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Precious three years!

Precious

Three years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:22, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, and a question

Thanks for un-messing that move. Could I trouble you again for some help, so I can do it right this time? Anmccaff (talk) 17:41, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi Anmccaff. Now worries. How can I help? Rehman 03:47, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka

Thanks for your valuable contributions to improve the current article on the 2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka. I have added more content that it is the first ethnic violence to be held in the historic Kandy District since the Black July. You can further check my wordings and these information can be added to the discussion that you have started in Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates#March_8 to make this news as a headline in the main page of the Wikipedia. Thanks. Abishe (talk) 03:45, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Abishe. Feel free to suggest new blurbs at ITN, that includes those facts. :-) Rehman 03:47, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

@Rehman: A grenade blast has also occurred yesterday as a part of the violence and some newsreports have pointed out that a person has been killed after the blast of a hand grenade. So the dead count should be 3. Right![1] Abishe (talk) 11:42, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi again. Kindly post topics relating to that article on that talkpage. I'm watching that page :-) Thanks for your understanding. Kind regards, Rehman 15:15, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

ITN recognition for 2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka

On 9 March 2018, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article 2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 03:58, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Your revert

Fair enough, not gonna do any good. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.156.233.252 (talk) 12:36, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for understanding. Rehman 13:13, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for helping me on a project!Bobbybill22 (talk) 01:10, 14 March 2018 (UTC)BobbyBill22

My pleasure, Bobbybill22. :-) Out of curiosity, may I know which topic/article you're referring to? Cheers! Rehman 03:11, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

The List of United States hurricanes page, it really helped me on my project!Bobbybill22 (talk) 21:11, 14 March 2018 (UTC)BobbyBill22

Do you have anything on a F5 Tornado that struck Udall Kansas in 5/25/1955?Bobbybill22 (talk) 21:21, 14 March 2018 (UTC)BobbyBill22

Ah. I think I had done some minor work on that article more than seven years ago (assuming based on the talkpage post). Most of the work was done by User:Hurricanehink (and many other editors). For the 1955 tornado, have a look at 1955 Great Plains tornado outbreak.

Also, regarding this; that's just one of the standard welcome templates (no real-life adoption involved) :-) Let me know if you need any help. Cheers, Rehman 02:54, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Template:Infobox law enforcement agency

If you can let me know when it's fixed I am happy to go through the affected articles and mend their categories if it is necessary. Rathfelder (talk) 21:56, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Of course. I apologise for the delay; I'm juggling some urgent work in RL and on other Wikimedia projects. Will get it done soon. Cheers, Rehman 01:45, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Laxapana Power Station

If you are intending to convert a redirect page into a dab please have the courtesy to fix all the incoming links. As an admin you should know better. Wikipedia isn't just a place to promote your hobby. Don't create work for others.--Obi2canibe (talk) 13:38, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

I'm still working on those articles, there is no need to pull strings on unrelated subjects (i.e. my access to admin tools), as you seem to have been doing so with many other volunteers. While I do personally admire your work here on Wikipedia, I am well aware of the number of times you personally offended many other users. You are not only creating an extremely unfriendly environment here, but is also severely damaging the chances of the community growing in a friendly manner.

I know users who were extremely demotivated and reduced contributions thanks to your taunting such as above, including at lease one who vanished directly or indirectly due to your actions. I will tell this clearly and directly: If you continue this behaviour, either I or another admin will not hesitate to ban you from the community. I hope you understand. Rehman 14:02, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

How are you still working on these articles? You changed Laxapana Power Station to a dab two days ago. Was it hard to correct the incoming links?--Obi2canibe (talk) 14:10, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Rehman is kind, patient, incredibly knowledgeable and without a doubt knows wikimedia inside out. Even though I am a complete dunce regarding wiki he helped me at every stage and I now have a wonderful page which I am eternally grateful for. I count myself so lucky to have had the assistance of Rehman. He is a brilliant editor and a real gentleman Kareenza (talk) 06:12, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for the kind message, Kareenza. Please do feel free to reach back to me, or any of the other editors, if you need any help in the future. We'd be happy to help. Kind regards, Rehman 12:54, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

What was her name?

