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Merry Christmas!

Happy new year!
We wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year! Pass a Method talk 20:39, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

Update...

Hey man - could I get another update for User:Failedwizard/Disability_redlinks? Hope you're keeping well...  :) Failedwizard (talk) 22:26, 11 January 2012 (UTC) Cheers! :) Failedwizard (talk) 11:14, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

1927–28 Leicester City F.C. season

Hi. The redirect you created from 1927–28 Leicester City F.C. season to 1927-28 Leicester City F.C. season is actually the wrong way round. The content should be at 1927–28 Leicester City F.C. season, while 1927-28 Leicester City F.C. season should be the redirect. The article title with the dash (as opposed to the hyphen) meets WP:DASH guidelines as well as agreed WP:FOOTY conventions. Would you be able to fix it as I think it needs an admin to tidy this up? Thanks. --Jameboy (talk) 13:19, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Done. Shout if not right - all these dashes look the same to me. - TB (talk) 16:36, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Missing Stubs

Thanks again for your recent help. Can you also refresh this report?

You left instructions on the talk page. Dawynn (talk) 12:17, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Done. TB (talk) 14:21, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for that. I have tried to update everything on the current list. Can you please refresh the list? Dawynn (talk) 15:08, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
In progress .. the toolserver's a little bit ill today, but I'll try to coax it into rebuilding this in the next few hours. - TB (talk) 17:56, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Bah - no progress. The toolserver's a little bit sicker than I first guessed. Will have to revisit this update in a few days, sorry. - TB (talk) 23:36, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
Success - TB (talk) 18:30, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
For the creation of the Cross-Namespace Redirect tool that I use on a daily basis, I award Topbanana the Technical Barnstar. ~ Matthewrbowker Talk to me 00:46, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
Ta - always nice to receive positive feedback. I'd almost forgotten about the cross-namespace redirect tool, glad to know it's still doing its job. - TB (talk) 07:33, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Topbanana,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and

Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's

Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we

teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community,

and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what

you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community

[[Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_82#Learn_to_be_a_Wikipedia_Administrator_-

_New_class_at_MSU|HERE]], where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my

students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training,

motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one

of our students.


So a few things about the interviews:

  • Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
  • Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of

communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)

  • All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will

never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.

  • All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an

interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.

  • The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics

review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have

been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.


Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak

with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I

will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your

name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be

more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Young June Sah --Yjune.sah (talk) 21:54, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

The Poul Møller saga

You might be interested in Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2012_February_25#Poul_M.C3.B8ller_.28disambiguation.29, which seems to be a muddle triggered off by a typo of yours! It happens. PamD 08:50, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Ta. - TB (talk) 09:40, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Stub report refresh

Could you please refresh these two reports when you get a chance?

Thanks! Dawynn (talk) 22:14, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Done. TB (talk) 22:23, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Would it be possible to see a version of the Uncatted stubs report with a larger focus? Maybe those templates that are not tied to a category but have more than 50 articles? (If that report had more than a few hundred, try 55 articles) Basicaly, I'd like to see those that just need a few more articles to be considered mature. Dawynn (talk) 18:22, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Done. TB (talk) 22:06, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Could you please refresh these reports and the missing stubs report again? Thanks in advance! Dawynn (talk) 18:52, 7 March 2012 (UTC)


No problem - all done. - TB (talk) 09:10, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

I think you should know I left that link to County Road 464(Marion County, Florida) deliberatley in that condition, because all the evidence I've seen indicates that it frequently changes between County Road 464 and County Road 464B. Otherwise I wouldn't have reverted your fixes to the List of county roads in Marion County, Florida. ----DanTD (talk) 15:32, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Howdy, DanTD. Not at all offended by your reversion, but a shade confused. Are you asserting that County Road 464(Marion County, Florida) and County Road 464 (Marion County, Florida) - differing only in that one has a space before the open bracket - are the correct names of two distinct encyclopaedic entities ? - TB (talk) 23:21, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
I forget why one has a space and the other doesn't, but I left the one without the space there because of the distinction between the two CR 464's. The one that has the space is for the direct extension of Florida State Road 464 southeast of Ocala. The one that I left without the space is for the one that seems to change between CR 464 and CR464B. Not necessarily encyclopedic, but it is a way to avoid an incorrect redirection. I really wanted to tell you what was going on so that an edit war doesn't start between us, or the administrators don't see what's going on and block either of us for 3RR violations, and such. ----DanTD (talk) 00:19, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
Ta for letting me know. I've given the links more descriptive names and distinctive targets for now to make it clear they refer to different things. - TB (talk) 06:50, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Patrick J. Flynn

