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Revision as of 05:28, 25 June 2015

Please note that I do NOT archive my talk page at this time. If you have a desire for me to preserve a conversation we have here, please let me know. ~ Rob 06:33, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Welcome

Welcome and thank you for your contributions to templates and template discussions. Alakzi (talk) 22:30, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Your recent edits

Hello and welcome to Misplaced Pages. When you add content to talk pages and Misplaced Pages pages that have open discussion (but never when editing articles), please be sure to sign your posts. There are two ways to do this. Either:

1. Add four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment; or
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This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is necessary to allow other editors to easily see who wrote what and when.

Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 08:10, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, BU Rob13, and welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

• Introduction and Getting started
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BU Rob13, you are invited to the Teahouse!

Hi BU Rob13! Thanks for contributing to Misplaced Pages. Be our guest at the Teahouse! The Teahouse is a friendly space where new editors can ask questions about contributing to Misplaced Pages and get help from peers and experienced editors. I hope to see you there! Technical 13 (I'm a Teahouse host) Visit the TeahouseThis message was delivered automatically by your robot friend, HostBot (talk) 17:30, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Bots

You are receiving this message because a technical change may affect a bot, gadget, or user script you have been using. The breaking change involves API calls. This change has been planned for two years. The WMF will start making this change on 30 June 2015. A partial list of affected bots can be seen here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-June/081931.html This includes all bots that are using pywikibot compat. Some of these bots have already been fixed. However, if you write user scripts or operate a bot that uses the API, then you should check your code, to make sure that it will not break.

What, exactly, is breaking? The "default continuation mode" for action=query requests to api.php will be changing to be easier for new coders to use correctly. To find out whether your script or bot may be affected, then search the source code (including any frameworks or libraries) for the string "query-continue". If that is not present, then the script or bot is not affected. In a few cases, the code will be present but not used. In that case, the script or bot will continue working.

This change will be part of 1.26wmf12. It will be deployed to test wikis (including mediawiki.org) on 30 June, to non-Wikipedias (such as Wiktionary) on 1 July, and to all Wikipedias on 2 July 2015.

If your bot or script is receiving the warning about this upcoming change (as seen at https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages ), it's time to fix your code!

• The simple solution is to simply include the "rawcontinue" parameter with your request to continue receiving the raw continuation data (example <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&rawcontinue=1>). No other code changes should be necessary.
• Or you could update your code to use the simplified continuation documented at https://www.mediawiki.org/API:Query#Continuing_queries (example <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&continue=>), which is much easier for clients to implement correctly.

Either of the above solutions may be tested immediately, you'll know it works because you stop seeing the warning.

Do you need help with your own bot or script? Ask questions in e-mail on the mediawiki-api or wikitech-l mailing lists. Volunteers at m:Tech or w:en:WP:Village pump (technical) or w:en:Misplaced Pages:Bot owners' noticeboard may also be able to help you.

Are you using someone else's gadgets or user scripts? Most scripts are not affected. To find out if a script you use needs to be updated, then post a note at the discussion page for the gadget or the talk page of the user who originally made the script. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 19:03, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

Bryan Burnham has been nominated for Did You Know

Hello, BU Rob13. Bryan Burnham, an article you either created or significantly contributed to, has been nominated  to appear on Misplaced Pages's Main Page as part of Did you know. You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. APersonBot (talk!) 14:59, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

I have unreviewed a page you curated

Thanks for reviewing Our Culture, BU Rob13.

Unfortunately Kudpung has just gone over this page again and unreviewed it. Their note is:

Please review again to ensure that this article fully complies with notability criteria.

To reply, leave a comment on Kudpung's talk page.

@Kudpung: So as not to bite the newcomer, I've held off on placing clean-up tags to give the author a few hours to expand the article if he plans to. I'm currently watching it and will place any clean-up tags that are still needed in the morning, as well as message the user to discuss them. ~ Rob 09:25, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Looney Tunes Presents (VHS Series)

I'm going to remake that article because I need to make sure that there are lots of Looney Tunes-related home video articles. Like on VHS and Laserdisc, not just DVD and Blu-ray.

And if you can't understand that, then you'll have to delete all of the Looney Tunes VHS/Laserdisc articles that I have made.--LooneyTunerIan (talk) 15:15, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

First, I did not delete Looney Tunes Presents (VHS Series). The deleting administrator was Jimfbleak. Second, your article was removed due to a copyright violation. If you wish to request more information, I'd recommend contacting the deleting administrator. I welcome you to recreate the article, so long as you address the issues that led to the article's removal. Please keep in mind that Misplaced Pages is required to comply with copyright law, and administrators cannot allow copyright information that is not available under fair-use to remain on the project. And lastly, when reaching out to other users, please try not to be combative. You're likely to have much more informative and productive interactions with other editors if you assume good faith and work together to improve the project. In this case, a simple "Could you explain why you nominated my article for deletion?" would have sufficed. ~ Rob 19:53, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Fauna capitalization

Re, . Both forms used to be OK, but the guidelines were changed a while back ago to only allow lower case, please see Misplaced Pages:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Animals.2C plants.2C and other organisms. All the best, 83.226.255.86 (talk) 00:56, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Ah, I did indeed miss that change. Thanks for letting me know. ~ Rob 00:57, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

Re: Speedy Deletion of Manveer

Re your message: Yes, it was borderline, though I took into consideration their other article creation which I deleted as an attack page and their user name. Within that context and having deleted similar articles, I read the content to be about the editor themselves. Since you asked about it, I Googled the name and it Manveer appears to mean "brave minded", not "boy who very smarts". -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 01:39, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

@Gogo Dodo: Alright, fair enough. Either way it certainly didn't belong in the project. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't misinterpreting A7. Thanks for your response! ~ Rob 01:40, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

No problem. Always happy to explain something I did. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 01:52, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

My Looney Tunes Articles

I'm going to put those articles back! And if Jimfbleak doesn't like it, then let him try to block me! Copyright or not, they deserve to be articles! --LooneyTunerIan (talk) 01:51, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

@LooneyTunerIan: If Misplaced Pages does not address copyright violations, it risks legal action. As I said before, I encourage you to recreate the articles without copyright infringing content, but if you simply recreate the same articles with copyright violations, you're just going to eventually be blocked. You don't want that, and I don't want that. I don't doubt that you are acting in good faith and attempting to improve the wiki, but please review the policies regarding copyright. ~ Rob 01:55, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

@BU Rob13:

You and Jimfbleak are just to have to give me a last warning stamp or something on my talkpage. Because if he keeps this up, there's going to be trouble. --LooneyTunerIan (talk) 02:08, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

User:Stephanie Latt

The user who reverted your vote on the SayadawGyi XFD page, User:Stephanie Latt, has only three edits to her name, and all three are on that page. Do you know what the procedure is for such blatant puppetry? Ogress _smash! 04:57, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

• @Ogress:: Thanks for looking into that. I had checked the edit history and saw it was an IP, but did not see the later edit by Stephanie Latt that added a signature. This does indeed look like puppetry. If you're interested in seeing what the investigation concludes, it's at Misplaced Pages:Sockpuppet_investigations/122.248.102.113. ~ Rob 05:28, 25 June 2015 (UTC)