Rehman,

Who was that woman with you when we were having dinner? I couldn’t remember her username and I wanted to leave the link to Disappearance of Sneha Anne Philip on her talk page so she could get the Malayalam translation going. Daniel Case (talk) 20:04, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Hello Daniel. Her name is Netha (pinged here). That is a very interesting story! Take care, and see you around :) Rehman 06:05, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Stub articles

There is still a x namespace here: stub articles // Bod (talk) 01:10, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

Trout

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Hey Anish! Nice to see you again. I like your userpage Rehman 08:10, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Broken location map in

Hi Rehman, not sure if it is related to the changes you made, but it seems the location map is broken in the power station template. So you might want to take a look. I also raised it in the talk page Template_talk:Infobox_power_station#Broken_location_map. Vpab15 (talk) 23:10, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Hi. I've responded there on 29th Aug. Just noticed this talkpage message. Cheers! Rehman 07:17, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Chembox

Howdy! So after responding to your note about using wikidata on {{Infobox river}} I had a thought... Are you at all interested in joining the team working on the conversion of {{Chembox}}?? I don't have much experience with using wikidata. And by don't have much experience I mean "I've never done it... ever...". Would be great to get your insight! Feel free to {{ping}} me here or drop a note at Template_talk:Chembox#Convert_to_Infobox_(for_realz_this_time). Hope you are well! --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 18:08, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Hey there Zackmann08. Infobox and wikidata works are some of my favourites, but these days I'm going through a bit of a tough time in RL (hence my drastically reduced activity). 2018 has not been good for me. So I don't want to commit now, without knowing for sure that I can definitely help. If situations change for me, I'd definitely join! Thanks for the invite though :) Rehman 02:42, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Well my thoughts are with you my friend. I can certainly relate. 2018 has SUCKED. If you ever want to chat I'm on WP:DISCORD. If you feel like taking a look: {{Infobox chemical}} would love any feedback! --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 02:46, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you :) Rehman 03:31, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:20, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Gateway Group Comment

As the article stands it currently fails WP:NCOMPANY, simply because there is no evidence of significant coverage in multiple independent, reliable secondary sources. If there are no secondary sources added then I will be putting it up for an AfD, on this basis. It should be noted that the school was determined as not being notable. Given both our long standing involvement on Sri Lankan articles I am happy to let the matter lie for a week however if there are reliable secondary sources provided I'll reconsider my position. Dan arndt (talk) 05:47, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi Dan arndt. Thank you for taking the time to post this. I have no issues with it going through an AFD if that is what you want to do (although I would still vk). AFDs are a good place to weight in the points to keep or not to keep anyway. Best wishes, Rehman 05:52, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Image for the Kamchatka superbolide

I noticed you added an image of the fireball's smoke trail to the Kamchatka superbolide. Are you sure it isn't copyrighted? in my experience many of these japanese governmental research images are copyrighted. And if it's not, what do you think of adding the entire video of the event? https://i.imgur.com/7ygULHg.mp4 exoplanetaryscience (talk) 07:06, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Hello exoplanetaryscience. I initially though it was copyrighted, until I saw this template and this category. And since the video you linked is actually made up of a series of pictures from the same source, I think it may be alright. Btw, even though that link ends with .mp4, it is actually a gif (as you can see after downloading). Cheers, Rehman 13:07, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

And speaking of videos, I was scouring through the Himawari8 full-globe video archives dating the bolide moment and almost threw my laptop with sheer excitement when I was saw a massive orange blob pop and disappear within a second, almost exactly at the same position of the bolide, very close to the actual time of atmospheric entry. I just want to warn you to not throw your laptop (because it's obviously not what we think it is). I'll not spoil the surprise just yet (in case you're going through it too)! ;) Rehman 13:19, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Hahahaha, that's not what I expected at all! Well I suppose I should upload that gif, then. (I constructed it myself so I should hope I know what format it is!) exoplanetaryscience (talk) 18:12, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Wow, it must have taken a lot of bandwidth and time to make that gif, considering how large the original frames are. I'm sure it would go viral as there is definitely no 'video' of the bolide as far as I checked. Happy editing! Rehman 01:17, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Exoplanetaryscience: Btw, for licensing purposes, I think you must mention the individual frame ID's as well, since the gif itself is not by JMA. It is also best to state that the gif was made by you using those frames by JMA. Rehman 01:20, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Arabian Wikipages

