User talk:Waacstats/archive7

Possible bot problem
If this is a bot, please fix it. These See also links should not have been combined, and I have been spending hours fixing them manually as so many edits have been made in the meantime. Your edit summary only mentions Persondata, so I don't know why this incorrect change was made at all. 184.78.81.245 (talk) 17:30, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mazie_Hirono&diff=482336644&oldid=481977912
 * Thanks. 184.78.81.245 (talk) 18:28, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Two articles on Anderson Santos
Hi. There are two articles that you created (Anderson Santos and Anderson Santos (Paralympian)), are these really two people? The second was originally at Anderson Santosh but was moved. Thanks. Tassedethe (talk) 21:34, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

AWB
I think you are using an v. 5.4.0.0 of AWB. Since you are a really active editor I would suggest that you install the latest revision found at http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/ It has fixed some critical bugs and it is much faster than the one you have. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:54, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up, for some reason the update program wasn't picking up any updates. Waacstats (talk) 13:14, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

We found a couple of minor bugs so... 8776 is now up. http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/ Auto-update is broken. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:43, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Persondata - Short Description
Hi, I noticed you have been adding a value to the SHORT DESCRIPTION parameter of Persondata in various articles. I believe the value you added for Al Jardine is incorrect. You added "American Record Producer"; although Jardine produced or co-produced some of the Beach Boys records, he is really primarily known as a guitarist, songwriter, and singer for the Beach Boys. I reverted your edits twice, providing a rationale in the edit summary, but evidently you did not look at the article history when you reinserted the same edit or chose not to provide a rationale in the edit summary for reinserting the edit. In the future it would be helpful if you looked at the history before reinserting your reverted edit to see why there is an issue, and if you disagree with the reverting of your edit, provide a rationale in the edit summary (or otherwise discuss it). Thanks, hulmem (talk) 04:53, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi, I am just making contact in relation to the "South Korean skateboarder" category for the Daewon Song article. I have edited the metadata so that it instead reads, "Korean American skateboarder", and removed the "South Korean skateboarder" category, as I do not think that Song regards himself as a "South Korean skateboarder" at the present time. However, I am more than open to being corrected, so let me know what you think if my edit should be undone. Regards,--Soulparadox (talk) 14:22, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Reverted on Theresa Caputo, description unsourced. - - MrBill3 (talk) 02:53, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for making a correction on the short description of Theresa Caputo. I am going to change it again to "television personality" this is directly from the lead of the article. Hopefully this is acceptable. Placing comment on Talk:Theresa Caputo.- - MrBill3 (talk) 08:28, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

Brian Smrz
Hello and thanks for raising your concerns about the notability of this person, back in Jan 2008. 5 years later the tag is still on and I couldn't find sources to verify notability. You might want to take it to AfD or the Notability Noticeboard. Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 18:56, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Persondata → SHORT DESCRIPTION → Mormon missionary
I've noticed on many Mormon bio's you've added Mormon missionary in Persondata → SHORT DESCRIPTION. Please understand that almost no Mormon is primarily notable specifically for their service as a missionary (with exceptions for Dan Jones (Mormon), & perhaps the unfortunate elder in the Mormon sex in chains case). Please avoid adding that in the future. -- 208.81.184.4 (talk) 23:38, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Question
I saw you adding person data to Cenap Samet. That stub is there since almost two years without any sources and no improvement at all. Possibly because the person is not notable enough. Should it not go to AfD? Best. --E4024 (talk) 23:45, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Use of the "Minor Edit" tag
Hi, I notice that you are adding short descriptions to articles and ticking the "minor edit" box, for example here: []. I just thought I would let you know that the "minor" edit box is really for tiny tiny changes that nobody could possibly object to - such as removing an extra blank space. The policy is here: WP:MINOR. Friendly regards, Springnuts (talk) 08:56, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for starting the article on Black Bob!
That Black Bob of the Shawnees turned out to have quite an interesting story. Come join us at WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America whenever you're ready to start some more biographies! (Just discovered a Lenape-Delaware site with biographies, if you're interested ...) Djembayz (talk) 16:17, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Creating categories for birth and death dates of persondata
Hi Waacstats, I see that you contribute a lot to the person data of Wikipedia. I am interested in creating categories for the various birth and death dates of people in Wikipedia. So I was wondering if you know - is there a way for a computer to create and populate these categories by pulling the information from the person data? If you do not know the answer to this question, do you know whom I should ask? Thanks a lot!Hoops gza (talk) 21:32, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Wales/Cymru
Hello, i noticed that your user page says that you live in Wales. Do you speak welsh??? NHCLS (talk) 17:39, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I understand a small amount but not really enough. Waacstats (talk) 20:56, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Nice. As i have Welsh in my blood, and welsh is a really cool language, I am trying to learn it.Myfi gwneud na siarad llawer. I think that's what that means... NHCLS (talk) 22:08, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

