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Template:PD-USSR listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:PD-USSR. Since you had some involvement with the Template:PD-USSR redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Ppp ery 20:41, 8 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 14 October 2016

News and notes: Fundraising, flora and fauna

Discussion report: Cultivating leadership: Wikimedia Foundation seeks input

In the media: A news columnist on the frustrations of tweaking his Wikipedia bio

Technology report: Upcoming tech projects for 2017

Featured content: Variety is the spice of life

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Recent research: A 2011 study resurfaces in a media report

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The Signpost: 4 November 2016

News and notes: Finally, a new CTO; trustee joins Quora; copyright upgrade impending

In the media: Washington Post continues in-depth Wikipedia coverage

Wikicup: WikiCup winners

Discussion report: What's on your tech wishlist for the coming year?

Technology report: New guideline for technical collaboration; citation templates now flag open access content

Featured content: Cream of the crop

Traffic report: Un-presidential politics

Arbitration report: Recapping October's activities

Recent research: Why women edit less, and where they are overrepresented; article importance and quality; predicting elections from Wikipedia

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Edits to Elihu Yale page

Cyde, I'm not 100% sure if this is the right way to do this so please point me in the right direction if there is a better way...

I filed a Dispute Resolution Request to deal with the continuing and repetitive edits that various users have made to Elihu Yale's nationality. He was an Englishman. America had not been established and nor had Britain - so he could not be "American" nor "British". As precedent, Wikipedia shows Wentworth Miller ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wentworth_Miller ), who was born in the UK but obviously from an American family and living in America, as "American".

One edit was listed as coming from Cydebot - hence this notification.

Thank you. -Kim 99.4.120.135 (talk) 22:44, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Mistakes by Cydebot while moving categories

Hi Cyde, I found a series of errors when Cydebot moved pages from "Category:Roman Catholic Church in **continent** " to "Category:Catholic Church in Africa" (beginning edit, ending edit). The Discoverer (talk) 14:36, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@The Discoverer, Tavix, and BU Rob13: Oh dear. CydeBot was only doing what it was told, see [1] and Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 October 29. I'll get the category pages moved. One of us will then have to use Cat-a lot to split the countries out of Africa. – Fayenatic London 16:09, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Fayenatic london: What about using mass rollback and then just letting the bot run again? I could do that. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 16:11, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What is mass rollback? Is that what I asked for over several months at WP:Bot requests, receiving no response, following which I did 3,000 manual edits to reinstate categories on biographies by year BC? – Fayenatic London 16:31, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ack! My apologies, everyone. That is why you triple check your nomination. BU Rob13, if you could mass rollback, that'd be great! Otherwise, I'll volunteer to do the clean-up. I'm already planning on going the whole category tree to figure out what needs to be moved still. -- Tavix ^(talk) 17:08, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Fayenatic london: That thread was so long I didn't read all parts of it, so sorry if I missed a part that inadvertently caused you more work. Mass rollback is a script that lets you rollback every edit on a current page of contributions. It wouldn't work for undeleting pages, which is what I thought the entirety of that BC thread was about. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 17:12, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I was always afraid that user:Francis Schonken had made the request at BC_births_and_deaths_categorizations so long and convoluted that bot operators would miss the points; that was why I sub-divided it, and also posted Bot_needed_to_reverse_contributions. Despite those efforts, nobody ever suggested mass rollback. It could have helped, but only if it had been suggested early. By the time I did the manual work, it was too late for rollback in most cases, so without a bot to reverse contribs, there was no other option. I don't regret it; I left the categories more accurately populated than they had been originally, and learned a thing or two on the way. – Fayenatic London 21:15, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tx for pinging – as I always thought there was a bot solution. Tx Fayenatic for solving the BC cats nonetheless. --Francis Schonken (talk) 06:33, 9 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Tavix: Alright, mass rollback has done as much as it can. Any categories/articles with intermediate edits won't be rolled back and the mass rollback would have "brought back" the CfD notice on the categories that were subcategories of each of the continents. So, basically, a thorough once-over is needed. I'll try to mobilize AWB to remove all those extra CfD notices. If you could, please focus on doing a once-over of the categories once Cydebot finishes doing its thing. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 17:24, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tavix has done some and I think I have finished the rest. – Fayenatic London 18:06, 10 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:32, 12 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Cyde.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Cyde. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. Mdann52 (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 4 November 2016

