User talk:Od Mishehu/Archive15

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Hello Od Mishehu! I hope you enjoy this cookie as an amicable greeting from a fellow Wikipedian, SwisterTwister talk 07:49, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Category:Individual non-human mammals, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — This, that, and the other (talk) 09:56, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Category:Media with live action and animation, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mike Selinker (talk) 04:51, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi. I don't know anything much about the edits you make to Wikipedia. I'm not checking them either. I haven't the time to chase you around and argue with you, even if there are good reasons to, I don't know. I know one edit and it displays an unhealthy attitude so I am going to show it you, this edit, and point out something which you should already know. Encouraging admins to act purely to strengthen another admins actions, without reasoning of their own, is unfair and unnacceptable. It will foster resentment and scheming in all who see it on display as an acceptable code of conduct. I hope you can look at that edit and consider it a minor slip up. If you look at it as your chosen attitude which deserves no interference, be sure there is cause to doubt your actions as an admin. Just saying, if anything is going to spark a load of arguments and mistrust, it is a comment like that and the inference would be well placed. Now, I don't even recall what the matter was in relation to, or maybe I didn't even look. I was looking at something else and just let my eyes wander. So here is to hoping that you, some random stranger, do things well and they go well for you. If you are backing up another admin in voting, for no reason other than to make other admins more powerful in concensus on content, I should keep it to myself if I were you. This is the responsible attitude you ought to have promised those who made you an administrator, even if you have not had premise to consider it on this particular angle before, yes it is. Zip that up. Obviously you are a tireless contributor. I appreciate that. Maybe I'll come back later and check out how brilliant you are or try to find some evil genius in your work. Otherwise good luck and good bye, ~ R.T.G 16:51, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

I noticed your recent edits to the old templates removing the blank before the target. Is that supposed to force the categories in the articles to update? Agathoclea (talk) 17:17, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Yes. I realized that the original template changes no longer seemed to be updating the categories. Note that the United States category, for example (Category:United States rail stubs), has dropped in the last approx. 6 minutes from 529 stubs to 140, even though it was stuck at the 500s for a few days! I first tried it with Norway, and the success was so good that I decided to help a few more categories along in this quick way. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:21, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

See also bugzilla:31389. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 19:01, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Hello, I have a question about what you meant at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2011/August/11#Category:Northern_Ireland_election_stubs.2FTemplate:NI-election-stub. I just don't understand the terms like upmerge or the whole reasoning, otherwise I would have closed it. Could you explain this for me? (Sorry I'm not a SfD regular) -- DQ (t) (e) 07:07, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

1. Merging Category:X into Category:Y means recategortizing all pages which were in Category:X into Category:Y and then deleting Category:X. In the case of stub categories, all stub articles (not subcategories) are categorized using the stub templates (also refered to as "stub tags"), which are categorized using the "category" parameter (in the case of multiple categories, the others are called category1, category2, etc.)
2. Upmerge is shorthand (used also at CFD) for "merge into the parent category/categories"; in the case of stub categories, it refers on;y to the stub category parents.
3. Stub categories should generally have at least 60 stubs in them (30 for the main stub category for a WikiProject); should the number of stubs which would go in a category drop below that number, it's generally upmerged as underpopulated.
4. About the naming statndards of stub tags, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Naming conventions. While the NI- names were used originally for Northern Ireland, that name patern went out of use, as Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2007/September/1#A group of redirect reversals can show.

Hope that's all helpful for you. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:49, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Will note for the future, thanks :) -- DQ (t) (e) 22:41, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

At first it seemed I wouldn't find the time to edit the second file, but I found the time. Wereldburger758 (talk) 09:04, 8 October 2011 (UTC)

Category:Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:33, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Category:Republic of Ireland – United Kingdom border, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. The Evil IP address (talk) 09:19, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi Od Mishehu,

I noticed you replied to some feedback from the new Feedback Dashboard feature – you might be interested in the task force Steven Walling and I just created for this purpose: Wikipedia:Feedback Dashboard. Thanks for diving in on your own and helping the newbies, and I hope you'll sign up! Maryana (WMF) (talk) 00:22, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Hey! Is it you who took Finnish National road 2 to the article what needs little cleanup? If you are, then why you marked It to the article what needs cleanup? Is it too mixed huh? (Santtu37 (talk) 17:12, 11 November 2011 (UTC))

If I understand what you mean, the relevant edit is here, and its author is TheCatalyst31. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 19:19, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

To reduce clutter, we remove uncontroversially bad faith reports because it reduces clutter and the warnings we give are sufficient replies. When a vandal makes such a report, he/she knows what's coming, so we don't have to inform them of it.Jasper Deng (talk) 18:10, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Given the high number of reports which have responses which make it clear the reports were in bad faith (such as "Another bogus report by a thwarted would-be vandal"), it seems to me that you are probably wrong. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 18:21, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

That Jasper Deng guy is always wrong, and just wants to be admin but won't. The only viable soulution is to ignore him. 96.8.121.17 (talk) 19:24, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

A user who is "always wrong", and who one should always ignore, would never get user rights such as "Revewer" and "Rollbacker". עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 19:35, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

It doesn't mean, though, that we must keep them. I really have no objection to either, but don't restore removed reports is my point here. BTW, that IP is block evasion of a user about to be banned.Jasper Deng (talk) 20:40, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Category:Music in Northern Ireland, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Mike Selinker (talk) 22:33, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

These three nominations have been open for a month. Since you closed the "Films based on works by author" discussion, are you willing to close these? I'm not interested in a specific outcome, just seeing them finished out. Thanks.--Mike Selinker (talk) 14:03, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

The one had a much more clear consensus. I'm not sure how to handle these. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 15:26, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

I guess you do what I do in cases like this: Weigh all the opinions, and make a decision based on the merits.--Mike Selinker (talk) 15:38, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Hey there. I noticed you made this nomination back in October. Are you aware that at this time, all those categories were speedy deletable? See Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2010_November#13_November_2010 and the related discussion, resulting in delete. Unfortunately G4 may no longer be applicable as your nomination, resulting in rename, is now the most recent deletion discussion, however the categories should have been brought back properly via deletion review before being recreated. I'm unsure about what to do now, although these categories are unencyclopedic as has been decided time and time again. I'm wondering what the appropriate venue to take this is - go to deletion review (while keeping the categories for the time being), bringing up another CfD (I'm rather annoyed by this option because it basically says that CfD can override DRV), or something else (I'm hesitant to G4 them all due to the fireworks it would create, although I think it would be better for the encycopedia). Let me know your thoughts on this one. VegaDark (talk) 21:14, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

1. Yes, you're right that they could have been G4-ed. unfortunately, I didn't know about this.
2. No, they can no longer be. Consensus can change, and a CfD whic they survive can be evidewnce that it has.
3. In my opinion, DRV is an appropriate venue if you are claiming that the closing admin mis-interpreted the consnensus in the discussion in question. So unless you can show that there was a coinsensus for deletion there, I see no grounds for DRV.

עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:20, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

• I started a new CfD. VegaDark (talk) 08:09, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay in answering your question I did not see it there. Hope this helps. -- DQ (t) (e) 02:51, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

How do I warn people for vandalizing on their talk page. Colour King (talk) 08:47, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

We have a whole list of user warning templates, see Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace. You can probably find a good one there for almost anything. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:50, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, I saw some vandalism on a Wikipedia page and then decided I want to help out and make admins jobs easier. Colour King (talk) 05:46, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

I want to protect my company page from being vandalize. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_Sinaran

The vandals have change the entire content which makes the page cannot be undone and have to edit it manually. i think it is pointless to give them warnings as their IP address is changing all the time.

is it possible to have the page editable only to Wikipedia registered accounts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonfung (talk • contribs) 01:38, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Yes, it is possible - it's called "semi protection". If you think a page needs it, requestit at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection (WP:RFPP for short). And the page in question has already been semi-protected a couple of hours ago. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:15, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

	The Admin's Barnstar
	Thanks for RevDeleting those revisions! HurricaneFan25 13:34, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Something to catch <Details redacted per WP:BEANS>? Thanks. HurricaneFan25 01:41, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Please don't post details like that here. In stead, please email me, and leave me a {{you've got mail}} message. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:15, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

I've been keeping track of this user - any time his IPs hit any filters, I immediately look at all the likely places for newer methods he uses to get around them. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:17, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

The filter may need adjusting. It currently seems to be throwing up a fair amount of false positives. --Bongwarrior (talk) 10:10, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

70.137.152.169 false positive still pending. What was the reason, how to avoid? 70.137.145.223 (talk) 15:11, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

I don't know the details of the "Prolific sockpuppeteers" who Filter 47 was designed against. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 10:19, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, this was meanwhile answered by coincidence, as Jasper Deng explained to somebody else that nowiki triggers the filter. I used nowiki to explain the use of cite patent to somebody else, who contributed patents to articles. 70.137.138.100 (talk) 19:04, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Find my draft at {{User-uaa/sandbox}}. Let me know if it's fixed/worse/the end of the world!! etc. fredgandt 11:14, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

With your fix at {{User-uaa/sandbox}}, the block duration works correctly, but the reason doesn't. Anomie's fix works correctly. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:41, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Yes. The reason for that is, because Anomie knows what he's doing  fredgandt 18:16, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

According to the category, there's a bot that will remove the tags. Nyttend (talk) 12:47, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

It's this one.[1] Now its been recreated[2] and again proposed for deletion.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2011_December_26#Category:Airliner_accidents_and_incidents_featured_in_a_Mayday_episode} Is it possible to speedy delete this new category? I'm bringing it to your attention because you administrator who closed the original deletion discussion.- William 02:28, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

As the admin who closed the previous discussion, I won't G4 any categories related to it. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 09:55, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

When we overhauled {{infobox road}} in the first half of 2010, we designed it so that the color of the headers in the infobox could be changed by country and even by highway type. The default we used is a light blue with black text, but here in the US, we're using the same green color background with white text as our guide signs. I've noticed that Israeli highway markers are either blue and white or red and white. Based on a quick look at List of highways in Israel, I'd have to guess that the freeways are blue and white, while the expressways are red and white. Is this correct? We'd like to set up some colors for a few more countries, and we've started a list at User:Fredddie/Sandbox at the moment. I'd like to add correct colors at some point in the future for Israel. Can you help me? Imzadi 1979 → 10:24, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Also, if you know of any technical drawings of Israel's route markers (you know, the red sign in this picture), send it my way and I'll create SVGs. –Fredddie™ 10:52, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

I'm not familiar with the terms "Expressway" and "Freeway". Highway 6 isn't free!

Hoghway 1 from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv (actually from Ginot Sacharov to Tel Aviv) has no junctions, just interchanges, back to 2002. East of Jerusalem, it has mostly juctions, I believe. Highway 4 has junctions along most of its route, but interchanges near Tel Aviv. Highway 2, as far as I know, has just interchanges. Highway 40 has only junctions, I think (it definitely has one at the Lod interchange, which an interchange for Hoghway 1 and a junction with the exits for Highway 40). And Highway 6 is a high speed road with just interchanges. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:12, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Freeway=freedom of movement, not free of charge; they can have tolls. It's a technical term meaning that there is "full control of access", meaning no driveways and only access at junctions, and the junctions are grade-separated to eliminate cross traffic. Expressways have some intersections instead of only interchanges (meaning a lack of full grade separation) and may have some driveway access from adjacent property owners (not full control of access). Highway 6 has a blue and white marker at the top of the infobox, so even if there a tolls, it might still be a freeway in terms of design. Imzadi 1979 → 20:11, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Yes, by these definitions (in my opinion) red would mean expressway (40 definitely is one, at least the part I know) and blue would mean Freeway (Highway 6 is known as a freeway; Highway 1 is in the part west of Jerusalem).

