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Is is

You probably shouldn't go around fixing all instances of "is is" to "is", without reading the sentence carefully. For example, in this edit you changed the sentence from the grammatically correct "What that theme is is not too clearly spelled out" to the ungrammatical "What that theme is not too clearly spelled out". Granted that it's not the most felicitious way of writing it, but better bad style than bad syntax. I haven't looked at your other edits involving "is is"; just pointing out that blindly replacing the strings may be the wrong thing to do. Shreevatsa (talk) 05:43, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Actually, I took a look at your "is is" edits.
  1. Wrong, reverted (by me)
  2. OK
  3. Wrong, reverted
  4. Wrong fix, I've corrected it to "it is"
  5. OK
  6. OK
  7. OK, correctly fixed "is is" to "it is"
  8. Wrong fix, I've fixed it to "it is"
  9. OK
  10. OK
  11. Wrong, reverted. Oh my god, are you repeatedly making the same mistake even after your edits are reverted? THREE TIMES?!

That's a lot of errors in a space of 10 edits. Please stop making such substitutions blindly. Shreevatsa (talk) 06:08, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for taking the time to clean up after me, I realise that should never be necessary. I must have been particularly tired when making those edits, is all I can say, I do try to read the context of the correction before committing them. In my defence, I made a lot more than those 10 edits in that session which improves my 'error-ratio'. However, I apologise again and will take more care infuture especially when correcting 'is is'. Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 10:28, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

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Hello Jamesmcmahon0, I'm here onbehalf of WP:ORPHAN in which you are also a participant. So, we want your opinion to a WP:ORPHAN related matter. It is a proposal by Technical 13. Please have a look here. Your opinion (i.e support, oppose etc) are very much appreciated there. Thank you. By Jim Cartar through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:02, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Davbowling (talk · contribs)

Hi, I am sorry about the Starbucks edit. I was telling my friend everything on Wikipedia is verified and watched. He didn't believe me, so I showed him. I did make a real edit to one king down's page and changed the name Mike Scoville to Michael Scoville because he told me to and all of the album credits are in the name of Michael.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Davbowling (talk • contribs) 15:00, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi Davbowling, thanks for getting in touch, unfortunately not everything is watched and not all vandalism is caught but those of us who are that way inclined try our best! Your edits on one king down look fine to me. A good way to get started on Wikipedia is to edit (or create) articles that interest you! There are lots of policy but the best way to learn is to be bold it's mostly common sense and if you do something wrong, hopefully someone else will fix it and let you know so you can do better next time. Have fun on Wikipedia! Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 15:09, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Backlog drive

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Stub sorting

Hello Jamesmcmahon0. Thank you for tagging an article as a stub. I noticed that you used the {{stub}} template. In the future, it would be greatly appreciated if you could sort the article to a subcategory by using one of these templates instead. For example, you can use {{US-novelist-1960s-stub}} for an American novelist born in the 1960s. Of course, if you can't find a proper category, you can always use the {{stub}} tag and someone else will sort it for you, or you can propose a new stub template or category here. Thanks!

--I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 03:01, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Related to the above: I see that you are replacing specific stub categories with the generic {{stub}} or {{bio-stub}} (like this), which is rarely helpful. Most of these stub categories contain at least one stub template, and where possible please use one of those instead of {{stub}}/{{bio-stub}} - like this. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:11, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
It might be a good idea just to leave the incorrectly-directly-added stub category, while also adding {{stub}} (if the bot can't find the template automatically from the category) – even, perhaps, with a comment to the stub-sorter on the lines of "please remove previously-added stub category when you have stub-sorted this". And also to keep track of the editors who've been adding these stub categories, so as to leave them a note telling them that they're going wrong, as at User talk:Robert4565#stub categories. PamD 19:49, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
Hi, @Redrose64: If you haven't yet, please see my current BOT request. The idea behind the bot was that by adding {{stub}}/{{bio-stub}} and removing the category, it gets rid of the erroneous category and brings it into the eyes of many more editors through Category:Stubs or Category:People stubs than might ever have seen it in Wikipedia:Database reports/Stubs included directly in stub categories.
@PamD: That is a good idea, I will edit the bot to add {{stub}}/{{bio-stub}} along with a comment asking the editor to remove the direct categories. I think this solves both problems of bringing them to more editors attention and also not getting rid of potentially useful information. Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 10:34, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
I just remembered, there is a standard template for this: it is {{subst:uw-directcat}} --Redrose64 (talk) 16:12, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

About Master of SCIEEENCE

Sorry, I just HAD to do it ._. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.136.207.235 (talk) 13:55, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

