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{{User:A930913/BBresolved|yes}} Comment/question: Could you clarify the cryptic message left in users talk pages? It took some seconds of scratching my head to figure out that the (out-of-the-blue and with no context) message by modifying 1 "()"s meant "by modifying one parentheses". Why not spell it out with words written in English, so that editors can read it instead of guessing the riddle? Diego (talk) 00:23, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Because the bot also gives numbers for "[]"s, "{}"s and "<>"s. I doubt "by modifying one parenthesis, two brackets, one brace, and one inequality sign" is that much better than the shorter version. Huon (talk) 21:33, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Jbschev

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

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Jbschev (talk) 01:10, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Fixed GM Futurliner. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:59, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 69.106.86.30

Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Koka_%28AT-31%29

Diff: Huh? Message to me was https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:69.106.86.30&redirect=no

Comment/question: I don't see the problem, I don't know how to fix it, I'm not an editor, I know nothing nothing, just wanted to add a bit of info I found to a sparse page... help? btw, maybe I already fixed the thing after bracketbot saw a first try? Because I kept trying. Here's what bracketbot says it saw, and it doesn't look like that to me:

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   com/news/2004/feb/19/i-cover-waterfront/?page=2 |title= I Cover The Waterfront, Chapter II (Max Miller, 1932, serialized in The San Diego Reader, February 19, 2004}}</ref> On 20 March 1934

Thank you, greatly appreciate wikipedia and all the editors 69.106.86.30 (talk) 06:44, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

You forgot a closing parenthesis within the footnote. Fixed. Huon (talk) 21:33, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 1017west

Di’ja:

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Comment/question: i am trying to fix it so just please stop taging it please i am rewritting it now

1017west (talk) 01:49, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing the issue. Huon (talk) 21:33, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Nodrogsenrieb

Jack Rife Beirnes:

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I was hoping the problems were resolved about the page. Any advice is welcome, Thank you:

Nodrogsenrieb (talk) 01:58, 4 March 2014 (UTC) nodrogsenrieb

I already fixed that. Huon (talk) 21:33, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 72.130.140.221

an error at Tetrapulmonata

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I am not a computer specialist. I am a biologist. Do you really expect me to understand this question ?

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Thank you for alerting me to my error.

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72.130.140.221 (talk) 07:39, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

You fixed that yourself - thanks! Huon (talk) 21:33, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – FiHow

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FiHow (talk) 11:47, 4 March 2014 (UTC) Hi, I am FiHow. Saw your message. I do not know how to fix the references I introduced. Can you help please?

Done, though I removed the press release wholesale. If the only source is a press release, it cannot have been that important an event. Huon (talk) 21:33, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Bbennymichaelroe

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Just to thank BracketBot for detecting the syntax problem. I hoipe all is now fixed. Bbennymichaelroe.

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Bbennymichaelroe (talk) 13:21, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Unfortunately I had to revert your changes. The source you gave is not one considered reliable for medical topics; it's based on anecdotes, not careful studies and statistical evaluation. Huon (talk) 21:33, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – SpaceLem

Page: Tau-leaping

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Comment/question: The first query is about a half-open time interval $[t,t+\tau )$ . The brackets are not supposed to be matched, as the [ indicates that the start of the interval includes the point, while the ) indicates that the end of the interval does not.

The second query (in the sentence prior to point 6) is erroneous, as there is already a matching bracket.

SpaceLem (talk) 13:27, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Regarding the first issue you're right; the bot isn't good on math topics (let's just be glad that you didn't use any inequalities). Regarding the second issue, now there is a matching bracket, but it wasn't yet there when the bot notified you. Thank you for fixing it. Huon (talk) 21:33, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 99.66.4.234

Page: Celebi (Pokémon)

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Comment/question: I have no idea what is wrong. The new info is correct but I don't know hw to fix the page.

99.66.4.234 (talk) 20:22, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Fixed. Huon (talk) 21:33, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 123.237.253.76

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123.237.253.76 (talk) 12:50, 5 March 2014 (UTC) Hello Bracket, I don't understand what you are saying, even i donno that there will be an edit option untill i click on it. I born and brought up on srikalahasthi town and i know there is another temple, and i saw your page missed that newly constructed temple, and i just mentioned it using edit. What is that syntax error i didnt understood. Could you please make it live.

The syntax error was a closing parenthesis without a corresponding opening parenthesis. However, I removed the entire "places of interest" section because it didn't cite any reliable sources and largely didn't explain what made those temples places of interest. Huon (talk) 21:33, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Bradford Smith

Page: George Mann

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Comment/question: Thank you, BracketBot.

Brad Smith (talk) 21:09, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

You're welcome, thank you for fixing the issue. Huon (talk) 22:50, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Bakerstmd

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

Page: abdominal aortic aneurysm

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Comment/question: I can't find my error. Can you help me find and fix it?

Bakerstmd (talk) 01:13, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Fixed by original editor. Nice work. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:57, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Meritentertainment

Page: Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Merit Motion Pictures 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. List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page: | Surviving:) The Teenage Brain || Television Documentary || 1 hr|| 2012 || [[Canadian Broadcasting

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Comment/question: the ")" in the title "Surviving:) The Teenage Brain" is actually part of the official Film title. Please don't consider a break in syntax. Meritentertainment (talk) 21:55, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

@Meritentertainment: Smileys are a known issue, but I don't think there are enough of them on Wikipedia to warrant a separate treatment. That said, I just nominated the article for deletion because there's no indication the company meets our notability guidelines. You should also take a look at our guideline on conflicts of interest and, last but not least, the username policy, particularly the parts on promotional usernames and usernames implying shared use. Huon (talk) 23:44, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Biancadesai

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Biancadesai (talk)

Can you please help me edit and make my wiki page in the right format?

Thanks a lot

The formatting issues had largely been addressed, but the article did not cite any reliable sources and had been tagged for that lack for over a week. All Wikipedia articles should be based on reliable sources that are independent of the subject, such as newspaper articles or published movie reviews. Biographies of living persons without such sources should be deleted, and I have done so for this article. Huon (talk) 14:28, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – SJ Morg

An unpaired bracket ("parenthesis" in my version of English).

Page: King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences

Diff: None (BracketBot didn't change anything, just notified me); my edit (which was not erred)

Comment: The unpaired bracket/parenthesis was contained within an external link's URL, and I copied it correctly. It is not part of any text visible on the Wikipedia page, and BracketBot therefore shouldn't have detected it and notified me. SJ Morg (talk) 08:20, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

While you're right that this is a false positive, whether the bot should have notified you depends on what's more common - deliberately mismatched brackets in links or mismatched brackets in links due to typos. I don't know any statistics, but I'd say it's better to err on the side of caution and to notify a human about a possible mistake that might leave a link broken. Huon (talk) 14:28, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Zfigueroa

Page:2014 Venezuelan protests

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The brackets are correct:

Zfigueroa (talk) 12:23, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

No they're not, but you fixed the one you introduced. Thanks for that! I have fixed the other. Huon (talk) 14:28, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Bee Cliff River SlobBee Cliff River Slob (talk) 15:55, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Jean-François de la Barre

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I intended to use both brackets [[ ]] for linking to French language web page title and parentheses ( ) to indicate English translation of French language web page title.

Bee Cliff River Slob (talk) 15:55, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

For external links only single brackets are necessary, but you'll need opening brackets as well as closing ones. For the English translation you didn't have the closing parentheses. I have fixed that. Huon (talk) 22:36, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – E bruton

Page: Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle

Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Platt,_Baroness_Platt_of_Writtle

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Unnecessarily removed a close parenthesis - Changed "'''Beryl Catherine Myatt'' (later Baroness Platt of Writtle [[CBE]] [[DL]]) was born at [[Leigh-on-Sea]] on 18 April, 1923.<ref>" to "'''Beryl Catherine Myatt'' (later Baroness Platt of Writtle [[CBE]] [[DL]] was born at [[Leigh-on-Sea]] on 18 April, 1923.<ref>"

The bot didn't change that; the bot never edits articles. You forgot that parenthesis yourself. Thank you for fixing it. Huon (talk) 22:36, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – DrAzF

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Hi! Thanks for the head's up - have corrected the error.