...and divert you to my talk page only to link to your exercise answers, you can go straight to User:Od Mishehu/StephenBuxton/CSD Exercises and read them for yourself! Thanks for having a go, and I would love any feedback, particularly if it is on anything you disagree with. Stephen! ^Coming... 20:22, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Been out all day, so only just had the chance to review and reply to your responses. Stephen! ^Coming... 22:02, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Please see this discussion. Its an August discussion that needs clarification of a typo before closing the discussion. Dawynn (talk) 18:51, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Regarding [3], "Rename all" means that the existing uses are all supposed to be changed immediately, and the exisiting templates deleted. So the templates that are affected there should be listed at Wikipedia:Stub_types_for_deletion#To_orphan and then at Wikipedia:Stub_types_for_deletion#To_delete. But there is no reason to list them on the AWB page, because all of the existing uses are supposed to be replaced immediately anyway. — Carl (CBM · talk) 19:33, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Category:Glossaries on sports, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 02:21, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Beit Shemesh railway station.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files because its copyright status is unclear or disputed. If the file's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the file description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at the discussion if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Kelly ^hi! 09:00, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Category:Philippine ingredients, which you created, has been nominated for discussion. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 20:25, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks to all of you for commenting on the NOINDEX RfC :). It's always great to be able to field questions like these to the community; it's genuinely the highlight of my work! The NOINDEX idea sprung from our New Page Triage discussion; we're developing a new patrolling interface for new articles, and we want your input like never before :). So if you haven't already seen it, please go there, take a look at the screenshots and mockups and ideas, and add any comments or suggestions you might have to the talkpage. Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 16:41, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

I think you screwed something up. Christmas All Over the World now redirects to itself. Any way you can bring back the content of the album's article? Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 05:07, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

 Done. It was a simple move conflict - Malik Shabazz and I did the same thing at around the same time (the logs clearly state the same minute) and mine was second. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 05:12, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Dispute Resolution – Survey Invite Hello Od Mishehu. I am currently conducting a study on the dispute resolution processes on the English Wikipedia, in the hope that the results will help improve these processes in the future. Whether you have used dispute resolution a little or a lot, now we need to know about your experience. The survey takes around five minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist in analyzing the results of the survey. No personally identifiable information will be released. Please click HERE to participate. Many thanks in advance for your comments and thoughts. You are receiving this invitation because you have had some activity in dispute resolution over the past year. For more information, please see the associated research page. Steven Zhang DR goes to Wikimania! 01:41, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi, removing ERROR-FULL information was what I did. Can correction be made to allow removal? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fuzzy butternut (talk • contribs) 14:25, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Hiyas there Mishehu,

You are probably still quite busy with it, but your new template currently has the "Requests for unblock" category, causing it to register as a user who wishes to be unblocked in {{category|Requests_for_unblock}}. I guess it misses a bit of syntax here or there to prevent that. :) Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 13:54, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi. Just wanted to drop by and let you know your page here is being listed here. Not sure why that is though. Cheers! TNXMan 13:55, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Unfortunately your page User:Od Mishehu/Template:Unblock-global was showing up in the list of users requesting unblocks. I am sure this problem can be dealt with by appropriate use of "noinclude" etc, but I don't have time to sort out the details, so I have blanked the page for now, and will leave it for you to correct. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:58, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

I now see that two other admins had already posted to you about this. Clearly it was likely to waste time for lots of us. JamesBWatson (talk) 14:00, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

It's doing it again - got me rather confused... Peridon (talk) 09:19, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

I palced a HTML comment tag around the switch causing this, for now. Excirial ^{(Contact me,Contribs)} 09:23, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

I see that one minute after I tagged Al Hulailah for more time before speedy deletion, you deleted it. As you will have seen on the article's talk page before deletion, the author said that he/she was new to editing and would edit the article. On the face of it, this seems like a case of biting a newcomer. Can you explain why you chose not to allow the requested extra time? JamesBWatson (talk) 12:46, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Loking at the page, I saw no significant amount of work worth saving. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:52, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

I agree, but is there any harm in leaving it for ten minutes, to avoid being unnecessarily negative to a new editor? As far as I can see, there would be two possible outcomes: (1) the user adds good content, so we gain an article, (2) the user doesn't add any useful content, so we delete it a little later, and nothing has been lost. In addition, even if immediate deletion would have been your choice, after another administrator has reviewed the speedy deletion nomination and made a decision on it you need fairly solid reasons for overturning that decision. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:26, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Probably an "action clash" - you edited the page to the extent of declining the speedy more or less at the same time that I deleted it; there was no way for me to have seen your edit before I deleted it. (Note that 1 minute apart in the logs could represent mere seconds.) Now that I see this, I've reversed my action. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:30, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

OK, I accept that you probably didn't see my note before making your decision. I've been in the same situation myself. Sorry to have doubted you. JamesBWatson (talk) 19:53, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Your move of Carlton O'callahan to User:Carlton55 may not have been the best move. The article Carlton had written seemed more like a personal or dating site profile than a Wikipedia user page. Since user pages are supposed to be used to define one's activities related to Wikipedia, this user page seems entirely inappropriate. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 15:25, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

It looked borderline to me, and in the name of BITE it seemed like the least bad solution. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 03:29, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Urgent Help and Warning: the IP address, 212.121.219.1 is engaging in serious hacking activities, not just simple acts of vandalism in the other Wikipedia encyclopedias.

Warning: the IP address, 212.121.219.1 registered to Oldham MBC public libraries, and which is permanently blocked in English Wikipedia since 2009, is the source of serious hacking activities. Today on 14 May 2012 other vulnerable Wikipedia encyclopedias are under attack from this address where it is not blocked. This source is capable of hacking Wikipedia, as it is the case today in the other Wikipedia encyclopedias, because it has erased the history archives for instance in the Azerbaijan articles of the Wikipedia encyclopedias and is doing it in other country articles as well, which no simple vandal can do. This source is freely roaming and usurping right now.

Can anyone inform the administrators of the other Wikipedia encyclopedias and help them against the IP address, 212.121.219.1, because most of the small Wikipedia encyclopedias are vulnerable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.224.23.137 (talk) 21:52, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

You deleted Afranet, which now is at DRV. If you haven't already, please add your thought to the DRV discussion here. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 11:32, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Could you please explain why you closed this discussion as rename to "Seinfeld task force" and "Seinfeld task force articles", when there was clear consensus for "Wikipedia Seinfeld task force" and "Wikipedia Seinfeld task force articles"? Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{WrestleMania XXVIII} _{The Undertaker 20–0} 13:46, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, you're right. I'm fixing it. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:03, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{WrestleMania XXVIII} _{The Undertaker 20–0} 11:18, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Category:Myth (series), which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 02:44, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi, I'm writing to you because you rewrote template:Cfd full, so you can probably help with variables in templates. I think there is a fault in template:Cfd2. {{Cfd full}} provides pre-populated CFD text using Cfd2. This includes an optional heading. However, when subst'ed, the heading is not used.

For example, see Category:DC Comics immortals which says:

add entry {{subst:cfd2|DC Comics immortals|header=More Comics immortals|text='''Delete'''. Your reason(s) for the proposed deletion. ~~~~}}

This results in

• Propose deleting Category:DC Comics immortals (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
  

Nominator's rationale: Delete. Your reason(s) for the proposed deletion. [sig]

i.e. it uses the category name as the section header, rather than the header text that was entered after the pipe in {{Cfd}}. – Fayenatic London 13:11, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

I believe I fixed it. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 19:42, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

So do I! Thanks and well done. – Fayenatic London 19:49, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

I have updated the documentation page – please check my work. Do the other templates sharing the doc page also have an optional header parameter? For that matter, is it right that they share a doc page, or should it be split with "see also" links added to the others instead? – Fayenatic London 20:05, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Category:Big Boy (restaurant), which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 02:32, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Do you still get problems with duplicated stubs with AWB? -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:22, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

If yes, please download the latest snapshot from http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/ -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:52, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

hello iw us wondering if you could delete the previous uploads of these files:

1 2 3 As they fail F5 Thank U--189.241.92.72 (talk) 19:50, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

Tagged them with {{subst:furd}}. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 20:20, 15 September 2012 (UTC)

hiya,

i was not refering to any user i dnt think i meant ot use the word git full stop but due to my spelling diffulcities i probally spelt it wrong, but i certainly wasnt trying to be uncivil and call another user names, but i accept your comment beause it does appear i was being uncivil but it wasnt intentionallyAndrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 07:43, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

Hey, I just noticed you merged the Vancouver MLS category. I wanted to hold off on that until we had the other Vancouver Whitecaps stuff taken care of. Remember what I said was that I wanted Vancouver MLS category to be merged, pending the previous nominations. Which meant that if the other Whitecap nominations didn't go through, then the Whitecaps MLS category shouldn't be merged either. Is there anyway you can put the move on hold, because were running into a bit of a problem here because of that? – Michael (talk) 18:33, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Zimbabwe-history-stub. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Zimbabwe-history-stub redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Sfan00 IMG (talk) 11:27, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

was boneheaded...I created all the county stub categories, as per the decision at stub cats for creation and have been diligently populating them. Now you come along and try to destroy the category structure. Want to know what gets editors demotivate here, actions like this. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:05, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

I see that a month and a half has gone by without you tagging a single article with the tag, and with only 3 stub articles in the relevant permcat (non-stub category). עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 19:12, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi, just to let you know that Template:Wikify has been deprecated and so more specific tags should be used instead, such as Template:Underlinked, Template:Dead end, Template:Cleanup etc. Thanks! Del_♉sion23 (talk) 21:13, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

As far as I know, I haven't sed it recently - unless your taking about my AWB edits, in which case you should bring it up at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Feature requests. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 21:15, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

It's already been brought up with AWB and will hopefully be sorted out in a future update. In the meantime we're removing the wikify tag if AWB suggests it, before clicking save. Cheers. Del_♉sion23 (talk) 21:26, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Hello, Thank you for fixing. The link was not working so I tried. I will be careful. -- ɑηsuмaη ^{ʈ ᶏ ɭ Ϟ} 21:44, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi Od Mishehu. I am presenting this proposal for new Bible-related stub categories. What do you think? Regards, --Fabio Descalzi, aka Fadesga (talk) 12:28, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

	Happy Adminship	from the Birthday Committee
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If you can add anything to this list it would be appreciated. I think we need to talk about a central repository for this splintered discussion. Perhaps a notice in Signpost? --Anthonyhcole (talk) 14:22, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Why is an administrator creating so many unreferenced BLPs?! Many of your recent creations don't even have any text, merely an infobox - this is basic stuff and deeply concerning. GiantSnowman 09:14, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

I'd echo that - can't believe you just created articles with an infobox. I've started work on saving them. Also, you should be aware that they aren't actually Knesset members yet - they aren't sworn in until 5 February, and could still resign (or die) - this has happened. As a result, I've reverted all your edits adding 19th Knesset to biographies. Number 57 12:17, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Under WP:BIO#Politicians#1, we don't need to wait for them to be sworn in. And the infobox is enough to state that they qualify for this criterion. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:13, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm fine with you creating the articles (I've done a load myself). My issues were (1) that you only had an infobox and (2) that you were including inaccurate material in them by claiming they were members of the Knesset when they weren't yet. Number 57 09:37, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

And my issue is that you have created a whole raft of unsourced BLPs... GiantSnowman 09:41, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Are you not going to comment? GiantSnowman 16:51, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

I figured that I don't even need to do a full "perfect stub" in a single go. I'd forgotten about the unsourced BLP problem - and nothing I wrote is negative. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 20:44, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