Jason Cruz

Hello. You reverted my edit on Jason Cruz due to it not appearing constructive, but you've made a mistake. I relinked his official website in the external links section because the link that appears on the Wikipedia page doesn't like to it anymore, instead linking to a false webpage. The link I changed it too (amerikanblackheart.com) is the real website (and is also up in the info box as well. I'm also realizing I forgot to sign in with my actual account, The Hyphen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:5B0:23FF:2CF0:0:0:0:38 (talk) 13:57, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for letting me know, the site change looked suspicious because it was changing the 'official website' from one involving the article subjects name to one without, also it was done by an anon user with no comment left. Please accept my apologies, happy editing. Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 14:17, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

Joseph Minala nickname

Hello. Regarding the nickname of Joseph Minala, many media have said nickname to Minala (TV, radio and press). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.249.146.5 (talk) 14:54, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

After a bit of searching I figured out what you were trying to say. I assume you are referring to this where I reverted your edit. At the time, the addition of the nickname Benjamin Button to a footballer by an anonymous user seemed suspicious. Since googling it I see there are quite a few mentions of it. Feel free to add the nickname back to the article but please find a good reference for it and leave an informative edit summary! Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 15:10, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

OER inquiry

Hi Jamesmcmahon0, I'm sending you this message because you're one of about 300 users who have recently edited an article in the umbrella category of open educational resources (OER) (or open education). In evaluating several projects we've been working on (e.g. the WIKISOO course and WikiProject Open), my colleague Pete Forsyth and I have wondered who chooses to edit OER-related articles and why. Regardless of whether you've taken the WIKISOO course yourself – and/or never even heard the term OER before – we'd be extremely grateful for your participation in this brief, anonymous survey before 27 April. No personal data is being collected. If you have any ideas or questions, please get in touch. My talk page awaits. Thanks for your support! - Sara FB (talk) 20:42, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

 DoneJamesmcmahon0 (talk) 13:36, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Dab pages aren't stubs

Re this edit: please take more care. Thanks. PamD 07:37, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Apologies, I was typo-fixing and wasn't expecting to see any dab pages so didn't notice. I'll try to take more care in the future... thanks for cleaning up after me! Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 19:20, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

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Cam ships

James, one privately owned Cam ship, not on the list, is Elder and Fyffes, cargo liner , the Ariguani. There is a famous shot of her in convoy, lmperial War Museum have the copyright of the image. My late father and his youngest brother were second engineers on the Araguni, post WW2. She was possibly the largest CAMS ship.I believe the pilots were "trained" at RAF Speke, now John Lennon airport. Elder and Fyffes ships sailed into Garston, which is close to Speke. Regards Bob Hughes — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hugdavliv (talk • contribs) 11:31, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

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Hello and thank you

thank you for reviewing my article and the improvement you did because it made it better .. and for the two points you asked for references i found a link in arabic can cover both information ..but i have a question .. the same link talks about his father and mother job and mention his children .

http://www.aymanwahdan.at/seite/dialog/Tarafa_Baghajati.htm

to make it easier for you the section :

about his marriage and children : 1990 تزوج من ألمانية .. و أنعم الله عليهما بـ عدنان (1991) سلمى (1992) & سمية (1998) & إبراهيم (2002

it means in 1990 he married from a german wife (they mean Carla Amina Baghajati ) and he has four children Adnan 1991 Salma 1992 Somya 1998 Ibrahim 2002

talked about his mother being an economic journalist : والدتي السيدة أمل حمصي .. درست الأدب إنجليزي .. & رئست تحرير مجلة الاقتصاد ..

talking about his father

عدنان بغجاتى :

ولد في دمشق عام 1934 .. حصل على ليسانس جامعة دمشق .. قسم اللغة العربية عام 1957 & دبلوم التربية عام 1958.. تدرج فى مناصب وزارة التربية و التعليم من مدرس إلى وزير & شغل منصب وزير دولة لشؤون مجلس الوزراء & مستشاراً ثقافياً له .. رئس تحرير : جريدة الثورة & جريدة البعث & الموقف الأدبي & الآداب الأجنبية & الأسبوع الأدبي .. كما ترأس إتحاد الكتاب العرب السوريين كما كان عضواً في مجلس الشعب السوري .. وافته المنية فى 9 من أكتوبر 1992 .

so as u say it even says more than needed ..but do i duplicate the link twice for both..? or there is a way to put the same without writing it again ?

was thinking to describe it as following [1] sorry if i made it too long to explain and thank you again for your help ! Wikipedian13579 (talk) 03:30, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

