User talk:Pigsonthewing/Archive 41

DYK for Rock Drill (Jacob Epstein)
Casliber (talk · contribs) 09:11, 14 May 2013 (UTC)


 * (Idle observation by a passer-by:) I'm really impressed by the number of DYK credits you've recently gotten! AGK  [•] 11:09, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Infobox body of water/sandbox
I plan to have this synced with the main template, per the merger of infobox bay, infobox ocean, infobox lake. you may want to check the classes before it is synced, to avoid a second edit request. thank you. Frietjes (talk) 22:29, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the opportunity. There was nothing broken, but I've done some cleanup and added some extra detail. Did you see my comments on the talk page, from before the TfD, about the use of {[para|depth}} and adding an Engineer parameter? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:40, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
 * replied there. Frietjes (talk) 22:52, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Technical Ecstasy
[Moved to article talk page, where it belongs] Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:43, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

aMLoR
[moved to article talk page, where it belongs] Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:12, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks
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UK Wikimedian of the Year 2013/Nominations
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Rock Drill
I gave the article the lead hook for prep area 2. Sorry for the bother this has caused you; I've had similar inconveniences when one of my DYKs had the hook changed for something that turned out to be a non-issue.-- Gilderien Chat&#124;List of good deeds 17:41, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Many thanks. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:53, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #58
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 * Discussions
 * What should be done with the property stable Version?
 * Sex Ratios in Wikidata, Wikipedias, and VIAF
 * The Ropebridges: Authority Control in Wikidata
 * Events/Press
 * A lot of Wikidata-related submissions have been accepted for Wikimania
 * Treffen der Redaktion Chemie
 * upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon in Amsterdam
 * upcoming: Linked Data in Business
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * d:Help:Lua is now the place for all things Lua on Wikidata
 * Item Q13000000 is Devarakonda, a village in India.
 * The geographic relation "exclave of" is the property with the ID 500.
 * English Wikipedia discussion closes allowing for use of Wikidata
 * Template to display a tree based in Wikidata data
 * Deployed new bugfixes on wikidata.org including a fix for pages not being added to the watchlist automatically plus the first version of the RDF exort
 * The ability to include data using the property label is planned to be deployed on English Wikipedia on Monday and all others on Wednesday (You can then for example use in addition to  .)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: exclave of, enclave within, HURDAT identifier, ISO standard, home port, general manager, ISO 15924, Swedish county code, BNFC Thesaurus, cause of death, brother-in-law (sister's husband), honorific prefix, academic degree, birth name, interleaves with, state, phase, powerplant, interaction, part concerned, armament, scheduled service destination, type of orbit, temporal range start, temporal range end, Swedish municipality code, located on island, consists of
 * can be used on Wikidata to get the label of the given property (P123) in the readers language. does the same for items.
 * Development
 * Simplified the inclusion syntax (this is one way how you access data from Wikidata in a Wikipedia article - the other one is via Lua)
 * Result of the external codebase review has been published
 * Worked on implementation of editable time values in frontend
 * Selenium tests for false edit-conflicts and old-revision-view
 * Jenkins setup improvements
 * Made many improvements to the unit test configuration and bootstrapping code in Ask, Diff, DataValues, WikibaseQueryEngine and WikibaseDatabase
 * Automatic class loading based on PSR-0 convention in Ask, Diff and WikibaseQueryEngine
 * Added new array comparison code and started work on merging diffs together in Diff
 * Progress on the SQLStore
 * Improved many unit tests by removing unneeded dependencies they had
 * Bug fixing
 * Made property parser function code more robust
 * Worked on EntityPerPage rebuild script, to enable it to run for Wikidata to fill in missing entities in the wb_entity_per_page table
 * Making the Settings system more robust, preparing split of client and repo settings
 * Work on RDF mapping and serialization
 * Work on content negotiation for Special:EntityData
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Determine statements to add to Wikidata based on Wikipedia categories
 * Map a Wikipedia infobox to Wikidata properties (advanced sample)
 * Select a rarely used property and add values to Wikidata: either manually, through "array properties", through a bot request, with Wikidata useful, or by operating your own bot
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment"
 * Hack on one of these

