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A cupcake for you!

Thanks for creating the new Walnut and coffee cake article, improving English Wikipedia's coverage of cake-related topics. NorthAmerica1000 06:57, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Mmm delicious! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:28, 1 May 2014 (UTC).

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10 years today

And still learning. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:52, 2 May 2014 (UTC).

Well done! I reach 5 years on 5 May. Still way behind on edit count - I should reach 98000 today - this edit is no. 97999. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:11, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

It is plenty to get your "Senior Editor III" (or "Labutnum of the Encyclopaedia") title! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:26, 2 May 2014 (UTC).

• Congratulations :) --Hammersoft (talk) 17:51, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

Deleting My Comment

Is there a reason you deleted my comment here [1] ? 50.45.159.56 (talk) 06:47, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Yes, I think I was editing from Risker's version for some reason. Comment restored, sorry abut that. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 07:22, 3 May 2014 (UTC).

Lok Sabha

Hi Rich, what was all this about? It was scarcely a copyedit, since you missed a whole bunch of obvious things (which I'll fix shortly). You've introduced pretty much as many problems as you resolved, eg: for some reason you changed "Lok Sabha" to "Lok sabha". I do hope that this is not an indication of some sort of automation again. - Sitush (talk) 15:06, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

@Sitush: Er, he changed "Lok sabha" (small s) to "Lok Sabha", capital S. It was you that lowercased the S with the next edit to the page. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:11, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

And what are the other "problems"? — lfdder 15:13, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Y Answered on user's talk page. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:16, 3 May 2014 (UTC).

Yes, you're right, sorry. But I still think it was pretty pathetic and have replied on my talk. It looks like you're searching for terms and making really very little difference because of it. Still, it is a good way to rack up an edit count, I guess. - Sitush (talk) 16:42, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Y Answered on user's talk page. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 12:07, 4 May 2014 (UTC).

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AN discussion

I've started another discussion about your edits at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive261#Quality of article creations. Fram (talk) 14:40, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

I draw your attention to the Quote of the Day at the top of this page. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:35, 6 May 2014 (UTC).

I think that claims of misconduct (i.e. your very sloppy attitude to editing, fact checking, ...) have been raised, by me and others, often enough before this episode. This is just a new incarnation of an old problem, showing that the restrictions have reduced the problems in quantity, but haven't erased the basic problem. Fram (talk) 07:06, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

You created just now the redirect Olga Kireef de Novikoff, with the edit summary "As named by Percy Sinnett in "Incidents"". All I can find is page 277 of "Incidents in the Life of Madame Blavatsky", where he writes "(Signed) Olga Novikoff, née Kiréef". Can you please indicate where the form "Olga Kireef de Novikoff" comes from? If it is used elsewhere in the book, then it may well be a justified redirect, but otherwise it seems rather pointless. Fram (talk) 14:21, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

Justified and ancient. «Escuchad», al propio tiempo que levantaba la mano, y todos oímos distintamente la última estrofa compuesta de cinco notas, que resonaba en medio de nosotros.

Por supuesto, que no tengo el más mínimo intento de dar una explicación; pero los hechos fueron tales como los relato. -Olga Kireef de Novikoff».

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:26, 7 May 2014 (UTC).

Some Spanish (or Portuguese?) web-only translation of that work? ... Right, what's the relevance of that for the English Wikipedia article on a Russian lady? Do we really need to reproduce the errors others have made as well? And using that as the justification for this seems totally over the top, a one-off remote source shouldn't be used as if it was somehow the definitive source on her name. Fram (talk) 14:33, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

I've reverted you here since your edit appears to be incorrect. All source I have found indicate that Josias was the great-grandson of Johann and the grandson of Paul, a brother of Heinrich. Could you please provide sources when you add or change information, it would make it a lot easier to see why you made an edit, and would prevent removal of correct information (e.g. here, perhaps there was a good source supporting your claim, in which case I shouldn't have reverted it but discussed). And, assuming you were incorrect here, could you please be a lot more careful in your editing, your edits contain way too much factual errors. 14:33, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

You are welcome to revert. Be aware that Mediawiki now tells me when you do, unlike in the old days when you could revert without me being aware. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:36, 7 May 2014 (UTC).

If I didn't want you to be aware for some reason, I could easily manually revert such edits. But I see no reason to hide my edits (there are probably many things you feel you can blame me for, but that shouldn't be on the list). Fram (talk) 14:38, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

1337 hax0r! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:57, 7 May 2014 (UTC).

Hello and thanks!

Hi there Rich i would like to thank you for thanking me regarding my recent article the Orenburg gas field. I'm glad to see an experienced editor like yourself appreciates my work. Thanks for supporting little guys like me. Cheers and all the best. BineMai 20:29, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

From recent experience on Wikipedia most of our editors (and hence, probably, most of our readers) seem to be unaware of just how important (and vast) the Eurasian fossil fuel industry is. I was therefore delighted to see something addressing gaps in our coverage. Good work! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:24, 7 May 2014 (UTC).

Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox event

Template:Infobox event has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox civilian attack. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:16, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

I guess maybe Infobox event is the target? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:26, 7 May 2014 (UTC).

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Changing subtitles on the Massacre at Hue page

I noticed you removed the capitalization from all but the first word in each subsection. Is that because it's the standard for Wikipedia? (I ask because I'm new at some of this. I've been making small edits for years, but nothing on the scale of this page.) --Txantimedia (talk) 17:39, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

@Txantimedia: Yes, Wikipedia has a very "down" style (as I am told it is called). All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:46, 10 May 2014 (UTC).

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Wikidata weekly summary #109

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A suggestion regarding a Category page that you edited long ago

This is what you had done and this is what I've done. Do you think my edit is according to the wiki guidelines? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rishidigital1055 (talk • contribs) 13:32, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

The intention is fine. There are two issues:

• You need to use {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} to give "May 2024" rather than "15:04, Wednesday, May 8, 2024 (UTC)".
• Then is it better for people to go to the extra effort of dating tags, (and, surprisingly often, getting it wrong),or juts to let the bots do it?

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:52, 11 May 2014 (UTC).

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Predicting the future

Like many others I have noticed your commentary regarding admin abuse and cluelessness over an extended period, and I saw your comments at WP:AN3. Do you have any idea why sanctions were placed on your account? On multiple occasions? Many of us saw the slow degeneration and chose not to comment because we were able to predict what would happen. Now you are pushing into new areas and the future is again entirely predictable. A useful response would be to put a message on your user page that you are correct and everyone else is wrong—OK, that's fine. But going on about it over multiple pages is disruptive and will have an inevitable conclusion once the bickering and boredome factors exceed onlooker's patience. Johnuniq (talk) 05:06, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

I can think of no cases of admin abuse I have drawn attention to - though there may have been some. Certainly there have been bad blocks, bad deletion closures, bad CSDs and so forth - none of those I recall were abusive, we all make mistakes after all. I have drawn attention to two cases of checkuser misuse - when the misusers refused to acknowledge or correct the error it became abuse as far as I am concerned. As far as I know the abusers have not repeated the abuse, though I have not checked up on them. In ten years of editing I have reported a grand total of one established editor to AN/I, that I remember, and raised a grand total of one other noticeboard report (again as far as I remember). Possibly I may have raised an issue or two at BON. As an admin I may have blocked an established user, but I'm pretty certain all my blocks were short duration of new vandals - the logs are there if you want to look.

However you are certainly not the only person that believes I have been blocked are for other than the stated purpose.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:11, 18 May 2014 (UTC).

Thanks...

..for deleting the hate mail from my talk page. BMK (talk) 23:13, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

@Beyond My Ken: You are welcome. I have just posted at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Kumioko/Archive re the page blanking. You may wish to:

1. Respond there
2. Revert the blanking.
3. Do nothing.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 23:28, 17 May 2014 (UTC).

You clearly need to review WP:BRD. When your Bold edit has been Reverted by another editor -- in this case AKG -- the next step, if you continue to think the edit is necessary, is to Discuss it on the article talk page, not to re-revert it, which is what you did and is the first step to edit warring. During the discussion, the article remains in the status quo ante. Thanks, BMK (talk) 11:05, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

I reverted AGK's bold (and unique) blanking. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:07, 18 May 2014 (UTC).

No, the blanking was in place for over a month, and no other editor chose to revert it, so it became the page's status quo. Yours is then clearly the Bold edit. BMK (talk) 11:17, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Also, blanking per WP:DENY is hardly "unique". BMK (talk) 11:18, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

@Beyond My Ken: I reverted AGK's bold (and unique) blanking I then discussed - see the talk page, WP:SPI talk and even your own talk page, which appeared to be an unproductive forum.

Please restore the status quo ante. I gave you a couple of days to do this last time, in good faith, and was disappointed.

And yes, the blanking is unique. Please read the discussion referred to in my edit summary.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:22, 18 May 2014 (UTC).

McKinsey & Company

Hi Rich. I've seen your name around a few times here and there and I've been trying to find someone to take a look at some edits I have suggested on an article where I have a COI here. It is regarding some contentious material cited only to an op-ed, a promotional list of notable alumni, and other misc. I was wondering if you were up for that sort of thing (collaborating with COIs) or if it wasn't your cup of tea. CorporateM (Talk) 05:50, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

I have commented on the talk page. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 09:07, 20 May 2014 (UTC).

Kakwani index

As requested, I've expanded the article on the Kakwani index. Please let me know if you need anything more done with it. Best, LK (talk) 06:17, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

That is great! Many thanks! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 11:46, 22 May 2014 (UTC).

