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One person supporting dose not a consensus make
Thus restoring. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:46, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * One? You clearly missed the consensus as evaluated by the neutral admin, User:Plastikspork, who closed the TfD. You have, again, broken articles, as I have already pointed out to you. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:48, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Feel free to remove unsupported parameters from the template in articles. We already have 5 opposing. If we include the neutral admin you have two supporting. That consensus was a joke. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 22:56, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Curious: which consensus? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:30, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

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Materials Horizons article proposed deletion
Hi Andy. Another user RandyKitty, who tends to patrol the journals section and is part of WP:NJournals wishes to delete the page related to the journal because they deem it to be Non-notable new journal. Not indexed in any selective databases, no independent sources. Does not meet WP:NJournals or WP:GNG.

Any advice on what to do to prevent this occuring? Thanks DrJWoolf (talk) 22:08, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I have no doubt a neutral editor will not allow it to happen. I have already added on independent source. You may have others to add. Be patient. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:52, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Andy, it seems despite my best effort that this will be deleted. It's due to be added to SCI in the near future so I'll probably create it again at that point. I've saved it for future use once this happens. DrJWoolf (talk) 13:11, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, sadly, that may happen. But if it does, and once there is a SCI listing, don't recreate it; you can request "undeletion", and your work will be restored. Bear in mind that WP:NJournals is not a bnding policy, just a few editors' collective personal thoughts. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:44, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info on that, didn't realise that was possible. I'll probably try some other editing soon and hopefully that will be more successful. DrJWoolf (talk) 13:59, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-04
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Recent changes
 * You can download the new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.
 * Programs and bots still can't read information about images on many wikis. You can see the list of wikis with the most files to fix. Wikipedia in Italian, Indonesian and Japanese language have the most files to fix. On the biggest wikis you should use bots. Bots can add information templates to groups of files. You can ask other tech users to help you.

Problems
 * All JavaScript on Commons was broken for a few minutes on Tuesday. It was because of old code in the HotCat tool. The same problem happened on some Wikipedias on Wednesday. It is now fixed.

Software changes this week
 * There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings.

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Hello
Hello from by the door.

The Molewrangler (talk) 11:43, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello Andy
Hello Andy,

Thank you so much for your help.

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Mina

Hello Andy (again)
Hi Andy, how many beers do you have? Cheers Paul Insidecircles (talk) 11:43, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello Andy
Hello Andy, can I buy you a beer? Drjez25 (talk) 11:43, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi Andy
Can I buy you a (cheap) beer? Dannielle156 (talk) 11:43, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi Andy
Can I buy you a beer? Colster198 (talk) 11:43, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello
is it me you're looking for? Boyceterous-Rex (talk) 11:44, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello Andy
Hi Andy, really enjoying the Wikipedia training. I'd love to buy you a beer.

JonSatriani (talk) 11:44, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello
hello how are you. Charlotterowley01 (talk) 11:44, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi Andy
Bore da Andy. Syt oyt ti heddau? Sargent123 (talk) 15:11, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

boo!
Can you buy me a beer? TCW35 (talk) 15:11, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Hiya!
Greetings Andy. Prettypoppet (talk) 15:11, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi Andy
Hello Andy, can I buy you a beer? Inorganicguy (talk) 15:11, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi Andy
Hi Andy, Thank you for the training. Melbelle2612 (talk) 15:11, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello
Hello Andy, thanks for showing me how to edit Wikipedia. Msuxg (talk) 15:12, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Greetings Andy!
Can you buy me a beer? OptimisticallyCynical (talk) 15:12, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

TFD for Template:Infobox academic division
Following a DRV closure, this TFD has been relisted. If you are still interested in this discussion, please feel free to contribute at the new listing. — xaosflux  Talk 04:21, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

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The Bugle: Issue CVI, January 2015
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Removing banner from Harry Mark Petrakis article
On the article I wrote for Wikipedia on author Harry Mark Petrakis, you put a banner across the top. This is what it says:

This biographical article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. (August 2014)

