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Sir David Kelly British Minister to Switzerland during WW II

Dear David87

I am an Australian author living in Warsaw writing a biography of a forgotten but brilliant Australian concert pianiust Edward Cahill. He knew Sir David Kelly and his wife very well in Berne CH in the WW II period. I can find little on Sir David Kelly. from Wiki I believe you wrote a now deleted article on this gentleman. Do you still have it? Lots about Sir Ralph Richardson playing him in the film Battle of Britain. Great film but useless for me academically.

Please reply to mjcmoranwp.pl website: www.michael-moran.net — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.24.188.2 (talk) 16:21, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Replied by email. Unfortunately, the article about a high school teacher created by Willsimpson40 (talk · contribs), which I deleted, had nothing to do with Sir David Kelly. Graham87 01:47, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

How do I tell what changes were made when you import?

See for example [1] - I don't see any change there. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 06:49, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

There shouldn't be any change in that diff, because the actions of moving and importing are basically null edits. To find out which edits I imported, click on the timestamp link in the history for my most recent edit, then keep clicking on the "previous revision" link until you find a 2001 edit. This works because the previous/next revision links work by revision ID, not date, and the edits that I import get a high revision ID because they were recently added to the Wikipedia database. For example, at the Lost City page, if you go to this link then click on the "Previous revision" button twice, you will find the 2001 edit that I imported. Or you can just go to the early history of the page and look for edits with a high revision ID (the last number in the URL).

I've just copyedited your talk header. Hope you don't mind. Graham87 07:57, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation and the copyedit! Dougweller (talk) 14:06, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Kibbie Bach links

Thanks for your message and formatting suggestions for links to the Kibbie Bach recordings. Linking to the download page for an individual work is a good idea, although there are separate pages for the prelude and fugue of BWV 552, so your link gives the user just the download for the Prelude. However, linking directly to the bulk downloads of the entire Clavierübung does not allow the user to view the registrations or organ specifications, or to choose between the two download formats offered. I thought if the user is directed to the main site, there's the choice of accessing the full information (using the search function for Clavierübung) and downloading in either mp3 or mp4, or of using the bulk downloads and getting only the recordings in mp4. Montre8 (talk) 22:01, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

The Third Wave

put the article back. i dont know what 'kangaroo island' is or why you sent me a message about it.

this is the original text:

The Third Wave was a family band comprised of 5 sisters of Filipino heritage from Stockton, California. They made their debut in 1970 with the album 'Here and Now'.

there is nothing wrong with that information.

what is wrong with you? are you on drugs? kangaroo island? get it together. put it back.

im done with wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Freq32 (talk • contribs) 05:40, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

A brownie for you!

Hello Graham87! I hope you enjoy yummy treat as a friendly greeting from a fellow Wikipedian, SwisterTwister talk 05:14, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Priya Cooper

Hey. If you have time, can you read through Priya Cooper and try to fix it some? At the moment, it is a lot of disjointed sentences. It lacks transitions. It is pretty much a whole bunch of random facts. :( On IRC, some one said if I added a few sources outside of the Olympics, it should be ready to B so I attempted to do that. It would be really nice to get one of the articles on Book talk:Australian Paralympians‎ up to B. I just don't want to give it that level myself. --LauraHale (talk) 02:02, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the cleanup. :) I've been having trouble finding sources that I think are credible that talk about the subject of her family, which is why I haven't included those details. Will see if I can't find something at NSIC when I get back to improve that more and continue to poke around to see if I can't find those details elsewhere. --LauraHale (talk) 12:01, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Ukrainians

Hi! I need some help please, about Ukrainians article. There are some users as Aftesk who violate the rules, deleting facts and sources, also complicating the clear situation ... If necessary, I will be grateful for your small interventionn in future. The user has already been warned for vandalism! It is the occasional presence of Ukrainophobia ... Thanks!--SeikoEn (talk) 07:36, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Japanese language

Hi Graham,

I've frequently noticed botch-ups with early edits, as when the first edit in the database is linked to a "previous edit" which has a much more recent time-stamp (and obviously reflects a much more recent version of the article indeed – I've noticed this specific problem countless times), but in this case, I'm not sure what exactly went wrong. It seems that instead of importing the old edit from Nostalgia Wikipedia, you imported an edit from 2010. Am I perceiving the problem correctly? Or is it simply the importing process which leads to the problem of edits being linked to each other in an incorrect sequence? --Florian Blaschke (talk) 18:31, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

RFC on the bot-addition of identifier links to citations

Graham,

You may have something unique to add to the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RFC on the bot-addition of identifier links to citations. How do you deal with citations and what is the effect of external links to the various journal databases. Cheers, Colin°^Talk 18:57, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

So what got changed?

