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Nomination of Derbyshire and Lancashire Gliding Club for deletion
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Limited edition
Hi, now that Limited edition points to a disambig, please don't forget to clean up the incoming links per WP:FIXDABLINKS. Navigation popups with the popupFixDabs flag set to true is a big help. Cheers, -- Ja Ga  talk 16:27, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
 * It looks like a separate page (Limited edition) will be needed before some of the links can be fixed, as there is no page about limited editions, only about certain types of products (books, and candy; in many contexts "special edition" isn't exactly the same). Peter E. James (talk) 00:02, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
 * In the time being, I'll probably revert to what we had then - unless you wanted to create this article. -- Ja Ga  talk 03:29, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Hugh Darwen
It has been the third time UKWikiGuy tries to delete Hugh Darwen, without ever putting up an argument. I will try and find if he can really be such a nuisance or if there is any policy against such bothersome behaviour. Both the article’s talk page and the deletion page have the arguments for keeping, and no answer to them whatsoever for two months now.

— Leandro GFC Dutra (talk) 02:53, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

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Myerscough College
Thanks for fixing.. Not really sure how I did that. :/ Matthewedwards : Chat  17:50, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

National Tradesmen Day--Deleted
Hey Peter,

Is there a way for me to edit my post so that it is no longer in violation of code ? The intention of the content was to inform people about the newly announced National Tradesmen Day. I have drafted some changes to remove the IRWIN Tools branding but cannot figure out how to apply them now that the article has been deleted. I am also welcome to any suggestions from you on what content may need to be rewritten. Just want to make sure we get this right!

Thanks, Abaker1067 (talk) 21:30, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

JohnCD (talk) 19:37, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

AfD
Hearfourmewesique (talk) 05:05, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Histmerge request

 * You asked for history-merge Southeast Estuarine Research Society to Southeastern Estuarine Research Society. But the page Southeast Estuarine Research Society has never existed. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:43, 10 May 2011 (UTC)
 * The page to be merged is Southeast Estuarine Research Socieity, I didn't notice the typo in "society". Peter E. James (talk) 21:59, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

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Party Favors
I didn't see any sign that the book generated much press. The article is unsourced and the link to the one known review no longer works. So I will set it up for an AfD. I'm going to get rid of a lot of these vanity listings. Spoonkymonkey (talk) 16:12, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

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Nicosia
Hello Peter, on my talk page, another editor has questioned the wisdom of my actions regarding the full protection of Nicosia; I'd like to hear your opinion on the matter, before making a decision. If you wish, please feel free to chime in here. Salvio Let's talk about it! 14:37, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Hi Peter. I have replied to your comment on the Nicosia discussion page and I would like to see your thoughts. The issue of representation of the Nicosia Turkish Municipality in the Nicosia page is controversial and it needs to be discussed more thoroughly. Thanks. Masri145 (talk) 11:13, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Cher Lloyd
Your opinion on whether it should be redirected or not is requested at Talk:Cher Lloyd. Warburton1368 (talk) 21:13, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Mallya
I see you deleted my proposed page deletion but without giving an edit summary or putting anything on the talk page. have I missed some clear reasons why this list doesn't fail WP:LISTN? Alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 22:14, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

It's a surname article, and is useful for navigation. According to WikiProject Anthroponymy/Standards it seems to be a valid surname page, similar to the example under the "surname stub" heading on that page - if you think it should be deleted you can take it to AFD. Peter E. James (talk) 22:19, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

I just wanted to check your reasons, which seem perfectly fine to me on reading the standard, of which I was unaware. Thanks for clarifying! Alf.laylah.wa.laylah (talk) 22:35, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Whitecote etc
While it probably makes sense to redirect these minor areas to the larger area, there ought to be some mention of them in the target page. Otherwise someone following the link will have no indication why they've got where they have - and the redirect is liable to be deleted if someone spots that there is no mention of "Whitecote" on the Bramley page to which it points. PamD (talk) 16:50, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

August 2011
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Linking PROD reasons
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October 2011
Hi Peter, thank you for the revert for my user page. Abhijay (talk) 10:20, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Invitation to help at Ely article improvements
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Skoda Bigfoot
I think we should keep it. Yes, there are not as much details yet announced, but it will be one day. We could improve the article on that day. And also, Wikipedia readers would be able to discover that a new car will be coming soon. That's what happened to me when I was just browsing around Wikipedia and saw "Peugeot iOn", looked at the article, and discovered that that car will be coming soon. So... --Chacha15 (talk) 17:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)


 * It can probably wait until there is something from official sources - one of the sources says "it was named Bigfoot by the Dutch media". Peter E. James (talk) 17:25, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

CSD notification
Peter, I see you nominated Navodaya Institute of Technology for CSD. Looks clear, but I don't see a notification to the editor. Can you do that? -- SPhilbrick  T  13:04, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Oops, never mind, I see it. My bad.-- SPhilbrick  T  13:06, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Michael Schmidt (agriculture)
You really should take a look at this one again; despite what your edit summary says, there are no references, just external links to wordpress blogs and advocacy web sites. I've been following edits made about this person and without fail they're all soapbox-type POV stuff. 69.181.251.214 (talk) 23:14, 26 October 2011 (UTC)


 * The amount of coverage is what is important (WP:GNG). There is enough from reliable sources (Canadian newspapers) to indicate significance, and to avoid speedy deletion, however you could nominate it at Articles for deletion. Peter E. James (talk) 23:24, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

NPP survey
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James stunt
Thanks. Good idea to take it to another AfD. Best, Sparthorse (talk) 20:56, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

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Kate Kane and Katherine Webb Kane
I have closed the move discussion on Kate Kane since I changed that to a redirect following the edit war that was slowly happening there. I have now opened a discussion at Batwoman about those two articles. Let's see if the editors there have different ideas. Thanks for pointing out that there was another issue I was not aware of. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:24, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

