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ReferenceBot – Osborne

User:A930913 {{User:A930913/BBresolved|yes}}

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Osborne 13:41, 4 June 2014 (UTC) Re Vicia sylvatica. Sorry did not understand you suggestion of correction to this file. I wished to enter "References" but failed. Your not confused me. I'll try again! Osborne 13:41, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

You seem to have {https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vicia_sylvatica&diff=611528874&oldid=611528034 figured it out]. Thanks for improving the article! Huon (talk) 15:53, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Knightsbridger

Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Lo_Schiavo

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Comment/question: Hello BracketBot, sorry for the inconvenience, I was updating the page and I made a mistake with the syntax. I wanted to ask you something, when I put a reference of a magazine pubblication I have to provide also the link (If the magazine have the article also online) or an external link with the images (scanned) of the article? Thank you so much in advance

Knightsbridger

Knightsbridger (talk) 00:04, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

If the magazine has an online edition, a link to that article will be a great convenience to our reader. Scanned images of the article, however, are likely copyright violations and should not be linked to. Huon (talk) 19:14, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 66.57.160.8

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66.57.160.8 (talk) 21:28, 11 June 2014 (UTC) Can you just fix it for me? I am not sure how. Thanks.

{{done}} Huon (talk) 23:48, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – LUKSAR

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LUKSAR (talk) 00:31, 12 June 2014 (UTC) Hello,' We are trying our very best. We have kept all information VALID. However, we do not have a quick pick up at this type site. If you would please take this into consideration. We've struggled to work on this, as well as our site and careers can handle. Thank you...... JESABB

@LUKSAR: Who is "we"? The information you added was unduly promotional and largely based on press releases, without any reliable third-party sources. I have shortened that section considerably. Huon (talk) 19:29, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Lbehravesh

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I am not really sure how to edit it.  This is for Hidden Cash

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Lbehravesh (talk) 18:18, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

That page has since been deleted because there was not enough context to establish what it was about, and no reliable sources in sight. Wikipedia is not a social network. Huon (talk) 19:29, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Czar

User:A930913 {{User:A930913/BBresolved|yes}}

Page: Tim Rogers (journalist)

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=613035120

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Comment/question: There doesn't appear to be a reference error. When I compared changes before applying its suggested fix, there was no change

Please ping me, if necessary czar ♔ 00:25, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

@Czar: If you check the reference list after your edit, you'll find that the fourth reference is a big red warning that says: "Cite error: The named reference Mother_2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page)." That was fixed by Bgwhite in a subsequent edit (by removing the slash). Huon (talk) 21:19, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Huh—somehow didn't see that, but I suppose that's why there was nothing in the compare changes. Thanks! czar ♔ 22:20, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 121.101.189.2

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121.101.189.2 (talk) 06:20, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

That edit has been reverted, fixing the bracket issues it caused. Huon (talk) 21:19, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Df2397

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Comment/question: that shouldnt be in the first paragraph of the page as it is saying the album is bad i think a new section should be made called album review or summin

Df2397 (talk) 08:45, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

@Df2397: The All Eyez on Me article actually has a "reception" section to which the AMG quote could be added, but I don't see how "easily the best production 2Pac's ever had on record" could be seen as "it is bad". Even if it did, that alone would not be grounds to remove it from the lead. Huon (talk) 21:19, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 94.26.69.208

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94.26.69.208 (talk) 08:15, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Nothing to be done here; no relevant information provided to locate any bracket issues. Huon (talk) 23:31, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Engr.Salauddin

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Engr.Salauddin (talk) 09:05, 17 June 2014 (UTC) Dear , my all update about enamul karim nirjhar. is correct all information and images given by enamul karim nirjhar own hand. please let me update all information about enamul karim nirjhar.

with regards Md.Salauddin EXECUTIVE IT SYSTEM architects Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Unfortunately we cannot just take your word for the correctness of the information; Wikipedia requires reliable published sources. Also, not all information was correct; for example, you changed the place of birth from East Pakistan to Bangladesh, which did not exist at that time. You may also want to take a look at our guideline on conflicts of interest. Huon (talk) 23:31, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Tiger Horse Founder

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Tiger Horse Founder (talk) 22:39, 17 June 2014 (UTC) My apologies if I did something wrong. I am new at this editing game and wasn't sure what I was supposed to do for my research and comments to be accepted. I did not intentionally violate anything and merely contributed alternative discovery. Please help me if you can.

Wikipedia content should be based on reliable independent sources, such as articles in newspapers, reputable magazines or peer-reviewed scholarly journals. You did not provide anything of that kind, and your edits seemed unduly (self-)promotional. You may want to take a look at Wikipedia's stance on original research (in short: Not here, please) and its guideline on conflicts of interest. Huon (talk) 23:31, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Pglomba

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The references appear to work as intended!

Pglomba (talk) 05:05, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

@Pglomba: There was a pipe in one parameter that was misinterpreted by the citation template; the issue was fixed by Jonesey95. Huon (talk) 21:06, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Eric Ouellet - Wally

Convex_hull_algorithms Convex_hull_algorithms

Diffs are between the latest and previous version modified by (in order): David Eppstein, Eric Ouellet

I'm considering that David Eppstein went really fast to removed things. He probably never took the time to read the reference given. If he would have done that, he would never removed what I added although anybody could have seen that as self promotion. It is not a self promotion when facts are there to prove that what it is written is right and it reflects the truth. David Eppstein had everything in hands to ensure that added contents was appropriate and right. I personally wrote to Timothy Chan and Pat Morin given my link to my article to ensure to have their feedback from them before writing anything in Wikipedia. I received no answers. My algorithm and my sample is absolutely what's best to prove and support the new idea behind it. I did comparison with Timothy Chan algorithm. But more over, my algorithm offer a lots more than that, it is absolutely a new way of finding the the Convex Hull. They all do an initial sort while I don't do any. I don't do in-place modification of source points, I create an independent set of points to create the results. IT is a brand new approach that reveal itself as more efficient in the same time. To DAVID EPPSTEIN: you have the code, you have the chart, you have everything to validate my words. What do want more ??? How could you write "Unreliable sources" when you have everything in hands... not just a paper that no one could verify... you have the code and a working executable that prove everything. My algorithm is a wind of fresh air and more, I also included a Multithreaded version which, in these days, is something I estimate as essentials. No one has that actually. My code is also a benchmark for people to verify my tells... What's missing !!! Although, you're not a programmer, you have access to the code and verify. Although not perfect, it is nicely structured and easy to understand with a very light knowledge of basic mathematics. I did all that for the advancement of the science and for the community. Everybody should be able to benefits of my algorithm because it is simply the best for a majority of people (see advantages/cons). Wikipedia is the best door to let the world know about it. Yes, you could see it as Self Promotion if you wish, but what's bad in that, it is not only to promote myself I did not make a personal page to show my face in Wikipedia, I did the minimum to ensure people will have the chance to benefits of that algorithm.

I am: ouellet.eric@ireq.ca I leave you my email at work and hope you will at least take the time to explain me your decision because I really don't understand. Thanks you.

Eric Ouellet - Wally (talk) 13:45, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

You may want to check out Wikipedia's policy on original research. Wikipedia is not a "door to let the world know about something"; it only covers what has already been written about in reliable published sources such as textbooks or peer-reviewed scholarly journals. Your article was published on CodeProject, which is not subject to meaningful peer review and would probably be considered self-published. If you have developed a new, vastly improved algorithm, you should publish a paper in one of the major computer science journals, not on Wikipedia. Huon (talk) 21:06, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Corvoe

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Comment/question: I was notified of breaking the syntax of a link 13 sections above where I was editing. I didn't undo anything, and haven't edited that area in ages, yet it said the diff above caused a syntax break that I fixed here. I'm mostly just perplexed as to why BracketBot thought I broke this, as it was broken over a month ago, with about twenty edits from then to the one BracketBot notified me about.

Quick note, I've never had any issues with BracketBot prior to right now, and it's notified me countless times of little slip-ups. Thank you for this extremely helpful bot!

Corvoe (speak to me) 11:40, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

This is a false positive, but one that will be very difficult to avoid. You edited the page, you added a closing curly bracket without a corresponding opening bracket (to fix the table), and afterwards the bot thought were more mismatched brackets on the page than before (because one of the closing brackets from the broken link was no longer "matched" to the opening bracket from the table). Thus the bot notified you. Something like this may happen when a page has multiple bracket errors that, in the bot's eyes, cancel each other out - fixing one will be interpreted as causing the remaining one. Huon (talk) 17:43, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Olumide Iluyomade

Page: Errors in syntax when adding information to NK-86 page

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Comment/question: I need help with the syntax on kuznetsov NK-86 page

Olumide Iluyomade (talk) 14:59, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Fixed. Huon (talk) 17:43, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 68.97.173.205

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Comment/question: I have removed all the information that I put on that was correct and accurate, and more informative then the original article; at least with concern to specifications. But, even with the removal of all the data and restoring the article to original condition, every time I open Wikipedia I get a bar stating "You have a new message (last change)" in bright orange. Since the so called error has been removed, WHY am I still getting your message? Your staff is a bunch of willfully incompetent idiots who obviously do not want to do their job, nor want correct information on your site. Is it that they want to get a laugh by irritating people and wasting their time, by making them jump trough hoops and still achieve nothing. Correct this situation, or quit and let some else do the job.

