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- 1 Talkpages of redirected articles
- 2 Precious
- 3 A brownie for you!
- 4 WP:RFD#Watching paint dry
- 5 Thus (company)
- 6 Regarding those "Qantas" redirects ...
- 7 Reference errors on 29 August
- 8 RfD
- 9 Thanks, and a suggestion
- 10 DYK for J.C. Nicholson
- 11 Hockey on the ice
- 12 Thanks for the revert
- 13 Bullying
- 14 Need help editing sports articles at GOCE
- 15 R from sort name
- 16 You have been randomly selected to take a very short survey by the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team!
- 17 A barnstar for you!
- 18 Donald Trump's Hair
- 19 what page?
- 20 Langauge
- 21 Autopatrolled
- 22 Opened a move discussion
- 23 Deletion
- 24 Hi
- 25 Turtle Power
- 26 DYK for Turtle Park
- 27 ArbCom elections are now open!
- 28 Disambiguation
- 29 Remen
- 30 Seasons' greetings!
- 31 78.26's RFA Appreciation award
- 32 Santo (disambiguation)
- 33 Some bubble tea for you!
- 34 Category:Macau Grand Prix drivers
- 35 Happy New Year, Tavix!
- 36 Red River
- 37 DYK nomination of Kala Alexander
- 38 Redirect categorization
- 39 DYK for Kala Alexander
- 40 WikiCup 2015 March newsletter
- 41 WikiCup 2016 March newsletter (update)
- 42 Help with RfD nom
- 43 ANI notice
- 44 Sam Gold (voice actor)
- 45 Miss february 1990 listed at Redirects for discussion
- 46 Untitled Redirects
Talkpages of redirected articles
You're welcome. Candidly, I didn't know about the template either until I looked it up during the MfD. Regards, Newyorkbrad (talk) 23:01, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
Precious
meaningful redirects
Thank you for quality articles such as The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir and List of Bible verses not included in modern translations, for contributions and DYK nominations such as The Hunting Ground, for set indices such as Anna Sophia, for explained page moves, for tireless efforts to improve the quality of redirects, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:16, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for this, which possibly prevented a discussion being needlessly closed, further complicating matters. Rubbish computer 00:39, 17 August 2015 (UTC) |
WP:RFD#Watching paint dry
I have cut-and-paste moved the discussion continued after the close WT:NOT#RfC: Should we add a footnote to WP:NOTHOWTO/WP:NOTFAQ stating that it does not apply to redirects? to WT:RFD#Does WP:NOT apply to redirects? I am now squatting on your page and name dropping hoping that all involved, User:Thryduulf, you, me, User:Godsy, User:Steel1943, User:Ivanvector, User:Lenticel and others may contribute to that discussion there. I have mentioned the names elsewhere but I don't know what notifications they may or may not get, so if I have excluded anyone, it is simply my fault of memory. I agree with you, Thryduulf did a grand job of encapsulating it, but I fiddled a bit with the wording in the fourth point, but essentially unchanged. I don't think User:WilyD had much to say on this one. Sorry to squat on your talk page but essentially just trying to tie the various discussions together. I suppose I should put it on my own. Si Trew (talk) 08:52, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
- I don't think anyone thinks WP:NOT doesn't apply to redirects. Only that NOTFAQ is quite explicit that it's about how articles are organised, so it's just meaningless gibberish when you try to apply it to pages that don't organise information. It doesn't make sense to add a footnote saying it doesn't apply to redirects anymore than it makes sense to add a footnote saying it doesn't apply to images, or userpages, or whereever else where what it says just isn't on topic. Why would you add a footnote duplicating information that's already in the main policy? Anyone who's read the policy in depth already knows it, and anybody who hasn't gone beyond the short-form link is never going to find the footnote. WilyD 09:08, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
Thus (company)
Hi. I've removed your RM/TR request because it was contested. Normally when a request there gets contested we just take it to a full RM discussion, but seeing as there was an RM about this only a few weeks ago (see Talk:Thus (company)) I thought you would prefer I not start another discussion in your name right now. Best, Jenks24 (talk) 20:11, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
- No worries, I just forgot to check the talk page. Thanks. -- Tavix (talk) 20:27, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
Regarding those "Qantas" redirects ...
