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Great work!

	The Running Man Barnstar
	For the great work you have been doing in expanding many articles about football in Kosovo, I award you this barnstar. Keep up the great work! FkpCascais (talk) 23:10, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

I have been adding interviews to football players pages. I noticed Stuart van Doten already had links to interviews. Unfortunately, I noticed this because most (even well known ones) footballers have no interviews on their page so keep up the good work (even if you did add it in 2017). Thanks, User:Das osmnezz

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	For exceptional work in the Football domain! gidonb (talk) 18:51, 1 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Award

		The Barnstar of National Merit
		For your coverage, with ample sources, on Bosnia topics. Geschichte (talk) 08:56, 6 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
		_{this WikiAward was given to Gruesome Gary by Geschichte (talk) on 08:56, 6 July 2021 (UTC)}[reply]

Links to DAB pages, and Interwiki links

Good work creating/expanding articles about places in BiH. Two tips:

Per WP:INTDABLINK, hatnote links to DAB pages must go through the (disambiguation) qualifier, as e.g. in my edit to Blatnica, Čitluk. If they don't, they get logged as errors.
Don't forget to add the Interwiki link; I added it to Čehari. If it isn't there, Wikidata will automatically create a separate record within a day or so, making navigation between languages difficult.

Yrs, Narky Blert (talk) 11:39, 30 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Replacement of "clubplayerscat" template

Hi there. You have been replacing the "clubplayerscat" without explanatory edit summaries. Examples: ASC Biesheim, US Torcy. Could you please explain why? Kind regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 15:37, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I changed it due to the alphabetic sorting: couldn't find ASC Bieshiem under the B which would be much more logic (in my opinion at least). Would be happy to hear if there is another way to do this. Gruesome Gary (talk) 18:14, 12 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense. I think I'll bring this up at Template talk:Clubplayerscat. Robby.is.on (talk) 10:43, 13 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata interlanguage links

Hey Gruesome Gary. I was exploring which of 6700+ Croatian settlements we have here on enwiki (found 2900 so far) and I noticed that you'd been creating new articles on Croatian villages recently (thanks!), some of which did not have interlanguage link added on Wikidata; example: Kakinac. I don't know what the policy here is (@Joy?), but I think those should always be added. How many new Cro. articles have you created, you know - is this something we can fix manually? Ponor (talk) 21:28, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I know there's a bot that's automatically generating new wikidata items, but I'm not sure if there's anything that maps existing entries. User:AlexNewArtBot/CroatiaSearchResult contains lists of recently added articles and its history presumably includes everything (because the patterns there should easily match for settlements). --Joy (talk) 16:29, 16 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, @Joy. It was quit an exercise, but I added the missing interlanguage links in ~130 articles. Gary, if you plan on adding more articles, maybe we can work together... it'd help to have a clean list of their titles (somewhere). Ping me please! Ponor (talk) 19:11, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Ponor, I only just started updating and creating these Croatian settlement articles based on the Croatian census of 2021. I must admit I am not very familiar with these type of links, so please advise how to move forward. Thanks! Gruesome Gary (talk) 08:43, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the delay, GG, I just saw your reply. This is probably the most boring job, but someone has to do it. On hrwiki every (serious) new user is instructed to add those links, and this is the first time that I see enwiki articles missing them. Depending on your wiki shell, either on the left or in the Tools menu below the title you should see an Edit interlanguage links link; in the dialog, enter hrwiki in the first field, then search for the proper Croatian title in the second. When you click "Link with page" another dialog will show all the languages (with clickable links) and ask for confirmation. It that's not working, the same links can be added at Wikidata (follow Wikidata item in one of the menus here).

Are you doing all this manually? I am working on a (ro)bot that will do all the population updates (in infoboxes at least, article text is tricky), so maybe you should only create those new articles, and go through the others (if you had such plans) when I'm done. I'm ready to start, but it will take some time for my bot to be approved.

@Joy and I were thinking of using something like <ref>{{Croatian Census 2021|S}}</ref> for the 2021 population references (still working on the template)... feel free to join! It will make any future link updates much easier (sadly, Cro statistics bureau never cared about keeping http links permanent). Ponor (talk) 22:42, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, all manually. I am not a techie and/or very good at those thing, so just editing :-). I'll look into the linking thing, thanks. Gruesome Gary (talk) 10:09, 3 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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"sports links" template

Hi there. Please could you re-consider using the "sports links" template in External links sections? In many cases, this results in too many external links. At Rade Bogdanović, we ended up with 11 external links which is excessive. Even in cases where the the use of the template initially results in an acceptable amount of links, it's problematic because as more database profiles get added to the Wikidata item this will reflect in the article and we could end up with far more later on. Kind regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 20:46, 31 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, was not aware of that. Thanks. You suggest to only use it if it gives a very limited amount of links or just not at all? Gruesome Gary (talk) 09:35, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. I wouldn't use it at all. Robby.is.on (talk) 10:11, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Please don't re-format infoboxes, and please ensure all content is clearly and directly cited. I have partially reverted you pending proper editing. Giant Snowman 20:13, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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