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Some links for search on browsers

Graham Nasby site enhanced, UAs in UK, July 1994, UAs in France, August 1995, UAs in Thailand, April 1996, UAs in Russia, June 1996, UAs in UK, October 1996. Bonus: HD screenshot, HEWLETT-PACKARD version of Mosaic without README, place to search by date, no coercive "relevance". Regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.66.221.90 (talk • contribs) 20:23, 10 September 2012

More on xmosaic.hp700 I guess (a readme related with MIT inside BTW): 20 Jan 93>23 Jan 93>Rob Harper>COMSAT Labs - MIT (what happened with INRIA?)>William Perry#>Cello>again Rob Harper and IU>PM>Redundancy>Keine weitere Information vorhanden.

A lil forbidden list, from a Latin country-coded place (!!!): o.o O.O ºoº. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.54.153.213 (talk) 17:07, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Wow, thanks. I will check what I can do with these links. Be Bold! and insert them on your own if you want. And don't forget to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~) mabdul 06:46, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Wasn't able to sign 'em without an account, so I prefer to show my electronic address(es). Besides, you're the guy whom Raggett himself talked with, a worthy one of any eventual credit. Found a bit more: [1][2][3][4][5]. All the best. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 177.2.173.142 (talk • contribs) 23:31, 29 September 2012

Log in

Hi - I have only just joined, but find it frustrating when logging in to be give "incorrect password" - This has happened many times, and, then suddenly, I get in. I sent an email to W. I changed my temporary password for a new one and yet again after a few times, this was rejected. Asked for newpassword, received and changed to original password - again rejected - what is going on,please. Can you send me a reply by email to (Redacted) this is because there are so many instructions that I find it difficult to follow although highly educated,lol. Derek — Preceding unsigned comment added by Derek Baker (talk • contribs) 10:23, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

I'm really sorry that I hadn't the time to respond. I was leaving a notice at your talk page because I was slight confused by your original comment you made at the 'Request an Account Interface' and thus I tried to explain for what kind of service you requested an account. You can always request to get a new password by going to Special:PasswordReset and entering your email Address and your username. Still keep in mind: Wikipedia is not connected to Facebook, any Google services, MSN/Hotmail, Skype or any other service! Wikipedia is created by an independent foundation called Wikimedia foundation. mabdul 22:20, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Um....

I thought we spoke about this. It's now half-way through October. I'm still waiting. I'd be happy to put together a nomination statement, if you'd like. Achowat (talk) 16:12, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

I had intended to nom him in a few weeks/months. He's definitely me highest candidate for adminship. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 14:51, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

I never said no... Surprise me, and please send it to me by mail first! mabdul 00:45, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Author with copyright problem

Could you offer some copyright advice at User talk:Glrx#Radio atmospheric figures? Thanks. Glrx (talk) 16:10, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Mmmh, after checking the user's history and the relevant talkpages / article histories... you did a great job, I have nothing to add except maybe the OTRS stuff... One moemnt, I will post that on his talk. mabdul 00:16, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/SFBA

Hello Mabdul. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/SFBA, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: this was restored after the MfD because the project asked to keep it - see Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index#Possible cleanup. Thank you. JohnCD (talk) 22:39, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

The MfD should be changed, I don't know how I saw the last edit by CBM, but somehow I though it was something against "consensus"... Thanks for digging it up. mabdul 00:58, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

I have added a note to the talk page. JohnCD (talk) 10:30, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #28

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Development
  • Published draft about how information flow from Wikidata repository to client should work
  • Updated the demo system
  • Validation results of Wikidata’s HTML
  • Implemented the API serialization of entities in the API serializers
  • Updated the getentities API module to use the API serializers
  • Worked on implementation of data model in JavaScript
  • Fixed diff view for entities other than Items
  • Created a simple script to fill the test database with properties for chemical elements
  • Moved most of the JavaScript code into WikibaseLib
  • Improved code for Recent Changes on the client
  • Prepared for experiments with Apache Solr
  • Fix core bugs that appeared after ContentHandler branch merge and deployment on some Wikimedia wikis
  • Fixed a bug that make it possible to store links to invalid pages
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Wikidata weekly summary #29

