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Autopatrolled

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Discworld task force

Your edits to Discworld-related articles have been noticed, and are appreciated. A few of us are trying to establish a Discworld taskforce to monitor and improve Wikipedia's Discworld coverage. If you are interested, please go here and leave a comment that you wish to participate.--Mobtown Mongrel (talk) 13:03, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Libahunt

Sorry about [1], I meant to restore your text and forgot, the original text added here was the copy and paste--Jac16888^Talk 23:04, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Apology accepted.--Auric (talk) 23:12, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of H.V. Dalling for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article H.V. Dalling is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/H.V. Dalling until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. --Hirolovesswords (talk) 02:36, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:AngleGrinderMan Symbol.jpg

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Invitation to take part in a study

I am a Wikipedian, who is studying the phenomenon on Wikipedia. I need your help to conduct my research on about understanding "Motivation of Wikipedia contributors." I would like to invite you to Main Study. Please give me your valuable time, which estimates about 20 minutes. I chose you as a English Wikipedia user who made edits recently through the RecentChange page. Refer to the first page in the online survey form for more information on the study and me.cooldenny (talk) 01:20, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Tamara Hoover

The article Tamara Hoover has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Attractive: yes, does being famous for just one newsworthy event mean it should qualify for notability: no.

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Proposed deletion of Montoya Marc-Antoine

The article Montoya Marc-Antoine has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fails to meet notability criteria.

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New AfD of article you have worked on

Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/United States journalism scandals (3rd nomination). BigJim707 (talk) 14:47, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

Non-canon stardates

Hi Auric,

I'm all for including non-canon stardates, but they should be labeled non-canon and placed in separate sections at the end of the article, not in the main sections which cover the core of stardates, the most important things a general audience should know about them. Also, I would include only those stardates which are interesting for some reason. I don't see anything interesting about stardate 6111.3 individually; what is interesting is that ADF used his own stardates in the Log novelizations, ignoring those from TAS episodes. SD1312.4 (talk) 21:07, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kolbrin Bible (2nd nomination)

I saw you have userfied version of this and thought you should be aware of the deletion discussion. Mangoe (talk) 16:11, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Your article has been moved to AfC space

Hi! I would like to inform you that the Articles for Creation submission which was previously located here: User:Auric/Khulekani Khumalo has been moved to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Khulekani Khumalo, this move was made automatically and doesn't affect your article, if you have any questions please ask on my talk page! Have a nice day. ArticlesForCreationBot (talk) 21:05, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Alpha_Quadrant ^(talk) 07:50, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

El Satario

You created this article with the title El Sartorio, but according to these [2][3] and many other references, the film was titled El Satario. So I have moved the article accordingly. --SupernovaExplosion ^Talk 07:45, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Johnny Sixarms

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Proposed deletion of Johnny Sixarms

The article Johnny Sixarms has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

not notable

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• If you think it's marginally notable, perhaps a merge would be in order? Get back to me ASAP. Bearian (talk) 21:39, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Kolbrin Bible

I saw your draft searching Wikipedia for more on this thing. FWIW, I rescued the previous attempts at Wikipedia articles on the Kolbrin and turned them into a RationalWiki article, which has just about everything that can actually be nailed down about it. Sadly RW doesn't count as a RS :-) - David Gerard (talk) 21:34, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks.--Auric (talk) 00:32, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

May 2012

Please do not continue to upload files with missing or false information on their copyright status, as you did with Knowlesville, New Brunswick. Please note that Wikipedia takes copyright and copyright infringement very seriously. Images and other media may only be uploaded and included if they meet the conditions stated in our image use policy, and if their provenance is clearly documented. If you have questions, feel free to ask at the copyright question page or on my talk page. Thank you. The information you added is correct, but it is a copyright violation when you copy and paste information from another web site which is not in the public domain. I did a rollback. DThomsen8 (talk) 20:44, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

I was not aware. I assumed that as a governmental site, dissemination of the information for a non-commercial purpose was permitted. I have restored those parts that I had knowledge of beforehand, with other cites.--Auric (talk) 21:12, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

United States Government web sites are all in the public domain. The web sites of other governments have to be checked individually for copyright status. --DThomsen8 (talk) 21:30, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of The Pearl Saga for deletion

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"Fixing" links to redirects

Not a really big deal or anything, but I noticed you changing links to redirects on some items on my watchlist. There really isn't anything wrong with linking to redirects, in fact sometimes it is a better option. See WP:R2D for more information. Beeblebrox (talk) 17:42, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

I only edit redirects when they redirect to sections than do not exist or have changed names. This could lead some to believe that the link is false and remove it. I cite this exception: It may be appropriate to make this kind of change if the hint that appears when a user hovers over the link is misleading.--Auric (talk) 17:49, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

That is of course only logical and reasonable. The specific edit that caught my attention was this one [4] which had nothing wrong with it. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:13, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

There were two links to that page. One piped to the actual page, one not. I changed the one that wasn't piped and linked to a redirect.--Auric (talk) 20:16, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

July 2012 Study of authors of health-related Wikipedia pages

Dear Author/Auric

My name is Nuša Farič and I am a Health Psychology MSc student at the University College London (UCL). I am currently running a quantitative study entitled Who edits health-related Wikipedia pages and why? I am interested in the editorial experience of people who edit health-related Wikipedia pages. I am interested to learn more about the authors of health-related pages on Wikipedia and what motivations they have for doing so. I am currently contacting the authors of randomly selected articles and I noticed that someone at this address edited an article on Nasal polyps. I would like to ask you a few questions about you and your experience of editing the above mentioned article and or other health-related articles. If you would like more information about the project, please visit my user page (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hydra_Rain) and if interested, please reply via my talk page or e-mail me on nusa.faric.11@ucl.ac.uk. Also, others interested in the study may contact me! If I do not hear back from you I will not contact this account again. Thank you very much in advance.Hydra Rain (talk) 17:06, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of H.V. Dalling for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article H.V. Dalling is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/H.V. Dalling (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

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Dreams from My Real Father - problematic edits from GoBeSocial

I've requested page protection. GoBeSocial appears to be a WP:SPA account -- with pretty sloppy editing at that, resulting in a near-blanking of the page in his/her most recent edit. See Talk page for details. Yakushima (talk) 10:19, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Dreams from My Real Father for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Dreams from My Real Father is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Driving licence in Poland

As the creator of the original Prawo Jazdy redirect, I just wanted to say great work on this. Paul MacDermott (talk) 23:12, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you.--Auric (talk) 23:14, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Mike Shinoda

Admin user talk:Floquenbeam as repaired much of the vandalism. I reported the vandal to wp:aiv and Floquenbeam took it from there. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 00:12, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I was getting worried.--Auric (talk) 00:15, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Edits to Shoggoth

My edit on that page, as I recall, was removing a bunch of trivia-section stuff. I don't think I added anything to the page, let alone uncited material. Were you reverting on the basis of a disagreement with my removal of the content or was that just a quick auto-rollback? In the case of the latter I understand how quickly WP moves and how easy it is to not really closely look at what's going on with every single edit but in the case of the former I don't want to undo your revision if you actually meant to undo mine - if that's the case I think we ought to maybe go through the article's examples one by one and see if we can come to a compromise on which ones belong and which ones don't rather than just reverting each other every once in a while when we notice it's been changed. ZigSaw 03:23, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

My problem wasn't with your removing examples, but that you changed good grammar into bad.

