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Meadowland (film)

Please take a look at User:Captain Assassin!/sandbox1 and move it to Meadowland (film) - Thanks. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 19:33, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Bot error

This edit by the bot created a link to a disambiguation page. Since the template offers no facility to have no link in that space, having a self-referential link is better than having an erroneous disambiguation link. Therefore, the bot created an error. bd2412 T 22:15, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

BD2412, I haven't a clue what you are referring to. The bot did not create any links, little alone one to a dab page. Also, don't remove redirects on editor's pages that they have put in place. Bgwhite (talk) 22:23, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
I provided the link to the diff. For whatever reason, the bot made that edit, which caused the template to default to a disambig link. Also, your bot's instructions say "To stop this bot until restarted by the bot's owner, edit its talk page. If that page is a redirect, edit that original redirecting page, not the target of the redirect", which is precisely what I did. bd2412 T 22:27, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
There was absolutely no reason to stop the bot, especially when the bot made the particular edit over a month ago. The instructions do not say, "to contact me, stop the bot."
BD2412, the bot made a correct edit. Per MOS, no wikilink should link to itself. This is a case of garbage in and garbage out. The editor should not have put the link there in the first place. No link at all would be the correct thing to do. Bgwhite (talk) 22:50, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
The template is made to provide case citations, including the name of (and a link to) the cited case. The template doesn't know if the case cited is for the article containing it, or for a different article. I grant that the template should not do so, particularly where this creates a disambiguation link. It would be nice, however, if the correction implemented would not revert the link to a disambiguation link. I apologize for stopping the bot. bd2412 T 02:22, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Request to remove the re-direct of Sheringham Hall to Sheringham Park

Hello Bgwhite

I want to create this article but at this present time there is a re-direct in place for Sheringham hall to Sheringham Park. I am creating the article because although the hall was once the house built on the estate it is now considered two different properties. The park is wholly owned by the National trust whereas the hall has been sold on a long lease as a family home and is not part of the national trusts Sheringham park holdings. As understand things, this needs to be carried out by an administrator and I see from the page history you have contributed to Sheringham park article. Can you help me with this please. Regards Dennisbluie (talk) 07:35, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Dennisbluie, I moved the article. Bgwhite (talk) 20:32, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
Many thanks for moving the pageDennisbluie (talk) 06:26, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Yehoshua Ya'acov ben-Avraham

No problem, glad I managed to cheer you up! Number 57 08:49, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

My Bosnian issues

My proposals are MINE articles from bs.Wikipedia. Redone!

Yahadzija (talk) 18:54, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Donald Snygg

Thank you for your suggestions for my article on Donald Snygg. I am puzzled about your deletions of references to the two most important publications: (1941) Psychological Review and (1949) Individual Behavior. Should they be placed elsewhere in the article? What is your thinking? Oswegotownie (talk) 10:23, 23 August 2014 (UTC) You've deleted reference to his thesis too. What gives? Oswegotownie (talk) 10:28, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Oswegotownie It was more of what they were sourcing and not the refs themselves. (1941) Psychological Review was referencing, "To learn about his contributions to this field and experience the clarity of his writing, see his 1941 article." I personally don't think this belongs in the article in its current state. Maybe put it in external links? If you feel strongly about any refs, add them back in. The ones I strongly object to would be all the obituaries. There doesn't need to be six of them.
Need to remove "Current views on Phenomenological Psychology can be found in several Wikipedia articles:" section. As anybody can put anything into articles, it's not a big deal. Bgwhite (talk) 17:54, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
I reworded the "Found in several Wikipedia articles" sentence, plus combined the preface section with the lead section. Lead and preface are sort of the same thing. Bgwhite (talk) 18:01, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

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09:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Thank You

You are welcome to edit any pages I work on...I have a habit of leaving out certain details like brackets and such. We got off to a bad start but I now realize just how important it is to have you visit the monarch butterfly article and check it out for errors. It will be a great article one day and you should get some of the credit. bpage (talk) 02:31, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Sinister 2

Please take a look at User:Captain Assassin!/sandbox1 and move it to Sinister 2 - Thanks. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 10:26, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Assassin, hmmmm, judging from the title, the movie is about you torturing a poor, innocent admin. Bgwhite (talk) 04:31, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
Hmm, oh yeah, "a poor, innocent admin"...? - I should ask your wife about that :). --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 06:29, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Bitcoin