Mentioned
Hello Pigsonthewing. An editor has complained about your actions at Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 01:47, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
 * But, typically didn't inform me. Given that I reverted him, twice, for a clear breach of our guidelines, and not more than three rimes, he seems to be in the wrong place. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:58, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Not informing you is surely a lapse on his part, but per WP:REFACTOR I don't see the basis for you twice moving his comment so it appears in a different thread. As the refactoring page says, "If another editor objects to refactoring then the changes should be reverted." If you want admins to look into the issue of canvassing, you know how to proceed. EdJohnston (talk) 12:46, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I didn't refactor his comment; I deleted a redundant subheading. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:26, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Conversion of Geobox mountain and range
See WT:WikiProject Mountains. —hike395 (talk) 21:54, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:12, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

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Training
This is the best training I have received about Wikipedia. Peter Robert Shirley (talk) 11:15, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Andy, not sure I will do this correctly because you left without giving me the tutorial material. I took me sometime to get here because I had not noticed I was in Wikimedia rather than Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter Robert Shirley (talk • contribs) 13:02, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Talkback
Walter Görlitz (talk) 21:16, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
 * That will be the extent of my involvement. Knock yourself out, but please stop removing line breaks that I leave between comments until a decision is made there. Walter Görlitz (talk) 21:17, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

My first posting
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Andy thanks for sorting out my posting, looks like I caused you a lot of work.

You might not see this because I am doing this on my iPad and I cannot work out how to do equals, it's on the button with two other characters, I cannot produce any of them! Neither can I see the tildes sign, but I have managed to avoid deleting those.

Peter Robert Shirley (talk) 21:20, 21 May 2013 (UTC) -->
 * The additions were my pleasure; hope you like them. There is no need for equals signs in a talk page comment (they're for making headings, you'll recall), and there is a tool for "signing" with four tildes above or below the edit window. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:29, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

The Bugle: Issue LXXXVI, May 2013
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Wagner
I just assumed it was accidental. No worries. Paul B (talk) 16:13, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Infobox university campus
just converted it, and used the microformats from infobox building, but may have made some errors. Frietjes (talk) 21:04, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Looks good to me. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:14, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
 * another one with no microformats, Infobox Durham college, just converted to infobox. Frietjes (talk) 20:53, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

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Quiet afternoon in Burnley
I finally uploaded this video-- it made the 500 mile round trip worth while.



-- Clem Rutter (talk) 23:30, 22 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Nice work. Thank you. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 07:24, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Topic ban from TFA and candidate articles / Wagner article talk page
It has been brought to my attention that you are editing the Wagner article's talk page and have been since about 16 May, with it having been today's (or yesterday's) FA of the day. I would like to remind you of the year-old community imposed edit restriction on you editing the current FA and any scheduled ones upcoming.

Please stop, while I review the situation.

Were you aware during this editing of the upcoming TFA status of the article?

Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 00:14, 23 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Further this - The scheduling seems to have been 13 May, before you started editing the article, so it seems like you were drawn there by TFA related discussions, though if you have an alternate explanation I'm happy to discuss that with you. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 00:21, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
 * As the diff you cite points out, and as you say above, I was enjoined to not edit the "FA [Featured Article] of the day and any articles nominated or scheduled as FA of the day" (my emphasis). Despite the double-jeopardy and malicious nature of the ANI discussion which led to that, I have complied. Have you looked into the matter of live talk-page conversations being archived or hidden? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 07:38, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
 * (watching) I was pretty surprised that such a sort of ban can exist, but even more so that it should include talk pages. In German that is called "Redeverbot", and human rights are in question, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:25, 24 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Nobody has a right to participate here. And looking at the wording of the ban, I can certainly see how it could be interpreted to mean "don't go near TFA at all" as opposed to "don't edit TFA at all". But you're right that it's rare indeed for us to ban editors from talk pages as well as articles, and it's always best being explicit at the time of imposing such band if that's the case. I would firmly agree that Andy didn't think he was in violation of the ban here. GWH should certainly clarify the terms of the ban, though to be quite honest I reckon Andy should probably stop wasting his time with this horrid little part of the project entirely rather than trying to help in spite of his restrictions. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 09:47, 24 May 2013 (UTC)