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Giovanni Michelotti
Could you provide some reference for why you have changed the link from Leyland to British Leyland - I suspect most of Michelotti's work on their trucks came before the Leyland/BMC merger. RGCorris (talk) 17:39, 14 November 2011 (UTC)


 * I was just using the information already in the article, which only had a section about British Leyland - although I hadn't realised that "Leyland" was referring to both companies (which would require separate links). I've changed the mention of trucks in the lead section to Leyland Motors (as this includes Scammell). A search of Google Books suggests there were other Leyland trucks, but no access to the text. Peter&#160;E.&#160;James (talk) 18:58, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

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Re: Span
Whoops! I've restored the disambiguation page at span; I forgot to restore it earlier. Thanks for letting me know. Graham 87 01:03, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

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Re: Sockpuppet investigations/Luciano di Martino
Why have you said that there is no evidence of sock puppetry there? I have clarified exactly how I mean they used these IPs to avoid scrutiny in a later comment in the section below. --Joy &#91;shallot&#93; (talk) 10:35, 29 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I can't see anywhere that the anonymous user has denied being the registered user - the "no" seems to be in response to a request to log in. The account has no recent edits so checkuser is unlikely to provide any additional information, and although the editing is disruptive, it isn't sock puppetry that is the problem (unless there are other IPs or accounts involved). If assistance is needed, discussion should probably be at one of the noticeboards. Peter&#160;E.&#160;James (talk) 16:57, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Cranege brothers
Please do not remove prods without explaining why. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 21:13, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

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Cranege brothers
Thanks for rescuing this page. Noisy | Talk 15:20, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage engagement strategy released
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Page Triage newsletter
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New Page Triage newsletter
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Thanks to everyone who attended our first office hours session; the logs can be found here, if you missed it, and we should be holding a second one on Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 18:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. I hope to see you all there :).

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Plumpot, Peter Pinkle

Hi, I'm lv123jv456 and I'm just writing an apology message for what I did to a page about the crew members aboard RMS Titanic. I did it because I was annoyed at some people who tried to delete my edits which were right. Please don't block me from editing and tell your wikipedia mates not to delete all my edits. Sorry again, lv123jv456. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lv123jv456 (talk • contribs) 20:02, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

help triage some feedback
Hey guys.

I appreciate this isn't quite what you signed up for, but I figured as people who are already pretty good at evaluating whether material is useful or not useful through Special:NewPages, you might be interested :). Over the last few months we've been developing the new Article Feedback Tool, which features a free text box. it is imperative that we work out in advance what proportion of feedback is useful or not so we can adjust the design accordingly and not overwhelm you with nonsense.

This is being done through the Feedback Evaluation System (FES), a tool that lets editors run through a stream of comments, selecting their value and viability, so we know what type of design should be promoted or avoided. We're about to start a new round of evaluations, beginning with an office hours session tomorrow at 18:00 UTC. If you'd like to help preemptively kill poor feedback, come along to #wikimedia-office and we'll show you how to use the tool. If you can't make it, send me an email at or drop a note on my talkpage, and I'm happy to give you a quick walkthrough in a one-on-one session :).

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The Estmondson family
Hello Peter, nice catch with that heretofore unknown family of Quality. I wanted to let you know that I nominated them for speedy deletion since they were all written by an author whose talk page seems to indicate that he/she is only interested in writing hoaxes. This seemed to clear the threshold for "obvious" vandalism. Hope you don't mind! Cmprince (talk) 20:27, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

A big NPT update
Hey! Big update on what the developers have been working on, and what is coming up:

coding
 * Fixes for the "moved pages do not show up in Special:NewPages" and "pages created from redirects do not show up in Special:NewPages" bugs have been completed and signed off on. Unfortunately we won't be able to integrate them into the existing version, but they will be worked into the Page Triage interface.
 * Coding has been completed on three elements; the API for displaying metadata about the article in the "list view", the ability to keep the "patrol" button visible if you edit an article before patrolling it, and the automatic removal of deleted pages from the queue. All three are awaiting testing but otherwise complete.

All other elements are either undergoing research, or about to have development started. I appreciate this sounds like we've not got through much work, and truthfully we're a bit disappointed with it as well; we thought we'd be going at a faster pace :(. Unfortunately there seems to be some 24-72 hour bug sweeping the San Francisco office at the moment, and at one time or another we've had several devs out of it. It's kind of messed with workflow.

Stuff to look at

We've got a pair of new mockups to comment on that deal with the filtering mechanism; this is a slightly updated mockup of the list view, and this is what the filtering tab is going to look like. All thoughts, comments and suggestions welcome on the NPT talkpage :). I'd also like to thank the people who came to our last two office hours sessions; the logs will be shortly available here.

I've also just heard that the first functional prototype for enwiki will be deployed mid-April! Really, really stoked to see this happening :). We're finding out if we can stick something up a bit sooner on prototype.wiki or something.

I appreciate there may be questions or suggestions where I've said "I'll find out and get back to you" and then, uh. not ;p. I sincerely apologise for that: things have been a bit hectic at this end over the last few weeks. But if you've got anything I've missed, drop me a line and I'll deal with it! Further questions or issues to the usual address. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 17:09, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

New Pages update
Hey :). A quick update on how things are going with the New Page Triage/New Pages Feed project. As the enwiki page notes, the project is divided into two chunks: the "list view" (essentially an updated version of Special:NewPages) and the "article view", a view you'll be presented with when you open up individual articles that contains a toolbar with lots of options to interact with the page - patrolling it, adding maintenance tags, nominating it for deletion, so on.