You're welcome; thank you for fixing it. However, that content reads rather promotional; there's no need to highlight a single producer in that way. Huon (talk) 22:36, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Jmskisembo

To check some syntax; consequently correct some unclosed brackets

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Please check to see if what I have done does not fix the matter

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Jmskisembo (talk) 12:20, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia content should be based on reliable sources that are independent of the subject. I don't think CatholicHierarchy.org fits that bill. Huon (talk) 22:36, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Christian.ulf

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Christian.ulf (talk) 00:09, 11 March 2014 (UTC) Thanks for the message. I am pretty new at setting up new Wikipedia pages, I normally only edit, so am still trying to get the references right for Nikolaj Torp Larsen. Still working on it! Christian

@Christian.ulf: You may want to take a look at WP:Referencing for beginners. Huon (talk) 00:44, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

(...,Head of the Central Committee for Ethnic Minorities, 1992 Chairman of the National Assembly). thanksTuantintuc17 (talk) 06:25, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

That would have been a good fix, but by now the article has been redirected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam article. Huon (talk) 00:44, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Tachs

Page:Malayalam Cinema

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Comment/question:Thanks, I have since corrected the error

Tachs (talk) 12:08, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

No, but I have. Huon (talk) 00:44, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 141.8.189.199

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I would like to say that SAT airlines in my opinion do not have any operations now. Is that true?

141.8.189.199 (talk) 15:45, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

That seems mainly a question of definitions. Since SAT's IATA and ICAO codes are still in use, it could be argued that the airline is still in operation under a new name. Furthermore, the only source I found says that "reportedly" SAT will cease operations "at the beginning of 2014" - no indication it has happened already. Huon (talk) 00:44, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Pratiksha Khona

Page: |url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/multimedia/archive/01736/Click_here_for_pdf_1736865a.pdf) |publisher=The Hindu Businessline |accessdate=March 11, 2014}}</ref>

{cite web|title= Prime Focus Ltd. |url=http://www.moneycontrol.com/bse_annualreports/5327480313.pdf) |publisher=Money Control |accessdate=March 11, 2014}}</ref>

//www.indiainfoline.com/Markets/Company/Fundamentals/Management-Discussions/Prime-Focus-Ltd/532748) |publisher=IndiaInfoline |accessdate=March 11, 2014}}</ref>

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{cite web|title= Prime Focus Ltd. |url=http://www.moneycontrol.com/bse_annualreports/5327480313.pdf |publisher=Money Control |accessdate=March 11, 2014}}</ref>

//www.indiainfoline.com/Markets/Company/Fundamentals/Management-Discussions/Prime-Focus-Ltd/532748 |publisher=IndiaInfoline |accessdate=March 11, 2014}}</ref>

Comment/question: I have made the required changes but still i am facing an error promoting the subject in subjective manner and somthing like orphan article. Kindly let me know what is to be done for that

Pratiksha Khona (talk) 11:42, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

This is not a BracketBot issue, but I'd say the lead section is a prime example of "promoting the subject in a subjective manner without providing information". For example, "The group sells end-to-end creative and technical services" - that means what, precisely? Are they consultants? An animation studio? Do they rent out lighting equipment? All of the above? I have no idea. What "ends" does that talk about? Is equipment rental really a "creative service"? The source for that statement is a press release, not a reliable independent source. Content such as "Audiences worldwide and critics alike have praised Gravity 3D" also certainly requires a reliable third-party source, such as the critics bestowing the praise or, better yet, an overview article that summarizes the critical and audience reception. The page is tagged as an orphan because no other articles lint to this one. If there are other articles already mentioning Prime Focus, you should add links. Huon (talk) 22:33, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 192.134.152.153

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192.134.152.153 (talk) 14:16, 12 March 2014 (UTC) OCEPEIA § Distinguishing anatomical features, lines 14-19 : Please note that there is a repeted error in the designation of the characters of the teeth of Ocepeia; several features are those of lower premolars and molars (you can check on Plos One publication), NOT uppers. I tried to make the corrections yesturday , but It did not worked (I do not know the peculiar synthax in wikipedia!)... Otherwise good work! Best regards,

E. Gheerbrant

The code for a subscript is <sub>3</sub>; that will look like this: ₃. By the way, that's not wiki-specific code but HTML. I think I have fixed all the incorrect labels, but you may want to check that I didn't overdo it. Huon (talk) 22:33, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Dr Marmilade

Page:my edit to Cities and towns during the Syrian Civil War may have broken the syntax by modifying 2 "{}"s

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Comment/question: What does modifying 2 "[]" even mean?

Dr Marmilade (talk) 17:03, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

"Adding or removing two square (or curly, or whatever) brackets". In this particular instance you had forgotten the closing "}}" for the {{cite web}} template. Fixed. Huon (talk) 22:33, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – WikiHannibal

Page: Jiangshi

my edit

Comment/question: hope did not break )s

WikiHannibal (talk) 21:35, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

I have fixed the parentheses on that page. Huon (talk) 22:33, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Bears2222

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Comment/question: Can you go to Troy Aikman page and change were its says 1989-2000 to (1989-2001)*

Bears2222 (talk) 21:41, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

@Bears2222: Technically I could, but that was supposed to be a link to the 2000 NFL season, which ended in early 2001. Thus 2000 is appropriate. I have reverted your changes. Huon (talk) 22:33, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 76.184.72.156

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

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Comment/question: The flagged link works fine.

76.184.72.156 (talk) 21:37, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Fixed by Yobot. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:18, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Andie go

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Comment/question: Sorry guys. I'll come back and fix the brackets later...(after I've reread the style manual). Thanks for catching that.

Andie go (talk) 03:54, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

@Andie go: You fixed that issue already. Thanks! Huon (talk) 15:44, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Thecowwentmoo

Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M47_Patton

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Comment/question: Was just putting in greater-than sign. Thanks for the check, though! thecowwentmoo (talk) 04:25, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Yes, greater-than signs are a known issue; the bot keeps an eye on them because they're used for HTML tags or footnotes, where a mismatch can make entire paragraphs vanish, but using them as "greater than" will then lead to false positives. Sorry about that. Huon (talk) 15:44, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Michael Chaplan

Page: Lisa Delamare

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I tried to fix the page Lisa Delamare. I think I failed to do the diacritical marks correctly, and so what I added looks different than the other films listed in her filmography. Could you please fix the diacritical marks?

Michael Chaplan (talk) 01:26, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

@Michael Chaplan: The correct syntax for the link would have been ''[[Forfaiture (film)|The Cheat]]'' which would look like this: The Cheat. However, we have neither an article on the film nor reliable sources discussing either the film or Delamare's role within that film (in fact the entire article is critically short on reliable sources). Thus it seems more appropriate not to list this particular film. Huon (talk) 01:45, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Ildiko Dao

Simon Lamunière Page:

please can you fix the trouble with the syntax ? I' have done some mistake And I do not mind somebody to help . But I do not mind pending time on it too: I learn !!

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I am in trouble with the external link and with the ref tags

Comment/question: Any help welcome..

Ildiko Dao (talk) 16:15, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

@Ildiko Dao: I have copyedited the article, but there's no indication that Simon Lamunière is notable in the first place. There were no third-party sources reporting on him, only primary sources such as interviews or the websites of organizations he's associated with. Huon (talk) 18:27, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Tuhinkantidas

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Comment/question: look i want to modify that page . The number of Su30MKI is 210 and i want to edit that ,,,,, but due to some techinical error i cant do so ,,,,, can u help me by edditing that place Tuhinkantidas (talk) 17:27, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

You should provide a reliable source for that number. Also, the aircraft are currently being delivered and will continue to be delivered until 2018. We do give the full number that will be reached in 2018. I don't think it's necessary to update our article whenever another few planes have been delivered. Huon (talk) 20:38, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – BerthaPierce

Tavernier Blue Page:

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 Here is my message, Please help:  Don't understand where I went wrong on posting this link.