68.97.173.205 (talk) 18:11, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

See below. Huon (talk) 17:02, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 68.97.173.205

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Comment/question: In my last post I said some things in anger. I apologize for what was said. A fact, not an excuse, I have been having a bad day. Then this problem, which I spent over 25 min. trying to correct by following instructions left in your message and nothing worked.

68.97.173.205 (talk) 18:19, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

The orange "You have a new message" notification is just that - a notification that someone else left a note at your talk page (in this case, an automated message left by ClueBot NG, an anti-vandalism bot). You can get rid of the notification by clicking on it - that will take you to your talk page so you can read the message, and it will mark the message as read so that you will no longer get notified about it. If you get notified again, that will only be when another message has been left.

The main problem with your edit to the McDonnell Douglas YC-15 article is that you did not cite any sources - how can our readers tell that your numbers are better than the ones they replaced? Please provide a reliable source so others can verify your changes.

BracketBot also is an automated program, one that notifies users about possible bracket mismatches. In the edit BracketBot notified you about, you added a closing parenthesis without a corresponding opening parenthesis, a rather minor problem which you had quickly fixed yourself. I'm sorry about the confusion. Huon (talk) 17:02, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 68.100.172.139

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Comment/question: I did the necassary corrections, don't worry about it. 68.100.172.139 (talk) 00:02, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing it. Huon (talk) 17:02, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Ttaylor80

"Treamelle Taylor" article

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Hello BracketBot, thank you for helping me with editing tips on article "treamelle taylor" this article is about myself and i was trying to add correct information to the article as well as references. Could you please clean up this article as well as removing the top section with the message "close connection". Thank you Ttaylor80

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Ttaylor80 (talk) 17:23, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

@Ttaylor80: BracketBot does not edit articles, it's an automated program that notifies users of possibly mismatched brackets. John of Reading has fixed the reference problems. However, you should take a look at our guideline on conflicts of interest. Editing an article about yourself all too often is problematic because it's difficult to maintain a neutral point of view when writing about oneself. Often it's a better idea to suggest an edit on the article's talk page and let uninvolved editors decide on its appropriateness. Huon (talk) 17:02, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Eagle4000 Reply

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Comment/question: I did not break the syntax. Instead, I used ">" so that the article would be sorted specially in the category that I added, i.e., under ">" instead of under "U" (which is the first character of the article's name).

Eagle4000 (talk) 19:33, 21 June 2014 (UTC) ~~

@Eagle4000: The default character for that purpose is either just a space or an asterisk. Compare for example Category:High school sports in the United States whose subcategories use both methods. That said, I don't think the list of records should be categorized among the competitions at all; I've categorized it directly in Category:High school sports in the United States instead. Huon (talk) 20:57, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Sbarger01

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Comment/question: I am trying to fix this page but I'm having trouble. Chris Coy is my nephew so I know the information is fact. I welcome any help to correct my errors. Sbarger01 (talk) 22:23, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Unfortunately Wikipedia requires published sources, not personal testimony. You did add such sources, but references should be provided "inline" so our readers can easily check which source supports which of the article's statements. In short, the <ref>...</ref> code should be added to the article text itself, right after the statement that source is cited for, not in the references section (which ideally should only contain the {{reflist}} template that will display the footnotes created by the <ref>...</ref> tags. For example, "He is possibly best known for playing the role of L.P. Everett on the HBO series Treme" - says who? Huon (talk) 02:10, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 68.97.173.205

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Comment/question: I tried one more time to edit Specifications on McDonnell_Douglas_YC-15. I thought I would give more data and be more informative.

This was a mistake because no matter how you add data you get a distracting orange bar stating a new message on last edit. The only way to get rid of the bar is to remove the added data; making for a less informative article.

What I did was to go to another article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-5_Galaxy, to the specifications. I hit edit, then copied the same material that was there onto a word file.

   |range main=2,400 nmi                                                                 
   |range alt=2,760 mi, 4,440 km                                                    
   |range more=with a 263,200 lb (119,400 kg) payload

The last line from this copy I used as it was used in this article with the new data added.

   |range main=2,995 mi                                                                       
   |range alt=2,600 nm, 4,810 km                                                              
   |range more=with a 38,000 lb (17,000 kg) payload

After saving the page, it appeared like this: Range: 2,995 mi (2,600 nm, 4,810 km) with a 38,000 lb (17,000 kg) payload.This is the way it should appear.

But this caused me to get the orange bar. The instruction page stated:

· item doesn't apply, like capacity, leave it blank. For additional lines, end your alt units with )</li> and start a new, fully formatted line with <li> · |range alt=2,600 nm, 4,810 km )with 38,000-pound payload

So, I followed the line, "|range alt=2,600 nm, 4,810 km )with 38,000-pound payload" (the ) was red indicating to use it), and I did this precisely. What resulted was:Range: 2,995 mi (2,600 nm, 4,810 km)) with a 38,000 lb (17,000 kg) payload. Notice the double end parenthesis.

Next I tried, "For additional lines, end your alt units with )<?li> and start a new, fully formatted line with <li>".

   |range alt=2,600 nm, 4,810 km )</li>                                                     
   <li>|range more=with a 38,000 lb (17,000 kg) payload

What resulted was: (with a bullet at the beginning of each line)

   Range: 2,995 mi (2,600 nm, 4,810 km)                                                       
   ) with a 38,000 lb (17,000 kg) payload

Then I tried:

   |range alt=2,600 nm, 4,810 km </li>                                                        
   <li>|range more=with a 38,000 lb (17,000 kg) payload

The result was: (with a bullet at the beginning of each line)

   Range: 2,995 mi (2,600 nm, 4,810 km)                                                       
   ) with a 38,000 lb (17,000 kg) payload

Then I tried:

   |range alt=2,600 nm, 4,810 km </li>                                                      
   <li>with a {{convert|38000|lb|kg|abbr=on}} payload

What resulted was: (with a bullet at the beginning of each line)

   Range: 2,995 mi (2,600 nm, 4,810 km                                                        
   with a 38,000 lb (17,000 kg) payload)

Notice the end parenthesis after payload. With the additional end parenthesis being added, it makes it look wrong, besides getting the orange bar.

So following the messaged instructions did no good, except to give it an inaccurate look and an orange bar.

While following what was done in another article gets the right look, but an orange bar. The only way to get rid of the orange bar is to remove the |range more=with a 38,000 lb (17,000 kg) payload and remove the necessary data of with a 38,000 lb (17,000 kg) payload.

This process and the writing of these messages cost a great deal of time that I could have used doing work and research. It makes giving information that adds to the article, not worth the effort.

It also appears that you do not want any data added by the run around that one gets when they add data by using and following an example of how another article is structured, with the article getting no orange bar orange bar, and get a orange bar saying an error was committed on a following page, as well as following instructions given on that following page to having the page look incorrect and getting an orange bar.

All of this leads one to the questions: How does one add data without an orange bar appearing?,Why is the structure used in one article not right for others? Do you want additional, informative, completing data added, or not? 68.97.173.205 (talk) 23:22, 21 June 2014 (UTC)·

Just so we're talking about the same thing: The "orange bar" was something like the image I added here, only at the very top of whatever Wikipedia page you looked at, right? Such notifications are not directly caused by your edits, but by someone leaving a note at your talk page.

In this edit of yours you added a mismatched closing parenthesis at 16:50, 19 June 2014 (UTC). Ten minutes later, at 17:01, 19 June 2014 (UTC), BracketBot left you a message about the potential issue, causing the orange notification to appear when you next reloaded a Wikipedia page. Unrelatedly, the very minute the bot left you the message, you fixed the bracket issue it had notified you about. So it seems likely that you first saw the notification after adding the code that worked on the C-5 Galaxy article to the McDonnell Douglas YC-15 article (where it worked just as well), but that's pure coincidence. Fixing the bracket issue (or in fact doing any edits whatsoever to an article) will not remove the notification about the message on your talk page; only looking at your talk page (for example by following the liink within that notification) will.

BracketBot's note on your talk page listed the mismatched parentheses on the article at the time the bot wrote the message. The parentheses in red are not ones the bot thinks you should use (it's simply not smart enough to make suggestions), but ones it thinks are mismatched and may be problematic, such as the one you had added in your edit of 16:50 (and which you apparently fixed before seeing the bot's message). When the bot thinks there's a problem, it lists all mismatched brackets on the page, not just the ones added in the edit that summoned the bot. In particular:

item doesn't apply, like capacity, leave it blank. For additional lines, end your alt units with )</li> and start a new, fully formatted line with <li>

If you edit the page, you'll find that this mismatched bracket is hidden within a HTML comment with instructions on how to use the {{Aircraft specifications}} template; it's not visible to the reader. I believe the bot is smart enough not to notify users when mismatched brackets within comments are added, but once it notifies them, it really lists them all, including those that are commented out. I am not quite sure what those instructions refer to, but I don't think they were relevant to the issue at hand.

|range alt=2,600 nm, 4,810 km )with 38,000-pound payload

This was the parenthesis in your 16:50 edit, the one that summoned the bot and the one you fixed in your 17:01 edit.

So in short, this was a case of unfortunate coincidences and miscommunication. Copying working code from another page will work (and, as you noted above, did work), it will (usually) not cause a bot to leave you a message, and it definitely will not directly cause the "You have new messages" notification.

