User talk:Ping08

A belated welcome!
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Again, welcome! -- samtar talk or stalk 12:15, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

Reflinks
Hello

I am contacting you about your contribution to Windows XP editions article on 30 January. You had attempted to repair bare links using Reflinks.

It goes without saying that you meant well. You meant to be useful. To do some good on Wikipedia. Right?

While your intention was pure and commendable, the result of your work was ... to use the colloquial terms ... a total fuck-up. For example, "Posted April 3, 2008" is not the name of a person. "News.microsoft.com" and "News.zdnet.co.uk" are website domain names, not publishers. (The publishers are Microsoft and CBS Interactive.) And most important of all "Latest Topics" is not the name of an article. Anyway, I had to triage your contribution.

Please not that Reflinks is an outdated and outmoded tool and its output must go through personal audit.\

Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 06:32, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I'll keep that in mind in the future. — Ping08 (talk) 14:06, 31 January 2017 (UTC)