BerthaPierce (talk) 21:29, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Tavernier Blue 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. List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page: com/article1.htm] From The Sun King To The Smithsonian, The Epic Journey of The Hope Diamond] It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 21:18, 15 March 2014 (UTC) Comment/question:

BerthaPierce (talk) 21:29, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

@BerthaPierce: The code for links to other Wikipedia articles is subtly different from the code for external links. See Help:Link for more details on both types of links. I have repaired the one you added, which in the end had a surplus "l" (it was only ".htm") and a missing opening square bracket. Huon (talk) 01:02, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Sqaykashmir

list of martial arts Page:

www.icsqay.com Diff:

kindly make the changethat we have make in the list of martial arts

Comment/question:

Sqaykashmir (talk) 16:15, 16 March 2014 (UTC) regards Mir Nazir page sqay kashmir

Fixed by PRehse. Huon (talk) 00:39, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 79.19.50.76

Page: Nobility of Italy

Diff: I made a change and lost a ")"

Comment/question: I have corrected the missing ")", I thank for the message about my mistake.

79.19.50.76 (talk) 22:44, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

You're welcome, thank you for fixing it! Huon (talk) 00:39, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Lynda Applegate

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Comment/question: Sorry...can you please change place of living from Cushing Oklahoma to Wichita Kansas

Also can you include a link to e-book Navy War Stories by Gary Carson? Lynda Applegate (talk) 01:50, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

@Lynda Applegate: First of all, my condolences. I have changed the place of residence based on the obituary, but the article has severe problems: A near-complete lack of reliable sources that discuss Carson in some detail. In particular, the lone source that comes close to meeting that standard does not mention the e-book. Are there newspaper articles discussing the book, or reviews by Publishers Weekly or the like? If no independent source mentions the book, neither should Wikipedia - in that case it's likely not a significant part of Carson's biography. Huon (talk) 23:00, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Entertainmentmanager

hi bracketBot..can you please fix back Prachee's picture .it has no copyright.it was taken by our production photographer & all the information I have sumbitted about the actress is genuine .she is working 48films in southern Indian industry & just removing her picture or her information in assumption of copyright is not proper justice to her profile.the user houn who has one more id cummon is writing wrong sentences often.the times of India article he shown there was not talking negative about Prachee's acting but they meant to state that sriman was wast to be her opposite cast because he was looking too old to pair with Prachee & this article thing is not new to us.even the producer said this in a channel that he did wrong cast..he better would have taken a younger actor in opposite to Prachee.it was a female oriented film & prachee has theater background.all that needful stuff was deleted by this user.but he has left twice same statement repeatation that I have corrected now...he deleted the information about her music video & said half thing there later that she did a video beer kuvar ke dharti...but he deleted the banner name & company she was in contract with.which is India's one of lead company in Music Cassets.I have told My journalist friend from United states to see if he can help in making a genuine profile of prachee without letting anybody taking personal revange on her profile delting the important stuff & trying portray her bad actress & deleting her photogrhaph without any proper proof & explaination of it having a copyright when ..it was completly My property & nobody has right to delete indivual property than until it has been taken from somebody.if I breach any copyright than I will face consiconsious of litigation ..dont I know that,..but we all from civil society we dont do wrong things.offcourse its not a PR thing offourse google is there youtube also..but we from media takes wikipedia more genuine & justifying till now.we have faith in it...but some people take it for granted & assume much & do always wrong injustice to profiles of artiest who started to get recognition....thats why even after so much of success many artiest dont like to come to wikipedia.you know why because some of the user out jealousy & personal grudges detlets & alter profiles of the people they dislike or dont want to be seen in wikipedia & I think this is one reason many backoff without trying much hard.....if this is the case than either I will waite for the correct time & one day pay donation too much that desperate users can not touch my profile & it will get lock for editing & than no unnessary person will not able to touch it & will not remove the profile i created & pay respect to hard work of My & profile I made for the artiest.can I request you to tell Me how to upload the pic...is it possible I can forward you the Picture & you can past it on Prachee's Profile.It would be great Help.if you can really help.Regards.

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Entertainmentmanager (talk) 06:22, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

@Entertainmentmanager: First of all, BracketBot is an automated program that does nothing but notify users of potentially mismatched bracktes.

Secondly, since the image was uploaded to (and deleted from) the Wikimedia Commons, there's nothing we can do about that on Wikipedia (but see below on how to resolve this on the Commons).

Thirdly, by default everything is copyrighted unless it has explicitly been released into the public domain. And unless there is evidence of such a release, we have to assume the image is copyrighted. If Wikipedia (or the Wikimedia Commons) consciously allowed a copyrighted image that hasn't been released under a free license to stay, we too would be liable to be sued for copyright violation.

To upload the image, you will have to know who owns the copyright - probably either the photographer or whoever paid him for that photograph. Whoever owns the copyright will then have to release the image under a free license so that everybody may re-use and modify it for any purpose, including commercial purposes. Copyrighted images of living persons can only be used if they have been released under such a license. A standard release form is at WP:Declaration of consent for all enquiries; it's probably easiest if the copyright holder or a legal representative writes an email (from an official email address) with the image and that release form to permissions-commons@wikimedia.org - then the image will be uploaded with the correct licensing tag attached. You should be aware, of course, that when you upload images to the Commons you sign away so many rights that for many purposes it ceases to be "your property" (though technically the copyright remains with the original copyright holder). In particular, you have no right whatsoever to not have the image deleted - it was uploaded to the Wikimedia Foundation's servers, and the Foundation (via the community of editors) can delete whatever it wants from its own servers.

Fourthly, Wikipedia content should be based on reliable third-party sources such as newspapers or movie magazines, and you should add inline citations so our readers can easily check which of the references supports which of the article's statements. See Help:Referencing for beginners for more on how to easily add nicely-formatted footnotes. In fact, for biographies of living persons such as the Prachee Adhikari article, inline citations are not just a nice extra but a requirement.

Fifthly, you seem to be confused about the edit history and seem to claim that I made various changes that I didn't make. This is the only edit I made to the article, and all I did was remove some unsourced content and an utterly unreliable source and rewrite some other content based on what the Times of India had to say. Our readers can check that source and confirm that it says what I claimed it says. I didn't change anything about Prachee's theater background or videos she appears in. I would appreciate it if you didn't misrepresent my actions. Huon (talk) 16:53, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Derek farn

Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quine_%28computing%29 Diff: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=596827740 Comment/question: The problem warned about occurred inside strings within some source code.

The source code is very weird, but it solving a convoluted problem.

The bot should ignore characters between <source>...</source> tags Derek farn (talk) 23:19, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

That depends. What's more likely within those tags: Deliberately mismatched brackets, or brackets mismatched by accident? If it's the latter, the bot should arguably notify users about such mismatches, too. Huon (talk) 00:38, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

@Derek farn and Huon: Am I right in saying that bracket mismatch inside source and code tags can't take out half a page? 930913(Congratulate) 13:13, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

That depends on your definition of "take out". If a bracket is missing in the </source> tag, which could arguably get interpreted as "inside source tags", things may get interesting. Or if you add a reference inside code tags and forget a bracket there, you can make entire paragraphs vanish. Huon (talk) 18:41, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Your message

Hey there, greetings. I don get this message. Please help. Thank You--25 CENTS VICTORIOUS ^☣ 19:17, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

Fixed all. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:17, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

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Koushik Kodari 05:47, 18 March 2014 (UTC)Thank U Bot ...Thankzz For ur Cooperation

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--10:41, 19 March 2014 (UTC)Zainkazmi1 (talk)

Zainkazmi1, take a look at this edit to see how I fixed the URLs. You have to copy and paste the URL exactly as it appears. Do not retype it. Then leave a space, and copy and paste the article's title from the web page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:25, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Dear Jonesey95 thanks...so nice of you --Zainkazmi1 (talk) 19:25, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question:I used the )'s after the numbers as an alternative way, instead of using a period. You can see I did at List of Emporia State University people, and other pages. If it needs to be changed, please let me know. Thanks!