I thought I'd ask your opinion on this since you provided a "strong delete" vote on the "Qantas" redirect discussions, and I agree with your rationale. After I participated in the most recent discussion, I noticed that there is a page that could be turned into a list page and be modified to be used for these "Qantas" redirects: List of Google domains. In response, I have started the following draft: Draft:List of Qantas domains. I think that the nominated redirects, plus maybe the ones deleted in the previous discussion, could be retargetted to this draft (after it is tweaked and "un-Google-ized") since it will identify all of these domain redirects, but not identifying them as an "official name" for Qantas, since they are not. I think that this will be the most information we will ever have about these domain redirects since I doubt we will ever have an article on them as standalone subjects. What do you think? (If the idea seems terrible, I may just G7 the draft.) Steel1943 (talk) 17:39, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
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- @Steel1943: I think there's a pretty big difference between Google's domains and Qantas. Besides the fact that Google's primary business originated from its website, it's domains could be considered notable in their own right (maybe. It's along the same lines as German Wikipedia). They're valuable search engines in different languages. Qantas is an airline, and I doubt their website, let alone their domains, would be notable. I don't think it's worth the page, and would be bordering on WP:NOTDIRECTORY. I appreciate the effort though... -- Tavix (talk) 17:57, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for your input on this Tavix. Yep, I am now convinced that with this, plus Qantas lack of notability vs. Google, the list wouldn't survive an WP:AFD anyways. Here comes the G7... Steel1943 (talk) 17:59, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Tavix: I just noticed this discussion and I am literally LOLing at this. I agree with the fact that Google is quite different from Qantas. I have seen Google ads for Qantas while I am browsing the web, because I Google "Qantas"(!) (cause I love it!). Here is a rather intersting article [1]. - Champion (talk) (contribs) (Formerly TheChampionMan1234) 01:18, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
- @Steel1943: I think there's a pretty big difference between Google's domains and Qantas. Besides the fact that Google's primary business originated from its website, it's domains could be considered notable in their own right (maybe. It's along the same lines as German Wikipedia). They're valuable search engines in different languages. Qantas is an airline, and I doubt their website, let alone their domains, would be notable. I don't think it's worth the page, and would be bordering on WP:NOTDIRECTORY. I appreciate the effort though... -- Tavix (talk) 17:57, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
Reference errors on 29 August
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RfD
Sorry, got your ping from RfD earlier but forgot to reply. I found one of the Shyamalan redirects tagged as a G10 but didn't notice the other one or the RfD. Looks like it was taken care of; thanks! Opabinia regalis (talk) 00:39, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
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- @Opabinia regalis: I remembered after the fact that G10's are courtesy blanked so you probably wouldn't have seen it. It's no problem at all, thanks for taking care of the first one. Best, -- Tavix (talk) 00:44, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
Thanks, and a suggestion
Appreciate you taking the time to list all those bad hockey redirects at RFD. I was actually starting to compile a list myself (of the same ones you are nominating now), but closed the damned window when I got to Ottawa and lost everything. FWIW though, I don't think you need to template Dolovis for every single redirect. Probably a single notification that numerous are going in one shot would be sufficient. Same with other users you will come across who created multiple such redirects. Cheers! Resolute 00:10, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
- Also, man, can you combine all those noms? Not sure I want to cast the same !vote 100+ times! Resolute 00:10, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Resolute: I'm doing it the same way I did last time (check the history). Twinkle doesn't allow for mass nominations, so I nominate them all individually and then merge at the end. That's also why he's getting a bunch of notifications. I'll stop doing that, but I have to remember to uncheck the box every time, so it'll take just a bit longer. Oh well... -- Tavix (talk) 00:13, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
- Ahh. I see. Bit of a shame. I just know that you're going to end up templating him about 100 times - and another editor about a half dozen. But the problem with Twinkle is I know that a third editor had created one such redirect, so unchecking might mean a couple users get no notifications at all. In that case, you probably should leave defaults so all relevant parties get notices. Oi. Resolute 00:17, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Resolute: I'll just check the history before I nominate them. Also, if you know where more are, I'm not sure where to look after the team draft pick lists. If you still want to put that list together, feel free. I could then nominate them for you if you'd like, or you can do it yourself (totally fine either way). -- Tavix (talk) 00:24, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
