User talk:Markhurd/Archive 1

Welcome
Hi Mark, and welcome to the 'pedia. Anything you need to know, just ask. You were quite right about that redirect, by the way. I made the change. Cheers, and I hope you stick around. Tannin 08:52, 14 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Bob Hawke
With regard to Bob Hawke feel free to put in the wording you want - by the way the 2007 election will be for Howard what the 1961 election was for Menzies almost - it will be 11 years since there was a Labor Government (12 years in 1961) and 14 years since Labor won an election (15 years in 1961). PMA 12:30, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Transfinite induction

 * The first step above is actually redundant. If P(b) follows from the truth of P(a) for all a < b, then it is simply a special case to say that P(0) is true, since it is vacuously true that P(a) holds for all a < 0.

You deleted this paragraph from transfinite induction. I think you completely failed to understand it. Suppose I prove that if { for all a < 0, P(a) }, then P(0). Since there exists no a < 0, it is vacuously true that for all a < 0, P(a). Consequenly my proof that if for all a < 0, P(a) then P(0) necessarily implies that P''(0) is true. That is a way to prove P(0).

Now suppose I prove that for any b, if { for all a < b, P(a) }, then P(b). I said for any b, and that implies in particular for b = 0. Thus that single step proves both P(0) and induction step. Michael Hardy 23:18, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Telehealth
I was just wondering if you actually knew that Telehealth at RFDSA was definitely videophone advice, or if you were just removing question marks. Thanks for the cleanup though.--ZayZayEM 00:32, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * ah, almighty GOOGLE saves the day again.--ZayZayEM 03:27, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Visual Basic Wikibook
I see you have contributed to the Visual Basic article on Wikipedia. Any chance you would like to join in editing the wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Visual_Basic_Classic? --Kjwhitefoot 07:54, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Lisp and Forth
Sorry Mark, I thought I was answering the user who last contributed to the article. After checking the history, I found out that it was you. Cheers -- Svest 05:58, 18 December 2005 (UTC) Wiki me up&#153;
 * You did it right. Cheers -- Svest 06:10, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Music in Xena
Please do not re-add the section on "The Music" to the article Xena: Warrior Princess. That section is copied from the website http://www.historyfan.com/music1.html. Wikipedia cannot use it without the express permission of the material's author. Please see Copyrights for more details on Wikipedia and copyrights. FreplySpang (talk) 03:25, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
 * "Of course, if you noticed the music section here, I wouldn't have been caught by it :-)" Yeah yeah. :-) Cheers, FreplySpang (talk) 15:36, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Hugo Kelly
Hi Mark - Mayne's allegation that Hugo Kelly wrote his own Wikipedia entry is entirely false. I am not Hugo Kelly - much of the material in the original article was taken from an interview I did with him which is on my blog - http://bekk.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_bekk_archive.html

(scroll down, it's called The Sleeping Giant of Australia's Media Scene)

The IP address you've suggested is him is also me - it's my work computer. Can you please remove the autobiographical thingies from the entry. HighPriestess of the PDRGI 04:06, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I would agree here, and to be honest, even if it was Hugo Kelly, what of it? So long as they write neutrally and in an encylopedic tone then I think we should keep the material. However, I don't agree that we should be using a straight copy & paste from a blog. There is altogether too much trivia in the article. I really don't think anyone needs to know what their favourite food is, for instance. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:41, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure we didn't have a favourite food in there! Only that Hugo's hobbies are eating my cooking, and sleeping - which they are. But anyway, it's certainly a work in progress at the moment. Oh, and partner is fine.

I'm finding the copyright stuff a bit confusing - do I need to put a copyright notice on my blog? HighPriestess of the PDRGI 01:53, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Meetup on 24th August 2006
Apologies if you're already aware of this, but the Inaugural Adelaide Meetup will take place on Thursday 24th of August at Brougham Place Uniting Church, thanks to Alex Sims. Please indicate if you will attend or not.