Corkythehornetfan^(talk) 03:49, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Technically this is a false positive and nothing needs to be done here, but irrespective of the bracket issue I doubt the comment will do much good. Huon (talk) 20:08, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

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Robert Austin-Moore (talk) 08:25, 20 March 2014 (UTC)Good morning,

Thank you for welcoming me to wikipedia. I have a question. I followed the instructions to upload a picture to include in the Final years chapter of Dame Anna and although the box and text has appeared on the page, the actual photo hasn't. Can you assist me please? Many thanks, Robert Austin-Moore

I see no indication that you uploaded an image. If the image is freely licensed, which for an image from the 1970s is rather unlikely, you should upload it to the Wikimedia Commons via their Upload Wizard. Also, you should choose a name a little more descriptive than "Img105". Huon (talk) 20:08, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

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Dmitry Dzhagarov (talk) 10:15, 20 March 2014 (UTC) I am sorry, but I misunderstood what happened. Dmitry Dzhagarov (talk) 10:15, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

There was a square bracket that didn't belong, but you removed it yourself with this edit. Thanks! Huon (talk) 20:08, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: I think I fixed my typo. Thanks! Rebhelm (talk) 16:28, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

You didn't, but I did. Huon (talk) 20:08, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 76.103.108.10

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Comment/question: BracketBot flagged an edit of mine because I my edit removed a single parenthesis --- but this one was unpaired, which is why I removed it. I'm guessing BB looks for edits with unpaired brackets, but w/o including brackets in the original page, this will be inaccurate. No need to reply. 76.103.108.10 (talk) 17:31, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

It wasn't unpaired; it belonged to the "(namely, ..." parenthesis. BracketBot will list the unpaired brackets on the page after your edit, and while there are a couple of false positives here because the bot doesn't handle "greater than" too well, that one is also listed. Huon (talk) 20:08, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

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74.143.103.194 (talk) 18:23, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

No thanks. Huon (talk) 20:08, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: How do I make this page in the format of other filmmakers ie. splitting the information up by category -- Background, Filmography, Awards and Recognition. Also, how do I add this to other pages and add links to relevant Categories at the bottom of the page.

Thank you for your help.

FF Frances Farmer7 (talk) 22:46, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

@Frances Farmer7: Sections are created by double equality signs:

== Section heading ==

Categories are added at the very bottom of the page with code like this:

[[Category:Documentary filmmakers]]

The issues with the categories have been fixed by Bgwhite. Huon (talk) 18:17, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

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Sqaykashmir (talk) 10:52, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

You added non-notable people to a list, based on primary sources, and in the process broke an unrelated link. Your edit has since been reverted. Huon (talk) 18:17, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

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I have corrected the syntax by adding a hyphen. Since Kafr Ana and Or Yehuda are actually the same towns with different names, it was necessary that both names be placed in parentheses.In biblical times, the city was called Ono.

Davidbena (talk) 14:00, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

No, you have corrected the syntax by removing a parenthesis. Thanks, but a couple of reliable sources for that content couldn't hurt. Huon (talk) 18:17, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

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Arthurjermyn (talk) 20:17, 22 March 2014 (UTC)I thought I'd fixed it.

You did, a few days after the bot notified you. Thanks! Huon (talk) 21:46, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

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74.220.246.68 (talk) 02:26, 23 March 2014 (UTC) Marian Beddill

Y Fixed. SBaker43 (talk) 11:59, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – State Champion

I am "State Champion" and just in the last two or three days have made two different edits to the Barry Switzer page. This is the first time I have ever tired to do anything on WIKI other than read--but the information on Barry's early and family background (same as MY background) was totally incorrect--so I fixed it to correspond to reality. Then someone added that absurd section about his being racist against whites--ignoring athleticism--and I had to respond. I am a retired lawyer and computer illiterate and do not have any idea what all of those "squiglies" on the talk page even represent. Help? In plain English can you tell me what I need to do??????? (State Champion (talk) 13:32, 23 March 2014 (UTC))

@State Champion: The bot notified you about mismatched parentheses because you had closing parentheses in your i), ii), iii) list with no corresponding opening parentheses. Arguably that's a false positive because those parentheses are not supposed to belong to matched pairs, but still it's not the best style. That said, you removed reliably sourced content - that Switzer said he'd never recruit a white quarterback - and instead added your personal opinion on how Switzer was misunderstood by people "not listening closely". That simply is not acceptable. We're not here to defend peoples' reputations against the consequences of their own remarks, but to summarize what reliable third-party sources report about a person. Or, more bluntly: If Switzer says stupid things, it's not for us to explain away his comments. Huon (talk) 16:32, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: After I fixed it, there was nothing wrong with it.

Ninjadude8 (talk) 19:22, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Yes there was. There was one opening parenthesis for the "(though Fastback was included in..." remark and another for the date at the end of that remark, but only one closing parenthesis. Thus I have reverted your edit. Huon (talk) 23:10, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

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Cori arevalo (talk) 10:05, 24 March 2014 (UTC) HELLO U R SO VERY KIND - SORRY EVEN AFTER READING THINGS I STILL DO NOT CLEARLY UNDERSTAND! THANK YOU.

The paragraph about Cruz-Guzman you added to various articles had mismatched parentheses. That's what caused a large part of the bot notifications. I think I fixed all remaining bracket issues. Huon (talk) 22:39, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

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Lotje (talk) 11:27, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

See below. Huon (talk) 22:39, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

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Lotje (talk) 13:12, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

You fixed it with this edit. Huon (talk) 22:39, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

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Kithion (talk) 17:57, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

@Kithion: Thank you for fixing that, but the article is still critically short on reliable sources, and the tone of your additions is unduly promotional. I have removed the unsourced claims per our policy on biographies of living persons. Huon (talk) 22:39, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

revolutionary instead of terrorist

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I think calling a terrorist 'revolutionary' is too agreeable. It´s like saying they are heroes or less criminal as they really are or were,to say the least.

181.167.240.164 (talk) 20:11, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. "Revolutionary" seems rather neutral to me. What source says Santucho employed terror tactics? Anyway, this should be discussed on the article's talk page, not here. Huon (talk) 22:39, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

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HELLO BRACKETBOT. HELP! I'LL BE MAKING THE EDITS BUT NOT TOO QUICKLY AS I CDN'T FIGURE OUT THE INSTRUCTIONS. HOWEVER, MY ENTRY FOR LIZA SOBERANO - PLEASE ADVISE HOW THE BOXED INFO CAN BE REVISED? I'VE TRIED MANY TIMES, NO LUCK. I WILL TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THE PICTURES. THANK YOU SO MUCH. IS IT OK THAT I AM DOING ALL CAPITAL LETTERS:

Cori arevalo (talk) 07:35, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

@Cori arevalo: Since you asked about it, writing in all-caps is usually considered the equivalent of shouting and is frowned upon. Anyway, the infoboxx template simply does not have the parameters you intend to use. See Template:Infobox person for the available parameters. Furthermore, Wikipedia content, particularly about living persons, should be based on reliable sources. Much of what you added is unsourced, and there are so few sources that it seems doubtful whether Soberano is notable enough for an article in the first place. I will remove some of the problematic content. Regarding the images, there are copyright issues involved. Where did you get the image you want to add? Huon (talk) 22:33, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: Can't seem to find the unnamed parameter error

Lotje (talk) 10:45, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Lotje fixed it. Nice work. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:20, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: Seems false. The article shows 4 uses of the ref that work. I moved the ref definition down to the second location because the first was both before and after the line it ties to and it had lost the page number, so perhaps it is really complaining because my edit was to the number of uses of a named ref.