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Development
  • Content Handler is now live on Wikipedia and sister sites
  • Prefix term search for entities
  • Fixed bugs that popped up after Content Handler merge
  • API function wbsearchentities
  • Discussed JavaScript refactoring
  • Refactored some JavaScript stuff (like options handling)
  • Worked on JavaScript refactoring regarding the API
  • Implemented entity selector jQuery widget
  • Continued deployment work with WMF
  • Poked at Vagrant
  • Create puppet scripts for setting up Wikibase instances
  • New release of Pywikidata
• Discussions/Press
  • Discussions around bots on the mailing list
• Events
  • Bootstrapping Awesome
  • SMWCon
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Jenkins test results are now online (we’re still investigating why quite some of them are failing atm)
  • Nice video about the why and how of Open Data
• Open Tasks for You
  • Main Page draft is taking shape but you can still help out with it: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Main_Page_draft
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Economic Journal entry

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The Economic Journal (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Dear Mabdul,

Thanks for your suggestions for the Economic Journal page. One of the notes suggests that the list of current and past editors for the Economic Journal may not be relevant to the entry. Can you explain why you think this is the case? I thought the list of editors was significant to the explanation of the Journal (many other wiki entries for journals list the current editors). The past editors are also significant because many of these are very famous economists.

If you could advise that would be much appreciated.

all best

Stephanie — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sseavers (talk • contribs) 15:51, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi

I guess you are talking about this edit I made a few days ago.

I see many problems with this list: first it is not verifiable, second you have always to ask you one question: Would you except such a list, if you open a classic encyclopedia (so a book) like Encyclopædia Britannica? I would guess no, but this is the point: If I'm searching for information about a magazine, company, whatever, I do not exspect a "up to date list" of any advisor board, CEOs or editors. This doesn't help me (as reader) to understand why this company, magazine (etc) is notable and why it has an entry in the encyclopedia. Sadly many Wikipedia editors forget (or ignore) that Wikipedia is not a Linkedin, Facebook, or a page where to place ads.

I hope that help. Regards, mabdul 14:30, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Edit Request on 19th October 2012 for Malls in India page on wikipedia

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I am from Karnataka, Please add Malls in Gulbarga also in under "Malls in Karnataka" sub heading. Asian Mall in Gulbarga was opened by Hon'ble Central Minister Mr Mallikarjun Kharge on 19th Feb 2012.

Sources are as below

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article2898601.ece?css=print http://nammagulbarga.com/gulbarga-news/grand-launch-of-asian-mall-gulbarga-on-19th-feb-2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do3uD4ei2_c — Preceding unsigned comment added by — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.237.142.10 (talk) 10:01, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for improve Wikipedia! mabdul 20:57, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

cleanup-HTML

Hi. Apologies if I added the cleanup-HTML tag inappropriately. What I was trying to tag the article for was its excessive use of links to external websites instead of wikilinking to internal articles. I removed the wikify tag as it is now deprecated, and replaced it with a current tag (underlinked). Hope this explains my edit. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Del_♉sion23 (talk) 23:52, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Butterz.png)

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 – Image was only replaced with an up-to-date version. mabdul 18:08, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #30

