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Ringbang (talk) 00:41, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for your exceptional work at WP:CLEAN. Just a couple of pointers: 1) please sign your entries there, 2) when striking user comments, please only strike the comment, but do not strike the user names. Also, it's easier to read replies by placing them below user posts and indenting them. Sorry to nitpick, but it helps keep the page in order, and again, thanks very much for your work! North America1000 14:44, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks!
Thank you for this. I ran out of time earlier today playing with that and just sat down to finish it, only to find out that you've done all the work.. :) Kuru   (talk)  04:10, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
 * it's my pleasure. By the way, how do I get your custom signature to work in a reply like this? Leschnei (talk) 22:28, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

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Accidental Revert
Hey. I just realized that I accidentally reverted your edit instead of someone else. It was completely my fault an I apologize. -- Seahorseruler (Talk Page) (Contribs) 16:12, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
 * , No problem. Leschnei (talk) 16:16, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

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Eric Moussambani - Edit
Hi, you sent me a message that my edit to the article on Eric Moussambani had been undone because it did not appear constructive and, unless I'm much mistaken, you may wish to reconsider that. The paragraph I edited (see below) refers to the female athlete Paula Barila Bolopa, who competed in the Women's 50m freestyle event at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. However, the article refers to Paula using the male pronoun 'he' on two occasions. As it is clear Eric Moussambani competed in the 100m freestyle, and that the sources (5 & 6) refer to Barila Bolopa, I perceived this to be a typo and thus changed the entries for 'he' to 'she'.

"His performance generated spectator and media interest in Paula Barila Bolopa, the only other Equatoguinean swimmer at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He competed in the men's 50 meters freestyle event, struggling to finish the race with a time of 1:03.97. In setting a record for the slowest time in Olympic history for that event, he also achieved major celebrity status."

I now note that I should have also changed 'Men's 50m freestyle' to 'Women's'. For clarity one could also recommend that 'His' is changed to 'Eric Moussambani' and the first 'he/she' to Paula Barila Bolopa or, simply, Barila Bolopa. Thus the paragraph would read:

"Eric Moussambani's performance generated spectator and media interest in Paula Barila Bolopa, the only other Equatoguinean swimmer at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Barila Bolopa competed in the Women's 50 meters freestyle event, struggling to finish the race with a time of 1:03.97. In setting a record for the slowest time in Olympic history for that event, she also achieved major celebrity status."

Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C5:252D:8800:D178:C93:A22C:EE57 (talk) 04:11, 8 December 2016 (UTC)


 * , thanks for the heads-up. You're completely right - obviously I should have gone to bed before editing that article. I'm going to go revert my edit now and I'll make the other changes as well. Leschnei (talk) 13:14, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Legion of Super-Heroes
I undid your edit to Legion of Super-Heroes. You stated in your edit summary "changing 'Legion' to 'legion' when it is not used as part of a proper name." The proper name of the organization is "the Legion of Super-Heroes", hence in this article the term "Legion" is a shorthand substitution of the full name. It is not a generic term in the context of this article but rather a registered trademark per the United States Patent and Trademark Office http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:eepiay.2.1

Mtminchi08 (talk) 02:34, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * , I made those edits because I was following the guidelines here. As I'm not an expert in proper nouns, I'm not going to argue over it. But so you know, I am copyediting this article as part of a drive for the Guild of Copy Editors. I would appreciate it if you would discuss with me if there's a problem before you revert so I don't have to repeat my work, like the wikilink changes (etc) in the edit you reverted. In turn, I'll make my edits in smaller chunks. Thanks for the explanation, Leschnei (talk) 02:53, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