Markbassett (talk) 17:50, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

AnomieBot fixed the problem by adding a missing quotation mark. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:06, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

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JaniceKayePhD (talk) 18:20, 26 March 2014 (UTC) Hi! I seem to have made a mistake but I don't really know what it is or how to fix it! Can you help me? Can it be highlighted or something? I have tried to leave the formatting as is, but sometimes it might get away in the editing and it's not always clear to me how to deal with it. Thanks! Janice

You had a missing left bracket, as shown in the message on your Talk page. Wikilinks require two square brackets on each side of the article name. A subsequent edit fixed it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:07, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

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86.23.62.22 (talk) 10:19, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Fixed by a subsequent edit by another editor. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:41, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: Apparently your bot didn't recognize "]" in "Live It Up [feat. Pitbull]: Jennifer Lopez: Amazon.fr: Téléchargements MP3" as a closing bracket. What's worse is that in the notice it posted to AnomieBOT's talk page this shows up to the reader as "Live It Up [feat. Pitbull]: Jennifer Lopez: Amazon.fr: Téléchargements MP3", showing up the bot's error.

It may be that this should be flagged for replacement to "[feat. Pitbull]", but in that case the bot needs to be explicit about it.

Anomie ⚔ 10:26, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Change discussed on IRC will be be effective from next restart. 930913(Congratulate) 16:59, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

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86.98.35.111 (talk) 13:40, 27 March 2014 (UTC)Rajeev is from Thiruvalla.So I edited it. Thanks

Fixed in a subsequent edit by another editor. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:43, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

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PJRowling (talk) 00:36, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello,

Apologies but I am new to this!

I have updated the above page to include facts and figures and have referenced all of my entries. Unfortunately, I appear to have input the references incorrectly but am not sure how to correct this. Please advise.

Thank you.

Fixed. PJRowling, you need to put two curly braces at the end of the citation. Also, all parameter names in citations, like |date=, should be in all lower case, like |date=, not |Date=. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia! – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:55, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Zhuppan

Regarding your message: I have automatically detected that your edit to Orga Systems 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.

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Hi, this is not a mistake. The company mentioned, has an bracket in it's name. You can see it on the official web site - http://www.life.com.by/ (russian)

Zhuppan (talk) 11:21, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

That's indeed a false positive, but smileys are too varied for the bot to have a chance to reliably recognize them, and too uncommon to be much of a problem. Huon (talk) 20:00, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

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"" having a problem on the Harborfields High school page. A user  "Epicurious" has removed all notable graduates except for Mariah Cary and a Senator. HE has decided that no one else is notable.   I am unsure on how to remedy this issue.

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Polodude10 (talk) 17:01, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

@Polodude10: As a matter of principle, if you disagree with someone else's edits, you should discuss them on the article's talk page. In this case, however, the issue was not notability, but rather the lack of sources to verify that all those people indeed were alumni. Most of the entries Epicgenius removed were tagged for the lack of sources for months. Huon (talk) 20:00, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: I think now is all ok, thanks. I've got a problem with my pc --ErGebo (talk) 21:07, 28 March 2014 (UTC) ErGebo (talk) 21:07, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Now it's fixed. Huon (talk) 19:33, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

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Longshot1944 (talk) 01:35, 30 March 2014 (UTC)Is this something you can fix? Sorry,I don't know how to fix the error so maybe you'd better revert the offending alteration?Longshot1944 (talk) 01:35, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Fixed. Huon (talk) 01:56, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

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209.6.225.197 (talk) 01:40, 30 March 2014 (UTC) I'm not sure what editing mistake I made for the General Mills profile. If you could clarify it, I would appreciate it.

Also, the Infobox on the company is messed up; it doesn't appear as a box in the final profile, its code jargon is visible, and the logo is in a funny place. I wasn't sure how to fix that; if someone at Wiki could do so, please do. Thanks.

You added a pair of opening square brackets to the infobox. That broke the box and caused the BracketBot notification. Piguy101 removed them, repairing the infobox. Huon (talk) 01:56, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Flemingi

"I have automatically detected that your edit to It's Album Time 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". Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Album_Time

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Comment/question: Hi BBnotify. Sorry about the sloppiness of some of the links attached, I'm not that great at editing but I'm trying my best to fix up the page. I believe the article should be retained because the album has a notable collaboration with Bryan Ferry from Roxy Music and has been getting excellent reviews so far. The artist Todd Terje had a Number 1 hit in the U.K. with Robbie Williams also so I don't believe the page should be speedily deleted. Thanks for any time or effort you have spent on this matter. Thanks. - Ian. Flemingi (talk) 16:58, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

The speedy deletion tag has already been removed, and I tidied up the links. Huon (talk) 21:58, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: The added lines describes the way the EL is used in JSPX pages. The syntax requires brackets and <> annotation.

Amr.eladawy (talk) 17:19, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

@Amr.eladawy: The ">" is indeed a false positive. But while I don't know jspx, I would have expected the other example to require a closing curly bracket. Are you sure the mismatched bracket in ${size(this.username) is correct? Huon (talk) 21:58, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: You sent me a message in the edit I left in the list of vice presidents. Sorry, I didn't notice that I forgot to put the extra parenthesis: (example.) I will fix it right away.

TheHappyTruckShunter (talk) 19:25, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

I have fixed it. Huon (talk) 21:58, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: Lately, BracketBot has been leaving messages at the wrong place on my talk page, usually sticking them under an existing header high up the page. The most recent one was under the top existing header. This makes the notice hard to find. bd2412 T 20:50, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

bd2412 T 20:50, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

@BD2412: BracketBot by default adds to "month" sections if they already exist, in this case the "March 2014" section. That's deliberate, but if you prefer you can set the bot to instead use daily section headings. Huon (talk) 21:58, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

The problem here is that I didn't create the "month" section - another bot came along and did that with another automated notice. I'll opt for the daily headers - thanks. bd2412 T 22:24, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

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

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"On the The Blue Hotel page, your edit caused a missing references list."

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Comment/question: Have never heard of The Blue Hotel and have never edited any Wikipedia page.

Fixed in a subsequent edit by another editor. This IP editor has only two edits: The Blue Hotel and this talk page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:13, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

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Martyn.w223 (talk) 02:20, 2 April 2014 (UTC) I have finally corrected the error. What must have happened was l might have deleted one of the closed brackets by mistake cause in the sentence regarding Valley Lines' DMU fleet, there was a missing word (and) in it, so l've decided to add it to make the sentence more understandable.

Thank you for fixing the issue. Huon (talk) 00:59, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

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Dan704 (talk) 04:04, 2 April 2014 (UTC) Can you show me how it should appear ? Thanks.

Dealt: Noyster (talk), 15:02, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: What does this mean in laymens terms, please help. By submitting this form by any means, including but not limited to clicking Save Page or a JavaScript injection, you irrevocably give all your rights to the owner of the account A930913 ("me"), including but not limited to the right to reproduce your submitted content without further consent or notification for any means without reason. What form? I don't want it or need it.

120.149.124.180 (talk) 13:49, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

That's something of a joke by the bot operator, A930913. It parodies the standard disclaimer that by clicking the "Save page" button, you agree to the Terms of Use and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the CC BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL. Huon (talk) 00:59, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

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{{User:A930913/BBresolved|yes}} I would like to list my college in your site Page:

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Pnsitbglr (talk) 15:19, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

@Pnsitbglr: Wikipedia content should be based on reliable sources that are independent of the subject, such as newspaper articles or rankings in reputable educational magazines. If such sources have covered your college in some detail, I'd suggest to use the Article Wizard to write a draft. Huon (talk) 00:59, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

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Janet barry (talk) 21:26, 2 April 2014 (UTC) Here is my concern. I have posted on Healing Heroes Network. They have taken down my edits. This is important because there was an artice written about them that people should know. I have backed it up with a support article by the Tampa Bay Times.

I will try again and hope they dont take it down again! Please watch their activity.

Thanks, Janet

@Janet barry: You may want to take a look at [[WP:Referencing for beginners; that page explains how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes. Huon (talk) 00:59, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/question: ReferenceBot says, "Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator."

Would fix it if I knew exactly what the alleged "error" was, but I have checked the page and the link provided, and find no errors "highlighted" -- there is no highlighting at all. The references I examined look OK, therefore I suspect a "false positive".