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Common eland listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Common eland. Since you had some involvement with the Common eland redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Sainsf <^> (talk) 08:07, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Roberto Hernandez

I can fix them myself. Wikicleaner isn't automated in any way. It essentially just loads the pages faster and a bit more conveniently but that's really it. Thanks for the catch. --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 03:39, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

: if you're the TB of this new tool, and if it's trivial, would it be possible to exclude redirects? アナキン・スカイウォーカー features near the top of the 20+ on the ja wikipedia - the transliteration/translation ?Anakin Skywalker? seems to be a redirect on the en wikipedia to Darth Veda; thanks though, cool tool, Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 12:34, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi there. The tool is showing that ja:アナキン・スカイウォーカー contains no link to the English-language Wikipedia. It makes no suggestion that en:Anakin Skywalker would make a suitable inter-language link. If I do extend the tool to make such suggestions, I will be sure to deal with redirects appropriately. Thanks for your feedback, and extra-thanks for the bananas. Nom nom nom. - TB (talk) 15:58, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

May 2012 stub report refresh

Could you please refresh these two reports when you get a chance?

Thanks! Dawynn (talk) 18:34, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Done. - TB (talk) 06:50, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Edward Johnson (mayor)

Thanks so much for removing the {{noindex}}. I had used it when I was working on the draft in user space and completely forgot to remove it when I put in article space. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 10:28, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Maunus

Missed the request. The whole thing makes me a bit sick. Not just Dale Chock, the other attacks recently, in one case requiring rev/del. He was an extremely valuable editor and a number of articles will suffer, some because we'll lose his excellent contributions, others because they will become more pov. Dougweller (talk) 09:46, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

We still don't delete usertalk pages (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 11:17, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
That's what I thought. Dougweller (talk) 12:29, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
It's good - it's been undeleted, and is still in use, actually. All in all, unfortunate though (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 13:02, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Uncategorized location map templates report

Thanks! DH85868993 (talk) 21:39, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Re:Raymond Janin

Hallo
thanks for reminding me to add the citation! I just did it, and I hope that it is OK now. BTW, I don't think that the article makes him justice. For me he has been a true giant in his field. Ciao, Alex2006 (talk) 11:24, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

I quite agree - I was disappointed when I couldn't find enough reliable source material to give him a better article. Glad you've had more luck than me. - TB (talk) 16:50, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Aluminium zirconium trichlorohydrex gly listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Aluminium zirconium trichlorohydrex gly. Since you had some involvement with the Aluminium zirconium trichlorohydrex gly redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Elvey (talk) 05:59, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

MacDonald Airfield

Ah. I used o instead of 0. The zero is above the o on the laptop keyboard. Thanks for catching it. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 16:56, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Superduper :) - TB (talk) 16:58, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

WP:MMA

Thanks for helping to make MMA articles on wikipedia better! In September 168 people made a total of 956 edits to MMA articles. I noticed you haven't listed yourself on the WikiProject Mixed martial arts Participants page. Take a look, sign up, and don't forget to say hi on the talk page.