That's because you didn't write anything - on many there was nothing more than an infobox. GiantSnowman 10:31, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

I figured that since the infobox is enough to survive speedy deletion, and I included the interwiki to the Hebrew Wikipedia, that I could subsequently work on the articles later on. The infobox itself shows the people to be covered by the politician criterion. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:56, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

You might find not every admin would view nothing but an infobox sufficient. GiantSnowman 12:21, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

I didn't realize that until Versageek deleted Yehiel Bar. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:29, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

You made this change to the CfD page. I'm considering reversing that since it is misleading. Discussions can be closed at any time, and if you look at most current days, you can commonly find a closed discussion. By including this, one could argue that the comment prohibits the closing of any discussion before it ages to 168 hours of life. WP:SNOW should always be an option. Vegaswikian (talk) 01:38, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

SNOW is an option, but many disucssions are closed after 6 days and a few hours when they aren't SNOW cases. Please note that this text appears on the FFD page also. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:59, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Od Mishehu. Oh crumbs, what on earth was I thinking when I nominated that article for deletion? Ancora Imparo.--Shirt58 (talk) 11:24, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

A few months ago, you participated in a discussion on Wikipedia talk:Did you know about Gibraltar-related DYKs on the Main Page. I am proposing that the temporary restrictions on such DYKs, which were imposed in September 2012, should be lifted and have set out a case for doing so at Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Gibraltar-related DYKs. If you have a view on this, please comment at that page. Prioryman (talk) 22:00, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

The redirect is for the template namespace and there is no incoming links to the redirect as here and was created with a page move if it was for an article then the case would be different therefore i tagged it for deletion, anyways its fine to keep it. --Ibrahim ebi (talk) 14:55, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

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Hi, perhaps you were torn away after closing Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_February_26#Ballet_dancers_by_gender_categories. I listed the categories for keeping at WP:CFD/W/R. That page may be too much of a secret; it seems to work, i.e. the bot will remove CfD templates from retained category pages. – Fayenatic London 13:24, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. You should probably add some mention of this at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Administrator instructions. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 19:00, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Agreed, and done.

That page also reminded me to add the {{Old CfD}} to Category talk:Ballerinas. It's probably not worth doing all the others. – Fayenatic London 12:43, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Od Mishehu. Hope you are doing fine. I am proposing the creation of a category for languages by country where they are spoken, please see my proposal here. Of course, this would only apply for countries where lots of languages are spoken. On a first instance, Nigeria. Regards, --Fadesga (talk) 18:23, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

A question for people who commented in the RfC at "Probationary Period" and "Not Unless". (Or feel free to reply on my talk page, if you prefer.) - Dank (push to talk) 19:25, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi, can you please clarify why you declined my request? I successfully applied for IPBE twice in the past with the same or a similar reason, both time I stated that I was attempting to edit at school using the school's dynamic proxy addresses, which is usually blocked due to other users on the same network getting blocked for vandalism or due to the nature of the IP addresses. Neither times did I have to state what my IP was and even if I did, it would be pretty pointless as open proxy IPs tend to be dynamic in nature and as suggested would change almost daily. The first request was fulfilled by User:Hersfold and the second was fulfilled by User:Amatulic. Hersfold asked me pretty routine questions about whether I'm able to edit Wikipedia easily at school using other alternative methods and whether I'm able to verify that I go to school, via email. I was able to confidentially confirm that I did and that there was no alternative method of accessing from an unblocked address at school. Amatulic's reason for granting me permission is still visible on my talk page. Not editing from an open proxy IP address was never a condition that was imposed on me. YuMaNuMa ^Contrib 11:29, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

About the first, I was unaware of the precedents. If specific users had approved it before, you may want to ask these users to give it again (Amatulic is currently active, and Hersfold was recently), and you didn't say that you want it "back" - only that you want it beecause you're blocked again. About the second - I didn't say that it will be on condition, only that it would probably be on condition. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 22:01, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

I guess I overestimated the tools that admins are provided with. Previously, the reasons I provided for why I wanted IPBE were quite lengthy, however this time I decided to just provide a brief statement without explaining why as I thought the admins responding were able to check my user rights log and my previous requests. Since Hersfold was recently desysop'd from what I've heard, I'll ask Amatulic to see whether he can restore my IPBE privileges. Thanks anyways! YuMaNuMa ^Contrib 00:58, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

I am perfectly capable of checking your right history (it's more difficult with adminship and more advanced stuff, but IPBE is simple - see here) - the question is what do I check. If you had said something about having had the IPBE before, I could have confirmed it. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 22:10, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Now that Category:2000s Western film stubs has been upmerged, could you please delete the category so that it doesn't show up in Category:Western film stubs as an empty category? Thanks! Fortdj33 (talk) 16:11, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

 Done. Please don't empty the categories yourself, though (as I see you did here with the 1990s stub category, and here with the 1980s category), unless an admin has already closed the discussion with that result and asked for help. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 05:33, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

I apologize, I attempted to populate them first, but emptied them when it became clear that neither one had nearly enough articles to warrant a separate category. I realize that I jumped the gun on those two categories, but I didn't see any purpose in changing them back. Fortdj33 (talk) 13:09, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Can you please have a look at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Plumoyr? --Joy [shallot] (talk) 11:58, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

You participated in the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (people)#RFC-birth date format conformity when used to disambiguate so I thought you might want to comment at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (people)#Birth date format conformity .28second round.29.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 15:05, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

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(del/undel) 06:11, 4 August 2011 Od Mishehu (talk | contribs | block) deleted page Template:English-bio-stub (Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion/Log/2011/July/26#Unused redirects) (view/restore)

It is my intention to restore this name (and the others) as unused redirects is not a justification for deletion. Instead the question should be are they potentially useful and I think that they are. Template:English-bio-stub is just as valid as template:British-bio-stub and is more meaningful and natural name than template:England-bio-stub as the nationality is "English" not "England". The only reason why it was empty was because someone went around changing the links, and even if it is empty that is no justification of deleting it as it is a natural name which Template:England-bio-stub is not. -- PBS (talk) 10:30, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, the purpose of keeping {{British-bio-stub}} is to avoid the need to replace allof its uses - which would need to be done before deleting it. No one should be using this redirect otherwise. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 21:38, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Hello,

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Cheers, TheOriginalSoni (talk) 06:46, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Hello. I would like to inform you that I have granted you editor flag at the Arabic Wikipedia, all your edits there will be automatically marked as patrolled. Best regards.--Avocato (talk) 02:56, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi.

I asked a couple of questions at your request at the Map workshop. Cheers. Begoon ^talk 17:01, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

And I replied there again - the map is uploaded, but I'd be grateful if you could check/proofread it as it is a redraw/retype. Cheers. Begoon ^talk 13:21, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

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I fixed the template populating it, but the owner, User:Technical 13, reverted the changes. I suggested that they not populate red categories and I have no idea what if any response there will be. To close the discussion follow up, I'm going to delete the category and salt it. If you decide to recreate it, you can revert me and I will not consider that to be wheel warring. I think I'm on good grounds since the close was for delete and someone wants to keep putting entries there even if the category is red. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:36, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

• Your follow up on this is I've taken it to deletion review and requested temporary undeletion on the grounds that I, as the creator of some of the categories, was not notified of the deletion nomination of the categories which are {{maintenance category}} used to filter bug report mailings and notifications for some of Wikipedia's WikiProjects (including AFCH and SN which I'm a developer of both). Technical 13 (talk) 22:25, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

It looks like Technical 13 might have forgotten to notify you of the RfC he started related to some of your recent deletion requests. At any rate, I"ve posted a question for you in the "Survey" section of the RfC. Thansk. The Rfc's at Category talk:Wikipedians#RfC: Is this category and current subcategories appropriate for Wikipedia Happy editing! – Philosopher ^{Let us reason together.} 18:28, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

• Philosopher, I had overlooked this user's talk page in my mass notifications and assumed (which I very much should not have done) that pinging the user from the RfC would notify them. Anyways, thanks for making sure this user got a notification. Technical 13 (talk) 18:57, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

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Hi, re this edit: please check all AWB edits before saving, since it didn't just mark the page for CFD, it broke the usage instructions and put the category inside itself. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:09, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

I usually do, I did fix a few of these - I must have missed this one. I would also like to point out thatr this is clearly a bug in AWB - it should leave all <nowiki> sections alone. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 20:06, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

You need to update to version 5.1.1.3 or later. Bug was reported already and fixed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:18, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Notifying all users that were involved in the same discussion a few weeks ago which involved deletion of this category. Technical 13 (talk) 13:51, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi. I've noticed you've been involved in discussions about the use of the term "Luxembourgish/Luxembourgian" etc. in the past and I would be grateful if you could make an input into the (hopefully last) discussion on the topic at the Luxembourg Wikiproject. Thanks! Brigade Piron (talk) 09:13, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi, since you were the last (before me) to edit Rose Franken, I am telling you what happened. For whatever reason, I managed to delete the whole page while trying to edit it. I was finally, after several tries, able to restore the previous page and to insert my contribution, a reference to her son, physicist Peter Franken. Vegasprof (talk) 23:01, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

—Mono·nomic 04:01, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Please stop this and leave it to less-involved administrators.

Thank you. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 05:12, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

My only involvement in the matter is that I noticed that the sig had images, and I was dealing with the problem. According to WP:UNINVOLVED, "[a]n administrator who has interacted with an editor... purely in an administrative role, ... is not involved and is not prevented from acting in an administrative capacity in relation to that editor... Warnings, calm and reasonable discussion and explanation of those warnings, advice about community norms, and suggestions on possible wordings and approaches do not make an administrator 'involved'." This is the entire extent of my dealing with the user. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 16:44, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

I left him a message on his es acct ([[4]] ); the policy at es.wiki appears to be different as it seems to be on the fa.wiki which I have been busier on lately. Cheers, Carlossuarez46 (talk) 19:49, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

1. REDIRECT Target page name

This was reposted on the deleted page, obviously intended for you: Jimfbleak - talk to me? 07:02, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Dear Sir, Charles Cranford is my father and I am Charles H. Cranford 11 so I sent the article in as my father is a famous author being Napoleon Hills only partner in 1961 until his death in 1970 together they have sold over 100 million copies of their books, tapes and courses. My dad gave away all his money to our family in 1995 and moved to China and found his happiness. He has just published a book in Vietnam that First News published that has sold over one million copies bought by Mr. Vu of the Trung Nguyen coffee company to give away to the youth. He now has 7 new books that will be published in 2014 and has been granted the license to publish them by the Vietnamese Gov. His new book Right Brain Kids will be published in march of this year. If you go to First News web site you can see my dads new book "Think and Grow Rich in Vietnam" First News is the leading publishing company in Vietnam for foreign authors and foreign books of notable people, like Steve Jobs. Please review my fathers deleting by yourself.

Is my father important or significance to the world well today we only want to see the latest news on trash but for those lives my father and Napoleon Hill have changed or given hope too its in the tens of millions of people that would say to you that he is important. In Asia where he has lived for 18 years his books for example has sold one million copies for "Think and Grow Rich in China" and his lectures draws many people. If you type in my fathers name in Asia you will see how popular he is and lots has been written about him. Since 1976 the Dallas Morning News front page article about him buying Napoleon Bonaparte battle saber for one million dollars there has been nothing written about him in the states. He is a Professor teaching business PhD level courses for a state University in Hong Kong, dissertation supervisor for Tarlac State University and honorary Dean of local Ntt university of Vietnam.

Thank you in advance for your kindness in this matter.