74.95.43.249 (talk) 00:32, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

AnomieBOT fixed the problem in the meantime, but it was real enough. Huon (talk) 00:59, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Underlying lk

User:A930913

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Comment/question: The bot shouldn't notify about broken links in pages with the "foo/testcases" name, because it doesn't matter if those pages include non-working references, they are just there to test a template not for their content.

eh bien mon prince (talk) 00:35, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

This is a good suggestion. Pages in the categories "Template test cases" and "Template sandboxes" could be safely ignored. I routinely ignore them when checking the Template namespace for citation errors. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:31, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

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Otajipolo (talk) 10:17, 3 April 2014 (UTC) Editing, using Wikipedia format and instruction, is impossible for me. You understand the system. I do not. I cannot get the hang of it. It is completely different from all other formats I have had to apply in my over 40 years professional experience. I should be grateful if you can handle the job on my behalf. Thanks. There are 6 references and their locations are all indicated on the manuscript.

Dealt and editor contacted. - Do we want this page to become a sort of informal general help desk? - see my comment "User Message Wording" a bit above: Noyster (talk), 15:49, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

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Orjuwan22 (talk) 03:12, 4 April 2014 (UTC) HelloBracketBot,

Am facing a hard time with adding the reference for those pages, please I will appreciate it if you help me fix the reference list.

Thanks in Advance and Best regards,

The correct code for that template would be {{MSW3 Hutterer|id=13600037 |pages=216}}, which would look like this:

Hutterer, R. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.

However, that book doesn't serve to verify even half of what you cited it for, and you had also removed the lead, and your grammar was problematic. For a combination of those reasons, mainly the referencing, I reverted your change. Huon (talk) 14:36, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

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Madari786 (talk) 13:47, 4 April 2014 (UTC) okay, i will correct it. and if u want then you can also change this.

That article does not establish that Quadri is notable; all significant facts are not supported by reliable secondary sources, including the facts you added. I will look for better sources and, failing that, propose the page for deletion. Huon (talk) 14:36, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

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122.161.75.193 (talk) 09:19, 5 April 2014 (UTC) hi, Thanks for your advice. Actually I could not mark it as 1.2.3 .. when I go edit the same it dose not show. can you help me marking up the same. Thanks. So kind of you. Somnath

Your edits were reverted by Andy Dingley because you added link spam. Wikipedia is not the place to advertise a specific seller's offers of garden furniture. Huon (talk) 10:20, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

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I just wanted to help to understand Daniele Conti played for two teams 151.15.45.82 (talk) 12:16, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

You're right about that, but then Conti does not belong on a list of one-club men at all. I'll remove him. Huon (talk) 15:34, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Alanfromwakefield

Page: 1955 Independent Television Floodlit Trophy Diff: unpaired brackets Comment/question: Thank you for spotting it, it wasn't a deliberate error, and has now been corrected thanks again Alanfromwakefield (talk) 08:10, 6 April 2014 (UTC) Alanfromwakefield (talk) 08:10, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

@Alanfromwakefield: I have done some copyediting, but that article had severe problems of original research that may not be fully resolved. Wikipedia content should be based on what reliable sources report, not on our own assessment. Contradicting what the sources say (because we know better than the literature?) is not appropriate. Huon (talk) 11:31, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

1) I note your comments but can’t understand your reference to problems of original research. I can confirm that ALL the data comes from responsible and reliable sources e.g. books (mainly yearbooks), results in newspapers, match programmes, official club archives and similar, and all the sources are cited. Where there are conflicts (like different attendance figures being quoted, or different venues or dates), I note these where possible (even though many may be printing/copying/typingerrors)

2) With reference to your comment re “own assessment”, I assume this refers to the comment on the “top” teams, which I admit was not as clear as it could have been, however, and I’m hoping you can help out on this :-

Fact – the official literature, and publicity blurb etc. state that the contestants comprised "the top four sides from each county", based on the previous seasons league positions.

Which begs the question “how do you decide who are the best”. In my innocence I would assume that over the full season, the league positions don’t lie, but yet from the 1954-55 Championship Table the top Yorkshire teams are Leeds (3rd) and Halifax (4th), neither of whom took part in this competition. Looking at the Yorkshire League table the same two clubs appear in 1st and 2nd place. Even looking at the performances in the various other cup competition, does not lift other clubs above these two. It may well be that it was just “advertisers licence” or that the top clubs actually declined the invite, but as information on the competition is extremely sparse (it has taken many years to obtain that which was included), I cannot trace any comments which would confirm these options.

It is not my assessment, but the fact that there is a discrepancy, and I feel that this discrepancy should be noted, so how can this are done, or do you not think that it is necessary? Alanfromwakefield (talk) 17:16, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 92.97.246.201

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92.97.246.201 (talk) 13:14, 6 April 2014 (UTC) I mistakenly deleted the information . what should I do to get it back

I have reverted your edit. See Help:Reverting on how to revert yourself if you made a mistake. Huon (talk) 21:40, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 2015Anderson's

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Thank you for your welcoming us. we are excited to become part of Wiki. We are still working on fixing the references and naming them at this time. ,

2015Anderson's (talk) 18:44, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

@2015Anderson's: You may want to check out {{sfn}}; that's helpful when repeatedly citing different pages of the same source. It's a little tricky, though; if you want me to I can add it to the article. Huon (talk) 21:40, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

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Comment/I want to create a page about Jarnail Singh (Artist) and Kirpal Singh (Artist) on wikipedia:

Punjart (talk) 00:11, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

@Punjart: To be notable enough for a Wikipedia article, a person must have been the subject of significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, such as articles in newspapers or reputable art magazines. If such coverage exists, I'd suggest you use the Article Wizard to write drafts based on that coverage and submit them for a review by an experienced editor. Huon (talk) 20:44, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Bookerj matching brackets bug

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Comment/question: Well first, thanks to you A930913 and your BracketBot for catching my syntax error (mismatched brackets). I have corrected it, and will check more carefully in future. Two questions: 1- Before pairing up the offending brackets, I tested the syntax-challenged wikilink, and found it worked as expected despite having a solo "[" and one end and paired "]]"s at the other. How could this be? Then does it really matter? I think you could confirm this test by clicking the uncorrected link at the diff you provided (602911988). 2- My prior edit to the same article (on the same date, April 5) also added two other external links in the same paragraph as the offending link your bot caught. In these two links - to the music review sites Metacritic and ANTI - I surrounded the link address with single brackets [ and ]. At least they paired up [ and ] correctly, but as single, not double brackets. I've now "fixed" these links by doubling up their brackets too, but I'm not clear if single brackets sometimes work for Wikilinks, or whether I need to distinguish between two kinds of link - one pair of brackets vs double brackets. Want to offer me some advice, or even a pointer to the directions I need to read? Thanks, Bookerj (talk) 21:27, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

@Bookerj: Single brackets work for external links, where code like [http://www.google.com Google] will give: Google. Double brackets are required for links to other Wikipedia articles, where [[Google]] will give: Google. See Help:Link for more details. Huon (talk) 23:51, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 75.139.147.123

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75.139.147.123 (talk) 03:11, 9 April 2014 (UTC) Another editor added a reflist. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:54, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

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Gingeroscar (talk) 07:39, 9 April 2014 (UTC)Could you explain where to put the brackets?

Fixed. Huon (talk) 21:25, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

delete my edit on the Katy Perry page please!!!!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheEpicGirl (talk • contribs) 08:40, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

@TheEpicGirl: The issue was fixed by ThFabba. Huon (talk) 21:25, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 174.76.132.78

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Comment/question: I think fixed the open brackets, or they were false alarms, or I don't understand ... 174.76.132.78 (talk) 16:23, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

The "<" indeed is a false positive, but the missing curly brackets broke a citation template. Thank you for fixing it! Huon (talk) 21:25, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot - 184.100.193.78

Page: Junkers and 2007 Iraq Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_oil_law_(2007)

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Comment/question: Thanks, you did a swell job. I just know they needed to be done, but I just could not figure out how to do it.