Hiya. Thanks for dropping by - I've felt that frustration quite keenly and TBH have taken a bit of a back seat for now after a couple of bruising bust-ups. Wikipedia doesn't work if you care too much, I find. But, yes, the Arab world in general could use quite a bit of TLC!!! Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 04:32, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Geraldshields11

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National drink draft page

You recently rejected the CSD for National drink. Can you comment at Draft talk:National drinks why you don't think that's ready to replace this redirect? AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 23:09, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Hello User:AngusWOOF. I see that you have declined the draft article, as of 16 May. Did I misunderstand your request? If you intend to approve it, and move it to mainspace, I can go ahead with the deletion. Let me know. Rehman 04:19, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Rehman, yes, after further discussion, the newer draft is ready to go, so you can clear out the redirect. Thanks. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 06:00, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, User:AngusWOOF. Redirect deleted. Rehman 06:06, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

WikidataCon

Hi, Roy. Last time we talked, you commented about you were in a worry in your RL. I hope you were OK now. I saw you're going to be at WikidataCon in Berlin. I'll so glad to meet you there. The Saturday, October 26th, I'll show in a panel our infoboxes solutions. I hope you may be at the presentation. I wish take advantage of this opportunity to share with you a few comments I have about the ontology of power plants. See you soon ! Amadalvarez (talk) 20:27, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi Amadalvarez. Yes, the situation is steadily improving for me now. Thank you for the kind message. :) It is great to know you'll be there too, and I certainly look forward to meeting you! Rehman 02:48, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

I received your thank to my change in Pawan Danavi Wind Farm (Q19573638). See, the effect in cawiki infobox. See you, Amadalvarez (talk) 10:19, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

Category:Pages using infobox power station with default status

not sure why you deleted it when it's not empty. Frietjes (talk) 18:00, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

nevermind, just had to null edit about 50 articles. Frietjes (talk) 18:04, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi. The code was removed from the template, hence whatever was there was due to caching. It would have eventually cleared automatically. Cheers, Rehman 18:06, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Luis Enrique

Would it be possible to restore the original disambiguation page "Luis Enrique" to Luis Enrique (disambiguation)? It seems worthwhile to still keep. Thanks, S.A. Julio (talk) 02:26, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi S.A. Julio. Luis Enrique did not have any valid content before deletion, other than a direct copy-paste of the same article. It was not a disambiguation page. Rehman 04:38, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Hmm strange, what happened to this page? "Luis Enrique" was connected to the disambiguation page Wikidata property prior to deletion. S.A. Julio (talk) 09:59, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Good spotting, S.A. Julio. That page was renamed by User:Ae245 to the strange title of Luis Enrique (singer) (born 1962). I have renamed now it to Luis Enrique (disambiguation). Cheers, Rehman 10:14, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:22, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

Thank you Gerda! Rehman 14:01, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

Images

Rehman, good to hear from you. Just letting you know that I am not against images on articles being replaced by better images. Its just that sometimes it is debatable as to whether the new image is actually better than the existing one. In this case the use, who is not a new contributor, has a history of being arrogant and overriding over the people's opinions mostly without explanations. The images that they upload are often heavily photo-shopped, whereas my personal preference is for images to be as natural as possible. I also prefer that we have a range of images on different articles rather than replacing every single one of them, as this editor has done, with one single image - would be interested in your opinion on that.