This change has the comment "2 revisions from nost:File system: import old edit, see User:Graham87/Import", but doesn't seem to be reporting any actual change to the page; is MediaWiki not properly handling an import and not showing the change, or did nothing, in fact, change? (Not criticizing, just curious.) Guy Harris (talk) 07:47, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

I.e., this is the edit you imported? Guy Harris (talk) 08:16, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Re: Village pump archives

Hey Graham. Just to let you know that I'm working on your request as we speak. It's going to be a slow process however because there are so many revisions :( Regards, - Jarry1250 ^{[Weasel? Discuss.]} 17:59, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

p.s. Of course I don't mind! Thanks, indeed :) - Jarry1250 ^{[Weasel? Discuss.]} 18:06, 17 August 2011 (UTC)

Re: Archives

Okay, had another look at it, rejigged the archives. Still some order issues going on, but I think everything's there now. Will look at the oldest archives again soon, if I get the time. Ta, - Jarry1250 ^{[Weasel? Discuss.]} 19:45, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Hey Graham. Finally got round to doing this. All the archives look to have been recreated fine (there may be some duplication of threads, but that's inevitable). Shall I go ahead and delete the older attempts are archiving? All the attribution data is taken from the final one, so we don't need to worry about that. - Jarry1250 ^{[Weasel? Discuss.]} 18:01, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Sorry Graham, I saw your message earlier but was going to wait until I had the time for a full message. 70% seems good but a little low - if you notice a pattern, I can easily rerun the scirpt (taking account any work you've done by hand). Yes, I did notice -- I ran the script once not taking account of that though! Have fun with your Reader Stream, and, as ever, much respect for all your work in improving the accessibility of the Wikipedia experience for all. Regards, - Jarry1250 ^{[Weasel? Discuss.]} 13:43, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Unfortunately I don't think the spam blacklist / edit filter is the problem, because they're implemented at edit time: either the whole archive is approved or rejected, so it's easy to spot holes. Apologies for not getting back to you sooner, but I have just bought a new computer - after my last one broke last week I had been relying on my netbook - so now I shall be able to deploy its much improved processor to the task of tracking down the error :) Regards, - Jarry1250 ^{[Weasel? Discuss.]} 16:36, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Okay, looks like I fixed this problem on my copy a way back, but didn't realise my changes weren't going live to the main site. That should now be happening (fingers crossed!). - Jarry1250 ^{[Weasel? Discuss.]} 18:22, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Hey Graham. I recently tried an improvement to my duplication detection algorithm. I was expecting the overall length to reduce from 58 archives to say, 40-ish. Instead, I seem to have been left with 24. Is that feasible, do you think, or is there an error somewhere? You can view the archives at http://toolserver.org/~jarry/vpA.txt, http://toolserver.org/~jarry/vpB.txt, etc. Thanks for your help in this; I realise it is rather embarrassing for me either way :D Secondly, I didn't notice that much duplication with the other archives (policy, proposals...). Do you think they would benefit from re-reunning them with the newer algorithm? Thanks, - Jarry1250 ^{[Weasel? Discuss.]} 21:54, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Once again your analysis is spot on. It's run them in reverse order. Why? Because I told it to whilst debbugging the script and forgot to change it back! Mea culpa. I shall rerun it again properly this evening and let you know. - Jarry1250 ^{[Weasel? Discuss.]} 13:05, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

53 archives present and correct (I think) :) - Jarry1250 ^{[Weasel? Discuss.]} 22:01, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Accessible symbols

