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Bug reports[edit] I haven't come across this, so it does sound like a bug. The place to report bugs is https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/. Based on a quick search, I didn't find anything reported that looked like what you're describing. Is it showing up on multiple browsers? Giving as much information as you can about your browser (which version, and also build number if you can figure that out) and operating system will help figure it out. --Michael Snow (talk) 17:47, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

List of Major League Baseball managers by wins[edit] I ended up reverted your recent addition of Tony La Russa to the List of Major League Baseball managers by wins table. His win percentage is .536 and not the .544 you used. As you are a regular wiki-editor I'm assuming you made this addition using a reliable source and am curious as to what the source was for .544. --Marc Kupper|talk 09:03, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

That was an error on my part. .544 is his Saint Louis win percentage. Thanks for reverting it. Ksnow (talk) 12:33, 5 November 2011 (UTC)Ksnow

Thank you - I should have spotted that .544. --Marc Kupper|talk 04:30, 6 November 2011 (UTC) page Eckersdorf created by you[edit] Probably you don't remember, but 15 March 2007‎ you created the page Eckersdorf. I would be glad, if you would review my newest additions on this page. I think now it is now longer a stub and maybe you could change this on Talk:Eckersdorf. Regards from Germany, --J. Lunau (talk) 12:57, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Edit summaries[edit] Hey there. Just noticed you very rarely, if ever, use edit summaries. I'm interested in hearing your reason why? In any case, keep up the good work. -- œ™ 06:04, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Replied at User_talk:OlEnglish#Edit_summaries -- œ™ 03:33, 25 January 2012 (UTC) Disambig.svg This article currently links to a large number of disambiguation pages (or back to itself) (check | fix). Please help direct these ambiguous links to articles dealing with the specific meaning intended. Read the FAQ. Removing links to INSEE pages[edit] Can you please explain why you are removing links to INSEE pages for French communes and replacing them with a link to the home page? See, for example, this change. Kiwipete (talk) 20:49, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, you seemed to have stopped doing this, so thanks. Some acknowledgement might have been nice. Kiwipete (talk) 00:59, 21 January 2012 (UTC) Something else you may want to consider are the DEFAULTSORT magic words you are adding or updating, for example this. The French manual of style has guidelines on not removing hyphens etc. What do you think? Kiwipete (talk) 23:03, 24 January 2012 (UTC) Mos[edit] hello,

sorry, my warnings were a little bit rude. Per WP:NDASH, if you use in scores, like tennis scores, hyphens instead of en-dashes (6-2, 6-2), it is regarded as incorrect; there should be an en-dash instead of a hyphen (6–2, 6–2), because the "–" can be replaced with "versus". See WP:HYPHEN when you should use hyphens. You can either copy-and-paste the sign from the sign box below, or you can use either –, – or just write hyphens and then correct it with the Dash Tool by GregU. Regards.--♫GoP♫TCN 16:35, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Grand Prix (tennis) articles[edit] Hello. I recently noticed your work on 1970's Grand Prix articles and wanted to draw your attention to this talk page and the WikiProject Tennis talk page regarding the general policy for such articles. Totalinarian (talk) 13:29, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

2012 Roger Federer tennis season[edit] Hello! Thank you for your contributions at 2012 Roger Federer tennis season. Please be aware that one of your edits did not follow WP:TENSCR, which stipulates that prose must not contain tennis scores. Please make note of this and other provisions in WP:TENSCR in the future. Thanks! Prayerfortheworld (talk) 04:49, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Population templates for French communes[edit] Hi there, just wondering if you would consider using Template:Historical populations horizontal when adding populations to French communes. It seems to take up less space than the vertical one. Cheers Kiwipete (talk) 09:35, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Strange and unexplained changes to articles on French communes[edit] Hi.

I've just happened to visit a number of articles on French communes that I created, or added information to, some years ago. And I've noticed that some cited text that I added, along with the cites, has disappeared from all of them. Likewise the links to intercommulaties in the infoboxes have all vanished. And that a rather odd link to INSEE's home page has appeared hard-coded into the references section.

Reviewing the history, it appears that you made these changes back in 2009, without any explanatory comment. I know that is a long while ago, but could you remember why you removed these texts and cites, which seem to me to be prefectly reasonable.

The article's I've noticed this on include:

Adilly La Chapelle-Bertrand Châtillon-sur-Thouet Pompaire but judging by your edit history, may well include many others.

