User talk:WereSpielChequers/Archive 29


 * This is my archive for threads from 2017 that don't belong in my themed archives.

Happy New Year, WereSpielChequers!


Happy New Year! WereSpielChequers, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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Incoming!
(just in case the Wikipedia e-mail system is still playing up) - you have mail! :-) Mike1901 (talk) 16:53, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Email
I shot you an email. Thanks.  Go  Phightins  !  06:42, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Happy New Year, WereSpielChequers!


Happy New Year! WereSpielChequers, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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Arb request
I'm at my word limit, so I cannot respond to you on the Arb request. The objectionable part of the edit you mention was not that change from 06 to 6, which was legitimate, but the removal of a blank line in the categories. A blank line in the cateories is not rendered and thus is an example of Bg19bot making an unnecessary cosmetic edit. Best, Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:16, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. So your objection is to people doing such minor cleanups at the same time as they do a meaningful edit? I thought consensus was long established that you could make such edits if at the same time you maka a non cosmetic change such as the 06 to 6 one. AWB for starters is designed on that basis, you can set it to automatically make such minor changes at the same as any meaningful edit you make. Why would you want to change such a policy?  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  05:38, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

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Accidental revert
Sorry, looks like I inadvertently pocket-reverted you on RFA. TDL (talk) 14:29, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
 * No problem, someone's already fixed it. Accidents will happen as the Dalek said getting off the dustbin.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  14:33, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Use of the butterfly on my userspace
Hello, it it possible that I use your butterfly on my userspace please? Wiki-Coffee Talk 21:31, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Sure, it isn't mine though, I copied the code from Panyd - hence the attribution in the edit summary.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  21:36, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I will be sure to attribute him. Wiki-Coffee  Talk 21:43, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Awkward Her. Wiki-Coffee  Talk 21:50, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

RfC on "No paid editing for Admins" at WT:COI
I've relisted an RfC that was run at WT:Admin in Sept. 2015. It is at Wikipedia talk:Conflict of interest as there are a number of similar proposals going on at the same place. Better to keep them together. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 04:49, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

Kendra Haste
Hi guy - long long ago, and far fay away, you gave me reason to respect your opinion. I now need your independent opinion/assessment of this page. I fought hard to get the main images accepted under "fair use" and lost. So I pointed a gun at the artist's agent and he gave up copyright, (or else. Btw that's called "figurative language" where I come from - I don't actually own a gun). Now I'm being bitten by someone who criticizes my best ever article because it "sandwiches" text. I would be so very grateful if you would examine this article on a PC and then advize me on the subject of sandwiching. The article seems fine on my Galaxy 4, and I aint finished inputting text yet, (a considerable amount to follow), do I have to lose my excellently structured article so some frog spawn can read it through the end of a broken bottle?

Forgive my acrid humour - just tell me what I need to do to ward off the challange of "sandwiching". Sincerely - Mark Dask  22:32, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * PS - I promise I will leave your name out of the argument - I just want advice Mark Dask  22:41, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Markdask, good to hear from you. How big a fan are you of Donald Trump's tie? Especially the Stephen Colbert parody of it? If ties that you trip over become a thing, and some Texan introduces a skinny Trump tie, then your influences section might become something us PC users have to live with. Currently on my screen the tip of the tail, well below the images, looks like this:


 * who
 * through
 * plaster
 * and
 * straw
 * brings
 * her
 * poignant,
 * figurative
 * sculptures
 * to life.
 * It is
 * this
 * sense
 * of
 * bringing
 * life
 * and
 * resonance
 * to an
 * inanimate
 * sculpture
 * that I
 * try to
 * capture
 * in my
 * own
 * work
 * Maybe that would work if you could rephrase it as a series of haiku? If not, for usability I'd give that article some mini galleries. I'd also swap a couple of images round - there is a convention that images should look into the article not out of it.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  23:06, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Loved the Trump/Colbert allusion - wasn't Colbert hysterically funny? I saw you popped by - hope you liked the changes. Mark Dask  23:14, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review-Patrolling: Coordinator elections
Your last chance to nominate yourself or any New Page Reviewer, See Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Coordination. Elections begin Monday 20 February 23:59 UTC. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:17, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

