User talk:Rich Smith/Archive70
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Why are you putting back in information I've edited? I no longer work at that radio station, for instance; but I do have a podcast. In addition, the description of my books is not descriptive of the work. Who writes these things? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.77.137.157 (talk) 20:51, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
- I would recommend creating a Wikipedia account. You are also not including a edit summary with your edits which made the changes you made suspicious of being vandalism, as someone removing content like that without qualification is. Apologies for the confusion. In relation to the line regarding the radio station, please made sure you are removing the whole reference, including the </ref> tag. In relation to the line regarding the book, please make sure to remove the reference that goes along with it (the ref tag next to it). I would also request you become aware of the Biographies of Living Persons policy.- - RichT|C|E-Mail 21:10, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
Regarding the latest edit
Hi Rich, I made the change because the sources cited are either misleading or not available. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sainredd (talk • contribs) 09:30, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
- Hi Sainreed, no problem - please use the edit summary to explain why you made an edit, it really help vandal fighters like me discern a good edit from that of a vandal. Also, please remember to sign your messages using ~~~~. cheers! - - RichT|C|E-Mail 09:33, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
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Problems
- There was a problem with user pages not being shown properly on desktop. This was because of a bug. It will soon be fixed. [1]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 April. It will be on all wikis from 9 April (calendar).
Future changes
- MediaWiki will use a newer version of Unicode. Some characters that did not have an upper case equivalent before do now. Titles beginning with one of these characters will be moved. A list of these titles can be seen on Phabricator. The titles will be renamed by the user
Maintenance script. This will start on 13 April 2020. You can rename them before this if you wish and the new title can be different from the one the script would rename it to. [2]
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19:02, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
PLEASE ADD PROTECTION
Hello Mr. Smith, I sent you an email but I will repeat again the concern. Persisten vandalism by IPs on The Phelps School page removing information randomly and adding incorrect unsourced information persistently. As an employee of the school, I can't keep up with these Ips destorying our page. The school has been the center of some controversy lately so it is not surpriing, but please add semi-protection to the page. It is very important for our reputation. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Editor940 (talk • contribs) 12:21, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
- As I replied to your email, I am not an administrator therefore cannot protect a page. You may make a request at Requests for Page Protection if you feel it necessary - - RichT|C|E-Mail 12:23, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
Rich
Why did you delete my section? Just because I say something that goes against you does not mean you get to delete my section. I want to talk with you and you are deleting my section. I don't like that, Rich. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emptyvortex (talk • contribs) 12:50, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
- Your edit to Marion Barry was quite clearly unconstructive. I think that is the end of this discussion, move on. - - RichT|C|E-Mail 12:59, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
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Olan Montgomery
One of your editors, Diannaa, recently removed content from my recently deceased brother's wiki. She cited copyright material from my brother's own website. No one should remove content without first talking with the author of that content. That content has valuable information that if somehow is forbidden by Wiki, should be returned to us. Pissed off does not begin to describe my rage at this insensitive act. Unless the page is restored to it's original content before Diannaa arbitrarily destroyed it, there is no need to include my brother on this platform -
Gumaraid (talk) 13:38, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
- May I suggest you have a read of Ownership of content - 'Work submitted to Wikipedia can be edited, used, and redistributed—by anyone' - - RichT|C|E-Mail 13:42, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
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Professor Peter Sinclair
My very old friend Peter Sinclair recently died from covid-19. his Wikipedia entry failed to mention that he married again (his first wife having died) . so, I added
"In 21016, he married the environmental artist, Jayne Ivimey." however, this does not seem to have got into his entry. Are you able to ensure that this is added, as his widow is, naturally, rather upset that there is no mention of their marriage.
Many thanks
Sir Derek Morris 88.212.178.43 (talk) 15:42, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
- Hi Derek, you are more then welcome to add this information in - - RichT|C|E-Mail 15:46, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
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Recent changes
- You can now use the
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- You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services in a new dashboard.
- When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty. [5]
- There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog. [6]
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- There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on fixing the rest. [7][8][9]
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- Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed. [10]
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- For pages using syntax highlighting, the use of the deprecated
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15:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
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- Some things on the wikis might look weird or not work in Internet Explorer 8 in the future. Internet Explorer 8 was replaced in 2011. [13]
- The font in the diffs will change. [14]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 April next week. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 April next week. It will be on all wikis from 30 April next week (calendar).
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