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 * Also to this question.— Vchimpanzee  •  talk  •  contributions  •  20:39, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I appreciate the helpful guidance. Buffaboy  talk 20:43, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Utica, New York
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File:Seal of Utica-Vector.svg
Do you know when the seal was created? Also, has the seal been officiated? I could not find sources verifying it other than a television screenshot. --George Ho (talk) 15:33, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I think what I'll do is email someone in the city gov't or historical society this week and come back with an answer if that's OK. Buffaboy  talk 17:05, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

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What do you likt to write about the most? Camille (talk) 04:43, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi, I primarily create and write content for Upstate New York and American cities. In fact, I just updated my userpage today, it has a lot of what I enjoy writing about there. If you have more question, I'm happy to answer! Buffaboy  talk 04:49, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of SkyscraperCity
Hello Buffaboy,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged SkyscraperCity for deletion, because it seems to be inappropriate for a variety of reasons.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Mr RD (talk) 09:03, 20 May 2015 (UTC)


 * And I just wanted to let you know that I, having been aware of Skyscraper City for well over a decade, have added two news sources and declined this tag. I noticed you are fully aware the article has been to AfD more than a few times and are making steps to stop round 4, so I'll do what I can to assist there. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  11:20, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Well that was fast. CSD is inappropriate when surely it could be improved. In fact, I would bet that it has better citations than its previous revisions. Thanks for the decline. Buffaboy  talk 16:51, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

I'm confused
Hi Buffaboy. I'm a bit confused about what happened within the past hour (around 1:00-2:00 AM  2015-MAY-22). I get the feeling you did something by accident and then undid it, but I'm not sure. Could you please elaborate on exactly what you did/undid. Please note I'm not upset or angry or anything like that; I just want to make sure I understand what happened. Richard27182 (talk) 06:08, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Helli, I was looking at a recent changes list and noticed you removed content from an article. What I didn't notice at the time was that you were editing your sandbox. I'm not experienced with reading the recent changes, but if that edit was in the main space, it may have been vandalism. Either way sorry for the misunderstanding! Buffaboy  talk 06:14, 22 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi Buffaboy. No problem.  I just wanted to make sure I understood what had happened, and I do appreciate your explaining it.  Thank you. Rich Richard27182 (talk) 06:29, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
 * No problem, and happy editing! Buffaboy  talk 12:35, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

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Richard27182 needs your advice.
Hi Buffaboy. Remember me? I'm the one whose sandbox you accidentally altered and then fixed. (Don't worry, that was never a problem.)  The reason I'm writing is I need your advice. I'm trying to correct an error in an article. I made the appropriate correction, which was promptly reverted. Rather than getting involved in an "editing war," I contacted the reverter and tried to work something out, but to no avail. So I started a discussion on the article's talk page. All I ask of you is to check it out and weigh in with your opinion. The talk page is Talk:Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945 film). Thanks! Richard27182 (talk) 09:53, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
 * , I think you can WP:BEBOLD and revert their edit once more now that you have a detailed description on the article talk page. You need to be careful doing this however as you can breach the 3-edit revert rule. Good luck, Buffaboy  talk 15:08, 6 June 2015 (UTC).

VisualEditor News #3—2015
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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools, as well as fixing many bugs and changing some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

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Second opinion on grammar question
Hi Buffaboy,

I posted a section to Talk:List of nuclear reactors about how to correct grammatical issues on that page, and I am looking for more input on whether the page should be changed according to my suggestions. As a copy editor, do you have anything to say about it?

Thanks! Mechanic1c (talk) 19:58, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Buffaboy talk 14:01, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Editor of the Week
User:John from Idegon submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I am honored to nominate User Buffaboy for this Award. He has a solid body of work, mostly relating to the human geography of New York State. The exemplary thing that led me to nominate him is his work on a really difficult (due to the SPA editors there) article, Utica, New York. He kept his cool in a hostile talk environment, requesting assistance at ANI when he needed it. His ANI posting would make a great textbook example!. He has since single handedly taken the article to a point where he filed for a GA review the end of April. I leave him for your consideration. As if that were not enough, he has begun the process of trying to take Fort Wayne, Indiana, quite out of his comfort zone, to GA. John from Idegon (talk) 06:46, 27 April 2015 (UTC). This nomination was seconded by User:L235 and User:Buster7.

