User talk:Patrug

Cleaned up reference links
I wanted to ask about your recent edit to the article for East Brunswick, New Jersey in which you made significant cuts to some of the links provided in references. As the person who added these references, I am cognizant of the fact that bloated references can be confusing to those maintaining the article and in many cases (especially sources from Google Books), I am aware that the links can be significantly shortened. But in other cases, it's often easier to just grab the URL that comes from the Google search, bloat and all, and just paste it into the reference in the article. Is there any mechanism / automated process that you used to trim those links or is there some procedure that can be used when looking up the reference that can grab a pre-trimmed link? Thanks for the edit and thanks in advance for the information. Alansohn (talk) 17:06, 4 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi Alan, thanks for the note -- and for your countless NJ updates over the years! I actually wondered myself if a Wikipedia "bot" could efficiently automate the URL trimming that I did by hand, since there must be thousands of cases like these. For example, links to Google Books & Google News generally don't need anything more than "id=<>&pg=<>" after the "?" in the URL. Similarly, old links to PQArchiver "/access/" URLs automatically re-direct to new "/doc/" URLs, which can then be stripped of everything from the "?" onward. I personally don't know how to build or run Wiki bots, but perhaps there's a place we could ask a Wikitech to try? —Patrug (talk) 00:03, 5 December 2014 (UTC)


 * A bot would be fantastic, but I will be that much more attuned to the issue going forward. It's so much easier to just grab the full-length link, especially if I'm uncertain of how to trim the excess. I do it all the time at Google Books, but it's not always trivial. Thanks for all of your efforts. Alansohn (talk) 19:23, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

2015 goals for WikiProject NJ
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GA & DYK nominations of Petrodollar recycling
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 * Thank you both for the quick approvals! —Patrug (talk) 22:32, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Petrodollar recycling
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DYK for Lasst uns erfreuen
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Precious
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:42, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Three years ago, you were recipient no. 1636 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:47, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Sockpuppet?
Regarding your comments in this discussion, have you already gone to WP:SPI? Marcocapelle (talk) 21:04, 27 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Not yet. From disappointing past experiences, the SPI volunteers seem more interested in "closing tickets" than solving behavioral problems, so thought I'd wait to see how efficiently CFD might help the situation. I thought uncontested category deletions are supposed to get implemented after 7 days, but it seems not? Might WP:AIV be a better strategy? —Patrug (talk) 04:24, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
 * In any case it's not going very fast. CFD discussions may be closed after a week, but in practice two months is more likely. WP:AIV is a better option, but only after a direct discussion with the accused editor. So I started that on his talk page. When you're reverting his reverts on my yesterday's category removals from the articles we can build a case. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:55, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks. AFD seems to be mostly punctual after a week, so it's odd that CFD is so different. Two months is awfully slow when an obsessive editor is violating guidelines dozens of times every week. I'll try to post some Talk page warnings to crystallize the vandalism case. —Patrug (talk) 05:56, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing List of countries by oil production
Moved this discussion to Talk:List of countries by oil production. Let's continue there. —Patrug (talk) 02:07, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Prayer of Saint Francis
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Hi, a real human here. Enjoyed the article; made a few mostly ridiculously small suggestions, which I hope you'll take in good part. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:34, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Prayer of Saint Francis
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Many thanks
I am just discovering that you have nominated the article I have written on St Francis prayer in the category Good article and that the nomination passed. Read by more than 1 million people ! Wow ! Many thanks. Could you join me at c.r@infonie.fr ? Yours —Prof75

DYK for Prayer of Saint Francis
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