Hi, Bgwhite FYI: I just undid revisions on Bitcoin by User:120.59.232.38 for advertising for the Indian law firm perry4law.com by Praveen Dalal. The IP address might be a sock of User:Praveen Dalal, whom I know you have warned for spamming. Its probably too early for a sock puppet investigation.--Wuerzele (talk) 03:13, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Wuerzele, thank you. Crap, what a pain in the butt. Bgwhite (talk) 04:34, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Wuerzele, I made a MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist#perry4law.co.uk request to have perry4law added to the blacklist. Bgwhite (talk) 20:25, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Re: The Transporter Legacy

Hello B, please take a look at Draft:The Transporter Legacy and move it to The Transporter Legacy - I've added two more reliable REFs which confirmed the filming. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 16:48, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Assassin, I still don't know. I tried looking for some info. When it comes to movies, MichaelQSchmidt is the expert I call upon. Le'ts ask for his opinion on if the movie has started filming. Bgwhite (talk) 20:22, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
Done checkY Filming has commenced, and production has the coverage to meet WP:GNG. WP:NFF(paragraph3) is met. Article moved as Captain Assassin! requested. PS: I added some cats. Schmidt, Michael Q. 23:40, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Request to remove the re-direct of Honing Hall to Honing, Norfolk

Hello Bgwhite

I want to create this article but at this present time there is a re-direct in place for Honing hall to Honing, Norfolk. I have creating the article because hall is outside of the village and has a History of its own. As you are aware this needs to be carried out by an administrator and I appreciated your help with the Sheringham Hall article. Can you help me with this one please.

RegardsDennisbluie (talk) 23:39, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Dennisbluie, done. Could you update Honing, Norfolk#Honing Hall and a link back to Honing Hall. Bgwhite (talk) 04:38, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
Once again! Many thanks for moving the pageDennisbluie (talk) 07:59, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

ANI

Sometimes people say that they didn't see a ping, so here's the old-fashioned version ;) See Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Bosnian_articles_-_help_needed. - Sitush (talk) 14:04, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Redeemer (2014 film)

Please take a look at User:Captain Assassin!/sandbox13 and move it to Redeemer (2014 film) - thanks. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 02:24, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

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07:49, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Magic Mike XXL

Please take a look at Draft:Magic Mike XXL and move it to Magic Mike XXL - Target article is just a redirect, remove it and move the draft without leaving the redirect. Thanks. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 06:56, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Hello...!!! --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 05:42, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
Hey, I did the last one fast. Now I get to forget however many pages I usually forget. Bgwhite (talk) 05:46, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Inappropriate use of userspace?

Trying to give the user the benefit of the doubt, but this appears to be a hoax/nonexistent film project. Thoughts? OhNoitsJamie Talk 19:00, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Ohnoitsjamie, it is not a good sign when you do a Google search (for "Chicken Little 2" "Zach Braff") for any hit in the past year and the website pixiepranks-panstinkerbell.blogspot.com is the majority of the results. I can't find anything about it, so it does appear to be a hoax. I do like some of the touches... game coming out on PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Nintendo GameCube, plus the soundtrack written down on Abiword (an obscure Linux word processor). Bgwhite (talk) 21:04, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Interview for The Signpost

This message is being sent to you as a member of WikiProject Check Wikipedia

The WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject Check Wikipedia for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Multiple editors will have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions, so be sure to sign your answers. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Thanks, Rcsprinter123 (natter) @ 14:51, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Rcsprinter123, been trying to get hold of a Google Summer of Code project student. It would have sent errors found by Parsoid into checkwiki and do something very similar to Bracketbot. I and Magioladitis will be answering in the next few days. Magioladitis has been with Checkwiki longer than I have. Bgwhite (talk) 23:14, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
Alright, thanks for agreeing to take part. Rcsprinter123 (say) @ 22:39, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

Baby (2015 film)

Please take a look at Draft:Baby (2015 film) and move it to Baby (2015 film) - Target is just a redirect, thanks. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 05:31, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Assassin, what is the plot? Bgwhite (talk) 05:36, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
It is India, no plot given anywhere. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 05:39, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
Assassin, that gave me a good laugh. You are right, Indian films have no plot. Typical film starts out with a blessing and ends with a dance. In between we have singing, love, singing, love triangle, singing, the stress of the lovers being apart, singing, a friend or family member dies and then more singing. :) Reminds me of a typical U.S. country music song... dog died, wife left and 1/2 the song is about his truck. Bgwhite (talk) 05:54, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
Haha, yep, I know, that's why I've left watching Indian films. Just the old and same stories, repeating dance and fight, in all movies. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 08:09, 5 September 2014 (UTC)


Bgwhite - I like your sense of humour.