Charles H. Cranford 11 son of Charles H. Cranford

Don't write any articles about yourself, your friends, or your family. Please read Wikipedia:Autobiography - although it talks about writing an article about yourself, it's equally true about an article about your father. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:38, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

LOL, I think you misread what I put above. The text was posted by eleven-year-old User:Charles cranford on the talk page of the deleted page. Since I was about to delete that page, and the comment was a polite request from a kid, I posted it here so that you would see it. I'm very unlikely to write an article about someone I've never heard of. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:02, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Ok. The Spanish Wikipedia policy is different but since I fixed it. Thanks for the warning. --Metrónomo's truth of the day: "That was also done by the president" not an excuse. 00:48, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for your help with upmerging the film by country/year from the CfD. I've replied here about the Infobox_animanga question. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 20:07, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

I think all the Japanese categories are now empty. Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 08:10, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Regarding your edit to Category:Heteroptera stubs of 15 January 2013: Are stub categories automatically placed in their senior (parent) non-stub category? Is this in the instructions somewhere? --Bejnar (talk) 19:40, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Assuming that this is not your area of expertise, who should I ask? ---Bejnar (talk) 02:46, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Stub categories are placed in their non-stub categories using the {{stub category}} template, using the "category" parameter. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 03:51, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. I now see the example at the stub category template. --Bejnar (talk) 07:31, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

I saw that the category "Films released posthumously" was deleted but it still doesn't seem fair, I'd like to know if there is any alternative category that can replace it, that can put it more specifically, and still have the same meaning.--CastellanetaFan (talk) 00:17, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Can somebody please answer? --CastellanetaFan (talk) 02:49, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

There is no other category. Please read the comments at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 December 18#Category:Films released posthumously, where there was a clear consensus to delete the category. Please read the comments there. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 03:58, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Is there really no alternative? --CastellanetaFan (talk) 04:11, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

No, there isn't any. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:44, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

I still wish they hadn't deleted it just because they thought it was "irrelevant" or whatever the word was. In fact I want to recreate it. --06:36, 21 January 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by CastellanetaFan (talk • contribs)

If you think you have a good argument, feel free to take it to WP:Deletion review. That's the appeals process for XFD discussions. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:34, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

No real claim to fame except for being a contestant on Britain's Got Talent and Hungary's Got Talent shows. No indication that he was anything but an also-ran. Looks and smells like vanity, esp. given his webpage at the bottom. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:14, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi sir. You said you deleted the page? But its still there. I would like to move the contents of this article to that article.--AR E N Z O Y 1 6A•t a l k• 04:23, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

You are capable of doing it, as long as the history of the target has precisely 1 revision, which is a redirect to the source. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:26, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

Oh, okay sir. Didn't know that. Thanks! :D --AR E N Z O Y 1 6A•t a l k• 13:37, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

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Hello! While I understand why you reverted my edit, the template {{Egypt-film-director-stub}} should not feed into Category:Egyptian film stubs. The 2 articles that it affects are not about Egyptian films, they are about people who direct Egyptian films, which is already covered by Category:Egyptian people stubs. Removing the third category from the template, prevents those articles from being included in maintenance of {{WikiProject Film}}, which does not cover actors, directors and filmmakers. Those people are covered by adding the parameter |filmbio-work-group=yes to the {{WikiProject Biography}} banner instead. Fortdj33 (talk) 19:40, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

I don't know about WikiProject coverags, but I do know that Category:Foo film director stubs is a child of Category:Foo film biography stubs, which is a child of Category:Foo film stubs. See Category:American film director stubs for a full example. I also know that upmerged stub tags generally feed into a;; ancestor categories which don't have any relevant child already in existance. So since Category:Egyptian film stubs exists, but Category:Egyptian film biography stubs doesn't, the tag should feed into Category:Egyptian film stubs. And your claim that the category is redundant was wrong - a category is only redundant if it, or one of its descendants, appears elsewhere on the page. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 05:15, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Maybe redundant wasn't the proper term to use, but obviously Category:Egyptian film biography stubs hasn't been created, because there aren't enough articles to populate it. However, that doesn't mean those articles automatically belong in the parent category. I understand your logic, and I could maybe understand them going into Category:Egyptian media stubs, but articles about people simply don't belong in a category for films. Fortdj33 (talk) 13:11, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

I'm talking about this one[5]]....William 23:41, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

I am afraid that I used the wrong template to close a debate. As a disinterested sysop, can you fix this, please? Bearian (talk) 23:34, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

I think I fixed it, but please check on it. Bearian (talk) 23:40, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Looks fine to me. And in stead of selecting one admin, you should have asked at WP:AN. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 03:52, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

I just split the category for Reading Railroad bridges and tunnels, but I can't get the earlier category deleted. Then I saw that some railroad bridge and tunnel categories were moved first, rather than split, but I don't know how to do that. In the meantime, I still say splitting Michigan Central Railroad bridges and tunnels creates an obvious Wikipedia:SMALLCAT problem. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 20:42, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Keep in mind that SMALLCAT has exceptions; if you think anything should be deleted because of it, feel free to nominate it at CFD. And the user to delete the emptied categories isn't me (the nominator) - it's BrownHairedGirl, who closed the discussion; I'm not seleting a single category from that list unless she asks me to. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:34, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

WP:SMALLCAT has an exception for categories which are "part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme". That appears to apply here.

I have just deleted Category:Michigan Central Railroad bridges and tunnels now that it has been split. I previously moved two categories, after first splitting out the tunnels. That's just technically easier way of performing the split.

• Category:BNSF Railway bridges and tunnels split to Category:BNSF Railway bridges and Category:BNSF Railway tunnels
• Category:Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridges and tunnels split to Category:Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridges and Category:Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tunnels

A further 2 categories were nominated as not requiring a split, just renaming:

• Category:Boston and Albany Railroad bridges and tunnels to Category:Boston and Albany Railroad bridges (since this category has no tunnels)
• Category:Kansas City Southern Railway bridges and tunnels to Category:Kansas City Southern Railway bridges (since this category has no tunnels)

A further 10 categories listed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 February 6#Bridges_and_tunnels remain to be split. If anyone wants to split out the tunnels from the remaining category, I can rename the residual categories. Less work than doing it all manually. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:46, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

I don't see a move button on any of the categories. Otherwise I'd move them myself. I do want to make new bridge cats and tunnel cats for railroads like Erie, Lackawanna, and New Haven railroads. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 13:02, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

UPDATE - I just split the tunnel cat off from Category:Pennsylvania Railroad bridges and tunnels. I almost did it to New York Central Railroad, but I'll probably do something like Union Pacific Railroad instead. -------User:DanTD (talk) 13:23, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

@DanTD: there is no move button for categories. The articles have to be recategorised individually, which is we have a bot to do it. I will now set the bot to work on Category:Pennsylvania Railroad bridges and tunnels. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:33, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Good. While you're at it, you can get that bot to do NYC and UP too. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 20:43, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

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Thanks for your note! I found it hugely helpful as I was away from Wikipedia for a while and missed the new stubs. I'm going to try to figure out how to add that info to the Museums wikiproject in case others don't know. Actually, with your permission I'd like to copy the note you left me to the project. Thanks again StarM 02:54, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Actually, all on-wiki content is released under a specific license (CC-BY-SA 3.0); in summary, it allows you to copy any content, for any purpose, provided you maintain the licednse (this is obviously kept if you copy it within Wikipedia) and give attribution to the authors; there's no need to ask for permission. This applies not only to articles, but also to discussions and policy pages. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 06:24, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

That's really helpful, thank you. I knew article content was licensed, but I wasn't aware it applied to user space as well. I've included your information here. If there's a link to all the stub tags (I've seen your amazing help throughout my watchlist this week) please let me know so I can also include it. Would love to make stub sorter's lives easier. Thanks again StarM 01:29, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

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Hi, I notice you've recently been adding a lot of new stub templates to Template Redirects. Some of your additions however are replacing the actual template with its redirect; for example, {{BroomeNY-NRHP-stub}} → {{BroomeCountyNY-NRHP-stub}}, {{ClintonNY-NRHP-stub}} → {{ClintonCountyNY-NRHP-stub}}, {{MadisonNY-NRHP-stub}} → {{MadisonCountyNY-NRHP-stub}} etc. It seems to be the stubs involving NRHP, they don't conform to the usual format...

I think the two solutions are either remove those from Template Redirects or 'swap' the redirect and the template (after a discussion?) I don't really know about stub naming policy or template moving so I thought I'd bring it to your attention.Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 13:46, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

There was a discussion, and I've been renaming to include the word "County" in the stub tags - look at my move log. I'll get to these at some point, but for now there are redirects to ensure that AWB users don't break anything by updating these tags to their future names. And the issue isn't about NRHPs - it's about US county-level stub tags, as you can see from my other additions to the section. In fact, I'm currently going over this scan, where I expect to find all the templates I need to move (some of them without a redirect, most with, and fixing the tag afterwards). What brings up the New York NRHPs is the fact that I was also stub-sorting the NY churches, and many of these are NHRPs - so I figured that at the same time, I can start moving these to their proper names. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:19, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi, these two edits shouldn't have been necessary. The first did nothing at all; the second means that the sortkey is now space-asterisk-pagename instead of space-pagename. Stub templates with a blank |tempsort= sorted under space previously, and they still do; so I'm not at all sure why you put an asterisk in. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:23, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Actually, I expected the first to do the trick - but when I checked it out (by null-editing {{US-west-university-stub}} and checking where on the list it was in Category:Western United States university stubs) I saw that it didn't. So I did the second, and that did it. All stub tags sort under space - the question is their internal order; before I did this second edit, {{US-west-university-stub}} was after {{Oregon-university-stub}}. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 02:46, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

The first edit was ineffective because of the way that parser functions like {{#if:}} work - after expanding (and otherwise processing) whatever they enclose, all leading and trailing whitespace is removed. So, by altering

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the space that you added was simply being stripped out again. Stub tags sort under space because there is a space before that {{#if:}} --Redrose64 (talk) 12:09, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

The first edit didn't achieve the goal I had (I didn't know, before I started, that it wouldn't), so I did the second edit. I told you the test (which I believe to be reliable immediately after doing the edit). The second edit did the trick. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:12, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

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Do you plan to send any redirects for deletion after they are orphaned? -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:05, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

I usually don't keep an eye on these. However, I recently happaned to orphan {{NewYorkCity-struct-stub}} (by sorting the NYC structure stub category by borough), and I'm getting lots of "redirects are cheap"-type keep votes - see Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 May 21#Template:NewYorkCity-struct-stub. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 02:41, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

So, what do we earn by replacing them? I am getting troubles because sometimes my bot only replaces templates. Thus, I would like to reduce the list in the things that really do matter and enjoy consensus. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:52, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Back in the days of SFD, they were nearly always deleted once orphaned. (nd the templates I deal with are always at the end, so it's simple to see what's going on there.) You may want to try and bring up the issue at WT:WSS. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 08:44, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Why was Category:Zen stubs deleted? It looks to me like the template Template:Zen-stub goes to that category. I think you did a history merge but I don't see why it wasn't restored. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 05:46, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you - I've fixed it. I probably clicked on the "Restore" button and closed the browse without waiting long enough... עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:30, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi, could you check this diff. I think my rolling back was right.--Ayrıntılı Bilgi (talk) 18:53, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

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I had to do four reverts this morning because these four properties are indeed in Louisville, Kentucky. St. Matthews, Anchorage, Okolona -- they are all in Louisville, Kentucky which is synonymous with Louisville Metro. Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 12:13, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Sorry. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:51, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

I noticed that you recently tagged Template:Euro-bank-stub for RfD, but you placed the RfD tag below the redirect (presumably to avoid breaking transclusions of it). The current preferred method is to wrap the RfD template around the redirect, which causes it to behave correctly whether it's being viewed directly or transcluded. I've updated that particular redirect in that manner. Note that Twinkle will handle this for you if you use it to do the tagging. Jackmcbarn (talk) 04:44, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, I realized that when, more recently, I tagged a different template redirect with Twinkle without thinking about it - {{West-Virginia-geo-stub}}. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:50, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

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To be fair, when I saw how stringly it was opposed, I was surprized it hadn't been SNOWed. I actually did think, when I started the discussion, that it had a chance of succeeding - otherwise I never would have nominated it, that would have been POINT. Any time I make a nomination, I do it because I believe that:L

1. It passing would actually improve Wikipedia, even with no followup. Some times, that may mean that consistantly bad is better than inconsistant.
2. That it nhas a chance of passing, and doesn't contradict any recently established concensus.