On the list view front, we're pretty much done! We tried deploying it to enwiki, in line with our Engagement Strategy on Wednesday, but ran into bugs and had to reschedule - the same happened on Thursday :(. We've queued a new deployment for Monday PST, and hopefully that one will go better. If it does, the software will be ready to play around with and test by the following week! :).

On the article view front, the developers are doing some fantastic work designing the toolbar, which we're calling the "curation bar"; you can see a mockup here. A stripped-down version of this should be ready to deploy fairly soon after the list view is; I'm afraid I don't have precise dates yet. When I have more info, or can unleash everyone to test the list view, I'll let you know :). As always, any questions to the talkpage for the project or mine. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 23:27, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Celeste (soft drink)
Hey, I noticed you declined a PROD for this, but you neither gave a reason, nor mentioned that you declined it in the edit summary. Please note declining of the PROD, and the reason why in the future p  b  p  03:21, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage prototype released
Hey Peter E. James! We've finally finished the NPT prototype and deployed it on enwiki. We'll be holding an office hours session on the 16th at 21:00 in #wikimedia-office to show it off, get feedback and plot future developments - hope to see you there! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 03:35, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

New Page Triage/New Pages Feed
Hey all :). A notification that the prototype for the New Pages Feed is now live on enwiki! We had to briefly take it down after an unfortunate bug started showing up, but it's now live and we will continue developing it on-site.

The page can be found at Special:NewPagesFeed. Please, please, please test it and tell us what you think! Note that as a prototype it will inevitably have bugs - if you find one not already mentioned at the talkpage, bring it up and I'm happy to carry it through to the devs. The same is true of any additions you can think of to the software, or any questions you might have - let me know and I'll respond.

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Some baklava for you!

 * Thanks - although now I've looked again I noticed a typo in the redirect I created. If you think that the move is unlikely to be opposed, you can use the "move" tab - probably at the top of the page, if not then search for "move" in the page. Otherwise there is a template that can be used on the article's talk page - see Template:Requested move for instructions. Peter&#160;E.&#160;James (talk) 20:43, 28 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you again for clarifying, I shall research that prior to doing anything on it. Just to clarify when you said there is a typo in the redirect -- is there anything I need to rectify now or it is ok? Truealpha (talk) 21:14, 28 May 2012 (UTC)


 * You don't need to do anything with the redirect, although a redirect will be needed if the article is not moved. Is the redirect I created, with "Basir" instead of "Bashir", likely to be useful or should I tag it for deletion? Peter&#160;E.&#160;James (talk) 21:19, 28 May 2012 (UTC)


 * The only variation that I see via research is Bashir Tahir so "Basir" wouldn't be the same person. To be honest I actually don't even know where you have created that redirect (it should now be obvious I am relatively new to this!) -- is it on the same page?  -- I guess one solution would be to correct it for the right spelling? Truealpha (talk) 21:30, 28 May 2012 (UTC)


 * No, the redirect is a separate page - see Basir Tahir (link without redirect) and Bashir Tahir (link without redirect) - an explanation is at Redirect. I've created it with the correct spelling and tagged the incorrect one for deletion. Peter&#160;E.&#160;James (talk) 21:38, 28 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Great thank you and appreciate the help. That's a more elegant solution to simply redirect "Bashir Tahir" than the method I used.  Enjoy the baklava! :) Truealpha (talk) 21:44, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Uranium
Please reconsider your deletion, Rosie and I have moved it to Uranium mining in Namibia and removed most of the essay. Best solution would now be to delete the capital letter original title and close AFD.♦ Dr. Blofeld  11:12, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

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It was purely promotional, and thus I suspect someone had meant to type in G11 instead of G1. Daniel Case (talk) 18:26, 18 July 2012 (UTC)


 * I didn't think it was, although parts of it probably were, and I won't object. Peter&#160;E.&#160;James (talk) 18:37, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

New Pages newsletter
Hey all :)

A couple of new things.

First, you'll note that all the project titles have now changed to the Page Curation prefix, rather than having the New Pages Feed prefix. This is because the overarching project name has changed to Page Curation; the feed is still known as New Pages Feed, and the Curation Toolbar is still the Curation Toolbar. Hopefully this will be the last namechange ;p.

On the subject of the Curation Toolbar (nice segue, Oliver!) - it's now deployed on Wikipedia. Just open up any article in the New Pages Feed and it should appear on the right. It's still a beta version - bugs are expected - and we've got a lot more work to do. But if you see something going wrong, or a feature missing, drop me a note or post on the project talkpage and I'll be happy to help :). We'll be holding two office hours sessions to discuss the tool and improvements to it; the first is at 19:00 UTC on 14 August, and the second at 23:00 on the 15th. Both will be in #wikimedia-office as always. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 15:42, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

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Death of Azaria Chamberlain
There was a very lengthy discussion over the inclusion of that redirect to the fictitious band "Dingoes ate my baby". The issues concerned that appropriateness of the inclusion of a reference to black humour in relation to an article dealing with a tragic incident involving living people. The Wikipedia policy is to avoid victimisation of living people. In this. However the name of a fictitious band was deemed as being not of sufficient importance that Wikipedia should seriously risk further insult or injury to the parents of the dead child by including it as a redirect right at the top of the article.

There are a number of cultural reference to the death of Azaria Chamberlain included at the foot of the article.