I wonder what you think about ... "The most famous Junker was Chancellor Otto von Bismarck" who was actually removed by Emperor Wilhelm II in 1890. Wilhelm and his court would be Junkers, and they disapproved of von Bismarck. The Wiki "Junkers" describes what a Junker was, and Otto von Bismarck actually worked against them. I think the sentence is misleading, where you might read von Bismarck created the first welfare state in the modern world, with the goal of gaining working class support...one might think was was a Junker idea too...where this helping the lower classes actually got him fired. I don't think the note about von Bismarck being a Junker is appropriate under this Wiki...I would rather see a 'typical' Junker being shown as an example. 184.100.193.78 (talk) 04:59, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

I assume you're Joraejean; you edited here while logged out and without leaving links to specific diffs. I had a look at your edits to the Junker page, and I find them highly problematic. Bismarck clearly was a Junker, a politically conservative land-owning royalist aristocrat who was all too willing to lead his peasants against the liberal uprising in Berlin in 1848. And he didn't create the welfare state because he "believed in Social Democracy", quite the contrary. Bismarck despised democracy, and one of the reasons for the creation of the welfare state was that Bismarck hoped it would undermine the influence of the Socialist Party, the progenitor of Germany's modern Social Democrats. The other tools Bismarck used agains the Socialists include the Anti-Socialist Laws. That said, even if Bismarck's policies had been aimed against the Junkers, that still would not make himself less of a Junker. Huon (talk) 21:29, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – TornadoLGS

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Comment/question: I was told to leave a message here if BracketBot misinterpreted an edit. So I made the above edit, using the chevrons as they are used in mathematics: to indicate a quantity greater than a given value. The brackets were not intended for use in formatting.

TornadoLGS (talk) 14:25, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Sam I am47

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

Hugh J. Anderson

Forgive me but your questions & forms are, as far as I am concerned, in a different language, i.e., "Wikipediaese"! I don't understand how to use the forms and therefore I'm simply writing in plain English. If you have questions about my comments, please contact me by e-mail or telephone so that I may have an intelligent conversation with a human being. Why is there such a weak-wristed comment about confusion over the place of death of Governor Anderson. It would appear to me that at some point someone saw "Portland" and incorrectly, as well as ignorantly identified it as Portland, Oregon. I see nothing in Mr. Anderson's record that indicates he ever was in Oregon. G_d help us if he had died in a town name "Springfield" for which I understand there are more than fifty towns by that name in the U.S.!! Why isn't common sense applied by using the nearly contemporaneous 1893 reference of ^[1] If one sites the "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress" as an authority, I fear they've bought the CON in Congress, where unfortunately some bureaucrat has probably relied upon the oft repeated error referring to Portland, Oregon, which may have started with Wikipedia's inadvertent error. Many other so-called reference sites identify Wikipedia as the source of their information. Again, I am confident that the source of information from Maine, Anderson's home state and only removed a dozen years from his late 19th century death, is the correct and authoritative one. Sam I am47 (talk) 23:29, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Comment/question:

This is not a ReferenceBot issue (the bot notified you because you had, along with your editorial comments, added a reference to the end of the article without a {{reflist}} template; thus it was not displayed properly). It should be discussed on the article talk page, not here. Huon (talk) 22:58, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 49.201.117.30

Page: bryonia alba Diff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryonia_alba Comment/question: why my editing on about bryonia alba passage are removed again and again? I fed up for this which was happened. please solve it. 49.201.117.30 (talk) 03:21, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

@Anjanc9: Because a 19th-century textbook can hardly be considered the state of the art of medical research. Please find better sources such as recent papers in peer-reviewed medical journals to write something about the medical properties of Bryonia alba. See also WP:MEDRS. Huon (talk) 03:59, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Tdejong67

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Comment/question: There is no unpaired bracket. The song title just happens to contain a listing that is written as A) .... B) .... This is the way it is spelled in the original LP release (see Discogs).

Tdejong67 (talk) 09:21, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

You're right, this is a false positive. The bot can't reliably identify exotic uses of brackets, such as for lists. Huon (talk) 12:51, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

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Honordenied (talk) 15:58, 13 April 2014 (UTC) My name is Allen Cates. I am a former Air America employee and published author of Honor Denied based on five years of research on AAM. In the first paragraph I need to change national security agency to National Security Council. I do not know HTML. Can you make this change? My email address is [redacted]. Phone [redacted]. I recently edited the content. Most of it before editing was incorrect. I stand by what viceroys and can prove every word. Nothing I said is conjecture or speculation.

@Honordenied: You have made the change yourself; I've added a link to our article on the National Security Council. If you "can prove every word", please do so: Provide reliable sources such as articles in newspapers or reputable magazines or peer-reviewed scholarly papers to back up your changes. See WP:Referencing for beginners on how to easily create nicely-formatted footnotes for the references. Huon (talk) 16:49, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Williamsanten

Glenn Kotche"

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I do not understand "broken syntax. do I need more brackets etc? I'm new at this sorry:

Williamsanten (talk) 17:46, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

You had a surplus bracket which you removed yourself here. That said, you may want to check out WP:Referencing for beginners; the video at that page explains how to easily add nicely-formatted footnotes. Huon (talk) 23:10, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – BP OMowe

Saab 29 Tunnan Saab 32 Lansen Saab 35 Draken Saab 37 Viggen Saab JAS 39 Gripen

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Format intended as to keep the notes accurate.

BP OMowe (talk) 18:53, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

@BP OMowe: How does keeping the notes accurate depend on there being one closing parenthesis before the notes and one after them? References should come after punctuation; I have modified the articles accordingly. That said, you may want to re-check the references you added. It seems you added a Gripen-related source to the other articles. Huon (talk) 23:10, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

Note and reference strictly concern the translation of the names, with no relevance to the rest of the sentences, hence I tried to make apparent by placing the notes accordingly. Not sure how else to do it, got any suggestions? BP OMowe (talk) 00:15, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

@BP OMowe: They don't also serve as sources for the Swedish name? In that case you may want to move the references within the parentheses, but not in between two closing parentheses. Huon (talk) 22:39, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Not really, which is why you found Gripen-related links in the other articles. I'll see how to fix it. BP OMowe (talk) 23:52, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Seaotter6

I appreciate the computer's catching three syntax errors in the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Aerospace_Control_Squadron. These have been around several years but it is good to know about them.

They occur in the lists of personnel at 1st Aero, their job descriptions (showing now jobs were defined and allocated to different ranks), and the courses offered as training in the development of the squadron's activities for the first formative years. However, a few days ago, I had occasion to look at the article and saw that, last year, someone had removed all this detailed personnel information except for the list of Squadron Commanders. I restored this information recently, but it has again been removed with the comment by BB-PB

grossly excessive level of detail - none of these people are notable

It is a matter of opinion whether, as trackers of man-made satellite, people who have done things that have never before been done in human history are or are not notable.

Is there any way to appeal this decision on the grounds that the listing provides useful historical detail not available elsewhere about the organizational progress of early satellite tracking in the US? My Ph.D. is in Management Theory so I think this is worthwhile information that should not be suppressed.

I removed the list of Commanders (as that is trivial compared to the other information) and inserted this remark):

"The historical development of the Squadron is shown by detailed listings of personnel with dates and citations. However, a Wikipedia monitor refuses to allow this level of detail. Copies of the information are available on request from the author." The list of commanders has again been restored, repacing my comment, and I have removed it as they are not notable -- it is the workers who did something special. But the commanders are again restored.

If an appeal is permitted, please tell me how to do that. seaotter6@aol.com

This is not a BracketBot issue; I'll reply on your talk page. Huon (talk) 20:05, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Seaotter6

{{User:A930913/BBresolved|yes}} Thanks for your kind comments about Wikipedia rules. I edited your comment in reply (because I really do not know how to carry on a conversation there). Hope you can read that OK. Cheers.

