User talk:Ohconfucius/archive29

Removing Fellow Performers
Hi Ohconfucius, I struggle to see why you need to remove the extensive list of fellow performers from the Brian Rix page. You say this is Name Dropping but it is not intended to be so. It is to clearly situate Rix amongst his peers. These are all people who worked for him or with him regularly, inserting their names into the main body of the text would make it exceedingly cumbersome to read as many of them worked for him/with him on numerous occasions. Sidwinx (talk) 08:59, 3 January 2014 (UTC) I have reinserted the sea of blue for my own reference, but will attempt to redistribute it through the main text ASAP. I will probably have to add a couple of ponds, however. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sidwinx (talk • contribs) 09:30, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * The first and main problem is the sea of blue the list creates. For me, it also seems to create a sizeable laundry list that I believe is detriment to the article. I would suggest a much simplified list of only important or otherwise notable collaborations, and certainly with fewer links. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 09:05, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * "Ponds"... LOL. Happy editing! --  Ohc  ¡digame! 09:32, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Removing references tag
Hi Ohconfucius! In, you removed the tag, which produced an error. Could you please double check your AWB setup so you don't accidentally remove any more? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 16:49, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I've just tried to reproduce the change, and realise what has happened. There's nothing inherently wrong with the code. It's what I did manually that seems to have caused the problem. :-( The rules correctly replace with   and removes any intervening (unnecessary) line feeds. For short articles, I often double click to cancel the replacement (because a 30em ref column isn't necessary). However, in this case the removal didn't get cancelled because of a line feed between the header and the ref tag that got removed. I will have to go back through them just in case. Thanks for being vigilant in my place. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 03:47, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Given that the 30em parameter is not critical for most articles, I've now disabled that replacement to avoid further problems. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 16:14, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the analysis and the change. I've been working through Category:Pages with missing references list and only saw this one edit.  If there are more, I'll let you know.  Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 16:43, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Curly quotes missed
Hi, with, you fixed the curly quotes “ in the infobox that preceded the words Cowes and Ryde, but missed the instance in the External links preceding the word Geograph. Also, you missed all three instances of ” and one instance of ’ -- Red rose64 (talk) 09:10, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I'll look into improving the cleaning. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 09:13, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Double checking
Someone is making unexplained changes and learning how to hide the rap sheet. Did I miss some history along the way? Dl2000 (talk) 02:42, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Seems weird. I've left the editor a TPM. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 03:55, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Script ready?
Is the script ready to go? I'm gonna download the new database dump and process it. Any new major changes I should know about in the last few months? ChrisGualtieri (talk) 06:39, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's ready, and I'm using it right now. It now incorporates many fixes already in my general formatting script and Common terms scripts. So it does a lot of downcasing, punctuation fixes (like removing curly apostrophes and prime symbols). It removes a lot of overlinking, as it basically incorporates all the terms you see here, and more. It also unlinks top 7 countries (almost everywhere – possibly too radical for you), and does some clever unlinking of countries when they are chain-linked and the end of a line or inside parentheses; "mispiped" nationalities (e.g. "German" and "Pakistani" . As before, I'd be happy to modify this based on your feedback. And by the way, what specific strings are you scanning for? Any fix you want me  to add to my regex? Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 06:58, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Specific strings? I was planning to try and find things to fix and make sure DMY/MDY is up to date and functioning well. Maybe adding some templates and to untagged articles. Same as before, but I don't use strings, cause I don't know how to use them. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 13:52, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Anchor edit
Hi, Ohconfucius. It looks like you are using a script that does a lot of good work. One thing I noted, though, is that it goes in and changes anchors. As I'm sure you know, the whole idea of having an anchor is so that links to old section headers will not be broken. So anchors should never be changed like the anchor in this edit was changed. Just past line 100 you will note that a hyphen was changed to an ndash inside the anchor. That broke a link I have on my watchlist, so I have fixed it. Just wanted to make sure you knew about it so you could hopefully keep it from happening again. Joys! –  Paine Ellsworth   C LIMAX ! 17:24, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up. Template proliferation is causing this and other problems, compounded by a legacy script. I'll need to get someone to step into the script, whose owner is no longer around. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 01:19, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Whew, that's a doozy! It looks as if it's designed not to go inside templates, already.  If that part's broken, then we have to ask what else might also be broken?  Wish you good luck! –   Paine Ellsworth   C LIMAX ! 10:55, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Minor changes
Hi, I see you're using a script to help you make many small MOS and similar changes. I (and other editors?) don't specially need to pay attention to this work which is probably useful. Could you possibly tweak your script to mark the changes as minor so I can filter them out? Would be appreciated. Chiswick Chap (talk) 06:33, 7 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Sure. FYI, I stopped it because the script's library of changes got much more comprehensive and I unchecked the box for transparency reasons. I haven't had many objections to the changes, so it's probably safe to mark them minor again. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 06:58, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

One link or two?
Hallo, in this edit you've changed Sandusky, Ohio (two links), to Sandusky, Ohio (one link) - along with other similar edits, and other dissimilar changes - "per WP:TIES, MOS:NUM, MOS:CAPS, MOS:LINK". I can't see where amongst those sources this change is mandated - I've always created two links like that when linking a US place, just as I would for Leeds, West Yorkshire. Could you show me where this is discussed? Thanks. Pam D  06:56, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Unlike USA place articles, which are almost always City, State, articles for UK places are not universally named according to the same convention. The assembled editors at the WP:MOS (and WP:Linking), myself included, generally frown upon "chain-linking" – that is the practice of having two or more consecutive links in any given string. This fails to give the reader a clear idea what the links are, and the additional link to the state is less germane to the topic at hand. It is a manifestation of overlinking. Having Sandusky, Ohio instead of Sandusky, Ohio has the advantage of not having two consecutive links in the given string. It also can't be misunderstood that, for example, Jay Cooke (whose article I have made no edits to) came from Sandusky and Ohio, as is possible to understand if one didn't know the former was a subset of the latter. In any event, the state (Ohio) in such instances is always of one order of magnitude less relevance to the subject than the city (Sandusky). In addition, it would always be possible (and more logical) for a reader to follow the subject matter – they are unlikely to leap from 'Jay Cooke' to 'Ohio' whilst bypassing Sandusky. As a note, I would generally remove the link to the county in the example you gave above. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 07:23, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * MOSLINK discourages bunched links, and encourages the linking of more specific, not less specific, targets. In both respects, the more specific place should be favoured over the more general, especially as the settlement article has a prominent link to Ohio, of course. Tony   (talk)  08:52, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * You managed to get the message across in less than a third of the wordcount. Humpf! --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 09:00, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, forgot to watchlist this so have only just come to look for any response. Thanks, both, for your replies. I see I've been getting it wrong for years - but this is the first time I've noticed any of my links being changed. As I tell new editors, there's a lot to learn about editing Wikipedia!

