User talk:GJ Baird

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January 2019
Hello, I'm Melcous. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to the main body of Merz Akademie. Generally, any relevant external links should be listed in an "External links" section at the end of the article and meet the external links guidelines. Links within the body of an article should be internal Wikilinks. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 21:27, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

Edits to Steve Mac reverted.
I have reverted your edits to Steve Mac because they introduced too many disambiguation errors to the page. You are welcome to restore your edits if you can do so without the disambiguation errors. It may be helpful for you to work this out in a userspace draft first. bd2412 T 22:50, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Edits to Steve Mac questions.
bd2412 T 09.02, 16 February 2019 (GMT)

Can you explain what the "disambiguation errors" were, please? This doesn't make sense. The article pointed towards facts that relate to Steve Mac's career to date. I plan on making the changes to the article again so if you can please explain the actual "errors", this would be ideal. Thanks.
 * A "disambiguation error" is when a wikilink (text in square brackets like [ [this]]) can mean more than one topic and leads not to the relevant article but to a list of possible articles called a "disambiguation page". For example, the link Steps leads to such a list because the word might mean walking, a staircase, etc.  In this case it's probably intended to mean the pop group.  If so then we need a "piped link" like this: Steps, which is written as [ [Steps (pop group)|Steps]]. Steve Mac links to a total of 114 disambiguation pages (which I think is a new world record): there's a list here. Certes (talk) 16:21, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Certes (talk) That's nice and straightforward, thanks for confirming - much appreciated. A world record - well, better to be remembered for something than not at all. I'm currently in the process of updating these links now, if you could avoid reverting the page that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again for confirming. GJ Baird (talk) 20:37, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Due to the excessive number of disambiguation links, the article has been moved to Draft:Steve Mac. It will be restored to mainspace once the disambiguation links are fixed. Cheers! bd2412  T 17:15, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

bd2412 T That's ideal. Thanks. GJ Baird (talk) 20:37, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
 * A small point: please could you add a signature when you write on a talk page (not articles)? You can do this by adding four tildes  at the end of the text you've added.  Thanks, Certes (talk) 17:42, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Certes (talk) Of course. GJ Baird (talk) 20:37, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

bd2412 T Certes Evening both. Is it possible to now move this back to a live article on Wikipedia. I have updated the disambiguation errors and updated all other links. I believe the page is now in a state to publish. Thanks.GJ Baird (talk) 00:19, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that's looking a lot better, down to 16 links now (list). If any of these don't have articles, they can be unlinked by removing the square brackets. Certes (talk) 01:30, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Done, restored to mainspace. Please feel free to check my fixes. Cheers! bd2412  T 04:43, 20 February 2019 (UTC)