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I have decided to put on a mini-contest within the November 2013 monthly disambiguation contest, on Saturday, November 23 (UTC). I will personally give a $20 Amazon.com gift card to the disambiguator who fixes the most links on that server-day (see the project page for details on scoring points). Since we are not geared up to do an automated count for that day, at 00:00, 23 November 2013 (UTC) (which is 7:00 PM on November 22, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the project page leaderboard. I will presume that anyone who is not already listed on the leaderboard has precisely nine edits. At 01:00, 24 November 2013 (UTC) (8:00 PM on November 23, EST), I'll take a screenshot of the leaderboard at that time (the extra hour is to give the board time to update), and I will determine from that who our winner is. I will credit links fixed by turning a WP:DABCONCEPT page into an article, but you'll have to let me know me that you did so. Here's to a fun contest. Note that according to the Daily Disambig, we currently have under 256,000 disambiguation links to be fixed. If everyone in the disambiguation link fixers category were to fix 500 links, we would have them all done - so aim high! Cheers! bd2412 T 02:48, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

May 2014 disambig contest: let's do it again!

Greetings fellow disambiguator! Remember back in February when we made history by clearing the board for the first time ever, for the monthly disambiguation contest? Let's do it again in May! I personally will be aiming to lead the board next month, but for anyone who thinks they can put in a better effort, I will give a $10 Amazon gift card to any editor who scores more disambiguation points in May. Also, I will be setting up a one-day contest later in the month, and will try to set up more prizes and other ways to make this a fun and productive month. Cheers! bd2412 T 18:49, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Please fix WPcleaner correction

I see you did a disambiguation clean on Jovana Jakšić. Please revert the cleaning back. As can be seen on Talk:Jovana Jakšić (tennis) this creation was not approved and is in the process of being moved back to Jovana Jakšić, with the disambiguation page being removed completely. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 09:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

When the page is moved back to Jovana Jakšić (and a quick look suggests that it will be moved back), Jovana Jakšić (tennis) will automatically redirect to Jovana Jakšić (at least it should, if moved properly). All links that were disambiguated will go to the correct page through the redirect. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 09:21, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: List of Programs Broadcast By Univision

Hello Niceguyedc. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of List of Programs Broadcast By Univision, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not unambiguously promotional. Thank you. §FreeRangeFrogcroak 04:07, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: List of Programs Broadcast By Canal 7

Hello Niceguyedc. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of List of Programs Broadcast By Canal 7, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not unambiguously promotional. Thank you. §FreeRangeFrogcroak 04:07, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you and support

Thank you Niceguyedc for the edit on the Fresh Kid Ice page. It is appreciated, I am trying to make pages for all the 2 Live Crew Members and new single. I have been focusing on the Fresh Kid Ice Page but an overzealous user is trying to destroy what I built. Anyways nice to see you care keep up the good work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Filmman3000 (talk • contribs) 23:12, 16 August 2014 (UTC) Filmman3000 (talk) 14:29, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

just wondering if you like to poke at Nipo T. Strongheart

Just that I'm looking for people to help make it a better article… --Smkolins (talk) 18:38, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

I'll take a look at it. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 21:12, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Dinah Washington, Bye Bye Blue

Thanks for fixing my disambiguation Bad. Tapered (talk) 19:37, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Wow

Thank you for fixing the links. TreasureIslandMediaBoss (talk) 00:38, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry, I thought that you removed all the references. My bad!

Hey could you also do the same to another article that I contributed to called Malik al-Ashtar. Thanks, and once again sorry.

Thanks 12:46, 8 September 2014 (UTC) (???)

Zerby Derby Canadian?