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Pings
Hi Leschnei. Just letting you know that this won't have triggered a notification for. You have to use that template in the same edit that you sign for it to work properly. See Notifications on this. Cordless Larry (talk) 19:04, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * That's true that it didn't ping me, but I have the page watchlisted anyway, so I saw it. This did ping me, though, .  No worries, though.  —   Gestrid  ( talk ) 22:38, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, . I remember reading about that somewhere, but it didn't even occur to me when I added the ping after the fact! Leschnei (talk) 00:55, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
 * No worries. I had to be told about this myself, so I like to pass the message on when I see it happening. I presumed that Gestrid would see your reply in this case, but wanted to make sure you knew because that's not always the case with other users on other pages. Cordless Larry (talk) 06:12, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Highland and Island Emigration Society copy editing
Hi. Just a note of thanks for your edits on the HIES page. I am the original author. It represented a lot of work and I was discouraged by the reviewers feedback, and didn't really understand many of his comments - so it was my first and last WP page! Probably I should not be so thin skinned! However, I like what you have done.

I will look at it more closely to see if there is anything I think should be added - eg the missing citation in the Rules section.

Thanks again for your interest and good efforts. Camerojo (talk) 23:15, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
 * , you're very welcome. Don't be discouraged; if that was your first article, I'm very impressed. It's difficult to make that subject something other than just a rehash of Potato famine or Highland clearances, and I think that you did a good job of it.


 * Keep in mind that the reviewer stated that your references look good and I agree (though I don't have access to the books). That puts you ahead of many articles on Wikipedia! There were three main aunts that the reviewer thought needed addressing. First, Manual of Style stuff. Hopefully I caught a lot of that . Second, NPOV; I'm not sure what that's about. I thought that the article addressed both sides of the issue, but you could always ask the original reviewer for more details on that point. Third, images; maybe Wikimedia Commons would have some relevant ones.


 * Overall, I think that the review is not so negative. They are pretty picky about details in GA reviews! Leschnei (talk) 23:57, 22 May 2017 (UTC)


 * By the way,, if you do decide to work on this article more, there are a couple of Harvard references that I couldn't fix: the MacKenzie 1883 reference wants a page number (I think) and Kent 1994 is missing from the Bibliography. Cheers! Leschnei (talk) 01:04, 23 May 2017 (UTC)


 * When queried, the reviewer told me that the NPOV was only because I originally referred to the "sad" history of the clearances!! He removed my "sad" and said he would revise the NPOV fail, but never did. Kent 1994 is in the Biblio - are you thinking of another that was missing? I do not know the page number of the MacKenzie 1883 reference - it is widely quoted text which I have only been able to find in transcribed versions. Camerojo (talk) 20:37, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
 * , the references were fixed by another editor before you took a look. I was wrong about the Mackenzie reference - it didn't need a page number, the name was just misspelled! Since the GA reviewer fixed the NPOV problem, that's one less thing for you to worry about. Leschnei (talk) 23:38, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

GOCE May 2017 drive bling
Congrats on placing on the leaderboard in every category! I know that isn't easy, and it's nice to see someone go for it! Well done, and keep up the good work! – Reidgreg (talk) 17:45, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

The Planet Heroes
Try https://web.archive.org/web/20070709144633/http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx?st=10&e=planetheroeslanding which is an archive of the website at Fisher Price. Some of the information appears to be available through there...Naraht (talk) 11:25, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks,, I'll take a look at it. I guess I just don't like using sales sites as references, so having the article link only to Fisher Price, Amazon, and Ebay doesn't seem acceptable. But I haven't found anything else. It's simply a random article that I was trying to improve (for the good of humanity, not because of any emotional attachment to the subject!). Leschnei (talk) 11:47, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
 * NP, been there myself. I once ended up doing significant improvements to an article that I found simply because they had misspelled "Johns Hopkins University" as "John Hopkins University".Naraht (talk) 11:50, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
 * The black hole of Wikipedia editing. Leschnei (talk) 11:51, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Yup. Actually changing "Johns Hopkins University" -> "John Hopkins University" has lead to me editing wikipedia in languages that I don't even know...Naraht (talk) 14:05, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