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• Development
  • Launched wikidata.org \o/
  • Updated http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Change_propagation (We need feedback on the data flow from Wikidata to the Wikipedias http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064196.html)
  • Updated the demo system: http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de
  • Tagged a 0.1 release https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase.git;a=tags
  • Added QUnit tests for DataValues
  • Worked on Api.js JS refactoring
  • Fix content handler and other related core bugs
  • Generalized Autocomment
  • Changed name of wbsetitem to wbeditentity
  • First implementation of wbsearchentities
  • More Puppet scripts and Vagrant exploration
  • All of the API should now handle prefixed IDs
  • Implemented templating system
  • Browser code and server code both starts to use templates
  • Jeroen and Daniel were added as primary authors of MediaWiki core for their work on the Content Handler
• Discussions/Press
  • “wikidata.org is live” got quite some responses in the press. Some examples: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/wikidata-oeffnet-als-zentrale-datenbank-fuer-wikipedia-a-864649.html and http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Wikidata-Daten-Fundus-fuer-Wikipedia-eroeffnet-1740780.html
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You have a message

Hello, Mabdul

Sorry for bothering you but I dropped you a message on your Wikimedia Commons talk page several days ago but I still haven't received a response. Could you please attend?

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 09:27, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, I recognized. I was rethinking multiple times what he means: either that OTRS should send Oracle a mail to clarify the situation or he knows that there is already a ticket id and somebody should check it. ATM I'm simply to busy to check OTRS. Maybe ask Steven Zhang (talk · contribs) (seems back from his break). mabdul 18:21, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Champion Energy Logo

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The image below is an older version of the Champion Energy Logo. You can find the correct, registered trademark, version here: http://test.championenergyservices.com/designpreview/images/CES-Logo-RGB-1920x1080.png

File:Champion Energy logo.png

Martin.r.pepper (talk) 22:41, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Note: I removed the image and converted it to a link since non-free images shouldn't be used outside of mainspace. Legoktm (talk) 23:04, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Although I don't really see the difference, I uploaded now the "correct" version. Regards, mabdul 07:58, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

/* Edit Request on 1st November 2012 */

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 – added. mabdul 09:50, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

List of shopping malls in India (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Hello Please add Kandur mall to Malls in India page under Karnatal-->Gulbarga. This mall was opened in 2011. Please check below link for details

http://nammagulbarga.com/gulbarga-news/kandoor-mall-gulbarga-the-right-place-for-right-things-new-shopping-experience — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.96.71.70 (talk) 08:49, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

/* Edit Request on 31st October 20122 */

List of shopping malls in India (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Hello Madhu Thanks for updating the Wiki page and including Gulbarga's Asian Mall. Please could you change the built up area to 2.7 laks. As the Asian Malls Built up area is 2,70,000 sqft. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sunilkullu (talk • contribs) 09:17, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

see two sections deeper. mabdul 09:50, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Hello There Thanks for adding Asian Mall in Gulbarga in "Malls in India" wiki page. But the build up area of Asian Mall Gulbarga is 2.7 lacs Sq ft( 2,70,000 sq ft). So please could you append the same in built up area column instead of 20,000 sq ft. Thanks

Reference is below:

http://www.asianbuilders.info/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 14.96.71.70 (talk) 08:43, 1 November 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sunilkullu (talk • contribs)

Can you point me to the direction? I didn't found that statement; the 20,000 sq ft are from the first source ([6]). mabdul 09:50, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Hello

The build up area of Asian Mall Gulbarga is 2.7 lacs Sq ft( 2,70,000 sq ft). So please could you append the same in built up area column instead of 20,000 sq ft. Thanks

http://www.asianbuilders.info — Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.16.128.122 (talk) 09:31, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Again, I can't find that statement in the given source. mabdul 10:42, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Need your advice regarding an article

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 – article draft was accepted. mabdul 20:25, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Hello, I have submitted an article which has been declined twice for reading like an advt. After the first review, I had written to the reviewer and made changes which the reviewer agreed were fine. Would appreciate if you can go through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Raptivity and give your opinion. Thx. RM (talk) 04:51, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

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Notice request

 mabdul 23:54, 3 December 2012 (UTC) Could you send User:MBisanz/deadmin to those listed in the fourth hat box of Wikipedia_talk:Administrators#Notifications? Thanks. MBisanz ^talk 04:23, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Will do when I'm back at home. mabdul 14:40, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