Exactly what are your sources that tell you this program is Canadian? - CharlieBrown25 (talk) 04:01, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

@CharlieBrown25: My edit wasn't to change it to Canadian. My edit just changed [[American]] to [[United States|American]]. The next edit by SuperHamster was the one that changed it to Canadian. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 04:06, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Dab fixes

Thanks for going over the film articles and doing the dab fixes. I was going to set up the articles, and then go back over then en masse and do that, but your help is greatly appreciated. Onel5969 (talk) 12:46, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

@Onel5969: I disambiguate the links as they come up on the various lists that I look at. On a side note, it appears that Charles Kerr has appeared a few times as an assistant director, but doesn't have an article yet. I have no idea if there is enough information out there for one, but I though I would mention it. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 10:29, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks. I'll add Charles to my list, which is at about 20 pages I'll need to create, like Silver Screen Magazine, Jack Hively, Lee Marcus, P.J. Wolfson, George Nicholls, Jr. (Whose father was also a director), Francis Edwards Faragoh, and Archie F. Marshek.Onel5969 (talk) 12:32, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Re: Reversion at San Diego Comic-Con International

Please note, the disambig page is actually at Comic Con (no dash) -- there is no article at Comic-Con, which currently redirects to the other term. If you'd like to retitle the dab to be "Comic Con (disambiguation)" please feel free. It is currently in dispute whether the dashed term shouldn't (as it did originally) point just to San Diego Comic-Con --HidariMigi (talk) 04:04, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick work in correcting this. Regards, HidariMigi (talk) 04:19, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Barnstar for you for all your Dab work on my articles

The WikiProject Film Award
I, Onel5969 (talk), hereby award Niceguyedc the WikiProject Film Award for his/her valued contributions to WikiProject Film.
Awarded 02:45, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 02:47, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
For your work on repairing disambiguation pages. Vin09 (talk) 10:41, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 10:41, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

San Vito (Costa Rica)

Hello, Nice Guy. Thank you for fixing the interwiki link, I appreciate it. Now, since links and disambiguation seem to be your thing, I have a question for you. How come the article doesn't show up as an article when you enter it in the search box, but in italics as "containing" San Vito (Costa Rica)? It would be nice if that could be fixed . . . (hint hint).

And while we're on the subject of disambig., the whole farming/cattle/ranching/etc. field is a dog's dinner, beyond my abilty or ambition to do anything about.

Thanks in advance if you can help. Awien (talk) 12:12, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

I think the Search box works on an index, and new articles take time to be properly indexed. Hopefully your new article will be in the search box within a day or so. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 19:19, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
I see. Thanks! Awien (talk) 20:08, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the edit on Winter Sun Crying

Thanks NG for your quick edit on the above article when I left two ambiguities DISEman (talk) 03:05, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your help with the Andrew R Heinze page, Niceguyedc. I'm new to this.EastDimeBoxFrank (talk) 09:20, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi

How do I put sources for Skylar Diggins. iuuxx3 (talk) 15:55, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Away

Wikipedians, keep your ambiguous links to a minimum until Wednesday! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 09:59, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

List of Top Graduates of the Escola Preparatória de Cadetes do Exército

Thank you for your help in the article that I've created. Regards, Carlosvicini (talk) 07:06, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Congratulations

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Thanks much

Thank you for your helpful contribution to the article Hitachi Magic Wand.

Most appreciated,

— Cirt (talk) 14:50, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

Hezbollah discussion

There is currently a discussion regarding Hezbollah at Iranian-led intervention in Iraq. To help generate a faster consensus one way or the other, I am leaving a blanket (non-Canvass) notification on the Talk page of all recent contributors to the Hezbollah article in case they might like to participate. The discussion is here: [1] DocumentError (talk) 01:11, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

October 2014

The Super Disambiguator's Bonus Barnstar
The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar is awarded to the winners of the Disambiguation Pages With Links monthly challenge (bonus list section) who have gone above and beyond to remove ambiguous links.
This award is presented to Niceguyedc, for successfully fixing 1966 links in the bonus list challenge of September, 2014. Rcsprinter123 (sing) @ 08:49, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

Re: List of the most common surnames in Germany

Okay, thanks for clarifying that. I guess I didn't understand the message posted earlier by DPL bot. I was under the impression that redirects are to be generally avoided, but you've explained that's not the case here.--Porsche997SBS (talk) 06:18, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Klonoa

Apologies! You were (clearly) not the sock whose edits I was trying to revert. Dwpaul Talk 22:48, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

No problem at all. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 22:49, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