Isabel Alice Hartley Crawford
Looks like a good article. I think it needs to be moved to Userspace rather than an a place in mainspace with your username...Naraht (talk) 18:41, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks Naraht, I'm still learning all of the ins and outs of moving things around. I realized this morning that a one-sentence article called Isabel Crawford already exists - I think that I put it on my list of things to work on when I ran across it a year ago, but then forgot that it was a stub and not a red link. So, I've had the article moved back to my sandbox and I'll move the info into the existing article as normal edits. Leschnei (talk) 19:38, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
 * What I was saying is that it isn't really in your sandbox, given that the place that it was put doesn't have User: at the beginning. The move back to userspace went incorrectly is what I meant.Naraht (talk) 21:26, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Naraht - Ah, proving once again that I don't understand all of this sandbox vs userspace vs mainspace stuff. I have copied the information and sources over to the existing Isabel Crawford article. Would it be appropriate to solve the problem by putting a deletion request template at the top of the misplaced Isabel Alice Hartley Crawford article? Leschnei (talk) 22:05, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Cemetery
If you come across the Findagrave entries for the people buried, could you add them to Wikidata? I just added the Findagrave entry for the cemetery itself to Wikidata and added the street address. I know most people do not like the Findagrave link in the articles, but Wikidata loves them! --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 14:05, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Will do! Leschnei (talk) 14:59, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

SMS Kaiser Barbarossa
Hey, I saw your attempt to fix the problem - it turns out there's a glitch with the efn template (see here). Parsecboy (talk) 15:03, 23 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks, that's good to know. All of those SMS articles have the same error. I guess it's best not to use list-defined footnotes for now. Leschnei (talk) 15:13, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it seems that way - even this one, where the two notes are using the same ref, was broken. Odd that the template is that fragile, but at least there's a way to fix it. Parsecboy (talk) 15:20, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

A description of a link is not clear or has been vandalized (help)
Hello. I was using the visual editor to edit the article "Royal Spanish Academy" and when I was trying to edit the link "Dictionary of the Spanish Language" (in the lead of the article), I noticed that in the dialog -which appears when the link is clicked while editing with the visual editor- the description of the link is "conjugacion del verbo habeer" which transliterated from the Spanish grossly means "conjugation of the verb to haave (sic)" which I think is not descriptive of the article linked, is poorly written, is not in English and is even misleading because the dictionary doesn't provide conjugations of verbs -it just provides definitions of words. 1. Is there a way to edit the description of links or only administrators can do it? 2. If I can't do it, could you fix that description so it reflects an accurate description? Thank you in advance. Thinker78 (talk) 05:00, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

by happy accident, you've asked me about something that I asked at the help desk just last week! The labels that show up when you click a link in Visual Editor come from Wikidata. The way to fix it is to go to the linked Wikipedia page (Dictionary of the Spanish Language, in this case), then in the left sidebar, under tools, select 'Wikidata item'. I haven't done much with Wikidata, but at the top of each page is a label and a description that can be edited. For some reason, these were in Spanish. I have changed the label to 'Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy' and the description to 'Dictionary of the Spanish language by the Royal Spanish Academy, first published in 1780'. The description should pop up now when you click the link. If you feel that either the label or the description is not quite right, feel free to change them. Leschnei (talk) 11:42, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Bungalow
Did you mean to revert this? Just asking in case I missed something...  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   12:51, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Never mind; you fixed what I should have caught. Thanks ;-)  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   12:52, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Dominican is NOT done; there are still links to fix through the redirects
Redirects are fine, links to the redirects must still be fixed. bd2412 T 15:01, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * , this is exactly what I'm having trouble grasping. Is it the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pamiers and Washington Heights, Manhattan that need fixing? Any others? Leschnei (talk) 16:11, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, those are the pages that need fixing - nothing else. bd2412  T 16:19, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I think I understand now. Thanks again. Leschnei (talk) 16:20, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

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 * thank you! Leschnei (talk) 01:01, 10 January 2018 (UTC)