 * More German: the manual archiving of the talk "spricht Bände" (don't know the English phrase), speeks loudly for itself. Something should be moved out of sight? I saw it and smiled. But then I didn't know automatic archiving was in place, and, had I known, I should have acted like you, Andy, to have the procedure "correct". - How that can be construed as a violation of a topic ban, better no comment. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:17, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Bach composition vs. Musical composition
New thoughts regarding infobox Bach composition vs. Musical composition, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:50, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Vasates Article
Andy, where did you source the box with the taxonomic information and the image which you put on the page? And ghave I done everything correctly here?

Peter Robert Shirley (talk) 09:26, 24 May 2013 (UTC)


 * See Taxobox_usage for taxonomic boxes. I found the picture, elsewhere on the web. It was under an open licence so I was able to upload it to Wikimedia Commons. Everything's fine here, except you posted at the top of the page, not the bottom. Remember to use the "new section" tab to start talk page discussions. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:55, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

interwiki edit count
http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/tools/sulinfo.php?username=Pigsonthewing JackPotte (talk) 06:56, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #59
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 * Events/Press
 * Linked Data in Business
 * currently: Hackathon in Amsterdam
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * It is now possible to access data from Wikidata on the Wikipedias by using the property's label.
 * The time datatype can now be tested on the demosystem and should become available on Wikidata next week.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: catalog code (P528), runway (P529), diplomatic relation (P530), diplomatic mission sent (P531), diplomatic mission sent (P531), port of registry (P532), target (P533), streak color (P534), Find a Grave (P535), ATP id (P536), twinning (P537), fracturing (P538), Museofile (P539)
 * Newest task forces: Ship task force
 * d:Template:Constraint:Item allows to check if items using a given property also have other properties. To find items to fix, it links to one of Magnus' tools and to a daily report. Sample: items with property mother should also have main type (GND) with value person.
 * Development
 * A lot of discussions and hacking at the MediaWiki hackathon on Amsterdam
 * Worked on content negotiation for the RDF export
 * Bugfixing for editing of time datatype
 * Added validation in the api for claim guids. This also resolves bug 48473, an exception being thrown in production, whenever a bot or api user requested a claim with an invalid claim guid
 * Improved error message popup bubbles to show HTML and parse the links correctly
 * Fixed bug 48679, to hide the view source tab for item and property pages
 * Testing on Diff extension and SQLstore
 * Open Tasks for You
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Script to convert images in image parameter in infoboxes
User:Yobot/Bare filenames.


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Sorrow (Van Gogh)
Dear Andy,

Thank you very much for your thorough explanation during the Amsterdam Hackathon last Friday! I've just started the translation of the Van Gogh article into Dutch you suggested, I intend to expand it later when I have the Van Gogh quotes in the original Dutch. Requests for translations on the Dutch wikipedia can be posted, e.g., here, or I can do it for you. Hope to see you again this afternoon, cheers, JMMuller (talk) 09:51, 26 May 2013 (UTC) PS On the Dutch wikipedia I am nl:Gebruiker:Hansmuller.
 * That's great, thank you. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:12, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Replacement keyboar
hi, you can get a replacement keyboard at www.ipmart.com/main/product/US,Laptop,Keyboard,Compatible,For,ACER,TM200,LENOVO,Y510,FUJITSU,M7400,BLACK,282518.php?prod=282518 -- 14:05, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Also, this is the best buy for a new laptop according to Tweakers.net last April. -- 14:14, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Incomplete DYK nomination
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Source Code
The image you put in Source Code is fair use for another article. Should we try to justify it or just remove it? We could try to contact the sculptor and add him to the list at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Canoe1967/Sculptors --Canoe1967 (talk) 22:35, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Meh. I usually avoid non-free images, but missed that that image was such. FoP restrictions suck. I've removed it. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:52, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
 * There are a bunch of images of it at commons. I mentioned this to admin. Some may be kept as de minimis and we may be able to include one. We can't crop de min images though. Help_talk:Contents you may wish to chime in on to get us some better images.--Canoe1967 (talk) 23:34, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