Kevlar (talk) 05:20, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Junior Boys

Hello! Ahh five years ago. It was me making some not so great edits on wikipedia, which probably explains why the Tiny Flag icons are still in that infobox. Probably shouldn't be there. That re-direct was probably just a noobie escape. Feel free to delete, remove, get rid of it as you see fit. Thanks! Andrzejbanas (talk) 23:03, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Anna K

There's more than one opera called Anna Karenina: Adaptations_of_Anna_Karenina#Opera I'm not sure I would call the move non-contraversial. Recommmend you come to the talk pages. Yours, almost-instinct 20:43, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Ah - I see the issue. I was tidying up the redirect from Anna Karenina (opera ) to Anna Karenina (Hamilton) and seem to have thought Talk:Anna Karenina (Hamilton) was Talk:Anna Karenina (opera ). All sorted now. Ta for the heads up, and apologies for any incomvenience. - TB (talk) 21:21, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
No problem. Thanks for sorting it :-) almost-instinct 22:54, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Please rerurn stub reports

Please recreate these three reports:

Thanks! Dawynn (talk) 12:49, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

First one's in progress (takes around 8 hours). Numbers two and three are done. Enjoy - TB (talk) 13:27, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
All done. Enjoy. - TB (talk) 22:22, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

Most wanted articles

Thanks for posting the most wanted articles. I'm active in WikiProject Medicine and I was wondering if there was a way to create a most wanted list of articles, but only counting those tagged as under our project. Could you please reply here, if you don't mind, where this idea had its origin? Thanks for your time. Biosthmors (talk) 22:27, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Spectacular. Thanks! Biosthmors (talk) 16:48, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

The notoriuos wiki troll ( Iaaasi) returned

Hello!

The well known chauvinist romanian wiki-troll User:Iaaasi returned (with a new croatian fake identity) He is now active alias user: Irji2012 He is often active in Hungarian-related aricles, he enjoy edit-warring deleting good sources and sentences from important articles, and he like to break the rules of wiki even 3 revert rule. Can you arrange about this notorious wiki-troll? Thank you! Peter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.0.49.97 (talk) 11:19, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Hurricane season bar end

The coding you added earlier to Hurricane Season bar end has managed to break several of the Southern Hemisphere button bars, probably because the SHEM seasons span two years rather than 1.Jason Rees (talk) 23:37, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

All fixed now. Ta for letting me know. - TB (talk) 09:25, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Support for Ukrainian Wikipedia in RLRL

Hi! Is it possible to add support for Ukrainian Wikipedia in the Red Link Recovery Live tool? --DixonD (talk) 09:42, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Done. I will add more sets of suggested corrections later today. Have fun. - TB (talk) 14:30, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Thanks a lot! A little suggestion. In the list of available languages, please, change "Вікіпедія" to "Українська" which means Ukrainian in Ukrainian:) --DixonD (talk) 11:42, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
Done, ta. - TB (talk) 14:39, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

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Speedy deletion nomination of Untold Stories Mula Sa Face To Face

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Thanks again

I had high hopes for Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Red links but it included many templates on pharmaceutricals I don't think our project was very interested in. Do you think there could be a way to run another report that would exclude what is inside of those pharmaceutical templates? FYI, I don't know if something similar exists or has existed but WP:TOPRED now exists. I think it's a pretty cool page that has inspired things to turn blue. Biosthmors (talk) 00:19, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

I have regenerated the list in a simpler form, omitting red links arising from templates - hopefully this will prove more useful. - TB (talk) 20:43, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
Fantastic. Thanks. I'll let people know at the talk page there. =) Biosthmors (talk) 20:58, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

interwiki report

Hi! I saw Wikipedia_talk:Database_reports and Wikipedia_talk:Wikidata_interwiki_RFC#Common_sense and was wondering if you could generate a list of article names in order of number of interwikiwikilinks on the page ? Maybe just the first 100,000 or so? Possibly split into seperate lists for my bot to run through. ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 15:26, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

