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Thank you for the welcome

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Thank you for welcoming me. I have already contested the deletion of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_maree_manciet and was wondering how long it would take to receive a response for it. I created the page with the permission of the person herself and it was requested of her by her employer Dell Inc. It was not complete and I only saved the page and published it so that she could see the progress and allow her to edit and complete the article with the information that she knows best.

Icepheonix5 (talk) 08:50, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid I don't know if she is notable, ie. she has received enough external coverage to merit an article on Wikipedia. I'll post a message to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games, and you should get a better answer there from somebody who knows what the are talking about. Best regards, Jamesx12345 08:54, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the quick reply, I added her website on your post. She is actually currently streaming as well haha.

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Miley

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Hi, I reverted your change to my edit on Miley Cyrus. It was certainly constructive so I changed it back, albeit with references in order to prevent the illusion of a negative connotation. Instead, I intended a positive one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ScriaBen (talkcontribs) 20:05, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Miley Cyrus is the 264th most popular article on Wikipedia, and calling her a "sex symbol" in the first sentence is unlikely to go down well. If you're feeling especially dogged, by all means take it to the talk page to have other people disagree with you there, but the article has quite recently been promoted to GA status quite recently and everything there is there for a reason. Thanks, Jamesx12345 20:12, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for your thanks!

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Hi :) Just wanted to thank you for thanking me for one of my edits. It's nice to be appreciated! Have a great day! LovelyEdit talkedits 19:16, 27 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You too. Thanks. Jamesx12345 20:27, 27 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WTF

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Why this revert? --NE2 23:28, 28 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I honestly have no idea about that. I'd like to say it's a Huggle bug, but the problem is most likely with me. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Jamesx12345 15:36, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Election drafts

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Hello, thank you for your help earlier. I did a few more election drafts - here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. --86.45.164.21 (talk) 00:41, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. --86.45.164.21 (talk) 16:11, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. Jamesx12345 16:22, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you again. Some more are here, here, here and here.
I've also created Template:Irish local elections, 2009 and Template:Irish local elections, 2004 with the 2014 template by changing the years. There are probably some errors, but this is noted and the templates are only used a very few times at present. Jamesx12345 18:03, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Talk:Kevin Warwick

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Just letting you know you forgot to add an archive box to link to your archive of K.Warwick. No real problem.. Cheers Clovis Sangrail (talk) 00:12, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for fixing that. Jamesx12345 12:23, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Klein model history

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I've shrunk the table down to appear better on smaller monitors. I'll apply a new color scheme very soon. I see you've already reviewed the page, which I appreciate, so you know where to check it out at. MjolnirPants Tell me all about it. 15:04, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I just did a search for Klein Bikes to get an idea of what color scheme to use. All of the logos seem to be monochrome, but I did find this. If you have any additional input on colors, it would be of some aid. If not, I think I'm going to go with WP's color scheme of greys and blues. MjolnirPants Tell me all about it. 15:25, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Check it out now. Here's a link for convenience User:MjolnirPants/sandbox 2. MjolnirPants Tell me all about it. 17:04, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
That's vastly better than before - it looked strange at first without the colour, but is clearer and less glaring. I've forked it to User:Jamesx12345/kmh to avoid an edit conflict with the years larger, and a correction to a mistake that went from 1989 to 1991. Jamesx12345 17:16, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
This has the text size increased, but the years compressed to two digits. Jamesx12345 17:26, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
That one looks good. One thing though, the years being truncated looks a little strange without the preceding apostrophe. What do you think of this? MjolnirPants Tell me all about it. 17:34, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Looks more familiar with apostrophes. Jamesx12345 17:41, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Is that it then? If you're happy, I'll replace the existing template. MjolnirPants Tell me all about it. 18:31, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Looks great now - something I hadn't noticed about the old one is that its height means it doesn't fit on one screen. The colour scheme also looks a bit like one of these. Jamesx12345 19:10, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Augh! My eyes!
I've updated the template. Now, we just wait for someone who hates it to start the obligatory edit war over it. MjolnirPants Tell me all about it. 19:15, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks a huge amount for the advice and technical help. It looks a lot "classier" now, as well as being more readable. Jamesx12345 19:32, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
My pleasure! MjolnirPants Tell me all about it. 19:44, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

US Army Central

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Hi there, Thanks for your note. I'm sitting in the HQ now. It is not US Army Central Command. The unit is called US Army Central. Feel free to back to me if you find some differing evidence. 155.213.224.59 (talk) 16:43, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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DYK for Debian

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WikiCup 2014 June newsletter

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After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, Scotland Casliber (submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's , whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.