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Subst
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Re: Edits to User talk:76.190.75.31
Thanks. --May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 15:22, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Libby's time
Regarding my edit here, I think it's fair to say that I mucked this one up. I saw the news site and assumed that the time I'd seen the previous night had been corrected, then saw other sources which had the original time. All in all, not one of my finer Wikipedia moments. You do what ya gotta do.

inxia 05:13, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Universally Unique Identifier
Hi, I've removed the number that shall not be mentioned from Universally Unique Identifier in order to clean up after the recent spam storm. The issue of when it is appropriate to publish it on Wikipedia is being discussed actively on the lists and on Talk:HD DVD encryption key controversy. At I understand it, this effort to publish the key was in vain, as it is on the revocation list and is therefore public knowledge (see the talk page for more info). Cheers, John Vandenberg 06:14, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Adelaide Wikimeetup 3
Hi Mark - we're planning a third meetup in Adelaide sometime in the coming weeks, and would love to have you there. If you can, please help decide a location, a date and a time here. Thanks!

Adelaide Wikimeetup 3
Hi Markhurd - after some planning we've decided to hold the third Adelaide Wikimeetup on Sunday, 17th February, 2008. The meeting will be held at Billy Baxter's in Rundle Mall at 11:30AM. Further details and directions are available on the meetup page. Please RSVP here by 20:00UTC on 15th February 2008 (that's 6AM Saturday for our time zone) so that we can inform the restaurant about numbers. Hope to see you there!

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G'day Wikimedian :-)
Whilst it's quite likely you'll have heard this news on the grapevine, in your email inbox, or even in person - I thought that it was sufficiently exciting to warrant giving each of you a 'new messages' orange bar! This particular orange bar has been brought to you to let you know that Wikimedia Australia is now open for members!

I'm not on the committee or anything, and that's where the credit is due in getting everything to this point, but I think it would be absolutely fantastic for folks who wish to support the australian wiki community, to go ahead and sign up - we're quite likely to be the world's fatest growing chapter at the moment! Join Us :-)

Here's a little more about membership, and the mailing list in particular is well worth signing up to as well, and is a good forum to get answers to any questions answered, or to share any ideas. I've dropped these notes in under my own steam, and you've received one because you're on this list - feel free to ask me any questions, or anything - I can certainly point you in the right direction :-) cheers all, Privatemusings (talk) 04:04, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Excuse Me
You left a message saying that I vandalised several pages, including the one about "Ryan Higa", but it was not me. I have an IP address that gets changed often, and apparently it got changed to the IP of some vandal. I often contribute to wikipedia, and I have never dared to vandalise a page, since it is useless, and would be reverted in a matter of minutes. 99.158.44.196 (talk) 23:17, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your really vital feedback
Thanks for the vital feedback, I wrote some more comments on my talk page regarding my embarrassing mistake.

Looks like there is an ANI regarding my posting this template on your and other editor's talk page, by an editor who has the deletionist tag on his user page, Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents, you may care to comment. Best wishes, and have a great early morning. Ikip (talk) 06:57, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to the Article Rescue Squadron!
Welcome Mark. thanks again for your vital feedback, if you need any help or have any questions, or simply have an idea you want to shoot past someone who has been here for four years, don't hesitate to ask. Again welcome! Ikip (talk) 07:04, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Edit summaries
Thanks for the heads-up on the edit summary issue, Mark -- I wasn't really aware that this was a pressing requirement so I appreciate your advice.Dunks (talk) 13:29, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

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Thank you
Thank you for fixing the article .NET Reflector. I generally don't like completely throwing out material in an article without a very good reason, and I think the changes you made to the article go a long way toward keeping good content around. --- Ronark (talk) 14:36, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Your !vote to change ARS name
(moved from my Talk page)

Did you deliberately obliterate User:TomCat4680's comment for some reason or was it some sort of edit conflict not caught by the system? Mark Hurd (talk) 07:19, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I did not intentionally obliterate anything. Judging by the time stamp, User:TomCat4680 posted first.  i might have had the page on my screen too long without refreshing and unknowingly put my comments over his.  Anyway, his comments are not in the current revision and need to be copied and pasted so that they're counted.  R ad io pa th y  •talk• 14:40, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