Hi Graham, sorry to trouble you again, but this time I'm working on lists of soccer club seasons, specifically List of Birmingham City F.C. seasons. The table uses the characters ↑ and ↓ to indicate promotion and relegation. That's an up-arrow and a down-arrow, part of the symbol set available from the edit interface. If you have a moment, could you tell me whether JAWS reads those sensibly, please? If not, I can make two templates to render images with alt text to replace them. Thanks again for all your help! Cheers --RexxS (talk) 18:56, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for that, Graham. I've finally found the time to make two new templates and their redirects, so hopefully ↑ and ↓ will read properly for you. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 01:17, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

Frank Ponta

If you get the chance, could you edit Frank Ponta and fix the grammar problems? Improve the flow? Ponta is Western Australian. If you have any additional sources that might be useful to include in the article, that would be fantastic. :) The article was expanded five-fold so it should now qualify for DYK status and hoping to get it there. Just worried that things are repetitive. --LauraHale (talk) 11:28, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Wow! The work you did was awesome. :) Very beautiful. :) Really appreciate it. :) --LauraHale (talk) 20:39, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

My bad. Sorry about the confusion with that section. I thought I was using the source appropriately and yeah. Will try to be more careful. :( — Preceding unsigned comment added by LauraHale (talk • contribs) 21:51, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
	I love what you are doing here. Thanks! Guy Macon (talk) 19:14, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	You are awesome dude!!!! Jacks1881 (talk) 02:52, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

Just a thought …

I just wanna thank you for your [2] you made on my page. Smartcom5 ^(Talk ?) 03:43, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Hrrmph

Hope the jaws has fun with the title of this section - maybe herrummpphhh - would be better - Darling Range aka scarp and west coast range in Tasmania leave me being very regretful at the loss of spare time to clean them up and add stuff - time challenged now, I hope its worth a read still - It is very short of info in certain areas... - cheers SatuSuro 03:35, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you and need help with FEVR page

Thank you for cleaning up my first edits. I'm hoping to expand the information available on blindness in children and on FEVR in particular. I have four children and a husband with this disease, and information has been hard to find. I've got textbooks and research articles written by the world's expert that contain good info, plus I recently attended a conference with him and his associates where we learned brand-new research info. First, I need to get the main page renamed. Very few people leave off "Familial" when referring to this disease, and including the acronym "FEVR", which is how the diagnosis is usually conveyed, will make the information more readily available. Can you help with that?Gothmom (talk) 03:37, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Elizabeth Edmondson

I got Elizabeth Edmondson to WP:DYK length. User:Hawkeye7 nominated it. If you have the time, can you do a copy edit on the article? --LauraHale (talk) 08:24, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. :) (I could probably add a fair amount more information more to the article, but just ran out of steam yesterday.) --LauraHale (talk) 19:44, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Liesel Tesch

Can you help with fixing this? --LauraHale (talk) 21:05, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, that was embarrassing. :( --LauraHale (talk) 00:56, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

Thanks for the fix! Racconish Tk 06:01, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Re: village pump archives

Hey Graham. You mean the one about the threads being in the wrong order? I suppose I had read it and decided that in light of all the previous problems having archives in the wrong orders was probably an acceptable compromise...! *grins* I'm surprised I didn't drop you a note to that effect though. - Jarry1250 ^{[Weasel? Discuss.]} 18:57, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Import

I was just looking to go do an import for the first time, but there seem enough scenarios and it seems complicated enough that I'll ask first what procedure I should do. I want to import the 22 August edit from nost:Missouri River, which doesn't show up in the page history for Missouri River. Could you give me advice on how to do this in this situation? Thanks, Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)} 18:22, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Merging the history of a sub-page in user space into a pre-existing article

You were recently mentioned in passing in a now closed ANI ("Merging the history of a sub-page in user space into a pre-existing article") Do you merge user-space histories into existing articles? As I do not watch your talk page please make any reply on mine. -- PBS (talk) 04:11, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