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I sent the development package via freenode MemoServ. Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 00:53, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

Regarding AFCH v4.1.16b3

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So, if you didn't see my comment over at WT:AFC, I wanted to tell you that I updated the beta script for you to work on. Please fork it, because I want to try and get more testers on b2 while you fix bugs. I'll also update the dev page with info on what needs to be done (look under "Under development"). Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 17:51, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

(ping) Marking is crashing again, and commenting appears to be not adding the extra space between the comment and the signature. Any status on when you can get started, or should I try and fix them? Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 01:00, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

(ping) Any news? --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 03:49, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Welsh / iw Infoboxes

Hi Mabdul. I've left a message for you on my talk page. Thanks. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 06:56, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Bot request granted on the Welsh language Wiki! Diolch yn fawr! I'll also make a Bot request for cy:Defnyddiwr:BOT-Twm Crys so that I can learn at the feet of a Master. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 20:25, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

I have access now on en. Thanks. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 23:53, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

I have a CSV file with two columns: the first is the name of the article. The second column contains the second / Gaelic word for the Scottish town. I've created around 500 articles on Scottish towns and villages. Now, I need to use AWB to substitute a marker (?) which is in every article, with the new Gaelic word (the second column). Can you help me please? I need to replace the marker with the second column entry. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 00:04, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Back to Infoboxes (using "infobox UK place"). I've successfully created a module, with around 12 fields e.g. static_image, post_code... It writes the list into the Project folder on C: - but only the fields you originally typed in! i.e.

"List of places in Bedfordshire"

Apsley End~England~51.9934~-0.36804

Aspley Guise~England~52.0126~-0.6285

Barton-le-Clay~England~51.9669~-0.4241

The "Make List > Source is set at "Category". I've double checked my additional fields in Modules e.g.

String static_image_caption="~";

m = Regex.Match(ArticleText, @"static_image_caption\s*=\s*([^\r\n\|]+)");

if (m.Success) static_image_caption = m.Result("~$1");

Any pointers, please? Llywelyn2000 (talk) 10:23, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Give me around 12h, maybe 24h and I will do it or point you to the correct direction. I have already the list finished for all parameters and extracted the information. I need only a way to get the cy names automatical (alternatively this is a manual job). mabdul 13:01, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi. Take a look at my talk page please. I'm nearly there. Show me how and I'll do it again; do it for me and I'll never learn! Thanks. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 14:42, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Moving a page

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Hi Mabdul, inspired by this thread on the bureaucrats' noticeboard, I noticed your recent edit to remove a mention of an old bug from the page mentioned in the heading title. Because the bug has caused bizarre oddities in contribution histories, I've undone your edit and improved the description of the bug (with an example). Hope you don't mind. I'm not hellbent on a description of that bug staying in that particular place forever and ever amen, but the bug should be documented somewhere! Graham87 16:51, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Mmmh, looking back to that edit I see why I did that, but moreover I understand why you reverted that/why this is still important. Finding stuff in bugzilla is neither easy nor is it usable for most enwp editors. Such an BRD edit is totally okay! Thanks for informing. mabdul 20:24, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Holiday cheer

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		Holiday Cheer
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Thanks. mabdul 20:24, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

A(n) <insert name of WikiLove here> for you!

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	The let's-nag-mabdul-about-the-afc-script barnstar!
	Merry Christmas! And because you know it's coming, how goes the work on the script? Nathan2055talk - contribs 17:02, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

This holiday season...

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		Festivus for the rest of us!
		Frank Costanza: "Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way." Cosmo Kramer: "What happened to the doll?" Frank Costanza: "It was destroyed. But out of that a new holiday was born: a Festivus for the rest of us!" Kramer: "That must have been some kind of doll." Frank Costanza: "She was." This holiday season, have a fantastic Festivus! —Theopolisme 16:01, 25 December 2012 (UTC) Spread the Festivus Miracle by adding {{subst:User:Theopolisme/festivus}} to someone's talk page.