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Accept reason: Hah! Naughty doppelganger! --jpgordon^{::==( o )} 02:42, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Got auto-blocked by my doppleganger! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:43, 22 May 2014 (UTC).

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Vandalism fixed after 5 years

Vandalism occurred 5 years ago and I just fixed it. PS @Bgwhite:! -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:24, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

And just another one that happened 4 years ago. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:25, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Good examples!

Yet another one that occurred in 2010!. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:44, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #110

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Discussion about Draft articles
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Wikidata office hour log
  • Wikiconference USA in New York on May 30th and June 1st
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Editors may now include their ORCID identifiers (and others, such as VIAF) on their user pages, using the Authority control template. You can register for an ORCID at http://orcid.org
• Play the Wikidata Game
• Development
  • jQuery 1.9 compatibility fixes
  • More fixes for gadgets (authority control, preview gadget)
  • Improve formatting and handling of snak formatting errors
  • Continued working on monolingual text data type
  • Continued making messages easier to understand
  • Removed a bunch of unused code, interfaces and methods
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the academic degree (P512) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 16:29, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Help!

Hi I had submitted an afc called National centre For Excellence but for the past 2 consecutive attempts the problem was " Not reliable sources ". I have surfed the net for reliable source for my afc and i have listed all of the ones I got. Help please. link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/National_Centre_For_Excellence Thank you, Sincerely, Rahul — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rahulmdinesh (talk • contribs) 10:48, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I have given our new friend an answer and advice on my own talk page, advice you may like to see, even disagree with. I've also left a comment on the draft article. The organisation feels as if it ought to be notable, but I can find nothing so far to verify my gut reaction. Fiddle Faddle 11:32, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

I'll comment on your page. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:20, 30 May 2014 (UTC).

Interested in creating a new portal?

You are interested in creating a new portal for a particular and popular subject? Ping me. OccultZone (Talk) 23:41, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

@OccultZone: I could give it a go. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:18, 30 May 2014 (UTC).

Eh, I got no ping.. It has happened few times before. I have added your page to watchlist. OccultZone (Talk) 11:40, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

Portal:Years. OccultZone (Talk) 11:42, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

Forgot to tell that I had liked this edit[2], maybe same type of summary(2nd nomination can be found here) can be added to all those Afd, that had 2nd one, or more. OccultZone (Talk) 13:22, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

If you can persuade ArbCom to let me.... All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:24, 30 May 2014 (UTC).

I think you are allowed to edit every page and everything, just no automation.. Correct me if that's incorrect. OccultZone (Talk) 13:29, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

It is, basically. But any large task like that is crazy to do manually. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:31, 30 May 2014 (UTC).

I've manually done more than 5k edits in about 4-5 days to topics like "1812 in Ireland", "1505 in India", "1300 in Wales". No one objected at all. It was good, you feel that you are always busy and doing something interesting. Just saying, that it is all good. OccultZone (Talk) 13:38, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

I know, I tagged about 3,000 maps GFDL, using a standard browser, many yeas ago. And that was fine. But to do that now and waste maybe 8 hours when I can do it with AWB in an hour, or with a bot in 2-3 minutes would be folly. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:53, 30 May 2014 (UTC).

Washington, DC meetups in June

Greetings!

Wikimedia DC has yet another busy month in June. Whether you're a newcomer to Wikipedia or have years of experience, we're happy to see you come. Here's what's coming up:

• On Wednesday, June 11 from 7 to 9 PM come to the WikiSalon at the Cove co-working space. Hang out with Wikipedia enthusiasts!
• Saturday, June 14 is the Frederick County History Edit-a-Thon from 11 AM to 4 PM. Help improve local history on Wikipedia.
• The following Saturday, June 21, is the June Meetup. Dinner and drinks with Wikipedians!
• Come on Tuesday, June 24 for the Wikipedia in Your Library edit-a-thon at GWU on local and LGBT history.
• Last but not least, on Sunday, June 29 we have the Phillips Collection Edit-a-Thon in honor of the Made in America exhibit.

Wikipedia is better with friends, so why not come out to an event?

Best,

James Hare

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Wikidata weekly summary #111

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Open RfAs: FakirNL, Josve05a
  • Wikidata:Tours
  • RfC: Open datasets (Meta)
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Slides from WikiConference USA
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • The seventeenth million item is made then delete as a dupe. So seventeenth million plus 2 anyone?
• Development
  • More work on mockups for new user interface design. Hope to have something publishable soon.
  • More work on monolingual text datatype
  • Fixed lots of small bugs when editing statements like bugzilla:65398
  • Made progress on globe precision issues (bugzilla:65535 and bugzilla:64887)
  • Cleaned up installation instructions
  • Tagged version 1.0 of Wikibase Internal Serialisation and Wikibase Datamodel Serialisation
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 21:28, 31 May 2014 (UTC)