Welcome to my talk page. As of January 14, 2007, I will respond to all discussion messages left on this page on this page, in order to preserve the discussion, so please add this page to your watchlist when you leave a note. Likewise, if I start a conversation on your talk page, please continue it there, unless the matter is urgent.
I will still respond on your talk page when following up on shield requests, however.
I will gladly accept requests for shields for the following road types:
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MN State
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Nebraska Neb Link Neb Spur Neb Rec road
South Dakota
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I can also do additional shield types upon request. Leave me a message and I'll see what I can do!
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Thanks for uploading the file Elgin-Ohare-Expwy-map.png back in 2009. I was able to use your contribution to update the map to show the portion of the road that is now completed. Your upload made my modification possible. Zcarstvnz (talk) 08:34, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
PS: The new file is called: Elgin Ohare Expressway Map 2018.png
Bots Newsletter, March 2018
Bots Newsletter, March 2018
Greetings!
Here is the 5th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.
While there were no large-scale bot-related discussion in the past few months, you can check WP:BOTN and WT:BOTPOL (and their corresponding archives) for smaller issues that came up.
The edit summary limit has been increased to 1000 characters (see T6715). If a bot you operate relied on the old truncation limit (255 characters), please review/update your code, as overly long summaries can be disruptive/annoying. If you want to use extra characters to have more information in your edit summary, please do so intelligently.
You will soon be able to ping users from the edit summary (see T188469). If you wish to use this feature in your bot, please do so intelligently.
Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 03:11, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
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Bots Newsletter, August 2018
Bots Newsletter, August 2018
Greetings!
Here is the 6th issue of the Bots Newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.
Highlights for this newsletter include:
ARBCOM
Nothing particular important happened. Those who care already know, those who don't know wouldn't care. The curious can dig ARBCOM archives themselves.
BAG
There were no changes in BAG membership since the last Bots Newsletter. Headbomb went from semi-active to active.
In the last 3 months, only 3 BAG members have closed requests - help is needed with the backlog.
{{Automated tools}}, a new template linking to user-activated tools and scripts has been created. It can be used in articles previews, and can be placed on any non-mainspace page/template (e.g. {{Draft article}}) to provide convenient links to editors.
AWB 5.10.0.0 is out, after nearly 20 months without updates. If you run an old version, you will be prompted to install the new version automatically. See the changelog for what's new. Note that the next version will require .NET Framework 4.5. Many thanks to Reedy and the AWB team.
BotWatch, "a listing of editors that have made >2 edits per minute [without] a bot flag", is being developed by SQL (see discussion).
Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 15:04, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
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