Example: You changed this sentence: In the board game Arkham Horror, the Shoggoth is one of the many monsters from Cthulhu and the H. P. Lovecraft books that roam the streets of Arkham into this: In the board game Arkham Horror, the Shoggoth is one of the many monsters from a Cthulhu's H. P. Lovecraft book that roam the street of Arkham. Arkham is a town, not a street, as your edit suggests. And the part a Cthulhu's H. P. Lovecraft book is nonsense.

Also this entry: Robert Anton Wilson asserts in his Schrödinger's Cat trilogy that it is not a "shaggy shoggoth story," a play on the phrase "Shaggy dog story," implying that the book is indeed a rambling series of nonsequiturs dealing with otherworldly concepts. The Shoggoth also plays its role in the The Illuminatus! Trilogy, in which it is linked to the Law of Fives and the Necronomicon, and it is a Shoggoth that consumes crimeboss Robert Putney Drake after he has betrayed the Illuminati became In Robert Anton Wilson's The Illuminatus! Trilogy, shoggoth is link to the Law of Fives and the Necronomicon, and it is Shoggoth that consume crimeboss Robert Putney Drake after he has betray the Illuminati.

In English we use plurals often. I often see this problem when editing pages connected with India and the Far East.

I hope this helps.--Auric (talk) 11:01, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Tribadism edit

Hello, Auric. Per what I stated here, do you still have a problem with my change? If so, will you explain why instead of reverting and maybe we can work something out? Flyer22 (talk) 12:07, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

I went ahead and added "and rubbing vulvae," which I feel is a good compromise. And keep in mind that "vulvae" is plural for more than one vulva. Flyer22 (talk) 12:41, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

I'm okay with that.--Auric (talk) 22:44, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Okay. And the only reason I mentioned the "vulvae is plural" aspect is because I have come across people who don't know that and may want to "correct" the spelling with "vulvas"; as both are correct spellings, I don't mind using either version and can see why some people prefer to state "vulvas." It's similar to how some people, maybe the majority, prefer to say/write "penises" instead of "penes." Flyer22 (talk) 00:10, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

ANI

Hello. There is currently a discussion at WP:ANI regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User North8000 disruptive talk page editing at talk:Homophobia. Thank you. - MrX 20:02, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Your sig

Just in case you didn't know, your sig does not appear to be clickable on iOS devices.  little green rosetta(talk)
central scrutinizer  21:44, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Still swinging...

Sorry, but you can't A9 a record when the artist has an article. And she (despite being called Aubrey, she appears female) has an article. The article doesn't look notable to me, but it'll have to be prod/AfD to Wreck that Ball. Peridon (talk) 20:46, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, but the article is a song and I couldn't find anything else. I made the context clear (I thought), so the precious reason didn't fit.--Auric 20:51, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

CSD doesn't cover every possibility. It's just a collection of odd shortcuts, without which prod and AfD would be unworkable. Peridon (talk) 21:49, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Notice

Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Cut and paste copyvio fix. Thank you.  Ryan Vesey 23:06, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Uncyclopedia

I apologize a head of time for this. But this questions is completely unreleated to Wikipedia. I just would like to know how you uncyclopedia to work as I am having issues myself. I run google chrome. Please respond.
XyphynX9 (talk) 19:45, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Enabling cookies for the site got it to work for me. Use http://mirror.uncyc.org/wiki/Main_Page (a mirror) if this does not work for you. --Auric 21:21, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

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Proposed deletion of Pool of Radiance (novel)

The article Pool of Radiance (novel) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Article about a book that doesn't appear to satisfy notability guidelines per WP:NB. One source provided that likely wouldn't be considered third-party.

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悪即漸

湘南ゴールドは金ではありません。顧問もそう言っています。 --えいえすあい (talk) 15:37, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Your question about Adam Lanza/notable alumni

I added info pertaining to your excellent question on the Sandy Hook talk page. In short, Lanza is absolutely notable, per guidelines. And the murderers at Columbine and Virginia Tech are indeed on the Notable Alumni lists for those schools. You can see my other comments for more relevant details and links. Good luck. --76.189.123.142 (talk) 04:56, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

Thank you very much Auric for helping me on the Kleinzell post. I wrote Through Innocent Eyes and from time to time, I will start making references to the book on Wikipedia. Through your editing my mistakes, I am getting a better understanding on how Wikipedia works. I hope one day, I can be as good as are with making these posts. In the meantime, thank you very much again, for assisting me. ~ Cindy ~

The Original Barnstar

I just want to give you a GREAT BIG 'THANK YOU" for helping me mention my father, PFC Robert Sandor on the 65th Infantry Battle Ax Wikipedia web site! I am new to this and I am learning how to post stuff on Wikipedia. I am the author of "Through Innocent Eyes - The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth" and want to send you my deepest gratitude! Thank you! ~ Cindy ~ Casandor (talk) 23:18, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

SPI

I have moved your SPI on Hektore to add it to the existing one at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Kamran1370 who is the likely sockmaster, and updated the message on Hektore's talk page to point to that. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:20, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks.--Auric 20:21, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Campo de' Fiori

Dear Auric, you cancelled (and called vandalism) three minor edits I had made to Campo de' Fiori, argueing that I had not filled in the Edit Summary box. Please beware that (1) In Wikipedia it is not mandatory to explain all edits. As you will notice, many in that very article are not explained. (I sure hope you do not intend to go and clear all Wikipedia changes with no Edit Summary!) (2) Specifically, I did not think it was necessary to explain, e.g., the change from field of flowers to field of the flowers, corresponding to a correct translation from Italian; unfortunately, you have now reverted to the wrong translation (offering no explanation, by the way. In fact, most likely, with no consideration whatsoever of content). Overall, you did not do Wikipedia a good service this time around. However we all make mistakes! I am sure you will find the time to remedy. You could start, e.g., with apologies for defining "vandalism" two innocent edits. Thanks. --87.28.141.207 (talk) 16:55, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Replied on your talkpage.--Auric Talk 17:35, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Nwagi update

Hi Auric, Nwagi is not Indian festival. It is the festival of indigenous people of eastern Nepal. So I removed the tag from it thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashishlohorung (talk • contribs) 02:53, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

I added the category "Festivals in Nepal". Thanks for the heads up.--Auric Talk 21:00, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

M Nizamul Huq on BLPN

Hi Auric,

Thank you for your contributions in the last couple of days to [5]. User:Freemesm appears to me to be making rather specious arguments there. I'm not sure how to seek arbitration on the matter. Could you please advise? Are you in a position to arbitrate? How would I know whether that is the case of a given wiki user?