I've looked carefully at MOS:LINK, in particular WP:LINKSTYLE, and this isn't made very clear. There's an example of piping which shows a US town being piped to show just the town name, which isn't helpful on this point, and a section about the Irish Chess Championship which I suppose is relevant - except that in that case the single link gets to the appropriate article while the three links were all less specific. It might be helpful to add a specific point about placenames, to clarify this guideline. Perhaps, after the Irish chess example:
 * Where a place's article title includes a wider location, do not make two separate links: Riverside, California rather than Riverside, California.

I suggest that would be a useful addition. Pam D  09:58, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Why would a reader need to be presented with a link to California—unless perhaps at the actual article for Riverside California? Why would we want to bunch them together? Tony   (talk)  10:14, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Kazandibi

 * It's my pleasure! --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 09:43, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

The apostrophe
Maybe I will wish I had not asked. When I type article text I use the apostrophe key on my keyboard, which is this symbol' as in – for his family's honor.

When you go through an article, I see the words with an apostrophe being marked as changed, but nothing visible to my untrained eye. family's is family's before and after the edit. What has been changed? Is there something inadequate about the apostrophe key on my computer's keyboard? I see now that there is an apostrophe in the string of characters that can be inserted, like the em and en dashes. my computer family's

using the character from the wiki insert list family′s

Still looks the same to me. What is the difference and why is it important? Thanks! --Prairieplant (talk) 10:40, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, this was something that puzzled me too because I was initially unable to see the difference. Your two apostrophes above are indeed different. Looking at the list of characters that are converted by my script, there are maybe six different apostrophes that are used in some form or another elsewhere, and which all render in exactly the same way in output, or they may render differently depending on your browser. But you should be able to see the differences in edit mode. I include them here for information: [ ‘`´’′]. According to our manual of style, we should only use the straight apostrophe [']. I trust that answers your question. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 11:24, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Making the apostrophes big and bold makes it a bit easier to see the difference between family ' s vs. family ′ s. GoingBatty (talk) 12:28, 7 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Well, now I know there are lots of apostrophes. My confusion now is that the one from my own computer's keyboard appears straighter (more vertical) than the one from the wiki Insert list. Putting that aside, I typed a string of seven of them, and learned that a string of 7 from my own computer shows as 2 in final text, and words typed after show as enlarged and italicized, where the seven from the Insert bar show as seven apostrophes. Powerful difference. I deleted my experiment from here, as many confusions arose with italics and bold in the text following the string of seven apostrophes. Get the point, but wish there were simply one apostrophe, to make my life simpler.  --Prairieplant (talk) 15:38, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, I tried typing each mark successively in the search box, to find that we have  `  (grave accent),  ´ (acute accent),  ’  (apostrophe),  ′  (prime symbol),  ' (quotation mark). I'm thankful that somebody had the infinite wisdom to declare for using only straight quote marks. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 15:53, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * The symbol ′ found in the "Insert" list between ″ and ≈ is not an apostrophe but a prime, unicode U+2032. It's used as a shorthand for certain units of measurement, such as foot (the length), minute (the time) and minute (the angle). The character to its left, i.e. ″ is similarly not a double quote but a double prime, unicode U+2033. The true apostrophe ' is Unicode U+0027. -- Red rose64 (talk) 19:15, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I do not know how to type in Unicode. Is there a look up table, like the character map in windows, or must type out upper case U and then 2033? And is this worthwhile if other software catches it? Always something new to learn. --Prairieplant (talk) 00:53, 8 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I just looked again at a recently changed page, and the ones in the left column (from my computer's key board) look like the apostrophe in your big and bold list. In the right column (fixed) they now look like single quotation marks. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Potter%27s_Field_%28Peters_novel%29&diff=576090269&oldid=575998022

This is confusing! ---Prairieplant (talk) 01:05, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, I see the one on your keyboard as a "curly" apostrophe, and my script replaces it with a "straight" apostrophe. I actually quite like the curly one, but I just wonder why even computer manufacturers can't get to grips with harmonising their keyboard output, which I would expect to be uniform. Incidentally, I work with both PC (HP) and Mac, and my keyboard output for that character seems the same. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 01:16, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Edit to "Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court"
Hi Ohconfucius! I undid your resent edit to Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court. I think that the flag icons are appropriate for the list as it is a list of states that are parties to a treaty. Furthermore, removing the templates broke the display of some of the names (i.e.  was changed to  ). Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns. – Zntrip 18:43, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the message. I intentionally targeted the removal the flags and their associated links as these were unfocussed and therefore not germane. The abundance of flags in lists of countries may have become a bit of a custom and institution, but these appear to be in violation of MOS:FLAG, in that I don't see how "the nationality of different subjects is pertinent to the purpose of the list or table itself". Obviously, there is some subjectivity here, but once the country names were listed, the flags are purely decorative. The flag links to the country article are also inappropriate; the links are not to an article about the criminal courts or the legal system in said country. We see 'generic' links all too often but people seem to do so "because its always how it's been done" or because "it's pretty to have a list full of colours", and I just wish people would step out more and question the utility. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 01:38, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I have reverted several other edits to similar lists. I have to say, you must be more careful when using script-assisted fixes, as some of the "fixes" are anything but. For instance, at the very bottom of this edit, you unlinked a word in the "see also" section. – Zntrip 18:48, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Has anyone every questioned why the hell does "poverty" need to be linked in the article? --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 01:26, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Normally in main text to link to Poverty would be undesirable (diluting the wikilink system, teaching readers to ignore it, target too general to be useful, WP is not a dictionary, etc). But in the "See also" section, it's probably worth keeping as a link to a related article. However, is a more specific section or daughter-article target available? Zntrip, I can't see any reason to retain that eye-glazing column of pretty postage-stamp icons in those tables. Please explain why they are not purely decorative, since the information is in the adjacent text. Often, flags are worse than useless in information terms: they're misleading—the Australian and NZ flags, for example, are indistinguishable at that size (even at larger sizes). Tony   (talk)  03:01, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I have just now made the links on that page more targeted, whilst at the same time removing the flagfest. I hope you will agree that this is more optimal in terms of what information the reader will be looking for. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 03:12, 9 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I see several issues that have been raised thus far:
 * 1) I think you misunderstood my point about removing the link to "poverty" in the "see also" section. I'm not saying that it has to be there. The problem is that you removed the link but not the word. The "see also" section is exclusively for internal links. I was simply making the point that you need to be careful when making script-assisted edits en masse.
 * 2) Linking to countries is entirely appropriate as they are the subject of the list. A list of X should link to each individual X. This is not a list of legal systems, it is a list of countries.
 * 3) While I can appreciate the flagiconocalst point of view, the fact of the matter is that flagicons exist and this is what they are used for. The Manual of Style provides that they "may be relevant when the nationality of different subjects is pertinent to the purpose of the list or table itself." In any itemized list of states the flagicons become thus relevant and pertinent. As we are all aware, there are numerous lists such as these, including list of sovereign states, member states of the United Nations, and list of parties to the Geneva Conventions. If you want to challenge the use of flagicons, changing this article is not the appropriate method and this page is not the appropriate forum for such a discussion. – Zntrip 05:01, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * The article is about laws. Therefore I contend that the link is relevant and germane. Please tell me why you believe my focussed list is inferior to the one you prefer. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 06:20, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I think it would be instructive to formulate a general rule for lists of states. The list in question is in no way substantively different from any other list of states, such as the ones I have previously mentioned. How are you making the determination that this list is about laws whereas list of sovereign states and member states of the United Nations are about the states themselves? A list of states in these contexts is invariably related to law, but it is also related to diplomacy, foreign affairs, international organizations, and whatever the subject of a treaty may be (i.e. trade, the environment, contracts, etc.). In place of making a rather arbitrary determination of the predominant subject, it is much better to simply link the main article about the state. – Zntrip 19:49, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Or not link to the country article at all. It's not the sort of article that would incite readers to click on individual countries articles unless their specificity could be demonstrated. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 01:21, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

