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00:10, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi Keith

New citations in both of these pages:

Michael Middleton (British businessman)
and

Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
Any help is appreciated as always. Thanks from T.

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23:03, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

County borough of Southend-on-Sea - districts/councils
Hi

You made a comment on the Talk page of Southend-on-Sea regarding the above, and there is an RFC here about it Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geography.Davidstewartharvey (talk) 17:48, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - September 2022
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Tech News: 2022-36
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23:19, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Roundhay School
Please check all new refs - thanks again, T — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.198.41.28 (talk) 10:09, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Mater Christi College
Please check new refs

Roundhay School
Extra refs and structure, please check

Michael Middleton (British businessman)
Please check Thanks as always T

September 2022
Thanks for your recent edits at 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. There is currently an editor User:J who is reverting against multiple editors in order to force his version on an edit into the article. He appears to be dedicating himself to making serial reverts to force his edit into the article even though Talk page discussion is still unresolved. He has been contacted on his Talk page by multiple editors and seems not to stop reverting. Could you look at this when you have a chance. ErnestKrause (talk) 14:39, 7 September 2022 (UTC)
 * It looks like another admin (Lectonar) has stepped in on the article since you messaged me. I will leave it to them, rather than jump in with further actions. Keith D (talk) 17:18, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Michael Middleton (British businessman)
Please check new information regarding where the subject was born, Thanks Srbernadette (talk) 11:15, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

Deleting Motto...
I was actually doing that using AWB on Infobox Organization, which this does have, but for the first few alphabetically, I hadn't updated the entire message from when I was doing bridges. I'm holding off on pushing the remainder of the deletes, so I'll leave that one alone until the discussion finishes over at the talk page for the template.Naraht (talk) 15:50, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Jack Brooksbank
New refs. - please check, especially page number - thanks as always T.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.70.23.77 (talk) 00:10, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

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01:48, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Edits to Xylan Wiki page
Hi Keith, I am new to Wikipedia. I am doing my PhD on xylan and made some edits to the Wikipedia page. I am not sure why you removed the references I added. Can you let me know so I can keep it in mind for next time I edit an article? Thanks, Amanda Xylhail (talk) 19:01, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, I did not remove any of the references, all I did was correct the date formats for dates using yyyy-mm format which is not a valid format here. I think that some references were removed in the subsequent edit. Keith D (talk) 19:11, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. Xylhail (talk) 17:03, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Family of Catherine, Princess of Wales
A few changes for you to double check please - on this Yorkshire-based page. thanks as always. T — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.32.176.152 (talk) 09:28, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Joe Lapira
Hi Keith,

You keep removing my edit to joes page. Everything in that edit is fact. Joe was with us just this past weekend to attend the fifa tournament we have been holding since 2012 in his name. Just wondering what the issue is?

Thanks

Cathal 64.43.50.3 (talk) 20:53, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * The problem is that you are not supplying any reliable sources that support the text. Keith D (talk) 21:19, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

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Source corrections disguise poor edits
Hello - you are an admin and experienced editor, but many of your small source edits on medical articles made shortly after the previous one - like this simple one - cover up garbage edits, as in the case of the Catechin article today. If not checked and corrected - because an admin has aready visited the article - the new poor content remains.

Could you either 1) make an actual constructive repair edit of the content and source (better) or 2) pause for 24 hours to allow other editors the chance to correct the article? Your small source edits disguise junk that has been added. Happy to discuss this with you, but this has occurred innumerable times over years, as it seems the major part of your editing is only to make small changes in a source. Zefr (talk) 16:15, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
 * The edits are to fix cite date errors and picked up as part of a search for certain patterns of text, and the list is run through AWB. If it is an obvious error then it can be reverted, but if it is a valid date then it will not get picked up as incorrect content. Once Category:CS1 errors: dates is down to a manageable number then looking for erroneous content may be possible. Keith D (talk) 16:54, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-39
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RAF College of Air Warfare
Hello,

Can you please delete RAF College of Air Warfare so i can move Royal Air Force College of Air Warfare there.

Thanks. Gavbadger (talk) 11:35, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, I have deleted. Keith D (talk) 11:42, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Gavbadger (talk) 12:06, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair
Any chance of you checking please this Northern UK article -  please - Thanks  T.