That banner was put up in August 2014, before the November 2014 publication of Petrakis's autobiography, "Song of My Life." When it came out, I returned to my article and added numerous citations to the autobiography to verify much biographical information. So will you look at my article again, and take the banner off now? Thank you. Lambrini Papangelis Lambrini Papangelis (talk) 21:02, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #142
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 * Discussions
 * Closed RfAs: Petr Matas (unsuccessful), Edoderoo (successful)
 * Open RfAs: Eurodyne
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: MediaWiki Developer Summit
 * Upcoming: FOSDEM
 * Upcoming: Wikidata for research meetup in February in Paris and Berlin
 * Past: Meetup in Cambridge
 * Brainstorming for Wikimania talks related to Wikidata is happening at T87334 and you can apply for a scholarship
 * Wikidata - a year in numbers
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Want to help out mapping schema.org and Wikidata properties? There is now a ticket for coordination.
 * The new Content Translation tool uses Wikidata data to suggest the correct article to link to when translating a Wikipedia article to another language
 * Using GNOME Shell? There is a Wikidata search provider for you.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: award shared with, native label, pollenizer, pollination
 * You can influence the languages shown in the "in other languages box" by adding a bable box to your user page like here.
 * Development
 * More work on header section redesign
 * Released Wikibase DataModel 2.5
 * Broke and fixed JSON dumps - sorry!
 * Implemented entity change subscription service
 * Monthly Tasks
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Recent software changes
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 * The Compact Personal Bar will be removed for now. It has a bug that breaks the tool to choose your language. It will come back when the bug is fixed.

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Thanks for the training
Cheers Andy, very useful. Wellsy1989 (talk) 11:43, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the training session. TheOxfordDom (talk) 11:43, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi Andy
Testing sending talk page message. 0310028m (talk) 11:43, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi Andy!
Thanks for the talk! I owe you a beer! Chembuilder (talk) 11:43, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I've now saved a new page called 'bleach activator' and extended a page that already existed 'sodium nonanoyloxybenzenesulfonate'. After the lunch & learn in October, I extended a similar page 'tetraacetylethylenediamine' and can see that others have edited it since! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chembuilder (talk • contribs) 21:44, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi Andy
Thanks for the training today. Rosalindsearle (talk) 11:44, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello Andy
Hi Andy! Thanks for the course on how to use Wikipedia. Emmatractor (talk) 11:44, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi Andy
Thanks for the Wikipedia training. Fluorogrol (talk) 14:59, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi!
Greetings Andy can you buy me a beer? Jmidje (talk) 14:59, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello!!
Hi Andy! Thanks for the Wikipedia lesson! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Godinhok (talk • contribs) 14:59, 27 January 2015‎

Hi Andy!
Hi Andy - thanks for the tutorial. Great to meet you :) Nicholasbailey87 (talk) 14:59, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello
Thanks for teaching us. Bowleye (talk) 14:59, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello
Hi there Andy. Protactinium91 (talk) 14:59, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello
Hello. Testing, testing. Mansam501 (talk) 14:59, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

IVR page now online
Thanks for the help Andy, my page is now online - IVR (intramolecular vibrational redistribution). I'll hopefully get time to expand it soon Jmidje (talk) 16:46, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Manchester Grammar School and advice
After despairing for years, a member of staff contacted me on User talk:ClemRutter

I posted a reply that I would like you to look over on his page. User talk:Serendipityrules. I would hope we could use this to welcome on board other new editors of his professional status. Can you have a look please- I will also ping Harry. -- Clem Rutter (talk) 01:56, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Re: Adele
Hi Andy. I must confess I thought her nationality had been changed by one of those people who like to participate in the British v individual constituent country edit warring that goes on from time to time (often because they simply prefer the use of one term rather than the other). It happens quite a lot with Scotland articles, and if I see the nationality changed without a reason I always tend to revert to whatever the original was. But I'm very happy to go with your decision on this one. This is Paul (talk) 11:48, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

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RfC: AfC Helper Script access
An RfC has been opened at RfC to physically restrict access to the Helper Script. You are invited to  comment. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:06, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #143
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:20, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Closed RfAs: Eurodyne (unsuccessful)
 * Open RfAs: BlackBeast
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Past: MediaWiki Developer Summit
 * Past: FOSDEM
 * Upcoming: ArtBytes hackathon
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * ATOM feeds for changes in Wikidata Query results. Define your own to keep an eye on changes in specific topics
 * Overview of the number of visual artworks items on Wikidata by creator (>5 items)
 * The Wikidata Free Image Search Tool can now also search Commons (not just follow language links)
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: British Museum person-institution, Sächsische Biografie, equivalent class, LfDS object ID, DAAO identifier
 * Newest WikiProjects: Authority control
 * Development
 * Fixed diffs not showing old ranks, qualifiers and references on the left side (T87096)
 * Worked on several date and time related issues, like incorrect padding of the year to 11 instead of 16 digits (T87764)
 * Further work on header section redesign (T75654)
 * Started redesign of statements section (T87316)
 * Introduced a hint showing the language when a language fallback is used on an item or property (T85105)
 * Working on splitting a Wikibase View component out of the Wikibase Repo code base
 * Currently testing how PHPCS and PHPMD can help raising Wikibase’ code quality
 * Released Wikibase DataModelSerialization 1.3 with language fallback support
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Tech News: 2015-06
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Problems
 * There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
 * The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site.
 * You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator.