External Links

Thanks for the input. I am not trying to improve any site’s search ranking but to provide examples that are culturally relevant. There is not a great deal of content for the U.S. Hispanic, bilingual and bicultural audience. It happens that I can point to such content via the work that I and my colleagues do. Please let me know how I can better serve Wikipedia users in particular and web users, in general. Kviera (talk) 00:46, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Welcome back… ;) I need your help! :D

Template:Did you know nominations/Troy Sachs: Can you help with this? I'm feeling a bit at sea. :( --LauraHale (talk) 08:58, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

JAWs and Wiki's

Hi Graham, can you recommend a Wiki host that is JAWS friendly? Wikispaces, Wikia, etc.. Thanks! Sandy sandy.finkelaiu3.net — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.40.167.2 (talk) 19:18, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Replied by email. Graham87 04:23, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Gerry Hewson

Hi. I've been working Gerry Hewson this morning. I'd like to ask User:Hawkeye7 to nominate it for DYK at some point in the next couple of days. The article has all the information, the length and the citations. It just could use an edit to improve the grammar, organisation and flow. If you have the time, can you do some clean up on the article? I'm worried that if it was thoroughly edited, it would lose a lot of words and I want time to fix that to add more information. Thanks! --LauraHale (talk) 00:51, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

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Ashley Adams

I've got three open DYKs at the moment. I really appreciate the help with the copy editing. My writing on Wikipedia tends to be Fact.[source] Fact. [source] While it is accurate and possibly well organised, it makes my sentences short, choppy and hard to read as a cohesive piece. Anyway, if you've got the time, Ashley Adams could use a copy edit. --LauraHale (talk) 11:48, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! The help was much appreciated. :D --LauraHale (talk) 21:14, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Adding here, rather than in a new section. :) Evan O'Hanlon is an article I cleaned up. I've contacted him on Twitter with a request that he upload pictures to Commons so we can use them in a DYK. If you have the chance, can you do a copy edit of it? User:Hawkeye7 has already done one but never hurts to get another set of eyes on it. also, this article: Can you add information to the article from that source? I wasn't sure if it would be trivial or PoV pushing to include it and I'm stuck on how to add that source. --LauraHale (talk) 02:15, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks again for the help. :) Will work out sourcing later. --LauraHale (talk) 03:14, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Tossing on here again: Julianne Adams is the next article I am hoping to get nominated for WP:DYK. The article is long enough as it is. It just needs copyediting to improve it. I'm also not completely sure about reliable sourcing related to using Hansard, where a person talks about themselves. If that isn't a reliable source, then the article probably would not qualify as the information would need to be removed. :/ --LauraHale (talk) 23:30, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

Good to know about Hansard in this case. There have been some issues with factual accuracies on DYKs recently and I'd like to avoid that. (Though there are about 5 in the DYK pile and I don't know their status. I'm not certain what is hanging them up and I don't quite know who to ask.) Will poke around more to see if I can't find information about her date of birth and additional information to add to the article. --LauraHale (talk) 01:11, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Can you take a look at Template:Did you know nominations/Julianne Adams? I thought Hansard was an okay source. Beyond that, I'm not sure where the paraphrasing issues might be. Lost. :( --LauraHale (talk) 01:50, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Re: Reverting vandalism

Hello, Graham87. You have new messages at SchreyP's talk page.
Message added 15:13, 31 October 2011 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Thanks, I keep your suggestion in mind. -- SchreyP ^(messages) 15:36, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Re: Interwiki link order

Why would the "Shona" interwiki link comes before "Simple English"? The native name is "chiShona". -MarsRover (talk) 16:44, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Brahms Requiem

Thanks for improving! Good on All Souls' Day. I will sing it the two next Saturdays, with organ. I asked the organist how he will manage to get the full romantic orchestra on the organ, he replied "I don't know". Today is also the birthday of the other Graham, remember? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:42, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. I gave Graham a little present, - not encyclopedic: he also performed it on my birthday, it's a winner with every audience, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:44, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Effect on redirects of move and re-move

Hi. Your move and move back of Maxwell's equations resulted in several redirects to it being nominated for speedy deletion. What happened was that, after your move, one bot fixed the resulting double redirects to make them point to the temporary name; then when you moved the article back and deleted the temporary destination, another bot began to mark them for speedy deletion as redirects to a deleted page. For example, see the history of Maxwell Equations.