Thanks. mabdul 20:24, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

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VoxelBot Editing Frequency

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Hello Mabdul! You commented on our BRFA recently. It is going well and we are currently in trial. User:Legoktm has expressed his opinion that an edit every five minutes is too much. I don't want to sacrifice accuracy just to decrease the speed so I was wondering if you could take a look and comment saying what you think. Vacation^nine 18:23, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Script:saveandedit

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For some reason, I can't find how to install it? :/ Salvidrim! ✉ 21:37, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Nvm, got it by exploring your userspace. :) Salvidrim! ✉ 21:38, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

"ACC is heavily backlogged!" - You've got mail

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Hi, I have removed your quick SPI request[7], I have emailed you with my reasoning. (for privacy policy reasons) -- Cheers, Riley 12:37, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

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Deadlink for the article Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon

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Hello and hope you're having a good weekend;

I see that you've added a template for dead links on the page I created, Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon. I'm sorry to say that I haven't the time to search for available links which display the same info, but will try to find some. Will the article be deleted because of dead links? I hope not! --PrincessAlice13 (talk) 18:47, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

The Two Articles of the two persons you want to delete are famous , there is no any reasons to delete , Please stop trying to delette them .178.61.35.103 (talk) 13:14, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi, sry for the late response:

I never wanted to delete that article. I only marked some links as dead and marked that the article includes simple "bare urls" and should be formatted properly.

Why do you thought I wanted to delete that article?

Regards, mabdul 13:48, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

The IP user who told you not to delete articles wasn't me. I was only asking you if my article will be deleted as it has dead links. Maybe the other user should've created a new section for his/her query; as it doesn't really fit in this one. That's my question. And I know you weren't even intending to delete the article; you were trying to improve it! So thank you for notifying me about the dead links. I'll sort it out as soon as I have the time to :). --PrincessAlice13 (talk) 16:13, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Sorry for that assumption. New users regular forget to login. mabdul 16:35, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

That's OK. I hope you are enjoying your day! :) --PrincessAlice13 (talk) 16:47, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Yahya Arodaki

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Hi Mabdul. Sorry about that. I thought I was seeing the Arabic page itself. Putting it through Google translate showed my error :) You said you were going to PROD it -- are you planning to? --Stfg (talk) 17:39, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I will first try to find some source on google and waiting what happen to the other articles by this user... This one could at least be "notable", although I'm not really sure about that at the moment. mabdul 18:17, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Hi. At Racha Arodaky: I didn't understand "interwikilink is already available at wikidata". Is there a new system or something? --Stfg (talk) 14:40, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Never mind, I found it. --Stfg (talk) 14:45, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

No problem. The wikidata system is very new and thus not all pages have already an "entry" at wikidata. Moreover the existing interwiki link is still (additional) working. But we shouldn't add interwiki links any more over the former text solution. It helps us "later" to reduce the maintain cost/work of keeping the links up to date. Moreover: only a few Wikipedias (I believe 4 or 5) only use the new system at the moment. mabdul 15:44, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, that's clear. --Stfg (talk) 16:46, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

You've got mail!

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Hello, Mabdul. Please check your email; you've got mail!
Message added 04:57, 24 February 2013 (UTC). It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

—Theopolisme (talk) 04:57, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Answered. mabdul 16:35, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Cleanup

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Hello, Mabdul. You are invited to join WikiProject Cleanup, a WikiProject and resource for Wikipedia cleanup listings, information and discussion. To join the project, just add your name to the member list. Northamerica1000(talk) 16:09, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the invitation, but I think that most of the wikiprojects are useless for building an encyclopedia. This project is mostly only interesting for the interesting statistics. ;-) mabdul 16:35, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