That said, as I mentioned the last time, you should provide reliable sources for your changes so our readers can verify that your numbers are correct and you aren't just making them up (unfortunately some people do so). See WP:Referencing for beginners on how to easily cite your sources.

Again, I'm sorry for the confusion, and I hope the above explanation clarifies the issue. Huon (talk) 02:10, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 149.78.69.4

Got your message, thanks. these are my first steps here, but I am beginning to learn, thanks for your remarks, being an amateur, means that i will be glad for your help on this matter (i promise to watch and improve!) Great day to you.

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149.78.69.4 (talk) 15:02, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Your edit has been reverted because it was of only marginal relevance to the article's topic if any, did not cite any reliable sources, and seemed more designed to promote the artist than to provide encyclopedic coverage of the genesis narrative. Huon (talk) 19:02, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Czar

User:A930913 {{User:A930913/BBresolved|yes}}

Page: Fez (video game)

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Comment/question: I was notified that there was an error, which appears to be that a source was now abandoned. When I went to "fix" it, there was no demonstrable change being applied. Wouldn't it make sense to have the "fix" be commenting out the source, or removing it altogether?

czar ♔ 00:29, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot isn't smart enough to suggest a specific fix (which could also be re-adding an accidentally removed source, for example). It only notifies humans and gives them links so they can easily fix it - but they'll still have to determine themselves how to fix it. Huon (talk) 18:28, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

I would like to add Lawrence Frostad to this list of gay athletes

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Hollys2002 (talk) 00:45, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

Adding such information would require a reliable source explicitly confirming that information. Also, you changed the table header instead of adding an entry. Huon (talk) 18:28, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: I have added information to Pellana and hopefully amended as requested by BracketBot In addition I have amended the punctuation and grammar. Please advise if the changes are acceptable.

Thank you

Peter Adamis Abalinx (talk) 05:50, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

@Abalinx: I have reverted your changes, which constituted what Wikipedia calls original research. Wikipedia content should be based on reliable published sources, not personal experience. Huon (talk) 18:28, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

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Sheilaarora (talk) 08:10, 23 June 2014 (UTC)Hello. Thank you for your comments - I am trying to understand how to correct my husband's page - you are right - to conform with your standards - many thanks! Sheila

@Sheilaarora: Are you aware of Wikipedia's guideline on conflicts of interest? Writing about close relatives such as your husband usually is difficult because it's hard to maintain a neutral point of view. My advice would be to suggest specific changes on the article's talk page and to provide reliable sources to back up the changes you propose. Huon (talk) 18:28, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Jiminycricket55

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Comment/question: I'm sorry but I'm not sure what you need me to do on this page. Please advise further. Thank you

Jiminycricket55 (talk) 08:22, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

@Jiminycricket55: This page is the talk page of the operator of BracketBot, an automated program that notifies users about possibly mismatched brackets. The bot notified you about a missing parenthesis back in March; that has long since been fixed. More urgent may be the notification about a problem with File:Portrait of Dr. Shlomo Kalish.tif, where a copyright email supposedly wa sent more than two months ago, but hasn't been received. If that's not addressed immediately, the image may be deleted. Huon (talk) 18:28, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 68.97.173.205

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Comment/question: After getting another orange bar, and giving another post(which I had change to this), there came up a page showing an answer to my questions. I did not understand that this was what the orange bar was informing me about, due to it saying first: Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to McDonnell Douglas YC-15 may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 "()"s. If you have, don't worry: just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

This lead me to believe that it was informing me of an error again, not an answer. I thank you Huon, whoever you are.

I am letting you, Huon, know I would not make up information (the ones that do should be hung by their thumbs).

The range came from http://www.theaviationzone.com/factsheets/yc15_specs.asp. The deleted information on service ceiling is from http://www.boeing.com/boeing/history/mdc/yc-15.page. Both were verified by books (I have over 100 on planes alone, and am unwilling, at this time, to go back and find which ones) that I have .

Also, http://thelexicans.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/mcdonnell-douglas-yc-15-part-1/, has a good diagram of engine/flap flow and a cutaway of the YC-15 that is very good, except I do not want to infringe any copyright rules by installing them on Wikipedia. 68.97.173.205 (talk) 15:26, 23 June 2014 (UTC)

OK, thanks for providing the sources. I'll add them to the article if you haven't done so already. The engine/flap flow diagram would probably indeed have copyright issues, and it would probably be better-suited for the blown flap article anyway. Huon (talk) 18:28, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Atsmith227

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Comment/question: Thanks for catching the "(" edit. It has been updated.

Atsmith227 (talk) 17:35, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

You're welcome, thank you for fixing it. Huon (talk) 18:28, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Erisedstar30259

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Thank you for your notification; I have corrected my accidental mistake. Thank you once again, Erisedstar30259 (talk) 17:02, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

You're welcome, thank you for fixing it! Huon (talk) 22:52, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

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Hello BracketBot . I am new in editing an article in Wikipedia. I thought I had done it well, after reading the instructions. So sorry to have caused any situation. I tried to correct some info, that was not accurate and add the most recent ones. When the name Sonia Noemi Gonzalez comes up in a Google search for ex, the date of birth is seen immediately, and it's not correct. Every detail that was changed or added by me is correct. I added the most recent work in the creative field too, that I thought was important,as a Self Published book written by Sonia Noemi "El Camino De La Serpiente." Apparently I did not do it correctly, but it was not my intention to do any vandalism. Thanks for your interest in maintaining the highest standards in something so wonderful as Wikipedia. I really do hope the information I changed or added can be permitted to be in my story, though now I don't know how to revert what TRLovejoy did to fix it. Warmly,(Nemigonza (talk) 16:15, 25 June 2014 (UTC))Nemigonza

Comment/question: How can I put back the info I had written, as it's accurate?.

Nemigonza (talk) 18:09, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

You're aware that the footnotes you added say, "wrong content"? That doesn't really inspire confidence in the accuracy of the content. What you should do is provide reliable published sources that are independent of you, such as articles about you published by newspapers or reputable magazines. I see no indication that you are notable by Wikipedia's standards, and the content youb added wasn't any more verifiable than what you removed. Thus I've proposed the article for deletion. Huon (talk) 22:52, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

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Hi there! I have done as you say and removed only 1 -- but as agreed with your colleague inaccurate and personal details (of my client) have been removed. Please do get in touch as I am hoping now all is solved. Many thanks Zz11765 (talk) 19:16, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

@Zz11765: At the moment there's no indication Bienne is notable enough for an article by Wikipedia's standards. The sources either are not the reliable third-party sources Wikipedia content should be based on, or they mention her only in passing without confirming our article's content. The incorrect birthdate was just one example; the rest of the content largely isn't verifiable either. Thus I'll propose the article for deletion. Huon (talk) 22:52, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

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BracketBot said in the message that I may have broken the syntax. I am not quite sure what that means, nor do I know how to fix it. Partly due to the fact that I am still quite new on Wikipedia. I need clarification on what BracketBot means and also how to fix it.

Curleighgirl (talk) 13:43, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Your edit had left mismatched brackets in the infobox. Also, "alternative" probably doesn't point where you meant to link to. Fixed. Huon (talk) 22:06, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

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Regards.

Tiredcleangate3 (talk) 09:48, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Well, there are books on numismatics and English history that may have something to say on that issue - we don't depend on living witnesses. That said, I can't tell why that edit was reverted; you may want to ask at the article talk page or the user talk page of the user who reverted it. Huon (talk) 22:06, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you for correecting my mistake, I'm new to editing so it was a small mistake.:

Editor 86 (talk) 10:30, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

You're welcome, but BracketBot does not correct mistakes on its own (it's not smart enough to reliably do so), but only notifies human editors about potential issues. Diannaa fixed it. Huon (talk) 19:08, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

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Jardalkal (talk) 05:33, 29 June 2014 (UTC) You can edit it as necessary. I came from a file of mine titled Feast Dates 2010-3014, part 4. Here is the full file. Enjoy.