...
Are you sure? — Theopolisme ( talk )  11:20, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Please help
Dear Waacstats, could you please check the talk page of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_Robinson_(bodybuilder) and help to achieve fairness in materials put on article about Robby Robinson? I would like to hear your opinion if you also support that within a couple of days an article about a famous bodybuilding legend turned out into an article about a ... I do not even have words. All the previous contributions were deleted, not only those from me, and new ones are presented so misleading that people who know Mr Robinson and his life and achievements will never believe this is an article about him. Thak you. RRWM (talk) 01:11, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

You have been told about this before
This: is a bad edit. And you know it, as you have been warned about exactly this pattern of poor editing before. You would be wise to desist now. --Mais oui! (talk) 01:11, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adam_Otterburn&curid=29018875&diff=556777942&oldid=551499027
 * I apologise for missing one, I do take care with these and on occasion I do miss one so thank you for finding it, It is not done on purpose. All it would take is a not on my talk page that was a little less threatening and I would have changed it, no need to appear to be so angry. Waacstats (talk) 07:36, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
 * The problem is that this is not an isolated incident. You have a history and a pattern of identical poor editing over several years now. You really, really do need to have a fundamental rethink of your behaviour. It would take hundreds of hours now for other editors to rectify your countless mistakes. I mean it when I say: desist now. Please. --Mais oui! (talk) 08:08, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I will not "desist now", I admit that a few errors may have crept in on these over the years, but not "Hundreds of hours" to correct and I have never asked anyone else to correct them and am willing and have done in the past corrected them myself. I take care over these and I hope that this is an isolated incident as I have not been told about any others for quite some time, in terms of getting Scottish/British wrong it has been over a year. Waacstats (talk) 08:24, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

Recent edits to Hisham Shreidi
Hello, and thank you for your recent contributions. I appreciate the effort you made for our project, probably Lebanese extremist wouldbe a better short description. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. Thank you! Amit (talk) 05:40, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Please stop placing factually incorrect information into draft articles inside my usespace
As per User pages, would you please stop using what ever automated tool you are using to repeatedly insert factually incorrect information into various draft articles located within my userspace. While I am aware that there are a variety of drafts in various stages of completion that might appear to the uninitiated to have likely avenues for automated improvement, when information is missing or incomplete for more than a couple days it is more common that it has not been inserted into the draft for reasons such as inability to properly verify or contradictory claims made by various good quality sources. Your efforts to "fill in the blanks" by adding WP:Persondata information defeats my personal system by removing the internal checks I use when writing an article and instead of the raw text giving me a visual reminder that work still needs to be performed I am stuck scanning my watchlist and hoping that I spot every instance of your bot inserting incorrect information (I am assuming you are using a bot because of the large number of edits you perform, then fact that the articles being edited have no links pointed to them and are not in any categories, and because you have obviously not been reading the complete contents the the article lead before determining how to categorize a person). --Allen3 talk 22:33, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Stu Klitenic for deletion
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Ted Sioeng edit
In reverting a whitewash of good writing at Ted Sioeng, I had to lose, but subsequently replaced, a simple edit by you. You may wish to check. Cossaxx (talk) 21:31, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Tom Crabtree (journalist) for deletion
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Nomination of Ari Wolfe for deletion
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You are lighting up
the Detroit Rock & Roll section on my watchlist like the 4th of July. Which might not mean much in Wales, but in the USA it is considered mostly a good thing. Well. ...... except in my area of the US where such things are banned. Carptrash (talk) 15:54, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Daya Mata
Hi there you just gave her persondata as "American Hindu Leader" which is not correct - please use this instead - "President, Self-Realization Fellowship" Thank you Red Rose 13 (talk) 00:33, 22 July 2013 (UTC) Thank you for fixing itRed Rose 13 (talk) 11:20, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * |SHORT DESCRIPTION = Dutch princess