Quick question
I was wondering, do you have a script that doesn't to dmy or mdy compliance with just the other special fixes? I'd like to try that today. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 17:02, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Try User:Ohconfucius/script/Sources.js GoingBatty (talk) 00:43, 10 October 2013 (UTC)


 * There are a number of js scripts (not AWB) that are listed here that you are welcome to try out. Most (except the one GB mentioned above) are style-related. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 01:24, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I like AWB ones so much better. Oh and for the Unlinker, can it be modified to avoid templates and See Also sections? ChrisGualtieri (talk) 00:56, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't. That might not be the case if I were a programmer. The js scripts give me so much more flexibility and specificity compared with AWB, based on my non-existent programming skills. I've already incorporated as many of the rules from my others scripts into the current AWB 'dmy' module as I dare in light of potential false positives, but I'm not as comfortable with the protection levels in AWB – for example, it allows changes to text within block quotes. So that's what's preventing me from adding more. I don't know how to write rules around some templates. Simpler ones can be protected in my script, but I don't know how to execute these in AWB. It can get horribly complex as we now have so many darned templates, and what's more, people often nest these. Most of my scripts, except for Common Terms script, have different levels and specificity of protection adapted to the job at hand, but I don't know how to effectively protect Infoboxes, for example. I can additionally make my regex rules gradually more specific and contextual, but that's the best I can do. The CT script is the simplest, as it only removes double square brackets around any given string. It has no protection whatsoever because the links and surrounding text already provide the context. Good point about the 'See also' sections. I could probably incorporate protection for everything after " ", but I'd just comment that if the script has removed a link of a very common term in the 'See also' section, I usually remove the entire line manually. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 02:41, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

Most_trafficked_Hong_Kong-related_articles
What are the most trafficked HK-related articles that don't yet have ZH-YUE? I ask because if there are ZH-YUE stubs of them, it will make ZH-YUE more visible and there will be more pressure on it to be correct. Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 16:27, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * The most heavily trafficked articles relating to Hong Kong are at WikiProject Hong Kong/Popular pages, but I don't know the corresponding for zh-yue. Might need to consult the people at Wikidata for that. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 02:48, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

WP:IRE-IRL
I and another editor have left a message here concerning your script-assisted edits. Could you please address this before using the script further? Thanks, --Tóraí (talk) 19:32, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * And point of note Irish articles use Hiberno-English not British English, as per WP:ENGVAR as your bot also adds. Murry1975 (talk) 21:11, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't understand the specific nature of the complaint as I believe that I have not tagged any Irish article Use British English in recent months. Do you have a specific edit of mine that you are referring to? I have switched to using a more nationality-neutral EngvarB. And BTW, have you read the script documentation, or the template documentation? --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 02:21, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. GiantSnowman 11:11, 11 October 2013 (UTC)


 * You also have been removing the piped link to Republic of Ireland given by Ireland claiming WP:MOS however in all the instances I saw you simply removed the wikilink entirely; you did not refactor the link. WP:IMOS applies in these cases to avoid confusing readers. Please not this when making edits to Irish topics as the distinction between the state and the island needs to be retained. Thanks ww2censor (talk) 10:30, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Ah, we've been having a very animated discussion these last few days at WT:IRE-IRL on the exact manner of unlinking such Easter eggs, where I strongly argued that we should respect the underlying piped target. However, the consensus is that they should be, without exception, unlinked to 'Ireland' and not 'Republic of Ireland'. So that discussion led me to believe there's no issue, and now here we are... I think you guys ought to hash it out there on that aforementioned talk page and get back to me. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 12:45, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
 * IRMOS has virtually zero status, in my view, on this matter. Tony   (talk)  13:50, 15 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I did eventually read all the ANI. The topic appears to have been archived and the ANI search link does not work for some reason so it was a bit of a problem to find it. However, when you are removing the piped link and leaving the incorrect name of the country that is a problem which is exactly why WP:IMOS hashed out the matter in the best way possible quite some time ago. That was to use the proper name of the country except where there may be confusion with Northern Ireland depending on the context. For the examples I saw, had you removed the piped link and left Ireland instead of Republic of Ireland I think it would have been acceptable. ww2censor (talk) 17:15, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Careful with that axe, Eugine
88.104.26.129 (talk) 07:23, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Axe? It's more like a sponge, surely... ;-) --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 01:05, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Hildegard Björck
The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you, and thanks also for your patience. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 01:13, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Use dmy dates question
Hi there! Why did you add the "Use dmy dates" template to Miguel Álvarez Castro (which I just created)? There are no dates involving months or days anywhere in the article. Just curious what your process is or if there's a policy about this. Calliopejen1 (talk) 03:44, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi
Take a look at Fäbodristning when you got time. Thank you.--BabbaQ (talk) 11:21, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Take a look at Nour El-Refai and Barna Hedenhös. Your input is always appreciated.--BabbaQ (talk) 17:40, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Disp=flip
I reverted your A380 disp=flip change to cabin altitude because it is a special case that needs to override MOS. In aviation altitude is always in feet and is never converted, although the article and the plane itself are metric the altitude is a global convention. The A380 will even have it's altimeter in feet, to do otherwise would scramble the FL system among other things. Yes, it's inconsistent, because I am European I climb mountains in metres and fly in feet, irritating but that's just life. E x nihil (talk) 23:00, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh boo!! My pilots always tell me the altitude in both. Just looks ridiculous. :-( --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 01:32, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Sticking your nose where it doesn't belong
RE: Zoie_Palmer article

If the SOURCE of a reference publishes a date as "November 27, 2011" — it is not for you to change it to "27 November 2011."

