User talk:Derek R Bullamore/Archive 17

Justin Bieber
HELLO! I hope you don't completely reject this request or laugh in my face. But is it possible for Justin Bieber to be out under the category of Prince of Pop - here's why I think he deserves it

Every song off his debut EP, My World charted on the Billboard Hot 100.Youngest artist to have a #1 on the Billboard 200 albums for a debut album (My World 2.0), it then sold over 5 million copies. Nominated for 2 Grammys at the age of 16, one of the youngest artists to be nominated, and for his debut album. Youngest artist to be on the cover of the Rolling Stone magazine, which is quite an accomplishment. February 2011 his 3-D documentary 'Never Say Never' was released to theaters and was one of the most successful and highest grossing documentaries of all time. Under the Mistletoe, his Christmas album complete with several celebrity guest duets, e.g. Mariah Carey, one of the highest album selling artists of all time. For all the copies sold of this album he donated a large amount of the funds to the Make-A-Wish foundation. The album sold over 2 million copies. I'm 2012 he releases his 3rd studio album, Believe, it sold 374,000 copies in the first week and has sold over 5 million copies now. The lead single off the album, Boyfriend, sold over 500,000 copies in the first week of its release, which is the second highest first week sales for a single by a male artist. In 2013 he received the Diamond Award for his hit single 'Baby' being 12x Platinum Certified for sales and streams making it one, if not the most sold and streamed song of all time in the U.S. The music video for 'Baby' has over 1.1 billion views on YouTube and is the most viewed video of all time on VEVO. Throughout his career he has been nominated for 309 awards and has won 191. He was the youngest artist and the only artist to have 3 #1 albums before the age of 18, 5 #1 albums before the age of 19 and 6 #1 albums before the age of 20. He won the Champ Of Charity Award at the 2014 Young Hollywood Awards for being the most charitable artist of all time, (He donated $545,000 at the amFAR event towards an AIDS foundation. This isn't even half the success he has had in his career. When an artist/musician as young as he is does this, you can't deny it is complete success.


 * Absolutely marvellous... but, unsigned editor, your exact point in relation to Wikipedia is ?? - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 15:03, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

You might have a look here
…at a bloke in trouble…. 71.239.87.100 (talk) 04:08, 11 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Not really. I am happy to champion the underdog, and the inexperienced editor, but his actions are contrary to Wikipedia editing guidelines.  Anyhow, why are you involving me ? Derek R Bullamore (talk) 15:03, 16 May 2015 (UTC)


 * How were they contrary? No need to answer, water under the bridge. Contacted you because of known history of fair-mindedness. Cheers. Le Prof 71.201.62.200 (talk) 21:47, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

My reason for tagging
Hello Derek R Bullamore. I have re-tagged the article People reported to be born in the Kaaba because the refereces are still not satisfactorily edited. For more information please read the templates page. The references have to either use parenthesis or numbering. On an article page we have to maintain a consistent referencing style. The introduction section contains a lot of references which fit neither system. If you correct these issues then please do remove the tag. Regards. Mbcap (talk) 20:41, 16 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Fair enough - I will leave the article to you (and others). - Derek R Bullamore (talk)

Fairfax Field
Recommend you check your dates the WASP were assigned against the date the entire WASP program was deactivated. Your dates may be off by a year or more. The NAA PLANT was not known by the 1944 plant code NC. it was known as NAA K OR KC AND THE b-25D were stencil ed as NA. moreover the plant was built for the B-29 program as evidenced by the High Bay. B-25 production was substitued when Renton was assign to the '29 program instead. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1002:B007:ACE8:A379:60B2:3C97:E8C8 (talk) 01:53, 3 June 2015 (UTC)


 * I could do. However, your knowledge of the subject matter is clearly far greater than mine - hence, be bold ! - Derek R Bullamore (talk)

Vilde Frang
You tagged that BLP for lack of sources, but probably mean inline citations. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:29, 18 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Yeah - wrong tag applied ! I have changed it now. Cheers - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 20:31, 18 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Like her playing! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:54, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