What more did I need to say
How much more would I have had to say about non-free image policy, given the living person scenario, to have got your support. (I'm not trying to get you to change your !vote.) Mark Hurd (talk) 17:39, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Your answer was rather woolly. Your first point was that the use should be fair use under US law, which is wrong; Wikipedia's fair use rules are far more strict than that. You also referred to the image needing a rationale, which is true of all fair use images. I am looking to see what distinguishes images of living people from others. See also foundation:resolution:licensing policy.
 * I wouldn't like to say exactly what I expect people to say to that question, because obviously then it gives the opportunity of gaming the system to others. But I hope what I said helps. Stifle (talk) 17:48, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Your rfa
I've added questions. Cheers,  Dloh  cierekim  02:34, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I have answered these RfA questions, although I have not had time to refer to policies and guidelines. Mark Hurd (talk) 05:36, 22 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry to see that the RfA failed. Now that we've met ;-) I wish you better luck next time. --Orlady (talk) 19:11, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

MediaWiki_talk:Newarticletext
I added this request to add the sentence to all new articles. Thanks for your suggestions.

RE: Wikipedia_talk:Article_Rescue_Squadron:Userfication notice when editors attempt to create a new article, which you commented on. Ikip (talk) 17:59, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

2009 swine flu in Australia
Hi, thanks for matching the legend to the map colour. The 898989 colour was a mistake on my part, it should have been B9B9B9, I read it wrongly off the hex calculator when converting 189 to hex. 22:15, 9 May 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Graeme Bartlett (talk • contribs)

AfD nomination of List of generations
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Chloe Fox
Little was changed in today's edit by the user so I decided to leave it. Timeshift (talk) 03:05, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Damir
Thanks.Ordinary Person (talk) 08:40, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

re: Categories
Hello! I agree that cats sorted A-Z is sometimes handy, if there are literally dozens of them. Otherwise, as long as they are correct, I personally don't care what order they're in. I'm puzzled to why the lifetime template page instructs the placement as it does, so I've raised this on the talk page.  Lugnuts  (talk) 12:38, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

File:H1N1 Australia Map.svg
{{legend|darkred|500+ cases}}{{legend|firebrick|50+ cases}}{{legend|#ff6666|5+ cases}}{{legend|#ff9999|1+ cases}} Hi Mark, now that there are starting to be some interesting numbers of cases of swine flu in Australia, perhaps we can pick colours to indicate the number of confirmed cases in each state in File:H1N1 Australia Map.svg. Perhaps the scheme used in File:H1N1 Canada Map by confirmed cases.svg is satisfactory. What do you think? Graeme Bartlett (talk) 10:24, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * See File talk:H1N1 Australia Map.svg Mark Hurd (talk) 10:51, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * You could probably edit the other languages too. It is not as if I could write what's on the .pl .fr or .es pedias.  I also added an infobox style tag to stop the centering of the legend that was a mess. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 14:37, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * checkusage gives this lot :


 * fr:Grippe A (H1N1) de 2009 par pays
 * es:Brote de gripe A (H1N1) de 2009 por país
 * 2009 swine flu outbreak by country
 * 2009 swine flu outbreak in Australia
 * pl:Rozprzestrzenianie się grypy H1N1 w 2009 roku
 * Graeme Bartlett (talk) 14:51, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Did you see the discussion about a new colour scheme for the graphs at Talk:2009 swine flu outbreak? Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:15, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Templates_for_deletion
I have nominated Template:2009 swine flu outbreak table for deletion. I have notified you because you are freqent or recent contributor to the template. Barnaby dawson (talk) 16:39, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

ABC News room Perth
I made a phone call to news room about 9.45 and they said an announcement fom the WA health depertment or minister was due to be made 10 am WST or so about story SatuSuro 01:51, 25 May 2009 (UTC) Sorry for confusion SatuSuro 02:20, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Before your update I contacted them (just in case that's what you intended) and they seem on top of it. I was using NewsRadio and http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/swine-flu/ as my source in any case. Mark Hurd (talk) 02:23, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Re: Your edit to Stolen Generations
Ah, I understand now; thanks for your explanation. I'd just assumed it had been left over from a time when there were many tags. Hence the first said, the second , the third and so on. Totally silly of me, but that's what happens when I edit too late at night.