Feast Days 2010-3014 part 4

2017 to end Note: Consider each item that you see lining up to 2017 Armagedon as a "witness". I count 11. 2015 has 3-4; 2016 has 3+. Miscellaneous Information Abraham Conceived 1947 BC +2017= 70 AD; 70 AD to 2017=1947 Proclamation of Israel 1947 (Daniel 9:25-26?) Jubilee Information The 7000 Year Plan of Elohim Creation Years 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 Jubilee Years 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 Ps 90:4; 2 Pet 3:8; Isa 58:6; Isa 61:1-11 compares the Millennium with the Sabbatical or Jubilee years. Adam to Exodus 50 Jubilees; Exodus to 2017 = 70 Jubilees. 50+70=120 Jubilees. (333 BCE Jubilee Year Mede and Persian rule ended) In 333 BCE, Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great defeated Persia and conquered the region. 67 Jubilee; (1517 Jubilee Year); 1517-1917 - OTTOMAN RULE (1867 Jubilee Year) ; 1867 The final emancipation of the Jews from Austria and Hungry www.danielstimeline.com/historyofisrael.html Yeshua ordained as the Cohen Gadol "The Transfiguration" on Yom Kippur\Day of Atonement- on Tuesday, Sept 30, 27 CE and in 2017 on Sept 30th maybe is Armageddon. (The Chronological Gospels--Michael Rood, p. 150 <119>). Matt 17:1-9; Rev 1:7. Possibly on Yom Kippur possibly at Creation was the sacrifice of the first animal for Adam and Eve. "You shall know the end from the beginning!" Note: Sept. 30th 2014, Day 3, Mercury at its lowest point in its retrograde. 1917 Jubilee Battle of Jerusalem 1917 + 100 (2 Jubilees)=2017 Year of Jubilee wikipedia. Battle of Jerusalem 1917.400 years of Ottoman rule ended by British conquest; British Foreign Minister Balfour pledges support for establishment of a "Jewish national home in Palestine". Declaration of Balfour Nov 2, 1917. Mars in conjunction with Regulus in Leo when in retrograde. What is interesting about this retrograde beginning in Leo then into the head of Virgo and back to Leo is the concept of the Sphinx with the body of a lion and the head of a woman which kicked of the concept of Israel being a nation restored. www.lmci.org/pdfs/episkoposmar2012.pdf 1967 Jubilee 6th Day War in Israel Month 4, Day 2 6/11/1967+Jubilee (Lev. 25:9)=2017 Year of Jubilee. Astronomy. Mars in retrograde loop in Virgo. Mars circling in the womb of Virgo between March 10 (L) and June 24 (H) and conjoins with Spica June 6 prophecies of Israel's rebirth and subsequent rescue from Gentile control. 1900 years after the war with Rome which resulted in the destruction of the Temple. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War - chabad.org/multimedia/timeline_cdo/aid/.../Introduction.htm Miracles of the six day war. www.lmci.org/pdfs/episkoposmar2012.pdf Return of Ephraim from dispersion. "Ephraim's punishment as outlined in Ezekiel 4:5 was for three hundred and ninety years. However, Leviticus 26:27-28 says that if there is no repentance the punishment will be sevenfold. There was no record of Ephraim (the Northern Kingdom/House of Israel) repenting, so the punishment was for three hundred and ninety years times seven years, or 2730 years. 734 BC marked the year that Ephraim or the Northern Kingdom had lost all political and religious control of any territory it still held. It had become a vassal state of Assyria. 734 BC+2730=1996 AD. Every feast that year was marked with a red blood moon. It was also the year of the Hal-Bopp comet. It also marked the beginning of the 100th jubilee\yovel year from Noah and the 50th yovel from Yeshua\Jesus. 1996+21 years (3 shemitah years; Leviticus 25:1-9; 7 years differences x 3) = 2017. The Significance of the Blood Moons by Mark Biltz: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CSNrXEUCag. Sheepfolds www.sheepfoldgleanings.com/2014/14_10 Bechutar Lev 26 3 to 27 34.pdf. 2017 Jubilee 120 (6003); Day 6 Rosh Hashanah\Yom Teruah (Day of Trumpet) Sept 21-22; Day 1 Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) Sept 30; Sukkot Day 6 15 (Oct 5); Day 5 21 (Oct 11) Torah Calendar.com Luke 4:17-21 The Lord started His ministry on Yom Kippur and will ONLY return on a Yom Kippur. Israel became a nation 1948+70=2018 May 14, Pentecost, Nov. 29, 1947 Proclamation went out. U.N. divided Palestine into a Jewish\Arab state. Matt 24:32-34 Parable of the Fig Tree. Astronomy. As Mars was completing its retrograde loop, Mars was on conjunction with Regulus (King Star) in Leo. Yeshua was fighting for Israel to become a nation overwhich He would become a King. Isaiah Prophecy Fulfilled. Israel becoming a nation in one day. 7th Sabbath of Omar count. Sivan 6th, 5948 F.C. Third layer of Daniel's shavuim commences. www.lmci.org/pdfs/episkoposmar2012.pdf; www.lasttrumpet.org/JubileeReestablishedJPGMJR.jpg Judah ben Samuel Prophecy Jubilees 1-8 (1517 to 1917): Turks will rule. Jubilee 9 (1917 to 1967): Jerusalem a “no man’s land.” Jubilee 10 (1967 to 2017): Jerusalem under Jewish control, Messianic end times will begin. Jubilee 11: Begins at Yom Kippur 9/30/17. Messianic King arrives. Balaam's Prophecy Genesis 49:8-12. 3 Summit's Seven Year Offerings: 1993 Oslo; 2000 Camp David; 2007 Annapolis www.lasttrumpet.org/JubileeReestablishedJPGMJR.jpg Woman Clothed with the Sun Rev 12:1-2 Virgo and Leo sonoma.edu/users/v/vegalu/eschatology_files/Sign.pdf The Coming Epiphany Chapter 12 Note: on 3 BC, his link file does not line up with stellarium in 3 or 2 BC. Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) Judgment of the Nations, Ezekiel 38-39 War?, Armageddon (Rev 16:16ff, Rev 19:11ff) Giza Pyramids and 2017 Giza Pyramids of 2017. sonoma.edu/users/v/vegalu/eschatology_files/Sphinx.pdf The Coming Epiphany Chapter 12 Rev 19:6-8 Marriage of the Lamb Month 7 Return of Christ on Yom Kippur Day of Atonement Rev 14:14-20 prelude to Armageddon (Rev 16:16ff; 19:11ff). Wheat-Tares cut by a scaythe (Leo's Tail) Day of Atonment Judgment of the Nations, Armageddon (Matt 25 Sheep and Goats) Some people say Yeshua will return in 2020-2025 but those figures do not line up with 50 (Jubilee)\70 (total completion) dates to the past. If somthing did line up with these 2 figures, I would be looking. Feast of Tabernacles MIllennium (Rev 20) (Trumpet through Millennium) These are the times important to God. He follows the Sabbaths and we follow mankind dates. 2040 Sept. 29. Second Annual Sabbath, Shemini Atzeret, Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury, Mars, Venus in Virgo. Moon in Gemini. Uranus in Cancer. Stellarium. 7000 end, 140 Jubilee New Heaven, New Earth In 3014 during the High Holy days and Rosh Codesh in September, all the planets line up in Virgo except for one. Stellarium, Torahcalendar.com Resouces: Pillar of Enoch.com Timeline The Coming Epiphany.com, The Coming Epiphany Chapter 12; Chapter 1 Torahcalendar.com Sept 17, 2017.

If you need the full article. Jardalkal@aol.com Subject Line: Feast Dates: 2010-3014.

Your edit was reverted by Charlesdrakew because you did not provide reliable sources such as published books on theology or peer-reviewed scholarly papers. Huon (talk) 16:29, 29 June 2014 (UTC)

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OFTedit (talk) 16:52, 30 June 2014 (UTC) Hi BracketBot,

thanks for finding my mistakes ( on brackets - nomes est omen) on the Hara (Tanden) page. I find the editing format of Wiki very tedious, because one can't see the wood (text) for the trees (references). I have to add something in anyway and, in the process, will mend the broken syntax. As your seem to be highly knowledgable, I wonder if you could help me turn this page, which - as I understand - is not an article proper, into one. The title as it is (Hara (Tanden)) seems to have been determined by the fact that in its present form, it needs to be distinguished from other "non-articles" on or references to "Hara". The basic entry seems to have been started by someone from the martial arts community and very small. I don't think they would object to having it up-edited in this way, as I kept their main statements. I would prefere the title of the article-to-be to just say Hara. The intro and the list of content can take care of the reference to the Tanden/martial arts part, which reflects the original entry. If you cannot do it yourself or ask someone in charge, maybe you could point me towards anyone or explain to me - in very simple language, please - how to do it myself. The HELP page on the topic is not very helpful to me, because it has too much Wiki insider lingo. I would also be grateful for a hint on categories.

Many thanks for all help

OFTedit (talk) 16:52, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

@OFTedit: Hara (tanden) is as "proper" an article as they come. When there are multiple meanings for one and the same term, such as Hara, we create a disambiguation page that lists them all, and the individual articles are distinguished by a parenthetical qualifier in the article title, like "(tanden)" There's no reason to expect that people looking for "Hara" will overwhelmingly be interested in the Japanese medical term and not the name, the Biblical character, the band, the film or any of the other meanings listed at the disambiguation page; thus there's no reason why this article should get pride of place.