Many thanks,

Aminul802 (talk) 06:16, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

Signature

Your signature is not in compliance with the Wikipedia guidelines on signatures. Specifically, they should not include unnecessary changes to font or color. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.239.45.130 (talk) 19:46, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Done.--Auric talk 21:20, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Auric. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2013 January 7.
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Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:29, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Chargin' PTY LTD

Saw your warning there. I went ahead and blocked anyway due to their edit promoting their app. Dougweller (talk) 15:21, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for spotting that.--Auric talk 15:25, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

Mediation about Peter Proctor

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Please don't editwar

Please stop blindly reverting without discussion, as you did at fisheye lens. I've taken the trouble to discus this template -- on my talk page, in the edit summary, and at the template's project which is apparently abandoned after littering the site with this template.

If you aren't willing to discuss, then you have no place blindly reverting. And you certainly have no place threatening me. --టంగ్స్టన్ కార్బైడ్ (talk) 04:12, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I haven't threatened you, I haven't blindly reverted, and I certainly haven't editwarred. I increased the size of the image you complained about. --Auric talk 12:24, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Truth comes first, personal biasness is not the page for wikipedia

Dear Auric, I did not mean to offend you but since i am new to wikipedia i did not know how to respond to your allegation against me that i was the one being biased. So i saw the edit button located near that and so i responded. But, when i just saw the video on how to respond to a user's message, i am hence sending you this message in good faith. The fact of the matter is that i work in the same region as Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was from and hence, i know for a fact that the United States Government and the Pakistani Intelligence know full well that she is innocent of any terrorism related links and that she was not a source of any threat yet they lock her up so as to cover their own faults. The one thing i liked about wikipedia was its presumed unbiased-ness however after reading the article on Dr. Aafia i have realized that is not always the case. And, so i made an account and have become a wikipedia user just like you. But, what seperates you and me is the fact that you believe anything that the media claims without actually having talked to the ones whose opinions are the most honest with regards to her. You see, Dr. Aafia is a mother of three and she was KIDNAPPED along with her children, one of whom was only 6 months old, in 2003 and that is well known in Pakistan and to the Pakistani Intelligence and the US Army. She was assaulted, physically abused (which is a terrible thing to do to a lady and that too an MIT graduate who did NOT terrorize anyone or cause harm to even a butterfly) and atleast one her children, who is only 6 months old was brutally killed! And, now she is serving in jail?? For 86 years?? Even though the members of the jury knew she was innocent but had to call her a threat since most of the world's media was closely following the case and so had the ruled in favor of her their 7 years of illegal and wrongful detention of her would be clear to everyone and so the white house pressurized for the decision against her! Tell me, you are from canada, if this was the allegation made to a canadian mother of three and a PhD holder in neuroscience who was kidnapped along with her children and then SHE is the one sent to jail over CLEARLY false allegations (and that too false allegations of self defense) wouldnt the entire population of Canada rise up in favour of the lady??? And, that is precisely what happened in pakistan, parts of USA and many other countries who then protested against this obvious injustice done to her and her family. So please, dont confuse everyone and dont take the side of falsehood, by saying she is a terrorist when infact she cannot even hurt a fly! She did not kill anyone or even attempt to kill anyone, but SHE was the one who was raped and kidnapped. Let the article be unbiased and LET IT STICK TO THE TRUTH. Best Regards, Codetruth (talk) 16:23, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

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Shayan Anique Akhtar

This is my page and I created this and I want it to be deleted http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shayan_Anique_Akhtar — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shayan Anique (talk • contribs) 13:33, January 23, 2013

You may have created it, but you don't own it. Continued deleting to possibly coverup something you did and no one is interested in will make more people interested in it. Just take a Wikibreak and let things sort themselves out. Otherwise, you could get banned. --Auric talk 16:40, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Shayan Anique Akhtar for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Shayan Anique Akhtar is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shayan Anique Akhtar until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Shayan Anique (talk) 16:53, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Hey thanks for diff. I have baby-puke in my keyboard, so that key doesn't depress sometimes. ˜danjel [ talk | contribs ] 03:25, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Reply (Thunderpilot)

Thanks for letting me know. Im just trying to keep the info at wiki art bell page correct. The people at coastgab.com are changing it with false info--Thunderpilot (talk) 00:01, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Good for you. Also, remember to add a new header to start a new thread. --Auric talk 00:17, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Is there a way to protect art bell's page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thunderpilot (talk • contribs) 00:04, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

You can make a request at WP:RPP.--Auric talk 00:17, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Prince Abdi

Why do you feel that a BLP doesn't need verifying RS as to the subject's birth year? Especially since the article keeps getting edited to change it. RNealK (talk) 23:40, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

That's not what I said. However, I've decided to use {{Birth based on age as of date}}, with a cite. If a better one with age stated can be found, feel free to update it. Thanks. --Auric talk 01:18, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Great, thanks. RNealK (talk) 06:56, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

Penis removal

Also fix the cite error generated by your edit to the article.EagerToddler39 (talk) 15:24, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Done. Thanks for the heads-up!--Auric talk 16:35, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Fornication

M-W's "medical" definition involves marriage and consent--those aren't appropriately medical terms and it goes to show that they are rightly to be avoided as a source. Thank you, Drmies (talk) 18:46, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Yes, it looks like they just copypasted it.--Auric talk 19:41, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

I wonder what the next section on your talk page will be called. Drmies (talk) 19:58, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Request for mediation accepted

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Infobox question

Hi Auric, Thanks for your edits to the infobox at Mohammed Nizamul Huq. I was wondering whether you might know something about this question of mine. If I have a criminal case about two well known people, can both of them have infoboxes on the same page User:Crtew/Murder of Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi? Thank you, Crtew (talk) 22:18, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Yes, if you feel it is necessary. You may wish to separate them, as is done in Murder of Sarah Payne or simply present their details in a bio section, as is done at Murder of Charlie Keever and Jonathan Sellers. The choice is up to you. See also Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Infoboxes and Help:Infobox for more general info about using infoboxes.--Auric talk 22:31, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

I was hoping you would have examples with you answer! Thank you, Crtew (talk) 22:56, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

Your helpfulness is appreciated! Crtew (talk) 22:57, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Berry College

	Berry College
	Hi, I was wondering where you found the list of "Notable alums" at Berry? Thank you! Ckozelle (talk) 15:24, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

I didn't find it, I merely made it into a list. Vld422 (talk · contribs) added it. diff But thanks!--Auric talk 21:04, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Untitled (Faisal961)

hello Auric i completely appreciate your point of view. however, please notice that the material i deleted was not constructive discussion at all but just personal attacks poking fun at users, i am sure wikipedia doesn't allow personal attacks like that. i myself have been mentioned in a derogatory manner on the talk page by name which i found offensive. i hope u understand and can help do something about it. thanks very much.