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David MacGill
I have removed the speedy per IAR, as this was never meant to be a disambiguation page, it was originally a valid redirect which converted without ever actually populating or explaining why. Regards, GiantSnowman 09:58, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Also hope my 'thanking' of your edit did not seem sarcastic, it was an accidental mis-click. GiantSnowman 11:42, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
 * No problem. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:46, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Theodore Garman
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 * My apologies for not making myself clear originally, I have now expanded on my original review.  Harrias  talk 16:36, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * Quick note: I suspect 2 spelling errors, have been included in your response to the first question here: Wikipedia Signpost/2013-05-27/WikiProject report - I believe "released" is meant to be "realised", and "out" is meant to be "our"? HTH. –Quiddity (talk) 21:13, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Indeed; I've fixed them. Thank you. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:17, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #60
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 20:13, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Events/Press
 * Deutschlandfunk interview about Wikipedia, Wikidata and more
 * Hackathon in Amsterdam
 * Linked Data in Business
 * Upcoming: Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
 * Upcoming: SemTechBiz
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The time datatype is now available allowing you to enter dates in Wikidata (this also includes a short rundown of what the developers are going to work on next)
 * 5 students are working on projects related to Wikidata as part of Google Summer of Code 2013
 * prototype of a multilingual map using Wikidata
 * Many Wikimedia wikis got a new account creation and login page - among them Wikidata
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: venue (P540), office contested (P541), officially opened by (P542), oath made by (P543), torch lit by (P545), docking port (P546), commemorates (P547), version type (P548), MGP ID (P549), chivalric order (P550), residence (P551), handedness (P552), social media account on (P553), social media address (P554), doubles record (P555), crystal system (P556), DiseasesDB (P557), unit symbol (P558), terminus (P559), direction (P560), NATO reporting name (P561), central bank/issuer (P562), ICD-O (P563), singles record (P564), crystal habit (P565)
 * Newest task forces: Tennis task force, Taxonomy task force, Iranian Persian task force, Medicine task force
 * Development
 * Made good progress on moving the sitelinks on Wikidata too when a page on Wikipedia is moved (36729 - currently the bug with most votes)
 * Fixed some bugs in the time value user interface
 * Worked on coordinate value support
 * Worked together with Wikimedia Foundation ops staff on Apache configuration changes to enable “pretty urls” for item pages. (e.g. https://en.wikidata.org/wiki/New_York_City goes to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60 in the future)
 * Added MediaWiki setting wgLogAutopatrol to allow wikis the option to disable logging of autopatrol actions
 * Improved EntityPerPage rebuild script, which is needed to fix the situation where some Wikipedia articles can't access data from Wikidata (48506)
 * Fixed bug in SetQualifiers API module; Moved both SetQualifiers and RemoveQualifiers out of experimental mode
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list templates
looking at this (my) revert, can the duplicate mentioning of the location be avoided? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:29, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
 * You could just emit the location from the second instance. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:35, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Done, thank you. (First I didn't know how to get rid of the hyphen, but then.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:41, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Theodore Garman
NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 05:17, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Hello
Hello Andy. PelagicLee (talk) 13:39, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Theodore Garman
The DYK project (nominate) 16:02, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Infobox template error
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Re 3RR
I just want to apologize again for falsely accusing you of 3RR. I really should have double-checked the history first, and I feel like a dick. Really sorry. —Frungi (talk) 14:55, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Bancroft Shed
— Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:03, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