I hear what you're saying about the templates... maybe something to bring up at the Village Pump? Or maybe ask at the reference desk, since I'm sure this kind of thing must have come up before. For now I've implemented a slightly inelegant solution, which will hopefully clarify the purpose of the tag for other editors.

On a totally unrelated note, my thought on the question posed on your userpage ("Should NSD refer to Natasha Stott Despoja?") is yes — because her name is hard to spell and remember. In fact, I think I'll add it now.

Glad you found some userboxen you liked :-)

Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 13:58, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

A/H1N1(2009) Australia
FWIW, you might want to look at Talk:2009 swine flu outbreak in Australia/workpage &mdash; 70.29.208.129 (talk) 07:45, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Keith Martyn
A tag has been placed on Keith Martyn requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

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Hide top contrib
Hi. I just added your script, and the tab shows up, but clicking it has no effect. It suddenly stopped working this morning, I'd been using it happily for weeks before. Any advice? Thanks! ╟─ Treasury Tag ► Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ─╢ 10:37, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Also see the same problem with Twinkle on the contribs page :P ╟─ Treasury Tag ► directorate ─╢ 10:56, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

I can confirm there's a problem on Chrome and Firefox (at least) as of the last 6-12 hours (depending upon caching perhaps). However, the script just uses regexs and simple HTML DOM APIs supplied by the browser and a quick review of the source of the Special:Contributions doesn't show an obvious change or problem. I will attempt to debug for the next hour or two. Mark Hurd (talk) 13:56, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * While formulating the above comment, the responses at Village pump (technical) have determined the problem. I'm working on a solution now.

Fixed User:Markhurd/hidetopcontrib.js. Also added userHideAllSubsequent, which when =true will also hide all but the most recent edit, so it is more like watchlists. Mark Hurd (talk) 15:37, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

May 2010 Hello, Mark... sorry to trouble you with this, but sometime in the past eight hours a glitch developed with respect to your very useful script. I'm using it on the Monobook skin, and what happens is that it now removes all entries from my "Special:Contributions" list, not just those pages where I am the most recent contributor. (As there are no changes listed in the code for over two weeks, I'm presuming that it is a Mediawiki issue that's affecting the script.) Any thoughts on this? --Ckatz chat spy  16:55, 18 May 2010 (UTC)


 * FYI, I've also opened a discussion here regarding the issue; one thought posted there is that it might be related to the activation of "single-revision deletion" in that time period. --Ckatz chat spy  17:24, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Jonathan Shapiro (programmer)
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Resue II
Hi, My article about "Imran Channa Visual Artist " is considered for delition, Imran Channa is the well known contemporary Pakistani artist. i have given all the links and sources. I m also an artist and a new user of wikipedia, my task is to creates articles on art & artists of pakistan , because there is no material available on wikipedia on pakistani art & artist so that art historians and students from all over the world can get some sort of information, so plz could u help me out to add my 1st article of Imran Channa. Thanx —Preceding unsigned comment added by Art wart1234 (talk • contribs) 19:02, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

You are now a Reviewer
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Ahoy there
Notice you created the page 2009 Australian federal budget. Unfortunately 2010 was not done so for the sake of getting it done it might be a good idea to create the page. I would have asked the person who created the 2011 budget but funnily enough he is blocked. Cheers 211.30.121.12 (talk) 12:47, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Meetup 12 June 2011
Hi! I just wanted to let you know that Liam Wyatt is in town, so we were thinking of doing a quick meetup at Brunelli's cafe in Rundle Street, Adelaide (at the Rundle Mall end, near the car park) at 6pm on Sunday, with a possibility of drinks afterwards. So if you're interested we hope to see you there. :) - Bilby (talk) 03:15, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Do you actually believe you're doing something helpful or meaningful?
Hi. I argued with another... valued contributor... over the whole Harvrefcol thing, and he admitted that Harvrefcol is an extant format: LSA, the format of the Linguistic Society of America. Now you're here. This is like a video game. Do you actually believe you're doing something helpful or meaningful by eliminating everything except Citation? You mean you are unable to write articles? That format is shit. It conforms to no known existing standards. It blows. It sucks. it is shit. Any questions? One Leaf KnowsAutumn (talk) 02:43, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
 * From an admittedly selfish point of view, it is very discouraging when hours and hours of tedious work is discarded in the name of some rather dubious goal of "standardization". What actual good does standardization do the reader? None... Less selfishly, the bad taste is tripled when the standard being championed is itself is decidedly nonstandard. I also replied on the talk page of template:Citation, but from very very very long experience I know my voice will not be heard (and only sketchily acknowledged, if at all). I speculate that template editors love the current output because 1) it's their baby; they worked on it, and 2) it's just too much trouble to make things follow the rest of the world. Thus the template coders define standards according to their own needs and desires, rather than that of multiple real-word audiences. This is a pitfall of WP:CONSENSUS. –One Leaf KnowsAutumn (talk) 12:50, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you.
Pteronura brasiliensis 00:43, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