You need to learn the difference between respecting as-is original work vs. willy-nilly changes based on YOUR preferences.

Go back and reverse the "fixes" on the referenced article dates that you ( and I don't use this term loosely ) fucked-up. Pyxis Solitary (talk) 12:50, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I may have got it wrong on that occasion, but I don't appreciate you addressing me in such an arrogant and uncivil fashion. To write what you wrote indicates strongly that you failed to assume good faith. To err is human, and a simple query would have got you what you wanted fixed, but your rudeness was completely unwarranted. If you choose to present yourself again here in such a manner, please be assured that any request or complaint will be ignored or summarily deleted. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 13:37, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
 * My mistake was to use a profane word to express in a to-the-point manner what I thought of your unsolicited and unwarranted intrusion in the article. For that, I apologize. But as for suggesting that I am "arrogant" -- tsk, tsk -- everything about yourself in your User page is the definition of arrogance (with self-love topping the froth). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pyxis Solitary (talk • contribs) 06:53, 22 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Ohconfucius, your edit summaries used in the above comment are unacceptable and uncalled for. Please take care to not communicate in such a manner in the future, as it is detrimental towards other contributors and the project as a whole. Regards, - Kingpin13 (talk) 15:04, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Lighten up, pal, as I am one of those "other contributors" and I say you've made a hasty generalization. I see more things comical in this discussion than I see things "detrimental".  Either all of you get your bums in gear... or take a much needed WikiHoliday (briefly, of course... I do miss the all the fun   –   Paine Ellsworth   C LIMAX ! 18:10, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

WT:DAB
The proposal concerning the franchises and primary topic criteria has been started. If you are interested with this matter, please join in discussion to improve consensus. --George Ho (talk) 04:57, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Script bug
Hi Ohconfucius,

Just a minor thing: At [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tynwald_Day&diff=577689660&oldid=576540038 diff], the script delinked "5 July". -- 签名 sig  at  06:27, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't think that's a bug - User:Ohconfucius/script/MOSNUM dates states that the script "delinks all dates and date fragments, including day-month strings". GoingBatty (talk) 03:37, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Carin Hjulström
The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Alice Munro year links were good
In your WP:MOS fixes, you unlinked numerous links to what you thought were years. However, they were not links to years, but links to "year in literature" with a pipe to hide the "in literature" part of the phrase. See WP:YEARLINK, which even mentions an example of this sort. It's probably easiest to fix this by reverting your edit, then running your script again with the year-link-fix part omitted. Choor monster (talk) 14:19, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh yes I've been removing such links thinking they are undesirable in that they violate WP:SEAOFBLUE. The high density of links in that section make these the logical ones to be removed. Also, I don't actually see exactly what you see in WP:YEARLINK, as I believe these deal specifically with 'year' articles (e.g. 1795, 1955, 2007). I see links (like the ones removed) all over articles about authors, and I realise it's quite common practice. But the links are not exactly intuitive. Of course, one would not be wrong to expect a link to a 'year in literature' article in which a seminal work was created. These should be put in the 'See also' section, but I feel such blanket use of links that I removed is of no great help to the reader hidden inside a year link. I'm tempted to leave the article unlinked as it is, but feel free to restore that section if you disagree with my reasoning and feel strongly about preserving those links. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 19:15, 22 October 2013 (UTC)


 * What I saw in WP:YEARLINK was "so too may 1787 in science when writing about a particular development on the metric system in that year." In other words, linking to the year alone is bad, but the narrower year+concept is acceptable.  I have no feelings about the matter either way. Choor monster (talk) 09:56, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Scripts
We have had this conversation before, but can you make sure you link to everything you are actually changing as Flags aren't covered by any of links or mentioned in your edit summary. Also i probably am wrong but should the dmy dates tag not remain as May 2013 rather than being changed to October 2013. Blethering  Scot  20:16, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
 * - The documentation at Template:Use dmy dates states "After being tagged, and bearing in mind article evolution, periodic script or bot runs clean up formats, correcting any new introductions since its last visit, and updating the visit date on the template."  Hope this helps!  GoingBatty (talk) 03:41, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Rigor mortis
..is not spelled with a u. You may need to amend the parameters of your automated process DrKiernan (talk) 08:42, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