I probably should have take the question of the Galle Lighthouse image to a broader debate sooner than I did rather than getting into an edit war. In respect to the Fort railway station and Maradana railway station, the featured image I believe should be the actual train station building not a relatively generic image of the train platform, which is why I changed it back. As always I appreciate your feedback as it gives a welcome balance - makes me rethink some of my actions. Dan arndt (talk) 01:44, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello Dan. Thank you for your neutral and respectful response. I completely understand your points. I know for a fact that both of you are really good civil editors, hence I felt the need to intervene. As an open encyclopedia made by so many diverse people, even the best of us are prone to disagreements, and the single best way would be to talk about it in a civil manner, as you rightly did so eventually. That being said, yes I did notice the 3RR being breached by the other user, without discussion. Taking it optimistically, it could be because of the pressure from subtle-and-repetitive personal attacks by that particular other user.

With regards to replacing images (without referring to any particular case): If the new image is clearly superior (or judged superior via discussion) and replaces 1-for-1 on one or more articles using the same previous image, then that should be fine, as it is still an improvement in Wikipedia's perspective. If more than one similar image is taken down for the replacement (2-for-1, etc), it is generally not ideal, but of course, debatable. That being said, if more images helps illustrate or describe the article better, than by all means increasing the number of images would most certainly be welcomed. I hope that answered your question? I agree with your point re Fort Railway Station (I don't see any issues with Maradana RS). It is just that the timing of that change seemed like a mass revert of the new images. An edit summary would always help :)

Again, thanks for talking about it. I'm also pinging User:A.Savin so we're on the same page. I'm most glad to help if needed (although my responses may be slightly delayed as I am at work). Warm regards, Rehman 04:03, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm glad that you finally found a place to discuss it, not just revert.

First, it is always better to talk to me straight if there is an issue I'm involved in; and not just somewhere about me. I'm open for suggestions and complaints, and of course I may sometimes make mistakes too, so nothing wrong to point to them.

I find this kind of claims untrue and disrespectful, because they suggest that any replacement done by me is kind of self-purpose, which is not. I'm working other way. I take pictures and upload, if the picture is still missing, or I'm convinced there is potential to improve it more than just a bit. This works the other way around too: you may replace a picture I had taken five, six, seven years ago, if the new one is really better -- more resolution and sharpness, less noise, more dynamic range (not to confuse with HDR though, which is often unnatural-looking), better light (e.g. more equal one, less of cast shadows), overall better composition; I certainly would not be angry about this.

We are all trying to make Wikipedia (and the sister projects) more and more professional. But this includes good photography as well. Wikipedia would be much poorer and not taken seriously by the public, if there were no excellent articles and all articles just were stubs of ~2kb each. But similar goes for the photos. A really good article requires good illustrations, simple as it is. And this is not something I thought out myself; you may look at the Image guidelines, just as example. The Commons Quality Images and Featured Pictures are not self-purpose, even though some people on Commons are seeing them so; in the end it's all about good illustration of encyclopedic contents.

Regarding the Galle Lighthouse pictures, you may just juxtapose both in full resolution and ask yourself if you see the difference? [2] [3] And additionally I think that the yellow building to the right is part of the whole complex and should not be cut. And not even the palms should.

If you still have questions, feel free to ask. --A.Savin (talk) 14:30, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

P.S. If you mean myself "has a history of being arrogant and overriding over the people's opinions mostly without explanations", I strongly disagree. --A.Savin (talk) 14:41, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Infobox mountain

Here are the tables

All parameter table

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Note that it encountered errors processing a few pages (which are not included in the list). I will have to investigate why, but for now, the articles not processed are Great Calva, Hen Comb, Hostýn-Vsetín Mountains, Mount Herzl, Mount Hopkins (California), Mount Huntington (California), and Template:VERTCON. Could be due to some hidden control characters or some other reason. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 00:14, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, Plastikspork. You're always helpful. Happy editing! Rehman 03:53, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Updated. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 20:53, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Fixed the remaining bad usages. Thank you! Rehman 01:55, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello Plastikspork and Hike395. Hope you guys are doing well. I apologise for disappearing for about 3 months. I had to attend to some personal matters, and time just flew. I have not checked any pages re the infobox yet, but will take a couple of days to catchup and complete what I started. I am aware that it's almost a year - that was pretty much expected, and the case with most previous infobox revamp projects of this scale. Slow and steady! :) Cheers, Rehman 13:58, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Compact list Lua function ready

I've finished the Lua-ified version of the compact list code. I wanted to show it to you, to see if you think it's not complex, before we bring the issue up at WT:MOUNTAINS.