I think I have caught them all, but if you do this again it would be best to wait a day or so before deleting the redirect left at the temporary address by your second move, to allow the double-redirect-fixing bot to catch up. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 19:02, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

No, looking at it again, that won't work: the speedy nominations were not G8 (page dependent on a deleted page) but WP:CSD#R2 (cross-namespace redirect), because you had moved it out of the Wikipedia namespace. That might still happen, if DASHBot is quicker at spotting the cross-namespace redirect than AvicBot is at sorting out the second double redirect after the page is moved back. If it is essential to your process to move the page out of the Wikipedia namespace, I think you will just have to make a note first of all incoming redirects, and fix or re-create them after your operation is complete. JohnCD (talk) 20:18, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I've notified Avicennasis, the owner of the bot, about this issue. Moving pages across namespaces is often necessary for this process, but I'll make sure that all the redirects are still OK once I've finished working on a page. Graham87 01:47, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

It turns out that there are a few other examples. I've notified Gwern (talk · contribs) and Robertgreer (talk · contribs), the creators of two of the redirects, about the problem, since they both received bizarre speedy deletion notices as a result. Graham87 06:59, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

And I've notified Ed Poor (talk · contribs) and Salsb (talk · contribs), because they also received these wayward notices. Graham87 07:09, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

"Later the same..."

"Later the same day" is clunky grammar? Could have fooled me. –IsaacAA (talk) 22:01, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Import request

Hi Graham, from the logs I see you are an active importer. An editor on Wikimedia Commons picked the wrong project for an article, commons:Klondike Gold Rush mining methods. Can you import it to Wikipedia so that I can delete it from Commons without having that editors work removed? Any secondary issues if any, such as scope, original research mabye, can be discussed later on Wikipedia. --Martin H. (talk) 13:09, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

User copied it to Mining methods of the Klondike Gold Rush already, copy&pasting of self-written articles is license conform, therefore import no longer required. Thank you anyway :) --Martin H. (talk) 13:15, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Monster DYK single nomination

I'm trying for a monster DYK nomination with five or more wheelchair basketball players getting mentioned. So far, I've finished getting Brad Ness, Justin Eveson, Cobi Crispin, Shaun Norris and Michael Hartnett (basketball) up to length. If you could edit them for flow, spelling, grammar and general organisation, that would be extremely helpful. :D --LauraHale (talk) 03:15, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Meep. Yeah. :( Bad with birth dates. See Wikipedia:Did_you_know/Hall_of_Fame for DYK example. You can get a variety of them in the same DYK. I'm not talking about 6 different nomination, but rather 1 nomination with six different expanded articles in it. --LauraHale (talk) 04:41, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Jessica Gallagher

Hi. :) I was looking for another article to take to DYK and chose Jessica Gallagher because there were few Cs in that section of the alphabet. I spent some time editing the article and it seems like one that could easily be taken to WP:GAN. I'm not done editing it yet, but if you could take a look at it tomorrow with the idea of it being nominated for WP:DYK and possibly WP:GAN. :) --LauraHale (talk) 10:59, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

No hurry. :) (I've stopped editing for the night. I can and probably will spend another hour or two tomorrow digging up sources.) I've looked at Paralympian related GAs and I'm not sure what people would be looking for. One of the four I saw was about the length of the Gallagher article is at the moment. I just have no idea what a reviewer would be looking for. :/ The advantage Gallagher has is there are a number of sources related to her, which makes it relatively easy to get some decent content about her on the article.