I have posted the 10,000 namespace 0 title containing the largest number if interlangauge links at User:Addshore/most_interwiki for you. Please let me know if you'd like the format adjusted, or if you need more results. Cheers. - TB (talk) 15:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Format is perfect! I have added the list you provided to User:Addbot/check. Would it be possible to create a webpage that I could go to somewhere on toolserver what would generate the list for me as every time the bot runs through the 10,000 I would need 10,000 more :) And that may only take 4 or 5 hours if my quick calculation is correct. ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 18:37, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
Okaydokay. I've popped the next 8 sets up at the same location for you. For general efficiency, I'd suggest we wait 24 hours after completing these before re-generating the entire list - one assumes the articles containing the most interwiki links after the first processing run are still those of most interest. - TB (talk) 13:23, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
I spotted, the bot is working through them now. Is there any chance you could also periodically post a table similar to Wikipedia_talk:Wikidata_interwiki_RFC#Common_sense on the page you created in my user space so that I can track the progress? Cheers! ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 15:23, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Just thought I would let you know the first run should be coming to an end (i.e. all pages checked) in 20 mins! I'll be waiting for the next lists :) Cheers! ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 00:59, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
Stats updated, but definitely funky. A quick check shows two things; firstly, something has been adding wikidata interlanguage links to a lot of user-pages. Secondly, changes that should be showing up in the langlinks database table on the toolserver are not - this could be due to changes in replication following the wikidata go-live. More once I have it. - TB (talk) 10:10, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
Okay, have looked at this now; it's not a problem with toolserver replication or the activities of any bot. The semantics of the underlying langlinks table have been broken by Wikidata - there is no longer a one-to-one correspondence between data and information. Long story short, I can't tell from the database alone why an inter-language link exists (Wikidata or article). I'll keep chasing. - TB (talk) 11:26, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
Wow! Those stats really do look very special! Thanks again for the lists! ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 12:38, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
Second run all done, ready for another list. ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 10:57, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
would it be possible to get list generation on a page on the tool server web space? Maybe a page to trigger the request and a text file output? This way I could make the not automatically request and get a new list after it had completed a run! Maybe a smaller limit per list as well if you could implement something like this on tool server such as 250 or 500 per list / request, (or an optional value with an upper limit on the generating page) cheers. ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 19:16, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Quick and nasty tool popped up on the toolserver for you. Alas, because of the problem with the undelrying database table, you'll need to continue procesing from 180K: start here. Good luck. - TB (talk) 11:21, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

It looks lovely! I have written a little script to fetch the a selection of articles each minute. You can take a look at User:Addbot/iwval.js for where I currently am! Thanks for all of your help, just 1 last question! How many articles are in this list? :) ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 12:38, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
All articles with an interlanguage link - about 2.2 million. Current distribution over the list:
List from List to Number of interlanguage links
1 138,208 >=20
138,208 213,433 15-19
213,433 282,528 12-14
282,528 349,369 10-11
349,369 395,037 9
395,037 452,332 8
452,332 521,859 7
521,859 604,465 6
604,465 711,656 5
711,656 863,265 4
863,265 1,095,544 3
1,095,544 1,483,549 2
1,483,549 2,225,906 1
This really is going to take its time, thanks again for all of your help! :) ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 23:53, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
Also if you want to keep updated Live update >> (currently checked 1,208,005 (54.909%) done) ·Add§hore· Talk To Me! 03:37, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Fall River/Falls River

Hi Topbanana - In List of rivers of Massachusetts, when you change Fall River (Connecticut River) to Falls River (Connecticut River), are you saying that "Falls River" is the correct name for the river that enters the Connecticut north of Greenfield? I've checked the Geographic Names Information System, which does list "Falls River" as a variant - see U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fall River - but the published topo maps all show "Fall River". If you are certain that the correct name is "Falls River" and wish to start an article using that name, you'll need to use a different article name, because Falls River (Connecticut River) is an existing article for a river in Connecticut. Let me know what you think. --Ken Gallager (talk) 14:47, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

I'm afraid that my knowledge on the subject starts and ends with having verified that the watercourse described by Falls River (Connecticut River) seems to be one to which the Fall River (Connecticut River) link on List of rivers of Massachusetts was intended to refer, so I modified the link. The article was created by User:Mspct in 2008, but he/she seems to be inactive these days. Can I suggest that you post your evidence for the 'fall' name to Talk:Falls River (Connecticut River) for discussion? - TB (talk) 19:50, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Okay, thanks. They're two different rivers, about 70 miles (110 km) apart. The one with the article is in the state of Connecticut near the mouth of the Connecticut River, while the one in northwestern Massachusetts is a mountain stream that comes out of the state of Vermont. I would like to maintain the Massachusetts one as "Fall River (Connecticut River)", as that is the name that appears on the published topo maps. I'll try to get around to writing a stub for it. --Ken Gallager (talk) 21:05, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
Ah, I see - my bad then, I had thought them to be the same. I see you've already reverted my change, good job. A hatnote on the article and future stub might be useful - {{distinguish|Fall River (Connecticut River)}}. - TB (talk) 08:50, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