- The problem is that this is a very deep rabbit hole. Josh Caron, for instance, redirects to 2010–11 Minnesota Wild season, since there are team-specific draft lists on every team article. For the last decade alone, that is 300 articles to check. I know there won't be a lot. But there will be just enough to be a pain in the ass. Also, I saw one link at List of Telus Cup award winners - and I don't know how many award list for midget, junior, college or senior awards exist, or how many redirects exist. I was contemplating asking a botop to simply generate a csv list of redirects at any list article in WP:HOCKEY. Resolute 00:33, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Resolute:The bot idea could be a good one. There's an external tool that lists redirects created, and I was thinking about just going through that when I had time. Of course it would only find Dolovis's and I'm assuming he's created other redirects, but it's a thought. -- Tavix (talk) 00:37, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
- The problem is that this is a very deep rabbit hole. Josh Caron, for instance, redirects to 2010–11 Minnesota Wild season, since there are team-specific draft lists on every team article. For the last decade alone, that is 300 articles to check. I know there won't be a lot. But there will be just enough to be a pain in the ass. Also, I saw one link at List of Telus Cup award winners - and I don't know how many award list for midget, junior, college or senior awards exist, or how many redirects exist. I was contemplating asking a botop to simply generate a csv list of redirects at any list article in WP:HOCKEY. Resolute 00:33, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Resolute: I'll just check the history before I nominate them. Also, if you know where more are, I'm not sure where to look after the team draft pick lists. If you still want to put that list together, feel free. I could then nominate them for you if you'd like, or you can do it yourself (totally fine either way). -- Tavix (talk) 00:24, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
- Ahh. I see. Bit of a shame. I just know that you're going to end up templating him about 100 times - and another editor about a half dozen. But the problem with Twinkle is I know that a third editor had created one such redirect, so unchecking might mean a couple users get no notifications at all. In that case, you probably should leave defaults so all relevant parties get notices. Oi. Resolute 00:17, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Resolute: I'm doing it the same way I did last time (check the history). Twinkle doesn't allow for mass nominations, so I nominate them all individually and then merge at the end. That's also why he's getting a bunch of notifications. I'll stop doing that, but I have to remember to uncheck the box every time, so it'll take just a bit longer. Oh well... -- Tavix (talk) 00:13, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
The list a kindly botop gave me: User:Resolute/botreq. I've already just nominated the 33 links to draft articles I've found. That list did remind me of a related set, which is "non-notable brother/father/son who also plays hockey --> notable player" redirects. There's a few here I am contemplating a nomination on for the same reason as a test case, but that's a rabbit hole I'm not sure I want to go down, because a bot generated list of redirects for hockey bio articles would be a few million bytes. Resolute 23:20, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
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- @Resolute: Wow, you've got a lot of garbage to sort through. Let me know if you'd like assistance with it... If you want to try a test case with the family redirects, I think you have a strong case. Of course, you only have to go down the rabbit hole as far as you want, but you could at least knock off the low hanging fruit and worry about the rest another day. -- Tavix (talk) 02:52, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
- Most of it, thankfully, can be disregarded. Redirects that point season ranges with hyphens to those with endashes (2014-15 --> 2014–15), for instance and which are useful. Some of the silly usages of nicknames or lastname, firstname format simply aren't worth the effort to target, imo. But I may well test some of those person to different person redirects at some point. Thanks! Resolute 03:23, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
- @Resolute: Wow, you've got a lot of garbage to sort through. Let me know if you'd like assistance with it... If you want to try a test case with the family redirects, I think you have a strong case. Of course, you only have to go down the rabbit hole as far as you want, but you could at least knock off the low hanging fruit and worry about the rest another day. -- Tavix (talk) 02:52, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
DYK for J.C. Nicholson
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Hockey on the ice
The term hockey on the ice or hockey on ice is another term for bandy. It should therefore not redirect to ice hockey, even if that could seem logical. So I remade the redirects again. I hope that's OK with you. Skogsvandraren (talk) 17:53, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
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- @Skogsvandraren: I'm okay with that, but I do think it's confusing. I added a hatnote at the top of bandy to hopefully alleviate that confusion. -- Tavix (talk) 22:48, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
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- That's not very WP:WORLDWIDE though: Bandy I think is Australian but I think Canadians tend to call ice hockey just "hockey", but in old Englandland "hockey" does not mean ice hockey, but grass hockey (which the British ladies just won in some worldwide competition of girlie sports, Rachael Heyhoe-Flint being a great ambassador (ambassadrix?) for women's hockey and women's cricket, as well as having an umbeatable name and apparently now installed in the House of Lords. I think Britain won the grass hockey at the last olympics, too.)
