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You've been doing great work; I'm just curious if life can't be made a bit easier for you. :-) I made "{{ddr|Lithium}}" today, which you may be interested in as well. --] (]) 08:37, 24 September 2010 (UTC) You've been doing great work; I'm just curious if life can't be made a bit easier for you. :-) I made "{{ddr|Lithium}}" today, which you may be interested in as well. --] (]) 08:37, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
:Hi. I've mainly been using your very useful list at ]. It would be of most help if the list could display more than the first 2000 entries. Is there a way I could see the whole list, even if in a more basic text format?

:The problem with the list only containing the first 2000 entries is that it eventually fills up with false positives. If I'm unable to see the whole list, it would help instead if the list filtered out articles with titles containing common terms such as "bibliography", "Company", "Association", "Society", "Corporation", "International", "National", "Group", "Ltd", "Operation", "Institute", "Department", "Limited", "Communications", "Energy", "Service", "World", "Research", "System", "Nuclear", "House", "Hotel", "HMS", "Medal" and "Award". Filtering out articles containing the text or would also greatly reduce the number of articles on dead people and non-biographies respectively, eg. , .

:Although, ideally, it would be useful to have a list of all articles in ] that aren't in ], ] or a death category. Many thanks. ] (]) 13:39, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

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Template:otheruses4

Please delete and replace with {{about}}. {{otheruses4}} is deprecated.199.126.224.245 (talk) 10:41, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Request for Banning some IP users

I would like to make a request for Banning the following IP users permenantly due to vandalism editing in some airlines articles. The IP users which need to banned are:

The two sets of IP users did the vandalism since April 2010 at the paragraph "Fleet" of Airlines Articles and did not stop until now, they provide the incorrect capacity and add the retired aircraft into the Articles at the following Airlines (All of them ):

Thai Airways International, Cathay Pacific, Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airways, Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Air France, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, British Airways, Korean Air, Air India, United Airlines, South African Airways, EgyptAir, Air Namibia, Qantas, Iraqi Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Continental Airlines, ard more......

Many many and many users (including me) have told those IP users to stop their vandalism action, but they still continue to do it, so please ban all of the IP address from 125.37.0.0 and 117.11.0.0 permanently. Thanks! Asamae2 (talk) 19:41, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

It may affect too many uninvolved users if all those IPs were blocked, and IPs can never be blocked permanently. Its also not clear whether they are vandalising or making the edits in good faith. I recommend you continue to try to discuss this with them, and if they don't respond it would then be more clear they are being disruptive. Epbr123 (talk) 20:40, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
The Chinese Misplaced Pages has already been fed up with the vandal (okay I understand this is very subtle content vandalism, but it is adding wrong, unsourced information repeatedly around the Chinese and English Wikipedias) behind this IP range and to deal with this by banning those IP ranges for 6 months. Given the great number of articles involved, I believe the English Misplaced Pages should follow suit - I'll block the IP ranges for 1 week to start with. If the vandal comes back as the block expires, I'll extend the block. --Deryck C. 03:51, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Ok, thanks for letting me know. I'll leave it to you to deal with. Epbr123 (talk) 09:11, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Categorizing biographies

Hi. I've seen you categorize a lot of biographies (like this one). Which lists are you using to find these biographies? How helpful are the lists? Can they be improved?

You've been doing great work; I'm just curious if life can't be made a bit easier for you. :-) I made "Lithium" today, which you may be interested in as well. --MZMcBride (talk) 08:37, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi. I've mainly been using your very useful list at Misplaced Pages:Database reports/Potential biographies of living people (4). It would be of most help if the list could display more than the first 2000 entries. Is there a way I could see the whole list, even if in a more basic text format?
The problem with the list only containing the first 2000 entries is that it eventually fills up with false positives. If I'm unable to see the whole list, it would help instead if the list filtered out articles with titles containing common terms such as "bibliography", "Company", "Association", "Society", "Corporation", "International", "National", "Group", "Ltd", "Operation", "Institute", "Department", "Limited", "Communications", "Energy", "Service", "World", "Research", "System", "Nuclear", "House", "Hotel", "HMS", "Medal" and "Award". Filtering out articles containing the text or would also greatly reduce the number of articles on dead people and non-biographies respectively, eg. , .
Although, ideally, it would be useful to have a list of all articles in Category:People that aren't in Category:Living people, Category:Possibly living people or a death category. Many thanks. Epbr123 (talk) 13:39, 24 September 2010 (UTC)