MESSAGE

You have a message at user:Josve05a's user-talk site! -Josve05a (talk) 20:54, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Could you generate

Could you generate a list like Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Red links for WikiProjects Poland and Sociology (I am an unofficial coordinator in those? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:18, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Sure thing. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology/Red links and Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland/Red links respectively. - TB (talk) 19:45, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Update

Any chance you could update this listing? Thanks! –Mabeenot (talk) 15:20, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

May 2013

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Speedy deletion declined: Kazumasa Shimizu

Hello Topbanana. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Kazumasa Shimizu, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not a blatant hoax. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 03:12, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification, but it's misdirected; the SD request was added by User:Gabriel Yuji on 27th February 2013, but in a slightly broken manner. I just corrected the CSD notice on his/her behalf. - TB (talk) 07:58, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Sorry about that. The script I use sometimes makes that mistake. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 02:51, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

User:70.230.201.89

[concerning you harrising people who you feel is notable. if you know the truth about bio's. its all either a hired hand or whatever. let alone, because you dont know who a person is. you have no right to tamper with things.

get a life trouble maker.

Sorry you're upset. If you'd like to discuss the editing or deletion of an article, you'll need to provide a bit more information please - in particular which article you've found a problem with, what the problem you've found is, and how you would like the problem remedied. Without this information, there's nothing I can do for you. - TB (talk) 08:15, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

June 2013

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List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page:
  • Stations), unrestricted general program grants from the [Corporation for Public Broadcasting]] and [[the Ford Foundation]], and by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York."

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Speedy deletion nomination of 2005–06 in Italian football

Hello Topbanana,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged 2005–06 in Italian football for deletion, because it appears to duplicate an existing Wikipedia article, [[:{{{article}}}]].

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Matty.007 19:24, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

2005–06 in Italian football

Hi, why don't you edit 2005–06 in Italian football in your userspace, as opposed to putting it on Wikipedia, a complete duplicate of an existing article? Thanks, Matty.007 19:25, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

most wanted articles

Hi, I'm a bit confused, perhaps you can help. At the most wanted article page you wrote: "This list shows the most common targets of red links. Red links that arise on templates are ignored, even if they are also linked directly from an article. "

But then on the page there is an item like "Climate of Plazas de soberanía (63 links)" and if you click on it and go to "what links here", all those links come from a template.

Thanks, Azylber (talk) 22:41, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to WikiProject Invention

Hello, Topbanana.

You are invited to join WikiProject Invention, a WikiProject and resource dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of inventions and invention-related topics.

To join the project, just add your name to the member list. Northamerica1000(talk) 09:50, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Request Review of My Block

Hi Topbanana, this is non-standard but I'm requesting a review of my permanent block. I feel I've been treated unfairly (and frankly pushed around) from A to Z. Right now my "official" appeal route is to email WP:BASC, which is a three member panel where my blocker sits and refuses to recuse. I'm blocked for socking but never did it. There was never any evidence of it. I had cleanstarted (WP:CLEANSTART) for privacy reasons. I never went back to the previous account. My blocker said no, I was socking. Much, much later, he finally said I amounted to a sock because I was "stirring up trouble" in the new account. I dispute that, I made good edits in the new account. I slipped on civility momentarily like many, many editors sometimes do. It doesn't somehow transform me into a sock that must be permanently blocked. Rather than me typing the whole story, let me point you to a diff where I explained it recently: [1].