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 * The only consensus I can see is at Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 June 14 and Articles for deletion/Dingoes ate my baby (disambiguation), which seem to leave the incident page as the only place for any disambiguation links. I've changed the redirect to a soft redirect, so the disambiguation link can go there instead of at Death of Azaria Chamberlain. Peter&#160;James (talk) 21:41, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

Death of Allen Lanier
He died last night. It will hit the media today or tomorrow. Due to my position I have advanced knowledge of these things. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.185.157.23 (talk) 13:56, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Information such as that can only be added when sources can be found, as it's the type of edit often made as a hoax. Peter&#160;James (talk) 14:02, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

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 * Department of Saraiki, Islamia University, Bahawalpur was established in 1989 and Department of Saraiki, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan was established in 2006. Saraiki is taught as subject in schools and colleges at higher secondary, intermediate and degree level. Allama Iqbal open university Islamabad, and Al-Khair university Bhimbir have their Pakistani Linguistics Departments. They are offering M.Phil. and Ph.D in Saraiki. Five TV channels and Ten Radio Stations are Serving Saraiki language. 182.186.116.104 (talk) 12:50, 26 April 2013 (UTC)


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Higher Ground Records
Personally, I think there isn't enough information to warrant a standalone section - Wikipedia ain't indiscriminate. If you can provide some information about it great, if not don't bother adding to the list page.-- Laun  chba  ller  23:40, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree a separate article isn't needed, and maybe couldn't be supported by reliable sources, but it would be suitable for a mention in the list - records by Leftfield, Grooverider and Bally Sagoo were released on the label - so it's useful to have a mention somewhere, which appears to be possible. Peter&#160;James (talk) 23:53, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

People Move On
Thanks for finding the link. I tried searching webarchive recently but had no success, apparently some Rolling Stone links are dead and buried, there was a discussion about it here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Albums/Archive_42. I thought this link was one of them. I will insert the link into the article, i noticed OK Computer has several web.archive links, and being a featured article it should be ok to include them here. Thank you. Bluidsports (talk) 01:34, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

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I do not understand how my article on World's end was a hoax?

Please explain in further detail what I did wrong?

Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by TransmogrificationTotalitarian (talk • contribs) 15:33, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Dane Bank
Hi Peter, I noted your move of the page created by the new editor TheSimsChicago45, which I was confirming on maps. Could you also checkout the other article page he created:- Saltersford, as far as I am aware there is no Hamlet or any other housing at, or near that location. Is is just a road junction where old salt trading routes crossed!, by the site of a historic church Jenkin Chapel. I have also reverted a couple of his other edits, changing village, town, hamlet and settlement description. The style of them and his initial edit on his userpage makes me suspicious that the user is a Sockpuppet of the indef baned disruptive editor Jameslovesavril. Richard Harvey (talk) 17:37, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I noticed the similarity in the type of edits, but couldn't see enough evidence to link the accounts or even request an investigation. There are mentions of Saltersford as a hamlet in the 19th century but nothing recent - but whether it would still be described as one I don't know. There's also a mention of houses in Saltersford (http://www.rainow.org/TheStoryOfRainowRedux.pdf, page 14) which appears to be self published but is likely to be accurate. It has also been described as a "scattered community", maybe more accurate as the area appears to consist of farms. If it's confirmed that the user is evading a block, I recommend deletion, otherwise I'm neutral for now, but maybe it could redirect to Rainow and be mentioned there. Peter&#160;James (talk) 18:18, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I've looked again and noticed this edit on a sockpuppet's user page, so it's likely to be the same user. User:AvrilLavigne63935 appears to be unrelated, the account was created (and blocked) in 2010 and the edits are not similar - is there evidence somewhere linking them? Peter&#160;James (talk) 18:49, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
 * That message, editing his Dunford Bridge location to Dane Bank also ties in with his Jameslovesavril editors summary on this edit to the Dunford Bridge article. I've removed the sock tag from User:AvrilLavigne63935; however I've been observing the edits by TheSimsChicago45 and have increasingly formed an opinion that he is is another  Sockpuppet of Jameslovesavril. This has just become more plain with his edit today in reverting my removal of his edit by one of his other known Sockpuppets:- AvrilParamore27 on the Giggleswick railway station article. I think The duck test is proven. Richard Harvey (talk) 20:56, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
 * The Giggleswick edit can stay - it's only an addition to the lead section of a fact that's already in the article. Other edits appear to be in good faith but often unsourced and occasionally inaccurate. The pattern of editing that the user was originally blocked for seems to have stopped, but some edits on Settle Rural District (an article started by TheSimsChicago45) have been disruptive. Do you suggest a sockpuppet investigation (which would probably result in the account being blocked and a new one created) or just continuing to check for disruptive edits? Peter&#160;James (talk) 23:51, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi again, I spotted he had started with his disruptive editing again. The style and type of editing was unmistakable. I opened an SPI and it has resulted in an indefinite block. Keep your eye open for another new editor with the same style on his usual articles. His current known socks are listed here:- Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Jameslovesavril. -Richard Harvey (talk) 20:12, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

IRAN demographics
Hello I have found two maps while searching for "valid" sources for Wikipedia. I have the website of origin for these maps, but how can I know if you accept them??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.160.118.146 (talk) 21:27, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
 * You can ask for editors' opinions at Reliable sources/Noticeboard; if you intend to upload anything as well as citing it, it's only allowed if there's a suitable licence at the source, or if permission is given by the owner of the site. If this is about Urmia, it looks like there has been a dispute there for a few years that has never been resolved, and I would advise you to also use the article's talk page as editors have already received 24-hour blocks for contributing one revert (or partial revert) to the edit war - I'm surprised that the article hasn't already been fully protected. Peter&#160;James (talk) 21:42, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

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Do you have a source for the changes made here regarding Glasgow Citybus and Henderson Travel? The only thing I could find was http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:298109-2013:TEXT:EN:HTML (and copies of it) saying that Henderson Travel was surrendering its licence and that its contracts were being taken over by Glasgow Citybus. Peter&#160;James (talk) 13:41, 15 October 2013 (UTC) 92.40.249.176 added: "It was announced on the 3rd of September that Glasgow Citybus has taken over Henderson Travel." You changed it to "In September 2013 the business was sold to Henderson Travel." Peter&#160;James (talk) 14:12, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
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 * My error, have corrected.Mo7838 (talk) 14:22, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Sailing on the Seven Seas
Is the date of 18 March correct? It was added by a vandal adding wrong or unsourced dates to a great number of articles, over several addresses. It might well just be made up. Jamesx12345 16:32, 26 October 2013 (UTC)


