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Interview Request on Wikimedia Privacy Policy Changes

Hi Waacstats,

My name's Anthony, and I'm Social Media Editor for IBTMedia. I'm doing a story about the big announcement re: Privacy Policy changes that are rolling out tomorrow, and I'd love to talk to you. Would you email me at a.smith[at]ibtimes.com? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.66.114.182 (talk) 15:02, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Category:San Francisco metro stubs

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Rafik Khalifa

Cool!. Sorry for the template.--Jetstreamer ^Talk 18:34, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

January 2014

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Bishops in South Africa

Hi - thank you for your recent efforts with "Short descriptions" for various Southern African Bishops. I am wondering whether for most of them "Anglican bishop" might not serve best. George Knight-Bruce is characterised as such but his successor William Thomas Gaul is "Irish bishop". Edward Crowther is given as "South African bishop" but might equally be "British bishop" (as Wilfrid Gore Browne is described) or "American bishop". They were all bishops in South or Southern Africa, but would not "Anglican bishop" be best, given their potential for serving elsewhere in the Anglican Communion (as have Crowther and others)? All the best. Blarcrean (talk) 04:42, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Simon Beveridge

Hi, i did a roll back of mentioned article for various attempts of vandalism, but inbetween you had used AWB (I am not sure yet what that means but it was good, likely some automated funcitonality) that was therefore also (i take it) rolled back. I just wanted to tell you, this was about a space inbetween "citenews" and "cite news" inside the article's references. What is AWB? Poepkop (talk) 14:19, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

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Nomination of Alan Baker (shogi) for deletion

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Wikilinking

Hi, and thanks for your work on the English Wikipedia.

I noticed you worked on this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Baratono&diff=599706351&oldid=599606116

Just a short note to point out that we don’t normally link:

• dates
• years
• commonly known geographical terms (including well-known country-names), and
• common terms you’d look up in a dictionary (unless significantly technical).

(This even applies for infoboxes.)

Thanks and my best wishes.

Tony (talk) 10:58, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. At least one of your recent edits, such as the edit you made to Kathy Patrick, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at the welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make some test edits, please use the sandbox for that. The reverted edit can be found here. A520 | Talk me away!/sign it! 18:33, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

WikiSnap Challenge

Hello Waacstats:

Wikipedia is holding a contest called the WikiSnap Challenge
The goal of this drive is to eliminate poor stub articles with not so much as a picture or info box. The contest starts on the 3rd of April and continues until a winner is declared.

Awards will be given out for all participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the contest.

Thanks. Fremantle99 (talk) 07:45, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Mark A. Boyer

I don't know too much about templates or AWB, but after your edit, I noticed something I thought was an error. I don't know how AWB works but I think I fixed the template problem. Could you tell me if I did?  —Mysterytrey 01:20, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Someone else nominated this, but didn't alert you.

[1]. 41.132.48.255 (talk) 05:55, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Reversion of changes on Ayub K Ommaya

Helo, dear user Waacstats. I see you have also reverted a number of my basic edits to the article on Ayub K. Ommaya. Might I know why please? I have made these in full good faith and am well aware of the family and the original/real name of Dr Ayub Khan Bamba (later Ayub Ommaya) and have served in the army with his elder brother Brig Jan Nadir Khan. I think my edits were quite justified. I hope you will please not revert these again, thanks. 39.54.250.178 (talk) 18:41, 12 April 2014 (UTC)Col (r) Mumtaz Khan, Pakistan

It wasn't me who reverted your edits. Waacstats (talk) 18:47, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Charles Czeisler

Hi. You just added American physician to the Charles Czeisler article with edit summary "add persondata short description using AWB." I think that American sleep researcher would be better; that's what he is known for. Thanks. --Hordaland (talk) 20:25, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Wow, you're quick! Thanks. --Hordaland (talk) 20:31, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

reverting deletion

I reverted your edit to Military career of Audie Murphy. You deleted the persondata while using AWB. I don't have access to AWB so I couldn't guess what went wrong. Chris Troutman (talk) 17:28, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

nothing went wrong, the article doesn't need the persondata template on it, as long as Audie Murphy has the template. Persondata is supposed to be for articles about people, not their military career. I'll leave the template there for now, but can't guarantee that I wont remove it later. Waacstats (talk) 19:39, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

My mistake. Your edit summary didn't make that clear. I'll remove it. Chris Troutman (talk) 19:50, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

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Richard Pierpoint

Just wanted to point out that your "personaldata" ammendment to the Richard Pierpoint article was wildly wrong as even a cursory read of the article would have shown that. Hopefully your other changes are closer to home  Natty10000 | Natter  14:38, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Thankyou for correcting my edits. I apologise, I am trying to clear a backlog on the Persondata templates and both attempts were made in good faith mainly based off the categories.