Now, the list of disccussions I saw about the Georgia disambiguation said nothing about what I was about to propose - it erfered to what should be disambiguated, not how it should. And I thought I had a decent case there. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 18:26, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi, I know you have done lots of work both with the geo stub templates and on the AWB template redirect page so I thought I'd let you know / ask your advice on the following; on WP:AWB/TR there are a number of redirects that don't seem right;

• {{CoshoctonOH-geo-stub}} → {{CoshoctonOH-geo-stub}}
• {{CoshoctonOH-school-stub}} → {{CoshoctonOH-school-stub}}
• {{YorkPA-geo-stub}} → {{YorkPA-geo-stub}}

They are all not swapping and the third isn't even a redirect.

Also;

• {{RocklandNY-NRHP-stub}} → {{RocklandCountyNY-NRHP-stub}}
• {{SchenectadyNY-NRHP-stub}} → {{SchenectadyCountyNY-NRHP-stub}}
• {{SenecaNY-NRHP-stub}} → {{SenecaCountyNY-NRHP-stub}}
• {{SteubenNY-NRHP-stub}} → {{SteubenCountyNY-NRHP-stub}}
• {{SuffolkNY-NRHP-stub}} → {{SuffolkCountyNY-NRHP-stub}}
• {{SullivanNY-NRHP-stub}} → {{SullivanCountyNY-NRHP-stub}}
• {{TiogaNY-NRHP-stub}} → {{TiogaCountyNY-NRHP-stub}}
• {{WarrenNY-NRHP-stub}} → {{WarrenCountyNY-NRHP-stub}}
• {{YatesNY-NRHP-stub}} → {{YatesCountyNY-NRHP-stub}}

All seem to swap the wrong way i.e. they are swapping from a template to a redirect. Jamesmcmahon0 (talk) 08:52, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

As to the first group, thank you, I have fixed it (and that puts YorkPA in the second group). As to the second, these are redirects which I will eventually reverse (just like I already did with various others, see the others in this edit, for example). עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 18:28, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

And by now I've gotten to the first 2 on this list of reverse entries. I'm going down a list which is at User:Od Mishehu/list1, one nentry at a time - although not all of them are making it to AWB/TR - only the ones which refer to a county, are used on at least 2 pages, and are unambiguous with any location outside the county (unlike {{LosAngelesCA-school-stub}}, for example, which is ambiguous only with a city which is in the county). עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:04, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Was your most recent edit to the ASCII art filter to correct the bug that showed up with these false alarms? --jpgordon^{::==( o )} 00:17, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

It was due to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive264#Calling edit-filter managers. I simply revereted 2 edits - Xaosflux's failed attempt to debug the filter, and an edit by NawlinWiki which caused the false positives listed there. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 02:49, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi-my apologies for the tagging of Brownsville, White County, Illinois article. I wasn't aware that there was a more specific Illinois geography stub. I do need help with the Big Stone County, Minnesota geographic tag. I started 2 articles Foster, Minnesota and Yankeetown, Minnesota and to use the general Minnesota geographic template because there is no Big Stone, Minnesota geography template to use. Would you please create a Big Stone, Minnesota geography template? Thank you-RFD (talk) 12:01, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Actually, {{BigStoneCountyMN-geo-stub}} already exists, as it has since June 2010. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 19:40, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Many thanks for the information about the Big Stone County, Minnesota geo template. I made the changes to the articles stubs.RFD (talk) 11:57, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

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@Od Mishehu:@Altamel:@AddWittyNameHere: I'm not sure if tagging the edits as "possible vandalism" is completely fair. I've observed this behaviour by new users for some time, and was equally frustrated by this annoying practice to try to fool the patrollers. I don't think that's entirely true, though. You'll notice usage of the "Fixed typo" edit summary is almost always when they're editing from the mobile web. Upon further investigation, the mobile interface suggests certain edit summaries. "Fixed typo" is one of them, along with "Added content", which you'll see just as often. I don't know how to navigate to it, but I'm even going to guess the mobile web interface, at least some configuration, has some sort of drop-down menu of common edit summaries to chose from. This would explain the similar formatting of the edit summaries. Following this logic, I don't think we're looking at sly, intentionally misleading edit summaries, but rather they tapped the wrong thing – or they're just plain lazy. The filter may still be useful, I just wouldn't tag it as vandalism. That's my theory... — MusikAnimal ^talk 14:24, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

There are plenty of constructive edits being labeled as vandalism [6] [7] [8] [9]. Perhaps a more appropriate tag could be introduced, such as "possible misleading edit summary". Or, as I've been tempted to do, contact the mobile web developers about this problem. Maybe they could improve the interface to help lessen the misuse of the pre-supplied edit summaries. — MusikAnimal ^talk 14:29, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

I've boldly removed tagging from the filter, for now. Hopefully that's alright, best — MusikAnimal ^talk 14:35, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

After a discussion at #wikimedia-tech, I've filed a report on Bugzilla to tag edits with pre-supplied edit summaries, and to propose ways to lessen the misuse of "Fixed typo" edit summary, in particular. Hopefully we can alleviate this problem. For now, we should probably try to assume good-faith when you see the "Fixed typo" edit summary. Many thanks — MusikAnimal ^talk 15:45, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

@MusikAnimal: OK, I just tried editing from the mobile interface, and at least the version I'm using doesn't have a drop down menu, but it does suggest two edit summaries. Above the ES box bolded text reads "How did you improve the page?". Inside box, there is greyed-out text that says: "Example: Fixed typo, added content". So I suspect MusikAnimal is right along the "just plain lazy" explanation; people are just copying the suggested edit summaries, and in that case "misleading edit summary" would probably be a better tag. But I don't see anything wrong with a filter to tag such edits as long as it isn't warning or disallowing. I always check the diff of flagged edits before reverting; reverting on the basis of a tag alone is far too risky. Altamel (talk) 16:49, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

@Altamel: Looks like this is an issue with the mobile app, not the mobile site, where there are a series of buttons to hit for the edit summary. Hence why you have edit summaries like this. Here the user hit all the buttons. This "canned edit summary" feature, as they call it, is pretty useful, it's just that users end up misclassifying their edits. I'd hold off on creating a new tag until we know what the developers are going to do. — MusikAnimal ^talk 18:35, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

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See [10], [11], and [12]; do you know why it's moving {{National Register of Historic Places}}? It doesn't do that in most edits; [13] is much more typical. I'm not complaining; just thought you might want to know if it's not behaving properly. Nyttend (talk) 04:09, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

I thought that it was simply placing multiple navboxes on the same line... Actually, I just checked more closely what it was doing, and the answer is as follows: I have a regex replacer that adds a category to the same line as the first navbox; AWB's genfixes, afterwards, removes the category and the newline character to the category sectiojn, leaving both navboxes on the same line. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:24, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

But I'm still confused — why doesn't it move all of the navboxes, and why does it move just some of them? Nyttend (talk) 04:38, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

It simply removed a newline character after a regex find-and-replace added a category on te same line. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:39, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

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Hi Od Mishehu. You commented here that the user was unblocked per a request on their talk page. I couldn't see this; LogFTW has never been unblocked. Could you be referring to someone else? Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 20:21, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

I can't find it now,. but I'm sure I sae it earlier. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 22:51, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2014_September_24#Template:BluegrassKY-stub. – Fayenatic London 08:01, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

OK, I've deleted Template:BluegrassKY-stub now. – Fayenatic London 16:54, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

In following up on the November 10 close, I noticed that we also have Category:Biota which breaks down into US states in a few cases. Don't know if this also needs a discussion or there may be other issues. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:58, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Since these categories weren't tagged, they need a separate discussion. Note that Guam and Hawaii should stay out of that one. The empty ones are probably C1 cases. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:05, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

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Hi Od Mishehu, I have recently returned to sorting stubs and have a few proposals for new categories at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals which are not just following existing splits that I would like some one to have a look over and check I am not going against the grain on any of them. I have already created some from proposals that I nominated but as these are completly new splits I would prefer someone else to say yes before I create them. Also thanks for the note regarding the renaming of Category:American football running back, pre-1910 birth stubs I have commented on the proposal with a slightly different idea. What do you think, it may mean doing the same on the other American football position biography stubs but should save on renaming in the future. Waacstats (talk) 11:26, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

I used Twinkle to nominate the category for renaming - and you just happenned to be the author of it at the time, since I had previously merged the old history. I went through your proposals and commented where I had something to say. As to your suggestion about the rename here - I think that this should be done, if at all, throughout the entire Category:American sportspeople stubs tree. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:27, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Mish, please have a look at Clifford Aboagye, which was previously deleted per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clifford Aboagye and then re-deleted a couple times after that. Please check if this is the same article that was deleted earlier, or if the situation has changed (that is, maybe he meets sportspeople notability now?). Thanks. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 04:01, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Since I deleted the article already, I refuse to be the person who makes the G4 decision here. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 05:24, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

You wrote:

Strong oppose - merely having reached some number of edits, combined with a particular amount of time editing, (even adding in the complete lack of blocks) doesn't mean that you understand the relevant policies for being an admin. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 21:42, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

So, when you vandalized Wikipedia with alternate account User:Ata tipesh, does THAT indicate your understanding of the relevant policies for being an admin? I did not kill Mufasa (talk) 04:06, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

I had nothing to do with [[User:Ata tipesh]; a different user tagged a mpage created by this user for deletion, andd I found the user and blocked him/her as a result. So stop saying that I vandalized wikipedia with that account. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:39, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

Funny you should ask, I just put in the report: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Okip. Also, they're confirmed self-admitted to some of them (see the user page), though it doesn't quite violate WP:ILLEGIT. And for exactly why I waited so long, this popped up on my user talk today. Thanks for pushing out ideas about new editor retention, by the way, but it's unfortunate that it had to be in this particular thread. ansh666 19:00, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

@Ansh666: I believe in the statement of Maimonides that "[O]ne should accept the truth from whatever source it proceeds". What do you think about my description of the problem, and my possible partial solutions to it? עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:19, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Sam Walton (talk) 21:43, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Hey Od Mishehu! I am attempting to work on the map, however from your request, it is hard for me to understand visually want to add. First of, what is the colour of the 'Jerusalem to Tel Aviv' line. Secondly could you provide me a high res external map so I could have a better look at things. Thanks, ///EuroCarGT 23:00, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

The best external map I can give you is the official map on the company's web site - here. And the Jerusalem to Tel Aviv line is the pink line which goes to the right (east) of the main line, just below (south of) Lod. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 16:07, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for correcting the auto filter! Lucentcalendar (talk) 07:29, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

I note that this category Category:Africa Cup of Nations was renamed from “African Nations Cup” in 2010 (ref CFD 20 January 2010). However while the year categories for 2006 to 2017 (7) became Category: 2006 Africa Cup of Nations, the earlier year categories from 1957 to 2004 (24; plus their subcategories) are African not Africa Cup of Nations eg Category: 2004 African Cup of Nations. Was this intentional? This became apparent when I was adding a navbox to the categories back to 2000 for navigation to other years in the decade eg see Category: 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. Quite a few categories still to do (?) of course. Hugo999 (talk) 10:57, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