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Thanks again for your efforts! . Buster Seven   Talk  12:07, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Unbelievable! I had no idea such an award like this even existed, nor would I have thought I would receive one; I'm humbled. I joined a about 4 years ago just to play around with Wikipedia, and I started a WikiProject in 2012. Last year I went off to Utica, and noticed its article, which I thought could be improved to look like WP:USCITIES. As I was doing this, as John from Idegon pointed out, we had an SPA problem which caused me to overreact and manually undo each edit. I soon discovered rollback and revision revert, and used them to my advantage. Sections of the article felt bloated without citations. I trimmed them down, and in the process of rebuilding them, I noticed the article's "further reading" section was actually a list of general references! I would use these the next few months and the rest is history. Once again, thanks to everyone who supported me for this award and also thanks to, who commended me early in the process and kept a watchful eye over the article before the vandalism. My work isn't done either, there are plenty more New York State geography and place articles to improve! Buffaboy  talk 14:01, 7 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your contributions and congratulations on the award! L235 (t / c /  ping in reply ) 17:17, 7 June 2015 (UTC)


 * You certainly deserve this. Glad to be a small bit of help to your Utica work. The credit tho is all yours. Keep up the great work, and thanks for extending your efforts to the state I hail from, Indiana! John from Idegon (talk) 07:38, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

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Utica, New York
Regarding your post on my talk page, there is one thing I forgot to mention. Although it's great that there are so many images in the article, there may be a few too many. I reformatted where I could so the text isn't sandwiched between images, but you may want to remove a few. All the best,  Mini  apolis  00:27, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Good advice, thanks. Buffaboy  talk

Proposed deletion of Gibraltar Industries


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Proposed deletion of Gibraltar Industries


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Wiknic for Buffalo?
User:Mitchazenia has started a proposal to have a Wiknic in Buffalo, New York. You can add your comments here: Wiknic for Buffalo?. BuffaloBob (talk) 15:08, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Utica, New York
So first, I wanted to give you my immense thanks for your work on the Utica, New York article. Before you got there the civic boosters and trolls had turned it into such a mess that it read like "utica is the bestest city in the world AND IT'S FULL OF DIRTY ITALIANS AND CRIMINALS". It was in the back of my mind to fix it, but I never had the time to perform the full rewrite that it needed. So, thank you for rewriting it, and for your contributions to the WikiVoyage page as well.

I hope you didn't take the edits that I made personally. I should have realized that with all the vandalism and bad faith editing that the page had been experiencing, there was potential for my edits to be read the wrong way. Be assured that I'm as interested in improving the page as you are. Like I said, your work is good, and the changes I'd like to make are minor. I am a local, but I try to stay realistic about the place.

Here's a citation for the assertion about Utica being a classical name: Grafton, Anthony; Most, Glenn W; Settis, Salvatore (2010) "Names". The Classical Tradition. Harvard University Press. p620. ISBN:978-0-6740-3572-0. It's available on Google Books. In the interest of averting an edit war, I won't add it myself right now.

Again, thank you for your work. -Apocheir (talk) 22:15, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I thank you for the large edit you made a few years ago to restructure the article to make it a little better than it looked at the time. It was pretty courageous, because the trolls are out to destroy the article. It just needed a lot of work and I had too much free time to work on it. And remember, nobody owns Wikipedia Your deletions were in good faith. Buffaboy  talk 22:19, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

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 * Why thank you very much! I didn't expect this, I'm humbled. Buffaboy  talk 01:13, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

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VisualEditor News #4—2015
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 * Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at VisualEditor/IME Testing if you can help.
 * If your wiki would like VisualEditor enabled on another namespace, you can file a request in Phabricator. Please include a link to a community discussion about the requested change.
 * Please file requests for language-appropriate "" and "" icons for the styling menu in Phabricator.
 * The design research team wants to see how real editors work. Please sign up for their research program.
 * The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, usually on Tuesdays at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings.  You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q1 blocker, though.  Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact Elitre directly, so that she can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:01, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

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