With regard to your comment on the second revision that "Richard Pierpoint was never an American anything" then I think you need to look at the categories that are attached to the article: 'American slave', 'American people of Senegalese descent' and 'African Americans in the American Revolution'. Waacstats (talk) 14:58, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Fair enough. WRT the other categories that are attached to the article, I would think removing them would be the correct thing to do as they seem to be applying incorrect descriptors or at the very least ones vague enough in this context as to be easily misinterpreted. He was a slave when the US was still British territory and his loyalty remained with the British ergo describing him as an "American slave is incorrect (if there's a British slaves category, that would be correct). He wasn't ever a US (American) person so that descriptor is likewise incorrectly applied.

However, I certainly don't know where you possibly could have drawn the inference that "American activist" was somehow appropriate earlier. I'd certainly like to better understand your thought process on that one  Natty10000 | Natter  15:42, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

User pages

Hi, is it normal to add persondata to user pages? I've just spotted User:Ashish Sonavane and User:Aashish N. Sonawane where you added persondata to both. They don't appear to be draft articles - rather, they're almost certainly WP:NOTWEBHOST vios. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:01, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

I have a feeling that the persondata template was already on those articles and that I just added the Short description parameter, as to whether it is normal to add persondata to user pages I would say not but if the user has added persondata to there page I tend not to remove it. Waacstats (talk) 22:26, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

About Persondata entry

Thanks for your contributions.

How you add persondata? You use a script/software or you do manually? Thanks OccultZone (Talk) 06:39, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Ivanovich_Uspensky

Hi, Do you know how to put the photo inside the English page? A photo is available in German and Russian versions, I just don't know how to link towards it. Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Axeoth (talk • contribs) 09:15, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Joe Walsh

Dear Waacstats, You have been invited by myself to help make Joe Walsh a good article, You have been chosen because you are among Wikipedia’s greatest editors, It would be a great privilege to work with you, Many thanks and best wishes. Joe Vitale 5 (talk) 08:52, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer but my area of expertise is more in making small edits to multiple articles rather than attempting to improve an article to a certain level, also I know very little about Joe Walsh and if I was to look at seriously improving an article it would be on something I know a bit more about. Waacstats (talk) 12:03, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Yesaji Kank

I'm not sure why, but the PROD you applied had a timestamp of 10:13, 29 February 2012. I don't know where the PROD template gets it time from - your PC or the server..., or was it an old saved template you were using and added the wrong date in error? I've fixed the timestamp in the template to give it the full 7 days  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 19:25, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

question

How are you accessing the persondata? I can't find it and I wanted to add his place of birth. SW3 5DL (talk) 16:16, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

• To edit the persondata, either edit the page or the last section of the article. There is a template and in that you can add name, alternative name, short description, place and date of birth and death. Waacstats (talk) 20:01, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. SW3 5DL (talk) 22:09, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Strange edit summary

Can you explain the edit summary you left in this diff: Special:Diff/616881644? --Auric talk 13:07, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Was doing c&p for edit summary and forgot I had copied something else in the meantime and forgot to change back. Sorry. Waacstats (talk) 13:42, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

[2] here too. I thought you are adding description when there was no need so I reverted your change, I have removed the persondata because page is not about person. Bladesmulti (talk) 11:52, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

Persondata

I see you're contributing persondata descriptions. Before you add any more, you might like to know there's a proposal to remove persondata from Wikipedia, as it's now redundant to Wikidata. If you want to contribute, you could add labels to Wikidata, or use the Wikidata 'game' to improve the data there. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:17, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

I just came here to post the RFC, dang I'm slow. Bgwhite (talk) 22:07, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Posting in my Sandbox

Hello Waacstats. I see you have been posting persdondata in my Sandbox. If you want to add info to Valentine Pelka's page, please go to the actual Wikipedia article, not my Sandbox. I know you just want to help, but the Sandbox is MY place for my private experimentation. If you want to write to me privately with suggestions, that is fine, but it would be better if you leave my sandbox alone especially as per the other person you added info for since Qworty and his cronies decided last year that that screenwriter was not worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia. So giving him a Screenwriter person data tag will just get other people upset and I don't need the subsequent attacks that will happen if that appears anywhere else, especially after the horrors heaped on me last year. Thank you for your attempt to help, but it is best to stop adding info to my sandbox. If you want to suggest something to me, you may do so on my Talk page. Thank you!Taram (talk) 15:10, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

You seem to be using a bot

Please mark bot edits with the bot flag. I think bots need to be approved too. I don't think you are just using AWB because you seem to be adding persondata to userpages.[3][4][5][6][7] --Surturz (talk) 07:26, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

• I am not using a bot, I just alternate occasionaly between AWB and manual editing. Waacstats (talk) 16:51, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Salvo (artist)

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AWB with NLP Bot?