If you are doing this for a good reason (my text is out of date, or you think it irrelevant or insufficiently well cited) could you please tell me. Thanks -- chris_j_wood (talk) 16:55, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply on my talk page. To respond in detail: 1. INSEE links in the References section: Since most of the basic information on a commune page comes from INSEE, I was hoping to use the INSEE home page and let the user search for the commune. With time, I have learned that it is not all that easy to find the information on INSEE, so more recently, I have switched to linking to the Chiffres clés page for that commune and calling the link "INSEE statistics." This avoids multiple footnotes leading to the same place. Yes I did notice that when I looked at one of your more recent changes. It is certainly an improvement, but is there a reason you add links directly into the references section, rather than using the (by now pretty universal in WP) ref tags and cite templates, which if done properly also resolves the multiple footnotes issue. Take a look at (eg) Besso, Ticino to see what I mean. 2. Deleted text and links: I have consistently deleted broken links to the canton and intercommunality topics that don't exist. When these pages have been created, the links should be recreated. I'm a firm believer in the value of redlinks, so I wouldn't support such deletion; but I know a lot of Wikipedian's disagree, so I'm not pushing that point. But in the cases I called out above, I know that the intercommunality article existed, because I created it at or about the same time as I linked it in the article (June 2008). Happy to believe it was an accident, though. I have also deleted text that is out of date, a restatement of information in the Infobox, or irrelevant to English-speaking readers. That is ok. My editing style has changed and (I hope) improved over the last four years, and I probably would not have duplicated this information like that if I wrote the articles now. I'll look again at the articles I've re-edited in that light. However, I request that you not undo my changes because I have made other (sometimes small) changes that need to stay in. I know I did that in one case; although I think I then re-added all your other changes. If I didn't, I apologise. -- chris_j_wood (talk) 10:11, 10 August 2012 (UTC) Your request for undeletion[edit] Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that a response has been made at Wikipedia:Requests for undeletion regarding a submission you made. The thread is Christian Harrison. JohnCD (talk) 16:05, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

Arette[edit] Hi Ksnow. I'm a little perplexed. On two occasions now you've edited the Arette article and replaced a properly formatted table with an inferior one, removing reference sources and prose at the same time (e.g. here). Additionally, you haven't provided an edit summary on each occasion. I don't see how these are constructive edits. Perhaps you could explain your rationale? Regards, Beejaypii (talk) 20:41, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Tennis Draws[edit] When it comes to tennis draws, pre finals bracket players are place with the first letter of their first name and then last name. please follow the standards set. Dencod16 (talk) 05:07, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

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Saint Potan[edit] Nice to add the crest - thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jon Davies (WMUK) (talk • contribs) 09:22, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

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Flags[edit] Hey, please don't add flags to template footers like you do for the winners of each olympics... Kante4 (talk) 12:59, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

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Please stop changing all the tennis articles[edit] Please stop changing all the tennis articles from titles and runners up to something like 2–3. I believe consensus was to have all the info. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 01:30, 6 August 2014 (UTC)

Doug Owens[edit] Probably both the "Doug Owens" and "Douglas Owens" redirects should be changed, but it depends on whether an article is created about the son. I'm not sure it's routine to create pages about losing U.S. House candidates. He was at least a major-party nominee, but I don't know anything about him. If he hasn't gained attention for anything other than running, information might be a little thin. Incidentally, do you know if he's a Junior? Or does he have a different middle name (or a different first name)?

If an article is created, then the most likely solution would be to leave a disambiguation note pointing to Wayne Owens at the top of the article. As for the article about me, I believe it was deleted earlier this year. --Michael Snow (talk) 02:44, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia genealogy project[edit] Just wondering if you have any thoughts re: the idea of WMF hosting a genealogy project. If so, feel free to contribute to this discussion. And apologies if I have made this request before. ---Another Believer (Talk) 16:53, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Global account[edit] Hi Ksnow! As a Steward I'm involved in the upcoming unification of all accounts organized by the Wikimedia Foundation (see m:Single User Login finalisation announcement). By looking at your your account, I realized that you don't have a global account yet. In order to secure your name, I recommend you to create such account on your own by submitting your password on Special:MergeAccount and unifying your local accounts. If you have any problems with doing that or further questions, please don't hesitate to ping me with {{ping|DerHexer}}. Cheers, —DerHexer (Talk) 11:23, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of 1986 Virginia Slims Championships for deletion[edit]

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About your (non)participation in the January 2012 SOPA vote[edit] Hi Ksnow. I am Piotr Konieczny (User:Piotrus), you may know me as an active content creator (see my userpage), but I am also a professional researcher of Wikipedia. Recently I published a paper (downloadable here) on reasons editors participated in Wikipedia's biggest vote to date (January 2012 WP:SOPA). I am now developing a supplementary paper, which analyzes why many editors did not take part in that vote. Which is where you come in :) You are a highly active Wikipedian (68th to be exact - you can update your userbox on the top :), and you were active back during the January 2012 discussion/voting for the SOPA, yet you did not chose to participate in said vote. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me why was that so? For your convenience, I prepared a short survey at meta, which should not take more than a minute of your time. I would dearly appreciate you taking this minute; not only as a Wikipedia researcher but as a fellow content creator and concerned member of the community (I believe your answers may help us eventually improve our policies and thus, the project's governance). PS. If you chose to reply here (on your userpage), please WP:ECHO me. Thank you! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 23:25, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

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ArbCom elections are now open![edit] Hi, You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:53, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Season's Greetings[edit] Xmas Ornament.jpg To You and Yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 18:12, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Just an fyi on No. capitalization[edit] I noticed you were the one in the Federer article who changed all the "No. 1" to "no. 1". I fixed it, but please be careful with that as it is correct grammar to capitalize No., but not world. So No. 1 and world No. 1... not World No. 1 or world no. 1. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 09:54, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Cities and towns in Bad Doberan (district)[edit] Ambox warning blue.svgTemplate:Cities and towns in Bad Doberan (district) has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. ~ RobTalk 15:57, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge[edit] Hi, would love to see the French flag appearing on the challenge from your work, sign up if interested!♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:23, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of James Fitzmaurice (disambiguation)[edit]

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