Care to contribute to the slightly macabre talk page here mabbe?

Zezen (talk) 07:57, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

In the Room (film) and more

Please take a look at Draft:In the Room (film) and move it to In the Room (film) - Thanks. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 11:23, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Please move Draft:Louder Than Bombs (film) to Louder Than Bombs (film) - Thanks. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 17:09, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

James K. Randall

to bgwhite: I am the author of the wikipedia page on "James K. Randall". Someone, I think it was you, recently removed a great deal of material from the page and posted a warning about close connections and possible conflict of interest. The material I had connected to the article was mostly samples of James K. Randall's work, which I felt was important to the article, and would help readers understand what his work was like. What can I do to reinstate the material? Thanks you for your time.

Beth Y Randall (talk) 20:23, 29 August 2014 (UTC) Beth Y Randall Beth Y Randall (talk) 20:23, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Beth Y Randall I removed the music files from the article. The music is copyrighted material, therefore an audio files are not allowed under copyright law. If you are the copyright holder for Randall's estate, then ask for permission at WP:COPYREQ. They can be slow to respond as they have more work than people. Bgwhite (talk) 20:40, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

To bgwhite: re James K. Randall: Thanks for your advice. My mother, Ruth H. Randall, is the current copyright holder for all of J.K. Randall's works under the terms of his will. She is more than happy to release copyright for the wikipedia page. We sent an e-mail to the permission folks and are waiting for a reply. I also received e-mail permission from Peter Schickele to use a brief excerpt from his program, Schickele Mix, which I will also send to the wikipedia permission folks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beth Y Randall (talk • contribs) 17:34, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Not sure if this means anything, but...

DrSangChi
If nothing, certainly the claim of being an admin, and operating your bot, should go... CrowTalk 20:39, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Crow, I told the psychiatrist that I had split personality disorder and she didn't believe me. Sigh, working with this alleged PR person is going to be wonderful. Thanks for letting me know. Bgwhite (talk) 21:24, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

azman abdullah

Dont edit anything when you are not related to the person in any way or whatsover because thats defaming. Keep the opinions to yourself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sha170663 (talk • contribs) 13:32, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

azman abdullah

Dont edit anything when you are not related to the person ∠in any way or whatsover because thats defaming. Keep the opinions to yourself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sha170663 (talk • contribs) 13:34, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Sha170663, Wikipedia is a place where ANYONE can edit ANY article. We have rules. We don't add material to a biography that isn't referenced per WP:BLPSOURCES. We try to keep pages neutral and not at puffery. We don't intentionally break things. Bgwhite (talk) 21:46, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Curious David Blaine

Have you seen David Blaine's performances such as Real or Magic, or Blaine and George Bush? --Tito☸Dutta 11:54, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Titodutta, I have seen David Blaine before, but I haven't seen those two videos. I'd love to know how he does his levitating trick. Bgwhite (talk) 19:39, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
  • David Blaine Zindabad. I have started becoming his admirer. What a guy! Zindabad (long live) --Tito☸Dutta 01:18, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

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09:33, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

The Finest Hours (2015 film) and more

Please move Draft:The Finest Hours (2015 film) to The Finest Hours (2015 film) - Target is just a redirect, thanks. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 09:01, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Please move Draft:The Stanford Prison Experiment (film) to The Stanford Prison Experiment (film) - Thanks. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 16:28, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
I think Bgwhite is busy these days, Favre1fan93 should move these two then. I'm in a hurry a bit, I've to work a lot on these two. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 19:30, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
Hello Sir...? --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 08:49, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
Assassin, yea, I was busy yesterday. I put this on my morning agenda, but you already beat me to it. Bgwhite (talk) 18:04, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
Haha, don't worry B, I thought you forgot again as usual :). Thanks anyway. See ya' next time. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 18:09, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Requesting an edit for the Harp Twins article