Your Abuse Response Report
Hello Markhurd. Ebe123 closed your WP:ABUSE report, and I just wanted to let you know I have reverted that closure. Upon my initial review (after seeing your complaint on his talk page), it appears there are substantial grounds to continue with a case and determine if it is necessary to contact the school who owns the IP address. I will take a further look at your report in the near future. Sorry for the trouble!  AndrewN  talk 23:09, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Re:Merge to where?
I will have to remove the merge tag. There is no such article to merge. I don't know how I taged that. Thank you. :) aηsuмaη   ༽Ϟ  14:09, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Can you see if it can merge with English law ?? aηsuмaη   ༽Ϟ  14:14, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay, I have started a discussion at Talk:English law. You can give your view :) aηsuмaη   ༽Ϟ  14:38, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Tagging redirects
Hi! Just out of curiosity, what is the point of tagging redirects with wikiproject banners? Theleftorium (talk) 19:02, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
 * IMHO Most talk pages of redirects should redirect to the talk page corresponding to where the main page has been redirected. If the talk page is not redirected, and already had WP boxes they should be tagged redirect rather than removed. Mark Hurd (talk) 23:56, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Philippe (WMF) (talk • contribs) 20:19, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Question about hidetopcontrib.js
Hi Markhurd! Your User:Markhurd/hidetopcontrib.js was mentioned on Help talk:User contributions. It sounds great, so I tried it out. Although I've tried creating User:GoingBatty/common.js‎ and adding it to User:GoingBatty/vector.js, bypassing my IE7 cache, deleting temporary files, and rebooting my PC, I don't see any difference on my contributions page. I tried reading your documentation at User:Markhurd/hidetopcontrib and don't understand the sentence. "Clicking again undoes the hiding." Clicking what again? Any assistance you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 00:08, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * There are some known issues with IE, but they don't affect my viewing of your contribs (using Monobook).
 * You should disable one of your two importscripts.
 * I just checked and, with one in Common and the other in Monobook, it just displays the tab twice. Mark Hurd (talk) 02:24, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not in a position at the moment to test the Vector skin. To see what it should look like, you could try changing to Monobook and going to anyone's Contributions page. You should see an extra "show/hide top" tab next to "special page", and the effect should be to remove pages that are marked as (top), and if you add my suggestion of userHideAllSubsequent=true; it will also hide all but the most recent edit of any page. And then clicking it again should restore the contributions list to its original state. Mark Hurd (talk) 02:04, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Vector is working, but the "tab" is almost hidden! On the right hand side of the top line where is says "Special page" there is a drop down triangle, next to Search. Hovering over that shows "show/hide top" as described above. Mark Hurd (talk) 02:33, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I see it now in both Monobook and Vector - thanks for the clarification! GoingBatty (talk) 22:02, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Seems to work great, except for my contributions that are new user talk pages. Any ideas?  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 04:06, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * That's the "known issues in IE". You'll see it works fine in other browsers. I see you've created new IP talk pages since I checked your contributions above (and you emphasised the issue by looking at User_talk alone). I don't have time at the moment to confirm how to fix it in IE but I did anyway! (and it is better that the original version I started with where failures like this caused the script to stop and the rest of the contributions were not processed at all). Mark Hurd (talk) 04:56, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Guess it would have helped if I reread your documentation before posting - sorry about that. For the record, I'm still using IE7.  Guess this is yet another reason to upgrade.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 05:02, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I believe I have fixed the IE known issue. Mark Hurd (talk) 09:09, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Once I cleared my cache, I confirmed that your fix worked. This is such a cool tool - thanks so much!  GoingBatty (talk) 17:03, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Hello
Could you explain the recent edit you made at the list of wars 1900-1944 article? B-Machine (talk) 22:04, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for grammar clean up :)
Thanks for the grammar clean up for my two DYK noms. Didn't see them. Got to a point with writing things that my eyes may have glazed over and I didn't see my own error. :( --LauraHale (talk) 21:07, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