- Jolly hockey sticks and all that. Si Trew (talk) 05:38, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
- I suppose that when you say grass hockey, you mean field hockey. Field hockey is never played on ice. Bandy is not Australian, it was originally developed in England and nowadays has its biggest following in Russia and the Nordics. Skogsvandraren (talk) 06:51, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
- Jolly hockey sticks and all that. Si Trew (talk) 05:38, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
- That's not very WP:WORLDWIDE though: Bandy I think is Australian but I think Canadians tend to call ice hockey just "hockey", but in old Englandland "hockey" does not mean ice hockey, but grass hockey (which the British ladies just won in some worldwide competition of girlie sports, Rachael Heyhoe-Flint being a great ambassador (ambassadrix?) for women's hockey and women's cricket, as well as having an umbeatable name and apparently now installed in the House of Lords. I think Britain won the grass hockey at the last olympics, too.)
- One thing that may add to the confusion is that the French name for hockey, "hockey sur glace" literally translates to "hockey on ice", which is why this redirect has changed a couple times. Resolute 16:34, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
I think it should direct to ice hockey. In English far more people are going to search for ice hockey by typing hockey on ice than people searching for bandy would. Thus the redirect would be more useful pointing to ice hockey. Or if you want to compromise the hockey article which includes both. -DJSasso (talk) 17:33, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
- This isn't the correct forum to discuss this. I've started an WP:RFD on the matter, so please make your thoughts known here. Thanks, -- Tavix (talk) 19:07, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the revert
Thanks for reverting my stupid subst at RfD. I have no idea how I managed that, my Interweb was rather slow yesterday so perhaps it was twixt a cup and a leap, but thanks for reverting it. Si Trew (talk) 05:38, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
- I should also just like to thank you, genuinely and sincerely, with a barnstar of good humour or humor. Your constant intelligent contributions to RfD makes it worth coming there. I shall not always agree with you, that is why we discuss things, and I don't know how to award barnstars. Perhaps this morning I shall try to find out, but if I cock it up, please take this as being one. Si Trew (talk) 07:16, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
- Okay this is the first time I have tried to award someone a barnstar so please excuse me if I cock it up.
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- The Super-Gnomish barnstar, for gnoming around in the background with no fuss nor bad words to anyone, for intelligence, good nature, constant volunteering in the face of all adversity. A true credit to Wikipedia. Maybe one day we will have a pint together, even a non-alcoholic one or a US pint instead of an Imperial pint.
Bullying
I do not appreciate you piling on with a second message on my talk page about the same thing when the message from Ivan would've sufficed. This is why people give up on wikipedia.--Dr who1975 (talk) 22:19, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
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- It looks like Ivanvector answered your question already. -- Tavix (talk) 21:12, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
Need help editing sports articles at GOCE
Hello, Tavix - I was reading the discussion on Paine Ellsworth's talk page, and, after reading your comment, I looked at your user page out of curiosity. I see you are interested in sports. I have been working for some time copyediting articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests, and there are several articles about sports figures for which a request was made several weeks ago. I have very little interest in sports, so I tend to choose other articles to copyedit. One or two articles on sports figures have been there for so long that the request is about to expire and will be removed if no one accepts the assignment with the {{Working}} template. One is Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests#William Lofland Dudley and the other is Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests#Sam Hornish, Jr. If you feel you could do a copy-edit of those articles, I'm sure the requesters would be grateful. Corinne (talk) 16:46, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
R from sort name
Didn't know {{R from sort name}}
existed either. I do check at whatever it is that lists the Rcats and am a big fan of Rcatting as I think you are and BDD is cos I know it is kinda meta-categorisation but it does help when we discuss things to say "look, these are in this category too", it's kinda a small balance weight to me when deciding whether something should go or stay, and I think you are quite right that while tidying up you add the rcat, I tend to do the same, or say "without prejudice to the discussion" (and I mean that) if I add an rcat while it is under discussion, cos the rcat in itself shouldn't influence the discussion, but if it happens to be kept we have the rcat ready with it.