Dear Bgwhite, it is with immense pleasure that I write to you, as always. You are one of the finest human beings ever to walk the Earth, or any other planet, for that matter. Thanks to you, I know that the future of humanity is bright. But don't think that I'm being kind to you expecting to receive favors... Never! You and I go back a long ways... to 2013, I think, so my praise is absolutely sincere. Anyway, last night I received a divine revelation in a dream: God told me that there was a way to find a Toshiba commercial in which the Twins were featured, even though the link was dead. So this morning I followed God's holy instructions, and lo and behold! There it was! Resurrected from the dead! Then - guided by the holy Spirit - I decided to contact you. You see, although some cat videos have 100 million views, a specific cat doesn't appear in several commercials and movies, as the Twins have. This is all that is said about the Kitt sisters regarding this extremely sensitive matter:

"They have also appeared in several films."

As you well know, beloved brother, this is an abomination in the sight of the Lord. Iniquity of the worst conceivable sort. So I have come to you - a living legend of righteousness, and a hero - lest our land become desolate, the haunt of jackals, because of the wrath of the Lord. Please add this acting section to the article. It's very concise, but necessary because it's morally wrong and utterly contemptible to neglect the fact that the Twins have been hired for acting jobs to a degree that is notable by the sacred Wikipedia standards.

May the Lord bless your descendants to the 89th generation, and please send my greetings to your enchanting mother-in-law. Dontreader (talk) 01:44, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Dontreader, you had me going... really enjoying your uplifting and spiritual message, until you mentioned the spawn of Satan. How dare you even utter the Lord and the vile mother-in-law in the same message. There has been sad news about the evil one. She recently broke her foot and had her thyroid removed due to cancer. The news isn't good at all, she is expected to be just fine and still live a long life. Crap.
I added the acting section, however I didn't mention the commercials. Usually the are just minor and shouldn't be mentioned. Bgwhite (talk) 20:17, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
Dear Bgwhite, I wailed and gnashed my teeth, and I rent my garments, when I read that your adorable mother-in-law broke her foot and had cancer. I then got down on my knees, imploring the Lord to let her live to be 100, at least. Whenever I ask her to add a section to an article, she gladly adds the complete (and perfect) version, asking nothing in return. Thank you, Bgwhite, for your kind help. I will build another golden statue of you in my village, for posterity, but I won't give you a Barnstar for your user page (even though you have received very few) because you butchered my inspired work! Even the citation appears as a mere link in the references section... what a disgrace! Not precisely the way for my "shrine" to reach Featured Article status! Dontreader (talk) 20:55, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Friendly Note

I tangentially brought your name up at Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest/Noticeboard#Phineas_Gage due to the recent situation with EEng. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 06:17, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Please see

You can see my talk page comments by that user.--Vin09 (talk) 05:47, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Vin09, lovely fellow. Looks like they are deeply confused on what a reference actually is. Don't edit the page for a few days. Lets see what they do without your involvement. Not sure if they are reverting you or reverting the material. Bgwhite (talk) 05:54, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for your suggestion. I'll obey your words.--Vin09 (talk) 05:56, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

help Parvathy Nair page

hello sir,

I was added a photo of parvathy nair and kamal hassan photo in parvathy nair page during the shoots of uttama villan ... that was removed by someone... there is no copyrighted issue of that photo... her friend taken the photo during the shoot...and published in social medias... and she given permission to post anywhere... so please help me to fix it... Abhinand1234 (talk) 03:57, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Abhinand1234, the reason for deletion is here. In order for the photos to be reinstated, permission will have to come from Nair. Presumably she owns the copyright, thus she is the only one that can release it. Information on how to do it is at Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. I'm sorry I can't help any more, but copyrights are taken seriously. Bgwhite (talk) 05:33, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

she is ready ... how can she grant permission here ..--Abhinand1234 (talk) 06:17, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/Parvathy.jpg.jpg I uploaded.. Can i put this in page? --Abhinand1234 (talk) 06:25, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

It will be deleted again. Nair herself needs to send in the information. See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission on how to do this. She needs to send an email or letter. Bgwhite (talk) 06:32, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Bot is deleting citations; can't figure out why?