Categories are a method of sorting articles by essential, defining characteristics of the topic. Like article titles categories on Wikipedia don't use title case, but unlike article titles, category names tend to use the plural (thus we have Category:Martial arts terms, not Category:Martial arts term or Category:Martial Arts terms). Usually categories are only created when there's a sufficient number of articles to be so categorized; for example, I doubt we have enough pages on Japanese anatomical terms to make a category worthwhile. When you're looking for appropriate categories for a page, it often helps to check articles on similar topics for categories. In this case I've added the categories "Abdomen" and "Japanese alternative medicine" and removed all the redlinked ones. I've also fixed the bracket issue. Huon (talk) 23:37, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

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Some of those were false positives; BracketBot keeps an eye on "<>" because they're used in HTML tags that, if broken, can easily disrupt large parts of a page. If they're used as "less than" and "greater than", as they were in the uremia article, the bot mistakenly thinks there may be a problem. You already fixed the others; thanks for that. Huon (talk) 23:37, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

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174.46.190.10 (talk) 21:09, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Not sure I understand how to edit a bracket (as I did on Missouri Route 152) without messing up the bracket. Sorry about that. --174.46.190.10 (talk) 21:09, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Fixed. Huon (talk) 23:37, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

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86.31.138.14 (talk) 20:26, 1 July 2014 (UTC) Hi Bracket Bot - Can you change it accordingly to update it -also Lee Peltier's profile needs changing his current club is Huddersfield town - there's so many Transfers happening i wondered how you go about legally ammending them so others are happy with your work?

if you could get back to me then we can email communicate as it would be much easier

many thanks

steve

BracketBot is an automated program that isn't smart enough to fix problems; it only notifies human editors so they can take a look. I have fixed the reference (and I've rewritten the sentence so it's more in line with what the source had to say); references must end with a </ref> tag, not with another <ref> tag. You may want to check out WP:Referencing for beginners on how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes. Regarding the amendment of articles, the way you did it for Flowers - by citing a reliable source - is the way it should be done. Huon (talk) 01:07, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

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I'm trying to add my name to the list of Broadway performers who appeared in the Palm Springs Follies and I need help. I have legitimate credits but I am not listing myself correctly. Can you help me? It's difficult for me to understand. Terri Homberg Olsen‎ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kioto1936 (talk • contribs) 14:08, 2 July 2014 (UTC)‎

You will note that for every other featured performer mentioned in that list we have either a Wikipedia article or a reliable source such as a newspaper article or a published book. The IBDB, which comes with quite an impressive disclaimer, is not such a reliable source, and it doesn't say you were a featured performer of that show anyway. I should also repeat what S. Rich said at your talk page about writing about yourself - that's usually not a good idea due to the inherent conflict of interest. Huon (talk) 18:27, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

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Kioto1936 (talk) 18:13, 2 July 2014 (UTC)wow, I am truly discouraged... All I'm trying to do is add my name as a cast member of the Palm Springs Follies for the past two years. I performed in four Broadway shows, sang back up for Carly Simon, appeared on TV and many national commercials. I am a legitimate performer with 35 years in the entertainment industry. Very frustrated. Terri Homberg olsen

See above. Huon (talk) 18:27, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: it was wrong about my edit! Rami735 (talk) 21:41, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

No it wasn't. You broke the hatnote; that's what the bot notified you about. Worse, you faked sourced numbers; that's why I reverted your edit. Huon (talk) 22:07, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

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Gqad (talk) 08:31, 3 July 2014 (UTC) To edit the following issues are required to be looked into :-

1. The following links are dead since they have been deleted being inaccurate information :-

(A)a b c d e f g Nirmala Ganapathy (Jun 6, 2003). "MS Shoes has gone to the cleaners". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2012-05-01.[dead link]

(B) "Shoe baron gets NBW for IAF fraud". Indian Express. Apr 19, 2003. Retrieved 2012-05-01.[dead link]

(C) b V S Bhim (July 1, 2009). "Capital Market price rate interest - 10% nation product RAO interest charge _2% per annum". Citeman Network.

2. The above links should be permitted to be deleted and on your permission they can be edited/deleted.

2. The following information in the article is relied upon the above references which is should be allowed to be edited as it is either false information or inaccurate besides the above links are dead : -

(A) It attracted large investments before collapsing in Feb., 1995. Many investors lost large sums of money.^[1]

(B) The market closed for three days after the crash.^[2].

(C) He raised money from investors and borrowed large sums from financial institutions and banks.^[3]

(D)Shares were traded at Rs. 24 in 1993, and peaked at Rs. 502.50 in Jan., 1995.^[4]

(E) When they crashed in March, 1995 the collateral effects were so sever that the markets had to be closed for three days.^[5].

(F)More than Rs. 2.7 billion was lost.^[6]

(G) Sachdeva was charged with violating the Company Act and Prevention of Corruption Act. Later CBI abandoned the probe due to lack of evidence, but in 2003 reopened the case. Many other civil and criminal charges were filed. ^[7]

(H) In April, 2003 a Delhi Metropolitian Court issued a non bailable warrant against Sachdeva for failing to pay back money owed to the Indian Air Force Benevolent Association. ,Ref>"Shoe baron gets NBW for IAF fraud". Indian Express. Apr 19, 2003. Retrieved 2012-05-01</Ref>.

(I) In June, 2003 Delhi High Court ordered that the company be sent to Board for Industrial & Financial Reconstruction. Few companies survive this process. ^[8] . Gqad (talk) 08:31, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

As Bonadea explained on your talk page, the fact that the Indian Express' online archive of pre-2009 articles has been removed is not an indication of inaccuracy. There are various web archives that could be used to provide online access to archived copies of those articles, for example here for (H). Huon (talk) 15:56, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: Thanks for picking up on that. I've been making lots of changes to that page. I've now left work for the day and won't be back until Monday. I'll fix it on Monday. Regards, Philkof 1.44.171.81 (talk) 10:14, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

I have fixed it and removed many of the external links while I was at it. It's not our purpose to provide a site map of the university website; a single link to their homepage in the "External links" section will do. Huon (talk) 18:38, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

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94.250.60.27 (talk) 13:07, 4 July 2014 (UTC) Hello , sorry for that i know i caused you many problems. But i just don't wont that everyone can change and write whatever they want and change facts like that. It was about 200 dead russian freedom fighters and in other instant someone changes to 1000? I have enaught with these lies on TV and how Ukrainian side (USA/NATO) dont want to recognize facts as it is. So please i beg of you , dont let anymore anyone post rubbish there. Like i said sorry for what i caused!

The BBC is considered reliable enough a source for Wikipedia's purposes. Removing well-sourced information just because you don't like it is unacceptable and will see you blocked from editing. Huon (talk) 18:38, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

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Svanaalst (talk) 15:33, 4 July 2014 (UTC) You left me a message about changing this:

Taste of Calgary - Food & Drink Festival (August 14-17, 2014)^[9]

I changed it because this takes the reader to a page that says the page does not exist. I changed it to go directly to the event website, which is probably what the reader would expect. I don't know html, so if I've done it wrong, can you help me with the right coding?

While changing it you at one point removed only parts of the reference, breaking the citation template. By now you've removed the reference in its entirety, fixing the issue. That said, we had an article about the Taste of Calgary festival - but it was deleted as spam. I'm not sure this festival is notable enough to be mentioned at all. Huon (talk) 18:38, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

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I have corrected the link for official site on page of Pakistan boxing federation

Sulaimandaud (talk) 18:52, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for removing the surplus bracket. Huon (talk) 20:05, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: I saw the error message for the missing reflist, agree it sort of should be there but As it is only used by the railway line page and it has a reflist tag it works fine there So it's not needed on the template page

Dave Rave (talk) 05:31, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

I've added a {{reflist}} on the template page within <noinclude> tags. This way people editing the template itself can easily see what its references are. Huon (talk) 11:54, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

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84.223.103.91 (talk) 12:22, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi (I'm not sure if i'm writing in the right part) I'm who have edit the Zoom di Cumiana page (the real name is Zoom Torino, is possible to change it?), thank you to have checked this page and for accept it (the italian wikipedia deleted it when I try to write a new page), the information are taken by myself (I live 20 minutes from the park), by the website and by the keepers. Excuse me for the bad english. Good afternoon (by Italy)

So this is original research that was deleted at the Italian Wikipedia because it was deemed too promotional? Why then should the English Wikipedia have that content?

Wikipedia content should be based on reliable sources that are independent of the subject, such as travel guides or newspaper articles. I'll change the article title, but if no better references are found, the page may well be deleted at the English Wikipedia, too. Huon (talk) 15:02, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

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Keith D (talk) 14:13, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

True, but i don't see how the bot could tell. This looks like the kind of false positives that are difficult to avoid. Huon (talk) 15:11, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

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Fulaan (talk) 11:33, 7 July 2014 (UTC) Hello, the bracket was left there by mistake! There was a small bracket that was left there I didn't even realize! Please can you update the new biography of Rabee al Madkhali, I have added additional information a few only know about! Please, I'd really appreciate it!

@Fulaan: Wikipedia content should be based on reliable published sources that allow our readers to verify the content for themselves. Also, the content you wrote was unduly promotional. We're not here to sing the Sheik's praise but to write an encyclopedia and to provide biographical information. For these reasons your additions have been reverted. Huon (talk) 22:01, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

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Ae12131 (talk) 17:34, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi,

There has been a misunderstanding, because I intended for it to only state 'American.'

Kind regards

"Turkish-American" is supposed to be his ethnicity, not his citizenship. For comparison, precious few African-Americans hold the citizenship of any African country. Huon (talk) 22:01, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: The error that the bot identified is a false positive. In this context, the ">" character is used as an arrow character in a web page title, so it's correct as-is.

Phlar (talk) 20:16, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

True, but i don't see how the bot could tell. This looks like the kind of false positives that are difficult to avoid. Huon (talk) 22:01, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

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LightpawsHird (talk) 00:56, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

You had fixed the bracket issue, but the entry did not satisfy the list's inclusion criteria. I have removed it and tidied up the rest of the list as well. Huon (talk) 19:45, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

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98.235.185.13 (talk) 06:08, 8 July 2014 (UTC)I apologize for the editing mistakes. Although I am certain of the premise but don't want to make the page an Orwell fan page. Although I think Hemingway readers might be interested in knowing why the book may have departed slightly from the truth. Those who are fans of Stalin today might disagree with my premise, but I am sure that what I have said is correct, although feel free to edit. I have a wonderful copyeditor who is my boss, as in "the boss of the house" and she might be able to clean up the page when I am employed again and she has free time to devote to it. But I am and would be a terribly copyeditor although my ideas are generally sound.