Faisal961 (talk) 02:52, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

hello, i already informed u earlier today that i found this offensive and requested help. u edited the page after that accordingly. however, the user Jonathon (sorry i don't know how to link back to him) kept restoring the offensive remarks continuously. after that nothing was done to stop this and as such i was left to deal with it myself. i believe wikipedia says that we are all supposed to be civil to each other and not mock? shouldn't the user who made mocking remarks be warned instead of me? Faisal961 (talk) 18:39, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

You removed the remarks, which you are not supposed to do. If they are wrong, say so. Don't just delete everything.--Auric talk 18:44, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Burmese-Siamese War 1849-1855

Could you have another look at that one - every other page I've looked at so far created by that author has been hoax stuff. I can't find that war. Peridon (talk) 22:17, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

I don't think this is a hoax. See Military history of Burma#Siam (1849–1855).--Auric talk 22:45, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Also, none of the other battles are hoaxes. Whether they are notable is another question.--Auric talk 22:58, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

I've posted about this at AN/I - apart from the battles, his posts have been about 'projected books'. Seems odd to me. I'm going offline now, but do please comment there. Peridon (talk) 23:14, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Three battles of Sarbakusa

Just wanted to touch bases with you. I removed the full prod notice from the talk page of the above noted article. Just a friendly reminder that the template addresses articles that have been previously proposed for deletion and contested, rather than speedy deletion nominations that have been declined. If you've placed a few others mistakenly, please make sure to revisit the talk pages and remove the notice. If you need help, let me know and I'll be happy to lend a hand. Hope you have a great weekend, Cindy(talk to me) 00:30, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I saw that one had been deleted and jumped the gun. --Auric talk 01:03, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Inglese

My sincere error (though why must all the warning messages on here sound quite so accusatory?) - whilst I am very familiar with the yankee practice of reinterpreting ae and oe to whatever they feel like (though why oesophagus and not Oedipus - proper nouns, surely, are not exempt from simplification (cf. Jesus)), I was not aware that haematology was one of them. I mistook it for a rather simplistic misspelling.

80.41.78.106 (talk) 02:05, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

See American and British English spelling differences#ae and oe. Oedipus is a Greek-origin word, not a Latin-origin word. I thank you for the apology. --Auric talk 11:49, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Nick And Nora's infinite playlist

the only change i remember making to that page was updating info about the tv channel curently airing it in the us (i happened to be watchign the film ON MTV when i posted the update) it has aired 3 times that i know of since and i really don't watch MTV anymore so who knows how many times it has actually aired since — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.168.193.119 (talk) 23:56, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

See this diff. You removed a reference, but left a lone ref tag, and neglected to add an edit summary, both common indicators of blanking-type vandalism. --Auric talk 00:52, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Aafia Siddiqui

I think we have a new incarnation of codetruth working on this article. what do you think.--Wikireader41 (talk) 01:20, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Quite likely.--Auric talk 01:30, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

my own talk page?

hello there,i was wondering why i received this wanring:

Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments, as you did at User talk:Faisal961. Such edits are disruptive and appear to be vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Auric talk 21:36, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

that was my own talk page i blanked, they didn't say that it's forbidden! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Archiving_a_talk_page did i receive this message in error? Faisal961 (talk) 02:25, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Sorry about that. You're not really supposed to blank your own talkpage. It's bad practice. Archiving it is better.--Auric talk 02:30, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

no problem at all, you probably have tons of things to take care of around here anyway so i understand, i only asked as i got a little freaked by the note! i learned how to archive yesterday, but since you have to create a whole page for that and whatnot i figured it wasn't worth it for my own talk page and decided that is anyone is ever interested in me (as if, haha!) they can just go to my history. :) Cheers! Faisal961 (talk) 06:28, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

btw, your user page happens to be pretty awesome! Faisal961 (talk) 06:32, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you.--Auric talk 10:54, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Stompin' Tom Connors and indentured servitude

Hi Auric, I saw that you removed my dubious tag and left in the content claiming that Connors had been an indentured labourer. I have removed this claim. Indentured servitude has been basically unknown in Canada since the early 19th century and is illegal. A form of it may still be practised by human smugglers, but it's not recognized by law, except as a crime. Do you have any references to support this incendiary and dubious claim? Pburka (talk) 02:15, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

I think the "indentured" refers to his time in Tillsonburg and is probably used in a humorous manner. It's certainly not an "incendiary" use. Btw, Indentured servitude is not the same as indentured labour.--Auric talk 02:23, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

What's the difference? Our indentured servant article uses the terms "indentured servitude" and "indentured labor" interchangeably. Indentured implies that he was required to work until some debt had been repaid. It's akin to slavery. Pburka (talk) 02:47, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

I'm not sure. It's subtle. But not worth arguing over. --Auric talk 02:52, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Article Feedback deployment

Hey Auric; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:17, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Pre-Columbian stuff

I didn't notice the change from coins to discs, sorry. Not sure how to handle this as they indeed might not have been coins. I'm trying to get a couple of other sources for this. Plus the article needs to point out that coins didn't exist at this time. What I can't find is a source for the vase in the 100 year old tree roots - besides the source you found. There must be an original source for this or discussion somewhere else - if there isn't I don't really think it should be in the article - one-off claims not discussed elsewhere aren't really encyclopedic - probably not even if the person is more of an expert than this author. Dougweller (talk) 13:35, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Do what you feel is best. The vase was apparently found in the same locality. I changed from coins to discs, as the description does not really match currency, more like some kind of trade token.--Auric talk 14:05, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the citation. Disks may indeed be correct, and Lily Chow really hasn't represented this claim fully at all. If you search this biography [6] for the word 'disks', you'll find that various interpretations, dates etc were given, and I suspect it is Chow who calls them similar and that this is her opinion, one she's not qualified to give probably. Dougweller (talk) 14:27, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi

Would just like to inform you that IP 87.232.1.48 that has been blocked has removed the template OW again. He is also slandering me again.. not that I care too much about that as IP has been blocked for three months but a talk page protection and removal of the slander and revert to appropriate template would be in order. Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 15:26, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

