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COI?
Hello, MichaelMaggs. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Monisha Shah, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:
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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. If I read this right, and I may not, per your user page declaring you were a previous chair of WikiMedia UK you I am minded you probably need to declare that fact in XfD discussions. Thankyou Djm-leighpark (talk) 23:30, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
Notice of Conflict of interest noticeboard discussion
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard regarding a possible conflict of interest incident with which you may be involved. The discussion is about the topic Monisha Shah. Thank you. Djm-leighpark (talk) 21:05, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
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MichaelMaggs should be removed from Wikipedia— Preceding unsigned comment added by Pencileraser22 (talk • contribs) 15:00, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
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MichealMaggs should be removed from Wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pencileraser22 (talk • contribs) 15:01, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
Teyora - Development first look!
Hi! I'm Ed6767, the original creator of RedWarn, now one of the most popular tools on the English Wikipedia that's been used by over 1,000 Wikimedians to make over 300,000 edits since mid-2020 that's been praised for its user friendliness and ease of use, but criticised for its limited functionality. I'm leaving this message as I think it may be of interest here - I left the RedWarn project in November to develop Teyora, my successor to RedWarn (alongside Chlod's UltraViolet). It's a new in development web app that uses some of the latest web technologies to create a highly extendable all in one editing tool with a focus on administration, counter vandalism and general patrolling - not to mention, it'll work on every Wikimedia project without any prior configuration and can be used by any user with at least auto-confirmed rights*. Now, I'm ready to give the Wikimedia community a first look at what I've been doing over the past six months and what to expect going forward.
You can check out the 20 minute first look at the in development version on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzlpnzXdLP4.
There's lots more to expect too! Why not read the full details page at meta:Teyora and leave any feedback, comments or wishes at meta:Talk:Teyora (please leave any correspondence there to keep discussion centralised). If you're interested, you can leave your signature
*with basic features, advanced features require configuration. To prevent abuse, auto-confirmed users will be in a restricted mode until approved by an admin or via rollback rights.
All the best, ✨ Ed talk! ✨ 23:14, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
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- Expected. I uploaded an updated image. MichaelMaggs (talk) 17:54, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
In tall grass
In regard to a grass is not a tree, how many of the ShortDescBot edits were as bad as this? In reviewing several, I haven't seen any others notably bad, though I wonder at the accuracy of "Species of tree" for something like Urera baccifera.
I do wonder about the utility of replacing 'nothing' with 'something', just to have a something, where there is a likelihood for the something being bad. But so much of the editing here at WP is replacing 'something' with "something else" just for the grins, so I'm obviously a idealist. Shenme (talk) 19:17, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'm not sure how the bot decided that that was a tree. I'm sure that with a bit of searching you'd be able to find other incorrect descriptions, but I'm confident that the bot's overall error rate is very low: I've seen fewer than 10 queries/reverts in over 300,000 edits, though no doubt there are more to be found. MichaelMaggs (talk) 22:21, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
And Then There Were None
I don't think a citation is needed, my edit only referenced basic elements of the plot that you can easily find in the linked Wikipedia article. I'll revert my edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashvio (talk • contribs) 08:48, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
Edit: I updated to add a source anyway Ashvio (talk) 09:25, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
Havana syndrome
Hello friend. I notice your edit doesn't match your edit summary here. I'm wondering if you edit conflicted and restored some text by accident? I'm not sure so figured I'd mention it and let you handle it. Thanks. –Novem Linguae (talk) 13:53, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Novem Linguae Thanks for noting that. I'll have a look straight away, as my edit was intended only to adjust the short description. MichaelMaggs (talk) 13:57, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
GB Patents source
Hi, while I've got the attention of a bona fide patent attorney. Do you have any idea if there is an on-line source for GB patents from the 19th century? They are missing from Espace.net and Google Patents. The earliest patents I can source direct from their publications via Google Books, the Internet Archive or Hathi Trust and the later ones are on Espace or Google Patents but there is an annoying black hole (inhabited by the National Archives and the British Library) for a chunk of material in the approx. 1850-1890 range. Skullcinema (talk) 11:14, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Skullcinema, Annoyingly, most have never been digitised so far as I know. When Espace was set up, they didn't bother digitising nineteenth century and earlier on the basis that they wouldn't be useful to patent office searchers. No doubt the Board of Trade (or whatever they were calling themselves back then) had no interest in the needs of historical researchers. MichaelMaggs (talk) 12:27, 3 June 2022 (UTC)