I came to you semi-randomly, decided to pick an administrator from the list beginning letter "T" and who was active and who had done at least one content edit recently. The "content edit" part ruled out the first six or seven "Ts" I clicked on, and even your edit to Cancun Airport wasn't as substatial as I was looking for, but I have at least been there. I am "block evading" by signing my username to an IP edit, but I hope you will agree with me that block evading is not "socking" because socking means you're trying to fool somebody in one way or other. I won't try to fool you and I haven't tried to fool anyone else; it's not my style. Anyhow, thanks. If you are willing to consider my appeal (fair warning, this will be an unpopular thing among several WP:AN/ANI drama regulars) just unblock me at my talkpage and I'll answer your questions. I think unblocking a user's talkpage is a less-controversial act, because users are only supposed to be blocked from them for egregious violations at them. If you look, you'll see that's not the case with me. Anyhow, thanks for reading, and no offense if you decline. Colton Cosmic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.236.165.187 (talk) 15:08, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Howdy. After an admittedly brief review, I am declining your request to permit you access to your blocked account's talk page. You're clearly aware of the normal process for requesting block reviews; nothing in your case suggests to me that it is inappropriate here. Good luck. - TB (talk) 21:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Please recreate Uncatted Stubs report

Please rerun this report: Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Uncatted stubs. Dawynn (talk) 12:34, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

This one too: Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stubs catted via redirects. Thanks! Dawynn (talk) 12:35, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
Both done. Happy holidays. - TB (talk) 09:20, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject talk page activity

Any chance we could get an update of this great list you generated over a year ago? –Mabeenot (talk) 03:43, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Sure thing, that's it done. If this is perennially useful, I'll see about making it a monthly occurrence. - TB (talk) 09:21, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Re: Missing parameter tests

Hello, Topbanana

In spite of the harsh ring in my response in Template talk:Infobox software § Missing parameter tests, I'd love to know exactly what is your case, i.e. when and where you've seen it first and how it is reproduced. I am afraid those who do template coding do not have the luxury of working with assumptions.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 17:36, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

you're back!

Hello TB, good to see you're back. Could we please have another run of the most wanted articles list, ignoring the links from templates? There is also a discussion at the talk page of the most wanted articles lists with some more useful comments. Thanks! Azylber (talk) 15:42, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Always here in spirit;) Will hopefully get an hour or two to refigure WP:MWA over the weekend,.- TB (talk) 23:13, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
Finally had a chance to do this (busy time of the year). The new method seems to be quite a bit more accurate than the last run. List entries 250-500 will be ready in another few hours. - TB (talk) 21:06, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
Is there any way to ignore links from templates? I took a look at the new list, and most of the items are only there because of links from templates. Sorry to be a pain, it's just that I think it can never be accurate unless we can sort that out. Azylber (talk) 21:22, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
It *should* be filtering out all links arising from templates; any entries that look 'templateish' are probably being generated by LUA scripts. I've also never been convinced that accounting for links arising from templates transcluded into other templates is quite right. If you can pick out some entries containing links from templates (use what links here on the red link and filter to show only links from the template namespace) I'll check them more closely. Cheers. - TB (talk) 11:35, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
For example, the very first one, "Index_of_Dungeons_&_Dragons_creatures". 800+ links, all from templates unfortunately :(
Also one more thing: all the article names are written with "_" instead of spaces. Azylber (talk) 04:33, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
Hum .. no templates link to that page. My report is technically correct (which is, of course, the best kind of correct). I'll see if I can spot the mechanism generating links to that target and compensate. - TB (talk) 19:01, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
I investigated a bit. It was links from templates unfortunately. It was linked from the main Dungeons and Dragons template (called "D&D Topics") until it was removed from it a week ago with this edit. So not only do all those links come a template, but also it's out of date because the template hasn't propagated properly yet. Yet another reason why we should ignore links from templates!! Azylber (talk) 23:08, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
It is just not possible to list MWA's in real time; any report is always going to be a bit out of date. If most of the entries on the report from a few days ago have been fixed on the period between its inception and publication, somebody somewhere is producing and working through a similar task. - TB (talk) 11:59, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
Yes, any report is always going to be a bit out of date, that is impossible to avoid. But if the report includes links from templates, it's going to be even worse, because changes in links from templates take several days to propagate.
Ok, let's look at the second item on the list: Oberbayern (region). I've looked at its what links here list, and I haven't found any actual links to it in the listed articles... very strange. Do you know how it can be? I'm a bit confused about this one.
Azylber (talk) 18:06, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

