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Crosslands Road listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Crosslands Road. Since you had some involvement with the Crosslands Road redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). The Whispering Wind (talk) 02:01, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for notifying me. De728631 (talk) 17:12, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Editor User:AltynAsyr

Hey, from said user's talk page, it seems like you've encountered this user back in October. Well I need your help: The user has added a lot of material to the Awaza article. Frankly, the English is terrible. Some of the material is sourced, but my Russian is not sufficient to read whether it supports the source or not. We've reverted back and forth a couple times now, so to prevent an edit war, I figured I'd include anyone that has left something on the user's talk-page. Eik Corell (talk) 17:25, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for notifying me but to be honest, you are already edit warring over there. Please don't revert AltynAsyr again for the time being but leave it to others to improve the article. I've left her a warning at her talk page and tagged the article for cleanup. De728631 (talk) 17:49, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Template:Albumchart

Hi, I've noticed that you used to be active on the Albumchart template's talk page. I have two problems with links generated by the template – one is for the Finnish chart, and the other for Billboard Jazz chart. If you have some free time, could you please have a look at those two issues? Thanks. Mayast (talk) 12:12, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi there. I think I've found a workaround for the Billboard Jazz links. Going to look into the Finland issue later tonight. De728631 (talk) 16:48, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, Billboard Jazz now works great in that Mike Stern article :)
The template usually works ok for Finland, but in the mentioned case of Timberlake's album the slash in the title caused some problems. That's why I think it would be great if someone could add Finland2 (with links to Hung Medien's finnishcharts.com) as an alternative to ifpi.fi. Like there is Germany3 (charts.de) in addition to (musicline.de). — Mayast (talk) 17:52, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

What is an Inverter

Is redirect needed here? I think it should be deleted. --    L o g  X   19:47, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

At least it's not nonsense as you suggested. I've therefore removed your speedy tag. If you think it should go, please list it at RFD. De728631 (talk) 19:48, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

I like the disambiguate. --    L o g  X   19:53, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Great. I just noticed the hatnote at Power inverter and thought this was the best solution. De728631 (talk) 19:55, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

That's great De728631!! --    L o g  X   19:58, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Holy Roman Emperor

I think edit war is a bit strong. There were two reverts. One of yours and one of mine. I mentioned my problem with the text a month previous on the talk page of the article. I didn't mean to be abrasive. Gerard von Hebel (talk) 00:39, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Low German help needed

Hello De728631, I'm contacting you because we need some Low Saxon translators to help with the deployment of the new mw:Misplaced Pages:VisualEditor on nds.wikipedia. It is important that we get the User Guide and the User Interface translated before VisualEditor is deployed to users here. To translate the User Interface, you need to start an account at translatewiki.net. Translating the User Guide and other documentation happens at Mediawiki.org (your regular username and password work there), and then translated materials need to be copied over to nds.wikipedia.org at the appropriate page names.

More information on the translating work is available at MediaWiki: Translation Central. I know you're not active over there, but since I see you speak Low Saxon, I thought you might be interested. If you are able to help in any way, or if you have other questions or comments, please either reply here or send e-mail to me. Thanks for your time, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:38, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Hello there, and thanks for letting me know of this project. But although I speak it I'm not very good at writing Low German. And at the moment I don't have a lot of time either, so I regret to tell you that I can't be of any help there. De728631 (talk) 20:51, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. If you ever get more time for editing, then I'm sure you'd be welcome at http://nds.wikipedia.org I've asked a couple of other people for help with this, and I'm hopeful that someone will be able to work on this. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:55, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Hkettani

while not for one minute questioning the merits of blocking Hkettani (his endless insinuations of ulterior motives from all and sundry were quite sufficient justification, even ignoring other issues), I'd like to put on record that I have grave doubts about the rationale you gave. Given that the paper Hkettani linked for us displayed the same 'unorthodox' English usage as the material he submitted to Misplaced Pages, I see no reason whatsoever to suspect impersonation. Dr. Kettani of Fort Hays State University lists the paper on his CV, on the Fort Hays website, so there would seem to be no possibility that this is another Kettani, or someone impersonating him. AndyTheGrump (talk) 16:28, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

When it comes to living persons, the username policy is pretty clear imo. We'd rather block to prevent any damage to the real name than to assume that a user is in fact "John Smith" as it seems. If this is the real Dr. Kettani he may get his account unblocked by verifying his identity via email. The "endless insinuations" may have justified a NOTHERE-block as well, but if he continues down his battleground path the subsequent block will be covered by the topic ban. De728631 (talk) 16:53, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Ok, fair enough. AndyTheGrump (talk) 17:01, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Good news and bad news

The bad news is that I wasted a lot of time looking into the Hkettani thread, and wrote up a two paragraph summary of what I was going to do, only to edit conflict with you on the close. Sigh. The good news is that your solution was almost exactly what I was going to do, so no arguing, just a "good job". Just please try to be either 15 minutes slower or 15 minutes faster next time. --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:30, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Maybe next time you should ping me in advance. :) De728631 (talk) 16:31, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

perhaps a "closing in progress" template is needed, so an admin can call dibs. --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:35, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

I like this idea. Putting a little sticker on top of the section will take a few seconds as opposed to the thoughtful formulating of closing rationales. On the other hand, we might as well use an external editor to write them up beforehand... De728631 (talk) 16:45, 25 November 2013 (UTC)