To quote the nomination: "The competition has been known as the Africa Cup of Nations since 2006". We generally use the current name for any overview-level of the topic, and the name which was used at the time for topics covering a specific time frame. For example, look at the contents of categories like Category:Minnesota Twins seasons, Category:Los Angeles Dodgers seasons, Category:San Francisco Giants seasons. If you want any specific information on the issue, try talking to users who deal with these articles. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:25, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

OK, thanks for explanation Hugo999 (talk) 01:20, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Hey Od Mishehu, I noticed you closed this discussion. However, the empty categories still exist so apparently something went wrong while closing. Yesterday I started tagging the empty categories for speedy delete, but I'm not sure if this is the right procedure. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:23, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi there! I noticed you closed some of the other CfD discussions, so I was hoping you could have a look at one I nominated. Apologies if I'm going to the wrong place. I nominated the Category:Briton deities and its two subcategories (gods and goddesses) for renaming. It seems we've basically arrived at Category:Deities of the ancient Britons as the consensus name. What needs to happen next? Q·L·1968 ☿ 21:16, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

As the nominator, you wait for an uninvolved admin to close it (although if more comments are added while you're waiting, feel free to respond). If there's a consensus to rename, the admin will either rename it manually, or ask the CFD bot to handle it. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 21:20, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Great—thanks for your response! Q·L·1968 ☿ 23:07, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Hi, you have been added to the list of participants at Wikipedia:WikiProject History Merge since you prominently feature on the Merge log, as well as to keep the list from being empty. You are, of course, free to remove yourself, if you so wish! Thanks, SD0001 (talk) 14:20, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Good work on adding it to infoboxes, but could you link it to the election like all previous Knesset links? Cheers, Number 57 14:30, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

I intend to fix the others, too - the links should be to the Knesset data, not the election data. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:31, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Should it? It's always been to the election. Maybe worth discussing at Template talk:Infobox Member of the Knesset. Number 57 14:36, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

I started doing this from the top of the list (Benjamin Netanyahu, where the infobox is at the beginning of the Early political career: 1988–1996 section), where they're all by knesset number; when I noticed it a few MKs later, it see,ed obvious to me that Bibi's page is right and the others are wrong. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:47, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

I've never seen it done like the one on Netanyahu's article – this would be one of the few I've not edited – I guess it was added by someone unfamiliar with the usual pattern. Number 57 14:48, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

The logic of this, IMO, is that the main thing is not the election - it's being in the Knesset; since we have pages for both, I think we should link to the latter, not the former. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:52, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

@Number 57: I've started the discussion you suggested - see Template talk:Infobox member of the Knesset#Should we link to the election page or the list of members of that Knesset?. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:54, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

I disabled Special:AbuseFilter/358 as it hasn't hit anything since December. Dragons flight (talk) 17:58, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi, following this edit, please note that CydeBot is not removing templates after renames at the moment, so we have to do it manually. (I just did that set for you.) Cyde is aware of the problem and working on it. – Fayenatic London 20:31, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

@Fayenatic london:FYI, you may want to use WP:CFDWR if you have a big CFD closure you want to deal with. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 20:33, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, good point. – Fayenatic London 20:36, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

The trouble is that it gives the edit summary "Result of CFD discussion was Keep; removing CFD template(s)", which is misleading after a rename. – Fayenatic London 13:31, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

As a temporary workaround, this may be better than leaving these no-longer necessary cfr tags. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:43, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Just noticed this, but categories like Category:Grade II listed public houses in Wales‎ probably should have been left alone as these are an official designation. Vegaswikian 20:40, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

If you think so, feel free to nominate these for renaming back. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 03:44, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

It looks like you made a mistake, when you processed some categories from WP:CFDS. For some reason [[:Category:South Alabama Jaguars and Lady Jaguars]] to [[:Category:South Alabama Jaguars]] wasn't added to WP:CFDW yet. Could you fix this? (I would do it myself, but AWB doesn't work on Android.) Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:07, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

 Done. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 19:56, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi, You participated in the previous Persondata RfC. I just wanted to notify you that a new RfC regarding the methodical removal of Persondata is taking place at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). Thanks, —Msmarmalade (talk) 08:00, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

An article that you have been involved in editing—Robert Hall Baker—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. BsherrAWBBOT (talk) 18:55, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Packerfansam (talk) 04:53, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

A year ago, you were the 904th recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:21, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Hi, congratulations on making the nomination at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_May_1#Churches/Church_buildings, and on achieving a consensus.

You said you'd come back for some sub-trees, presumably including Category:Catholic church buildings. Thanks for being willing to see through such a big set of changes. – Fayenatic London 10:17, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

OM, let me know if you received my test email, sent through the Wikipedia email system about 23:30 EDT (3:30 UTC). Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 03:33, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1:As of right now, I haven't gotten it. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 05:06, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 13:38, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1:The email system seems to be working again, although I still didn't get your email. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 16:53, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

OM, I will try to send you an email through the system now. Should be an interesting test because I do use an old Yahoo account to receive Wikipedia email. Thanks for following up on this. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 16:55, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

@Dirtlawyer1:Didn't get it. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 02:42, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

OM, I'm tired of swimming upstream against a Wikipedia email system that clearly is incompatible with Yahoo mail at present. Are there any particular web-based email providers with which Wikipedia email seems to function well at present? If so, I will simply create a new account and have that email forwarded to one of my existing personal accounts. Please let me know . . . I do appreciate your help. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 03:04, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Okay, OM, I've created a new Gmail account to serve as my replacement Wikpedia email account. To confirm this works, I have just sent you another email through the Wikipedia email system. Please let me know if you receive it. Thanks for your help. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 13:26, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Good morning! If I remember correctly, you have been closing CfD discussions in the past. Would you be willing to do that again? It would be very helpful if you could, taking in mind the enormous backlog there is, related to a shortage of experienced Wikipedians who are willing to close CfDs. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:39, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi, as a user in the edit filter manager user group we wanted to let you know about the new wikipedia-en-editfilters mailing list. As part of our recent efforts to improve the use of edit filters on the English Wikipedia it has been established as a venue for internal discussion by edit filter managers regarding private filters (those only viewable by administrators and edit filter managers) and also as a means by which non-admins can ask questions about hidden filters that wouldn't be appropriate to discuss on-wiki. As an edit filter manager we encourage you to subscribe; the more users we have in the mailing list the more useful it will be to the community. If you subscribe we will send a short email to you through Wikipedia to confirm your subscription, but let us know if you'd prefer another method of verification. I'd also like to take the opportunity to invite you to contribute to the proposed guideline for edit filter use at WP:Edit filter/Draft and the associated talk page. Thank you! Sam Walton (talk) and MusikAnimal ^talk 18:22, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed that you closed the top one at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 September 29 as Rename to Category:Metal detecting, but implemented it as Category:Metal detection. – Fayenatic London 22:49, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, I fixed the problem. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:14, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

You are being contacted because you contributed to a recent discussion of MOS:IDENTITY that closed with the recommendation that Wikipedia's policy on transgender individuals be revisited.

Two threads have been opened at the Village Pump:Policy. The first addresses how the Manual of Style should instruct editors to refer to transgender people in articles about themselves (which name, which pronoun, etc.). The second addresses how to instruct editors to refer to transgender people when they are mentioned in passing in other articles. Your participation is welcome. Darkfrog24 (talk) 02:42, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

I have undid the move of Kodocha per WP:COMMONNAME because that is the English title of the work and the one used by reliable English-language sources. —Farix (t | c) 11:25, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Tell Magicperson6969, not me. Magicperson6969 did a cut&paste move, I just history-merged it. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 18:06, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Can you please respond to this report? The user is claiming something about Chinese, so you would be bettter at responding here. The attempted edit can be seen here. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 03:32, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Your report is justified and that attempted edit is abusive and unjustified with bad words. Thanks.--Jusjih (talk) 20:48, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

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Since you deleted Category:User en-0 some time back as a G4 recreation, I'd appreciate your opinion at WP:VP/Pr#Category:User en-0, which is basically a proposal to resurrect the category. Nyttend (talk) 14:36, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi, is it really necessary to hide revisions containing offensive usernames from five ears ago? When something is buried that deep in the history of a heavily edited page, it's generally best to just leave it to avoid drawing more attention to it. Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 23:13, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Just as necessary as hiding them in the block log, or as hiding the deletion of the user pages; the decision to hide the relevant log entries was made by other users - in this case, The Earwig. In fact, merely the presence of a revdel-ed block log attracts attention to USS for anyone who knos how Wikipedia works. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 03:54, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

@HJ Mitchell: I deleted a handful of old talk pages of hardblocked users with names attacking specific individuals a couple weeks ago under G10. Said pages were publicly categorized and readily accessible—I actually found them through this thread. There's no reason to keep these around (in our database dumps, mirrors, etc), as I'm sure you'll agree, and many of them did not even belong to real users anymore. In deleting, the attacks resurface at the front of the deletion log, so I deleted those under the revdel policy's log redaction criterion. I don't have much of an opinion about removing old revisions from UAA—it's less important, surely, but justifiable. I don't see the Streisand effect applying when this stuff is admin-only; the usernames are not ridiculously awful, just crude and offensive, so any passing admins aren't going to learn much aside from the fact that someone in 2010 said "[User] sucks c0ck" or whatever. — Earwig ^talk 04:24, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

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Wishing Od Mishehu/Archive15 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! FiendYT 19:53, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

The Phase II RfC was reopened as it had been closed early. A few sections had SNOW closed, but the RfC itself is still running. Worm^TT(talk) 15:56, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

...For the prompt reply to my false positive report here, and for making the edit in question. I know (well, suspect) that looking through a bunch of complaints can be kind of thankless, so for what it's worth, here's a cookie:

"Awarded for excellence in filtration." - 21/12/2015

206.223.166.51 (talk) 18:38, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

-- Ricky81682 (talk) 08:11, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed you closed this CfD discussion as delete. Is it possible to retrieve which subcategories were in the deleted category? Because these subcategories may need to be re-parented to one or more parent categories of the deleted category in order not to become orphans. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:59, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

In general, no. In this case, since I can figure out which user emptied the category (Cydebot, who was also the deleting admin) and when (shortly before 8:47 UTC on December 30th, which I figured out based on the deletion log), I could get you the list - I believe that they're all on this page. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 07:43, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! Marcocapelle (talk) 07:38, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Please see WP:AN#How to handle a BLO violation?. This edit on he-Wiki needs to be oversighted. Can you please file a request at the equivalent of AN on he-Wiki, pointing back to the discussion I linked above. Mjroots (talk) 21:11, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Other Wikipedias aren't bound by our policies, rules, consensus, etc. Feel free to contact Amire80, Aviados, DGtal, Botend, Damzow or MathKnight, , Hebrew wiki admins who speak English. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 21:56, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Have asked DGtal on his he-Wiki talk page. Hopefully it'll get nuked, have managed to get all other wikis to accede to that request. Mjroots (talk) 22:14, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

Got an alert at he-wiki, but can't make head nor tail of it. Possibly I got reverted. :(. Mjroots (talk) 22:18, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

I want to understand what exactly you want done. hewiki policy is not to add lists of victims to disasters, terror incidents etc. and to mention in name only notable people "worthy" of an article (exceptions can be found here and there). Do you )Mjroots request that I delete the names of victims from talk page? DGtal (talk) 22:50, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