@Wikipedian13579: - Non English references are fine to use, as long as you have verified the information.
To use a reference more than once is very common. You need to give the reference a name, see WP:NAMEDREFS. It's good practice to do this with most/all references so that you or another editor can easily use them again in the same article. Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 09:53, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
ok thank you.. i tried it but for some reason i couldn't do it so i put the link twice references number 2 and 22 Wikipedian13579 (talk) 15:49, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
I fixed it here. It looks like you had an extra / in the first tag; <ref name="blah" />[link link_text]</ref> instead of <ref name="blah">[link link_text]</ref> then later <ref name="blah" /> Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 15:58, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Charles Hamilton (rapper)

The Charles Hamilton Discography does not need to be put into another article, many fans have commented on the value of information they've gotten from it being on his main page. Splitting it off from the main page would make each separate entity far too barren. But if everyone would please leave the page alone and let me do all the changes to it and complete it and then discuss or debate conflicts that'd be great. I'm more than over qualified and informed to be working on the page. But it's a day to day process because my life can not obviously focus on Wikipedia all day everyday. We'll get nowhere if my work keeps GETTING DELETED. Thank you, starCHaser67- Derek — Preceding unsigned comment added by SabresNT11x9x67 (talk • contribs) 19:11, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

  1. Discography Split (btw, this isn't Twitter bro)
So don't know how to answer this with any curses, but miracles happen so here it goes.
I don't CARE anymore. Spit the discog off of the main Charles Hamilton article, I told you why it's stupid. But if you wanna be stupid then I'm expanding his main article more so in the future anyways. It's not cluttered, it's accurate and complete? But whatever, never seen a long Wikipedia article before or something.
I know this is all public domain, but if that's the case WHO IN THE HELL put you idiots in charge of making these decisions is beyond me. :Ever since the page existed IT'S BEEN WRONG AND INNACURATE. Someone actually comes to fix it and make it right for all of the internet and I get crucified for it? Do you even know who he is and yet you're in charge of his page? I told you why I am the authoritative figure on all this information and how it's basically not available on the surface Web at all and that's why. You have to be a fan to know and appreciate any of what I'm fixing and you'd know it's right too, I promise you that buddy.
So you update and let me know whenever you split the articles in two and link them to each other so I can get back to work, thanks. Otherwise just going to put my own actual CORRECT information on the site I'm making for the man anyways. You want articles wrong, lacking information, inaccurate and even wrongly titled in this case too?!? Then fine be my guest and protect your golden covered mess. Didn't realize coming and learning to edit on here would mean I'd get hounded by the fake Wiki police. Done with this garbage. One.
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"Cleanup"

You should not edit other people's contributions to your talk page unless they are seriously disruptive. See WP:TPO: "The basic rule—with some specific exceptions outlined below—is that you should not edit or delete the comments of other editors without their permission."

"Cleaning up" other people's signatures is not appreciated: if you feel that they breach the guidelines in WP:SIG then it would be more useful to explain to the editors involved what you see as a problem. PamD 11:22, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Hmm, technically you were in the right, though it seems completely unnecessary and undesirable. See Wikipedia talk:Smurrayinchester's signature tutorial#.22Font.22_Deprecated.3F. PamD 11:46, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
Also raised it at Wikipedia_talk:Signatures#.22Font.22_Deprecated.3F: not criticising you but pointing out inconsistency in the system. (Though I still think it unnecessary and somewhat offensive to "clean up" other people's signatures in this way when a deprecated tag is doing no harm to anyone.) PamD 12:14, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
Hey, sorry to cause trouble, glad it will maybe achieve something though! I have a script called Auto-format that puts an icon in the edit bar which 'cleans up' a page. I (maybe wrongly) click this out of habit when editing a page, I noticed it changed your signature but when I checked the preview it appeared the same so I left the change in place. The main reason I was 'cleaning up' my talk page was to put someone's comment into a section! Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 15:24, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
Probably not a good idea to run the script on any talk pages (article, user, or your own), because of the rules about editing other people's comments (and the fact that typos etc are permissible on these behind-the-scenes pages as long as the content can be understood): perhaps just add the section heading by hand another time. PamD 11:39, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

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Kayaking cleanup listing

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Mark and Recapture

Hi James. Please have another look at this. Bo Jacoby (talk) 12:45, 10 July 2014 (UTC).

Today I edited Mark and recapture. Bo Jacoby (talk) 10:10, 26 July 2014 (UTC).

