Adi sco 93

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WP:BITE

Thank you for the reminder at the Help Desk about WP:BITE, but the editor concerned is far from a newcomer. The edits (mainly relating to the Duchess of Cambridge and her family) have come from a number of different IP addresses and at least one account, asking frequent messages when they make a mess of referencing, but steadfastly ignoring the replies which they have received, particularly about the fact that referencing error messages usually contain a wikilink to a relevant help page. We all try to help people, but when they make no effort to help themselves they don't encourage other editors to help them. --David Biddulph (talk) 04:29, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

You'll find a few of the examples here. --David Biddulph (talk) 04:32, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

And another example today. What isn't clear in the link from the error message to Help:CS1 errors#param has ext link? There have been so many similar situations, and so many times that the editor has been told to follow the help links, that it's not surprising that some of us are losing our patience. --David Biddulph (talk) 10:28, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Yet another classic example today (and the same as a number of previous problems & questions from this editor): Wikipedia:Help desk#Eden Rock, St Barths. - David Biddulph (talk) 13:21, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Had a look at your examples. Seems pretty annoying. I would probably have lost patience after the second or third time and stopped offering any help. I only mentioned WP:BITE because, as it's an IP address, I just assumed it was a newbie. --Adam ^{talk - contribs} 15:17, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

When I do offer help I don't have much hope of educating this particular editor, but I hope that the advice might be useful to other editors who see the question and who may encounter similar problems. It's frightening how many editors fail to read the error messages & the embodied links; I don't see how they can be made much clearer. When I make comments such as the ones that provoked your WP:BITE comment, it is partly to suggest to other editors with limited time that they might usefully put their priority into helping other more worthy recipients of their advice, rather than someone who makes no effort to help themselves. I'm intrigued that someone in Australia has such an interest in the Middleton family. - David Biddulph (talk) 16:31, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Royal visits are quite well received in Australia, so I can understand it, I suppose. Although when Princess Anne visited my little Scottish town in the 80s, you're lucky if there was a crowd of 200 in a town with a population of 8,000. I wasn't there, but I've seen pictures. I've been taking a look at the help desk every now and again today and I'm getting to see just how annoying it is. The same basic thing is being asked over and over and over and over again. --Adam ^{talk - contribs} 16:56, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

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The Riddle Rider

Hi. Please see WP:BRD. You were WP:BOLD, I reverted you, so please discuss (before reverting me again). Both are completly different films. Your rationale of "Insufficient reliable material to flesh out both into full articles" is incorrect. These are part of the Universal Studios serial series from the 1920s. Have a look in Google books for more. If you don't think they're notable, you can take them to AfD and waste everyone's time. As there's nothing to merge to, I'm removing the tags. Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 18:43, 13 January 2016 (UTC)