 * It's correct according to https://web.archive.org/web/20090918031602/http://www.omd.uk.com/discography/html/index_87_91.html - I can't find a singles discography on the current version of their site. It looks like the anonymous editor is assuming that records (albums or singles) were released 12 days before the first chart entry, which is usually correct (a record released on Monday enters the chart on Sunday dated the following Saturday), but not if they have entered the chart later than the first week of release or were not released on a Monday. It's probably not vandalism, but original research that's sometimes wrong. Peter&#160;James (talk) 16:43, 26 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I've checked the changes to OMD release dates and the editor made more errors there than corrections if the official site is correct; however, it would be better if we could check with other sources such as at the time of release (particularly for "La Femme Accident"). Peter&#160;James (talk) 17:34, 26 October 2013 (UTC)


 * It's a difficult one because they do not respond when blocked, switching to a different I.P. to continue as before. I have no idea what to make of it, to be honest. Thanks anyway for looking into it. Regards. Jamesx12345 18:06, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

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Peter, it is not clear to me why you feel that I should modify the protection levels of my pages; you might care to explain your reasoning? FYI, my talk page is open to every autoconfirmed user; my userpage is admin-only, which is wholly reasonable as no other editor should need to edit there, and vandals, if allowed, have a habit of attacking the userpages of the more active vandal-fighting admins - which I happen to be. So no, I will not change the protection levels. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 12:14, 8 November 2013 (UTC)


 * You are, I think, confusing user pages with talk pages. There is never a reason for a user to edit my user page. Any established user can edit my talk page. Re-read the link you posted - it deals with talk pages only. I do not mean to give offence, but please check your facts before criticizing users of many years experience.--Anthony Bradbury"talk" 20:40, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Having established that, did you actually have anything you wanted to ask me? If so, go to my talk page where you are free to edit! --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 20:45, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Incidentally, because of your persistence I have looked back through my talk page, and have received 65 postings there since I removed the semi-protection including some from new editors, plus three from you. So what is your problem?--Anthony Bradbury"talk" 21:22, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I'd arrived at your user page and noticed that it was protected, surprising considering your addition of a comment on another user's page, but then noticed the reason, which no longer applied, and the semi-protection on your talk page. I had assumed it was just something you had forgotten about when you returned, and that you would just remove it, and maybe semi-protect your user page; I don't believe that the current talk page protection is justified. Some messages that wouldn't have been possible with semi-protection and are not vandalism:. I didn't mention a wikibreak template, only the "wikibreak" that was in the protection message (visible when editing the page from an autoconfirmed account with no additional rights). Peter&#160;James (talk) 22:16, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

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It's inappropriate to continue using a closed review for discussion.

I recognise that we can't always keep up with our intentions and it's all too easy to let too much time slip before we return to an issue. Unfortunately, you miscalculated its being "an obvious keep" (sic) and failed to comment until 7 November, while the request had been submitted 24 October.

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Maths is wrong?
Hello, please forgive me as I am using a public library here so cannot login to my regular account. I was patrolling this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mark_Pearson_%28entrepreneur%29 and note you state the consensus was undecided. Is there some sort of weighted voting here, as I see 4 deletes and 2 keeps? Kindly extrapolate! Thanks. 90.214.192.15 (talk) 18:54, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I only stated a reason for keeping the article, I didn't mention anything about consensus. The statement that there was no consensus was made by Mark Arsten, who closed the discussion after relisting; SarahStierch had also relisted the discussion after the same number of deletes and one fewer keep. No consensus usually means keeping the article (with some exceptions, such as if the subject of the article requests deletion). You could take it to deletion review, but to me this looks like a reasonable closure: the discussion is not a vote, and some arguments for deletion were weak (or in one case, non-existent) and didn't address the arguments against deletion, so were probably given less weight. Peter&#160;James (talk) 19:17, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

L'Oréal Smauritius
Regarding this comment, could you please specify who it is? It's not Requests for adminship/Zad68, Requests for adminship/Cerebellum, or Requests for adminship/The Interior, and nobody else this year has had an unopposed nomination. Nyttend (talk) 22:31, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Requests for adminship/Fluffernutter, in 2011. Peter&#160;James (talk) 22:38, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Twinkle
Hello there. I've noticed that you've been helping out in reverting vandalism/poor edits on Wikipedia. Seeing that you're autoconfirmed, I would like to introduce you to Twinkle. Twinkle is a set of javascript functions that can grant autoconfirmed users the rollback links, as well as provide many additional options. Twinkle is used by thousands of editors and is a useful tool for all users hoping to help in the war against vandalism. Thanks, and happy editing. K6ka (talk) 21:05, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I've already seen it, and prefer not to use it. Peter&#160;James (talk) 21:36, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the oppose on my ban
I just wanted to stop by and thank you for the oppose on my ban. I appreciate it. I'm also sorry I am posting from this username. Unfortunately the admins have preemptively blocked the IP's I was using in an effort to force me to create an account, so they could then be able to justify blocking me for socking (I really hate it how they are allowed to bait the trap like this) I had to create one for now. Cheers and happy editing. Kumioko BannedEditor (talk) 16:22, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Starwars35
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Does it really make a difference? Wikipedia's better off without them as they currently are. Daniel Case (talk) 02:05, 22 February 2014 (UTC)

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Prins Maurits
Hi, My username is more likely correlated with Maurice, Prince of Orange. I would like to keep my username Prins Maurits (talk) 02:39, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