List of Hull Kingston Rovers players II
Hi Derek, I've found a reference for Hull KR's 1960s Yorkshire Cup finals, would you know the forenames of any of these mystery players; B. Hatch, K. Grice, and A. Lockwood from the 1962 Yorkshire Cup final, J. Moore, and F. Fox from the 1966 Yorkshire Cup final, and J. Moore (again) from the 1967 Yorkshire Cup final. Best Regards. DynamoDegsy (talk) 07:19, 4 June 2015 (UTC)


 * The only two names I can recall are John Moore (also commonly known as Johnny Moore), who played for HKR in the 1960s and early 1970s (430 appearances in total, according to the ickle book); and Frank Fox, who made considerably fewer outings. Colin Hutton was Rovers coach on both occasions. Otherwise, sorry - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 11:36, 4 June 2015 (UTC)


 * PS. You could try asking at the Fans Forum online at . Never been on it myself, but you never know your luck ? - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 14:21, 4 June 2015 (UTC)


 * I asked on the Hull KR Fans Forum and got some more details, I've also contacted the club itself. I'm still going through your "ickle" book, one thing I've found is references in the body text about new signings of players who don't appear in the 'player statistics' list. I assume they either didn't play in the first team, or they are accidental omissions from the 'player statistics' list. It appears that Hull KR are working on Heritage numbers for all players, so that should eventually answer most queries. Best regards DynamoDegsy (talk) 07:22, 10 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Well done - I thought it might be worth a punt on the fans forum. Historically Hull KR have not made much of their history of players. For example, they do not have a museum as far as I am aware. However, from what you say, perhaps things are changing there. Keep plugging away ! - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 10:23, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

RfC: Jimi Hendrix and acid rock
Hi! Would you care to comment at this RfC? It is about the article Jimi Hendrix and whether "acid rock" warrants inclusion in the infobox. Dan56 (talk) 02:13, 8 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Not really, thanks. I find discussion about music genres rather counter productive. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 13:33, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Be advised the bot you use is misreporting the Japanese fonts links as 'dead links'
The kind of http://samurai.appjusco.com/chara-ssr/お騒がせくノ一・望月千代女 --AggressiveNavel (talk) 16:54, 25 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Umm, interesting. Yet another double/triple check for me to try to make manually on such reference(s)/source(s).


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 00:04, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

The ACBs article
Thanks for helping edit my ACBs article. I am new at this and everyone has been very helpful. Why were the articles from The Pitch turned into dead links? Also, is the Village Voice family of magazines considered credible sources? They are in print form and they do go through the editorial process. ThanksDr. Lolzfather (talk) 19:15, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

I looked further into the dead links issue. Thanks.Dr. Lolzfather (talk) 19:31, 25 June 2015 (UTC)


 * If you are referring to The Village Voice, then there is no reason that I am aware of, as to why it is not deemed to be a reliable source. Regards,


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 19:51, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks mate
For checking in, and any work you want to do at the van der Waals equation article. Went to it, to be able to provide it as a reading, and found it completely unhelpful (because it is so fully unsourced, etc.). See the recent Talk entries if interested. For my part, after adding the history section (in order to have a proper place to put the Nobel citations), I am pulling back from this. Any comments here? Cheers. Le Prof (Leprof_7272) 71.201.62.200 (talk) 20:49, 25 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Way, way, beyond my spheres of knowledge - whatever they might actually be. I merely tried to add dates to the tags on the article.  I am also pulling out of that one !


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 00:00, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Template names
In case you weren't aware, templates rarely need to be init-capped; for example, and  both work, so changing one to the other is unnecessary. Cheers! — ATinySliver / ATalkPage  23:10, 26 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you. Purely habit on my part.  No damage done though. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 23:27, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Careful with the publisher field when using Reflinks
A few days ago, you used Reflinks to fill in bare URLs on Union Square (Somerville). Thank you for doing so, but please be more judicious with what you put in the |publisher= field when using the tool. For websites with a proper name, that should be used, not merely the base url. (I.e, use 'The Somerville News' rather than 'Thesomervillenews.com', and 'Rolling Stone Magazine' versus 'Rollingstone.com'). Thank you, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:14, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi
Please take a look at the article Jenny Skavlan. Any help appreciated.--BabbaQ (talk) 23:31, 8 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Looks reasonably OK to me now. Best wishes - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 00:04, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

Link rot
Hi Derek, thanks for all the work you do, especially filling in citation details which I often notice.