Are you using some NLP bot while using AWB? Because, in person data AWB drive, I have noticed that you messed up gender here.--» nafSadh did say 19:25, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Notice of WP:AFD

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Category:Detroit Tigers season stubs

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Olympics

Hello, I notice that on you user page you say that one of your tasks is to make a page for every competitor of the olympics and that it is complete up to 1904. I'm sorry if this sounds rude but just a quick look through the 1900 olympics and I have found a few red links. Is there reason behind that or should I go and create them? -- NickGibson3900 - Talk - Sign my Guestbook 09:49, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

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Javier Porras

Hi Waacstats, I noticed you created the article Javier Porras, it seems that this Paralympian is the same as Xavier Porras, an article that was created after yours but is more now thoroughly written and seems to be the name he is most commonly known by; if you have no objection my plan is to turn your article into a redirect as there doesn't appear to be anything that needs to be merged. Cheers - Basement12 (T.C) 09:45, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

• No problems, just confused a bit by the names on the Xavier Porras article. Waacstats (talk) 11:28, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Re Esselen people

Re Esselen people, would you please either undo or rollback so my bot gets a notification, or leave me a talk message, so that I can fix the problem? The edit to undo doesn't help me find problems. Thanks Rjwilmsi 07:28, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

Tamara Heribanová - writer

Hi Waacstats, I have created the article Tamara Heribanová one month ago. So far this article has not been approved. Please, could you write me, why that is? Thank you for your help... Babari4 (talk) 10:42, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

only draft articles need approving. If you create a page then no approval is needed. Your article does not need approval. Waacstats (talk) 20:15, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Category:Baltimore City, Maryland Registered Historic Place stubs

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Black Socks Proposed Move

Hi, this may be of interest to you. Bogger (talk) 10:25, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Recent Persondata edits

I'm confused as to why your edit summaries say "removing Persondata" when it seems that you're adding it. Help? Aristophanes68 (talk) 20:11, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks forgot to change the automatic description on AWB back. Waacstats (talk) 20:13, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

No problem. I've just seen a lot of recent vandalism which used false edit summaries, so I wanted to make sure your edits were legit (not realizing you're one of the 40 most active editors--d'oh!). Cheers! Aristophanes68 (talk) 21:06, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Strange edit summary II

This is strange: [8] - Brianhe (talk) 21:54, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Category:Washington Registered Historic Place stubs

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Precious again

person data
Thank you for tirelessly adding persondata to countless biographies, giving silent service in the background of the project, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:11, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

A year ago, you were the 633rd recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:59, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Saiman Miah

Dear Waacstats, I invite you to express your opinion about the article for deletion. --Rossi101 (talk) 18:57, 20 October 2014 (UTC)Rossi101

Mass upload tool

Hi Waacstats, not sure if you are on the UK mailing list, but we are about to run some training for the mass upload tool, and I thought you might be interested in that either directly, or indirectly. Also I've noticed what you have been doing re populating persondata templates and would like to discuss some interesting tasks in terms of our mass uploads. As we get some large datasets onto commons we have the opportunity to do some very large image addition runs to articles without images. We trialled this a few years back with Wikipedia:Articles with UK Geocodes but without images though this has been stalled as we were unable to refresh the list due to ArbCom restrictions on the person who created it, so I'm looking for alternative ways to identify and then tackle some very large image adding tasks. Regards WereSpielchequers, aka Jonathan Cardy (WMUK) (talk) 11:38, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Thanks for helping with adding so many short description parameters to the Persondata template! -Fimatic (talk | contribs) 03:51, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Halloween cheer!

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How do you pronounce your username?

I say it as "walk stats"; is that correct? :3 -Fimatic (talk | contribs) 02:47, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

• I normally think of it as "whack stats". Waacstats (talk) 08:52, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

Okay! -Fimatic (talk | contribs) 01:31, 5 November 2014 (UTC)