The IP has undone your edit again removing the OW. Clearly disruptive. --BabbaQ (talk) 15:56, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

The IP now has reverted its own edit and returned the OW to its talk page. Good to see that the IP can learn something atleast. Case closed.--BabbaQ (talk) 16:41, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Removed template again. If it is mandatory reinstate it again for the fifth or sixth time. If it is not then just leave it I guess.--BabbaQ (talk) 23:00, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Again.--BabbaQ (talk) 23:51, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Task force Science fiction for wiki project novels

Excuse me, my name is Liberalufp and I will be the new coordinator of the task force. With me as coordinator things will be very different, for one the task force at the moment is run down and only has 10 members. In effort to make this task force a major success and living up to its goals, I will be taking the reins and will be requesting for each one of you to do your assignment I will be assigning you and message me on my talk page when it is done. If you wish not to do the assignment let me know. I am sorry if this is harsh and tyrannical but we have over 4,000 articles that need taking care of. Everything is optional and do not feel pressured. If you have any objections or Questions please message me on my talk page.--Liberalufp (talk) 02:02, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Larry Clapp

Hi-I came across the link about Larry Clapp: Clapp and Associates. It has information about his education. I also found information that he and his wife owned a wine vineyard in Wyoming. That I would not added but the above link with the information about his education should be added. I would prefer to do this collectively because of the circumstances involving Larry Clapp's death instead of doing this by myself. Please let me know what you think-thank you-RFD (talk) 12:48, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Will do. Thanks.--Auric talk 13:34, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Many thanks for doing this especially putting in the info box-RFD (talk) 14:28, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Promotor Veritatis

Hi there, I assume you're trying to help but this edit looks a bit odd. Removing whitespace is one thing but somehow you managed to include that oddly misspelled message which I cannot work out where it came from. I don't think Promotor Vertitatis is appreciative of the help so it might be best just to leave her page alone. Kim Dent-Brown ^(Talk) 07:54, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

The "message" was buried in the whitespace (diff). I assume it is an artifact of whatever xe uses to post with and not intentionally hidden. --Auric talk 22:29, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Journalist project

I've found another journalist who would be a good addition to your project, and created a page - Graham W Phillips Thanks Bensimo (talk) 19:46, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Btw Auric, you are doing some great work here! Bensimo (talk) 01:18, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Nomination of Lia (pornographic actress) for deletion

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Talkback

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Michael Dunahee

I'm sorry if I removed content, that doesn't sound right to me. I just edited a spelling mistake. Meters to metres. I re-checked it after I saved and I didn't see anything missing. It's rather bizarre that anything would have been removed. I apologise if I caused an inconvenience. Celynn (talk) 17:32, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Somehow your edit removed all the urls and messed with the categories containing numbers. Glad to hear it wasn't deliberate.--Auric talk 17:46, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Ip user

For some reason the ip user whose talk page you edited [7] gets a bit distressed when people restore content they have removed. I think he saw the message, so there is no need to restore the content again. Thanks.  little green rosetta(talk)
central scrutinizer  00:29, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I was a little puzzled by their partial blanking. I hope they understood.--Auric talk 00:38, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Birth date of MC Kinky

Would you care to justify listing her birth date as 1989? Everything Starts With An 'E' was released before that!--Launchballer 10:02, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

The article has the category 1989 births. Nothing simpler.--Auric talk 10:39, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Ah, right. It shouldn't do - her first hit was released in 1988.--Launchballer 12:56, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Adrianus Johannes Lemmens

Thank you Auric for helping me on that page - it is appreciated !!! Glemmens1940 (talk) 16:47, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Good job Auric! Always great to see patrollers/editors helping each other out Endofskull (talk) 16:52, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks you so much Auric for your great help on this page ! Do you think the heading by this Dutchman is justified ???

Don't you think it has been tremendously improved with all its references,external links and See also ??? What can we do to have it now excepted as a page ??? Glemmens1940 (talk) 19:52, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Dear Auric, would you by any chance know of a moderator who could help me getting this page accepted now ? What is your honest opinion of this page ? Glemmens1940 (talk) 14:11, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm afraid I can't help in that fashion. But the page does look good.--Auric talk 18:54, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Britmax talk page

Thanks for that. I didn't realise it was showing elsewhere! Britmax (talk) 14:42, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

List of Ancient Libraries article edit

Hello,

In response to your concern about my intentions for the article in question, my primary purpose for editing the page was to add citations that did not exist, include libraries that were not previously there, and to include information which was lacking. I do not quite understand what you mean by "blanking" the article as I removed one sentence from the Library of Alexandria entry. I also rearranged the contents so they are in alphabetical order. I also placed the libraries under their proper regions such as the Library of Alexandria which may be a Hellenistic library, but its location is in Egypt and not Greece. Likewise, the library of Ephesus is located in Anatolia and not Greece. I do not intend to do a complete overall because this is just a list where the links will take you to separate articles with more exhaustive coverage of the topic. Basically i am leaving everything the same except to include additional information and citations. Williamth (talk) 21:50, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I'm certainly glad I asked, instead of simply rolling back your edits. It looked like you were removing content from sections, then removing the headers and repeating.--Auric talk 22:01, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

BetrayerOfNihil's talk page...

I have a feeling we've been firmly put in our places - yeesh. Some people have no sense of humour! :D Humblesnore (talk) 12:27, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

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Prince Abdi vandalism

Hi, you have recently added the user Princeabdi (talk · contribs) as a connected contributor on the article Prince Abdi. This article has been subject to a repeat pattern of vandalism by an SPA account and IP addresses for the past 2 months. One of these edits was changing the subject's years active from 2006–present to 2008–present, which this user has also made. This edit clearly contradicts sources on the article that state that the subject has been active since 2006, and also sources, which state that the subject has won awards in 2007.