I was surprised that you removed a link rot tag here as only the source website is repeated within the brackets, not the date, author or title. – Fayenatic  L ondon 07:18, 13 July 2015 (UTC)


 * It proves that I am not perfect - but I knew that already. Actually I do not spend too much time on those articles that may fail the notability criteria anyway.


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 10:21, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. – Fayenatic  L ondon 14:08, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

Major expansion on Garage rock article about to go in!
Hey, noticed you just made a few recent edits to the Garage rock article. Out of respect to you, I thought I'd let you know that I am about to add a major new expansion to the article, that essentially amounts to a de facto re-write (although I have kept all of the good stuff that was there--it is an expansion and improvement, not a step back). I will be superimposing the body of test in the next day. I should have done it in a more piece-by-piece fashion (sorry), but the requirements of the additions were so huge that I decided just to write it in a whole block in my sandbox #1. The new text of the article is in my Sandbox #1 on my user page, and you are welcome to view it. In sandbox #4 you can few two new sections that will be arriving in a few weeks, but, unlike my entry tomorrow, I will add them as individual pieces. If you have any comments, there is a discussion on the "Expansion" thread (or here or my talk page). '''I want to accommodate the edits you just made, but I'm afraid that I might mess them up, so I will give you express permission to go into my sandbox #1 and make those edits which you had already recently made in the article. Or, if you wish to re-make the changes after I superimpose the new text tomorow.'''


 * Thank you for the advance warning, and I appreciate the thought and respect you have shown. My edits were of no massive consequence, merely a tidy up of reference sources.  If I remember, I'll have another look at the rejigged main article in a week or so. Kind regards,


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 22:28, 13 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Having remembered, I have made a couple of edits to the references again - nothing really major. Cheers,


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 21:36, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

I went into the "External links section" and removed four of the references there. I took out social media sites not conveying factual information and dead sites. Since the article is under expansion, I want to have as many helpful go-to links--a sort of "almanac," so to speak to help with researching--and I want readers to be able to easily access info about this genre which is made up obscure acts. However, I will probably go back later in a few months and do some more tree-trimming. In the meantime, I removed the template, but that was not out of any disrespect, but just to keep potentially hostile or non-constructive editors from going in and ransacking the section. I plan to do some more reductions in a few months, so I have heard your recommendations and will try to evolve it in the direction you mentioned is best. Step by step. Garagepunk66 (talk) 20:27, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Automatic processing bare links
Hi, Bullamore. First of all, thanks and congrats for you good work fixing the use of barelinks in references. That is highly important.

But I want to point out that in you recent work in List of Puerto Ricans in the United States Space Program, you (or a bot) used the same generic title "Welcome to Latina Women of NASA home page" for a lot of references. While it's true that this is the title for those html documents, the real title for most of those article are the proper names of the people they are a biography of.

Would you fix that also? --damiens.rf 17:08, 15 July 2015 (UTC)


 * In a nutshell - no. It should be a fairly easy exercise for any vaguely capable editor to achieve.  Be bold. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 17:42, 15 July 2015 (UTC)


 * So, in a nutshell, you're unwilling to fix casual shit of your botwork? --damiens.rf 20:18, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Rufus Thomas
Just to let you know, I'm working on Rufus' singles here, but it may take me a day or two to sort out. I'm only mentioning it in case you were also thinking of expanding his discography. Ghmyrtle (talk) 17:22, 16 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Whoops - somewhat too late to stop me. Maybe the two 'versions' will merge quite easily. I'll stop further editing on this article though. - Derek R Bullamore (talk)
 * No problem. I've added the chart positions now.  Do you think we should add back the Discogs citations?  I must admit it's not something I usually do.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 16:07, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I tend to go either way on this. On the one hand, it does verify the year(s) of release and which track is the correct A-side.  Something that the previous listings on the article had incorrect in some instances.  However, when there are quite a number of discs, as here, to cite all the discogs referencing can look a bit too bulky. Maybe the current [19] reference is enough. A judgement call really - I am happy for you to decide what is the best approach.