Feel your pain on expansion. The article you did looks really well done. It is nicely sources and the formatting looks attractive. :) You know how to write and organise text into paragraphs. Your sentences flow together. ;) Good stuff. :) --LauraHale (talk) 11:43, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Also, The Wire is an awesome show. :D --LauraHale (talk) 11:44, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. :D Much appreciated. :) And forgot about the bit about not being able to see television so well. :) Nonetheless, the cast of that show is fantastic. :) --LauraHale (talk) 10:11, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

Article Feedback Tool

Hey Graham; just wanted to say thanks for your question about the new Article Feedback Tool - accessibility for blind or partially sighted users is definitely very important :). While it's not directly relevant, there's a discussion going down here which might interest you - it's over access levels for the various bits of the AFT. The devs are pretty keen to get as many opinions as possible, so if you want to chip in I'd be very grateful :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 19:27, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

• Oh - and the next Office Hours session will be held on Thursday at 19:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. Give me a poke if you can't make it but want me to send you the logs when they're released - we'll be holding sessions timed for East Coast editors and Australasian/Asian editors next week. Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:52, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Changes to navbox markup

Hey. Would you please comment at Template talk:Navbox#Wrapping issues. I'm trying to work out if some recent overhauling of navigational templates should be reviewed. Nightw 14:41, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

A kitten for you! For all your editing work on my DYKs! :D Trust me, the kitten is cute. Everyone loves cute kittens as a reward for doing good work. and yes, you do good stuff. :D

LauraHale (talk) 10:42, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Elizabeth Wright (swimmer)

Elizabeth Wright (swimmer) is one of those articles where is has the requisite number of characters and words… but the flow is complete garbage. :( Most of the sources I can find don't talk about her Paralympic experience, but focus on her academic work. Can you take a look at it to see if you can't improve the article to better highlight the Paralympic part (where she's notable) and have it read better? --LauraHale (talk) 11:49, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the copyedit. :) --LauraHale (talk) 20:06, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you so much

For your copyediting of mw:MediaWiki architecture document/text. I really appreciate it! Thanks. guillom 17:26, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

stop online piracy act

Hi there: I don't know how attached you are to your edits on this page; personally I rather liked them. Xenophrenic has removed a lot of them saying, let's see, "remedy IP's overdose on "alleged" and other weasel words; rem non-RS'd commentary; rem redundant wikilink." You're probably the non-RS'd commentary, according to him; tho with this editor it's hard to tell. The "allegedly" entries do make the section ugly btw, but the IP's point was well taken -- an allegation is all it would take. Possibly not for the section 102 provisions, as afaik a court would need to be involved there, but definitely for the section 103 part -- this bill would allow me to take action against wikipedia because I say it infringes on my copyright.

I'd prefer that we talk about this here, or Xenophrenic will surely accuse me of a personal attack again ;) He may well see this anyway, but I *know* he watches my talk page. By the way, if you really do enjoy going through page histories, I am doing this a lot just now over Xenophrenic's antics on the page for the related Senate bill, and have a question. I'll put this page on my watchlist. Thanks Elinruby (talk) 13:41, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Uh, I only added a comma. As a rule, I refuse to get heavily nvolved in articles about current events. Graham87 14:25, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

really? Apparently I am reading this wrong then. My apologies for any consternation the remarks may have caused you. I will go take another look. Elinruby (talk) 15:04, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

so you did; my mistake. I read all the red on the left as an action on your part. I see what I was doing wrong. Thanks for your patience with this. Elinruby (talk) 15:20, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

No worries, diffs can be hard to read sometimes. Graham87 15:23, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

speedy deletion?

Hi Graham87, I got a note that you nominated a music file that I uploaded, for speedy deletion.

The file is: Image:Ravel 4.Rigaudon. Le Tombeau de Couperin.ogg and is in the category of Music by Maurice Ravel.

(sorry if I am making mistakes using this TalkBack, I am not very familiar with its conventions).

regarding the music file: it is fully my own creation, I played each instrument and created the recording.

Ravel died in 1937, therefore the 70-year rule stipulates that his music is in the public domain since 2007. I am aware that there is an exception for France, where his music is supposedly copyrighted until 2016. But this composition "Le Tombeau de Couperin" was written before 1923, in 1917, and is therefore not subject to this exclusion.

Could I reinstate my recordings of Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin, and share them with the music community on wikipedia?

