User talk:MightDo

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Gas-checks in British RML heavy guns has been accepted

Gas-checks in British RML heavy guns, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
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MatthewVanitas (talk) 13:28, 28 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

removing citations from Fort Cowan Cowan

Hi, MightDo!

Thanks for your efforts to improve Wikipedia. However, I noticed you removed citations from Fort Cowan Cowan and was wondering why. As you removed a template citation {{cite QHR|19677|Fort Cowan Cowan (Cowan Cowan Battery)|602559|accessdate=6 July 2013}} in order to provide a direct URL to exactly the same place, I am guessing you don't understand why we use such templates and what the benefit is.

Using direct URLs has a number of disadvantages. Every new government in Queensland (and often after ministerial reshuffles), the department structure of the government changes. These changes result in new domain names for their websites. And from time to time, they organise their website. The URL you provided was to the website https://environment.ehp.qld.gov.au but about a month ago, the website they used was https://heritage-register.ehp.qld.gov.au so, in the past month alone, we have had to update thousands of citations to that website. If direct URL are used as citations to such a website, that would be massive task. So we need to find efficient ways to deal this very regular problem. What we do is replace direct URL citations to the Queensland Heritage Regiser with templates which construct the URL for the citation when the page is displayed to the reader. The template definition (see [1]) has the current website details for the Queensland Heritage Register embedded in it, and so, changing the website just once inside the template definition changes the URL in every article that uses the template, thus saving thousands of edits to keep things up-to-date. So by replacing a template citation with a direct URL citation, there is strong chance that very soon your citation will just be a deadlink because of yet-another-change by the Queensland Government to its website which is then a problem for the reader and a lot of work for someone else to find and fix up. Does that all make sense? (Sorry, it's hard to explain things to you not knowing what you already do or don't know).

So if you see a template citation, please leave it alone. If you think it's wrong in some way (e.g. no longer linking to the correct website), I suggest you report it on the article's Talk page and hopefully someone familiar with the template will come and help explain and/or sort it out. Or ask me and I will try and help. I remember being confused by templates when I first encountered them too. Thanks Kerry (talk) 08:17, 8 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Brisbane meetup

Hi there! We are organising a meeupt on Saturday August 22 at 11am at the SLQ Café in South Brisbane, and we'd love for you to come along. A list of people interested in coming, and a discussion space has been created at Wikipedia:Meetup/Brisbane/8. Hope to see you there! Kerry (talk) 03:54, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Draft:RML 12.5 inch Ammunition concern

Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Draft:RML 12.5 inch Ammunition, a page you created, has not been edited in 6 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:34, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:RML 12.5 inch Ammunition

Hello, MightDo. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "RML 12.5 inch Ammunition".

In accordance with our policy that Articles for Creation is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been nominated for deletion. If you plan on working on it further, or editing it to address the issues raised if it was declined, simply edit the submission and remove the {{db-afc}} or {{db-g13}} code.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Cahk (talk) 01:57, 15 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Changes to Fort Lytton National Park

Could you please provide an overview and rationale for the extensive changes you have made to this article at Talk:Fort Lytton National Park. It's unusual to completely replace an article in this way. Thanks Kerry (talk) 23:36, 11 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of Gas check (disambiguation)

The article Gas check (disambiguation) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Disambiguation page not required (WP:ONEOTHER). Primary topic article has a hatnote to the only other use.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 16:17, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]