• The Lua code is at Module:Sandbox/Hike395/Compact list.
  • The core code is only 18 lines of shim code, all of the formatting is handled by existing (standard) libraries that are underneath {{Collapsible list}} and {{enum}}.
• The tests for the code are at Module talk:Sandbox/Hike395/Compact list/testcases, which gives you an idea of what the code does
  • All of the tests look for arguments "ook": either "ook" by itself, or followed by an optional _, followed by a digit string
  • The code then "pretty prints" all of the strings, in numerical order. The unnumbered "ook" argument always comes first.
  • For lists with four or fewer items, the "pretty printing" uses {{enum}}, producing strings like "A, B, C and D"
  • For lists with more than four items, the "pretty printing" uses {{Collapsible list}}, which makes an unbulleted list that is collapsed by default. This makes the infobox much shorter.
  • You can change the threshold of four by setting |_limit=
• The usage of the Module is shown at Template:Infobox mountain/sandbox2.
  • Notice that all of the complexity of the long lists of parameters is now gone, replaced by one line: {{#invoke:Sandbox/Hike395/Compact list}}. It's now much simpler
  • The Check arguments code at the bottom also accepts Lua parameters, so everything works consistently.
• The test cases for the updated template are at Template:Infobox mountain/testcases2. Everything is identical.

We can certainly discuss whether to remove the numbered parameters at WT:MOUNTAINS, but I'm hoping that we don't need to discuss how complex the template is, because I believe this is a definite simplification for editors who want to understand and change Template:Infobox mountain. What do you think? — hike395 (talk) 06:17, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi there. Acknowledging this message. Stuck with work, will look into this as soon as I get time. Cheers, Rehman 12:00, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi again, User:Hike395. Thank you for taking the time to do this, and for the explanation. While this is shorter in length of code, my point is that this still means hosting a separate module in addition to the existing infobox template. The module would also be in a completely different language (Lua), which the majority of our editors are not familiar with. Because of these points, I'm afraid I am not comfortable with supporting this approach unless there is a real need for it.

As per the table I posted on the template talk, only the first in the series are mostly used, and that too by a very minuscule amount of articles (1% or less). Further in the series are mostly empty. Due to this, stating the values would be neater and simpler in a list format via a single parameter, instead of a sentence format in a conditional prose format.

Please do reconsider this for the sake of infobox standardisation and simplicity. If not, of course, we could continue with community feedback. Although as you can see, this would take some time as not many volunteers are interested in such trivial technicality. Thoughts welcome! Cheers, Rehman 11:28, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

How about this. You've made many proposed simultaneous changes to the infobox. I think we need to break down the changes into smaller units, where we can get consensus about each one. At WT:MOUNTAINS, let's first discuss adding wikidata fallback to the infobox (which I generally support). We can then separately discuss the removal of groups of parameters: the imperial/metric parameters, and the numbered-list parameters. Let's do that afterwards.

You may have misunderstood my suggestion about using {{EditOnWikidata}}: I was proposing putting a pencil icon next to every infobox field that used wikidata fallback (so that an editor can change it at wikidata). No pencil icon should appear if the value is provided locally.

If you will allow me, I can take the current sandbox version, add the pencil icon(s), temporarily revert the removal of the parameters. I also want to carefully understand all of the parameters of the call to Module:WikidataIB. I'd also temporarily revert the update to the documentation file. After the wikidata edits settle down, we can go to the more controversial parameter changes and gradually restore the proposal. Let's take this one step at a time.

May I edit the sandbox down to a first proposal step? I may need to ask you some questions, because I don't understand some of your edits. — hike395 (talk) 21:13, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

In fact, what I'm advocating for is |noicon=false in the WikidataIB calls, so the edit I'm envisioning would be quite easy. — hike395 (talk) 21:44, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Hike395, yes I agree that I should have structured the discussion in a way that it is easier to discuss each part. I had to post all point together though, as they are interlinked. For example:

• A single bot run can merge duplicate parameters (i.e. coords/coordinates), reassign usages, nest within convert, etc. Rather than doing many bot sweeps.
• Wikidata coding will drastically change based on what is needed. Even though adding the wd-support is probably an easy consensus to reach, I think we should delaying adding the remaining support until the end of most parts of the discussions, so we know what we have on our plate.