Hi. BG19bot deleted a bunch of citations in this edit. I can't figure out why, from either the comment, nor from looking at the diff.

Can you have a look? Cheers. N2e (talk) 11:06, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

N2e The bot did not delete any citation. It merged them. Check the output. Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 11:18, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
Oh, I see now. But you can't see that from either the diff, nor the edit comment. I had to go do other searches to confirm that.
You might want to consider improving the edit msg to include "merged n refs that were duplicates", or something like that, in order to make it more clear.
Thanks for the response, and thanks for writing and maintaining a bot to do these essential cleanup tasks! N2e (talk) 04:40, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

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08:34, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Vacation (2015 film)

Hello B! Will you please take a quick look at Draft:Vacation (film) and move it to Vacation (2015 film) ? - Thanks. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 16:06, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Demolition (film)

Here again, move Draft:Demolition (film) to Demolition (film) - Thanks. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 18:14, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Assassin, could you add something about the plot for both films. Bgwhite (talk) 19:25, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
Yeah sure. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 19:35, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Reference Errors on 15 September

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Kalyandurg

please reviw closely that Vin19 have had a changes in this. He mentioned wrong and those statistics are wrong. I born and raised there and with the affection on my native place, I worked with Govt Dept9MRO) for 8 monts and I have updated details on Kalyandurg since 8 months.

in one day, Vin19 removed my effort and he just updated the information with in accurate facts with wrong information.

i have a facts and I have proofs of the documentation that I worked with Govt MRO officer. I am doing Ph.D in Archiyology and I came to there with clear history and updated there in Wiki. Also, I geather 56 years of Elected MLA(Member of Legistrative Assebmly0 canidate with correct source and I have update there. Vin19 removed everything.

I really unhappy due to the act performed by Vin19. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chandra4479 (talk • contribs) 02:28, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Chandra4479, I did review the material that you removed. I looked at all three references. The references did back up what was being sourced as I already pointed out on your talk page. In your revert, you said the material did not belong with Kalyandurg, but instead with Kolakaluru. No where in the references is Kolakaluru mentioned. Tell me where in the reference that this belongs to Kolakaluru and not Kalyandurg? It specifically says the village name is Kalyandurg. You are removing sourced material that is valid. You give no proof that it is not valid.
In edits in which you add material, you give no references.
One must add sourced material, which Vin19 is doing. You are not adding sourced material. Who you are or what your know isn't worth anything on Wikipedia. Only valid references. Also, please sign your posts. Bgwhite (talk) 02:46, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

GamerGate

Thanks for putting GamerGate under 48-hour protection. This has been by far the most consensus-resistant article in which I have ever been involved (and for all I know it may be setting a new Wikipedia record for intractability). May cooler heads prevail! kencf0618 (talk) 01:01, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Kencf0618, I'm afraid of if/when the protection lapses. I don't know if I should run for cover or watch the fireworks with a big bag of popcorn. Bgwhite (talk) 05:08, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
Yep. It's become an echo chamber of edits, or rather a large set of echo chambers of edits. I knew when I wrote one of its initial articles that it would be quite controversial, but barring further developments I don't see how a consensus can even begin to congeal. Too many primary sources, and everyone thinks they have an iron in this fire. As things now stand, edits should be subject to preview as with Zoe Quinn. kencf0618 (talk) 23:04, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Chambers v. Mississippi

