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The Signpost: 28 May 2014

The Signpost: 04 June 2014

Mobilicity

Hi there. Any chance of protecting this article again? Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 03:41, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

 Done GedUK  10:51, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Signature

Hello! I wanted to let you know that your signature is in violation of policy because it uses the deprecated "font" tag. I have made you a visually identical signature using the acceptable "span" tag: 

[[User:Ged UK|<span style="color:green">Ged</span>]][[User talk:Ged UK|<span style="color:orange">'''''UK'''''</span>&nbsp;]]

Which yields:

GedUK 

--AmaryllisGardener talk 22:11, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, and done. Didn't realise it had depreciated. GedUK  11:50, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 11 June 2014

Matt Smith (actor)

Extend PC time? --George Ho (talk) 02:12, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

I've given it another 6 months. Thanks. GedUK  12:10, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 18 June 2014

Bigg Boss 6

Can you remove or set expiry date of this pending changes protection or change protection level to temporary semi-protection, Because there is no any vandal edits in last 4 months, actually this article is last update on 5 February 2014‎. 101.59.106.65 (talk) 07:46, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

@Tom Morris: Tom this is your protection, do you want to review it? As the show finished a year ago, it's probably safe to remove pending now. GedUK  12:07, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Will have a look later on today. —Tom Morris (talk) 12:13, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
Just got around to this. I've been off for a few days with illness. I've removed the pending changes. —Tom Morris (talk) 11:50, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Raii Laxmi

Hi we need you support in semi protect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raai_Laxmi i am the manager for Raai Laxmi . Admins are screwing the page with unwanted details ( ex:- date of birth , image ....) pl let us know — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vegacelebs (talk • contribs) 13:59, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

Declined It doesn't need protection at this point, the incidences are quite low level at this stage. Let me know if it picks up. GedUK  11:23, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Chickennnnn

I dont give a shit if you block me. Dumbass — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chickennnnn (talk • contribs)

Fair enough then. GedUK  12:34, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor global newsletter—June 2014

The character formatting menu

Did you know?

The character formatting menu, or "Style text" menu lets you set bold, italic, and other text styles. "Clear formatting" removes all text styles and removes links to other pages.

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The VisualEditor team is mostly working to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find on Mediawiki.org weekly updates detailing recent work.

  • They have moved the "Keyboard shortcuts" link out of the "Page options" menu, into the "Help" menu. Within dialog boxes, buttons are now more accessible (via the Tab key) from the keyboard.
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Vandalism

Hi, Thanks for looking at my AIV report on 68.68.182.68. When you wrote "One edit in 7 years is a bit early to be seeing a trend" did you seriously believe that that is what had happened? That I saw a trend in this one edit? I mean, I would have to be a complete idiot, would I not? :) And yes I may well be, but I don't think I was in this particular instance. My point is, and I am sorry if I did not explain it clearly enough, that this is a repeat visitor who shows up quite regularly on changing IPs, does their crappy little semi-racist joke in that article, and sometimes repeats it, which is why I thought a ban-on-sight might have been worth it. As it happens, it looks like it wasn't as they have not tried again. But if you look through the edit history of that article a bit it honestly does get to be a terrible bore. It's like they need a better hobby ... or I do! Cheers, DBaK (talk) 21:00, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi there. I obviously didn't explain myself very well either! I knew what you were coming from, but as it's an IP hopper, there's seldom much point when they hop onto an underused IP like that one in blocking them because they won't be on it long. As indeed they weren't. I've pending changes protected the article now, that's probably a better solution in this case if they're only hitting one article every now and again. GedUK  11:10, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
That's absolutely brilliant, great solution, many thanks! DBaK (talk) 11:42, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

The Signpost: 25 June 2014

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