RTE
Hey Peter, thanks for the reverts; careless of me. I've added those articles with proper "RTE"s to the bot's exception list so it won't happen again. Sorry for the inconvenience CmdrObot (talk) 23:25, 16 March 2014 (UTC)


 * There were also Low-floor tram (where it refers to a Turkish tram), Vivekananda Vidya Mandir (the RTE act again), and 9th Engineer Battalion (United States) (possibly abbreviation of "Route"). I haven't checked all edits where "RTÉ" seemed likely. Peter&#160;James (talk) 23:48, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Articles for deletion listed at Redirects for discussion
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What the....? I don't even
Fatboy Slim is a redirect?? How on on earth can that be? Who has ever heard of Norman Cook? Could there be a clearer case of wp:stagename? Is there some kind of of special story one should be aware of as to why the situation is in this state? walk <i style="color:green;">victor falk</i><i style="color:green;">talk</i> 16:18, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes - he was notable (although primarily as a member of various groups) before Fatboy Slim. The article was moved in 2009. Peter James (talk) 08:19, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Ok, that sounds more reasonable. Many cases are ambiguous, where an artist's real name is not utterly unknown, but neither widely known. <sup style="color:green;">walk <i style="color:green;">victor falk</i><i style="color:green;">talk</i> 03:56, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Talkback
NorthAmerica1000 09:00, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Astor and the protection of my talk page

 * Since no named sources confirm the affair in that archived Times article, I'd still consider it off-limits for us. If either one of them did, or it became the subject of a court proceeding, that would be different.


 * I leave my talk page semi-protected because I regularly do vandalism enforcement. This in the past often led to retaliatory vandalism of both my user and talk pages (I still have a couple of userboxes bragging about this). I just decided to spare other admins (and users, FTM) the trouble of reverting it. Daniel Case (talk) 22:38, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

PC2
"4 no consensus to override previous consensus" - which previous consensus? Peter James (talk) 18:03, 7 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I'll leave that one for Jc, Peter. - Dank (push to talk) 22:31, 14 June 2014 (UTC)


 * The previous RfC on PC2. - jc37 21:31, 3 August 2014 (UTC)


 * From the list at Pending changes the most recent is Pending changes/Request for Comment 2013 (62% support) closed without reaching consensus primarily because the circumstances in which PC2 would be used weren't clear enough. If you regard that as an earlier stage of the 2014 RFC, PC2012/RfC 1 (55% support) was the most recent, so unless you're referring to an earlier discussion, or one not clearly linked from the timeline, there was not a previous consensus. It looks like a an RFC on a specific use, with "oppose", "support" or "neutral" options, could reach a clearer consensus, rather than the multiple questions and disputes over implicit and contradictory positions that affected the 2014 RFC. Peter James (talk) 18:54, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Your revert of my entry in VFD
Hi, concerning your edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=VFD&oldid=prev&diff=609948330

I realize that now the "disambig" macro says
 * This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.

and you deleted my entry because it would not refer to a specific page (although there were several links to pages talking about "VFD" in that sense).

Now I think in former times, a disambiguation page also often contained small "stand alone" definitions which would not justify a page on their own. Picking a random example, Passion features many entries (e.g., songs) where only a link to the band or composer of the song is found. Not so much different of the entry I added, IMHO. &mdash; MFH:Talk 03:49, 30 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Entries such as the songs in the Passion disambiguation page should link to articles in which the titles are mentioned according to the guideline; the only article linked in the VFD entry was to initialism, which doesn't mention that initialism, and I thought that it was unlikely to be added there or created as an article. According to WP:Disambiguation guideline, "Disambiguation in Wikipedia is the process of resolving the conflicts that arise when a single term is ambiguous—when it refers to more than one topic covered by Wikipedia" - a search for the relevant words from the VFD definition in articles only produces one result, the VFD disambiguation page. If a mention is added to an article, an entry can then be added to the disambiguation page. Peter James (talk) 07:59, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Re closing of Mitchells & Butlers' Ground
Peter, when you execute a move that is listed at WP:RM you should properly close the RM per the instructions at WP:RMCI. Failing to do so leaves the RM open in backlog and its confusing for regular closers to find RMs that don't need any attention. If you need assistance in the future, please contact an admin to help. I closed this one for you. --Mike Cline (talk) 20:07, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

RE: Hernando de Soto

Peter, I placed an answer to your question on my Talk page, but I wanted to answer you here as well. There is a standing request for comment on the Hernando de Soto Talk page which outlines the serious issues with the so-called "White Ranch" site, including the possibility that site represents a hoax. The two users calling themselves "LisaWalsh" and "DalvarMartinez" have been asked repeatedly to address those issues and have repeatedly refused to do so. Accordingly, the edits were reverted until those questions have been addressed, particularly since Boyer has published a peer-reviewed paper on the work at the Richardson site.Veritas20132014 (talk) 01:51, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Requested move
Hi, I've started a discussion at Talk:Westfield Derby about moving articles to "Intu" X and I'm only notifying you as you participated in a previous move,

BTW sorry if you got a ping earlier - Something went wrong so figured I'd just post this to everyone instead, Fun times! ,