Disambiguation of plain text

Regarding this, was it intentional? I don't think I have seen a non-wikilinked phrase disambiguated like this before. -- Brianhe (talk) 05:03, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

It wasn't. There was an ambiguous Monument Hill link inside of a template and I thought that was it. The link must have been in the {{Washington State hills and ridges}} template. I have removed that disambiguation. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 05:43, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
And now I've looked at how that template works and disambiguated the link appropriately. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 10:38, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

List of PSone Classics

Hi Niceguyedc. For the future: Cases like List of PSOne Classics look like disambiguation pages, but they shouldn't be tagged as such. They are lists of lists. You can leave (the links through) the redirect ending with "(disambiguation)" in place, it's not the only redirect to a list. Cheers LittleWink (talk) 14:56, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

I didn't tag it as a disambiguation page, I just cleaned up the links after it was tagged that way. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 00:13, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for the yeoperson

cleanup you did at List of United States post office murals. We , Buster and I, have taken on a large task of data entry here and (speaking for myself) often am as interested in just getting the job finished as going slowly and carefully and checking everything. It is comforting to have someone doing what you are doing behind us. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 04:08, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi

When are you coming back? We need you and your work on disam links :)--BabbaQ (talk) 12:10, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Good to see you back! :)--BabbaQ (talk) 12:54, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
Thanks! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 01:10, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for your contributions to Wikipedia! Bananasoldier (talk) 16:46, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
Thanks! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 22:49, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

History of Chechnya

I had to remove the changes made by a banned user (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Beh-nam/Archive 94.210.203.230). You can do your disambiguation fixes again if you want to. Oh and Happy New Year! Bladesmulti (talk) 22:53, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year! I'll take a look at it. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 22:59, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

A beer for you!

M8 - RoyalMate1 06:32, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 09:20, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

YOU magazine etc

Thanks for the fixups of the redirects for You (magazine). In trying to clear the mess, I thought I'd checked all the existing redirects (and a fair few articles did link to the wrong magazine) but obviously hadn't checked the What Links Here to "You (magazine) itself.

I was in two minds whether to put them on the existing DAB, so I thought it better initially to create a separate DAB which could then be easily merged if necessary (as indeed you have done). But I was remiss not to check those incoming links. Si Trew (talk) 08:21, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

It's all good. There were only 10-12 links. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 08:25, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Sunderland

Just a note to say that Sunderland, County Durham is a better link than Sunderland, Tyne and Wear for the timescale before 1 April 1974. Keep up the good work! Mjroots (talk) 10:31, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Ah. That makes sense. I'll keep that in mind. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 10:38, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Mahdaviat

Hi in Ali Al-Kourani article Mahdiism is not my purpose I want to point to Mahdaviat!Hananeh.M.h (talk) 14:04, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the disambiguations

Guru Fatha Singh Khalsa (talk) 21:43, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Rollback of Hz disambiguation

Please see edit summaries at [2] and [3] for explanation. SpinningSpark 17:24, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

It only "broke" 37 links, which isn't all that bad, and I fixed those links. There was little reason, however, to revert my disambiguation of those links, even if Hz is back to pointing to Hertz. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 19:20, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
There might be "little reason", but there is some reason: forcing the links to be piped unnecessarily adds, albeit slightly, to the "code clutter" in the edit window, which on some pages makes them virtually unreadable. SpinningSpark 20:31, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
This is not code clutter. The links are correct and what Niceguyedc did was right. There is much worse "code clutter" that this. Most importantly, Hz shouldn't point to Hertz, as explained at Talk:Hz. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:13, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Sacramento

I didn't realise how many incoming there were! It took me ages to do the first well you said 21 but I think I managed about 50 in the end. But the place in California is obviously primary, and I am not American, so I have no bias that way, but patently it is. I have just done the usual BRD and so my B, your R and now the D, thanks for doing so. Si Trew (talk) 12:00, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

It's all good. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 12:48, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
For your dab fixes!..Thanks a lot! Cheers, (FYI, you just defeated me here) ƬheStrikeΣagle 08:59, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 09:00, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
And another for fixing one of my links! YellowFratello (talk) 17:02, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 17:18, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

You are a bot?