Also this one please!

Marjorie Sinclair, Baroness Pentland
Thanks as always. T

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Administrators' newsletter – October 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).

Administrator changes
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Archive Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:43, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Thomas Nast page
During the last year, you have made suggestions to improve the Wikipedia entry on Thomas Nast. Accordingly, I want to call your attention to ThomasNast.com, a domain I have owned for 25 years and recently refreshed.

The site will give you a good overview of Nast in general and my biography in particular, America’s Most Influential Journalist: The Life, Times and Legacy of Thomas Nast. You can look at 160 Nast cartoons, each with its characters identified and its content and context explained. Categories include Christmas, Civil War, Lincoln, Tweed, Presidential Election Losers, Symbols, Shakespeare, and Inflation. The site’s purpose is to educate people about Nast and his work, as well as to preview my book.

The only previous substantive biography of Nast was published by Albert Bigelow Paine in 1902, and is frequently cited in Wikipedia. Although Paine was a good storyteller, his book has many significant errors and omissions because Nast misinformed him (eg., Nast never went to the front during the Civil War) or didn’t tell him about important events (Nast spent a year, beginning in May 1867, on his Grand Caricaturama (33 9 by 12 foot pictures in a traveling panorama which failed), Paine gave it two sentences).

There were also facts about his life that neither he nor Paine knew. Eg., Nast thought he was born on September 27, 1840, but his Landau birth certificate, issued under the auspices of the King of Bavaria, shows it was September 26. Understandable, every prior mention of his birth date is incorrect. I have made the correction to his Wikipedia entry along with a a copy of his birth certificate.

My 830-page biography contains 1,000 Nast cartoons, illustrations, sketches and paintings — 800 from Harper’s Weekly and 200 from other sources. The manually-created Index is predicated solely on Nast’s output. It includes Nast’s Life and Work; Topics/Issues and People/Characters. You can view the entire Index on ThomasNast.com. Harpweek (talk) 17:15, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

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14:07, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Reimagining Lincolnshire
Hi there, I notice you have an interest in pages relating to Lincolnshire. As part of the Connected Heritage project at Wikimedia UK, we are running an event with Reimagining Lincolnshire next week for Black History Month, on Thursday 20th October. If you'd like to join us, please do feel free to register here. If you would like to circulate to your networks, that would be much appreciated. All best wishes, Lucy (WMUK) EriedgenArc (talk) 11:09, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Angular harp
Hi,

I am finished for now with the angular harp article; I have worked to add refs for it and hunt more. I removed the tag, but if you think it needs more then please put it back up. Thanks you, Jacqke (talk) 23:19, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, I think someone else added the tag about references, I added the one about uncategorised, which you have addressed. I have done a few formatting edits to make the text more consistent. Looks like it is progressing nicely. Keith D (talk) 00:07, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I appreciate your help. I'll keep working. Best wishes, Jacqke (talk) 00:10, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

No. 131 Wing RAF & No. 133 Wing RAF
Hello, can you please delete No. 131 Wing RAF & No. 133 Wing RAF. So i can move 1st Polish Fighter Wing and 2nd Polish Fighter Wing there.

I'd posted about the move on 4 October 2022 at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history, with no objections.

Gavbadger (talk) 15:21, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I have deleted both redirects, but it looks like they were recently moved on 2 August 2022. Keith D (talk) 17:57, 14 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you, yeah I noticed that. It's odd to me the user who did it, moved them but didn't add any references to it to explain the move. Gavbadger (talk) 18:04, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Burns
Hey Keith, thanks for correcting the citation on burns article. If you can teach me how to manually put citation that would be great as I cannot automatically cite some of the articles. Thanks! Portraitworld (talk) 03:31, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, the best way of manually doing a cite using templates is to copy a blank template from the template page (e.g. cite web), fill in the fields you want and delete the empty fields. Keith D (talk) 08:45, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-42
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 * The recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510.
 * A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:44, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