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 16:34, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Given that some editors are on a mission to "strip out" references to Discogs, it seems more trouble than it's worth. Even though you and I know that, for our purposes, it's a damn sight more reliable than some other sites.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 16:59, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi
Hi, I'm trying to improve this article: Witches of Anaga. But I speak Spanish. I would translate the Spanish word El Bailadero into English, to correct the title of the article. In Spanish is Brujas del Bailadero de Anaga, in English: ''Witches of ¿El Bailadero? of Anaga''. Can you help me? Thank You.--83.59.137.55 (talk) 14:15, 24 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I am not too sure I can help you. My knowledge of Spanish is very weak. However, I have enhanced the article's references to provide fuller citations.  Can I suggest you contact the article's creator (at User talk:CanaryIslands) as he/she might be better equipped than I to discuss this matter further.  Regards,


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 13:15, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for edits, can you
… take a pause, and let me finish getting a citation improvement edit in, so we do not battle with changing versions? My fault, I should have put up the under construction tag. Cheers, thanks. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 15:04, 28 July 2015 (UTC)


 * I'm not too sure which article you are referring to ?! Anyhow, I have stopped link rot editing for the time being, so our edits should not clash. Regards,


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 15:19, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Here we go, here we go, etc.
Hull Kingston Rovers in the 2015 RL Challenge Cup final. Who'd thunk it ?! - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 14:34, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * A great win against the odds, will you be going to Wembley, Wembley…? Best regards DynamoDegsy (talk) 07:25, 3 August 2015 (UTC)


 * No - too much cricket at the moment to keep me entertained ! Rugby league has lost most of its appeal to me these days.  However, here's hoping for a good game, although HKR without Albert Kelly look too weak to mount much of a challenge.  Regards,


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 12:09, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

TooSmooth
Hey just wanted to thank you for the edits on the page "TooSmooth" I could really use your help with a few improvements! Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Willpc17 (talk • contribs) 05:28, 4 August 2015 (UTC)


 * You're welcome. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 12:09, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

colwidth
I'm wondering about this edit. It doesn't actually change anything, or does it?  Schwede 66  22:36, 10 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Not a lot - except a certain symmetry on the page from a reader's point of view. Revert if you will, not really worth debating over. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 22:44, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't revert your edit; I was genuinely curious. I don't fully understand your answer, though. Are you implying that without that parameter, the ref columns might be of differential width, and with it, they all have the same width?  Schwede 66  23:57, 10 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes, your assumption is correct. I think the difference it makes does vary, visually, depending upon the size of the viewing screen etc.  As you will see here, there has been discussion over methodology in the past.  I try not to get involved in technical stuff, particularly when any  'concensus' often seems to be fragile at best.  I am sorry that my previous post was not as clear as it should have been.  You could try viewing various references with, or without, the colwidth specification, to see if you can appreciate the difference it can make, particularly when there are in excess of 20 references cited.  As I said before, it is not the most potent matter up for discussion !  Regards,


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 22:30, 11 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your reply. As you say, it's not the most important issue on earth. What I could see is that  and   produces exactly the same result, as the first unnamed parameter is used to set the width of the column.  Schwede  66  00:03, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Eddie Cusic
One for you?? Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:44, 12 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I'll have a go at it. Probably up for viewing tomorrow. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 22:05, 12 August 2015 (UTC)


 * ✅ - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 13:13, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