I am inclined to think that the person using this account maybe the same person who has been continually adding misinformation on the article, and is now possibly attempting to pass themselves off as the subject by creating a sock-puppet of the SPA account and IP addresses responsible for the previous vandalism. Tanbircdq (talk) 18:00, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I've removed the notice.--Auric talk 20:07, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Further to this, I see you have added that IP 2.222.122.48 and Princeabdi as self-declared connected contributors. Could you point me to where they have stated they have a connection to the subject? Thanks Span (talk) 16:32, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

The fact that they both use the phrase "Prince Abdi team" in edit summaries would seem to be a declaration. I've opened an SPI (Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Princeabdi‎) based on this.--Auric talk 16:37, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

inline tags vs section banners

Just a note regarding this edit. The {{citation needed}} and {{dubious}} templates are meant to be used inline to question individual statements. For questioning whole sections, you can use the banner style templates like {{norefs|section}}, or even {{norefs}} for the whole article.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jason Quinn (talk • contribs) 22:26, April 4, 2013

Thinks for the info. I had no idea.--Auric talk 10:23, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Menelik II

Hi Auric, I really appreciate your interest about Ethiopian (Menelik II) history. The topic about Menelik II submission to Yohannes is very untrue and offensive to many Ethiopian. That is why I edit this part. Please leave our history to us, I don't want to see our pride being destroyed and revised. Thank you again about your interest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smithson Manly (talk • contribs) 18:53, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

If it is untrue, perhaps you can write something in the article about why it is untrue, rather than simply deleting it without explanation.--Auric talk 22:56, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to WikiProject Breakfast

Hello, Auric. You are invited to join WikiProject Breakfast, a WikiProject and resource dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of breakfast-related topics. To join the project, just add your name to the member list. Northamerica1000(talk) 21:59, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Nice work

Nice work with the mess over at Stanbridge Earls School. Toddst1 (talk) 00:02, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I try.--Auric talk 00:21, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Template:Marriage

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Barefoot running

Hi. I've removed the link to barefoot that you added to the see also section. That term is already linked in the lead section. Per best practices, we don't duplicate links in both the body and the see also section. Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 23:30, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I missed that. Thanks.--Auric talk 18:48, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

GNU C-Graph

Hello. There is currently a discussion at WP:ANI regarding GNU C-Graph. The thread is Complaint Against Summary Deletion of "GNU C-Graph".The discussion is about the topic GNU C-Graph. Thank you. -Visionat (talk) 16:47, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

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Request for mediation rejected

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Stanbridge Earls/dead BBC link

Hi there. It seems to work for me when I cut & paste it. I'm really not that worried, but its certainly there! Try this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/dorset/3874165.stm Sorry to bother you, but I'm really not that proficient with links. Best regards Manxwoman (talk) 21:32, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

The link auto-redirects to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/hampshire/dorset/3874165.stm, and a "404 - Page Not Found" message. Wayback has nothing for this link--Auric talk 22:12, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

With respect, I'm looking at and reading the link now. Could it be your computer setting? I don't know, but its most definitely there and a BBC page. If you give me some details I could perhaps email it to you? I'm not sure how to do a screen grab. Manxwoman (talk) 12:57, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

This is a Dropbox link to a screengrab of what I'm seeing: [8]. --Auric talk 20:16, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

I so wish I was that clever!! Here is a cut 'n paste of the first couple of paras which I can see without a problem (I'm using an Apple Mac via Firefox):

Last Updated: Wednesday, 7 July, 2004, 16:00 GMT 17:00 UK

E-mail this to a friend Printable version Hanged boy feared being expelled A teenager hanged himself fearing he would be expelled from his £19,000-a-year public school after being caught drinking vodka with friends. Nicholas Wroe was discovered hanging from his school tie at Stanbridge Earls School in Romsey, Hampshire, on 24 April, Hampshire coroner's court heard. Earlier that day, the 16-year-old had been warned that the headteacher would be told about the incident. Central Hampshire coroner Graham Short recorded an open verdict on Wednesday.

'Tried to revive him'

The inquest in Winchester heard how one of the teachers, Paul Pellatt, found the youngster and his friends in the grounds of the 50-acre school, which caters for children with dyslexia.

He smelt alcohol on their breath and told them to wait in another a

Sorry to waste so much of your space, so please delete it as much as you want. This is just to show what I can see via the link. If you could tell me how to do a screen-grab... Manxwoman (talk) 00:59, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Don't worry, space is not an issue. I use the Firefox extension "Pearl Crescent Page Saver".--Auric talk 15:17, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

I am SO sorry to be so stupid! I have now downloaded your pagesaver suggestion and have indeed now got a screen-grab of the BBC page we are discussing onto my desktop. How do I then load it onto this page? (God, I wish I had never started on this damn school page!!) Manxwoman (talk) 16:56, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Upload it to one of the free image hosting services, like http://tinypic.com/ or Dropbox and post a public link to it here. Dropbox is a program. --Auric talk 18:31, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Cross fingers!!: <img src="http://i41.tinypic.com/csx3k.png" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a> Please let me know if this works for you and thank you for your help. What a lot I've learnt! Manxwoman (talk) 19:28, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

list of winx episodes

can u make it undo to the season 5 episode date on episode 22 and title on episode 23?

look at the rules for the list for winx episodes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_Winx_Club_episodes TheSirenix321 (talk) 22:56, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

That box is for to-do tasks, not "rules". Accordingly, I've removed it. --Auric talk 23:31, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

I did hide it, as a compromise.--Auric talk 23:35, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

pls remove the english episodes titel who dont aring yet... the to do list says dont post title before it airing87.161.200.149 (talk) 18:29, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

No it doesn't. I don't understand why you have such a big interest in keeping this information secret. See WP:Spoilers for why I'm declining your request. --Auric talk 19:28, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

hes or her is right,...please remove the titles the episodes dont airing yet so the titles can may be wrong! TheSirenix321 (talk) 20:39, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

"hes or her" ???--Auric talk 22:26, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi

Hi. Thanks for trying to help with the camp article. I had already run reflinks. Did we have an ec? Your subsequent edit added in some material that does not belong -- such as "google books", and changed the date format from the already established (and appropriate) one. Thanks.--Epeefleche (talk) 23:47, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I use the Interactive type of Reflinks, and that requires you to check each cite. This takes time, and when I finished, I saved. I admit I rushed as much as I could and probably left some unintended bits uncorrected - such as "google books". The date format is the one automatically used by the tool.--Auric talk 23:53, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

I do appreciate your help. I did it a few refs at a time, and cleaned out cruft (such as "Google books" and "non-publisher publisher info," and input the American date format. I'm now putting in some of the info that reflinks did not pick up. I'm a bit astounded at the speedy nomination.--Epeefleche (talk) 23:56, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Shocklach

In reply to your comment you left on my article 'Shocklach', I removed the content from 'Shocklach' to 'Shocklach Oviatt' which is a civil parish in Shocklach, as the information is now more precise and appropriate to Shocklach Oviatt. In future I will ensure that I describe why I removed content. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gdsouza1 (talk • contribs) 18:44, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Advice

Hi Auric, you have been a great help and example to me since I became an editor and I was hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction. I have a user conduct issue with one user 'Unbiased&fair' that I haven't been able to resolve. I have tried Article talk page discussion, User talk page discussion, detailed edit summaries on the page in question, and I constantly receive allegations of "vandalism." Most recently I warned the user for a personal attack and they just copied it and pasted it back on my Talk page. I have gone out of my way to be helpful and have tried ignoring the user but they refuse to assume good faith and personal attacks continue. Any advice would be appreciated. thanks. FlatOut 12:36, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Wow, this is a mess. I'd say you both are in need of some cooldown time. See WP:NOTBATTLE. Also, insisting on cites in every paragraph is not reasonable. Removing them without discussion can look like vandalism. You both should read WP:EQ. --Auric talk 14:51, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your input, much appreciated. FlatOut 01:27, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Washington Wizards 2013 season edits

I understand your misunderstanding on my marking it vandalism. The first edit in the series of edits, that I reverted to WAS vandalism (it even included profanity.) There were a series of good faith edits after that attempting to fix the problem by simply making it non-offensive. However, that information is not relevant to the 2013 season information, but instead goes on the biography page of the player in question. If the team had released a press statement about it, that would go on the team page, but otherwise it would go on the talk page. However, I do not feel this is worth an edit war over, so I am leaving the next move up to you. If you want we can discuss it further before coming to a resolution. I have already created a subject on the talk page about it. Thank You for understanding. --Robert Wm "Ruedii" (talk) 09:14, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Minor edits?