That would require reliable sources such as mainstream historians or literary scientists explicitly discussing the book. We cannot base content merely on what you are sure of if there's no way for others to verify it. I have thus reverted your edits. Huon (talk) 19:45, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question:I think I managed to fix the list of unpaired brackets remaining on the page and thanks for looking. I am new to Wikipedia and have a lot to learn.

TerraceGent (talk) 09:45, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

I fixed one additional missing bracket. Thanks for your effort. Huon (talk) 19:45, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: Above is the template testcase page. testcase page looks at modified templates from sandbox. I'd be more concerned if it flagged the sandbox as that's what would be rotated. Do you think it's important to find the broken reference?

DHeyward (talk) 02:21, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

For a page of test cases the reference doesn't seem all that important, though fixing it can't hurt either. I'll give it a go. Huon (talk) 16:30, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

@DHeyward: On second thought, since we're dealing with living persons and potentially libelous content, WP:BLP would apply even to the test case page, and references should be in order. It might be a better idea to use dead criminals as test cases unless a feature needs to be tested that will only occur in BLPs. Huon (talk) 17:21, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Ivanvector

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Comment/question: I've noticed that BracketBox creates talk page headers like "July 2014", which is the same style of header used to post warning templates to user talk pages, and I've found it a bit disconcerting to see such headers on my talk page in the past. Other bots (i.e. DPL bot) create more descriptive headers, such as this edit. May I suggest you code BracketBot to do the same?

Ivanvector (talk) 15:29, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

That heading, with the association with warnings, was chosen deliberately - the idea was that if a bracket issue is caused by vandalism, vandal-fighters might more easily see the BracketBot message and might decide to check out and fix the issue. DPL bot is much less likely to be triggered by vandalism. The BracketBot offers the option to switch to daily headers if you prefer, though - see User:BracketBot#Daily Instead of Monthly Headers. That heading follows DPL bot's style: Example. Huon (talk) 16:30, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Ah, simple! I like it. Thanks. Ivanvector (talk) 18:03, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Dmanhart1

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I somehow deleted or added a bracket.. I received the error message of "List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page". Computer programmer here so I know how critical brackets are; however, there is no debug option to show where the error lies..

I tried to comment out notes about my changes with 4 tildas at the beginnings of paragraphs that were notes, but there was another message referring to the four tildas being a signature... Dmanhart1 (talk) 17:04, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

HELP!!!!!

@Dmanhart1: Four tiles (~~~~) indeed turn into a signature; that should be used to sign messages on talk pages (such as here), not in articles. If you want to comment about content or changes, the article has a dedicated talk page for that purpose. Editorial comments should never be included in the article itself. Worse, you faked numbers. According to a 2011 Pew Research poll, 68% of Americans say "yes" when asked the basic question "Do you believe in God?" - that's just plain wrong. As the article said before your edit, more than 9 in 10 Americans asked that question in the Pew Research poll said "yes". Misrepresenting sources in that way is not acceptable. I get the impression that your point of view on this topic inhibits your ability to edit neutrally.

Regarding the brackets, there's a "show" option at the top right of that "List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page", which will expand the collapsed box and show the list. Two are false positives, a part of a quote that contains only an opening parenthesis and a "<" that's used to mean "less than"; the third was caused by your edit, which I have reverted due to the problems noted above. Huon (talk) 17:40, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – SomeLikeItHawked

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Comment/question: Hello, I received this message: "Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Tony Romeo may have broken the syntax by modifying 5 "[]"s" Can you give me an example so that I can understand what needs to be corrected? Thank you. SomeLikeItHawked (talk) 15:28, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

@SomeLikeItHawked: The bot lists the unpaired brackets that remain on the page in the red box. In short, you had forgotten the "[" at the beginning of a couple of external links. That said, Yahoo Groups messages are not reliable sources in the first place, and you had typos in the URLs to boot. I'll remove the unreliable sources and do some copyediting. Huon (talk) 15:58, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

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Munickat (talk) 12:32, 10 July 2014 (UTC) I cannot detect the problem you describe. My edit was not intended to modify "[]"s as you indicate, nor can I fin the instance of such a change.

The bracket you removed when you reworded the sentences was re-added] by 213.140.221.26. Huon (talk) 18:10, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: Please note that there is a broken link in the #70 citation. I had nothing to do with that broken link. I made no edits to that link, nor the paragraph where it is cited.. My only intent is to update the poll numbers of the religiously affiliated to the latest poll numbers (using 2012/2013 polls instead of 2004 polls). I believe the trend in the rising numbers of "religiously unaffiliated" over the past decade should be noted, as it is a major trend. I only included respected sources form the Pew Research Center and UPI/Harris polls, provided the exact links, and quoted, verbatim, the articles from those sources. I didn't even change "one third" to "1/3" in one article (which used bad form by using specific percentages in the other demographics of that paragraph instead of a numerical percentage when it came to the under 30 category).

The updated poll results from 2004 to 2012 and 2013 should be updated on this page as it reflects the changing demographics of the religiously unaffiliated.

This would be exactly like saying only 38 percent of americans support gay marriage (per a 2004 poll), instead of updating the numbers to reflect that a poll conducted in May 2014 found that 55% of americans now support gay marriage (per your Wikipedia website).

Current accurate nonpartisan poll data from respectable sources should be reflected on Wikipedia, as it is the most trusted website on the internet. Dmanhart1 (talk) 14:24, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

I have fixed the broken reference (which was copy-pasted from another article), but the rest of these issues should be (and indeed already have been) discussed at the article talk page, not here. Huon (talk) 18:10, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

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Budongchanli (talk) 21:29, 10 July 2014 (UTC) Thanks for your help!

You're welcome; thank you for fixing the issue. Huon (talk) 00:01, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

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Cezm82 (talk) 09:00, 11 July 2014 (UTC) I'm unsure what you mean by double brackets - I'm new to this and I work at the Office for National Statistics and just adjust the figures monthly with the new trade figures.

@Cezm82: See Template:Cite web: You emulated the template code, but didn't have the beginning. I repaired that. On an entirely unrelated note, if editing UK economic articles is part of your job, it may be a good idea to declare that on your user page. What you do could arguably be called "paid editing", and the recent changes in the terms of use prohibit paid contributions without disclosure. Updating UK trade figures seems benign enough, but it's probably best to avoid even the appearance of inappropriateness. Huon (talk) 20:54, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

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DustyMerlot1970 (talk) 15:04, 11 July 2014 (UTC) hello, I'm confused on how to fix the issue on the Norwich Free Academy page, that I just tried to edit. please help thanks.

Your edit was reverted because the source you gave didn't say Carter was an alum of Norwich Free Academy. That fixed the missing parenthesis, too. Huon (talk) 20:54, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Slussier

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Comment/question: I don't know how to break up the citations? Slussier (talk) 15:48, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

See WP:Referencing for beginners on how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes. However, your chosen reference doesn't say what you cite it for; it does not mention Emils Darzins Music School at all, much less discuss its quality. Huon (talk) 20:54, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – LucaDiCaro

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Comment/question: I'm not sure what I have done wrong on the link section, should these be {} not {{ as showing at this time?

LucaDiCaro (talk) 17:21, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

It should be <ref>{{cite web|url=...|title=...|...}}</ref> - you didn't have the curly brackets at the end. Fixed by PRehse. Huon (talk) 20:54, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Sardanaphalus

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Comment/question: False positive...?

Sardanaphalus (talk) 00:34, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

I think this is a lot more tricky: The portal at random transcludes one of Portal:Fictional characters/Film/1 through Portal:Fictional characters/Film/4, and the first of those had a broken reference. I'd guess that when the bot checked your edit to the portal, the "before" version transcluded something else, and the "after" version transcluded the broken reference - thereby giving the appearance that your edit caused it. Huon (talk) 01:41, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Drizzyruiz

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Comment/question: Drizzyruiz (talk) 13:54, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

I have deleted Step Up All In(soundtrack) which was lacking a space between "In" and "(soundtrack)". Step Up All In (soundtrack)is nominated for deletion and will likely be turned into a redirect to the main film article. That album hasn't even been released yet, and your past edits to the article have included promotional, untrue claims. You're clearly unable to maintain a neutral point of view when writing about that album. Huon (talk) 15:08, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – M.R. Auld Hello BracketBot! I have no idea what I've done wrong on that edit, it was my first attempt at doing so!

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M.R. Auld (talk) 13:44, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

In short, you mangled the references and tried to turn a line about his third time at the Rangers into one saying he's there the first time, despite the BBC contradicting you. Your edits have been reverted; thus the bracket mismatches you caused are resolved as well. Huon (talk) 22:04, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

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I need to understand how to include updated informational news about Dede Saint Prix.

How do I fix or remove my addition, please?