I have now added subheadings for easier discussions on each topic. Please feel free to make amendments if necessary.

Regarding the documentation. I have now moved the WIP documentation to Template:Infobox mountain/sandbox/doc. The main documentation is now the original.

And as for the pen icons, would you be able to raise that up on the template talkpage please? Even a simple poll is fine, as IMO this is more of a cosmetic/preference thing. My personal opinion is to not include the pen for each field (and have a single "edit on wikidata" button) as having many icons would clutter the infobox (example: Arecibo Observatory). You must also note that, if we do keep the parameter series and the pen icons, all of those series will point to the same parameter on wikidata, hence it would only add to the clutter.

Feel free to alert other editors from other venues (i.e. WT:MOUNTAINS), but since these discussions are about the infobox template functions, lets keep the conversations itself on the template talkpage, for the sake of transparency and easier collaboration with everyone. Best wishes, Rehman 03:40, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Colombo International Financial City

Hi Rehman,

Splendid job on Colombo International Financial City; just wanted to know if there was any possibility to update its' name to Port City Colomb. As the financial district is merely a part of the project and not the entire project. Also we (Port City) would like to know, if there was any possibility for us to collaborate, and update the entire page. Please do let me know, if that is a possibility. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nisuri (talk • contribs) 06:38, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello Nisuri. Thank you. While I did create the article, a lot of other editors helped improve the article too. See here for stats. Regarding editing the article directly (considering that you work for Port City Colombo), it is very important that you read and understand Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. Once you understand those policies, it should be fine as long as the claims that are made are also properly referenced; see also Wikipedia:Citing sources.

Regarding the name of the article, you could request for the article to be renamed. See Wikipedia:Requested moves. For now, I've created redirects so that people searching for Port City Colombo or Port City of Colombo would be automatically redirected to Colombo International Financial City. Cheers, Rehman 06:10, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Re-creating a deleted draft page before

Hello, I created a draft page before about a photography artist "Cem Bayoğlu" who already has a page on another language of Wikipedia (Turkish language) but it was rejected. After a couple of corrections I requested for "deleting" for the draft page and It was deleted by you. (thanks for that)

I am not very experienced writer so now I think i made some mistakes on that previous article. I checked many pages to understand wiki rules & style and i wrote a better article and published again. Kindly would like to ask that if you can check my new article?

Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cerrenfly (talk • contribs) 12:04, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi Cerrenfly. I don't normally work at AFC, but based on a quick look at Cem Bayoğlu, the article seems fine. I'd like to know more about the photo you uploaded though; File:Cem Bayoglu.jpg. Would you be able to clarify where on the source does it state that the photo is released into the public domain? Rehman 05:46, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi Rehman. Thank you for your time and I am glad for that. Yes, the photo was published by himself on his public site and the social media. Nice day. Cerrenfly (talk) 18:37, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello Cerrenfly. I'm afraid the source website of the image must clearly state that the photo is in public domain (as the current license tag states). If not, the photo will have to be deleted. The website publicly displaying an image does not imply it is in public domain. Waiting for your reply. Rehman 03:46, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi again Rehman. I sent an e-mail from his contact page and ask if they can put CC-By-NC logo under the artist's photo on Cem's official page for this kind of non commercial articles. I think this will solve the problem, is that right? Thanks. Cerrenfly (talk) 02:05, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello. Not quite. The license should have to be CC0, CC-BY, or something similar. See Commons:Licensing. Rehman 03:22, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Hello Rehman. They put a CC-By license under that photo in his web site. Thanks. Cerrenfly (talk) 12:09, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Great, thanks! I've updated the license template. Cheers, Rehman 12:59, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. Cerrenfly (talk) 14:05, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Trevor Lawrence (disambiguation)

I'd be grateful if you might give a more detailed insight into your exact criteria under G6 for speedy deletion of this page, which has, in effect, closed an ongoing proposed move discussion (for that page and an article) that had only just begun (with no consensus reached) as well as destroying encyclopedic content (which you didn't see fit to move elsewhere).