I have a feeling that you've inadvertently set "minor" as your default, which should not apply to this string of edits, for example. Thought you'd want to know. -- Scray (talk) 05:39, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

You can't set minor as a default anymore, but I see those edits as minor, because they are to the references only.--Auric talk 11:34, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Help

It was a minor eidt and not an autobiography. How to add pics in it? This is the link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farid_Khan

Your username is "BeingFaridKhan" and you created the page Farid Khan. That sounds like an autobiography to me. To upload images see WP:Upload.--Auric talk 19:57, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Farid Khan

Hi. I can't see any mention of Farid Khan in [9]. Am I missing something? Thanks, Captain Conundrum (talk) 22:15, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Yes. The article says he won bronze for Tennis at the Punjab Olympic Games, while attending the school. Cite says "Tennis 3rd place: FCC". Bronze is awarded for third place. I'd be happier with a clearer source, but this is the closest I could find.--Auric talk 22:28, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

Well then I'll correct the text to say that the FCC team won it, as we have no evidence yet that he went there, or that he was on the team. Thanks, Captain Conundrum (talk) 11:28, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Thousand words picture

Are you sure that Thousand words picture is a photographic artwork? You categorised it as such but I think the blog entry may be a photograph of an artwork created by other means. The article could use more info, if you have it. Thanks. - Sitush (talk) 09:50, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Your change is a nice fix for this vague situation. Good stuff. - Sitush (talk) 19:14, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of The World Is Round

The article The World Is Round has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

No indication of notability, no third-party sources.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Huon (talk) 19:06, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Silvio Fazio page

Hi Auric, on the Fazio's page we still have the "flag" for the first version that had been translated automatically. The current page it's correct, I think. If you want, you can cancel the old one. See you soon, Assodicoppe — Preceding unsigned comment added by Assodicoppe (talk • contribs) 15:31, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Urination

Phew this was an old edit! I changed this to read Some males prefer to urinate sitting down, notably practising Muslim men for whom this is associated with cleanliness practices or [[awra] This also eliminates the second cite needed - My mark: ¿3/5 (could do better? Regards Timpo (talk) 07:44, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

All fine and good, but what about the cite? It makes no sense.--Auric talk 10:35, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

YYYY-MM-DD

Your recent edit to Internet in prisons, and subsequent edits to that article, have led me to believe that the YYYY-MM-DD date format is confusing. I have made that point on the relevant MOS talk page. Would you like to weigh into the discussion? Peter Chastain (talk) 21:14, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Template data is here

Hey Auric

I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :).

So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere.

What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default.

The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:29, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Lidt of winx episodes

can you make the change on the site undo and asking for a semi block? cause they ignore the to do list rules they post date an title before it airing--87.161.215.57 (talk) 12:09, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter

Hey Auric. We've just rolled out a new version of the VisualEditor :). Changes and patches include:

• Newly added templates now list their available parameters if TemplateData is available;
• The load for the VisualEditor on apages is now 4 KiB, down from 119 KiB;
• Feedback dialog is no longer chased off the screen by typing (bug 50538)
• Fixed the Monobook issues around z-indexes (bug 50241)
• Undoing an image resize doesn't make everything look bad
• In the image dialog, "Caption content" is now just "Caption"
• Tweaked tooltip references to VisualEditor to instead talk about "source mode"

Those are the big ones; more coming at the end of this week or early next week :). It's a short list, but the load issue took up a lot of time, as did TemplateData, and are both pretty big changes. If you've got any questions, drop them on my talkpage. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 01:17, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Kryptonite

About reverting to the previous edit before mine: The information about Uranium is misleading, and is itself unsourced. I had simply removed it. Uranium emits alpha radiation that cannot get through skin, so unless you eat it there should be no issue, and the fiction-based Kryptonite article can't really get into specifics, so I wanted to remove the impression that Uranium radiation was harmful. Uranium is, however, chemically toxic like lead. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium#Human_exposure

Reliable Sources Noticeboard

This is to inform all interested editors that there is a discussion underway at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Roy Maloy and the Record Holders Republic regarding one of the references in the article Roy Maloy. Input from all interested editors is invited. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 20:44, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter

Hey Auric! We've just deployed some fixes to the VisualEditor. These include:

• "Edit" will load the latest version, not the version you're looking at (bug 49943)
• "Edit" will load the latest version, not the version you edited last time if this is your second edit (bug 50441)
• VE edit section links will load the latest, not original, version in diff view preview (bug 50925)
• <big><big>Foo</big></big> and similar repeated tags will not get corrupted any more (bug 49755)

In the meantime, testing is proceeding well, and hopefully we can get some more fixes out over the next couple of days. If you're interested in helping out, we have a set of open tasks we'd really appreciate your assistance with :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 07:55, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

VE newsletter

Hey Auric

We just deployed another VisualEditor release; bugs fixed include:

• Firefox 13/14 has been temporarily blacklisted, to avoid the insertion of broken links [[./that look like this]] (50720)
• Changing a reference in a template should no longer produce the bright red "you don't have a references block!" error (bugzilla:50423)
• Notices are now shown if you're editing a protected or semi-protected page (bugzilla:50415)
• The template inspector will no longer invite you to insert parameters that are already being used (50715)
• Same as above, but with aliases (50717)
• Parameter names in the template dialogue now word-wrap (50800)
• The link inspector will not show in the top left if you hit the return key while opening it (49941)
• Hitting return twice in the link editor will no longer introduce a new line that overwrites the link (51075)
• Oddly-named categories no longer cause corruption (50702)
• The toolbar no longer occasionally covers the cursor (48787)
• Changing the formatting of text no longer occasionally scrolls you upwards (50792)

Not specific bugs, but other things; cacheing is now improved, so people should stop seeing temporary breaking when the VisualEditor updates, and RTL support has received some patches. I hope this newsletter is helpful to people; I'll send out another one with the next deployment :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 10:05, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

VE newsletter

Hey Auric! Another set of patches :). Today we have:

• Required template parameters are now automatically added to new templates (50747)
• Templates with piped links now display correctly when you alter them (50801)
• If your edit token expires, you're now informed of it (50424).