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Screen sizes and viewing galleries
I have quoted you (anonymously) at Peer review/Isabeau of Bavaria/archive1, near the end. It occurs to me that I may be misrepresenting your advice. Could I trouble you to look in and check that I'm not? No need to comment if you're happy with what I've said, but please say if I have it wrong. Tim riley (talk) 15:04, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
 * You have it right. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:21, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for that. Tim riley (talk) 15:49, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Template:Infobox deity
now a merged template, may need some microformats. Frietjes (talk) 20:19, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. There are no microformats for fictional characters. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:32, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
 * okay, then how about Template:Infobox Egyptian dignitary? Frietjes (talk) 18:46, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Done; thanks. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:01, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

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This Month in GLAM: May in the UK
Hello Pigsonthewing, I noticed that on the page of the UK of This Month in GLAM there is a section missing and I hope you can full this section (at the bottom). The deadline is in 6 hours, if you need more time, just let me know, it can be moved. Greetings - Romaine (talk) 12:15, 7 June 2013
 * Done. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:41, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Review of one edit
To Andy and Nikkimaria: I'm troubled by seeing two editors I both respect at each other. I've poked around a bit, but d not yet fully understand the issues. I started looking at some of the diffs provided by Andy. If I may, I'll start with one, as I have questions for both of you. the edit of Sally Ryan

Nikkimaria, I see:
 * an improvement to grammar
 * an improvement to the Google Books ref, but
 * a removal of the access date. (There are some who think access dates aren't needed on certain types of refs, but I wouldn't have made that argument on this one. Do you, or is it for some other reason?)
 * a removal of some of the empty parameters.
 * a removal of the influences. The edit summary says unsourced, but Epstein appears to be sourced

I'd be curious to know why the empty parameters were removed. I think I could support the removal of honorific_prefix if you know enough about the subject to know that it will never apply. However, why remove awards? It may be that the removal of the influences is why this is on the list. I do not support such inclusion, but I think that should be a community decision, not an individual editors decision. I think the community is on board with the notion that unsourced entries in the infobox are problematic, and you cited unsourced, presumably to justify removal of Epstein, but the source clearly supports it, so what am I missing?

Andy, when I first started writing this, I had missed that the influences were removed, so I originally was puzzled why this was on the list. I'm not on board with removing all empty parameters, but think that is worth a community discussion, and doubt that prompted the inclusion. Am I correct in guessing that the removal of the influences prompted the addition to the list, or were any of the other edits an issue?-- SPhilbrick (Talk)  14:09, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Regardless of the content changed, Nikki is stalking my edits, which is expressly prohibited. I am not clear why you are using this talk page to address her. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:19, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I am not using this talk page to address her. I looked at an edit, saw questions that I wished to address to both of you, and copied the same question to each page, as a courtesy.
 * Stalking is a serious charge, and needs to be investigated, which I am starting to do. However, my process involves understanding the edits.-- SPhilbrick (Talk)  16:00, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you for explaining; and investogating. Stalking is indeed a serious charge; it's also demonstrably a true one. What do you intend to do about it? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:18, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Answered partially at ANI and partially below. -- SPhilbrick (Talk)  15:35, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Courtesy notice
In an earlier question, I had questions for both of you, so I posted the same question to both talk pages. In this case, my question are mainly aimed at Nikkimaria, but I'm letting you know I asked a question, prompted by the reading of the Arbcom guidance, here.-- SPhilbrick (Talk)  15:34, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
 * You still seem to be focused on the contents of edits; the issue is stalking, which is prohibited regardless of the content, with certain exceptions which unequivocally do not apply in this case. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:40, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Actually, I followed the link you provided, which provides some guidance on determining whether edits should be construed as wikihounding, and I am asking questions to see if I am missing something, because one I looked at seemed to qualify, but before jumping to a conclusion, I wasn't to see what, if anything I missing.-- SPhilbrick (Talk)  16:00, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

I've seen enough
It occurred to me as I reviewed some of the edits identified by Andy that I was emphasizing more recent edits. Perhaps one or both of you had been using the talk pages, and found it fruitless, so abandoned it. I just now looked at the first two edits in the list of examples, both in December 2012. In neither case do I see either of you at the article talk page, nor so I see evidence that either of you discussed either of these articles on each other's editor talk pages. You both have tens of thousands of edits, yet are ignoring rules we expect editors with a hundred edits to follow.