Gosh that packed the maximum number of words into the minimum amount of thought. Keep going! Si Trew (talk) 08:01, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
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Donald Trump's Hair
Is it possible to mention commercial brands and products in Wikipedia or does this behaviour represent the so called CONCEALED ADVERTISING (in latin: publicitas occulta). I remind a product very recommended in Italy - a country of renowned hairstylist, "Guido" for instance, eponym of the O.G. - that was called GRECIAN. BroccoBaldo (talk) 19:13, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
- I have no idea what you're saying. -- Tavix (talk) 19:18, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) wut --BDD (talk) 21:12, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
what page?
Would you mind telling me what page you think is an attack page? Si Trew (talk) 02:57, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
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- I tagged The hole with the mint in it for G10. -- Tavix (talk) 02:58, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
- Äh OK fair enough. It wasn't really an attack, IIRC I created it was part of the redirect discussion about disparaging names that we had from time to time (I can't remember the original place name, somewhere in the US, and so can't find the discussion, but another one came up recently), and I probably meant to G7 it myself after the discussion had ended (in case you don't know, it's a pun on the slogan for Polo mints, "The mint with the hole in it"). Quite happy for it to be deleted. I'll copy this to the discussion. Si Trew (talk) 03:01, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
- Ah, looking at the history, it looks like I did go G7 myself then decided against it. I think you probably meant G7 not G10, since it is not an attack against a person, living or otherwise. I've copied the above (but not this) to the talk page of the article. You scared me there! I'm an idiot, but not a nasty idiot. Si Trew (talk) 03:10, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
Langauge
Am I missing something? What's a "langauge"? JohnCD (talk) 15:38, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
- @JohnCD: That's real weird. I don't remember visiting that page, much less making that edit. It must have been a misclick. My apologies. -- Tavix (talk) 16:00, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
- The page was added to my watchlist too, which makes it even weirder (and I'm certain it wasn't there before). I'm really confused about this. -- Tavix (talk) 16:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
- No worries! Out of curiosity, do you know what that "& s h y ;" code means? I'm guessing it's "Break here if you have to put this on two lines", but I can't find it at Help:Wiki markup. JohnCD (talk) 16:34, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
- The page was added to my watchlist too, which makes it even weirder (and I'm certain it wasn't there before). I'm really confused about this. -- Tavix (talk) 16:04, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Autopatrolled
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Opened a move discussion
Please see Talk:DELE (Spanish test)#Requested move 07 November 2015, Consider adding your opinion there. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 03:32, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Done-- Tavix (talk) 03:39, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
Deletion
If you ever want to delete something I created, come and ask me. I may be happy to tag it {{G7}}
, or I may have a convincing reason for keeping it. In either of those cases a lot of effort is saved. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:55, 12 November 2015 (UTC).
- @Rich Farmbrough: I wanted discussion on WikiData redirects in general, and RFD is the perfect place for that. A G7 obviously would prematurely close the discussion, but there'd be no harm either way. -- Tavix (talk) 15:57, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
- I don't think a random group of RfD habitues is a good constituency for such a discussion. The potential use of such redirects needs careful thought and analysis. This can happen at some later time, on a suitable forum or fora (e.g WP:VPT). For example some of the apparent potential uses may be completely displaced by alternative solutions. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:15, 12 November 2015 (UTC).
- Well, I believe that Redirects for Discussion is a good place to discuss redirects. Sorry for bothering you... -- Tavix (talk) 20:42, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
- No problem. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:37, 14 November 2015 (UTC).