 * Thank you - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 11:10, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

halseys wiki page
hey hey hey what's your problems taking down my edits on halseys page? Jesus Christ, some people have no sense of humour. and that little promo I gave myself got me a bunch of followers until you turned it back to how it was. I'm pretty sure Halsey would prefer her page with a bit of humour Blurrydun (talk) 17:01, 30 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Try reading What Wikipedia is not before insulting other editors. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 21:35, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi
Can you help editing older seasons from Cupa României please, here you can find what seasons are missing .. List of Cupa României finals, I already started with the begining. Thank you.Alexiulian25 (talk) 17:53, 30 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Possibly, but it may have to wait a while, as I am away from home quite a lot in September. Bear with me, or try using this bot yourself. Regards,


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 21:17, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for helping!
Thanks for your help with the bare URLs on 2011 in chess! Parrotz1461 (talk) 21:13, 30 August 2015 (UTC)


 * You're welcome. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 21:15, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Precious again
  added reference and minor clean-up

Thank you, elephant, for quality articles on musicians such as Reneé Austin, for for tirelessly improving the project with "Added reference and minor clean-up" and, for polite warnings and , - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:55, 2 September 2014 (UTC) A year ago, you were the 961st recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:28, 4 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you - again. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 12:57, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

Podemos Región de Murcia
Hi Derek

About this page that you have marked as "This article has multiple issues......", I have changed dead links for live links to same article, and added author and other info to the links.... so, can you rewied your mark?

If you think that are more issues whith that page, can you witre to me and I do the best to correct these issues?

As a newbie, I am sorry to work a make do

P.S. My skills to write english are not good, so I am sorry for my bad.--Lofesa (talk) 09:59, 7 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello Lofesa,


 * I am certain that your command of English is far better than mine of Spanish ! I have effected a couple of small edits to the article, and removed the 'orphan' tag as there are at least three other articles that now link to Podemos Region of Murcia.  You might like to explore how the current article could be expanded, perhaps by utilising some of the current list of footnotes which are not 'in-line' (hence the retention of the 'more footnotes' tag).  Best wishes,


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 11:35, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Both tools are needed.
I just updated Thiruchendur references, and I found both Reflinks and reFill were needed to do the job. Do you find both tools are useful? Any other tool or technique should I learn to use?

Thank you for your excellent and diligent work on references. I try to shorten the requests lists myself, especially when I have tagged a hard case for you to fix.--DThomsen8 (talk) 19:04, 7 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Personally I much prefer Reflinks of the two tools, and find it manages most jobs, albeit with some manual intervention at times. I have not used Refill at all for maybe almost a year now.  I am pleased that the numbers of articles currently needing work is so small, but I am aware that these numbers can, and do, change quite dramatically within a week or so.  Thanks for your kind comments - however, I never tire of noticing that some other editor, rather than me, has done valuable work in this regard.  Lastly, I am not aware of anything else that would assist in this sort of editing, although I am not very technically minded.  Yes, I tend to stick with what I know and feel comfortable using.  Best wishes,


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 20:05, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Four Seasons Guitar Quartet
Hello, i'm the creator of this, what can i to do about the notability of this article? this have references in farsi, please guide me. thanks ع.شاهنده (talk) 03:09, 23 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello, and sorry for the delay in replying. The best advice I can give is that you press on the ' notability guideline for music' wording in the article's lead message, which will take you to a page that describes the criteria needed for notability.  Note that there are twelve separate "criteria for musicians and ensembles", at least one of which needs to be achieved.


 * Happy editing,


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 18:26, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

Another dead bluesman
Don't know if you saw this? - also, ,. Not one for me, I think, but you may (or may not) think he just squeaks past the notability threshold. Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:38, 1 October 2015 (UTC)


 * No, I missed that one. Having had a brief look around (and thanks for those links) I find he does not have a real entry in AllMusic, apart from credits for virtually non-notable works.  Not really notable enough then for me to spend good time upon.  That does not stop anyone else, but without thee or me, I think Collins stands little chance of an entry here.