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your revert about VFD
Hi, concerning https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=VFD&oldid=prev&diff=609948330 : You seem to say that disambiguation pages should not list self-contained definitions but only links to existing pages. I don't agree and I think on the contrary often those pages list self-contained definitions, and this is very valuable content of WP. Am I wrong? Can you point to a guideline page that confirms your argument? Thanks! (PS: I also think it's wrong when you say (1) no link to a relevant article: WP:VFD is a relevant article, and also when you say "it's unlikely that such a page will be created" [since it already does exist ; and also, since google finds 53 000 hits for the exact phrase "vote for deletion"].) &mdash; MFH:Talk 13:35, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Black pudding
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FYI
Hi PJ. Just so you know we had the list at that page because it was where the original block was placed and that helped to inform people that weren't aware of the situation. While I understand your reasoning for the move we should make and  aware of the move so that they can watchlist the new page. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 22:15, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your followup posts to their talk pages. I should have mentioned that I thought my pings in the above message would let them know but your personal touch of leaving specific messages is appreciated. Best regards. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 22:28, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I wasn't sure what was counted as a ping, or whether it was possible to know whether a ping had been successful - there are options to switch them off. Peter James (talk) 22:44, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Yep those pings can be tricky. I hope that you have a pleasant week. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 23:04, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Page added to my watchlist. Many thanks & regards, David J Johnson (talk) 13:07, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Shorten article
Hi User:Peter James, on Maiorana, should "of" be added where it says: "dialectic term for a type [(of)] oregano"? It won't let me make edits to the Maiorana page, but this might be a mistakes, also the article has some questionable sources and needs shortening, let me know please, cheers.--Theo Mandela (talk) 23:15, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes - I've also changed it to "dialectal" which I think was the correct word, and removed a name that required a reference (the linked article has some but they seem to be unavailable - all "not found" or redirects to the sites' home pages). There may be more changes needed, but you should be able to edit the article, unless there was a temporary error or an external link was blocked by a blacklist - it isn't protected and I can't see anything in the edit filter log. Peter James (talk) 23:40, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks User:Peter James, I've tried since you edited, but still can't edit Maiorana? I noticed Macdonald surname could do with some work, infobox should be removed and it's info added to article (like Maiorana), also it calls the name Irish a lot when really it's Gaelic Scottish (and perhaps Ulster Northern Irish), I can edit, but a bit busy with new music articles at moment, like "Feels" - Calvin Harris and "Instruction" - Jax Jones.--Theo Mandela (talk) 17:49, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
 * The article is not protected, what happens when you go to edit it? Peter James (talk) 17:33, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
 * User:Peter James, it won't let me click or type words in, I think I could edit if I wasn't logged in, but then it wouldn't show under my name. You've made it good so no need for me to add anything now, just the fact I can't even if I wanted to. What do you think of Macdonald, should Irish be removed as origin? Thanks, --Theo Mandela (talk) 23:00, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
 * It should be possible to edit, if not you could ask at Village pump (technical). I agree about Macdonald - it seems to be primarily a Scottish name according to the sources, which isn't clear from the article. If unsure you could use the article's talk page or the talk page of any WikiProject linked there (in this case, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anthroponymy). Peter James (talk) 22:48, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
 * User:Peter James, here that gives Patrick Hanks as a reference which is good and has Scottish as the only origin but that in Ireland it "derived most often from Scottish settlers who arrived in to the Province of Ulster in the seventeenth century", if you can show me how to phrase it here please, I'll add it to  article.--Theo Mandela (talk) 06:35, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

July 2017
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 * The dispute was about whether Riley should be redirected to O'Reilly. Obviously it shouldn't as it isn't only a version of the Irish name. It looks like the other editor is the same person who removed the English version before. Peter James (talk) 20:20, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you

 * I'd add another, but that seems a bit superfluous. Damn, I had no idea there were so many. Thanks. Kleuske (talk) 13:14, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Talk:14


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Avetik Chalabyan article up for deletion
Hi Peter James! About 2 years ago I wrote a biography of a living person article [|Avetik Chalabyan]. The article has been recently marked as up for deletion. Any advice on why this might be happening, how to address it or what to improve would really be appreciated. Obviously, your vote as an experienced editor on Wiki would really go a long way to make sure it's not deleted.

Thanks in advance for your attention to the matter.

Alice Ananian (talk) 14:16, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/National Curriculum (England and Wales) (2nd nomination)
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Giuliano Maiorana
Hi Peter, would you be able to correct the nationality and background of Giuliano Maiorana in the article, please? Because there's been a lot of confusion over this, at one time an IP made an unsourced claim that Maiorana's parents were from Avellino but I've found this interview where Maiorana himself confirms this and his nationality. Other IPs have since removed information and categories relating to this and I'm still unsure about were FIFA eligibility rules and him being born in Cambridge come in and how to phrase it. Let me know what you think, cheers. Theo Mandela (talk) 23:10, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Next time, communicate with us...
Peter, although our Wiki might be small in your (English Wiki eyes) it is still nice manners to communicate with the Afrikaans Community, good manners. I will remove the ban. Regards! Oesjaar (talk) 15:02, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
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TLC Travel
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Dan Peña
Regarding your comment at ANI : I'm not surprised. Do you want to fix it yourself, or identify it so others can? --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 18:06, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I removed Seapower4 (the vandal account) from the list. Most of the others look like SPAs whether promotional or not; unsure about Andersonman - in some ways similar to the promotional SPAs but also BLP violation. Peter James (talk) 18:22, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikiprofessionals
At User talk:Belmop, you stated that Wikiprofessionals said Belmop wasn't one of their accounts. (Also that Cyberpower678 isn't, but that's not terribly relevant; I don't think anyone's ever suspected he is), and that they had falsified their list of created articles. I'm not seeing where it is they said that; would you be able to point that out? Seraphimblade Talk to me 19:25, 15 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Diffs for usernames (also mentioning HappyKatsu): . List of articles - the list originally included many created by established editors including at least one (Hornblower & Marshall) where they are unlikely to have been involved. Peter James (talk) 21:14, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. Yeah, that's part of the general difficulty in tracking down paid sock/spammer rings. Belmop hasn't edited since 2018, so it's possible whoever was spoken to didn't even have a record of them doing paid editing. HappyKatsu is more recent. And yes, I suspect given their pattern of unethical behavior in general, they may have claimed to have written some articles they didn't, but in at least several cases the articles they claimed were written by known socks. It's something we'll have to carefully consider as we go through the cleanup. Seraphimblade Talk to me 21:34, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * The only "evidence" was from a list of articles, many created by established users (Hornblower & Marshall wasn't the only one) - at COI/N editors just removed those from the list and copied the remaining list to WP:AN. The reply about Belmop was misread and that account was mistakenly identified as the main editor involved - in reality the two accounts blocked were selected randomly from a list that would have initially included many editors who were clearly not involved in this, so it's likely that many of the less active accounts were also not involved (although looking at their edits it's likely that some have a conflict of interest). Because of the lack of certainty the articles should have been taken to AFD if not promotional enough for CSD. Peter James (talk) 21:51, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * You were free to argue that at the community discussion. However, consensus there was that those likely to be paid spamming ought to be deleted. I understand your point, but I just closed the discussion based on its result. I did not choose what consensus the community came to. Seraphimblade Talk to me 20:35, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Roxy the dog
Hi Peter sorry if this isn't your thing. Who can I report this user to as they have made snide remarks to my editing and reverting edits made without reason while claiming they are good at something but look down on me as not being able to edit. He keeps RV OWNING the Teeside pages RailwayJG (talk) 14:13, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Bigrigg
Note that Bigrigg has now been created which you started at User:Peter James/sandbox1 and I also contributed to. Maybe content should be moved and possibly a history merge should be done.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 15:08, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

