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Please comment on Talk:2014 military intervention against ISIS

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How do I learn to edit

How do I learn to edit — Preceding unsigned comment added by DSA213 (talk • contribs) 02:52, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Go to WP:TWA or WP:CHEATSHEET. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 16:33, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

broken archival - "Lowercase sigmabot III"

Lowercase sigmabot III seems to be incorrectly archiving [1] -- the bot left the message that was 1.5 years old but archived the newer threads instead. -- 67.70.35.44 (talk) 14:03, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Summary.py

No results for this query http://tools.wmflabs.org/sigma/summary.py?name=Solt+&search=redir&server=rowiki&max=500&ns=%2C%2C , although there is at least one elligible case https://ro.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JScript&diff=6681824&oldid=6679594. :Oops, there was an unwanted blank space at the end of username. --XXN (talk) 13:10, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

hey wasup — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cb808 (talk • contribs) 02:55, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:United States pro-life movement

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Hi my name is hildiyana. I was reading the article about Ali Mahdi Muhammad and was trying To write to the person who wrote the article . My older brother name is Roman. His father is one of Ali Mahdi Muhammad son . I'm trying my best to get in contact with him or his son . I was wondering if you could please please help me. My mom and his dad separated years ago when my brother was like 4 and he hasn't seen his dad or heard from him . A father figure is one of the most important things in anyones life . So if you could help me with any information or contact information to someone you think can help me here's my email hildiyana@gmail.com. PLEASE PLEASE HELP — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:C4AF:C460:9D37:53CD:7CB6:177B (talk) 03:48, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiCup 2014: The results

The 2014 WikiCup champion is Godot13 (submissions), who flew the flag of the Smithsonian Institution. This was Godot13's first WikiCup competition and, over the 10 months of the competition, he has produced (among other contributions) two featured lists and an incredible 292 featured pictures, including architectural photographs and scans of historical documents. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 and 2013 WikiCup champion, came in second, having written a large number of biology-related articles. Casliber (submissions), WikiCup finalist every year since 2010, finished in third.

A full list of our prize-winners follows:

• Godot13 (submissions) wins the prize for first place and the FP prize for 181 featured pictures in the final round.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions) wins the prize for second place and the DYK prize for 65 did you knows in the final round.
• Casliber (submissions) wins the prize for third place and the FA prize for four featured articles in the final round.
• Czar (submissions) wins the prize for fourth place
• Sturmvogel 66 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• Bloom6132 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• 12george1 (submissions) wins a final 8 prize.
• ChrisGualtieri (submissions) wins the GA prize for 27 good articles in round 2 and the review prize for 28 good article reviews in round 1.
• Caponer (submissions) wins the FL prize for three featured lists in round 2.
• Sven Manguard (submissions) wins the FPo prize his work on featured portals.
• Figureskatingfan (submissions) wins the topic prize for a nine-article featured topic in round 3.
• ThaddeusB (submissions) wins the news prize for 28 in the news articles in round 3.

Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have participated this year. We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:51, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

Bot removed unexpired tag

With this edit the bot removed an unexpired {{pp-vandalism}}—perhaps because there was also an expired {{pp-blp}}. —teb728 t c 08:03, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. →Σσς. (Sigma) 00:08, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

About Pages created tool

Hi, sorry if it is not the proper place to report that, but it seems there is a bug in your tool, some pages I created in the last few days, after having been correcty listed until a couple of days ago, now disappeared. This is my wmflabs page [2], several articles created between La monaca di Monza and Toni Pagot aren't (anymore) listed (eg. Giornale dei Ragazzi, Don Marino Barreto Jr., Alessandro Fersen, Tarzanetto, Are We Men or Corporals?). Not something of vital importance, but i thought you wanted to know. My best and thanks for the tool, Cavarrone 18:09, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Some of these pages don't appear to exist - https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/articleinfo/index.php?article=Are_We_Men_or_Corporals%3F&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia fails as well. This issue is not under my control. →Σσς. (Sigma) 08:01, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

wats wrong with u???!!!

really!! 69joderpene (talk) 20:49, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Fixing links to archived discussion

Does Lowercase sigmabot fix links to archived discussions? All of these broken links are a significant problem, and at the very least, I hope your bot isn't continuing the problem. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 06:17, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

