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India FAR
Thanks for your post on the Talk:India page. I am returning home on Tuesday July 6. Will attend to the remaining issues in the FAR then. I hope to be done by the week's end. Thanks for your patience! Fowler&fowler«Talk» 19:20, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
- Hi there, The history section expansion of India in response to the FAR comments is now complete. All the remaining issues have been addressed. Please weigh in at FARC. Regards, Fowler&fowler«Talk» 20:19, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
Equestria Daily
A new deletion review has been created regarding an article you've recently discussed. Dr. WTF (talk) 20:28, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
Did you actually check that site? I don't think it actually lists her, but it's really not a site I'm enjoying using. If it doesn't list her, could you please self-revert? J Milburn (talk) 20:51, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks. Sorry if I came across a little snappy above- whatever software that site was using didn't agree with my browser/laptop. J Milburn (talk) 22:23, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
- Yep, I've got it now. Thanks- I'll remember that source! J Milburn (talk) 08:10, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
Wow
Hey there Clay, I don't believe we've met before, but thanks for this massive update! It's much appreciated. If you're into this topic, I'd be happy to help you write a battleship article. :-) Kind regards, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:09, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
More information needed about File:Burnt Moby Prince.jpg
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Hi. I've done the copy edit you requested on the GOCE page, except that I've left a couple of questions on the article's talk page. When answered, there may be a couple more little edits to do. Regards, --Stfg (talk) 22:15, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
Done. Feel free to ask me for any other undeletions of this user's uploads. Nyttend (talk) 01:34, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
screen appearance of Aluminium lede
Hi Clay-- I wonder what browser and/or display setting you're using that my <br> in the pronunciation looked wrong on your screen. What I see, both with Windows IE8 and with Chrome, is the top line of the lede ends with
- ... (American English) (
with that dangling opening parenthesis, and then the 2nd line starts with
- /ˌəlˈuːmɪnəm/, ə-LOO-mi-nəm) [etc].
I was just trying to get the dangling opening parenthesis "(" to come down to the next line in front of the IPA speaker icon because it looked dumb sitting out there by itself. With both of my browsers, the break I had inserted made it appear as
- ... (American English)
- (/ˌəlˈuːmɪnəm/, ə-LOO-mi-nəm) [etc].
Now with your revert only that one opening parenthesis goes back up to the top line again. My display is set to 1024 x 768, which I think is pretty standard. How did it - or does it now - appear on your monitor? Milkunderwood (talk) 01:54, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- I wouldn't have thought the break would appear to create a separate paragraph as opposed to just starting a new line, as on my display, but I haven't played with my own settings. Where does the line wrap occur on yours? Anyway, I'm no expert on aluminium, and don't want to mess with the actual text there, or the pronunciations. I wonder if there's an HTML function that could force the opening paren to stay with the IPA icon instead of allowing them to split - if so, this ought to solve the problem for everyone's display. Milkunderwood (talk) 02:35, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- Oh wow, I can understand the problem, then. What I see is the hatnote is the only text that can go all the way over; then the top of the infobox starting with the periodic table illustration aligns with the first line of text, cutting it off where I showed, above - so you're getting much more text on that top line than me. It was never that big of a deal, so I'm not going to fool around with it any longer. Thanks for the info. Milkunderwood (talk) 03:10, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
- I wouldn't have thought the break would appear to create a separate paragraph as opposed to just starting a new line, as on my display, but I haven't played with my own settings. Where does the line wrap occur on yours? Anyway, I'm no expert on aluminium, and don't want to mess with the actual text there, or the pronunciations. I wonder if there's an HTML function that could force the opening paren to stay with the IPA icon instead of allowing them to split - if so, this ought to solve the problem for everyone's display. Milkunderwood (talk) 02:35, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Ucucha's error finding script
Hi. Can you please tell the name of the script you used for review of Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Chrisye/archive1? I would like to use it too. Thanks. --Redtigerxyz Talk 10:05, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot. --Redtigerxyz Talk 10:24, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
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Renaming in huwiki
Hi! I renamed our previous User:Clay, so now that nick is free, you can use it. Regards. - RepliCarter (talk) 09:26, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
Clay @ ko.wikipedia
Your request was done. Please check w:ko:위키백과:계정 이름 변경 요청/2012년 2월#None (SUL request) → Clay and make your account 'Clay' at ko.wikipedia. Thanks. -- Min's (talk) 10:31, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
- Done also on it.wiki, have a nice day! --Vituzzu (talk) 11:12, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
trwiki done
hi, you can now usurp username Clay @trwiki by logging in --Mskyrider (talk) 05:36, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks
Thank you for updating the FA log pages - that's one less chore I have today :-) Graham. Graham Colm (talk) 12:26, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
A Beer for You
Thanks for the Review | |
Hi Clay, thanks for the review at the recent FA nomination for Chrisye. I'm glad you were able to catch the formatting mistakes in the references. In thanks, I'd like to give you a local brew: Bintang Beer. Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:25, 11 April 2012 (UTC) |
Thanks again