I saw that you removed the infobox on my new Chambers v. Mississippi article. (I wasn't alerted to this in any way, but fortunately I noticed it.) Could you be a little bit more specific about what the problem is, so I'll be aware both for this article and future ones? Thanks, Newyorkbrad (talk) 23:17, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Newyorkbrad, see the edit summary. Bgwhite (talk) 23:20, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
I saw that you preferred a slightly different infobox template, but I'm not seeing how the output of the two of them differs materially from each other, nor why the best way to deal with my having inadvertently used an old template (if that's what happened) was to remove the infobox altogether. Newyorkbrad (talk) 23:29, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
  • Newyorkbrad, You didn't use a template for the infobox or the "This article or section is in the process of an expansion or major restructuring" tag. You used the straight up template programming code. This is completely different from a template. One should never use code, but the template. In the article's case, {{Infobox SCOTUS case}} and {{Under construction}} templates.
  1. For regular editors, it is easier to edit a template than the code.
  2. For sites such as Bing and Google, they use information from the templates, but they cannot retrieve info from the coding.
  3. For Wikidata, they can retrieve the information from the templates, but not from the coding.
  • If the article has been around for awhile or it is being done by a new editor, I do convert the code to the template. For some reason, school infoboxes seem to be the majority of them. As the article is under construction and you are not a new editor, I left the misery fun to you. Bgwhite (talk) 00:15, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. It's been a few months since I'd created one of these articles. I'll take a look at this tomorrow and try to get the templating right. Newyorkbrad (talk) 00:42, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Well, I have tried to follow your suggestion, which I take to mean subst'ing in the infobox template and then filling in the fields, as opposed to the way I have done things in the dozen or so case articles I've created previously. Either I am missing something, or the template has become infinitely more complicated in the past year or so, or I am doing something wrong, because the subst'ed template is almost incomprehensible and I have no idea where to fill in anything. What am I missing? Newyorkbrad (talk) 01:52, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
Newyorkbrad, I'll convert it over within the next day. You did bring a smile to my face. The thought of you trying to convert while most likely cursing my name. You need to contact my wife because she has cursing at me down to an art form. I do wish alot of editors could struggle every once in awhile... it would make them understand what a newbie goes thru. Bgwhite (talk) 05:00, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
Newyorkbrad, I just added the infobox to the article. Bgwhite (talk) 00:13, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Reference Errors on 17 September

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Checkwiki

Thanks for this edit. Had a question about checkwiki. Who has created most of the fixes? OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 12:44, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

OccultZone, there is no way to determine that. Everything at WMF Tools is behind a proxy server, so I have no access to IP addresses. I can say that over 50% comes from WPCleaner, but that is also misleading. Every time an article is fixed via WPCleaner, it contacts the web server to remove the individual article from a list. AWB doesn't do that. With AWB most people finish a list and press the "Set all articles as done" link on the web page. Bgwhite (talk) 20:13, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
Never knew about it. Thanks! OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 03:39, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Think Poodle, :Bgwhite

And breeathe deeply, it will go over... Hafspajen (talk) 10:43, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Hafspajen Ahhh, such a cute poodle. Much more lovable than the two sitting next to me. Ok, that makes up for your serious transgressions. Bgwhite (talk) 17:24, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
No worries, you must be very musically inclined. Hafspajen (talk) 17:28, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Box Office ?'s

So I normally love updating box office figures (with all the digits, not like $23.4 million), however the other day a guy named STATicVapor (who I've had disagreements with over format before) changed many of my updates and said it was vandelism and improper format. What's right when doing box office? "$135.7 million" or "135,724,985"? Thanks, man

TropicAces. I don't know, so I had to track down where the rule is. The documentation for {{Infobox film}} says, "Use condensed, rounded values ($22.4 million vs $22,392,684). Precise values should be used where stable and appropriate to the context, or significant in themselves for some special reason. (See also: MOS:LARGENUM and this consensus discussion.)" Bgwhite (talk) 17:39, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

BG19bot defect

Please examine this sequence for Opple Lighting

You will see that the first had a mix of = = and == == combinations, which despite the single equal sign error (WP:MOSHEAD), did maintain the Table of Contents with subdirectories.

When BG19bot made its edits in the second, it converted the = = combination but not did not attend to the the == == combination. Thus, the Table of Contents lost all notion of subdirectories, as everything was a level 1 heading.

I made the repair in the third, reestablishing the subdirectories.

Please disable the BG19bot tool until you fix this as it is currently doing more harm than good.