I wish it did, but as far as I know, there is no efficient method to do so through the API. →Σσς. (Sigma) 06:48, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

lowercase sigmabot III (talk · contribs) does not do this; however, ClueBot III (talk · contribs) does (look through its contribs for "Fixing links to archived content"), but it only does this for links to the pages that it archived itself. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:55, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Yes, Red, that's exactly what I'm hoping lowercase sigmabot could do, fix its own links. Fixing all the other links would be a whole nother story. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 15:17, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Lowercase sigmabot III mangled a page

Hi. Please take a look at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard. This archival operation by the bot mangled the section entitled "Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Waldorf education", as well as the following section ("Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Banning Policy closed"). Any idea what happened, or how it can be fixed? Thanks. — Richwales (no relation to Jimbo) 05:14, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I don't see any errors - Bot archived 2 sections and left 5 sections (default option, as config hasn't specified the |minthreadsleft and |minthreadstoarchive), sections older than 20 days. — revi_msg 05:34, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Yes. @Richwales: what exactly do you mean by "mangled the section"? --Redrose64 (talk) 10:46, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

After the bot's archival edit, the {{quotebox}} in the section entitled "Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Waldorf education" jumped down to appear within the next section instead. In Google Chrome (Linux) and IE 8 (Windows 7), everything is readable (albeit misplaced). In Firefox (Linux), the "Waldorf education" quotebox is displayed on top of part of the text of the "Banning Policy" quotebox, rendering the text unreadable.

If you compare the current version of the WP:AC/N page with the version immediately prior to the bot archival edit, you should see what I'm talking about.

I'm not sure (yet) what caused this problem, but since the bot edit happened between a "good" version of the page and a "bad" version of the page, it seems reasonable to suppose that something the bot did may have either directly caused the problem or accidentally triggered a pre-existing bug somewhere. — Richwales (no relation to Jimbo) 22:41, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

In the section "Arbitration motion regarding Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Waldorf education", the {{quotebox}} beginning "Remedies 1 and 1.1 in the Waldorf education case ..." is set to float right, which means that it must be entirely below the sidebar headed "Wikipedia Arbitration". The float is significant: it permits subsequent text on the page to move up into any blank space, and that is what has happened to the text immediately after that quotebox - the part beginning "For the Arbitration Committee, Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:10, 28 September 2014 (UTC)". Subsequent elements on the page similarly flow up into the gap, including the next box (the one beginning "For actions discussed within this case, as well as past history ...") - which is a {{quotation}} and those have properties that are different from those of a {{quotebox}}. You can demonstrate this by editing the whole page, remove the {{/Header}} from the very start, and preview - the sidebar is gone, and the boxes sit in the proper sections.

Short version: It's nothing to do with the bot - it's how some browsers resolve CSS conflicts between two boxes (the sidebar and the {{quotebox}} that want to occupy the same space on the page - one of them gets pushed down the page. --Redrose64 (talk) 00:02, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:2014 Hong Kong protests

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Page not being archived

I added {{User:MiszaBot/config}} to Talk:COBOL around 2 weeks ago and it still hasn't been archived by lowercase sigmabot III. Is there any reason for this? EdwardH (talk) 19:38, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

@EdwardH: Yes, you set up the |archive= parameter incorrectly - it needs to be a subpage of the page that is to be archived. This edit should fix it. You might like to adjust |maxarchivesize= upwards - 70K is rather small. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:40, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

@EdwardH: And there you go. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:13, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

@Redrose64: Thanks for fixing the parameters. By the way, what size to recommend setting |maxarchivesize= to? This is only the second time I've set up an archive. EdwardH (talk) 18:39, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

I normally use 128K, but might use 256K or even 384K for a page with frequent new threads. As an example, my own talk page is set up for 128K archives, and it works out at about five new archive pages per year - I might have set it too low. I wouldn't go much over 512K, partly because some search tools have a limit near that point, partly because of the page load time. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:53, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. EdwardH (talk) 20:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Error on archive

See this edit - I have no idea what the edit summary means, but I assume that you do. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 00:53, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Yep. It should be archived now. →Σσς. (Sigma) 05:09, 18 November 2014 (UTC)