firefox crash report submission
hello, crash id (6eff0405-bf73-4643-ab9c-fa30fedfb25c) is still not visible, if possible can you please submit it from "unsubmitted crash reports". recent conversation <_> Jindam vani (talk) 14:17, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, it was submitted on 13 October, but the id appears now to be bp-99d9e3b2-4f96-4bfc-b079-fc41d0221013. You can see it at https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/99d9e3b2-4f96-4bfc-b079-fc41d0221013
 * Hope this helps. Keith D (talk) 16:35, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Irish darts edits
Thank you for your multiple reversions of edits to darts articles by IPs from Ireland. I have been pursuing these socks for some time but cannot get an admin to re-instate the block on which reduced the incidence of these sock edits. Please could I ask you to look at User:Arjayay/Patrick Bourke and consider a range-block on and consider a block on the 80.233.XX.XX edits - although a rangeblock there does appear to incur quite a lot of collateral damage. - Many thanks - Arjayay (talk) 20:52, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Hello, I have blocked for a month, I think that 80.233.XX.XX is really too large as you suggest would give lots of collateral damage. Keith D (talk) 23:01, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot - let's see where the sock goes next - thanks again - Arjayay (talk) 16:39, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Deepcar and user User:Dandamanworthy12
Just to let you know that I have reinstated your version of the page Deepcar. I don't know if the results of the edits by User:Dandamanworthy12 are vandalism, or just due to lack of experience. 217.43.240.29 (talk) 21:04, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-43
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Recent changes
 * There have been some minor visual fixes in Special:Search, regarding audio player alignment and image placeholder height. Further details are in T319230.
 * On Wikipedias, a new preference has been added to hide article thumbnails in Special:Search. Full details are in T320337.

Problems
 * Last week, three wikis had read-only access for 25 minutes. This was caused by a hardware problem.

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 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * Octicons-sync.svg Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis) and on  at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis).
 * Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" . This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally.
 * Starting on Wednesday October 26, 2022, the list of mentors will be upgraded at wikis where Growth mentorship is available. The mentorship system will continue to work as it does now. The signup process will be replaced, and a new management option will be provided. Also, this change simplifies the creation of mentorship systems at Wikipedias.
 * Pages with titles that start with a lower-case letter according to Unicode 11 will be renamed or deleted. There is a list of affected pages at Unicode 11 case map migration . More information can be found at T292552.
 * The Vector 2022 skin will become the default across the smallest Wikipedias. Learn more.

Future changes
 * The Reply tool and New Topic tool will soon get a special characters menu.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:20, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks
Was trying to figure out why my date in the reference wouldn't display correctly (Encino, California article, Robin Lane entry). You had it fixed before I figured out my error. Thanks. 147.219.144.26 (talk) 22:33, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Tech News: 2022-44
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 * When using keyboard navigation on a Kartographer map, the focus will become more visible.
 * In, you can now hide the log entries for new user creations with the filter for "".

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 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * The maps dialog in VisualEditor now has some help texts.
 * It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu.
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 * It is now possible to hide the frame of a Kartographer map in VisualEditor.

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Administrators' newsletter – November 2022
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Isabelle Belato · Whpq
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Atama · Astronautics~enwiki · Athaenara · Eddie891 · GraemeL · Marianocecowski · Natalya · Pratyeka · SB Johnny

Interface administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg TheresNoTime
 * Gnome-colors-view-refresh.svg Ragesoss

CheckUser changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg Blablubbs · Firefly
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg Joe Roe

Oversight changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-remove.svg DGG

Guideline and policy news
 * The article creation at scale RfC opened on 3 October and will be open until at least 2 November.
 * An RfC is open to discuss having open requests for adminship automatically placed on hold after the seven-day period has elapsed, pending closure or other action by a bureaucrat.

Arbitration
 * Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate themselves from 13 November 2022 until 22 November 2022 to stand in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections.
 * The arbitration case request titled Athaenara has been resolved by motion.
 * The arbitration case Reversal and reinstatement of Athaenara's block has entered the proposed decision stage.
 * , and  have been appointed to the Electoral Commission for the 2022 Arbitration Committee Elections.  and  are reserve commissioners.

Miscellaneous
 * The 2022 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of two new CheckUsers.
 * You can add yourself to the centralised page listing time zones of administrators.
 * Tech tip: Wikimarkup in a block summary is parsed in the notice that the blockee sees. You can use templates with custom options to specify situations like or.

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