Thank you sharon. Comment/question:

Matrisciano (talk) 06:29, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

What you added to the article in this edit was copy-pasted from the New York Times, a copyright violation. This is another copyright violation, this time from France-Antilles.fr, and... it's French. This is the English Wikipedia, and articles should be written in English. Even without the language issue, however, that content should be removed on copyright grounds alone. Also, the persondata at the end of the article is supposed to provide machine-readable information about the subject of the article, not about his PR team. You should definitely take a look at WP:COI, our guideline on conflicts of interest, and the terms of use, especially the part about paid editing, which lists the appropriate methods to disclose such paid editing. For now I'll revert your changes, but leave a link to the NYT article. You should summarize in your own words what that review says about Dédé Saint Prix, or better yet, suggest specific changes to the article on its talk page and let uninvolved editors decide about their appropriateness; the {{request edit}} template is designed to highlight such talk page requests. Huon (talk) 16:24, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 108.64.26.214

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Comment/question: can you please fix the page thanks 108.64.26.214 (talk) 00:52, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

{{done}} Huon (talk) 20:28, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Moonbeam1812

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Moonbeam1812 (talk) 11:49, 17 July 2014 (UTC) Hello, I may indeed have added an external link about The Ballad of Halo Jones incorrectly. However, it is relevant and of interest to people so if you could insert the link correctly I would be very grateful. Thanks, Chris Hallam

I'll reply on your talk page. Huon (talk) 16:52, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: I keep getting these messages undated (other than the month) so I dont know which is the latest one so can not check. They always arrive within seconds of doing an edit which is annoying as often I already know about it. Samrong01 (talk) 10:49, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

The latest BracketBot message always is the one at the bottom. Also, there's a delay of ten minutes, not just seconds, between the edit that causes the bracket mismatch and the notification. That said, if you prefer daily headers, the bot offers that option; see User:BracketBot#Daily Instead of Monthly Headers. Huon (talk) 02:02, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: thank you for helping me by editing my page Manasa.mani (talk) 10:53, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

See below. Huon (talk) 02:02, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: thank you for helping me by editing my page Manasa.mani (talk) 10:54, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot does not edit articles, it only notifies human editors of potential problems. That said, I have proposed the article for deletion because it didn't cite any reliable sources and the topic apparently does not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines. Huon (talk) 02:02, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 82.71.224.37

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82.71.224.37 (talk) 12:26, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing that. Huon (talk) 02:02, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – The Peaceful Student

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The Peaceful Student (talk) 09:20, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

No it wasn't. While you improved the reference, a problem remained, and ReferenceBot notified you about it. I fixed the issue. Huon (talk) 13:22, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 178.167.138.185

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178.167.138.185 (talk) 14:12, 21 July 2014 (UTC) The URL link I inserted in the media section under Ave Maria, comes after the references to all the other known composers of an Ave Maria, and my link is to a You Tube version where the original composition and copyright thereof is mine and mine alone. Given this asurance, under what terms can I EDIT and insert written and audio references to my Ave Maria?

Thanks for your AUTO edit and advice, and could you please mark my card as it were?

You seem to be misinterpreting the bot messages. BracketBot notified you because when you added the YouTube video, you added an opening parenthesis, but no corresponding closing parenthesis. XLinkBot, an entirely unrelated bot, notified you because YouTube links are almost never appropriate for Wikipedia articles and XLinkBot removed it (and in doing so also fixed the parenthesis mismatch). To be blunt, highlighting your own YouTube video on the Hail Mary article smacks of self-promotion. Or do you honestly want to claim that your rendition of the Ave Maria is the best we could possibly link to? Huon (talk) 17:40, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 70.173.185.199

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Hello Sorry about that im sending the links

70.173.185.199 (talk) 15:41, 21 July 2014 (UTC)http://tatepublishingnews.com/newsroom/2014/03/11/synth-pop-artist-unveils-futuristic-debut-album/ http://www.briefingwire.com/pr/stardustmafia-new-music-kingdom-of-wonderland http://mi2n.com/press.php3?press_nb=174929 http://stardustmafia.wikia.com/wiki/Stardustmafia_Wiki

None of those are reliable sources; most are press releases. See WP:MUSIC for Wikipedia's notability guideline for musicians. Huon (talk) 17:40, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – IseeEwe

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Comment/question:No syntax error. All is well.

--IseeEwe (talk) 20:18, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

@IseeEwe: Actually there's a syntax error precisely where BracketBot said it is: There's a closing parenthesis after the British strength without a corresponding opening strength. Giving a date for that strength would also be helpful; I don't think there were a million troops of the British Empire fighting in Burma in 1941. In fact, that number sounds like a grand total of British Empire troops that ever were present in that theatre of war, combined, not like their strength at any given time. Thus it's not really comparable to the other strength entries, which are snapshots at specific times. Huon (talk) 20:46, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

I did not see it. Did you fix it? Thanks. This article is a general overview to the whole campaign, not to a particular season, battle or year. The number provided corresponds to the service numbers with the British forces serving in this campaign. 14th army alone had 260,000 troops etc.. see the references. More can be provided. The other national troop numbers should be revised similarly. As it stands using numbers from different years is comparing apples to oranges.--IseeEwe (talk) 21:08, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Xmen2001

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Comment/question: I dont know where to put it Xmen2001 (talk) 20:58, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Fixed. Huon (talk) 22:34, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

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Kittymccaffery (talk) 01:39, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

This help request has been answered. If you need more help, you can ask another question on your talk page, contact the responding user(s) directly on their user talk page, or consider visiting the Teahouse.

Hi BracketBot, I fixed up Oliver Trevena's page like requested with some more sources and less opinionated bio. I tried to use a template so not to make mistakes but could you be so kind to go over it for me? Thank you. [[4]] KittyMcCaffery (talk) 09:37 pm, 21 July 2014 (EST)

None of those sources, including the ones in the "external links" section, satisfy the three basic criteria a good source should meet: They're either not indepenent of Trevena, or they are not reliable, or - this goes for People and US Weekly - they do not cover Trevena in any detail. These sources do not suffice to establish that Trevena is notable enough for an article in the first place - basically, the most reliable sources only cover him as "the guy Laura Vandervoort is engaged to", which isn't really a claim to notability. On the other hand, claims to notability such as "modeled in major campaigns" or "wrote music with many major Artists" are not based on what the reliable sources report. Thus I will nominate the article for deletion. Huon (talk) 18:59, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 75.128.183.107

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75.128.183.107 (talk) 21:23, 23 July 2014 (UTC) thank you fixed it

You're welcome, thank you for fixing it, whatever it was. Huon (talk) 22:14, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Peggy Morin-Vilhauer

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Peggy Morin-Vilhauer (talk) 18:55, 25 July 2014 (UTC)Thank you BracketBot. I am not sure what you mean by broken syntax <>.

@Peggy Morin-Vilhauer: The bot meant what you fixed in these edits, particularly the <ref> name="Tyrian purple"> would-be named references. It's all fixed now; thank you for improving the article! Huon (talk) 21:11, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Abhishek.6587

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Can I use my name in the page. About the bracket its given for highlighting only so problems in that:

Abhishek.6587 (talk) 07:24, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

@Abhishek.6587: The standard layout for highlighting in that way would be a bullet point, created by an asterisk (*) at the beginning of the paragraph. But the website you linked to looked like some commercial website, not a reliable source, and has thus been removed. Regarding your other question, edits on articles should not be signed. You will be credited for your edits via the [[Help::Page history|page history]]. Huon (talk) 13:38, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: Thank you for this. I tried to fix this but it defeated me! If you can fix it, please do so.

Chjoaygame (talk) 09:56, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

@Chjoaygame: You fixed the issue with these edits. A link to the page itself is not displayed as a link (because the reader is already in the right place) but as boldface. Huon (talk) 13:38, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you.Chjoaygame (talk) 00:32, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – PsicoFS

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Thank you for noticing the error. I have already cleared the issue up

PsicoFS (talk) 11:18, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

You're welcome, thank you for fixing it. Huon (talk) 13:38, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

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Mhbent (talk) 20:54, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Mhbent (talk) 20:54, 26 July 2014 (UTC) thank you,I'm working on hightlight a text. can you help?

@Mhbent: What you're looking for likely is an infobox, specifically Template:Infobox musical artist, but that's a secondary concern for that page: What it desperately needs is not improved layout, but reliable, independent sources that cover Kes Tokyo in some detail, both to allow our readers to verify the content and to establish that Kes Tokyo is notable enough for an article in the first place. Huon (talk) 00:23, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Terickson30

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Comment/question: I received this message from BracketBot: "I have automatically detected that your edit to Brooklyn Bridge may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 '[]'s." I don't know what the supposed problem is, but when I rechecked the section in question, everything looked fine to me.