I had panned to look into more edits, but I think that is a waste of time. While I do see some edits that are problematic, I see them on both sides.

At the moment, I feel both of you deserve trouts, and request that you both drop the sticks, start over, and follow Editing 101 processes. Then, if one or the other does violate policies, guidelines or editing protocol expected by the community, it will be far easier to admonish the guilty party.-- SPhilbrick (Talk)  18:29, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
 * You're mistaken (as I've pointed out on ANI, so won't repeat here); you're also still hung up on the content of edits. This is about stalking. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:42, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #61
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 19:08, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Please use the next week to review the discussions about sourcing of statements (d:Wikidata:Requests for comment/References and sources and Discussion on the Project Chat)
 * Events/Press
 * Arts, Humanities and Complex Networks
 * SemTechBiz
 * WMF metrics and activities meeting
 * "Exakter und aktueller" Bessere Daten für Wikipedia durch Wikidata
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Large donation by Yandex for further development of Wikidata (press coverage here and here among others)
 * en:Template:Infobox road and simple:Template:Infobox road now have the ability to use Wikidata for the map field
 * Denny writes about Wikidata and the truth
 * Average edits per page has passed 4
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: basionym (P566), hangingwall (P567), footwall (P568), date of birth (P569), date of death (P570), foundation/creation date (P571), date of scientific description (P574), discovery date (P575), date of dissolution (P576), date of publication (P577), Sandbox-TimeValue (P578), IMA status (P579), start date (P580), end date (P582), as of (P585), IPNI author ID (P586), MMSI (P587), coolant (P588), point group (P589), GNIS (P590), EC Number (P591), ChEMBL (P592), Homologene ID (P593), Ensembl ID (P594), IUPHAR ID (P595), in the direction of (P596), WTA ID (P597), commands (P598), ITF ID (P599), Wine AppDB-ID (P600), MedlinePlus ID (P604), NUTS (P605), first flight (P606)
 * Newest task forces: Catalunya task force
 * Development
 * Worked on globe coordinate editing
 * Reviewed and merged code for SetSiteLink special page
 * EditEntity API refactoring (Info: EditEntity API’s EXCLUDE parameter will be dropped - see here)
 * First steps towards being able to add sitelinks for the first sister-project (WikiVoyage)
 * Improved the Travis CI continuous integration setup
 * Made the DataValue component installable via Composer
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment"
 * Hack on one of these

DYK
Hi, I moved your question to the discussion page.-- Gilderien Chat&#124;List of good deeds 21:34, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

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AN/I
Hi Andy, I'm glad to hear your retina surgery went well. I want to make you aware that the discussion you started on AN/I continues. There's an effort to ask Nikkimaria to agree not to follow your and Gerda's contribs, and to ask you and Gerda not to add infoboxes where you can anticipate that the addition will be contentious. If it's still open when you start editing again, I hope you'll comment. The aim is to head off an ArbCom case, which looks likely if this isn't resolved. Many thanks, SlimVirgin (talk) 02:19, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

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Health
Very sorry indeed to see the temporary header on this page. Best wishes for speedy recovery, and I hope you will be well enough for the ballet bash at Covent Garden next week. Please don't trouble to reply to this. Tim riley (talk) 20:13, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Similarly - hope you're feeling better soon. Hchc2009 (talk) 17:28, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you for caring! Andy sent a short email that retina surgery went well but he needs to lay down most of the time for a week and can't edit. I am glad surgery went well. Did you know that he created this? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:04, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I had a similar procedure in 2007; you do have to - quite literally - keep your head down for at least a week, and after that, for a great deal of the day for a while longer. It's a BIG deal as far as being able to read or use a computer!!!! Best wishes to Andy for a full recovery!   Montanabw (talk) 18:35, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you to you all, and those who have sent good wishes via other means. The surgery, to repair a detached retina, seems to have gone well, but it's too early to know what the long-term outcome will be. I am still effectively immobile for 50 mins in every hour, and so cannot use a keyboard, only my phone. I should be up and about in three or four days, and may be at the Covent Garden event. I may do some minor edits (I have some files to upload) as I return to activity, and will respond to longer debates as soon as I am able, later. Right, that's my ten minute break up... Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:41, 17 June 2013 (UTC)