You always do the same in all the items I have on my watchlist O_o.--McVeigh / talk 13:34, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Nope, I'm not a bot. But the list I work off of is the recently added list of ambiguous links. What pages are you referring to? -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 19:26, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
No, I am not referring to any particular page, just wondering, as I always see you do the same on many items.--McVeigh / talk 20:03, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

Rollbacker

I have granted rollback rights to your account. After a review of some of your contributions, I believe you can be trusted to use rollback for its intended usage of reverting vandalism, and that you will not abuse it by reverting good-faith edits or to revert-war. For information on rollback, see Wikipedia:New admin school/Rollback and Wikipedia:Rollback feature. If you do not want rollback, contact me and I will remove it. Good luck and thanks. 00:44, 20 January 2015 (UTC)– Gilliam (talk)

Thanks! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 00:49, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

It's the first page I've created, so I'm still learning, and the help is appreciated. User:Rowan_Adams 20 January 2015 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rowan Adams (talk • contribs) 13:21, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 19:10, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Epiphany

Hi Niceguyedc. I am confused. this page is nothing but a disambiguation page - it is even listed as such in the categories section at bottom. Did you have a look at it? I had a feeling that the copy-paste route is not how it is done, but I did it because the content of the page is 100% a disambiguation page. Please have a look. Thanks for your time. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 22:16, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

When there is no primary topic and many different possibilities for the target of a title, the base title (in this case Epiphany) is where the disambiguation page goes. The (disambiguation) title (Epiphany (disambiguation)) is used to redirect to the disambiguation page. The redirect should only be linked by pages intentionally linking to the disambiguation page (for example, the hatnote on Epiphany (holiday) links to Epiphany (disambiguation) because it is an intentional link to the disambiguation page). What this does is let those of us at WP:DPL (and the bots that help us) know that the link is intentional.
What was the intention of your copy-paste move? Were you planning to put something else at Epiphany? -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 22:33, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
I still don't understand. So is this one wrong? There is no primary (what appears here to be a primary is actually redirected), but it does not redirect to "Inside Information". Besides the technical aspects, don't you think that Epiphany (holiday) does in fact warrant being considered the primary? Thanks for your patience. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 23:01, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
@Rui Gabriel Correia: Inside information is the primary topic for that title, and it points to the article on the subject, which is called Insider trading.
As for Epiphany, if you want to put Epiphany (holiday) at Epiphany, you'll need to start a discussion on the talk page, following the procedure laid out at WP:RM#CM. You'll want to use this template (filling in the reason you want to make the move):

{{subst:requested move
| new1 = Epiphany (holiday)
| current2 = Epiphany
| new2 = Epiphany (disambiguation)
| reason = Place here your rationale for the proposed page name change, ideally referring to applicable naming convention policies and guidelines, and providing evidence in support where appropriate. If your reasoning includes search engine results, please default to Google Books or Google News Archive before providing any web results. Do not sign this.}}

which will ask for a discussion to move the disambiguation page to Epiphany (disambiguation) and then to move Epiphany (holiday) to Epiphany. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 00:06, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar of appreciation for you!

The Unexpected Demonstration of Caring Patience and Willingness to Help Barnstar
For your help on disambiguation. Thanks, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 11:55, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
Thanks! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 11:56, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

List of butterflies of China

Thankyou for that. I will be adding more species for couple of weeks. Can you return then ? All the best and thanks again 86.174.118.54 (talk) 12:03, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

If there are more links to disambiguate, I'm sure I'll be there. :) -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 12:09, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Request for cleanup

Hi, I appreciate your assistance in cleaning up the disambiguation for the surname "Sonti". Thank you for your contribution. I have recently made edits to make the description more concise, such as a disambiguation should be. Could you go over it for me?