Date formatting for references
Ohconfucius, Thank you for your contributions to WP. I certainly appreciate your work in attempting to unify the date formats appropriately in articles. I have a substantial disagreement however with changing the format of dates in references from YYYY-MM-DD. Per MOS:DATEFORMAT and WP:Citing_Sources the all numeric format is appropriate in references. References should be as concise as possible and spelling out entire names of months often twice in a single reference is unnecessary. Also note WP:CITEVAR, "Editors should not attempt to change an article's established citation style merely on the grounds of personal preference". This appears to be the case in this edit Diff which I am reverting (assuming good faith). Please note WP:TIES that you mentioned in your edit summary points to WP:STRONGNAT which specifically states, "YYYY-MM-DD format may be used in references or in tables, even in articles with national ties, if otherwise acceptable." I think it is important that the issue of date formatting in references be discussed on a general basis and propose the YYYY-MM-DD format for all retrieved/accessdates and to be the standard for all dates in reference lists. I realize your talk page is not the appropriate forum but I thought I would start here and perhaps you could point me in the right direction for this discussion in a larger way (new or ongoing). I also am interested in your input. Again I want to express my appreciation for your efforts in bringing some order to dates on WP. I feel ambiguous dates are an anathema and strongly support a nationally appropriate full text date style in the text of articles. Best wishes. - - MrBill3 (talk) 15:17, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your long and detailed note. I work through a high volume of articles, using work lists derived from various methods. I do try to ensure that conversions of properly formatted articles like the one you found do not occur, but there is no sure fire way of detecting these. Occasionally, some slip through the net due to the nature of my workflow. I thank you for your attention, and will redouble my efforts to prevent recurrence. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 03:18, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you for responding. - - MrBill3 (talk) 04:36, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Member of Parliament
The proper terminology is Member of Parliament -- per Wikipedia article itself -- not member of parliament!! Please undo this mistake. Quis separabit? 19:23, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
 * You don't cite a diff, but from your contributions, I would say my change (which you reverted here) was not a mistake. A person is "a member of parliament" just like a person is "a doctor". When referring to the person as "a member of the Irish Parliament", it would be correct to capitalise the word "Parliament" because parliament is specific to the one in Ireland. However, the membership remains generic, so the word "member" is correctly in lower case. IFF you want to refer to a person who is an MP for a specific seat, then it would be correct to write "Margaret Thatcher was the Member of Parliament for Finchley" because her membership is specific and part of her title; also there is little doubt that "Parliament" here implies the British Parliament. I would also certainly not make the link to the Member of Parliament to prove your point, which is fallacious – oh, and "Member" is capitalised here most probably because all WP articles begin with upper case, including "dog" and "doctor". I trust this address your concern. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 23:12, 25 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I think OC is right here, although some writers still carry the habit of upcasing. MOS says to downcase for "the past three presidents of the US", for example. There are currently 565 members of parliament—seems to be a smoother read in unmarked form, as distinct from the titular "President Bush". Tony   (talk)  04:45, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Neutral notice
This is a neutral notice that an RfC has been opened at an article which you have edited within the past year. It is at Talk:Clint Eastwood. --Tenebrae (talk) 14:28, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Script changing titles of cited works
Hi. I noticed at least one error in your recent script-assisted edit of Bangkok. It changed the title of the work, "Embassy to the Eastern courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat : in the U. S. sloop-of-war Peacock during the years 1832-3-4" to "Embassy to the Eastern courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat : in the U. S. sloop-of-war Peacock during the years 4 March 1832". I've reverted that change. I'm not sure about (incorrect) punctuation in such titles—should they be changed or preserved? --Paul_012 (talk) 09:07, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Ohconfucious, I just wanted to ask a question on the same subject. I noticed this edit - are we not supposed to include the publishers? – anemone projectors – 10:39, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm going by what it says at Template:Citation: "* publisher: The name of the publisher. Omit terms such as Publishers, Co., Inc., Ltd., etc., but retain the words Books or Press. Not normally included where the publication is a periodical which has its own Wikipedia article (e.g. Newsweek, Billboard)." I've underlined the relevant part to give it a little personal emphasis. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 16:55, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks
Nice work on Lou Reed! bobrayner (talk) 02:20, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Filippo Drago
Dear Ohconfucius, would you help me in creating the article about the pharmacologist Filippo Drago? You moved the article from the main to the articles for creation. How can the page be edited and moved to the main stream?

Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pchemc (talk • contribs) 23:19, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I moved it to where it belongs because the article is not yet ready for main space. I am not convinced, from looking at the sources, that the subject is notable. The quality of sources from a biographical viewpoint is inadequate, and I would invite you to study carefully WP:BIO, WP:RS and WP:V, with a view to adding more substantive biographical citations. Once you feel that the article is ready, then you may request a move at Requested moves. I fear that if the article is moved back before it fully complies with our policies, it will be deleted. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 01:48, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Real source of ad hominem
I'd just like to point out that it was GiantSnowman who was using the ad hominem, not me. Check this edit summary. I admit I could have added something like " ... before using it" in my reply for clarity. HandsomeFella (talk) 15:58, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Er, yes. I see now. It didn't look good, and what you confessed to being more desirable would have been a lot lot better. My opinion is that one incivility often starts a spiral of incivilities and further insults, and for the subsequent user to say "the other guy did it first" is not really an excuse. Something that started as a simple disagreement can degrade into a vicious feud months down the line, resulting in community bans and arbcom actions. Nobody wins. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 17:27, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
 * This wasn't exactly "the other guy did it first", or tit-for-tat, or anything like that. It was rather that I thought his use of the word – in addition to it being an obvious personal attack – made me question whether he knew what it really means. I can't see that there is anything hypocritical in any of my posts. (Can you?) But I do wish I had been clearer, because, as you say, it didn't look good. Thanks for your understanding. HandsomeFella (talk) 12:19, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

EngvarB
Hi. You added category EngvarB to an article and I am curious to know what is the purpose of distinguishing articles as unAmerican. Thank you. — O'Dea (talk) 04:26, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
 * You seem to edit mainly Irish articles. I am currently working through Irish articles with my script, which tags and then helps to ensure consistency of spelling in the article. My script will convert spellings that are not commonly used such as "favor", "center" into forms more familiar to certain readers in accordance with WP:ENGVAR. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 04:37, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Nationalities for Grammy Award lists
If you are going to remove the flags/nationalities from all of these lists, you should probably remove the information in the lead about nationalities as well. It would have been nice to discuss this at the Grammy Award task force first. -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 02:36, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * AB, I've been watching that article. Just why scarce horizontal room was consumed by a thick column of US flags (and the country-name in text, if you please) is something I can't determine. Even if the countries varied, why not just write the names rather than inserting pretty decorations that don't mean much? Tony   (talk)  02:43, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I am just asking that if information is going to be removed from the list, that the accompanying details in the lead also be removed. Otherwise, it does not make sense to discuss nationalities in the lead when the subject is never addressed later. -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 02:46, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but I just don't see the point you make about nationalities in the lead. Presumbly you mean the sentence" "Award-winning songs have been performed by American artists more than any other nationality, though they have also been performed by musicians or groups originating from Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom." I see nothing wrong or inconsistent in leaving such sentence in place, as it simply an observation or a fact. It neither states nor suggests that nationalities of the artists are determinant factor for the recipient which is what the flag implies. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 02:48, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Leads are meant to summarize details presented throughout the article. Keeping a sentence like the one you just mentioned is no longer reliable. The reader has no idea which artists are from what countries... You are making major changes to Featured lists. If information is being removed from articles, the leads need to be amended appropriately as well. -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 03:10, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Disagree. Such a sentence doesn't make it unreliable. It would have been simpler to have supported that sentence with a citation in the first place, but that can now still be done as you seem to believe it's rendered necessary by my removal. --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 03:16, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * But there are no references in the lead to verify nationalities. Saying an artist from Ireland won the award does not tell readers which artist is Irish.. With the nationalities column missing, readers are left unable to decipher the nationalities information presented in the lead. -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 03:24, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * maybe not, but you seem to be setting up a whole chain of verification, creating work for yourself as well as the risk of WP:OR. Having the nationality column and the flag doesn't prove the artists is of a particular nationality anyway, it just serves as an indicator. Such a collation seems like the sort of fact that would have been observed and I would be surprised if it hadn't been written about by one music journalist or another. Then there should be a source that you can cite, then there's no problem. ;-) --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 03:32, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I am not sure I am understanding. I don't mind if nationalities are being removed from the articles, but it is problematic to remove nationality info from the tables and leave nationality information in the leads. Nationality information should be removed completely, unless there are sources indicating nationality details for any given award. -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 03:55, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Flight Global
Hi Ohconfucius, just want to raise the point regarding User:Ohconfucius/test/Sources subscript1.js that not all Flightglobal articles are sourced from Flight International, as the website brings together various publications that also include the Airline Business, Air Transport Intelligence, etc. Appreciate your work. Cheers, --Sp33dyphil ©hatontributions 00:16, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll adjust the script accordingly. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 01:18, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Lines
Please stop the changes while a discussion is active. Plowing into this is incivil and insulting. What is the hurry? -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 10:38, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Why? The lines are in violation of guidelines, and no amount of further filibustering or irrational argumentation on user talk pages can change. And how is applying guidelines uncivil and insulting? --  Ohc  ¡digame!¿que pasa? 13:14, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
 * It is incivil and insulting to go and make the changes while a good faith discussion is ongoing. You're making it sound like a guideline is gospel and cannot be challenged.  Guidelines are suggestions.  They are not policy and they do not need to be applied universally without exception.  I object to the change and on behalf of the project I feel that discussion is appropriate so that the change is applied properly and it is considered a necessity for some technical or overpowering need.  Every bit of formatting throughout Wikipedia is a result of someone's preference.  While a discussion may have taken place deprecating the use of the line (and I would appreciate a link to the discussion that formed that consensus), the line is useful in making a distinction between features.  There is a line under every section heading so the lines themselves cannot be so abhorrent that they cannot be allowed to exist.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 13:25, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Mughal-e-Azam cleanup
Why change the money/number units? Now it does not match the sources. You changed some, but not all lakhs and crores to millions, billions, and even 100,000s. There are even some mixed units within single sentences now. Please review your work and make sure that it is correct and consistent. BollyJeff &#124;  talk  03:27, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

