User talk:Merlissimo/Archives/2012

Layout change
Hi. Why was the layout changed on this page to remove the living grouping? Now the other grouping is just a mess of people >135 yrs old and the original entries. Also, this now contains articles on pairs of people where one of them has died and the other is still alive (Albert and David Maysles, for example). Thanks.  Lugnuts  (talk) 08:22, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Removing the living grouping is unwanted and temporary because of an error. I had to sleep, so i was not able to fix this yesterday. The layout change is only that there is new only one place holder that is filled by the bot with different sections instead of having multiple place holders. I added the feature that some problems which result is bad reports on other wikis are also reported locally. So i added some new features
 * people which are in a (possible) living category and in a death category. The are reported with an en: reason. e.g. Duncan Busby: en:Year of death missing
 * a new section with articles in death category, but not in a birth category
 * I added this because eswiki has many problem and they wanted this report, too. But as you can see also enwiki has problems with articles about two people: e.g. Christo and Jeanne-Claude: en:2009 deaths which is reported as death to other wikis. The born and the death categories are wrong and should be moved to the redirect containing only one name. Merlissimo 10:40, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Note that the new format for this report now includes people that are not linked to other language wikis e.g. André Corriveau (doctor) -- Racklever (talk) 11:08, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes that's true for the new features from above and the the too long living (†>135) people. If the new version is working on all wikis i'll update the description on meta. Merlissimo 11:25, 17 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the replies. I don't think the final grouping that cuts off at 1,000 entries is that useful for this report, although I'd have no objection for it being on another page.  Lugnuts  (talk) 11:43, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I am creating this report for many wikis and the output format is the same everywhere. The main project name is Death anomalies table. Of course we can discuss a title renaming of the local report page. But i don't think that this is really needed because the main target is still the same. Merlissimo 12:54, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

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—  Jeff G. ツ (talk)   20:55, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

User name "Inops" on German Wikipedia
Hi, I've noticed my username on German Wikipedia has already been created and thus I can't have a global account. The user name has no edits and was created nearly four years ago. Is there any chance you, as a bureaucrat on de.wikipedia, could somehow delete/rename the account as so I can take it? I'm rather inexperienced on Wikipedia and don't really know how to go about this. Thanks. --Inops (talk) 16:38, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Hello Inops. I renamed the account "Inops" at de.wikipedia, so that "Inops" is free now. --APPER (talk) 14:33, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you. { --Inops (talk) 17:52, 9 February 2012 (UTC)