hidetopcontrib
Hello... first off, thanks for creating this script as it has proven to be extremely useful. One question - it seems to have stopped working in the past few days. I think that there was an update to the Wiki software. Did that break your script? --Ckatz chat spy  00:56, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree: it is broken in Monobook on Chrome, but not Vector, nor in IE8. I will look at this ASAP, but not immediately, sorry. Mark Hurd (talk) 02:37, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * My issue was due to an unrelated script. Will check on your talk page what your problem is. Mark Hurd (talk) 03:11, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'm seeing (or rather, not seeing) it in Chrome with Monobook. Worked fine up until a few days ago (can't be more specific, other than to say that it appears to have happened in conjunction with an apparent software upgrade on the site.) --Ckatz chat spy  03:20, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

User script listings cleanup project
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Invitation to events in June and July: bot, script, template, and Gadget makers wanted
I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon. It's 1-3 June and registration is now open. If you need financial assistance or help with visa or hotel, just mention it in the registration form.

This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We'll be hacking, designing, and socialising, primarily talking about ResourceLoader and Gadgets (extending functionality with JavaScript), the switch to Lua for templates, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Labs.

Our goals for the event are to bring 100-150 people together, including lots of people who have not attended such events before. User scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile, structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we want you to come!

I also thought you might want to know about other upcoming events where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes. We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing.

Check out the the developers' days preceding Wikimania in July in Washington, DC and our other events.

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Category:Items to be merged
Your comments would be welcome about this edit, which I've raised a comment about on the category talk page. Thanks. --Izno (talk) 21:39, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

My edit
Ok, but leave the ones i did earlier as they were valid 60.224.160.192 (talk) 19:01, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Re: AWB bug report
Hi, I need help from you to understand exactly how you got the exception in your AWB bug report. Please provide as much information as you can so I can reproduce the issue. Thanks Rjwilmsi  20:02, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Help for New User
Hello, I'm a new user working on a project for school, and I had planned to work on the C# page. However, when I checked it today, it seems that it was pretty much done. I was wondering if you could suggest another article for me to work on that was similar; it would be very much appreciated.

Thanks!

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TAFI vote
Just to let you know that your vote at Wikipedia talk:Today's articles for improvement of 6 or 3 is being counted as a full vote for 6 rather than a split vote because you only bolded one of them.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 02:38, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

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Discussion at Talk:Cory Doctorow#Cory Doctorow and Creative Commons
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The typographic style is not recommended (for whatever reason) but it’s correct and doesn’t need a correction. --net (talk) 07:37, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

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Much obliged for the filter feature
Mark, just wanted to say thanks again for the script; it's already saving me a lot of time in navigation with regard to content and discussion spaces alike. I'm really surprised it isn't better known; I think it ought to be implemented into vector as a general feature.  S n o w  talk 14:40, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

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Victor Harbor / Victor Harbour
Hi Markhurd, there are actually six places in SA with the "Harbor" spelling, not just three. (I found this out some time ago by sending an emailed query to the Geographical Names Board. Because that would be considered "original research", I haven't bothered to make any changes to the Wikipedia articles.) The reason I was given for this spelling is that it's how the names were gazetted. Because parliamentary draughtsmen were lawyers trained in Latin, it seems that there was a mistaken assumption that the word was derived from Latin, rather than from Old English herebeorg, from here troop, army + beorg shelter (Collins English Dictionary). The same spelling also occurred in the name of the Harbors Board, because that body was set up by an Act of Parliament. Given that people keep asking questions about this spelling, and come up with fanciful answers such as "errors made by an early Surveyor General of South Australia" or even "based on an early American map", it's a little surprising that the real reason hasn't come to light before; my own guess is that parliamentary draughtsmen don't like to admit to making mistakes, even those made by their predecessors. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 16:18, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * It is interesting that Outer Harbor doesn't even mention the anomaly. Mark Hurd (talk) 01:41, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Template talk:Short pages monitor
You may be interested in the discussion at Template talk:Short pages monitor. —Anomalocaris (talk) 23:31, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