You've got mail!
you've got mail  Amaryllis Gardener  talk 03:03, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Welcome without policy links
Thank you for creating a welcome without policy links, I think it's a brilliant idea. Down with the alphabet soup! Bishonen &#124; talk 14:55, 28 March 2017 (UTC).
 * Thanks, I tested it again a couple of weeks ago at a Women's day editathon in London, I think it could be more concise and would welcome any small bits of it that Bishzilla could tear off or flame away.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  15:08, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Maybe Darwinbish should take a look (= a bite). Bishzilla's own welcome template is actually pretty conventional, with hrair links to information pages and the like. Bishonen &#124; talk 15:20, 28 March 2017 (UTC).

a favor at Edison Bell
Would you be so kind as to give Edison Bell a once-over for British spelling. I can't even spell in American, so I'm most certainly not going to know how to truly spell things. I should have done this before it appeared at DYK. I was hoping one of the readers would catch things, but either I didn't use words with spelling variants, or nobody else caught them either. Many thanks! 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 16:27, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you, much appreciated. 78.26  (spin me / revolutions) 17:10, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
 * You are very welcome. If either the Bartholomew lane or Charing cross rd buildings survived the blitz they are probably still standing. If so we may have a photograph or could get one in the next few weeks if I ask at the London meetup. We just need numbers.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  20:02, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * That would be sweet! If you can, can you get a picture of an Edison Bell phonograph, or gramophone, these might be at a museum that would let you take pictures.  I have several pictures of record labels I was going to add, but the building, plus a picture of a machine (particularly an "outside horn") would really add to the quality of the article.  Again, thanks!  (mentally add as many exclamation marks as you feel appropriate.)   78.26  (spin me / revolutions) 20:15, 12 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Well there's always Nipper .... If you can track down a London museum that has such equipment on display then we may be able to help. My last such request got a result. As for the buildings, if you can find out the numbers, and if they are still standing, we probably oblige. Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  23:22, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Nipper is so closely associated with Victor in the U.S. and His Master's Voice in the U.K. that I hesitate to use that image, at least anywhere near the top of the article. It should be included somewhere, though, because it is significant to the Edison Bell story.  I had run across that label scan, but decided against using it because it is of such poor quality.  I need to get off my duff and scan several label variations from my own collection.  I unfortunately don't have any Edison Bell cylinders, although I have some British cylinders by White and London Popular which became subsidiaries of Edison Bell, and are significantly more uncommon.


 * Regarding the address, several come up, depending on which iteration of Edison Bell we are discussing.  gives a reliable address of 39 Charing Cross, as does  (come to think of it, this is public domain, so this advertisement could be used as a photo).   gives an address of 337 Charing Cross.  This may have been a sub-location, most sources to seem to give 39 Charing Cross.  Hope that helps.  And again, thank you!   78.26  (spin me / revolutions) 13:36, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Hello
Hi friend, thanks for your superb goooood advice, I like ya, what did you mean welcome back by the way, I am sorry for insulting Wikipedia and writing bad words on y talk page, so sorry, ooops/sorry, now I will do Everything smoothly, I told those editors were bad becuz they edited my IP edits on an article. The corrector man (talk) 16:21, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I worked out you weren't entirely new from your userpage. But I wasn't sure if you were an IP editor or a returnee with a new account. No need to apologise for insulting Wikipedia, plenty of us have done that, the question is what you criticise and what direction you want to take it in. Editing others article edits happens all the time - most of my edits are of that nature. The question is were they improving Wikipedia?  Ϣere  Spiel  Chequers  16:30, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks friend, I am a worn out IP editor for England, please help me, my name is Jonathan.