Many regards, Reinhold — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.99.22.179 (talk) 00:03, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Replied at Commons:User talk:Reinholdbehringer#Speedy deletion. Graham87 01:34, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

North Africa to "Africa/North Africa"

Could you please explain the rename on the talk page for this article, Talk:North_Africa? Thanks, Dialectric (talk) 14:56, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

You may have accidentally renamed the page. Please check the talk page for the article again. Dialectric (talk) 22:58, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Graham, as far as I can see, everything you did is absolutely fine, and I've attempted to explain that at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive228#Histmerge needs fixing. You might want to check and confirm (perhaps using a simpler explanation that I did, which wouldn't be difficult...) Regards, Bencherlite^Talk 00:29, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

I know how you love mass DYK noms...

I don't know if I will nominate these are the text is similar. (On the other hand, Wikipedia:Did you know/Hall of Fame, the Taxation in the Ottoman Empire nomination has at least one article I found at 1,200 characters, which is 300 under the count by my understanding… but they tend to be a bit more uniquely different from what I'm trying for. I'm babbling.) If you could do copy edits of the following, much obliged: 1 point player, 2 point player, 3 point player, 4 point player, 4.5 point player, S1 (classification), S10 (classification), S11 (classification), S12 (classification), S13 (classification), S2 (classification), S3 (classification), S4 (classification), S5 (classification), S6 (classification), S7 (classification), S8 (classification), S9 (classification). If you're not interested, no worries. :D --LauraHale (talk) 09:42, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

Redirect pages

Hi, would you please take look on Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Redirects_that_their_history_has_more_than_one_revision, Thank youReza1615 (talk) 14:39, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Sorry for being too hasty at Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians

I am sorry to have added the wrong person at Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians. I am not sure what happened, but for some I thought he had not been active since 2007. I realized my mistake right after I posted this entry and tried to revert it, but it appears you were much quicker than I was. Sorry for the inconvenience. Ottawahitech (talk) 14:18, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

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LOL! 71.146.20.62 (talk) 01:07, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Help?

Hey, I see you have been quite active around the Sandbox. Could you help James1011R out with a question? Thanks! 71.146.20.62 (talk) 20:21, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Sorry: could you also help me with a question at Wikipedia talk:About the Sandbox#Five questions? 71.146.20.62 (talk) 21:33, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Oh; I apologize for that. 71.146.20.62 (talk) 06:28, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

SomaTone

Thanks for merging the history. I neglect that when i create articles in my sandbox, and forgot that it would benefit this article to see the entire history. excellent oversight and administration.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:22, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of SomaTone Productions for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article SomaTone Productions is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SomaTone Productions until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. --Salvidrim! ^T·_C 16:56, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of a page you imported from nost

MediaWiki talk:Worms, Germany/Talk was recently nominated for deletion at MfD then deleted as G8 - did something get left behind during an importation you were doing? Thought I'd check. Yours, Bencherlite^Talk 20:37, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Article Feedback Tool newsletter

Hey, all! A quick update on how version 5 of the Article Feedback Tool is developing. I'm sending this to both newsletter recipients and regular participants, because I appreciate we've been a bit quiet :).

So, we're just wrapping up the first round of user contributions. A big thank you to everyone who has contributed ideas (a full list of which can be found at the top of the page); thanks almost entirely to contributions by editors, the tool looks totally different to how it did two months ago when we were starting out. Big ideas that have made it in include a comment voting system, courtesy of User:Bensin, an idea for a more available way of deploying the feedback box, suggested by User:Utar, and the eventual integration of both oversight and the existing spam filtering tools into the new version, courtesy of..well, everyone, really :).

For now, the devs are building the first prototypes, and all the features specifications have been finalised. That doesn't mean you can't help out, however; we'll have a big pile of shiny prototypes to play around with quite soon. If you're interested in testing those, we'll be unveiling it all at this week's office hours session, which will be held on Friday 2 December at 19:00 UTC. If you can't make it, just sign up here. After that, we have a glorious round of testing to undertake; we'll be finding out what form works the best, what wording works the best, and pretty much everything else under the sun. As part of that, we need editors - people who know just what to look for - to review some sample reader comments, and make calls on which ones are useful, which ones are spam, so on and so forth. If that's something you'd be interested in doing, drop an email to okeyes@wikimedia.org.

Thanks to everyone for their contributions so far. We're making good headway, and moving forward pretty quickly :). Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:41, 29 November 2011 (UTC)