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Please restore the TfD notice template immediately
Andy, please revert this edit immediately:. The transclusion of the TfD notice on the affected article pages is the only way that most editors are aware that there is pending TfD. Your immediate response is requested. Thank you. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 18:21, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Zack Cowdrey and Harvey Munford, Staines
Hi mate, i've just recieved notification you removed my updated information of Zack and Harvey on th Staines page. May I please ask why as these two Criminals were national news and both were sentenced to 32 years imprisonment, one of the sentences ever handed out in Britain. Really not sure why it was removed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tonydoherty11 (talk • contribs) 16:55, 3 February 2015‎
 * Firstly, it was uncited, contrary to policy. Secondly, such lists are for people about whom we have an article. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:20, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Greetings
This has been excellent - many thanks! Kirsty Nichol (talk) 15:57, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Thintank Training
Thank you Andy for your time today. Kirikou4335 (talk) 15:57, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Hello Andy
This is a test! JH.Velvetcoat (talk) 15:57, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi
Enjoying the Wikipedia training at Thinktank Lukas EJL (talk) 15:57, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Hello Andy!
Wikipedia training is fun. HelentheCurator (talk) 15:58, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi Andy
Enjoying the day of wikipedia training at Thinktank. Clairehardiman (talk) 15:58, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Wiki training
Hallo Andy, second time lucky for this. Peter Robert Shirley (talk) 15:59, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

hi
hows it going? Luannasaurus (talk) 16:01, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Finding things on Wikipedia
A new problem, what do I do to access a page on Wkipedia when it does not appear when googled? I just put BPGS into Google and no Wkipedia link came up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter Robert Shirley (talk • contribs) 23:48, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 * That's odd; short answer is use Wikipedia's own search feature (top right). But that needs looking in to; see: Village pump (technical)/Archive 134. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:56, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

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Lotta nerve
You edited my talkpage after I asked you not to do so. Don't do that. And as a courtesy reply, you are complaining too much given your edits e.g.,. And next time if you says something is "broken", describe exactly ''what';' is broken or you might be reverted. -DePiep (talk) 09:31, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't recall any such notification; diff, please? Besides, I haven't edited your talk page for almost two weeks, and that was not to remove or edit my TfD comments; something about which you were subsequently cautioned at WP:ANI: "DePiep, you need to grow up and stop baiting Andy, this is a situation waiting for a WP:BOOMERANG on you for your poor behavior"; "DePiep, you'd best knock it off voluntarily and move on as it's not worth it, unless you actually want involuntary editing restrictions imposed on your account". I urge you to heed such advice. My edits, which you quote, do not compare, and are simple technical fixes, permitted by policy, and which do not remove content. As for your "broken" comment, if you refer to your talk page indenting habit, I've already told you why and how its broken, and shown you how to fix it.  Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:28, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

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thanks
Hi Andy, Thanks for checking my contributions, it gives me much more confidence! When I see you, maybe you can give me some advice on where I can improve? But I won't be around on the 12th so perhaps you can let me know when you're next in? --Luannasaurus (talk) 12:17, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Will do - as soon as I know! Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:31, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Signpost quote
Please stop editing Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Quote without discussing your changes at WT:POST. The MfD was closed as a clear keep, so your chicanery and shenanigans are really not appreciated. Thanks. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 19:07, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * No it wasn't, it was closed as "keep/merge" and the closing admin commented "The suggested solution of merging the two templates (thereby converting this one to a wrapper) enjoys greater support and is consistent with decisions reached in similar situations, so those with the necessary know-how should feel free to proceed". Since there are no unique parameters requiring a wrapper, a redirect is equivalent. Please do do not omit edit summaries when you revert; and knock of the personal attacks. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:16, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm assuming that you realize that moving comments to a wider and related forum is not the same thing as removing them, but YMMV. Personal attacks? Where? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 19:23, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