@DGtal: Yes, I'm asking for oversight of that edit I linked to above. None of the victims are notable enough to sustain an article as far as I know. There is a strong possibility that these are not victims, but living people. Mjroots (talk) 22:54, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

@Mjroots:We didn't have our revisions oversighted, just hidden from anyone less than an admin; the page you linked to was, in fact, hidden at that level. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:10, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

There seem to be problems with the outcome of Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 February 10#Media by country. See for instance:

• Category:Media in Brazilia
• Category:Media in Gambian
• Category:Media in German

Are these non-English names for, presumably, Brazil etc.; or are they language names? If the latter, surely Category:Media in German language would have been better. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:22, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

That's the problem with mass-cfd listings - there will frequently be mistakes, and they tend to be missed. Let me know if you find any others. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 21:26, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

See here what Wwikix did to my question. - Robotje (talk) 11:54, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Noted. I think we may need to report this user for his general category-related activities - manually renaming and merging, specifically. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:51, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

You put the you have mail template on my page, yet I have no email from you. What was it you wanted to talk about? The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 21:26, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

I sent you an email explaining the vandalism message you got. The user who issued that warning is an impostor, using the name "Bishonem", making you think it's "Bishonen" (in fact, this user copied the user page and user talk page of the said admin). The impostor issued similar warnings to several users who were active around that time (including me), and once the user was blocked, (s)he made an unblck request stating that (s)he wasn't done vandalizing yet. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 21:33, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

I was looking at edit filter you made, and I think you did a great job on it. However, I feel that there are some phrases that should be included in the filter.

phrases:

<list redacted>

I hope that this list helps you develop this edit filter,

thanks, Happy Attack Dog (talk) 17:17, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

1. This isn't my filter. I merely tweaked it so that, if problematic words were already present, the filter wouldn't disallow the edit over them.
2. Please don't make these word lists public, since vandals can see them here.
3. I think that at least some of these words are already caught by other filters.

עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 03:09, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

This is probably not a "false" positive, as the IP has already been blocked twice in the last few days for trolling. But maybe let this one play out, for now. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:09, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

To be fair, when I saw the question, it looked to me like one I, personally, would like to see an answer to. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 18:10, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Well, there's no such thing as a Jewish race or a Palestinian race. There obviously are some genetic variations within relatively in-bred populations, for example the greater incidence of Reynaud's among Jewish women. But these ethnic groups are not "races". ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:20, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

I have seen it claimed that there is some evidence of "genetic race", although they are nowhere near pure. For example, there are many gens that appear primarily in specific races. See, for example, Tay–Sachs disease, which has "an increased disease prevalence in Ashkenazi Jewish people". עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 18:21, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Traditionally there are only about five "races". Hitler called Jews a "race", which may have been a fairly common usage then, but Jews are generally part of the "white" race. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:25, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing my unblock request. I just wanted to let you know that I'm sorry and I'm here to help! Maybe I'll become an administrator one day. Imsorryandreformed (talk) 04:58, 5 May 2016 (UTC) Imsorryandreformed (talk) 04:58, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi there. I notice you've been adding "Category:Railway stations located underground" to several subway stations in Toronto. The other subway stations in Toronto are in the parent category "Category:Toronto Transit Commission stations". I'm not sure why you're breaking the style? Thanks. Magnolia677 (talk) 00:07, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Many of the stations under Category:Toronto Transit Commission stations are located underground, but not all. I've started to add the underground Toronto stations to Category:Railway stations located underground, but haven't finished yet. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 02:52, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

As you commented on WP:IBE RfC Grant exemptions to users in good standing on request, you may wish to also comment on my alternative proposal, WP:IBE RfC Automatically grant IPBE to users by proof of work alone . Sai ¿?✍ 11:40, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

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Category:Child education organizations, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Rathfelder (talk) 09:12, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Hi OM - any chance you could have a second look at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2016_June_25#Category:Nelson.2C_New_Zealand_geography_stubs? Grutness...wha? 03:06, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

Three years ago ...

stub sorting
... you were recipient no. 904 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:15, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi OM - I hope you might be able to work out/explain what's happening at the Stub proposal page. I added a new proposal on the July subpage, and it appears when you open that subpage - but it's not appearing on the main stub proposal page. I thought it might be a problem with my browser cache, but I cleared that and still nada. Any ideas? Grutness...wha? 14:39, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

It shows up for me. It may have been related to the Wikipedia cache, which some times falls behind on transcluded pages. If you still don't see it, try asking at WP:VPT. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:56, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

@Grutness: Once you have edited a monthly subpage, return to Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals and carry out a WP:PURGE. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:30, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Cheers. Grutness...wha? 01:55, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

I am Talmud student. I benefited from this article: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic. Why this revert? without knowledge in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic you can not read the Talmud Babli. Why do you do that ? Greetings to user:Od Mishehu --EthanLc (talk) 12:48, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

You need to ask the user who did the revert, Schulhofpassage. The reason this user gave is that the edits which were being reverted were done by a user who was banned from editing. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 20:34, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Category:Maine religious building and structure stubs, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you.

Dawynn (talk) 11:41, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Category:Maine church stubs, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you.

Dawynn (talk) 11:41, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Hey, just a heads up that I'm waiting on Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval#BU_RoBOT_25 to further tackle the moth stub category refinement. I threw the population template on Category:Depressariinae stubs just so it wouldn't be brought to CfD, but I definitely will get around to populating the category as soon as I have the approval to do so with automation. ~ Rob₁₃^Talk 22:08, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

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Category:Proposed radio stations, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Bearcat (talk) 03:00, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Hello Od Mishehu, a discussion regarding a new bot task related to WP:CFD is open at: Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SSTbot 2. I thought you may have some insight that could help the discussion. If you are interested, please stop by and comment. Thank you, — xaosflux ^Talk 23:52, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

I apologize, but i felt that the article was indeed created too soon as we have nothing confirmed for the 2017-season, but fair enough CGM 20 (talk) 06:06, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Are you sure about this. They link to wikipedia but that is not where the overlap is. The article was created today with two sections are directly copied from their website. http://www.arakan.com.au/history-of-arakan-martial-art-6.aspx and http://www.arakan.com.au/what-is-arakan-martial-art-5.aspx. This is a very clear copyvio in my opinion. I found the page heavily promotional but that is another issue.Peter Rehse (talk) 19:03, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

I found the first couple paragraphs of our article; followed by a link to an other page and a copy of that; I didn't look any farther than that. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 19:06, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

I think it is a clear copypaste to wikipedia.Peter Rehse (talk) 19:10, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Hello Od Mishehu. A long time ago (2007) it looks like you were fixing up links to archived ANIs. This seems like an obvious good idea. I have a dim memory of seeing at the time that somebody was fixing these, but apparently it no longer continues. How come? Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 17:36, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

It's a lot of work to find the few links which actually refer to a section, then find where that section is archived, and fix the link. It was all manual work, no reasonable way to automate it. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:40, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

From a blue-sky computer science point of view, it seems that it should be possible to make all WP links be permanent links, from creation onward. One can always dream. EdJohnston (talk) 17:48, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

But you generally don't want them to be permanent links for the time they were posted - either permanent links to the last time they were changed before it was archived, or to the archived version; either of those requires manual work. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:55, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Permanent to the archived version of the thread -- assuming it could be done. A small matter of programming, surely :-) EdJohnston (talk) 18:03, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

It would take a significant amount of time for me to learn to interface with the Wikipedia API first - I have never written anything like that. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 18:10, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi. Two years ago you added a lot of stub template redirects to AWB's corresponding page. Like this for example. What is the reason behind it? Is there a plan to delete the redirects at some point? Since the redirects follow the "-stub" rule there is no benefit for AWB's general fixes whether they are removed or not.-- Magioladitis (talk) 06:32, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

There had been a consensus at WikiProject Stub Sorting to use AWB to help remove stub tag redirects over time; back when stub types used their own deletion process (WP:Stub types for deletion), we kept having these stub tag redirects deleted. Since then, others have been deleted - either as G6 (e.g {{Russian-bio-stub}}), or under RFD (see, for example, Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2014 June 2#Template:Alien-stub). עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:40, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

OK perfect then. You can check that many of them are orphan! You may want to start tagging them for deletion. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:47, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

Feel free to delete any completely unused from the County batches (any where the only difference between the source and target is the "County" part). Many of them were orphaned only because they were listed. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 18:14, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

I think all stub redirects can be deleted. But I need you to double-check. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:48, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

I deleted everything. Only removal from the page is needed. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:19, 10 September 2016 (UTC)

Hello, I noticed where when doing some category merges (eg Marvin Barnes) you added the category "American basketball players." I just wanted to make you aware that this category is a holding category only, all players should be in either of "American men's basketball players" or "American womens basketball players." I was not a proponent of splitting the category by gender, but that is the consensus the community reached. Just wanted to make you aware. Rikster2 (talk) 14:51, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Actually, I wasn't aware of this. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 15:59, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

that I think (or is it a feeling?) might be interested in the discussion going on here based on their past insolvent with this category. Category talk:Sculptures by artist. Stop by and see what you . . . . well . . .... think or feel. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 20:41, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

Could you please protect Template:Taxonomy/Felis? The page history shows repeated vandalism, which affects important articles. Thanks. Peter coxhead (talk) 17:42, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Over 1 instance of vandalism a month, I don't think it needs protection. And FYI, the best place to ask for protection is at WP:RFPP. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 02:43, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Ok; I just happened to notice you protecting other "Template:Taxonomy/..." pages, so thought you might have an interest in this. The problem with vandalism to these pages is that changes can affect many articles, but the pages themselves have few if any watchers. Peter coxhead (talk) 06:20, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

I've been pritecting templates with 600+ transclusions; Template:Taxonomy/Felis only has 5. And you may be interested in Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Taxonomy templates, which would allow you to keep track of changes to all tese templates. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 20:40, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Hi. I've noticed that you have recently changed taxobox to speciesbox in several animal articles. Please can I ask why you are doing this. I'm not necessarily against the changes, I am just wondering what is the motivation behind the changes. DrChrissy ^(talk) 21:12, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

One of the ajor problems wit the old taxonomy system is the fact that, to change a single detail, you may need to do a whole lot of edits. The fact thaty no one actually handles this in an organized way means that, in the end, you have many inconsistancies amoung the taxoboxes in a single group. The automatic taxobox system is one which wwould significantly reduce this problem. For example, let's take the hypothetical situation that scientists end up deciding to group rodents and lagomorphs in a new order (each of these is currently an order), with a new name. Under the old system, each article on a rodent taxon or a logomorph taxon would need to be edited individually; since there are (by a printed reliable source I have at home, probably outdated by now - the numbers have probably gone up) about 2000 modern species of rodent, this would be a major task to get done. Under the new system, only a few edits would need to be done. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 03:07, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the explanation. You might be interested in this current conversation Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life#Reptiliae or Aves?. DrChrissy ^(talk) 16:38, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Here, by the way, is a perfect axample of the reason. Let's say that for now we decide, based on scientific usage, to use class Aves for birds; and then several years from now we end up deciding to change this. Would we want to go and fix every single article about bird taxons, or just a handful of higher-level taxonomy templates? I would definitely say the latter. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 16:50, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Yes, I see your point entirely. DrChrissy ^(talk) 17:34, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

I'm a strong supporter of the automated taxobox system (and I spend quite a bit of my time fixing errors in it). The main argument is consistency among Wikipedia articles. However, we should be wary of over-selling the idea of not needing to fix every single article when taxonomies change. This is fine when the changed taxon is sufficiently high level not to be mentioned in the article, but taxa closer to the topic of the article (e.g. families or superfamilies in a genus article) are often discussed in the article, so changing the taxobox is only one step: the article still needs to be checked. Peter coxhead (talk) 17:46, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