Yes, thanks, though indenting replies (by adding a colon at the beginning) improves the readability of discussions. Also, I tend to keep an eye on pages I have commented on, so there's no need to add another note here - this really isn't the right place. Anyway, thank you for your good wishes! Huon (talk) 22:47, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Nandaro

User:A930913

Page: The Tomorrow People (U.S. TV series)

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Comment/question: It wasn't my edit that caused the error. It was someone else's edit.

Nandaro (talk) 06:52, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification, this is indeed an incorrect notification, the first from ReferenceBot I've ever seen. A930913 will want to check this out. Anyway, I've fixed the reference. Huon (talk) 11:20, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

As a longtime ReferenceBot watcher, I agree that this appears to be a false positive, the first I've seen. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:20, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Added to my todo list 930913(Congratulate) 16:59, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Johnjurohill

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"Link or URL errors detected on "the crossing church Minnesota) for references.""

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Ran error check, no errors found... What are the next steps to remedying this?

Johnjurohill (talk) 17:29, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

The bot linked to the wrong edit in its posting on the editor's Talk page. It was the next edit that caused a URL error.

The URL error has been fixed in a subsequent edit by another editor. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:49, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

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Nigelhamilton (talk) 19:35, 22 April 2014 (UTC) Hi BracketBot - thanks for pointing out the missing bracket. I wish I knew how to revise my Wikipedia entry, which I thought I had done, bringing it up to date, on April 4, 2014, but I seem only able to access the old entry, going back several years, when I try online. Any advice? Best, nigel hamilton (nigel.hamilton@umb.edu)

@Nigelhamilton: I see no edit of yours on April 4, but your edit of April 6 was reverted. It did not cite any sources, and I believe there were concerns about its factual accuracy. For all I can tell you did most of the work you're notable for before taking American citizenship, so describing you as an "American" biographer etc. seems misleading. And while you may wonder why you should need to provide sources on yourself, our readers have no way of verifying that you are indeed who you say you are, and you have an obvious conflict of interest when writing about yourself, making reliable sources all the more important to avoid giving the impression of self-promotion. In fact I'd suggest you don't edit the article about yourself directly but rather propose necessary changes on the article's talk page and let uninvolved editors decide on their appropriateness and implementation (you can use the {{edit requested}} template to summon other users to your request). Huon (talk) 16:52, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Um what happened

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Lillie Roberts (talk) 22:27, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

Your edits broke the article syntax and added unsourced and highly dubious information. Thus they were reverted. If you significantly change content, such as increasing the reported number of children by 10, please provide a reliable source. Huon (talk) 23:55, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Judae1

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Juda S. Engelmayer (talk) 03:14, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

You're welcome, thank you for fixing the issue. Huon (talk) 16:33, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Gronk Oz

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Comment/question: {{Done}} Thanks for pointing out the problem, where I broke a link. It is fixed now.

Gronk Oz (talk) 03:37, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for that! Huon (talk) 16:33, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – N2e

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I can't figure out why this is showing as a positive, or what in my edit might have caused the positive. Could you please take a look at the edits I did and see what you think might have caused the flag? Respond on my Talk page. Cheers. N2e (talk) 03:50, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

N2e (talk) 03:50, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Will do. Huon (talk) 16:33, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Benwing

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Historical linguistics articles frequently use < to indicate "derives from" and > to indicate "produces, results in". Every time I modify a page that uses these conventions, BracketBot complains (wrongly). Can you get rid of the complaints? In general, all uses of < and > in this fashion are surrounded by spaces, which should be a hint that these aren't any sort of bracket.

Benwing (talk) 08:11, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

@Benwing: See User:BracketBot#Opting out. You can either mark certain edits as "not to be patrolled" or, if you commonly edit such articles, opt out of BracketBot notifications altogether. Having the bot ignore certain brackets may have unintended side effects. Huon (talk) 21:58, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Nill91 - Hello BracketBot, you do not seem to understand that to be a knight you must first be knighted by the head of the royal family in England. Has Lalitha Rajapaksha been nighted thus? If so by whom?

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Nill91 (talk) 10:17, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Many distinguished people from what was formerly known as Ceylon received knighthoods and other British honours before independence in 1948, and indeed up to 1956. Lalitha Rajapaksha (or Rajapakse) lived 1900-1976. Whatever you think of the British honours system, I don't think BracketBot is to blame in any way:-) : Noyster (talk), 12:30, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 72.234.240.55

Page:Monimiaceae

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Comment/question: Thank you for finding my errors. For us humans, they can be really hard to see. 72.234.240.55 (talk) 02:44, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

You're welcome. Regarding the "diff" you the preloaded section asks about, see Help:Diff. Huon (talk) 23:36, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Lindberg G Williams Jr

Page: Gangster Disciples

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Comment/question: BracketBot does not check page states but only the page diffs. Perhaps this is a flaw.

Lindberg 21:47, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

The bot does check page states as well. For example, it pointed out the mismatched "|title=> Black Gangster Disciples" that was unrelated to your diff. I have fixed the issues the bot notified you about. Huon (talk) 23:36, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – Dave Rave

Page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Davis,_New_South_Wales Glen Davis and caper tee valley I fudged up the {{}} and fixed that bit Still haven't got the url to display properly in the refs section iPad has it's limitations

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Dave Rave (talk) 23:45, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

You fixed the bracket issue yourself with this edit. Thanks! Huon (talk) 01:18, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

THX for reminding me

I'll fix it

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86.181.160.125 (talk) 15:55, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

The bot notified you because in your removal you left some fragments, including some then-mismatched brackets, that didn't belong. I fixed that. Huon (talk) 17:14, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – Joseph fryer

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

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Comment/question: What references do you need? and how do I prove them? I find it quite offensive that all the research on my surname is being deleted its accurate, I wouldn't put anything otherwise.

Joseph fryer (talk) 16:23, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

See WP:Identifying reliable sources on what sources are considered reliable - in general, we're looking for sources that are subject to editorial oversight and have a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy, such as peer-reviewed scholarly papers on the history of the name. Huon (talk) 17:14, 26 April 2014 (UTC)

ReferenceBot – 37.74.93.206

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

The page about me, Harold E. Robles.

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My comments is that the information on my page is not true at all. I have all the evidence to show that you are wrong in what you are putting on my page. It is very upsetting to me that you are providing information that is not true. If you place something you will have to check and make sure that it is correct. It is very sad that you have become like all newspaper reporters, writing and publishing anything they feel is right. This is a every way unethical. You take the power in your hands to destroy someone. I demand that you edited my page the way it should be or remove me immediately. How can anyone trust your organization if you take the rights in your own hands. So sad that your organization is not trust worthy anymore, like it use to be way back when. Deeply disappointed. Harold Robles

37.74.93.206 (talk) 10:16, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

The content you are unhappy with is based on reliable third-party sources such as newspapers. We might have gotten some minor details wrong (such as the fact that you left the Albert Schweitzer Institute under pressure of the board years before the missing images became an issue and a judge ordered you to pay up $110,000, not because of the missing images), but outright removal of reliably-sourced is not the way to resolve that. If there are specific details you think are incorrect, you should bring up these issues at the article's talk page so uninvolved editors can assess them and correct the article if necessary. Huon (talk) 15:28, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot – 173.0.24.132

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173.0.24.132 (talk) 19:10, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Providing some sort of context might have helped. Huon (talk) 22:36, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

BracketBot - Cunningpal

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Comment/question:Both of the parentheses appear in the article and the edit page. I don't know why one is missing in the note sent to me.

Cunningpal (talk) 21:53, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

That's a rather old message, from July 2013. I haven't checked the article history in enough detail to find out who did so, but it has since been fixed. Huon (talk) 22:36, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

^ REPRESENTATIVE MEN OF MAINE, A Collection of Biographical Sketches of all the Governors since the formation of the State. Prepared under the direction of Henry Chase, Portland, ME. The Lakeside Press, Publisher. 1893.

[1] REPRESENTATIVE MEN OF MAINE, A Collection of Biographical Sketches of all the Governors since the formation of the State. Prepared under the direction of Henry Chase, Portland, ME. The Lakeside Press, Publisher. 1893.

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