Terickson30 (talk) 23:16, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

A square bracket was missing in your last reference. Fixed. Huon (talk) 00:38, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Shivam kr. Singh

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Comment/question: No you don't have any misunderstanding, actually the link was really broken by me but I have already corrected it. Shivam kr. Singh (talk) 02:01, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

Your change substituted an unreliable source for a more reliable one, and you copy-pasted that source's content, which raises issues of copyright. For those reasons your changes have been reverted. Huon (talk) 10:28, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

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I don't know how to edit that. help?:

Arcticfranz (talk) 08:48, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

Fixed. The template description is at Template:Singlechart. Huon (talk) 10:28, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 59.98.104.225

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59.98.104.225 (talk) 09:53, 28 July 2014 (UTC)i am a new person making article ..but you help me

I have fixed the brackets, though I'm not sure that will suffice to prevent deletion. Huon (talk) 20:19, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

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Thanks for your offer of help and for pointing out my error. I am attempting to re-make the page for Anne Lorne Gillies (who is my wife). I have loads more information and photographs I can add as well as press cuttings etc going back 50 years. This is quite new to me although I made a few additions to the page some months ago. I have made a few websites, my first with Dreamweaver and then moved to Wordpress but this is quite different so I may come back with questions. I would not be editing this just now but I found I could not upload a photo as I had not made sufficient edits! :

Kevin Bree 15:14, 28 July 2014 (UTC) KevinKevin Bree 15:14, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

@KevinBree: My advice would be to take a look at the tutorial, maybe just the cheatsheet, and at WP:Referencing for beginners; the video at that page explains how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes for references. And that's the current article's main weakness: It does not cite any sources. Wikipedia content must be based on reliable published sources; your personal knowledge is not enough. Sources need not be available online; you can cite the newspapers and magazines your collection of press cuttings comes from (provide the name of the newspaper, the publication date, the page number, the title of the article, the author and so on, and our readers can look it up in a library archive). Articles that do not cite their sources might be tagged for deletion. Huon (talk) 20:19, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

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Wikiconstruct1 (talk) 09:59, 29 July 2014 (UTC) I think I have corrected many of the reasons you once proposed this for deletion. The piece is not properly sourced with citations to who Hall is and a URL to his University web page. He is cited by someone under "notable constructivists in IR" on the "Constructivism (International Relations) Wikipedia page. That page now links back to this new page. I have provided ISBN's to all of Hall's books. Please remove all or most of your caveats about this page. Wikiconstruct1Wikiconstruct1 (talk) 09:59, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

That article cites not a single independent source. While Hall may well meet our notability criteria, that article desperately needs work. For example, there's no need to list his publications unless they're highly cited works that others have discussed in some detail - and then we should summarize what others had to say about them, not just list them. The biographical content should not be based merely on his own website and his employer's. Huon (talk) 21:04, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Jedi Striker

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Comment/question: Someone had messed with the info box and I was just fixing it. Nothing more.

Jedi Striker (talk) 18:01, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Fixed it some more. Huon (talk) 21:04, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question:I think there's a misunderstanding because I was not finished editing the page, I was only seeing what it would look like. By the time I saw the show preview button I saw that you deleted my page.

Joshzagabe (talk) 06:48, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

@Joshzagabe: Live articles are immediately subject to intense scrutiny, and yours did not cite any reliable sources nor did it establish that JMZ meets our notability guidelines. Thus it was nominated for speedy deletion and deleted. If you think JMZ does meet the criteria, and if they have been written about in some detail in reliable sources such as newspapers or reputable music magazines, I'd suggest writing a draft via the Article Wizard. Huon (talk) 19:00, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 76.71.21.191

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Comment/question: The whole NSYNC page is littered with errors, starting with the title. I edited it on an earlier occasion, only to find it further messed up the other day. The title of the article should be either 'N Sync or *NSYNC and all subsequent references should be in line with those. See list of articles written at the bottom. 76.71.21.191 (talk) 05:20, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

That page was deliberately moved to its current title earlier this month, following a discussion at the talk page. Unilaterally editing against the established consensus is not a good idea, even less so if it's done with so little attention to detail that you break the references in the process. Huon (talk) 17:08, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Hurlebouc

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BracketBot tells me there was a problem with latex brace (\left\{ \right.) whereas there wasn't, I think.

Hurlebouc (talk) 13:42, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot is supposed to ignore mismatched brackets within <math> tags, but that doesn't seem to work. A930913 is aware of the issue. Huon (talk) 17:08, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

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Darlinsky (talk) 21:27, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your message. I am new to editing a Wikipedia page. I'm not sure exactly what I did wrong or how to fix it. Can you be more specific?

Darlinsky (talk) 21:27, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

In short, this bracket needed to be removed. All fixed now. Huon (talk) 20:59, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

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Ninaelise1 (talk) 23:57, 1 August 2014 (UTC) hello,

I am trying to reference the material in Ball jointed doll. I have following 42.^ [1] for the reference section. I would like to worded as BJD Dollmore instead. Please let me know how this can be achived without having the section deleted. Thank you,

@Ninaelise1: See WP:Referencing for beginners on how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes. That said, I have reverted your addition as pretty blatant spam. Huon (talk) 14:37, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: I didn't edit the page to my knowledge. Billy Hathorn (talk) 02:26, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

@Billy Hathorn: You didn't, but Teblick did. That's why the bot left the notification at User talk:Teblick, not at your talk page. Teblick fixed the issue with this edit. Huon (talk) 14:37, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: The preview option is not working for me. A Wikipedia page shows up but then quickly (0.5 seconds) disappears & is replaced by the edit page upon which I just made the changes. I am using Chrome (auto-updated) on an HP ProBook S-series running Windows 7 Home Premium. As you can see from the change history I submitted a second edit to fix the unmatched bracket. I am a new contributor.

Jimbitz (talk) 03:53, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

@Jimbitz: This is far beyond the purview of the bot operator. You may want to ask at WP:Village pump (technical); maybe the people over there can help you. Huon (talk) 14:37, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: Actually mostly information. Thank you very much for leaving things as they were and enabling me to finish my painstaking edit at my leisure. Internet or not, I am usually quite pernickety about brackets, but of course in this particular case they were of quite vital importance. As I remember the situation, your bot intervened while I was in the middle of what I was doing with that sentence, and my mistaken assumption that some Besserwisser was about to destroy my edit made me simply abandon everything in despair. Can you tell me whether or not AV was ordained to the priesthood and even to the episcopate? The reason I ask is that the best-known of Cöllner Churfürsten, Clemens August geb. v. Bayern, took years after taking up the job here even to be ordained priest, and it was only under strong pressure from the Pope that that took place – well out of the way in the parish church of Markt Schwaben! You mention that his third successor never married. (CA never did either, but he maintained a mistress in Schloß Brühl.) If AV did take orders, it might be an idea to look for a picture of him in some variant of ecclesiastical regalia rather than in k. k. officer’s uniform, becoming though the one you have used is. Congratulations on the page in general. My quotation of the original French title of the Reichstag committee report is from the Recueil de traités, which is the nearest I could get to an original. The original of the Act as signed by Francis II in 1803 ought to be filed somewhere but I have no idea where (Ratisbon? Vienna?). Get in touch with any such information and of course with anything you’d like to dispute. NB Mozart refers to Max Franz in his letters usually as <Se. Churfürstl. Durchlaucht v. Cölln> o. Ä. Pamino (talk) 15:41, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot is an automated program that looks for mismatched brackets and notifies the users who created the mismatch about the potential problem. It does so without understanding what the articles are about. Personally I hadn't heard of Anton Victor before today and cannot help you either. Since Anton Victor reigned as Prince-Bishop of Münster from 1801 to 1803, I would expect him to have indeed been a bishop. However, since he spent much of his life as an Austrian official, for example as viceroy of Lombardy-Venetia, the image of him wearing an Austrian uniform seems more appropriate. Huon (talk) 14:37, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: ~~Not clear what the problem is.~~ Got it, thanks!

SlimVirgin ^(talk) 00:46, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

OK, happy editing! Huon (talk) 14:37, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

^ Nirmala Ganapathy (Jun 6, 2003). "MS Shoes has gone to the cleaners". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2012-05-01
^ V S Bhim (July 1, 2009). "Capital Market price rate interest - 10% nation product RAO interest charge _2% per annum". Citeman Network.
^ Nirmala Ganapathy (Jun 6, 2003). "MS Shoes has gone to the cleaners". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2012-05-01
^ Nirmala Ganapathy (Jun 6, 2003). "MS Shoes has gone to the cleaners". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2012-05-01
^ V S Bhim (July 1, 2009). "Capital Market price rate interest - 10% nation product RAO interest charge _2% per annum". Citeman Network.
^ Nirmala Ganapathy (Jun 6, 2003). "MS Shoes has gone to the cleaners". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2012-05-01
^ Nirmala Ganapathy (Jun 6, 2003). "MS Shoes has gone to the cleaners". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2012-05-01
^ Nirmala Ganapathy (Jun 6, 2003). "MS Shoes has gone to the cleaners". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2012-05-01
^ [http://www.tasteofcalgary.com | title= Taste of Calgary: Food & Drink Festival |}

[1] Nirmala Ganapathy (Jun 6, 2003). "MS Shoes has gone to the cleaners". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2012-05-01

[2] V S Bhim (July 1, 2009). "Capital Market price rate interest - 10% nation product RAO interest charge _2% per annum". Citeman Network.

[3] Nirmala Ganapathy (Jun 6, 2003). "MS Shoes has gone to the cleaners". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2012-05-01

[4] Nirmala Ganapathy (Jun 6, 2003). "MS Shoes has gone to the cleaners". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2012-05-01

[5] V S Bhim (July 1, 2009). "Capital Market price rate interest - 10% nation product RAO interest charge _2% per annum". Citeman Network.

[6] Nirmala Ganapathy (Jun 6, 2003). "MS Shoes has gone to the cleaners". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2012-05-01

[7] Nirmala Ganapathy (Jun 6, 2003). "MS Shoes has gone to the cleaners". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2012-05-01

[8] Nirmala Ganapathy (Jun 6, 2003). "MS Shoes has gone to the cleaners". The Indian Express. Retrieved 2012-05-01

[9] [http://www.tasteofcalgary.com | title= Taste of Calgary: Food & Drink Festival |}

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