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18:04, 12 September 2016 (UTC)

22:08, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Module:HS listed building

Hi Jackmcbarn, recently, there's been an effort to move the #coordinates call that Template:Coord does separately into Module:Coordinates. This almost became stable until a compatibility issue with Module:HS listed building was noted, that the direct Module call is no longer working. I've made updates to Module:HS listed building/sandbox (testcases) and intend to sync it in a few days when the Coordinates template and module go live with the #coordinates call moved. — Andy W. (talk ·ctb) 20:17, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

@Andy M. Wang: Why did you change it to make it go out to the parser to run Template:Coord, that will just in turn have to go back to Lua to run Module:Coordinates, when it previously just called the module directly? Your first change to just remove the parser function call while keeping the module call seemed correct. Jackmcbarn (talk) 22:21, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
Hi Jackmcbarn, this revision still caused red errors (nil global frame) at Template:HS listed building row/testcases (though let me try it one more time). I'm not well-versed enough to discern whether there's a way to call the module directly without the issues. Restored the revision you suggested, but not getting the results — Andy W. (talk ·ctb) 22:24, 20 September 2016 (UTC) 22:28, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
@Andy M. Wang: Ah. What's actually happening there is that Module:HS listed building has stricter bug-checking than Module:Coordinates does, so there's no problem at all in the former; rather, it's uncovered a bug in the latter, namely that there's no variable called "frame" in scope on line 657 when it tries to reference one. I'll see if I can figure that out. Jackmcbarn (talk) 23:18, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
@Andy M. Wang: Okay, I confirmed my theory by adding the same bug-checking to Module:Coordinates/sandbox, which made it break everywhere with that error. I found and fixed that error, so now it seems to work everywhere. Jackmcbarn (talk) 23:26, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
Oh wow, that's great! Thanks for looking into this. I plan on re-syncing when I'm confident that other modules don't have this coordinates situation. — Andy W. (talk ·ctb) 23:31, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

Extended confirmed protection

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18:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment (United States)

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21:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Precious

templates and modules

Thank you for helping newbies and biting vandals, for creating templates and modules, for concise arguments and clever solutions, - user with fluent mathematical skills, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:15, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Three years ago, you were recipient no. 1481 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:46, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Re: "minor" reverts of edits that aren't vandalism

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He explained in the summary of this other, identical edit that wasn't marked as minor that he thought these citations inappropriate as the websites are promotional in nature.

It's subjective, but "I don't think these are appropriate references" is not the same as reverting unambiguous vandalism. I don't generally like using references that weren't written by professional scholars (I think Wikipedia would be a better encyclopedia if topics not covered in scholarly literature did not get articles), but most Wikipedians, including, no doubt, Burninthruthesky, appear to disagree. And most "reliable sources" are trying to sell the audience something (that's what advertising revenue does), so the difference between what Burninthruthesky calls "references" and what he calls "promotional websites" is never going to be agreed on by everyone, which means marking those edits as minor is almost certainly inappropriate.

I only looked at the two most recent ones (where he reverted named accounts rather than IPs, mind you).

Hijiri 88 (やや) 00:56, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

(edit conflict) What!? This has never happened before when starting a new section on someone's user talk page. Hijiri 88 (やや) 00:57, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

@Hijiri88: I didn't see those ones. I agree with you in that case. And what was the "this" that happened when you posted here? Jackmcbarn (talk) 01:00, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
Edit conflict. No idea what happened, because the diff only showed my edit not happening, and now I have two edits included in the history. It seems my comment was posted successfully but I was shown a screen that indicated I had an edit conflict, and then edited my comment to address this, but it showed up as two separate edits... Hijiri 88 (やや) 01:33, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

20:30, 10 October 2016 (UTC)


hillary

Because failing to do so just made the news:

Someone will have to go through november 9th and drop them back down to a more reasonable level. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geni (talkcontribs) 21:31, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

16:42, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

17:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

  Try this! Greek food is great! It's really is. Plus, I think you should try new foods. Apap04 (talk) 02:21, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

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16:18, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

23:01, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

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Dear Jackmcbarn,

I was new to Wikipedia and tried to edit our company's site - Omixon. Our page was deleted. Now I know and undertstand why. May I ask you to restore it - to the original content - ignoring all my edits made on the 14th of November?

Thank you very much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Norinagy (talkcontribs) 15:27, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

19:17, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi Jackmcbarn.

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) 13:47, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

New Page Review needs your help

Hi Jackmcbarn,

As an AfC reviewer you're probably aware that a new user right has been created for patrolling new pages (you might even have been granted the right already, and admins have it automatically).

Since July there has been a very serious backlog at Special:NewPagesFeed of over 14,000 pages, by far the worst since 2011, and we need an all out drive to get this back down to just a few hundred that can be easily maintained in the future. Unlike AfC, these pages are already in mainspace, and the thought of what might be there is quite scary. There are also many good faith article creators who need a simple, gentle push to the Tea House or their pages converted to Draft rather than being deleted.

Although New Page Reviewing can occasionally be somewhat more challenging than AfC, the criteria for obtaining the right are roughly the same. The Page Curation tool is even easier to use than the Helper Script, so it's likely that most AfC reviewers already have more than enough knowledge for the task of New Page Review.

It is hoped that AfC reviewers will apply for this right at WP:PERM and lend a hand. You'll need to have read the page at WP:NPR and the new tutorial.

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15:33, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

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Please comment on Talk:The Apprentice (UK TV series)

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21:16, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

18:07, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected

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19:29, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

  The Admin's Barnstar
Thank you very much for unblocking me and helping me to know the principles of editing for Wikipedia! Thank you for chatting with me and helping me recognise the 'show preview' button. Pkbwcgs (talk) 19:47, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
  You earn a cookie for consideration to Wikipedia and for helping out me and other people. Pkbwcgs (talk) 19:51, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

20:33, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Notice

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Please comment on Talk:Andy Murray

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Hello

I'm new here and just wanted to say hello. Where do I start? --BotCreat0r (talk) 13:18, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Jackmcbarn!

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Request(s) for revision deletion

In the edit history for the page Arjun Kapoor, there is a veritable cesspool of completely inappropriate, degrading, and offensive edit summaries directed at User:Sro23. I believe that many of them meet the criterion of "Grossly insulting, degrading, or offensive material" listed on WP:RD and don't contribute to a positive experience on Wikipedia. A few that I found were https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arjun_Kapoor&oldid=758808991, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arjun_Kapoor&oldid=758808471, and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arjun_Kapoor&oldid=758813472 goose121 (talk) 03:13, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

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