MOS:COMMA
You recently contributed to a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names) § Commas in metro areas. Following a recent related RFC on the wording used at MOS:COMMA in relation to geographic names, a new wording has gathered some support and I have opened a new RFC at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style § RFC: Proposed amendment to MOS:COMMA regarding geographical references and dates for further discussion of the proposal, which may interest you. —sroc &#x1F4AC; 08:45, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Naim Audio amplification
The DYK project (nominate) 00:17, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Regina Lund
The DYK project (nominate) 08:04, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

NAIT [sic]?
Hi, I don't understand the sic added in this edit. "NAIT" appears in that quote exactly as it does elsewhere in the article. Am I missing something? M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  22:51, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I thought I needed to replicate the capitalisations per quote. If not needed, then yes it should be removed. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 01:34, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I guess you mean that it's sometimes referred to as the "Nait" in the article; but it's also called NAIT, including three other times in the same paragraph, and in the article's title. So I've gone ahead and removed the sic, but if I'm still missing something, feel free to revert. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  02:00, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks. In the article, I have tried to use the block caps "NAIT" as the acronym and the brand, but "Nait" for the actual product (including the first, which doesn't have any other name). Do you think I'm making too fine a distinction? --  Ohc  ¡digame! 02:04, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Ah, I had just scanned the article very quickly and didn't notice the different usages. No, I don't think it's too fine a distinction. And, as I said, if you prefer the sic, feel free to restore it. M AN d ARAX  •  XAЯA b ИA M  05:46, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll mull it over. I probably won't restore, but will instead try making things clearer. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame! 05:49, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Intern Weblink
Hallo Ohconfucius, on this site the assistend have delet sign from ( Self-Transcendence 6 & 10 day to this Self-Transcendence 6 & 10-day . And ist was never avaible. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sri_Chinmoy&diff=next&oldid=571654480 Thanks--Richard Reinhardt (talk) 14:01, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry that my edit caused a broken link. However, I'd note that the article is incorrectly titled because "10 day" is grammatical nonsense. The correct title per MOS:HYPHEN is "Self-Transcendence 6- & 10-day [races]". I've now moved the article accordingly. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 14:21, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

File:Naim pre @ 2013.png listed for deletion
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 * Wikipedia is a work in progress. I created the images recently for articles I'm working on, and I do not appreciate another editor coming along less than two months after their creation to determine that my images have "no forseeable use". I also don't appreciate my talk page being plastered with acres of templates. Space is not an issue as far as content is concerned. Instead of targeting recent files, the nominator should concentrate on older files that are unused. You made no attempt to discuss any of the deletions with me, the creator, and you have now wasted both your time and mine with your indiscriminate actions. Thanks for your attention. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 03:28, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:20110614ITNalt.GIF
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 * Are you kidding me? You don't seem to be at all knowledgeable yet you go around templating regulars and indiscriminately deleting files that you feel waste space. The deletion rationale makes no sense whatsoever. FYI, the file is a screen grab from Wikipedia, and is by definition GFDL-compliant. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 03:19, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Momčilo Gavrić]
If is really an alt spelling of his name you really ought to put than in his article. Your script also failed to preserve the cap.  Spinning Spark  16:49, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
 * yes, thanks. The regex engine doesn't recognise "č" as being part of the alphanumeric string, so it saw "mom" replaced it with "mother". I actually caught the other errors caused by the script, but I missed that one. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 16:52, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Please notice ip 111.243.0.198, 114.39.7.129
Hi, Please notice, ip user  111.243.0.198 and ip 114.39.7.129 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/111.243.0.198  , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/114.39.7.129, Vandalism a lot of articles , please stop these ip user , thank youMBINISIDLERS (talk) 08:55, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
 * - Looks like User:Tom Morris posted a message on each IP's talk page about the same time you were posting here. GoingBatty (talk) 01:05, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of NAD 3020
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Articles removed for WP:International law to do list
I've removed the following articles from the Article requests section of the To Do list of WikiProject International law as you have added the articles and information. I am letting you know about this as I can't really make a call as to whether they should be added to the Expand section. If you feel any of those articles should have been moved there, please add them. Thank you for the additions. IMHO (talk) 21:39, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
 * 1970 Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft
 * 1971 Montreal Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation
 * 1988 Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation
 * 1988 Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation
 * 1988 Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf
 * 1991 Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Identification
 * Looks good. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame! 01:15, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Oops. I see you made edits, but I think I should have left this in Good Olfactory's talk page.  Have a good day.  IMHO (talk) 01:41, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Mistake in Alan Carr tags?
Hi there. You recently added "advert" and "merge" tags to Alan Carr. It looks like you were batch processing a bunch of child articles of Pride of Britain Awards, and somehow added the Alan Carr article to your list. I've taken the liberty of removing the tags -- if you think this is wrong and the tags should definitely belong there, let me know. Themillofkeytone (talk) 05:20, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
 * You were correct in your assumption, and that specific article was not intended. Thanks for correcting my mistake. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame! 06:15, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Natural Law Party of Ontario
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John Heviral
You seem to have 'broken' the table in John Herival with this edit (line 41). would you please repair the table? There appear to be a few other formatting issues with the table as well. Thanks 98.208.245.237 (talk) 01:05, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, my bad. Now the old table has been restored. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame! 01:26, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Broken link in Wikisource template
This edit broke a link to Wikisource, which does not use dashes in titles for DNB articles. Scripts really shouldn't be used to edit within templates. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:31, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Notification of automated file description generation
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DYK nomination of Linn Isobarik
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Natural Law Party of Canada
Thanks for your comment at the merge discussion. On a related note, the leader of the NLP for Ontario, Ron Parker, has been nominated for deletion. If you have any input you can comment here. Cheers!-- — Keithbob • Talk  • 14:20, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Rega Planar 3
The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Naim NAIT
The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