- No problem. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:37, 14 November 2015 (UTC).
- Well, I believe that Redirects for Discussion is a good place to discuss redirects. Sorry for bothering you... -- Tavix (talk) 20:42, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
- I don't think a random group of RfD habitues is a good constituency for such a discussion. The potential use of such redirects needs careful thought and analysis. This can happen at some later time, on a suitable forum or fora (e.g WP:VPT). For example some of the apparent potential uses may be completely displaced by alternative solutions. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:15, 12 November 2015 (UTC).
Hi
Where'd you get your NFL lists from. I found them by "What links here". thx WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 16:32, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
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- WikiOriginal-9. I found an excel file that had the entire NFL roster from 1920-2012. -- Tavix (talk) 20:35, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
Turtle Power
Just to let you know, Turtle Park has leapfrogged over older nominees and is now queued up for Main Page DYK on November 19th at 7 p.m. NYC time. Just in case you wanted to catch it "live". . . Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 19:08, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
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- Thanks for letting me know! I'm happy to see that because I'll be free then. The old time wasn't good for me because I'll be traveling this weekend. Cheers! -- Tavix (talk) 19:49, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
DYK for Turtle Park
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Disambiguation
Hi. Thank you for Casolari. Is it better Delrio? Rago (talk) 07:52, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
Remen
I wasn't able to reply at the RfD but I'm ok with the dabify --Lenticel (talk) 02:05, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
Seasons' greetings!
Tavix, Hope your holidays are happy, and have a happy new year! Steel1943 (talk) 17:27, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
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Santo (disambiguation)
So you know the rule instead of me continuing to fix your mistake. Of course, the last few people I fixed the article and left a talk message about it, they yelled and reverted. So, no matter what, I get yelled at, just like you did. Bgwhite (talk) 08:24, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
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- @Bgwhite: Hey now, I didn't yell at you and I'd like to offer my sincere apologies if you took it that way. I think the best way to go about it is to make the fix and leave a gentle talk message including the diff. It shows people what the mistake was and how it's fixed and it doesn't revert other things that took place in that edit (I was making changes to comply with WP:DABPRIMARY and your undo reverted that). I'd be surprised if you've been consistently yelled at for simply explaining a rule to someone... Maybe you just had a string of bad luck. Thanks for your work! Merry Christmas, -- Tavix (talk) 14:54, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for using the subtlest way (the thank button on my discussion closure edit) to remind me that I had yet to delete some of the RfD items that I had closed as delete. Merry Christmas. Deryck C. 23:03, 25 December 2015 (UTC) |
- @Deryck Chan: Happy to help! I "thanked" you because that edit summary made me smile, so it was a way to acknowledge that. I did notice a discussion you closed as "delete" was still blue, but didn't think anything of it since sometimes it takes a while for the link to change colors. If it's still blue a day later or something, that's when I check it out and G6 it if necessary. Merry Christmas to you too! (it's still Christmas here in America.) -- Tavix (talk) 03:22, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
--Rubbish computer (Merry Christmas!: ...And a Happy New Year!) 16:23, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
Category:Macau Grand Prix drivers
Category:Macau Grand Prix drivers, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. The Bushranger One ping only 02:02, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Happy New Year, Tavix!