Peaceray (talk) 05:29, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Peaceray, per MOSHEAD, section headings do not start out at level 1 (=). Period. All ToC order was already destroyed for those using screen readers. Bgwhite (talk) 05:50, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Bgwhite, I respectfully disagree. I think that we are talking a little bit of apples & oranges here. Your comment & bot address the initial problem, but I am writing about an unintended side effect of BG19bot.
Now, I am all for MOS:HEAD, but while your bot fixes one type of malformed heading for screen readers, it causes another problem in breaking the rest of TOC order by effectively moving the other level headings up a level. There should be a relatively straight forward fix for the BG19bot that would correct this problem & preserve the TOC. Change the algorithm so that when the = = combination is encountered, just add another = character to every other == ==, === ===, & etc. combination. I know it may be a pain to do that & I know that there is exception logic (what to do with a single = = occurrence, & what to do with = == & == = combinations, for example), but I willing to bet that it's an easily achievable fix.
Peaceray (talk) 05:53, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

thoughts on Nipo T. Strongheart

Hi - do you think it deserves more than "B" rating? Think enough interest could be gathered to give it a shot of development to reach an "A"? --Smkolins (talk) 22:58, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Smkolins, yes it is a B and close to an A. The first thing that pops into my mind is some photos. Also, need to fix the red errors in the reference section. Bgwhite (talk) 23:09, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Yeah pictures. Since he an historical figure everything is in libraries or museums or bad pictures in scans of newspapers…. As for "the red errors" either my browser doesn't render them or I'm missing them. --Smkolins (talk) 23:13, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Smkolins,Any photo of him about 34 years old and younger wouldn't have copyrights attached. I'm fixing the red errors. Bgwhite (talk) 23:24, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Thanks - i noticed a few cases where "pages" was used for one page references…. I know where there are some pictures so will check copyrights…. --Smkolins (talk) 23:30, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
Smkolins, after you find some photos, you should take it to WP:GA. Bgwhite (talk) 23:35, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
O btw - it's been sent. And another editor seems to have some good ideas on further refinement. Given some distance from the original work up I see room for improvement too. --Smkolins (talk) 10:06, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Aachen Cathedral

Would you please explain that to me? Thanks in advance.--Liuthar (talk) 17:50, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Liuthar, I covered most of it in the edit summary, but:
  • {{Multiple Issues}} template is not the right one to use. If you look at its documentation, the template is only for grouping other issue templates together.
  • One does not add their signature to the article.
  • "illustrated in a quite miserable qualitiy" is not something that needs to be mentioned in an article. That is more of a personal opinion. That goes on talk pages.
  • Alot of pages are better covered in other language Wikipedias. If you think another Wikipedia is appropriate, use the {{Expand German}} template. Bgwhite (talk) 18:32, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Monarch butterfly migration

Your edits were reverted by another editor. Since there seems to be more interest by others in the editing of this article I would like to move our communications to the article talk page if that is okay with you.Regards.   Bfpage |leave a message  11:36, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Bfpage, I don't see that my edits were reverted, but instead of talking to you on you talk page, I'll will talk on the article's instead. Bgwhite (talk) 18:34, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Thank you

...for the edits you made to Monarch butterfly migration. I have not mastered the art of citing references but I really, really like what I see you have done to the article. It will speed things immensely. Let me see if I understand what should be done:

  • enter the book or journal to be cited into the bibliography or journal section
  • use the {{sfn|author|date of publication|p=a page number}} template in the article for repeated citations from the same source
  • enter ISBN nos. with a hyphen after the first two numbers (why?)
  • did I miss anything else that you did?

  Bfpage |leave a message  10:07, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Bfpage: The technique which uses the {{sfn}} template is called Shortened footnotes.
ISBN numbers may be formatted using either spaces or hyphens, and these may be omitted; if present, the position of these is not critical, but there are standard positions which vary according to the first few digits. If the ISBN has ten digits, there will be three spaces or hyphens, see ISBN#Pattern for English language ISBNs; if the ISBN has thirteen digits, there will be four spaces or hyphens. For a thirteen-digit ISBN, there is a hyphen after the first three digits, and the last ten digits have the same pattern as a ten-digit ISBN. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:38, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
Thank you Redrose, I feel smarter now. I know it took time to answer my question and I appreciate that.   Bfpage |leave a message  17:59, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
Bfpage, if you ever have technical questions, Redrose64 is the one I go to.
I knew the change would come as a big shock. I didn't know what you know or don't know, therefore the message on your talk page. As always, ask away any questions. I think it has been three months since I've bumped into you and the Monarch articles. Man, they have greatly improved. Bgwhite (talk) 18:44, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
I thought your edits were amazing and I have learned so much from them. Unfortunately they were reverted. There needs to be discussion on the article's talk page.   Bfpage |leave a message  19:33, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
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