Hi Clay, thanks for spotting this [1]. It's reassuring to know that you are watching. Best, Graham. Graham Colm (talk) 09:27, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
Sure, and thanks for doing it. Why don't you tell me exactly which footnotes you want to spot check, so I don't just refrain from sending you the ones I've fraudulently sourced? I'll try to get them to you Monday, if you let me know by then which ones you want. Steve Smith (talk) 06:03, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
- Er, and also if you tell me where I can send it, since I don't think we can send attachments through MediaWiki mail. Steve Smith (talk) 06:11, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
Re usurpation request on jawiki
Hello Clay. Sorry for waiting long time. I replied you on my talk page on jawiki. On the WP:CHU page Jkr2255 mentioned that the target user account had been blocked as a sockpuppet indefinetely. I think you should leave a message that it is okay for you on the request page. If he is not abale to work on the request, I'll take over it. (BTW, I will confirm if the IP user who requested the usurpation is certainly you by your reply here.) --Penn Station (talk) 15:11, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
- Yes it is me, I was also editing at school for some part of it, so I may have two IP addresses. Thank you for getting around to this :) ClayClayClay 18:25, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
- Hi Clay. I have just usurped the target account as per your request. Please check the WP:CHU page at jawiki and create the account to merge it into your sul accounts. Thanks. --Penn Station (talk) 11:14, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Thank you
Hi, thanks taking the time to read and make helpful comments at the Bal des Ardents FAC. Truthkeeper (talk) 14:59, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks I really appreciate your work in critiquing this article. I'm sure you can tell that I put in a lot of effort and have been crestfallen repeatedly by its failure to pass FA. As soon as you're done with your suggestions, I will happily get to work fixing it. My copy isn't always the best, but the sources, structure, and media are there to ensure a substantial article can be written. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:01, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
- Done? I've made all of the changes you suggested as best I could. In previous attempts, the article didn't pass due to lack of interest--do you know of anyone else who would want to review this? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:26, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Category:LGBT newsreaders
Category:LGBT newsreaders, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. 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. KarlB (talk) 23:19, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
Rainbow Dash the "Cool" Hacker
Regarding the part about Austrian hacking incidents by the Anonymous in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic#Other arenas, I want to replace this page from a fan site (which the article currently cites) with those pages (No. 1, No. 2, No. 3) from Austrian public broadcaster ORF. But as I can't understand German at all, I need your help. JSH-alive talk • cont • mail 15:42, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
FAC spotcheck?
Hi Clay, I notice that you volunteered at one stage to do a source spotcheck at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Santa Maria de Ovila/archive2 -- if you're still willing to do it, that'd be great. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 22:23, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
SPATRA reactivation
Hello Clay, I notice that you were involved in the project Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week a few years ago. However I also notice that here has been very little activity since 2007. This is a project I'm particularly interested in and would love to see it revived. I've taken the bold step of identifying an article requiring translation and I'm in the process of inviting collaboration. The article History of Puerta del Sol could really use your help. In addition, I'd welcome any ideas you may have to help revive this project so that there is greater collaboration among ES>EN translators on en.Wikipedia. I'm identifying various contributors from whom the SPATRA project may benefit. If you have any recommendations then feel free to contact them directly or submit there usernames to me via my talkpage. I look forward to your participation. Gratefully - EagerToddler39 (talk) 02:22, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
Linŭ listed at Redirects for discussion
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Request to fix edit
Hi there, I am a beginner at editing. One of your recent edits ("fixing lint errors") on the page called At-Tawba 29 (https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/At-Tawba_29) removed my formatting of the Arabic text so that it is no longer legible from a PC and must be zoomed into from mobile devices. I had used a template resize|200% (with the double curly brackets on either side {{ ), but your edit removed that template. I don't want to re-insert the template, because I assume you removed it for good reason, but I need the Arabic script to be sized up significantly. Could you either re-visit the page to fix the issue or suggest a way for me to do so? It is much appreciated. One drop of water (talk) 10:08, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
- Hi, I did a potentially temporary fix. I used a div tag to maintain the "rtl" direction of the Arabic script and specified the font size in the lang template. Gives me a font style that is not perfect, but at least the sizing and formatting are cleaned up now. No need to take the time to reply, thank you. One drop of water (talk) 20:58, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
- Hey, this new size formatting works well. The original created a lint error with misnested tags, and the Arabic text looked unnecessarily large on my screen, as well. The new version looks manageably sized and does not show any lint errors. Good fix! Clay (talk) 08:09, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
includeonly in List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches
Hi! You added the following change to List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches twice, writing that it's needed for transclusion:
As far I can can tell, that change was in fact breaking the layout in List of Falcon 9 first-stage boosters. Everything from the "Booster landings" chart and onward ended up in a single HTML table cell, pushing all the content following that chart to the right and leaving a wide blank space on the left side of the article (I'm talking about the desktop version of the article here). That's not very surprising, since the change starts a new column without ending the previous one (i.e. the one that is started with a "{{col-start}}" right before the "Launch outcomes" chart). The "{{col-end}}" tag that follows the "Booster landings" chart then only ends the nested column, leaving the outer column unclosed and presumably extended to the end of the article. What was your intent with this change? OnceAndFutureFlopsy (talk) 20:33, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
New nomination opinions
There have been several new nominations by Joe Biden for representatives to the United Nations General Assembly. These are James E. Risch, Carol Leslie Hamilton, Andrew J. Weinstein, S. Douglas Bunch and most importantly Senator Patrick Leahy, who is due to retire from Congress at the beginning of the new term. Where should these nominations be added? Under the independent section or under ambassadors? SuperWIKI (talk) 05:22, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
- @SuperWIKI: A while back, I put the appointments to the 76th session, as well as any other representative-level appointments to the UN, in a United States Mission to the United Nations section on the List of Department of State appointments by Joe Biden page; since they aren't really ambassador-level appointments, and the mission is part of the Department of State and not an independent agency. The 77th session appointments you listed above have since been put there as well. Clay (talk) 06:09, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
- Understood, thank you! SuperWIKI (talk) 06:11, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
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Federal judge pictures
I wanted to thank you for updating the pictures for numerous federal judges. I am one of the prolific Wikipedia users that puts their pictures up from their SJC hearing but rarely go back to see if their official judicial pictures have been updated so thank you for that. I especially want to thank for making sure the "Page preview" is still showing when you put the mouse over the link for their page so their picture shows without opening their page. Very much appreciated.
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- Thank you as well for putting up the original pictures! I had forgotten about the page preview feature before reading your comment (I toggled it off at some point but have re-enabled it now), so any positive results there are purely good luck. Clay (talk) 22:52, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
Your very welcome. The judiciary is my passion so when I saw most federal judges didn't have pictures, I went back & started adding them. All of the pictures I have seen from you have the page preview which is very important so looks good to me. I'm not sure if possible but there is one Biden nominee that picture does not have a page preview, 3 Jacqueline Scott Corley. If you can fix it that would be appreciated. I was able to update every active circuit court judge with a profile picture except three. If you can find a picture & post it on their profile, that would give every active circuit court judge a picture which would be great. I'm not sure if you can find one but I'll give you the names below.
Ilana Rovner (7th) Harris Hartz (10th) Karen Henderson (DC) - I put a picture up but it's not a live picture.
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- @Let'srun: Should you be the one to be doing these sorts of moves? It seems like you are extremely involved in trying to delete/draftify these articles and as such it doesn't seem right that you are unilaterally moving pages to the Draft space now. Clay (talk) 19:37, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
- I'm only moving pages with a severe lack of secondary sources. If you have a issue with that, please take it up at the relevant forums. Let'srun (talk) 14:30, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
- I haven't evaluated for substance, but I still have have reservations about you performing these moves, since you have been so focused on getting these articles taken down by any means possible. There are plenty of uninvolved editors that could have helped you out. But it sounds like you don't really care, and I am not willing to get into a fight about it. So I'll just say, hope that works out for you. Clay (talk) 15:11, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
- I understand your concerns. I will not be moving any additional articles to drafts myself or nominating any additional afds for judicial nominees at this time. Let'srun (talk) 17:07, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
- I haven't evaluated for substance, but I still have have reservations about you performing these moves, since you have been so focused on getting these articles taken down by any means possible. There are plenty of uninvolved editors that could have helped you out. But it sounds like you don't really care, and I am not willing to get into a fight about it. So I'll just say, hope that works out for you. Clay (talk) 15:11, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
- I'm only moving pages with a severe lack of secondary sources. If you have a issue with that, please take it up at the relevant forums. Let'srun (talk) 14:30, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
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Help with Infobox
Hi there @Clay,
If you could help me with this, James C. O'Brien was recently nominated for another position within the Department of State. It seems that you're pretty experienced with editing/working with infoboxes, so would it be possible for you to check it out and add that nomination to the infobox?. Thank you in advance! Losipov (talk) 20:25, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks for pointing that out, I've added the new Assistant Secretary nomination to the infobox now. Clay (talk) 16:27, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
- @Clay I forgot to say thank you lol. But can you also do it for William W. Popp's nomination to Uganda too? He was just confirmed and I still don't know how to do those kinds of edits. Thanks again! Losipov (talk) 03:51, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
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