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:9:7300:86B:4DE5:38E:16D1:6B3B (talk) 08:55, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

The second sentence uses POV language ("historically influential", "well known"), but other than that it looks fine. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 09:26, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Melchett

Thanks for fixing those Blackadder links; looks like I missed a few, sorry! Regards, Swanny18 (talk) 20:47, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 22:58, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for fixing the DAB links on the various "xxxx (year) in British music charts" articles, much appreciated - the DABs are old but because I've been restructuring the tables and updating the articles they appear on your watchlist as "new" DABs. I try and review every link to make sure they are correct, but with one hundred titles and one hundred names to check on every article, the odd one or two slip under the radar. Apologies in advance for the years 1990 to 2004, which I have yet to update: I'm sure I'm going to unintentionally give you more work to do. Cheers. Richard3120 (talk) 15:06, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

It's all good. With WP:CLEANER, it's pretty easy to clean up links. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 23:24, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Precious

Repaired 1 link to disambiguation page
Thank you, disambiguator of fame, for quality articles such as List of 2002 Seattle Mariners draft picks, for repairing thousands of links to disambiguation pages, creating redirects and dab redirects, for updating sports, especially the Seattle Mariners, for welcoming, warning and being a nice guy, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:13, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 13:38, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Lupton family

Thanks for your help. Can you please check the Lupton family page Cheers Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.105.232 (talk) 09:06, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Just one (Trinity College, Cambridge). Other than that all links are good. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 09:10, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi there Mike again and thanks. I have done another Lupton family edit - can you please check? Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.105.232 (talk) 09:52, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

All links are good. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 09:54, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

sorry - I have done a few edits on Charles Roger Lupton page and one more on the Lupton gfamily page - please check them all. The Lupton family edit is not quite right Thanks Mike - o — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.105.232 (talk) 10:18, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Lupton family looks good. I linked the post-nominals on Charles Lupton. I see a few instances of "O.R.", but I'm not sure what that refers to. The paragraphs on Charles could use a couple inline references, as you've done on the other Lupton articles. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 10:31, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Me again!

I really need your help please! Half way done the Lupton family page, I would like to have the heading Lupton Family in Leeds - and then, in ever so slightly smaller lettering underneath the word "Georgian". Then the following headings -- "Early Victorians" - and - "Later Victorians" - and - "20th century"- should be the same size as the Georgians heading do you know what I mean? Thanks Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.105.232 (talk) 10:51, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Check the article. Is that what you wanted? -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 11:01, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

you are so good to do this - it is ALMOST right! I may not have explained it too well.

I have tried to fix it up footnote number 32 and - Could you please put "italics" on the subheadings of the following men- Francis Martineau and descendants Arthur and descendants Charles and descendants Hugh and descendants

Thanks so much Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.105.232 (talk) 11:39, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

One last thing! Please check my refs on "Aspendale" (Australia) page Were you OK with those 4 sub-headings (4 men) in italics with the Lupton family page? Thanks Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.105.232 (talk) 11:47, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

The refs look fine, and so do the subheadings. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 11:56, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Hello Nice Guy Please could you check the ref number 33 on the Lupton family page- it has a "Help" sign in red at the end of it, so I am sure that it is not quite right Thanks again for your help. Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.105.232 (talk) 08:34, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

{{Cite web}} doesn't support the chapter parameter. I changed it to {{cite book}}, which does support it. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 08:38, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

Iron Springs, Colorado - thanks!

Thanks for your edit to Iron Springs, Colorado - and specifically the Wikipedia:INTDABLINK link in the edit summary. I learned something new today!--CaroleHenson (talk) 04:55, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Always glad to be of service! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 10:49, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your edits

Hi. I want to thank you for additional adding of shows to the Cartoon Network Asia page. I have for so long have wanted to update the list to the current lineup of the channel.so glad it's finally done! Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thuthu77 (talk • contribs) 02:13, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

I didn't add any content, a couple IPs did. I just disambiguated a couple links that the IPs added. But you're welcome either way. :) -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 02:59, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Free t-shirt for winning the January 2015 disambiguation contest

Congratulations! For winning the January 2015 disambiguation contest, you will receive a free t-shirt from the Wikimedia Foundation. It's been a while, so message me if you need me to send the details for claiming your prize. bd2412 T 02:50, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