News and notes: Arbitration Committee elections commence

In the media: Roundup of news related to U.S. presidential election and more

Blog: The top fifteen winning photos from Wiki Loves Earth

Gallery: Around the world with Wiki Loves Monuments 2016

Featured content: Featured mix

Special report: Taking stock of the Good Article backlog

Op-ed: Fundraising data should be more transparent

Traffic report: President-elect Trump

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User:Cydebot

Hey, You might want to check on wherever Cydebot is running. It seems to be making many login attempts, and failing. As of writing, it is currently blocked from logging in for 2 days... Please confirm you can login as the bot manually, and potentially restart your script. Bots require an 8 character password now, so you might need to change it. Ping me if you need some more help with it. Reedy (talk) 01:35, 12 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the notice. It started running again without any intervention on my part. I wonder if something was temporarily wrong with WMF Tool Labs, and then someone fixed it? --Cyde Weys 19:54, 13 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I emailed Cyde a couple of days ago to say that Cydebot is not processing CFD requests. – Fayenatic London 22:04, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ah good, it's back. – Fayenatic London 13:13, 30 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The task to run CFD got hung on Tools Lab Grid. So I killed it and restarted it. That's unfortunate that tasks can just hang like that. --Cyde Weys 21:05, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Recategorisation of ChildLine

ChildLine is not a 'crisis helpline' so Robot - Speedily moving category Helplines to Category:Crisis hotlines per CFDS. is incorrect. ChildLine is a free 24-hour counselling service for children and young people, ie it is available to those who are not in crisis, though that may be the case. Shipsview (talk) 14:08, 30 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, @Shipsview: this category was nominated by RevelationDirect, here:[2]. The nomination was unopposed, and the rationale was valid for speedy renaming under WP:C2D, so I processed it.

If you think the title Crisis hotline is not the best one, please follow the method at WP:RM to open a discussion on moving it to a better name. – Fayenatic London 23:41, 2 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the explanation Shipsview (talk)

Visitor attractions in Leicestershire

Please don't allow your bot to edit war:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stoney_Cove&action=history&offset=20161210

I understand that Category:Visitor attractions in Leicestershire is to be deleted because of a deletion decision. That's up to the folks who take part in these sort of deliberations. However, although Stoney Cove, a flooded quarry used by scuba divers from many parts of the country, could be described as a "visitor attraction", there's no way it could be considered a "tourist attraction". Your bot is unfortunately working on the assumption that the two terms are interchangeable. Clearly they are not. --RexxS (talk) 21:22, 10 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 22 December 2016

Year in review: Looking back on 2016

News and notes: Strategic planning update; English ArbCom election results

Special report: German ArbCom implodes

In focus: Active user page filter prevents vandalism and harassment

Op-ed: Operation successful, patient dead: Outreach workshops in Namibia

In the media: In brief: Coverage of gender gap initiatives, banner fundraising, and more

Featured content: The Christmas edition

Technology report: Labs improvements impact 2016 Tool Labs survey results

Traffic report: Post-election traffic blues

Blog: Wiki Loves Monuments contest winners announced

Recent research: One study and several abstracts

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Cydebot and large categories

Hi, does Cydebot still read Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Large? A number of large tasks have been coming up lately that otherwise absorb all energy for days on end. Timrollpickering 21:58, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I just verified that Cydebot should be processing CFD Large. Let me know if it's not for some reason. --Cyde Weys 15:08, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 17 January 2017

From the editor: Next steps for the Signpost

News and notes: Surge in RFA promotions—a sign of lasting change?

Interview: What is it like to edit Wikipedia when you're blind?