The corrector man (talk) 16:36, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * OK Jonathan. What sort of help do you need?  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  17:07, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

BLP
As a member of the music project, I can confirm that all music collections—bands, ensembles, orchestras and choirs—that have living people in them are part of the BLP project as well. That you disagree is fine. But to remove BLP sources rather than replace it with refimprove is unacceptable. I have reverted your incorrect change. Feel free to take it to a larger set of admins. Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:19, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
 * That template starts "This biography of a living person" and you've put it on a choir, and you put it back after two different people pointed out your mistake. The BLP policy certainly does apply to BLP information anywhere in Wikipedia. But BLP sources is a specific template for biographies, it is incorrect to describe an article on a choir as a biography of a living person.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  19:16, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

You've got mail

SRZ Admin userbox
Hey WSC,

Keeper wants to nuke this from his userspace. You're the only other person using it. Well, technically, the only person using it since he took it off his page. Do you want me to move it to your userspace, or should I just nuke it and you'll deal with it somehow? --Floquenbeam (talk) 02:00, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Tis gone. But thanks for asking.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  09:14, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see. People should be more patient... like I always am! Anyway, I imagine you could grab it if you wanted. --Floquenbeam (talk) 10:09, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

You've got mail!
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Various

 * 1) Something for you to read. If you think I'm nuts don't hesitate to tell me.
 * 2) Are you going to Wikimania? I have 7 days left to decide whether or not I splash out $2,000 to go. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:26, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, I'm not currently planning on Montreal, thinking now of South Africa next year. But my French is un petit peu gross terrible, I'm guessing yours is much better. I won't have time to read your NPP thing for a few days at least, sorry -in a busy patch.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  09:58, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:WikiProject Tanzania
Template:WikiProject Tanzania has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 00:23, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Proofreading ideas
Greetings! ... and thanks for your many years of hard work on the project. I invite you to comment on this. --LilHelpa (talk) 11:37, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

In London
Free tickets to the Proms have overcome my allergy to London on the 20th - I seem to remember you mentioning a regular meetup on Sunday afternoons? GoldenRing (talk) 16:52, 8 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Next London meetup is the 13th, event here. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:13, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Goldenring, we normally meet on the second Sunday as Joseph says, when are you in town?  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  20:23, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Stavros Lambrinidis == Hi, regarding this edit, please do not just blindly change file names, as it breaks the entire file and causes it not to show up in the article. You have now made this exact same edit twice despite another editor reverting you with a very clear explanation. Katniss  May the odds be ever in your favor ♥  02:13, 25 August 2017 (UTC)

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NRG and Reliant Wikipedia pages
Hi, I noticed that you edited the NRG Energy wiki page. I am trying to write a page about Reliant, and I am wondering if I could get some feedback from you. Any help will be appreciated. Here is the Reliant draft page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Reliant_Energy Thanks Adapt16 (talk) 18:22, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Adapt. One thing jumps out at me "an annual revenue of $10.9 million and nearly 4,000 employees" that is only 2,700 revenue per employee. If that was profit, or the employees somewhere with much lower labour costs then maybe, but in the US? I don't think that's possible.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  20:17, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Auto skip inactive editors from newsletters
Thanks for the RfC at Village pump (proposals). EEng made a very interesting suggestion that needs consideration because it might make the RfC moot. EEng included a ping to you and me but I was not notified so perhaps you weren't either. Therefore I'm posting here to make sure you are aware of the idea.

I don't think we will want to discuss it here but I'll mention that the idea is that a subscriber would have a template on a user page which transcludes the current edition of the newsletter. The template would include a category, and everyone in that category would receive a notification when the newsletter updates. The transclusion should work, and would mean that there is only ever one edition of a particular newsletter on a page. The notification would be harder to achieve. Johnuniq (talk) 03:29, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi, if you look at my userpage you'd see that the latest issue of the signpost is transcluded there. So I'm familiar with that route, but I don't see how we could introduce a rule against non transcluded newsletters - such a rule would be way too bureaucratic.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  13:02,

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"tis the season...."
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Merry Christmas!
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– Davey 2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 13:57, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Season's Greetings
...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 23:50, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

Yet another
--RexxS (talk) 18:51, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Season's Greetings
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Hello there! Shearonink (talk) wishes you & yours the the very best of the season! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Diwali, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus (for the rest of us!) or even the Saturnalia,  here's to  hoping your holiday time is wonderful and that  the New Year will be an improvement upon the old. CHEERS!

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