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 17:35, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

I continue to appreciate
... your hard work and constructive engagement of my logged and unlogged editing. I have done less and less over the months, for lack of such constructive interactions such as yours. Cheers, and TY. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 18:23, 3 October 2015 (UTC)


 * I am a little unsure exactly what you are referring to, but much appreciate the general comment. Cheers, - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 18:34, 3 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Every time I note dead links and bare URLs, you appear magically to help repair the article, moving sourcing toward encyclopedic. Bravo, bravi, brava, to you and all that sail with you. I am sure there is a rational (tech) explanation, but I prefer to believe in the "magic," especially given that most often my attention to article shortcomings results in reversions. Thanks, again, and again, and again. I'd ask you to send a CV if I perceived you in need of further responsibility. Cheers. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 15:21, 6 October 2015 (UTC)


 * "Magic" – yes that is what it is. Were it not for the fact that I was lucky enough to have retired six years ago, at the age of 54, and thus somehow permanently misplaced my CV, I might even send it to you !  More seriously, thanks for the thanks - very much appreciated.  Regards,


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 16:42, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Hello
Can you help me to improve Romanian Football ?--Alexiulian25 (talk) 18:44, 11 October 2015 (UTC)


 * It is not exactly my specialist subject ! Also, are there specific articles, or are you simply referring to Football in Romania ?


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 20:14, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

I am not referring to Football in Romania, I am referring to football teams without a page, notable players without a page, league tables from Liga II, there are many to create.--Alexiulian25 (talk) 06:54, 12 October 2015 (UTC)


 * In which case I can not really help you. Frankly, I have little interest in football at the best of times - however, I wish you well in your endeavours.


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 12:09, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Average White Band revert
Hi,

Might I inquire as to the reason behind this revert? While the list isn't dreadfully long as present, it still results in a substantial amount of unnecessary whitespace being generated on widescreen displays. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 12:34, 15 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello. The general consensus appears to be to place the references in columns, once their number reach around 20 or so.  Somewhat less than that in this case, but it is not worth spending much time debating.


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 12:47, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

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…just-added Talk section at eXtreme Manufacturing. Thanks again as always. Le Prof 73.210.154.39 (talk) 21:29, 21 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 21:35, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Germaine Bazzle
Ring any bells? Let me know if you'd rather I have a go. Ghmyrtle (talk) 11:08, 28 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Nope, never heard of her. I'll leave it to you, if that's alright. Cheers,


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 11:54, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

2015–16 Coupe de France Preliminary Rounds
Hi Derek, I see you've been updating the references on 2015–16 Coupe de France Preliminary Rounds. It appears in doing this, you have replaced unique references linking to individual round pages with generic references linking to the generic "latest round" page. However, as I don't entirely follow what else you've done in your updates I am not looking to just directly undo them. Could you please revisit and correct the references so that they link back to the original desired pages, or just undo your changes?

example: First Round, Alsace (reference 5 in current version of page) - now links to http://lafa.fff.fr/competitions/php/coupe/coupe_resultat.php?cp_no=315643&ph_no=1&gp_no=8&sa_no=2015 ("latest results", shows Round 6 results) whilst it used to link to http://lafa.fff.fr/competitions/php/coupe/coupe_resultat.php?cp_no=315643&ph_no=1&sa_no=2015&gp_no=8&pj_no=1 (Round 1 results)

Cheers, Gricehead (talk) 14:21, 6 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello. I think the problem here is that the bot I used to correct the original bare URLs has, for some reason(s) I do not understand, introduced newer (most recent) versions of the results pages, rather than the original earlier results.  Quite why that has happened, I am not sure.  However, in view of the number of links affected (more than 100 seemingly) I have reverted the page to an earlier version, which displays the correct links, albeit in the original 'bare' format.  I hope that helps you, although the problem of showing bare links throughout reintroduces the [link rot] tag too.


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 15:18, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Internet Archive is an archive, not a source
Really surprised you didn't know this by now. --AggressiveNavel (talk) 12:46, 7 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Really surprised you do not know that I don't give a stuff. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 12:49, 7 November 2015 (UTC)