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"Knighthood Village, Indiana" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Manor (feudal Europe)
Thanks. I had intended to do something more meaningful with the contributions history, and then forgot about it. Your solution works. SilkTork (talk) 08:16, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for revert my clients information
I had added some information which my client Shruti Das told me to add. But TryingToDo removed my clients information. Thank you for reverting my clients information. I'll add more information when my client Shruti Das will give me the rest payment to me. Thank you so much. I will add please save my added information if anyone remove those information. Jroynoplan (talk) 19:37, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Everybody knows what a singer is
Restoring this link was entirely unnecessary. Everybody knows what a singer is. If you want to link to a part of the MOS that says contextual links are sometimes and not always beneficial, great, but that part of the MOS also doesn't say anything about linking to terms that are universally understood. Nobody is going to be clicking on a link from Poarch's article to singer, wondering what it is. WP:OVERLINK clearly states that everyday words and common occupations should generally not be linked. Insisting on such links is of no benefit to anybody.  Ss  112   12:40, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
 * They are when defining, and "wondering what it is" isn't the only reason to click. If everybody knows what singing is, should the article about it be orphaned or even deleted? Peter James (talk) 12:51, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Are you suggesting that because an article exists that means we should link to it? You sound like a proponent for a sea of blue. You know as well as I do that encyclopedias define common terms. Those articles are there for further information if somebody wants to directly search for them. If a reader has searched for Poarch, they presumably want to know about her, not click through to learn more about singers.  Ss  112   12:59, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Links in the lead section that define the topic can be useful there. That's why the overlink guideline includes the words "Unless a term is particularly relevant to the context in the article". Peter James (talk) 13:41, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
 * These sorts of disagreements always come down to some line an editor can point to in a guideline as justifying their actions. You'll find singers who have a far more substantial career than Poarch don't have the term linked on their articles (and before I have WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS cited at me, it's relevant because it shows precedent that most editors don't consider it worthwhile to link to across Wikipedia), so I disagree that it's "particularly relevant" here at all. If Poarch's career goes on and grows in stature, you're going to find more editors disagree with you about linking such a widely understood term. Later.  Ss  112   14:02, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

Electric Brae
The explanation about the Electric Brae in Scotland is incorrect. The road is clearly steep downhill and this can be checked by a view of the sea. For the Electric Brae to work you must park opposite the RAC box and release the handbrake. The vehicle rolls the wrong way ie. Uphill because at this point the road actually slopes the other way. Because the hill is clearly steeply downhill you have to look carefully to see that,at this precise point there is a slight downward slope. Obviously nothing to do with electricity or magnetism or even a trick of the eye - you just have to look carefully as I did. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a02:c7d:3c13:2a00:ec1b:bee1:df03:2db8 (talk) 10:19, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
 * My only edit there was to add the closing braces of a template. (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Electric_Brae&diff=808079797&oldid=791120147) I've moved this to the article's talk page. Peter James (talk) 15:40, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Merry Christmas!
Season's greetings and Merry Christmas to you and your family. Have a wonderful holiday season. Cheers! RV (talk) 03:18, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

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Other accounts
What other accounts have you used on Wikipedia?--Bbb23 (talk) 17:59, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Interesting
You show up (Jan 18) & quickly know so much about Wikipedia. GoodDay (talk) 23:03, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

From Deletion review/Log/2022 February 6
Are you planning to answer my question about what other accounts you have edited with? Spartaz Humbug! 20:58, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I previously used an account based on my real name, with no entries in the block log, and I have never been subject to any editing restrictions or warnings, or had any user rights revoked. A865 (talk) 22:01, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Have you previously edited under any other accounts? SmokeyJoe (talk) 22:13, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I answered above. Also before creating this account there was another used briefly to make edits that, if made from my new account, would make it easier to connect it to my old account (but no overlap with old or new account in pages or chronologically). If checked, another account would be found, but it was an unintentional automatic creation from another wiki and will not be used here. A865 (talk) 23:09, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. So I am understand that this new account is your main account going forward.  It is quite understandable that you might want to continue anonymously.  I am not wanting to connect breadcrumbs or anything like that, but have we crossed paths in projectspace previously? SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:40, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Arbcom keep a register and declaring to them gives you a free pass from any future challenge. Spartaz Humbug! 20:42, 10 February 2022 (UTC)