The first few entries from German placenames with (region) appended arise on {{Infobox German Location}}, specifically from a poorly designed ifexists clause that hunts around for possible pages to link. A design flaw in the MediaWiki software (see MediaWiki JIRA #12019) makes it impossible to tell at the database level if such links are red (the semantics of pages being hyperlinked and dependent are confused). - TB (talk) 22:12, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I've just seen the list you put there, it looks awesome! Azylber (talk) 19:50, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Most wanted. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery/Most wanted redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. John Vandenberg (chat) 14:53, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your help at Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth, much appreciated, — Cirt (talk) 21:27, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Bachelor of arts

Why are you capitalizing "bachelor of arts"? Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 08:43, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Aunk (disambiguation)

A tag has been placed on Aunk (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G6 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

  • disambiguates two or fewer extant Wikipedia pages and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic); or
  • disambiguates no (zero) extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title.

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Judgement

Judgement with an "e" is correct British English, and should not be changed on UK related articles! Thanks. --Scott Mac 00:18, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Well spotted; I have flagged Judgement of Solomon as a correct alternative spelling of Judgment of Solomon rather than a mis-spelling. Cheers. - TB (talk) 18:35, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

February 2014

Information icon Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit of yours to the page Columbia Center Mall has an edit summary that appears to be inaccurate or inappropriate. Please use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did, and feel free to use the sandbox for any tests you may want to do. Your edit summary indicated a link repair but in fact you avoided a redirect that has been it place since 2004. If you used a tool for this edit please contact its maintainers about this problem. – Allen4names (contributions) 05:39, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

The book-seller to which the link refers is properly "Barnes & Noble" - they are very consistent in using the ampersand rather than the word "and". The aim of my edit was to update the visible text of the link to reflect this, hence I changed [[Barnes and Noble]] to [[Barnes & Noble]]. I could of course have kept the target the same by making it [[Barnes and Noble|Barnes & Noble]], but as [[Barnes and Noble]] redirects to [[Barnes & Noble]] anyway, I didn't see any advantage in doing so. Apologies if this (or my edit summary) were unclear. - TB (talk) 18:45, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

An RfC that you may be interested in...

As one of the previous contributors to {{Infobox film}} or as one of the commenters on it's talk page, I would like to inform you that there has been a RfC started on the talk page as to implementation of previously deprecated parameters. Your comments and thoughts on the matter would be welcomed. Happy editing!

This message was sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of {{U|Technical 13}} (t • e • c) 18:27, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Hey, Topbanana,
I see you changed the status of this WikiProject to active. I was basing my edit on Template:WikiProject Status and the lack of significant activity on the main page as well as the talk page. I'm happy to hear that the WikiProject is actually active! I'm running across so many WikiProjects that haven't had any activity in 3 or 4 years. It seems like there was a big drop-off in WikiProject activity 2010 and again in 2012.

It's been great to see that after I set sorting criteria for the categories the WikiProjects are listed under, many of them have appeared on editors' Watchlists which has prompted them to go back to them and get involved. Of course, it takes more than one editor to keep a WikiProject going but if just a few get revived, that would be a great benefit to the encyclopedia. Liz Read! Talk! 16:01, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the Tool Labs notice.

Thanks for the heads up. All fixed now. --Atethnekos (Discussion, Contributions) 19:45, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Page Deletion

Please note that on the 22 March 2014, without consultation, you have removed a page entitled Sydney Electric Train Society Incorporated. I will assume that this is because the content matches the webpage www.sets.org.au. Please note that this Wikipedia page was created by committee members of the organization, who are custodians and rightful owners of the content contained in the aforementioned page. We ask that in future before making substantial changes you enquire as to the content. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Setsinfo (talk • contribs) 07:14, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Armando Rodriguez

Could you send me the link to the 2010 article on this man that you deleted? I want to start an article about a man with the same name. thanks!--Aichik (talk) 02:32, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

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