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Francis Schonken inaccurate I'm afraid. The vast majority of what I wrote related to the ongoing plague of errors on the main page. That some people still want to enable admins who call people "prick", "asshole" and tell them "fuck you" and allow them to do so willingly is a serious indictment. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:55, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

9 March

• Stephen - queue 4 - " can be demolished" is not suitable in tone, the article doesn't use this phrasing. In fact, the article puts it much better: "The larvae from a single egg cluster can destroy a whole cabbage or cauliflower plant". The Rambling Man (talk) 08:36, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Devoured. Rewording involved too much repetition. Stephen

• Stephen - queue 4 - "in Aurora, Colorado was" comma needed after Colorado. The Rambling Man (talk) 08:37, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Can't find this one? Stephen 09:25, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Weird, it's now in queue 2, with a comma... The Rambling Man (talk) 09:27, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Ah, it was a duplicate, removed less than an hour ago... But The ed17 left the approved set (queue 4) one hook down. The Rambling Man (talk) 09:29, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

• Stephen - queue 5 - "Pangolins are believed to be the world's most trafficked mammal" in the article. The hook has lost the "believed to be".... The Rambling Man (talk) 08:56, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Added, but no idea how to pull a hook. Stephen 09:25, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

• Incidentally, there are a number of unreferened paragraphs in that article, it's reasonable to pull it as containing too much unverifiable information (i.e. it could easily be tagged with {{ref improve}}). The Rambling Man (talk) 09:01, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

• Stephen - queue 5 - " whom he was coincidentally seated near on a flight" I can't access the source, but is this meant to imply that the good impression and his selection came as a result of the seating arrangements rather than Almon's performance in the trials? The Rambling Man (talk) 09:10, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

I agree with TRM that this bit of information is dubious in a living person bio, implying as it does that there was some impropriety in his draft procedure. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:31, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

It may need to be reported at ERRORS or at WT:DYK as Stephen isn't comfortable pulling the hook. The Rambling Man (talk) 09:34, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

I've pulled it and turned queue 5 back into prep 5, as I don't have the time to find another hook at the moment, and this lets anyone, not just an admin do it. Harrias 09:49, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

I will do something in due course. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:42, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Harrias thanks! The Rambling Man (talk) 09:50, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

• Cwmhiraeth - queue 5 - Tofu Curtain there's a dab link (Hipster) in there. The Rambling Man (talk) 09:21, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:28, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

• Cwmhiraeth - prep 1 - "that biologist Nessa Carey" should be "the biologist" to avoid false title. The Rambling Man (talk) 09:31, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:37, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

• Cwmhiraeth - prep 6 - "that Snugburys, a UK ice cream " we don't say that, "a British ice cream...." is BritEng. The Rambling Man (talk) 09:34, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:37, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

• Cwmhiraeth - prep 6 - I was going to suggest linking Non-League football (which appears to be capitalised in our encyclopedia and not in the hook or target article), but it's unreferenced. In any case I'd link FA Cup as most non-Brits would not know what this national competition was all about. The Rambling Man (talk) 10:06, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
• Cwmhiraeth - prep 6 - Snugbury hook again, strictly it's not "straw and steel" it's steel-reinforced straw, and as such the hook and caption need to be clarified. The Rambling Man (talk) 10:07, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Both done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:17, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

• Cwmhiraeth - prep 6 - it's definitely worth considering linking North Rhodesia or Rhodesia here as most of our readers will not know where it is/was. The Rambling Man (talk) 10:50, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
• Cwmhiraeth - prep 6 - "are a husband-and-wife pair?" what's wrong with "are husband and wife" or "are married"? The Rambling Man (talk) 10:55, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Done both. I could link Northern Rhodesia as well but perhaps that would be overlinking. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:01, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

• Maile66 saying " there is absolutely nothing in the article or hook that tells you this is a UK match" is absolutely incorrect. It states clearly that it's an FA Cup match in both. The Rambling Man (talk) 13:23, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

• Softlavender no, that's not true at all. I don't suffer fools gladly, but I also don't like the fact that an admin has been completely let off for calling me a prick, and an asshole and tell me "fuck you". I never resorted to those absolute and overt personal attacks. I had also attempted to place many of those comments initially raised into some kind of context, but all I'm hearing back from some quarters is that I'm wrong. Oddly I'm hearing in some numbers that I'm not wrong. But that's the nature of the subjective Arbcom sanction. I've never said that admins are "admins are 100% of the problem", diff for that direct quote please. In fact, as we have so few admins, they are very seldom the problem, but when they are part of the problem, fellow admins shouldn't be ignoring it. The Rambling Man (talk) 14:28, 9 March 2017 (UTC)

Boat Race

Black Kite don't worry, I won't be able to update the article so it won't run this year. The Rambling Man (talk) 10:14, 9 March 2017 (UTC)