Plse Help, the spelling of page Johann Cesar VI. Godeffroy is different to the German. Pls change! The first name Johan is only with one N. I would prefer the Roman VI without a piont . and behind the family name, as it is no part of the name. It is only to differ more easily the equal named persons (first born son). In their living time the named themselves Johan Cesar Godeffroy sen. and Johan Cesar Godeffroy jun.. The Godeffroys doesnt belong to the nobility today. As (former) Hugenots in france they had a peerage. Kind regards--Sorgenlos (talk) 16:42, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Chad Johnson (cornerback)


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Please stop and fix your AWB errors
You have to stop and check your work. Please note the typos you have just introduced into the persondata for Norman McLaren and Gilles Groulx, for example. thank you, Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:49, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Fixed, I see. Thank you. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:51, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Precious
  person data

Thank you for tirelessly adding persondata to countless biographies, giving silent service in the background of the project, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:11, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Moving HTML comments
Hello, why did you move the HTML comment up in [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tracy_Chapman&curid=169833&diff=578173104&oldid=577322815 this edit to Tracy Chapman]? It should be as close to the categories as possible. Graham 87 00:26, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Visbek
Dear Sir/ Madame

I am a newbie here and have recently worked a lot on the Visbek entry. Therefore, and since I am a non-native speaker of the English language, I'd kindly request you to view this article whenever your time permits. Also I am curious to find out whether this article must still remain a stub or might be lifted up a step.

Your assistance will be appreciated.

Yours sincerely

--79.202.201.206 (talk) 12:31, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

Typo
Hello Waacstats, I have just noticed that in two articles you made the same error (probably due to copypasting): and. "Singers" should have been "singer". Best, Toccata quarta (talk) 22:02, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Bill Toma


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DYK for Menggenjimisu
The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive
 Hello, Waacstats:

WikiProject AFC is holding a two month long Backlog Elimination Drive!

The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from December 1st, 2013 – January 31st, 2014.

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December 2013
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Bizarre edit comments
Hi, why are you commenting your additions to persondata with the edit comment "removing..."? e.g. John Stevens Henslow. It's at best unhelpful, at worst confusing. Also, these edits could probably be marked 'minor' as they're quite uncontroversial. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:52, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that, forgot to change the edit summary back, as to marking the edits as 'minor', I have been advised before about NOT marking them as minor so it seems you can't please all of the people. Waacstats (talk) 15:33, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:11, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

For you

 * Thanks for that, I hadn't realised I was anywhere near the 1 million edits, must be spending way too much time on here. It is really good to see you about on here, hope things are better for you and the cats. Waacstats (talk) 12:54, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Just the one cat, sadly - but things have improved a bit other than that. Not on here "full time" like I was, but doing a few odd jobs around the site :) Grutness...wha?  23:44, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Persondata short description
While I appreciate the effort you're putting in to adding persondata short descriptions that lack them, please be careful to add accurate descriptions; an inaccurate description is no improvement on no description (and is arguably worse, since it means the article is no longer tagged as needing improvement).

The specific case that prompted this message is Lee Battersby, who is not an American writer and there's nothing I can see in his article that could have suggested to you that he is. — Paul A (talk) 01:44, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I do apologise I was working through a list of supposedly American writers, I had caught a few none Americans but Lee Battersby must have snuck through, thanks.Waacstats (talk) 07:21, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Persondata short description
Your description of Takis Fotopoulos is not true. Even a cursory reading of the Takis Fotopoulos page would make it evident that Takis Fotopoulos is not a politician. John sargis (talk) 03:39, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
Thanks very much, 1,000,000 edits is certainly a milestone and one I am happy to have reached but 1,000,000 is just a number and 1,000,000 tiny repetitive edits are like 1,000,000 pennys, worth about 10,000 pounds or 10,000 larger more meaningful edits. The number of edits someone makes is very little indication of how much a person adds to Wiki. Waacstats (talk) 22:40, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Edit summary mismatch
In this edit you were actually subtracting rather than adding persondata (an appropriate action for band articles). You may want to verify how your edit summaries are set up. Dl2000 (talk) 19:17, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
 * thanks for that, I'll keep an eye on that. Waacstats (talk) 19:41, 25 January 2014 (UTC)