If you have an opinion on whether the page should exist, it would be constructive to add it to the discussion at Talk:Trevor_Lawrence_(American_football)#Requested_move_23_April_2020.

Also, WP:RM states that discussion there shouldn't be closed till seven days have passed, not a mere few hours.

Llew Mawr (talk) 12:32, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

I profusely apologise. It doesn't appear any content has been deleted and deletion was indeed a technical one. I couldn't find the page content due to a caching issue with Wikipedia. Llew Mawr (talk) 12:44, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

That's perfectly fine. Happy editing. Rehman 12:47, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Udaweriya Mountain I - You have undo my edit

Hi,

Can you please let me know why did you undo the edit done by me?

Udaweriya Mountain is 2060m tall and it is the tallest summit in Uva Province. You can check from Survey department maps if you need.

Here is some more info on it.

http://trips.lakdasun.org/the-highest-peak-of-uva-province-udaweriya.htm

As we all know that the highest mountain in Uva province is Namunukula, but now I got confirmed that the highest mountain in Uva is not Namunukula, its Udaweriya I mountain. There is another mountain separately adjoining to this peak and it was named as Udaweriya II. The list of highest mountains in Uva Province as below.

• Udaweriya I – 2060m (6.794773, 80.865479)
• Namunukula – 2036m (6.933014, 81.113595)
• Udaweriya II – 2016m (6.788733, 80.863480)
• Idalgashinna (Highest Peak) – 1960m (6.783974, 80.879964)
• Beragala Kanda – 1780m (6.773446, 80.915210)
• Narangala – 1500m (7.040238, 81.022066)

BR, Manjula — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.135.47.169 (talk) 13:47, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello Manjula. I'm sorry but I have reverted your edit again, as you did not provide reliable sources. Please post at Talk:List of mountains of Sri Lanka to discuss. Thank you, Rehman 17:18, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

Please do not mark unresolved discussions as "resolved"

I am upset that you marked the discussion at Template talk:Infobox mountain#Combining parameter series as Resolved. We were clearly disagreeing, and there was no consensus for a change. Per WP:NOCON, if there is no consensus on a removal of something, that something is kept. I don't see why I have to keep repeating my opposition every week or so: we haven't yet found an acceptable compromise. Please see WP:SILENCE#What does not constitute silence. Let's take this to WT:MOUNTAINS to see if we can get more community input.

I've asked several times that we make incremental changes to the infobox and not make one big change. We've agreed on how to proceed with Wikidata. That will require a large amount of work. Please: let's start working on that, and leave these more contentious decisions for later after we've improved the infobox. — hike395 (talk) 13:14, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Calm down. If you want to reopen that, that's perfectly fine, and I see you already have done so. You did not respond to that after two replies with a ping for a month, and that is the only reason I marked it as resolved. Let's keep the discussion there, please. Rehman 14:44, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

With reference to sufism

Respected administrator Can you please me with the article related to Sufi IslamMaizbhandariya (talk) 14:48, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello. I see you have posted at the Teahouse, and another editor has responded. Trust this is resolved? Rehman 15:05, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Your estimate of automatic zoom usage is off by 2 orders of magnitude

See [4] — hike395 (talk) 06:08, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Based on #Infobox mountain above:

• Total infobox uses: 24,357
• Width_km usage: 328

328 ÷ 24,357 = 0.0134. The infobox takes into account length_km and width_km, right? Rehman 06:18, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Oh right, sorry. Should be 1.34%. My bad. Rehman 06:19, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Use Infobox mountain sandbox?