WP:CITEVAR
Hi. Are you familiar with WP:CITEVAR? It says that "Editors should not attempt to change an article's established citation style merely on the grounds of personal preference, to make it match other articles, or without first seeking consensus for the change." I am thinking in particular of your edit on 26 October. I will not put myself through the tedium of reverting it without a script, but it was unnecessary. MOS:NUM indicates that "The date format chosen by the first major contributor in the early stages of an article should continue to be used, unless there is reason to change it based on strong national ties to the topic or consensus on article talk." That first major contributor chose the YMD format in this case. The dates in question were in references, and thus not bound by any strong national ties consideration. I know all this because I have been re-reading the policies. The policy statements concerning dates are many and long, and require close reading, like so much other Help in Wikipedia. I despair at how much Help there is because it makes finding what you want a very slow and exasperating business sometimes. Anyway, there you go. — O'Dea (talk) 18:36, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi
I have created an article about Musikhjälpen. A nice annual event.--BabbaQ (talk) 12:01, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library Survey
As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasit &#124; c 15:10, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Offensive edit summary
Your edit summary is offensive:

"Revert gaming by Jc3s5h - why don't you change the other guideline, then and quit messing with the more the one that's more authoritative"

But I will answer your offensive question. The contradictory example in the other guideline was in place since 13 August 2011 while the contradictory text in MOSNUM was in place since 15 August 2012. The change in MOSNUM purported to be a summary, and there was no discussion on-point in the MOSNUM talk page.

Maybe next time you could read both pages that I describe as contradictory before you dismiss me as a gamer. Jc3s5h (talk) 11:01, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
 * oh, silly me, i thought u were referring to the other edit summary!--  Ohc  ¡digame! 13:27, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the edits here. Regarding this edit, I struggled to determine whether he was a "journalist." Basically, he is an executive editor of the Post and also writes about his opinions about real estate, restaurants, and other things (op-ed), in addition to being an author of a book. None of the references really refer to him specifically as a journalist. The journalist page states "Depending on the context, the term journalist may include various types of editors, editorial writers, columnists" so it the term seems to fit. He does view himself working in the tabloid journalism area. I revised the infobox occupation somewhat. Feel free to change it to what you think best fits. -- Jreferee (talk) 15:41, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
 * The reason I changed "editor" to "journalist" because I identified the former as a position rather than an occupation or profession. But no, I have no issues with your changes. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame! 16:08, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)#En dash vs. "and" for multi-state metro areas
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DYK for NAD 3020
Gatoclass (talk) 16:47, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Lufsig@ikeadec2013.jpg
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Lufsig pictures
. Deryck C. 22:22, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
 * oh, boo hiss again. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 04:10, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Re: datefix2
Missing ">" was intended to avoid this, and the resulting that. It is not expected to adversely affect the parsing and protection of galleries, although let me know if you see a potential bug from that. Dl2000 (talk) 03:24, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
 * OIC. I saw that you corrected one missing chevron and thought maybe you might have missed the second. I didn't really look too closely at the code and didn't realise it was meant to be a fix of some sort. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 03:28, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Could have used an edit summary on that one... anyway the closing gallery segment should still be valid, just that I hadn't encountered parameters in the initial gallery element before. One can learn many new things each day on WP coding. Thanks for the feedback. Dl2000 (talk) 03:38, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Yep, it's definitely a challenge trying to write code and regexes to solve (and/or anticipate) problems created to wiki markup by the uninitiated. Have a good one! --  Ohc  ¡digame! 03:56, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Sex141
Since this site is still shutdown, you can expand the article by adding info about Nightlife141.com and 141Club.com. That way, the article shouldn't be about solely Sex141. --George Ho (talk) 19:33, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
 * You might be right. I'll add some more about nightlife14, but there's little specific press coverage on it or any of the other country sites. It's sex141 that is the notable site, and it was back on line last night, which is where I got the new screen grab from. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 01:34, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of LS3/5A
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Merry Christmas
First of all Merry Christmas to you! Please take a look at my newly made articles Emma Knyckare and Cecilia Uddén. Regards,--BabbaQ (talk) 18:46, 25 December 2013 (UTC) happy christmas to you too. too many working on these. i got conflicted several times, and it's frustrating to have it whilst editing on a mobile device.  Ohc  ¡digame! 20:12, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh, thanks anyway for your work. Always appreciated.--BabbaQ (talk) 20:46, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Reminder - datefix script
Please avoid using the datefix script without checking the result. [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Day_of_Commemoration&diff=578636307&oldid=576181204 this edit] broke the definition of the holiday.