In the media: Year-end roundups, Wikipedia's 16th birthday, and more

Featured content: One year ends, and another begins

Arbitration report: Concluding 2016 and covering 2017's first two cases

Traffic report: Out with the old, in with the new

Technology report: Tech present, past, and future

Recent research: Female Wikipedians aren't more likely to edit women biographies; Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia

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BRFA related to CydeBot's prior edits.

Hello, A BRFA has been opened for task approval for an adminbot to perform history merges related to cut-and-paste category renames performed by another bot. Please see the request here: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Merge bot 2. Questions and comments for the operator are welcome. — xaosflux ^Talk 03:39, 29 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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The Signpost: 6 February 2017

Arbitration report: WMF Legal and ArbCom weigh in on tension between disclosure requirements and user privacy

Special report: Wolves nip at Wikipedia's heels: A perspective on the cost of paid editing

News and notes: Official WMF rebuke to Trump policy; WMF secures restricted funds

In focus: WMF strategy consultant brings background in crisis reputation management; Team behind popular WMF software put "on pause"

WikiProject report: For the birds!

Op-ed: How to make editing workshops useful, even if participants don't stick around

In the media: Presidential politics, periodic table, and our periodic roundup of updates

Technology report: Better PDFs, backup plans, and birthday wishes

Traffic report: Cool It Now

Featured content: Three weeks dominated by articles

Forum: Productive collaboration around coordinated protest marches; Media and political personalities comment on Wikipedia at its 16th birthday celebration

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Your bot is performing an unapproved task

[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 22:56, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This happened more than once

I checked WP:BRFA and your bot isn't approved for edits like those. The edits will have to be reverted and your bot has to learn to ignore userspace. Please do not run unapproved bot tasks. You can delete the categories, but you are not allowed to remove links to those cats in userspace. I also noticed that your bot is in the hidden category Active Wikipedia bots with no specified BRFA, please fix that. (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 23:09, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Bot_owners'_noticeboard#Cydebot_running_unapproved_task (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 04:09, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

... where a BAG member has dug up the approval for your bot originally. Just so you have the full picture, Cyde. No action required from you at this time, as far as I can tell. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 04:21, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

BAG approval for a different task. But not community consensus for the one I am complaining about. Please stop making these pointless and annoying edits, they are worse than cosmetic edits (which are explicitly disallowed). If you do not then I'll probably have to start an RfC or something. (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 04:37, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello? Cyde? Wikipedia:Bot_policy#Good_communication (((The Quixotic Potato))) (talk) 22:22, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Retain

Is Cydebot still handling Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Retain? עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 18:20, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't seem to be. The last batch removed from that list in November by Good Ol'Factory were cleaned up by him, not by the bot.

Cyde, please make this work again if you have the time. – Fayenatic London 22:26, 14 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Then again, this task does not require admin privileges. Armbrust is willing to add it to his bot's actions, see Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/ArmbrustBot 6. – Fayenatic London 18:26, 19 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

And now Armbrust has that up and running. Well, this is a happy division of tasks. I know that you do give priority to keeping the bot working on the main CFDW page, and that is of course still much appreciated. – Fayenatic London 09:53, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 27 February 2017

From the editors: Results from our poll on subscription and delivery, and a new RSS feed

Recent research: Special issue: Wikipedia in education

Technology report: Responsive content on desktop; Offline content in Android app

In the media: The Daily Mail does not run Wikipedia

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Special report: Peer review – a history and call for reviewers

Op-ed: Wikipedia has cancer

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Template:Rotartsinimda listed at Redirects for discussion

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Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Rotartsinimda

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You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on Template:Rotartsinimda, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to have no meaningful content or history, and the text is unsalvageably incoherent. If the page you created was a test, please use the sandbox for any other experiments you would like to do.