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492d Fighter Squadron

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Yeah the user continues to revert our edits to his own. I have reverted them about 3 times and there is a "undo" war starting up. If he reverts them again, just leave it. I already reported him to AIV and requested page protection for that page specifically. Thanks for your help. A2 16:35, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There's a thread at ANI about a spate of vandalism from 78.85.xxx addresses. I'd guess that there is quite a sophisticated, or at least concerted, bit of work going on here. Jamesx12345 16:42, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I appreciate you helping your fellow rollbackers. I hope we can put a stop to this soon. A2 16:47, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Apparently, Zzuuzz protected the page as I requested it through Twinkle. Thank you! A2 16:48, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Just to let you know that I feel it was unwise to remove the proposed "merge" tag from the above article, and set up the redirect that you did on Romel Joseph Day. Although I think we're on the same side here, I'd prefer to wait a little longer before taking action. I don't expect that the merge will add more than a sentence or two to the main article, but it will allow us to remove the article on Romel Joseph Day, which strikes me as non-notable. However, the "merge" proposal has only been around since May of this year, and neither of these two articles is particularly well-trafficked, so I feel we should wait for about three months before taking action. If there's no substantial input to the discussion on the Talk Page after that time, I feel we could probably then move forward to a merge, combined with an Afd on Romel Joseph Day. Any input you can make to this would be much appreciated. Thanks. RomanSpa (talk) 05:55, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think any mention should be made of it at all in the main article, and it certainly doesn't merit its own article. Two editors wanting it merged is enough to make it happen. Jamesx12345 21:30, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Speedy deletion nomination of Oscar Thiffault

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Speedy deletion nomination of Clémence Desrochers

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Speedy deletion nomination of Jean Grimaldi

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Speedy deletion nomination of Alfred Montmarquette

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Informal note

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La Bolduc

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Thanks for your message. Sorry my edit summary was a bit snarky, I do that sometimes. The article is as bad as it gets for red links. It's almost as if someone went around just randomly putting brackets around groups of words. I'm not sure how to fix. Replace reds with italics, bolds or just remove the brackets and leave as plain text. Usually I try to fix the reds by finding the article with the right name, but here it's just so blatant. I don't know what "disagreement" there would be - until this is resolved it has to have a maintenance tag flagging the issue. SlightSmile 23:30, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Fedora GAN review

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Hi! You should probably close Talk:Fedora (operating system)/GA1 and update Talk:Fedora (operating system) – apparently there is no ongoing effort to address your concerns. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talktrack) 15:42, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking that - normally I'd have closed it after a week, but you can never be sure if a user across different IPs has got a message. Jamesx12345 16:06, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think it is your problem: this IP is supposed to address the concerns as every other editor. He would have a watchlist if he opted for account; but he did not. Not getting timely informed is a product of this choice. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talktrack) 16:42, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I like to be sympathetic to IP users as they can produce some fantastic work, especially on computing related articles - see Debian - but you can't expect that every time. Jamesx12345 16:49, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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James, I have seen a few of your GA reviews, and I'm a bit concerned: they are very short, very quickly done, and for instance lack the usual checklist for the GA criteria. I'll mention, in fairness, that what got this started was the GA review for De Akkermolen, which is short, on a very short article that hardly uses all the sources it probably should use. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 03:51, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I tend to review articles by reading through them and making some changes myself and suggesting others on the talk page. Sometimes this generates a short list of points, and sometimes a much longer one, such as at Talk:Debian/GA2. They are not done especially quickly or taken lightly, and although I don't use the checklist many reviewers do, I don't feel it is necessary if you can point to the specific issues. There aren't any English sources for De Akkermolen so far as I can tell, and despite its shortness I think it does just meet the criteria. Jamesx12345 22:19, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I came to say I had to fail Talk:Loch Morar/GA1, and Drmies' comments give me extra cause for concern. I think the basic problem is just having an article free of spelling and grammar problems, that has inline citations, isn't all that a GA requires. It needs to be "broad in its coverage" and "focused", which means the choice of material is important, whether or not you have sources to hand. For this reason, The Beatles (album) has only passed GA recently, and Bootleg recording has still got a long way to go - in both cases I believed there was information that should be in the article, but I couldn't immediately find a source for. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 10:08, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the thorough review - I'll have a go at fixing those points.
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New huggle 3.1 is going to be released soon

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Major changes:

  • Multisite support - you can now log in to unlimited number of wikis in 1 huggle session and get a huge queue of all edits made to these wikis. This is good for smaller projects which gets overlooked often.
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  • Fixes of most of bug reports we had so far

In case you found a bug, please report it to bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?product=Huggle&list_id=147663 thank you! Petrb (talk) 10:10, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Cadillac, Michigan

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The reason for the change regarding Cadillac, Michigan Government section is that James Dean has not been on the city council in a number of years. That seat is currently held by Douglas Mellema. It seemed appropriate to list him on the City Council since that would make the article current.

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Your GA nomination of The Iron Bridge

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Your GA nomination of Wemyss Ware

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Your GA nomination of Wemyss Ware

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  • All tablet users visiting the mobile web version of Wikipedias will be able to opt-in to a version of VisualEditor from 14 August. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu.
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The Editing team will be making two presentations this weekend at Wikimania in London. The first is with product manager James Forrester and developer Trevor Parscal on Saturday at 16:30. The second is with developers Roan Kattouw and Trevor Parscal on Sunday at 12:30.

