmflabs.org/citer : 404 Not Found
Hi Dalba, I simply assume you and https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dalba are the same, aren't you? I don't have an account on wikitech.wikimedia.org (and account creation is currently disabled), so I cannot contact you over there. I would really love to see citer working, as that is a wonderful tool. I have been getting this 404 for a while now. Would you please have a look! I hope it's only a little thing and easy to solve. Thanks in advance! YCH2277 (talk) 22:26, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, YCH2277! Thanks for notifying me about the issue. https://tools.wmflabs.org/citer/ is working for me right now. Maybe it's been a temporary issue? Dalba 02:26, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi Dalba, thanks for looking into the issue! Would you please try this link for me:
 * https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/04/11/transparent-creator-jill-soloway-reveals-fate-of-jeffrey-tambors-maura/
 * YCH2277 (talk) 23:09, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
 * When I open the link in my browser it shows "HTTP 502 — Unable to Connect to the Origin Server" error. It is not surprizing that Citer is not able to generate a meaningful citation either. I don't think there is much I can do here. Also Citer currently can not generate citation for any web page that requires JavaScript.
 * Dalba 01:45, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I just tried that link in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Works in all 3 of them. But I do not inhibit JavaScript in any of them.
 * Are you saying, that as soon as citer's HTML parser encounters JavaScript code, it does not skip it but give up on the entire web page? Oh, what a pity! Thanks anyway! YCH2277 (talk) 13:33, 18 April 2019 (UTC)