 * I remember, nothing sucks like sleeping face down (literally! and you gotta stay there!!) for a month or so, my neck muscles took longer to recover than the eye!  Montanabw (talk) 17:28, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #62
<div style="margin-top:10px; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. <div style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Global message delivery 20:48, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Noteworthy Stuff
 * Geocoordinates can now be entered in Wikidata and language links can now be edited without JavaScript
 * The folks at OCLC did a great intro video to Wikidata and VIAF/authority files
 * And here's some interesting analysis on the most unique Wikipedias according to Wikidata
 * Magnus updated his tool to add missing properties to an item
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: battle/war (P607), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), exhibition history (P608), terminus location (P609), highest point (P610), religious order (P611), mother house (P612), OS grid reference (P613), CHRC (P616), yard number (P617), source of energy (P618), spacecraft launch date (P619), spacecraft landing date (P620), spacecraft decay date (P621), spacecraft docking/undocking dates (P622), crew photo (P623), guidance system (P624), coordinate location (P625), Sandbox-GeoCoordinateValue (P626), IUCN-ID (P627)
 * If you're interested in a specific topic then the task forces are a good place to find like-minded people. Can't find one for your interest? Start one!
 * Development
 * More progress on supporting links to sisterprojects
 * Fixing issues with geocoordinate datatype that popped up after deployment
 * Selenium tests for time and geocoordinate interface
 * EditEntity Refactoring (added parameter “new”)
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 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment"
 * Hack on one of these

DYK nomination of Portrait of Kitty
Hello! Your submission of Portrait of Kitty at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 16:46, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Andy, I hadn't realized you had to restrict time here while you are recovering. I'll put a note on the nomination so people know we should wait until you're ready to deal with it: no need to rush under the circumstances. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:38, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Mention on WP:AN
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Wikidata weekly summary #63
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 * Discussions
 * Final vote on the "Guidelines for sourcing statements" till June 24.
 * Work started on a policy regarding information about living people
 * Feedback needed on a proposal by the development team for how to support Wiktionary
 * RfC about sockpuppetry guidelines
 * RfC about personal names
 * Events/Press
 * Wikidata, le Wikipédia que vous utiliserez bientôt tous
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: E number (P628), edition of (P629), Paris city digital code (P630), structural engineer (P631), cultural properties of Belarus reference number (P632), Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec identifier (P633), captain (P634), ISTAT ID (P635), route of administration (P636), Protein ID (P637), PDB ID (P638), RNA ID (P639), Léonore ID (P640), sport (P641), of (P642), Genloc Chr (P643), Genloc Start (P644), Genloc End (P645), Freebase identifier (P646), drafted by (P647), Open Library identifier (P648), NRHP (P649), RKDartists (P650), BPN (P651), UNII (P652), PubMed Health (P653), direction relative to location (P654)
 * Development
 * Worked on site-link group editing to make it possible to link to sisterprojects
 * Further work on input validation
 * Further work on handling invalid data gracefully
 * Use Serializers for generating API results
 * Finished selenium tests for TimeUI and CoordinateUI
 * Changed globe coordinate value input to use backend coordinate parser
 * Fixed issues with data type definitions not being available in the frontend
 * Wrote a little hack so that on statements with a long list of values you will always be able to see the name of the property of the current section you are in (since the label moves when scrolling the page)
 * Open Tasks for You
 * Help fix formatting and value issues for a property
 * Respond to a "Request for Comment"
 * Hack on one of these