Hi, Rehman. Could you use the sandbox for your Infobox Mountain edits before they go live? That would help catch bugs (like the isolation_m mistake). I'm happy to check each batch of code before it goes live, or ask questions if I don't understand what's going on. — hike395 (talk) 09:10, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi. Sure. Rehman 09:15, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks! What we can do is perhaps do ~daily updates of the live template as you work? You can ping me when you're done with a batch. We can also make test cases for any problems. For example, the padding that you removed does make a visible change. That's why I restored it, previously. Putting into the sandbox would have revealed this in the testcases that already exist. Also: it isn't clear that the photo caption fetched from the P2096 qual of P18 is actually the caption for the photo fetched from P18. I've seen wikidata entries with multiple photos at P18, only one of which had a photo caption. So we can end up with a caption for the wrong photo. I saw this when I put in the tracking category for photo.

Could you perhaps revert the changes you've made in the last 24-48 hours and put them into the sandbox instead and let me check them carefully? — hike395 (talk) 09:28, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

The wikidata photo code does not do anything currently (as we agreed to add the code, but not enable it yet). When enabled, photo+caption will be taken from the best rated file. I.e. If more than one file is added, one must be marked as preferred. This is a situation with any values (i.e. suppose two elevations are added, the one to be displayed must be set preferred, or the other must be deprecated). That being said, a different file's caption won't be added to a file being used. That's not possible with the updated code. If you do come across such, I'd be very interested to look in that and escalate if necessary.

While I will only make the changes per consensus, I don't agree with someone having to authorise my edits, I'm sorry. That's not how Wikipedia works. As the usual case with anything onsite, you are most welcome to provide feedback on my edits, and I will certainly look at them when time permits. And if something is clearly broken, anyone is also welcome to revert. But keep in mind that changes takes time to replicate, so you might be looking at an interim result (as we witnessed earlier). If it's something that can wait a bit, kindly do message first. This is only to avoid replication lag due to back and forth changes.

Please do consider posting feedback such as above at Template talk:Infobox mountain since we have an open thread there, and so that the discussions are at one place.

Regarding the Special:Diff/955533877, I noticed you added all four styles back. Would you be able to help me in identifying the changes for each please? Other than probably a few pixels movement of the image and/or map (which should have been fixed with the new image code, and will get fixed for the map), I did not see any other change... Rehman 14:27, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Retiring user

Hello. I've requested my own sandbox to be deleted as I'm permanently retiring on this wiki. Please let others know about my situation right now. This was hard for me to explain to myself why I'm considering retirement even though you only have been active for a month and had a hundred edits. I want all of my traces left to be deleted on the archives. I guess, I have now left my final message. Regrets. Wikipedia is my only encyclopedia KMagz04 (talk) 06:36, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi. I'm sorry you feel this way. If there is anything else which I can help you with, feel free to let me know. Kind regards, Rehman 06:41, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello Rehman. It's been 2 days now and I'm not feeling well. I have made a minor edit on these templates [5] and [6] added a wikilink to the air crash article that I've created late-April. If I would not come back in 2 weeks, then feel free to add my user name in the Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians. Thanks. KMagz04 (talk) 02:57, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Infobox port

Well done with all the work. You may be interested in a dscussion I just started at here Fob.schools (talk) 13:45, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll have a look. Rehman 13:49, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello

Hey Rehman, how have you been? I've been caught up in life the last few years; house, kids, etc.--NortyNort (Holla) 19:59, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi NortyNort. Great to hear from you again! :) It's been quite some years since we last spoke I think. I'm alright, just keeping myself occupied with work (from home) and Wiki (so that I don't go crazy being stuck at home). Any plans on coming back on board? Rehman 08:40, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

I am not sure if I will ever be on board like the 2011/10 days but I am going to try to get back into things. A lot of articles to update and create. Are you still working in the energy space? I am working from home too. Hopefully this all ends safely and soon.--NortyNort (Holla) 23:49, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

PS I get an edit conflict error most of the time when I hit publish. Is this some new issue?--NortyNort (Holla) 23:50, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Yes, I'm still active on energy topics, as well as couple of others. It would be nice to see you around again. I'm working from home as well :) What's the page you're getting the edit conflicts on? Perhaps it is actually a high traffic page? Or, do you double-click the publish button? If I remember correctly, doing so could trigger an edit conflict with yourself. Rehman 04:14, 28 May 2020 (UTC)