Given that this seems to be a reoccurring problem and you don't follow up on related bug reports on your talk page (User_talk:Ohconfucius), you may want to refrain from using it in the future. -- 签名 sig  at  08:56, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
 * As GB replied, it's not  a bug, and  it's a gross over-reaction to revert my entire edit when it's simple to restore the link. Not that I think is necessary, given that the date changes every year. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 15:04, 31 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Be a buggy feature or bug: in any case, it's for the script operator to ensure that it runs correctly. You need to ensure the script is run correctly and shouldn't expect other users to fix your edits. -- 签名 sig  at  16:13, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
 * it seems like it's not the same "bug" you  complained about last time. Now i see what you were on about. I have fixed the text so the problem should not recur. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 20:41, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Author = staff
Hi Ohconfucius! You may be interested in reading User talk:BattyBot and participating in the conversation at Help talk:Citation Style 1. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 16:46, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Advice please. I notice that you add to the tops of articles. I have on occasion changed it to, but didn't want to carry on so without discussing it with you. I am presuming that is a useful guidance note to tell those opening up the edit window to use Brit Eng. If this is the case, would the more direct instruction of  be even more helpful to those who might not understand what EngvarB means. Of course, EngvarB could mean something additional to Use British English, so I certainly don't want to undo your good work. If this is so, can the be added alongside  ? Thanks. Acabashi (talk) 16:40, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I would refer to assorted postings on the template talk page or on my talk page in the past. In the post-colonial era, it is understandably considered politically incorrect, or even provocative, by some to use something like Use British English, especially articles on Irish, Australian, Malaysian topics even if these de facto use British spelling. My script therefore systematically places the code-neutral template. In terms of workflow, it allows me to process all such articles using one script button and one template. I have no issue with users substituting the EngvarB template with a language template for any other English variant if they feel this is appropriate to the article. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame! 01:27, 3 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that. I tend to use the Brit Eng temps only on my preferred editing area English place articles, so perhaps it might not be such a problem there. I could tuck the EngvarB temp in the articles too if that helps with your processing. Acabashi (talk) 01:38, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I see that you're already using my MOSNUM script. You might want to check out my ENGVAR script, which should align most of the spellings in less time than it would take you to add the template manually. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 01:42, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I will use the script when I can get my head around how to use it - I think I tried to use it previously. Many thanks for the advice. Acabashi (talk) 21:12, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Loading it is the same as for the MOSNUM script. The difference is that you will find the sidebar buttons by clicking on the small triangle marked "scripts". Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame! 05:22, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Greetings!

 * Much appreciated, thanks. A happy one to you too! --  Ohc  ¡digame! 08:35, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Lupton
please check that all of the spelling is correctly "English" for page on Arnold Lupton - btw -how do you place "Professor Sir Arnold Lupton" in the subheading - this is his correct title - is it necessary do you think? Cheers Mike
 * Mike, We all know his name, so I don't think anything will be gained by adding a subsection with that title. I also note that there is precious little regarding his academic credentials in the article anyway, so it's pointless from that standpoint. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 09:09, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Your recent edits
Dear me, I must be blind but because following this up I couldn't see where MOS prevents the use of non-breaking spaces in dates to avoid days and months being split. While we're at it, I also couldn't see where a format like "Launceston, Tasmania", which I've long employed to reduce unnecessary blue, is forbidden. Could you point those out to me? Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 11:56, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * There are only a few instances where the nbsp is specifically indicated, and within dates isn't one of them. Having said that, I guess I have to accept it's not contraindicated either. The correct functioning of my script makes removal of the nbsp obligatory for so long that it means to me that they shouldn't be there at all. I gets carried away, so I guess I owe you an apology for reverting you. As to Launceston, I'm glad that you seem to be a sea of blue minimalist like me. I am more used to seeing " Launceston, Tasmania " in all the pages that I edit, and my regex changes these universally to " Launceston, Tasmania " to remove the temptation of others to add the undesirable chain link to follow the city link. So although there may be a little more blue to start with, the advantage is of cutting down potential overlinking. It would also create a uniformity of sorts, but I'm open to considering how to make it truly uniform. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 12:35, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Tks for your understanding. I just feel keeping days with their months makes the same sort of sense as keeping a measurement with its unit, or the "II" with "War" (as in World War II), which are specifically mentioned. As to the town, state/province/county constructions, yeah, I make it a rule to always link only the city in such cases. I'll link a state/province/county only if its on its own, and I never link modern countries, only obsolete political entities like Nazi Germany, Empire of Japan, Kingdom of Italy, etc. I maintain stewardship of all the articles I edit so I think the risk of others adding undesirable chain links is pretty low. The other thing is that every article I create or enhance ends up at GA or higher, and these style formats have never raised questions in assessments. So while I know these scripts do good stuff I'm not sure they add a lot to the articles I work on, except the EngVar/DMY templates, which I could do myself in future. Bottom line is that 5OTU is awaiting its GAN and Frank Headlam is under FAC review and I'd like to put them back to their previous state (plus Engvar/DMY templates) with your agreement. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 22:37, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, Ian, I'm fine with that approach. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame! 23:29, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Oxford spelling
Hi Ohconfucius, just for future reference, re this edit, "criticized" and "specializes" is British English too (Oxford spelling). See the tag on the talk page. I wonder if the script could be adjusted so that it doesn't automatically make those edits. SlimVirgin (talk) 19:44, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Use British (Oxford) English is the tag that should have been there instead of Use British English, or that wouldn't have happened. Now fixed. Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame! 20:11, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for fixing it. SlimVirgin (talk) 20:14, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Lufsig
The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

January 2014
Hello, I'm ViperSnake151. I noticed that you removed topically-relevant content from a Wikipedia article. However, Wikipedia is not censored to remove content that might be considered objectionable. Please do not remove or censor information that directly relates to the subject of the article. If the content in question involves images, you have the option to configure Wikipedia to hide images that you may find offensive. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. ViperSnake151  Talk  03:01, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I didn't remove any images, so I presume you are referring to the usage of the words "fuck" and "cunt". I have been around WP as long as you have, so I don't need the lecture, thank you. Just check the sources to see how they deal with the profanity. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 03:07, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * But that still doesn't mean that we censor it. It's clear by all the sources combined that "mother's cunt" was what it translated to. ViperSnake151   Talk  03:19, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Notice of Edit warring noticeboard discussion
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Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you don't violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

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Civility
Note that I'm very tempted to implement a block for disruptive editing for this uncivil edit summary you provided. Please don't do that again. only (talk) 04:21, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, the summary was "pointy", but disruptive?? You see, I was offended that the other guy implied I was against profanity whilst brandishing WP:Censor when I felt it didn't apply. I used it deliberately, tongue very much in cheek, to show I wasn't opposed to profanity and that I also use it occasionally. --  Ohc  ¡digame! 04:31, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I figured it was tongue in cheek, which is why I didn't pull the trigger on a block. The disruptive part of it is that "Fuck you" is directed at someone; if you had something like "Using profanity is bullshit" (gets your tongue in cheek idea across, but doesn't direct at someone), I might not have left this note.  See where I'm coming from?  only (talk) 04:37, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I could have done worse by writing "fuck your mother's cunt" (a phrase viper insisted on reinserting). ;-) Regards, --  Ohc  ¡digame! 04:45, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

speedy
I would have thought you knew that Quality, cost, delivery is not among the sort of things susceptible to speedy A7. (fwiw, I think it's expandable, so I will remove a prod also--if o insist on trying to delete it, use AfD .  DGG ( talk ) 22:38, 5 January 2014 (UTC)