ick
Hi Andy, how do I link my Ick article to this disambiguation page?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICK Is that a good thing to do? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Luannasaurus (talk • contribs) 19:00, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I've added a link from that page to the article you wrote, and here's to show you how. We don't tend to link in the other direction, unless there are multiple people with the same name. For an example of the latter, see the top of David Gilmour.  Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:25, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi Andy, thanks for the explanation - I get that now. To reply to your reply, I had to click Edit - is that how you're supposed to do it? Luannasaurus (talk) 12:07, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, just like a section on any other page. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:47, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Template category snafu
The redlink category at Talk:Anuradha Patel (sculptor) ... is being put together as Category:Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of public art, which is probably a bad thing. --Tagishsimon (talk) 20:38, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Fixed (I think!). Thanks. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:44, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #144
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 * Discussions
 * Open RfAs: BlackBeast
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Upcoming: Eurpeana Tech
 * Andrew Su gave a talk about crowd sourcing and citizen science for biology including Wikidata (slides)
 * Going to Wikimania? Apply for a scholarship.
 * Internet Archive, Wikidata and Open Education
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Wikibooks will get access to language links via Wikidata on February 24th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikibooks.
 * Roughly 17000 of the candidate articles that Google identified as potentially being about the same topic but lacking a language link have been merged. About 17500 are remaining and waiting for you to go through them via https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry/
 * Mix'n'Match got a face lift
 * Magnus says every day new images are added to over 1000 items \o/
 * RStats client for Wikidata
 * Reasonator now also supports biography texts in French
 * Did you know?
 * Showcase items: Lucy (first name)
 * Development
 * Did more work on Capiunto to get it into a state where it can be deployed to Wikimedia sites.
 * Mourned Titan (T88550) as its developers were bought up. Began evaluation for which graph database to use instead for a Wikidata query service (Wikibase/Indexing)
 * Further work on header section redesign
 * Tweaks to the sitelink section
 * Worked on making monolingual text datatype accept more languages
 * Finished showing the language when a language fallback is used
 * Started looking into fixing the existing Guided Tours after Guided Tours extension API changes
 * Worked on implementing Lua convenience functions for rendering arbitrary Snaks. This is useful for displaying references or qualifiers. (T76213)
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WikiArabia 2015
Hi Andy,

In the order to engage discussions about GLAM-Wiki in WikiArabia 2015 this April, can you, please, start a draft of your presentation, in meta? Best. --Dyolf77 (talk) 23:08, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-07
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Recent software changes
 * You can now use  to transclude a section with its title.

Problems
 * MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later.
 * UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki.
 * All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem.

Software changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 11 (calendar).
 * You can have one user page for all wikis. Your Meta user page will show if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can test this tool on test wikis.
 * You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license.
 * It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider.
 * You can read the latest news about VisualEditor. You can now join weekly meetings with developers. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The first meeting is on February 11 at 20:00 (UTC).

Future changes
 * Administrators will soon be able to delete change tags used fewer than 5,000 times.
 * In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site.

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Editing Wikipedia
Hallo Andy, I have just edited an article about Larry Stephens, the West Bromwich born Goon Show scriptwriter. It seems to have been accepted. t was a couple of additional sentences about his marriage, and a reference of course. Thanks again for last week. Peter Robert Shirley (talk) 11:08, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

iso_code
You added an iso_code param to Template:Infobox UK place. Just wondering if you could a add a line to the docs page to describe what it is to be used for? -- WOSlinker (talk) 09:23, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I'd already included a link to ISO 3166, which suffices in the documentation of Infobox settlement, from where I copied the code, but I have now added some explanatory text. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:38, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --- WOSlinker (talk) 13:26, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

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A.W. Hill
Hi POTW, I recognize that you have far more experience in this world than I, and I was interested in your input. I've seen some recent housekeeping from you and another editor at A.W. Hill, which per my understanding should be merged to Andy Hill (film music supervisor) per the recent AfD. Is that still in the works? I've noticed some cosmetic changes over the last few days and this edit that suggests the article has been merged, but I don't see content having been moved to Andy Hill (American music producer). This isn't a criticism of you, I'm just confused. I'm sure your quickest of summaries will suffice, and an even simpler, "the process takes a few days, chillax" will be perfectly fine for me to get me to shut up. Thanks! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 08:14, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
 * The merge appears to have been carried out by User:Anthony Appleyard, in .  Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:27, 11 February 2015 (UTC)


 * That was a history-merge, not a text-merge. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:58, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Someone hit me with the n00b stick. Thanks guys. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:29, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

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Greetings Andy
Hello Andy, enjoying the session at Thinktank. David606 (talk) 15:38, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

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hello again andy. Highlandfiona (talk) 15:38, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

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Hi Andy, hope all is well with you. 26Mason (talk) 15:39, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

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Hello, I am currently at Thinktank. Mjh5000 (talk) 15:39, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

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Hello Andy
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Head up re an individual willing to help with audio
Andy, I just handled an OTRS ticket from a reader who thinks we need more audio in Wikipedia. I pointed the person to WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia, but suggested that we need help. The person indicated a willingness to help and asked how.

I saw your name as a contributor to the project, and recall you have an interest in audio on Wikipedia, so I am going to post this message, and ask the individual to reach out to you, either on your talk page or by email (I understand it is better to use talk pages, but some new contributors may feel more comfortable starting out on email.)

I'd like to see more audio resources in Wikipedia, but it is not in my wheelhouse, so I hope this person can help.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  02:57, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Noted, thanks. I'll be happy to help. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:05, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm happy to hear that. I Just shared the email address with you.)-- S Philbrick (Talk)  13:40, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

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