February 2015

The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar
The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar is awarded to the winners of the Disambiguation Pages With Links monthly challenge, who have gone above and beyond to remove ambiguous links.
This award is presented to Niceguyedc, for successfully fixing 2984 links in the challenge of January, 2015. Rcsprinter123 (blab) @ 15:31, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
The Super Disambiguator's Bonus Barnstar
The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar is awarded to the winners of the Disambiguation Pages With Links monthly challenge (bonus list section) who have gone above and beyond to remove ambiguous links.
This award is presented to Niceguyedc, for successfully fixing 2837 links in the bonus list challenge of January, 2015. Rcsprinter123 (blab) @ 15:31, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Ling DAB

Thanks for DAB'g Richard Ling. I finished the job now. Bellagio99 (talk) 15:03, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Conyers baronets

Thanks for your work. Could you please place an accent over the word nee which appears before the words Bowes-Lyon - (this word, nee, means a woman's maiden name) on the page Conyers baronets in the section titled "Link with Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge" I am unable to do accents

Thanks from Mike

 Done Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 01:45, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks so much BUT- I see that on Conyers baronets page that references 3, 16, 17 and 18 all have red erors - can you fix them up? Cheers Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.180.220.233 (talk) 01:51, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

 Done -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 01:59, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

I promise this is the last time for the Conyers Baronet page I changed a heading but cannot work out how to do it The new heading is - The Fall of Conyers; Sir Thomas Conyers, 9th Baronet

This new heading should be the same size and font as the other ones in the article Can you please help Thanks from Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.180.220.233 (talk) 02:22, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

 Done -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 02:23, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

Confused

Hello. My intention for removing disambig links was the fact that first; its already mentions "multiple people", and second when I type for example Adam Johnson it doesn't redirect me as it does with Adam Johnson (disambiguation). Which makes me wonder what was the point behind your revert? In my opinion using Adam Johnson (disambiguation) is bad because it is an eye strainer when it comes to blue coloured link flashing under Adam Johnson. As you noticed I removed disambiguation only from those that had redirect, others remained.--Mishae (talk) 16:26, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Still confused. Why is Adam Johnson (disambiguation) is better then Adam Johnson if it redirects to it?--Mishae (talk) 00:43, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
If the link is just to Adam Johnson, then the link appears to be a link that needs to be corrected, because Adam Johnson is a disambiguation page, and linking to a disambiguation page is usually incorrect. How so? If the link is to Adam Johnson no correction is necessary since next to it it says either several or multiple people. I think we should discuss it broader somewhere because although I agree on using disambigs for misspellings I still see it wasteful to use them for various names.
According to the link that you provided it says that Links to disambiguation pages [from mainspace] are typically errors and that [With few exceptions], creating links to disambiguation pages is erroneous. If its erroneous, why creating them in the first place? If its much better to link to Adam Johnson and then put , several people.--Mishae (talk) 01:03, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
O.K. But can't we give the bot to mark only certain redirects? Like redirects in mainspaces rather everywhere? Why do everyone needs to know which link is intentional and which is not? Plus, if tools and bots look at Special:WhatLinksHere/Adam Johnson and find it there, can we set up a bot to ignore it since its not something that a bot should worry about? Like, a link to Adam Johnson from surname list is better then Adam Johnson (disambiguation) (the reason behind which I provided above).--Mishae (talk) 01:28, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Then maybe we should let the bot to report, but we as users will see which links need to be repaired and which aren't? Like, think of it this way, every user have a better thing to do then follow the bot around. For example, can we set a bot to ignore disambigs in surnames same way as it does with talkpages? If you know what I mean? P.S. I have posted my question on both talkpages, but I won't read probably by tomorrow evening.--Mishae (talk) 01:47, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
My opinion on the whole matter is that piping a link is irritating. True, maybe you don't see it that way, but even other language Wikipedias don't use it (perhaps because it already became outdated). O.K, they kind of do, but it looks like this:
  • Adam Johnson
Not in the surnames.--Mishae (talk) 02:07, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
The harm is irritation of that thing saying Redirected from Adam Johnson (disambiguation) right under Adam Johnson.--Mishae (talk) 02:11, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Well now I completely don't get it, user The Banner have went through the whole thing and removed half of the whole list?! Look here.--Mishae (talk) 02:32, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
To quote this question: Still confused. Why is Adam Johnson (disambiguation) is better then Adam Johnson if it redirects to it?--Mishae (talk) 00:43, 9 February 2015 (UTC) :
The link is better because it removes the link from the maintenance pages. Unfortunately, it is only a trick, not solving the issue. The Banner talk 03:04, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
And that's the trick to which I oppose since it doesn't solve the issue. My suggestion would to do something similar to Mukherjee. Any thoughts?--Mishae (talk) 04:36, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Mukherjee follows what The Banner is suggesting, not what you are suggesting above. There are no links to any disambiguation pages on Mukherjee. As I said on The Banner's page, I have no issue with that. My only issue is that if an intentional link to a disambiguation page is going to exist, it should pipe through the (disambiguation) redirect. If there are no links to disambiguation pages on the page, then its fine with me. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 04:40, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks!