Bot edit

I don't believe this edit was correct. I am guessing it had to do with the article being in Category:Ethiopian royalty stubs, which, granted, mostly contains articles about people. Just FYI if nothing else. Thanks, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 19:06, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Hey thanks for letting me know Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 12:09, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Suggested improvement

Hello James. On the MoohanBOT, can you modify it so it will include the " |listas= " parameter in the {{WikiProject Biography}} template ? Doing so would save a little manual typing when it comes time for humans to follow up on the template. Thanks. – S. Rich (talk) 17:23, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi thanks for letting me know, I checked a load of my bot's edits and it does as |listas= in some circumstances. My bot runs using AWB and the Kingbotk Plugin in the plugin spec it says;
listas= is calculated and added if no DEFAULTSORT key is present (manual mode only; there are too many variations in human naming for this to be done by bots)

End result is I'm not sure why it adds it in some situation and not others... I'm not going to change anything however as at the moment nothing is being broken! Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 09:31, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Well thanks for checking and responding. The "listas=" empty backlog count is now at ≈60,000. So perhaps not getting the parameter inserted is a good thing in terms of keeping the backlog down. Happy editing. – S. Rich (talk) 17:40, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Black-Eyed Susan article

Hi James:

Thanks for having a look at the Black-Eyed Susan (actor) article. I just added a handful of links to it, so that's all taken care of now.

Best, Alexis

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"auto=yes"

On talk pages such as Dionne Rakeem and E-Trax, there is no need to add both "class=stub" and "auto-yes" to the template. It is wasteful.--Launchballer 21:45, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

Hi, both of those pages were tagged by my bot, it tags them because it they have biography type stub tags on the article, however the bot does not actually 'look' at the article so it is best practice to add the |auto=yes .Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 09:27, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

File:Arms Melchizedek.png

Hi James. Sorry if I'm mixing up issues here, but you tagged File:Arms_Melchizedek.png with a non-free, not used, deletion tag. It is non-free, but it is used on Dominion of Melchizedek (which needs a lot of work, but that's a different matter). As it's a logo, aren't we allowed to use it per WP:FU? Cheers, Bromley86 (talk) 13:45, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

@Bromley86:. Hi, you're totally right. I used a few bits of automation to find pages that should be tagged and obviously got at least one wrong. I've deleted the tag and I'll double check my other edits for similar mistakes! Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 14:33, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing it! Bromley86 (talk) 15:42, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

F5

Hi! When tagging files as orphaned, remember to follow the correct process:

Why is your bot adding "underlinked" to nine word articles?

If there are only nine words in an article, and three are already linked, why is your script saying to tag the article as "underlinked?" When I go to your bot's user page it has links to Task numbers, can you link to this task or tell me which one it is? I think your bot and another one I just saw were not thought out. MicroPaLeo (talk) 17:04, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

@MicroPaLeo:. Hi, thanks for letting me know, my Bot was most likely performing Task 2 or Task 3, without the diff I wouldn't know for sure. However tagging the page as underlinked would have been added as part of general fixes, this means that the problem lies with Auto Wiki Browser not specifically my BOT. If you let me know the pages and/or the diffs you or I could add a feature request to change the behaviour. Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 12:47, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

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Your bot MoohanBOT added a WikiProject Biography to the article Basque Uruguayan, presumably because of a category that article is in. According to WP:BIOG only articles about individuals are within the scope of the WikiProject. I'm not sure if the article is miss categorised or if the problem is with your bot, but I'd have a look at it if I were you. Thanks,  Liam987(talk) 00:02, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

The problem is that articles of this type, about an ancestry in a country, are normally in the category for people of that ethnicity. For example, Polish American is in Category:American people of Polish descent. I'm guessing your bot treats these articles as being biographies because they are in Category:People stubs.  Liam987(talk) 00:08, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
@Liam987: - Your above assessment is correct, that because it appears in Category:People stubs. I will look at using some other methods to weed out non-biog pages before allowing the bot to begin editing in the future. Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 10:30, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Incorrect edit summaries

Please explain this and a whole bunch of others. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 18:09, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

@Lugnuts: Apologies, I had not correctly set-up the bot so it was editing on pages that it should have skipped. This has resulted in a number of edits that, whilst causing no harm, made no visible difference to the page. These edits do (or did) not need to be reverted as they were only doing things like replacing a redirected template with its actual, or removing necessary parameters etc. I've made sure the settings are correct and my bot should not longer be making edits of this kind and only editing when it is actually adding something of value (which will mostly be the {{WikiProject Biography}} template). Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 18:49, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
  1. ^ Tarafa Baghajati speaks about his family in Arabic interview on November 2008
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