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Hi, you agreed to review the Mahanoy Creek GA a few weeks ago. Would you mind trying to get to it soon? Thanks, --Jakob (talk) 20:38, 8 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry - I've been off for the past two weeks or so, but I'll get round to reviewing this this evening. Jamesx12345 17:08, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I've responded to the three comments you've made there so far. --Jakob (talk) 16:05, 13 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It will be finished tonight. It'll be a while until I can get back properly, though. Jamesx12345 21:09, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day

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Happy First Edit Day, Jamesx12345, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Anastasia (talk) 17:25, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Victoria Beckham

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Hi James, any reason why you've taken this article from GA to B as I can't see an explanation from the edit summary. Thanks. Libby norman (talk) 23:46, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I opened a WP:GAR at Talk:Victoria Beckham/GA1, but nobody responded to it - although there have admittedly been some significant improvements since then. The article is still quite some way from GA status, having never been properly reviewed in the first place, but if you can continue to improve it then it a fresh GA review will be in order. Jamesx12345 18:03, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delisting good articles

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Hello. When delisting good articles, please remove them from the GA lists. For example, Victoria Beckham should be removed from WP:GA/MU (the very last group). Also don't forget to update the count. Many editors forget to do this when closing the reassessment, and it's pretty treadmill task to search them on my own. By the way, it is useful to incorporate a link to the GAN and GAR at the talk page (action1link= and action2link=, respectively).--Retrohead (talk) 08:43, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry - done that now. Interesting to see that the original GAN looked like this. Jamesx12345 09:37, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2014 August newsletter

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The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:

  1. Smithsonian Institution Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer, finished top of Pool A and was the round's highest scorer. Godot is a featured picture specialist, claiming large numbers of points due to high-quality scans of historical documents, especially banknotes.
  2. Scotland Casliber (submissions) is a WikiCup veteran, having been a finalist every year since 2010. In the semi-final, he was Pool B's highest scorer. Cas's points primarily come from articles on the natural sciences.
  3. Nepal Czar (submissions) was Pool A's runner-up. Czar's points come mostly from content related to independent video games, including both articles and topics.
  4. Oh, better far to live and die / Under the brave black flag I fly... Adam Cuerden (submissions) was Pool B's runner-up. Another featured picture specialist, many of Adam's points come from the restoration of historical media. He has been a WikiCup finalist twice before.
  5. Wales Cwmhiraeth (submissions) won the WikiCup in 2012 and 2013, and enters this final as the first wildcard. She focuses on biology-related articles, and has worked on several high-importance articles.
  6. Florida 12george1 (submissions) is the second wildcard. George's points come primarily from meteorology-related articles. This year and last year, George was the first person in the competition to score.
  7. Colorado Sturmvogel 66 (submissions), the third wildcard, was the 2010 champion and a finalist last year. His writes mostly on military history, especially naval history.
  8. Canada Bloom6132 (submissions), the fourth and final wildcard, has participated in previous WikiCups, but not reached any finals. Bloom's points are mostly thanks to did you knows, featured lists and good articles related to sport and national symbols.

We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists. Herm Matty.007 (submissions), Ohio ThaddeusB (submissions), United States WikiRedactor (submissions), Idaho Figureskatingfan (submissions), Greece Yellow Evan (submissions), Portugal Prism (submissions) and Bartošovice v Orlických horách Cloudz679 (submissions) have all performed well to reach this stage of the competition, and we hope they will all be joining us again next year.

There are two upcoming competitions unrelated to the WikiCup which may be of interest to those who receive this newsletter. The Stub Contest will run through September, and revolves around expanding stub articles, especially high-importance or old stubs. In addition, a proposal has been made for a new competition, the GA Cup, which the organisers plan to run next year. This competition is based on the WikiCup and aims to reduce the good article review backlog.

There is now a thread for brainstorming on how next year's WikiCup competition should work. Please come along and share your thoughts- What works? What doesn't work? What needs changing? Signups for next year's competition will be open soon; we will be in touch. If, at this stage of the competition, you are keen to help the with the WikiCup, please do what you can to participate in review processes. Our finalists will find things much easier if the backlogs at good article candidates, featured article candidates, featured picture candidates and the rest are kept at a minimum. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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D.J. Science College Page

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D. J. Science College is a fake page. There website is not even online anymore. The name of the page is not even correct. Therefore I am designing a new page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZaeemAkhtr (talkcontribs) 12:27, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Wemyss Ware GA

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Please check Talk:Wemyss Ware/GA1 for I have completed my detailed assessment of the content and found more issues. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 04:17, 14 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've withdrawn the GAN as I don't have the knowledge or resources to do it properly. Jamesx12345 19:18, 15 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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