This, of course, only applies to close taxa - my examples above are specificly about more distantr taxa. To take an other example: Cetaceans (a group that can reasonably be defined as the smallest clade containing whales and dolphins) were once classified as their own order of ammmals. Now they are classified as an Infraorder of Artiodactyla/Cetartiodactyla (the former was used to refer to what was believed to be the clade of all animals with cloven hooves; it was later expanded when Cetaceans were discovered to belong to this clade, and the "Cet" at the beginning is used to clarify this fact). This, of course, would require lots of taxobox work, which had only been done partly; but no article work at all except for Cetacea, its immediate child taxons (Archaeoceti, Baleen whale, Toothed whale), Evolution of cetaceans, a few articles on the Artiodactyla group (Whippomorpha, Cetancodontamorpha, Cetruminantia, Hippopotamidae, Even-toed ungulate), and perhaps some articles on the mammal/Theria/Eutheria/Laurasiatheria range. In fact, there was probably more work done on creating new articles and modifying those articles which didn't need any taxobox changes, than on the prose of articles which did. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 19:45, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Sure, changes generally work fine for distant taxa. Peter coxhead (talk) 21:57, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day, Od Mishehu, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Lepricavark (talk) 14:31, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

You deleted this category few weeks ago, but many pages depend on it. Maybe create a redirect? 80.221.159.67 (talk) 03:49, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

I think I've fixed up all the pages which epend on it. If you find any others, please either fix them yourself or ask me to. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:11, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Please see Template talk:Anglicise rank. Category:Taxonomy templates using invalid rank parameters was (and right now still is) full of a very large number of perfectly correct templates that have a parent with an incorrect rank value, making it misleading, regardless of the heading re subtaxa. I have now fixed this, I think. Peter coxhead (talk) 10:38, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Update: I moved the category to Category:Taxonomy templates using unrecognized rank parameters, since the rank may not necessarily be invalid, just not yet in {{Anglicise rank}}. It's mostly empty now as I been fixing the incorrect rank values. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:15, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

To be fair, I needed some quick-and-easy way to find the many taxonomy templates which had been created with the wrong taxon name before I set it up; now that it's been mostly handled, there will probably be many fewer tempkates which go there. What orignally got me looking for these was finding family- and order-ranked taxons missing from taxoboxes, and then discovering that one of them was labeles "family" in stead of "familia". עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 14:36, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Oh, my comment wasn't intended as any criticism of your initial action at all, merely as a refinement. The whole exercise you started has been extremely valuable in my view, and I've been happy to sort out the taxonomy templates – the state of many has long bugged me.

How do you feel about deleting those which are wrongly set up and not used? For example, those at English names when there is one at the correct scientific name, or those set up for species which aren't needed (because unless the species links to a sub-genus taxon, {{Speciesbox}} should be used, and it picks up the genus from the binomial. So far I've tended to just blank them – occasionally I've used {{db}}, but in the past I've found that formally proposing them for discussion and deletion isn't very satisfactory, because few discussants seem to understand what they do or how they should be set up. Would you be happy to delete some if I give you a list? Peter coxhead (talk) 19:14, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

I certainly think we should delete them, although I don't believe theyt;re covered by any current CSDs. I've made a few nominations at TFD. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 19:35, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

So you think we should list hundreds at TfD? (For example, there are currently over 1,000 with |rank=species of which, if my experience to date is a guide, 90-95% aren't needed once the article is changed to use {{Speciesbox}} rather than {{Automatic taxobox}}. Um... I feel more like just carrying on blanking them. Peter coxhead (talk) 19:41, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Hi Od Mishehu, regarding MediaWiki:titleblacklist-custom-double-category-prefix, may we change [[:Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] to [[:{{FULLPAGENAME}}]] to generalize its usage? I've recently requested some additional double namespace prefixes to be added to the blacklist, so the scope of this message may change. (per WP:MULTI, please comment on that thread if you had concerns.) — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 17:58, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

not sure what you are talking about with respect to "blocked user" identification? - if you have been following the current portal for a number of years you would know exactly which user is the blocked one - these days it goes without saying since it is so obvious - geolocate the anon ip and you will find the location to be near Kalamazoo michagan = what admin Rubin long ago termed and ad infinitum reverted without even bothering to make a statement "the Michigan kid" = Rubin long ago gave him a permanent ban and yet he just comes back under another sock anon ip to post--98.167.194.3 (talk) 07:27, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

here is one of those revert of blocked bad user https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2015_January_1&diff=640593412&oldid=640592564--98.167.194.3 (talk) 07:49, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/99.112.214.216--98.167.194.3 (talk) 07:56, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

and this one which you were interested in recently http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/69.58.42.90--98.167.194.3 (talk) 07:58, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Merely the fact that these 2 IP addresses are from the same part of Michigan and edit subpages of Portal:Current events isn't enough of a reason to call them the same person. Can you give me better evidence than that? עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:28, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

it was enough for Arthur Rubin for years to revert "thousands" of edits by this banned user and from what I can see he finally just gave up with that permanently banned editor now wielding free reign and laughing at all you admins.--98.167.194.3 (talk) 21:26, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

I should probably say something else - by wiki's own rules a banned user who posts is doing WP:block evasion and thereby can be (1) immediately reverted, (2) no need for a reason, and finally and most importantly, (3) to assist a banned user is also a violation of wiki rules and is also a bannable offence.--98.167.194.3 (talk) 21:36, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

All what you said about Wikipedia policy is true - provided that you have the name of an account of this sockpuppeteer, and a reasonable way to identify an account as belonging to this person - merely a narrow area of interest and editing from a small part of Michigan isn't enough for that. Please either file a report at Sockpuppet investigations, or suply me with the evidence so that I can do so. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 04:08, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

See there is the rub - you say file a sock investigation--98.167.194.3 (talk) 09:59, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

far as I can see Arthur got tired of filing those useless things "each and every day" for the Michigan kid--98.167.194.3 (talk) 09:59, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

to do so implies that we are all just robots and we have no higher goal in life then just to track down deviants and bring them to justice--98.167.194.3 (talk) 10:00, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

I for myself did not come to wiki to do such things--98.167.194.3 (talk) 10:00, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

I can guarantee that I don't plan to spend each every day writing up sock puppet investigations--98.167.194.3 (talk) 10:01, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

i'm here to read an encyclopedia and at times when I think my personal experiences warrant something that might be helpful on subjects that I can be helpful on--98.167.194.3 (talk) 10:01, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

you wished to be an admin "i for one never wish to do so"--98.167.194.3 (talk) 10:02, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

if you wish wiki to become a bias pushing propaganda tool for deviants like the Michigan kid telling me to file a useless sock investigation is the perfect direction--98.167.194.3 (talk) 10:02, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

what you will end up ultimately is all the deviants still here and well the rest of us will just read wiki from afar and draw our own personal conclusions about what we read and it's veracity--98.167.194.3 (talk) 10:03, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

woo to those readers who came to a quote unquote this encyclopedia--98.167.194.3 (talk) 10:03, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

with a limited knowledge set--98.167.194.3 (talk) 10:04, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

and will sufer--98.167.194.3 (talk) 10:06, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

from what you will produce for them to use--98.167.194.3 (talk) 10:06, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Please either leave this suspected sockpuppet alone, or make a case that there is actually sockpuppetry here, including links to similar edits done by the account and the IP address. I'm sure that Arthur Rubin would have been able to make a good case back in January 2015, although he may have forgotten the dertails by now. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 02:46, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

Nonsense. The IP in question is either the banned user or someone making edits suggested by the banned user. I lean toward the latter, as he's using real edit summaries, this time.

A sock puppet report is inappropriate. If this were not obvious, filing a "long term abuse" report might be required. I've blocked the "Michigan kid" IP for 12 months; the last block I've seen of a relatively stable instance of this banned user was for 5 years. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 04:56, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Category:Central-Leatherstocking, New York geography stubs, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. MB 20:46, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

Hi Od Mishehu/Archive15, I was surprised to see that you decided to delete Category:Cardiovascular disease deaths after participants (including the nominator user:Marcocapelle ) in that wp:CfD all voted in favour of diffusing, not deleting. I wonder if I may ask how you arrived at your delete decision. I would appreciate a response on my talkpage. Thanks in advance, Ottawahitech (talk) 15:40, 29 October 2016 (UTC)please ping me

• For reference, it is about this discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:47, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
  • @Marcocapelle:Looking back at this discussion, 10 months after the closure, I don't understand it myseelf. I can tell you, though, that the contents are listed at this list of Cydebot's edits. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:26, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
  • Od Mishehu/Archive15,@Marcocapelle: Just wanted to mention I tried to create a new category Category:Deaths from heart failure which would have been a subcategory of Category:Cardiovascular disease deaths, but this one had also been deleted. Ottawahitech (talk) 15:10, 3 November 2016 (UTC) please ping me

Hello,

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Block user:Bush did 711 time 4 troof. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:3357:BA0:956:DAF8:4C58:ACE3 (talk) 03:49, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi Od Mishehu.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi there,

I wanted to let you know that an administrative action that you performed has been brought up in this discussion that you may want to comment on. Thanks, VegaDark (talk) 00:10, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Wishing Od Mishehu/Archive15 a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Mz7 (talk) 04:13, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

What should we do with these redirects after they are orphaned? Delete them? -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:45, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Probably, I just nominated the first one at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2016 December 15#Template:Protected Areas of the United States; if there's no significant opposition, I would probably just delete any others which become orphaned. Certainly remove them from the list once they're orphaned, as they are just there to eventually forward all the links to the new place. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 18:33, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi I need you advice. Any particular reason there are still pages in Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Template_redirects#Stub_templates? I mean should they really all these redirects be replaced? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:47, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

We generally want stub redirects to get bypassed eventually; on the other hand, it;s frequently not worth the edits. So in stead, we list them there, and over time they get fixed without anyone thinking about it at the time it's being done. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 11:53, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. I now wonder why -his- is preferred over -history- -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:55, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Because at WikiProject Stub Sorting (WSS) we have certain standards for the tag names; this was aparently the established name by October 2005. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:02, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Maybe use to get rid of as many redirects as possible then? -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:28, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Any which are completely orphaned should probably be deleted. Don;t go out of your way to orphan them, though - that would violate WP:R2D. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 21:18, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

I think there are some already orphan. -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:21, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

NCStateParks can go too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:44, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

So to make clear: Do you think stub redirects should be replaced but not by bots and not as sole edits? -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:55, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

They should be replaced as side-effects of other edits (typicly AWB), but not as the purpose of an edit. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 12:57, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

OK. Removed. Better find another way then. I thought I was helping the Stub sorting project. Since this page can cause side-effects find other ways to replace them. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:59, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

The issue here is, as wasmentioned in the case over several issues, WP:COSMETICBOT. If you look closely at what I wrote, you'll see that I explicitlyt mentioned this fact. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 13:01, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

OK I claim that if a task has consensus it can be done independently of COSMETICBOT. This is something it happens very often and not only be me. I removed the stubs using my main account in order to help a job that I thought it has consensus by an entire project assuming good faith. The same way people remove unused parameters, duplicated arguments etc. This page is used by my bot too and when the bot fails to make an edit it only makes a minor edit. Since the initial purpose of the pages was to help developers to avoid hard coding I do not think I need extra complexity and get into more trouble for this. Recently a bot was approved to remove unused parameters. I suggest that you ask for a bot to remove the redirects and see if it gets approval. It seems people push now to not allow bots do multiple tasks together. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:08, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Bot_requests#Bot_for_category_history_merges. 103.6.159.72 (talk) 10:54, 18 January 2017 (UTC)