Got your message and you were right that I inadvertently linked to a disambigulation page. Thanks for fixing it! Mdukas (talk) 17:41, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Roger Lupton

Hi Niceguy Could you please do the accent over the word "nee" on the Roger Lupton page - and please check all refs if that's possible. Thanks again Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.214.33.97 (talk) 00:44, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

 Done -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 04:32, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Precious

disambiguation
Thank you, incredible disambiguator, for quality articles such as List of Seattle Seahawks seasons and related templates and categories, for welcoming users and warning about not constructive editing, for your prime sport: help to the correct link in countless cased, including dab pages, redirects and dab redirects, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:53, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks again! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 15:36, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks!

Why on earth is it that Orange is such a common name for counties?! I'm more of a fan of blue... or turquoise. Why not Turquoise County?! :-p Seriously though, thanks for cleaning up those links! --Zackmann08 (talk) 17:06, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

There's only 8 counties there. Check out Washington County... :) -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 17:18, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Oh god.... why?!?! --Zackmann08 (talk) 18:06, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Request for your opinion

Good morning Niceguyedc! I noticed you've edited the topic Jimmy Edgar somewhat recently, and was hoping to collect viewpoints on an aesthetic issue. If you had a minute to contribute to the discussion/vote on the infobox photo, that would be very helpful. Earflaps (talk) 10:59, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks very much for fixing the FIFO mess !--Penbat (talk) 15:07, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 15:15, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

link to redirect to disambig rather than directly to disambig - why?

Hi there. Could you please explain why linking to a redirect to a disambig page is better than linking directly to the disambig page? I'm referring to Distribution (disambiguation) which redirects to Distribution as found in Probability distribution, Distribution (differential geometry)‎ and Distribution (economics)‎. There is no visible change to the user since you've renamed the redirect links the same as its target like this: Distribution. This seems odd to me. Tayste (edits) 19:53, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

@Tayste: Linking to the (disambiguation) redirect allows those of us at WP:DPL (and the bots that help us) know that the link is intentional. From WP:INTDABLINK (as it states it as well as I can):

Links to disambiguation pages from mainspace are typically errors. In order to find and fix those errors, disambiguators generate a wide array of reports of links needing to be checked and fixed. Because these reports can not distinguish instances where an editor has made such a link with the intent to point to the disambiguation page, the community has adopted the policy of rerouting all intentional disambiguation links in mainspace through "Foo (disambiguation)" redirects. This makes it clear that such links are intended to point to the disambiguation page.

-Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 20:24, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Hmmm, thanks. I did read that but still think it's odd. Why not have "(disambiguation)" in the title of the disambig page, with the ambiguous term page redirecting to that, instead of the other way around? Tayste (edits) 21:08, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
Policy is to have the disambiguation page at the ambiguous term if there is no primary topic (see WP:DABNAME). In my view, it makes funny business much harder when it comes to the ambiguous name. If the ambiguous name was always a redirect, someone could retarget that redirect to their favored topic and no one would be the wiser. Links to that page wouldn't trigger any of the disambiguator's lists, so incorrect links wouldn't easily be found. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 22:01, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
Thanks for your help! EnterTain20 (talk) 18:38, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Thanks -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 18:39, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Albert Ernest Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale

Hi could you please check all refs. for Albert Kitson 2nd Baron Airedale article Thanks again Michael — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.219.30.195 (talk) 05:20, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Looks good. No ambiguous links or reference errors. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 15:43, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Free t-shirt for winning the February 2015 disambiguation contest

Congratulations! For winning the February 2015 disambiguation contest, you will receive a free t-shirt from the Wikimedia Foundation. Message me if you need me to send the details for claiming your prize. Cheers! bd2412 T 16:48, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

March 2015

The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar
The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar is awarded to the winners of the Disambiguation Pages With Links monthly challenge, who have gone above and beyond to remove ambiguous links.
This award is presented to Niceguyedc, for successfully fixing 2108 links in the challenge of February, 2015. Rcsprinter123 (confide) @ 17:10, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
The Super Disambiguator's Bonus Barnstar
The Super Disambiguator's Barnstar is awarded to the winners of the Disambiguation Pages With Links monthly challenge (bonus list section) who have gone above and beyond to remove ambiguous links.
This award is presented to Niceguyedc, for successfully fixing 1967 links in the bonus list challenge of February, 2015. Rcsprinter123 (confide) @ 17:10, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Isthisuseful (talk) 22:26, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Barnstar of Diligence
I award you this Barnstar of Diligence correcting disambiguation mistakes which coincides with helping editors. -Thanks Otr500 (talk) 02:28, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 02:37, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Linking disambiguation pages

You seem to make a mistake, replacing direct links to disambiguation pages with redirected links to disambiguation pages, in Zeeland (disambiguation) and on several other pages. – Editør (talk) 15:58, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

@Editør: That's not a mistake at all. When intentionally linking to a disambiguation page, the link should be piped through the (disambiguation) redirect (per WP:INTDABLINK). This allows those of us at WP:DPL (and the bots that help us) to know that the link is intentional. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 16:25, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for the explanation. I'm not sure though, whether it's good policy to focus on maintenance/bots instead of human readers. – Editør (talk) 17:27, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
@Editør: WP:INTDABLINK is concentrating on human readers. There are currently over 148,000 links that point to disambiguation pages that need to be checked. Almost all of those links are intended to go to a specific page, not a disambiguation page. Without piping through the (disambiguation) redirect, there is no way for me or any other editor to know whether the link is correct or not without checking it. This time spent checking extra links takes us away from correcting links that are not intended to link to disambiguation pages. -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 17:36, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks very much for fixing the Reading, Berkshire disambiguation link that I included when adding football results. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bs1jac (talk • contribs) 21:54, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome! -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 21:57, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Dana Loesch edits

thank you for your good faith edits on the Dana Loesch page, it seems as though vandals have undone all the good work, introduced bias and have taken the page out of compliance by removing citations they believe to be mere blogs rather than widely accepted news sources Mach7X77 (talk) 17:56, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Family of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

hi Could you please insert the accent over the word "nee" which I have added to the page "Family of Duchess of Cambridge" thanks so much Mike — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.45.119.75 (talk) 01:07, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

 Done -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 02:17, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

François E. Matthes national guard fix

I recall my National Guard dilemma because there is not an exact link. However, the fix to United States National Guard page went too far astray. I've linked to the Royal Netherlands Army which is in the right country. I wanted to let you know of my correction in case my page is on your watch list. I do appreciate your notice and have cleaned all the ambiguous links you found. Thanks. Seblake (talk) 00:46, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

The notice was from the DPL bot, but I did fix the links (well, I fixed most of the links; the National Guard fix was incorrect, as you noticed and fixed). -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 00:56, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Disambiguations @ New Madrid, Missouri

Hello, I hadn't forgotten about those two links needing disambiguation...But, it was the 'headings' one that threw me. I tracked down a meaning for head that related it to 'staves.' -- A barrel head is the flat top or bottom of a barrel. (I edited the Barrel article & added this meaning of head to the Head disambig. page.) How did you decide on the heading/metalworking link? Just wondering.  :) P.S. Why have two users here asked you to put the accent mark on née? ~Thanks~ User:Floridasand

Looking at the sources, those are the only two definitions I can find that make sense. As far as née, it's the same user, and I think it is because I did it once a bit ago, so I keep getting asked. :) -Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 21:28, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
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