Victoria
As i brought up, some time ago, why does Category:Victoria (Australia) articles missing geocoordinate data have Australia in it's title when the other six (or so) entries for the other states do not ? and someone agreed, and someone moved it. Why did you move it back ? --Dave Rave (talk) 05:34, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
 * You've misread the history: you need to talk to . Mark Hurd (talk) 03:07, 18 March 2016 (UTC)
 * The category has "Australia" in the title because it's main article is Victoria (Australia). It's also a subcategory of, which used "Victoria (Australia)" consistently throughout the tree. (The category was renamed, because it was nominated at WP:CFDS and it remained unopposed for more than two days). Armbrust The Homunculus 09:46, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

New Challenge for Oceania and Australia
Hi, WikiProject Oceania/The 10,000 Challenge and WikiProject Australia/The 5000 Challenge are up and running based on The 10,000 Challenge which has currently produced over 2300 article improvements and creations. The Australia challenge would feed into the wider region one and potentially New Zealand could have a smaller challenge too. The main goal is content improvement, tackling stale old stubs and important content and improving sourcing/making more consistent but new articles are also welcome if sourced. I understand that this is a big goal for regular editors, especially being summertime where you are, but if you'd like to see large scale quality improvements happening for Oceania and Australia like The Africa Destubathon, which has produced over 1700 articles in 5 weeks, sign up on the page. The idea will be an ongoing national editathon/challenge for the region but fuelled by a series of contests to really get articles on every province and subject mass improved. The Africa contest scaled worldwide would naturally provide great benefits to Oceania countries, particularly Australia and attract new editors. I would like some support from existing editors here to get the Challenges off to a start with some articles to make doing a Destubathon worthwhile and potentially bring about hundreds of improvements in a few weeks through a contest! Cheers.♦ --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:12, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Fair Use in Australia campaign update

 * I'm writing you this followup message, as you took the time to vote in support of a Wikipedia banner campaign for the introduction of Fair Use in Australia.


 * After much planning and coordination with the WMF, Australian Digital Alliance, and Electronic Frontiers Australia, as of Monday the banner-campaign is active on English Wikipedia to a portion of logged-out readers in Australia (technical details). The banners direct people to this page on Meta: FairCopyrightOz. That page, alongside lots of information, further directs people towards the campaign website faircopyright.org.au where Australians are invited to write to their local MP to express support of Fair Use. If you are interested in supporting this campaign, please, send a letter yourself using the template letter provided at that link.


 * Furthermore, and with the support of the ADA & EFA, we have received fantastic media coverage - with article "Fair Use: Wikipedia targets Australians in bid to change the law" appearing on page 2 of the Sydney Morning Herald and page 10 of the Melbourne Age on Monday's edition. It was for a time the 3rd most read article the Fairfax website, and Fair Use was "trending" on Twitter in Australia. We are running the account @FairCopyrightOz on twitter, and we are tracking other press-mentions on the talkpage on Meta.


 * Today, day 2, we published a detailed post about the campaign on the Wikimedia Blog, ran an "Ask Me Anything" Q&A session on the Australia page in Reddit, and [by happy coincidence of timing] the article History of fair use proposals in Australia appeared on the en.wp mainpage as a Did You Know. [The creation of that "history of..." article was a specific request arising from in the community consultation in which you voted].


 * And, most importantly, in a little more than a day nearly 800 letters to MPs have been sent encouraging them to support the Productivity Commission's recommendation to adopt Fair Use in Australia. I urge you - please add your own message.


 * Sincerely, Wittylama 16:09, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest
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