  You still won't be able to save - that's due to be fixed on Monday :).

More on Monday, I suspect. Hope you have a good weekend :). I should also have some news about the IP launch pretty soon. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 13:13, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

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VE newsletter

Hey Auric; hope you had a decent weekend :). We've got a pile of patches, some of which went out on Monday, some yesterday:

• If you insert wikitext such as links or section headers, you get a notice in the top right corner (over the save button). It doesn't go away until click, though once dismissed you don't get another one that edit. (49820)
• If your edit token expires, VE fetches a new one for you so you can save. (50424)
• If the page is empty of content but does have something non-content (like a category or an HTML comment), VE no longer crashes on load - (50289)
• sub tags are no longer removed ((49873)
• If you type at the end of links, they now extend
• Templates now only take a single click to insert
• Clear annotations clears links (50461)
• The link inspector stays open when you click to another item (50895)
• Typing after multi-byte characters no longer creats pawn icons (51140)
• Resizing thumbnails that have a default size set now works (50645)
• References made by tag:ref now display properly (bugzilla:50978)
• The VE is integrated with the spam blacklist (50826)
• Feedbacl link goes to the right language (bugzilla:47730)

There are a lot more improvements coming, but that's it for Monday and Tuesday. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 08:15, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Sandra Vergara

You know what, I just deleted my first comment on this page and am replacing it with the suggestion that we list 11 Septiembre 1988 as Sandra's dob (but in English obviously). I had earlier seen various dob's for her but when I correct for the fact that there is at least one other semi-famous actress with that name (in Peru) then I really only see the 1988 dates, specifically the 11 Sept one.

Thanks, Dusty|💬|You can help! 16:10, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

VE newsletter

Hey Auric. The newest updates:

• Links now don't extend over space/punctuation/workbreaks when you type (bugzilla:51463)
• Users with the "minoredit" preference set get working functionality (bugzilla:51515)
• You can tab to buttons in dialogs, including the save dialog (bugzilla:50047)
• We now show the <newarticletext> (or <newarticletextanon>) message as an edit notice (bugzilla:51459)
• You can scroll dialog panels like in transclusions' templates' parameter listings (bugzilla:51739)
• Templates that only create meta-data and no display content at all (like Template:Use dmy dates) now can't be deleted accidentally or deliberately, but still don't show up (bugzilla:51322)
• FlaggedRevisions integration (bugzilla:49699)
• Edit summary will get the section title pre-added if you launched from a section edit link (bugzilla:50872)

Along with some miscellaneous language support fixes. That's all for today; as always, let us know if you spot more bugs. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:50, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Jacob Zuma Rape Trial: Revealing the Name of his accuser

Note also that this person has an article on the Dutch Wikipedia: Fezeka Kuzwayo.--Auric talk 00:49, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

The accuser is a friend, and I removed her name to protect her from harm. Not theoretical harm, but actual physical harm. Please remove her name MrAtoz (talk) 22:23, 24 July 2013 (UTC)MrAtoz

I have done as requested.--Auric talk 17:43, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Archive links

Hi! About this, I should have indicated when content was available. The Space Moose website was active from 1996 to 2003, so content in those years works. For other years, it may return bad results WhisperToMe (talk) 14:58, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for making that clear.--Auric talk 17:26, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

You are welcome :) WhisperToMe (talk) 02:01, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Carpet#Antique carpets

I thought you'd like to know. I just don't know what to make of it. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:57, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter for 06 August 2013

It's been almost two weeks since the last newsletter, and a lot of improvements have been made during that time. The main things that people have noticed are significant improvements to speed for typing into long pages (T54012), scrolling (T54014) and deleting (T54013) on large pages. There have also been improvements to references, with the latest being support for list-defined references, which are <ref>s defined inside a <references> block (T53741). Users of Opera 12 and higher have had their web browser removed from the browser black-list, mostly as a result of work by a volunteer developer (T38000). Opera has not been fully white-listed yet, so these users will get an additional warning and request to report problems.

Significant changes were made to the user interface to de-emphasize VisualEditor. This has cut the use of VisualEditor by approximately one-third. You can read about these at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Updates/August 1, 2013, but they include:

• Re-ordering links to the editors to put "Edit source" first and VisualEditor second
• Renaming the link for VisualEditor to "Edit^beta"
• Disabling the animation for section editing.
• Changing all labels for the classic wikitext editor to say "Edit source", regardless of namespace.

There have also been many smaller fixes, including these:

• Horizontal alignment of images working correctly on more pages (T53995)
• Categories with ':'s in their names (like Category:Wikipedia:Privacy) now work correctly (T53902)
• Magic JavaScript gadgets and tools like sortable tables will now work once the page is saved (T53565)
• Keyboard shortcut for "clear annotations" - now Control+\ or ⌘ Command+\ (T53507)
• Fixed corruption bugs that led to duplicate categories (T54238) and improper collapsing when multiple new references were added in a row (T54228).
• Improvements to display elements: The save dialog in Monobook is restored to normal size (T52058), pop-up notices on save now look the same in VisualEditor as in wikitext editor (T41632), and the popup about using wikitext has a link to the definition of wikitext that now opens in a new window (T54093)

Most of the Wikimedia Foundation staff is traveling this week and next, so no updates are expected until at least August 15th. If you're going to be in Hong Kong for Wikimania 2013, say hello to James Forrester, Philippe Beaudette, and the other members of the VisualEditor team.

As always, if you have questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback and ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) 23:17, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

There is a mop reserved in your name

You are a remarkably exemplar editor. You would be a good administrator in my opinion, and you are qualified! You personify an Administrator without tools, and have gained my support; already!

So, what do you think? Would you like to become an admin? buffbills7701 21:33, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Sure!--Auric talk 23:57, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Any chance I can persuade you to withdraw while you're ahead? The pile-on opposers are starting to tank the RfA (33% 34% support rate at the time of writing). To me, the logical choice at this point would be to withdraw while you're still ahead, and try again in due time. Though we haven't had much interaction, I think you're a good editor from what I've seen, as I've scrounged through your contributions/interactions. Signalizing (talk) 21:40, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Correcting my stats. Signalizing (talk) 21:42, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I struck out my acceptance. Sorry I didn't see your message until just now. --Auric talk 02:10, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Your RfA

Hey Auric. I have taken care of closing your RfA. I am sad you didn't pass, and I wish you luck if you ever run again. Cheers! — ΛΧΣ²¹ 02:15, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

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