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Wrong date in Cydebot summaries

Today Cydebot's edit summaries [8] say Removing category per CFD at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 January 0. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:35, 18 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:CONTEXT listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:CONTEXT. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:CONTEXT redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Mr. Guye (talk) 23:17, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Add User:Cydebot to Category:All Wikipedia bots

Hi Cyde, could you add User:Cydebot to Category:All Wikipedia bots? That category is supposed to be a separate, overarching category that includes "all Wikipedia bots listed by name, regardless of status, purpose or method." I'm trying to make that category complete. Thanks! --Staeiou (talk) 21:30, 28 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Larger categories

This problem seems to be recurring - Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Large again has a lot to go through but Cydebot seems to be ignoring them whilst processing entries on the regular page. Timrollpickering 10:34, 3 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cydebot and CFD

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I emailed you about processing WP:CFDW, as Cydebot seems to have dropped this task at 21:27 yesterday. Sorry if it was my fault for giving it a task where most contents are generated by templates. – Fayenatic London 06:55, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This may be helpful: it stopped at a faulty nomination,

Category:Monthly clean up category (Articles with topics of unclear notability) counter to Category:Monthly clean-up category (topics of unclear notability) counter

The target should have been * Category:Monthly clean-up category (Articles with topics of unclear notability) counter.

Would that have affected Cydebot? It moved the category page to a target that was not going to be populated by the templates. – Fayenatic London 07:52, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wm A. Connelly deletion

I am not knowledgeable about bots, nor really an expert on army service awards and ribbons, but Cydebot may have made a mistake. Or I may be all wet.

Cydebot removed category: recipient of bronze star, William A. Connelly, Sergeant Major of the Army. It looks like Connelly did receive the award, so is the category just being eliminated throughout Wikipedia? I don't use the categories feature much, and well may be missing subtleties here. Cats seem to be perpetually being modified, added or eliminated, so I usually don't pay much attention. I was looking at another problem with the article, studying the history, and Cydebot's edit is the most recent edit to the article. I'm sure you have more important things to do, but maybe if you have a moment, you can take a look. rags (talk) 19:21, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I get it now. Never mind. I read the AfD. "Not definig." I guess not.

I am still looking at the article, as the Career section ends in an incomplete sentence. I'll revert, unless I can see a logical completion. rags (talk) 19:22, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Art listed at Redirects for discussion

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The Signpost: 9 June 2017

From the editors: Signpost status: On reserve power, help wanted!

News and notes: Global Elections

Arbitration report: Cases closed in the Pacific and with Magioladitis

Op-ed: Wikipedia's lead sentence problem

Featured content: Three months in the land of the featured

In the media: Did Wikipedia just assume Garfield's gender?

Recent research: Wikipedia bot wars capture the imagination of the popular press

Technology report: Tech news catch-up

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Template:No source

Hello. Long time no see. I nominated the Template:No source to Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2017 June 14#Template:No source, where I invite you to comment. --George Ho (talk) 15:33, 18 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 23 June 2017

News and notes: Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a month without new RfAs (so far)

In the media: Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill

Op-ed: Facto Post: a fresh take

Featured content: Will there ever be a break? The slew of featured content continues

Traffic report: Wonder Woman beats Batman, The Mummy, Darth Vader and the Earth

Recent research: Utopian bubbles: Can Wikipedians create value outside of the capitalist system?

Technology report: Improved search, and WMF data scientist tells all

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You were mentioned on the bots board

Cyde,

You were mentioned on the Bots board . You might want to drop by and give some input. К Ф Ƽ Ħ Speak 22:17, 4 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 15 July 2017

News and notes: French chapter woes, new affiliates and more WMF team changes

Featured content: Spectacular animals, Pine Trees screens, and more

In the media: Concern about access and fairness, Foundation expenditures, and relationship to real-world politics and commerce

Recent research: The chilling effect of surveillance on Wikipedia readers

Op-ed: Why Task Forces are Dying in 2017

Gallery: A mix of patterns

Humour: The Infobox Game

Traffic report: Film, television and Internet phenomena reign with some room left over for America's birthday

Technology report: New features in development; more breaking changes for scripts

Wikicup: 2017 WikiCup round 3 wrap-up

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Please stop the bot!

By changing "X architecture in New York" to "X architecture in New York (state)", the ambiguity between "New York" meaning New York state and "New York" meaning New York City is being ignored. The articles need to be divided into the proper category. Please stop the bot until this is accomodated. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:26, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]