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A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for cleaning up my attempted cleanup to the Minuscule article. I love to edit content, but formatting is a great challenge to me, which is why I've never tried to get made an admin. Bucksburg (talk) 01:08, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the star! Thing is, I don't remember working on an article named "Miniscule", and can't seem to find it in my edit history. I'd hate to think you're thanking me for work that someone else actually did ... are you sure I'm the right editor? -- Mikeblas (talk) 12:49, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Question on Anwar El Ghazi

I'm not sure how did I make a ref error when making the second edit today. I thought that was fine by me to change the date as I checked the source given to update. Iggy (Swan) (What I've been doing to maintain Wikipedia) 22:01, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Iggy! Sorry I didn't answer sooner.

In your edit to the Anwar El Ghazi article, you made a change to the reference named "Soccerway" at the beginning of the "Career statistics" section. You just change the accessdate= parameter in that reference to "8 November 2019".

Thing is, at the time of your edit, there was another reference named "Soccerway" in this article. It appeared in the {{Infobox football biography}} box at the top of the article. Before you made your change, these two reference definitions were the same -- exactly the same, character by character, including case and white space. The situation of having two references that are the same isn't ideal, but Wikipedia accepts it.

After your change, just because of the accessdate= change, the definitions became different. At that point, the article had a red error message in the references section: "Cite error: The named reference "Soccerway" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page)." The error is correct: one definition of "Soccerway" had an accessdate of "13 June 2019", and the other had an accessdate of "8 November 2019".

My fix was do remeove one of those two definitions and make it self-closing, like <ref name=Soccerway/>. Then, the red error message goes away.

Hope that helps! Happy to answer any questions; editing references on Wikipedia can be super-confusing because of all these crazy little rules and the numerous templates and ... -- Mikeblas (talk) 13:07, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That makes sense now. Iggy (Swan) (What I've been doing to maintain Wikipedia) 16:59, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I didn't make a duplicate ref

I'm just writing to let you know that it wasn't me who created a duplicate ref on Footprints in the Sand; it was the user who made the edit before mine. All I did was set the "streaming" parameter to "true". I'm unsure if you make this mistake frequently or if you use a tool for those types of edits, but in the future, please check the edit history more carefully. Thank you. Nowmusicfan2816^{come to my window} 22:18, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You're right! Sorry about that. I fix several damaging edits each day -- I think about 2000 total, by now. This is the third I've incorrectly attributed, and I regret the error. An error rate of 0.15% is simply unacceptable, and I'll do what I can to improve. -- Mikeblas (talk) 08:35, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

		The Original Barnstar
		Thank you for fixing many duplicate reference errors and thereby making Wikipedia more verifiable. Regards, Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 03:17, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your kindness, KTF! :) Did you know that I once shared an elevator with Simona Halep? -- Mikeblas (talk) 18:47, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. That's a nice claim to fame you've got that you've shared an elevator with the current Wimbledon Ladies Champion. I feel a bit jealous! Where did that happen? Simona Halep gained history when she won the Wimbledon title earlier this summer. She had only 3 unforced errors in the final, the fewest ever by a female player in a Grand Slam final. Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 01:12, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Her Wimbledon performance was pretty great! Turns out we were staying at the same hotel in Palm Springs for the BNP Paribas in 2015. It was surprising that she didn't have an escort--she walked alone, carrying her racquet bag. She hopped in the elevator and I told here that I knew she was playing (because I had tickets!) so I wouldn't bother her. I walked with her from the elevator to the valet, where my wife had gotten called for our car (and I went back to the room because I forgot the suncreen kit). Simona hopped into a waiting Lexus SUV with a driver. Do you go to any tourneys? -- Mikeblas (talk) 02:39, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That's a nice story Mikeblas. Yes, it's a bit surprising that she didn't have an escort. If she ever needed it, I'd be happy to volunteer to escort her! I live in London. I've enjoyed watching the ATP Finals a few times at the The O2 Arena in London. In 2021 the tournament is (unfortunately for me) moving to Italy. I've also been to the Queen's Club Championships in London a few times. I've only been to Wimbledon once so far. Tickets for Wimbledon are expensive to get hold of in advance, but I'd like to go again possibly next year. My favourite tennis player used to be Ivan Lendl. Currently it is Rafael Nadal. But on Wikipedia I edit in a neutral way and so I don't show any favouritism towards those two guys! Kind Tennis Fan (talk) 00:56, 28 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]