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Red River
Thanks for doing this and closing the RfD. A long time ago, some editor suggested to me that it's better to advise on the proper course of action and let the editor do it themselves, rather than doing it for them, so that inexperienced editors get to see how things are done. I thought that was good advice, so now it's usually how I address these sorts of requests. I just thought I'd share the advice with you; our colleague Anomalocaris is very obviously not a newbie. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 17:17, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
- Ivanvector: I appreciate Tavix taking care of this, and in the future if I want to delete a redirect so I can move another article to its name, I'll try to remember how it was done this time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anomalocaris (talk • contribs)
- @Anomalocaris: a lot of these cases qualify for WP:G6 speedy deletion if the redirect has no history. You can use {{db-move}} to shortcut the process. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 17:30, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Ivanvector: Hmm, that's interesting advice. I've thought that doing something for someone once shows them exactly how to do it, so they can actually see how it's done and they'll have a reference to use in the future. An analogy would be a teacher doing an example problem before students are turned loose to do their assignment. Doing it this way also closes the wrong forum discussion faster so others don't have to waste time with it. I'd be curious to know which philosophy is "better." Next time I see this situation, I'll do it your way, at the very least to see how it works, and I'll go from there. Thanks for the note! -- Tavix (talk) 18:43, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Kala Alexander
Hello! Your submission of Kala Alexander at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! ~ Cyclonebiskit (chat) 23:15, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
Redirect categorization
Hi Tavix! You've been interested in redirect categorization and the This is a redirect template in the past, so I wanted to let you know that there is a discussion at Template talk:This is a redirect#One parameter that might interest you. Good faith! Paine 21:11, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
DYK for Kala Alexander
— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:01, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
WikiCup 2015 March newsletter
That's it, the first round is done, sign-ups are closed and we're into round 2. Forty-seven competitors move into this round (a bit shy of the expected 64), and we are roughly broken into eight groups of six. The top two of each group will go through to round 3, and then the top scoring 16 "wildcards" across all groups.
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Cwmhiraeth (submissions). Twenty-nine participants conducted GA reviews with
J Milburn (submissions) completing nine.
If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Thanks to everyone for participating, and good luck to those moving into round 2. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email) --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:39, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
WikiCup 2016 March newsletter (update)
Along with getting the year wrong in the newsletter that went out earlier this week, we did not mention (as the bot did not report) that Cas Liber (submissions) claimed the first Featured Article Persoonia terminalis of the 2016 Wikicup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs · email), Figureskatingfan (talk · contribs · email), and Godot13 (talk · contribs · email).--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:05, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
Help with RfD nom
Hi, remember those Main Page redirects (that I had trouble to nominate. I have found a similar set of those that point to Wikipedia, and I think they should be dealt in the same way. Could you do me a favour and nominate them, they are at User:Champion/Redirects to Wikipedia and the nom is on today's RfD page. FYI if you were wondering how I made the list, I used this. Help would be much appreciated. Thanks. - Champion (talk) (contribs) (Formerly TheChampionMan1234) 06:18, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
- Update:I have added them all to the nom, but haven't yet marked the R's. - Champion (talk) (contribs) (Formerly TheChampionMan1234) 06:25, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
- @Champion:, I went ahead and cleaned up the nomination a little bit, but you did a good job. I did remove Wikipædia from the nomination, as that one isn't a foreign language (see, for example, Encyclopædia Britannica). I hope you don' mind! -- Tavix (talk) 16:13, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
ANI notice
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Current events pages. Thank you. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 02:20, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
- @GeoffreyT2000: I appreciate the notice, but I'm afraid there's not much I can add to the discussion. It appears I merged those dates (back in January 2008!) "per consensus in centralized discussion" and I can't recall where that discussion took place. Good luck getting everything sorted out! -- Tavix (talk) 19:13, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
Sam Gold (voice actor)
You PRODded this, and it was deleted. Undeletion has been requested at WP:REFUND, so per WP:DEL#Proposed deletion I have restored it, and now notify you in case you wish to consider AfD. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 15:38, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
Miss february 1990 listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Miss february 1990. Since you had some involvement with the Miss february 1990 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. —Anomalocaris (talk) 08:17, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
Untitled Redirects
What do you think about making a request at MediaWiki talk:Titleblacklist regarding "untitled"? It could be shown that they are consistently deleted at RfD. It is easy to make a request to create a page with "untitled" in it if needed (e.g. one listed at untitled). Best Regards,—Godsy(TALKCONT) 00:19, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
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- I'd be against that, believe it or not. If you check out the prefix index for "untitled" and the Untitled disambiguation page, there are a lot of legitimate articles and redirects. What I'd like to see happen instead is to crack down on is deleting "untitled" articles before they become redirects, a la WP:HAMMER. Now, I would've just nominated these types of redirects for WP:G6, but they've been objected to in the past (eg: Nyttend wanted to keep ROH's Untitled PPVs), so they technically wouldn't be "uncontroversial" maintenance. -- Tavix (talk) 00:50, 14 April 2016 (UTC)