AfC Helper beta

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Sorry if this is in the wrong place, but I didn't see a better place to comment on the beta of the AfC helper script (it seems a bit esoteric for WT:AFC). There's a bug in 4.1.16b2 with marking a page as under review. It errors out at line 1016:

Error: TypeError: text is undefined
Source File: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Mabdul/afc_beta.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript
Line: 1016

Other than that, it certainly seems an improvement over the current gadget version so far. —Darkwind (talk) 19:45, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, thanks. I know, maybe I get time to resolve that in a few weeks when I'm having holidays... mabdul 16:53, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

That bug has been fixed now hopefully. There might some other bugs! mabdul 14:27, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Thnks for Sky lantern

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Thanks for moving the references out of the way in the Sky lantern article!
However, I noticed that you changed some plain <ref>...</ref> entries to the {{cite...}} template. That is not a good idea. Those templates do nothing useful; they only make the entries longer (sometimes MUCH longer) and more difficult to read or edit. They also generate cryptic codes like "23(12)120-127" (that were invented by stingy publishers to save paper) instead of the reader-friendly "volume 23, issue 12, pages 120-127".
I will not bother to undo those edits, but be advised that changing plain refs into {{cite...}} templates is just a waste of your time, or worse.
All the best, --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 04:37, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Sorry?

Do I make now the references longer or shorter? Most references were horrible unstyled, didn't include any accessdates or date of publishing; no publisher or even no publisher.

Moreover I don't see any reference which is converter with the "cryptic" code. (And this is not cryptic, this is a well known citation style!)

Regards, mabdul 16:51, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Dear Mabdul,

Sorry if my comment sounded like a criticism. Of course I can only thank you for adding details that were missing in the refs. (If some of the refs that I added were missing the access date, that was an oversight, as I usually add it,) But I must insist that changing the format of plain refs to "cite" templates is not an improvement, on the contrary. I beg you to consider that. Af for the compact format being " well known" , that may be true among scholars, but it is certainly not among the general public that Wikipedia is supposed to serve.

All the best, --Jorge Stolfi (talk) --187.106.45.201 (talk) 17:50, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

RE: Article (Zardoze)

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Hi Mabdul, Thank you for your suggestions with my article submission,

I have amended the language of my piece to read more factually and have resubmitted it for approval, would greatly appreciate you guidance and advice on my newest submission.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tammilin (talk • contribs) 03:32, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

The section Distribution has many unreferenced claims;

why is the section Collections worth for a reader of an encyclopedia? Moreover it is completely unreferenced!

The section Background includes many designers and names - why are all these names relevant for a reader? I mean if they don't have a separate article at Wikipedia (so aren't notable) then they don't need to be mentioned mostly. Or did you miss to add any interesting for the reader?

Overall, the article has a real chance to get accepted as it seems to be notable (as indicated by the references).

Regards, mabdul 16:46, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Comparison of project-management software

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Hey,
Can you take a look at the talk page of Comparison of project-management software and give me any suggestions. I saw that you are an active editor on the page(replying to some questions on talkpage) so thought to take your opinion. Looking forward to your response. Thanks!!
--Inlandmamba _{(fruitful thought)} 16:32, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Requesting DELETION of out-dated USER-page

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Hi mabdul, I created User:Penwatchdog/Ballpoint_pen_article_re-write_prep as a prep-area for a full revision of the Ballpoint pen article. I've now already completed the revision, over a few sessions of direct-edits to the actual Ballpoint article. Now that User-page is no longer necessary. I noticed it also shows up on the internet when searching "ballpoint pen" (the actual Ballpoint article AND the User/prep article) and I'd like to delete the prep page to avert any confusion. How can I delete it myself, or what shall i do to have it deleted? (Other User pages I've created will be "moved" directly to become NEW articles, but the Ballpoint User-page was for an existing article, I realize maybe I shouldn't have created it in the first place?). Your advice or instruction is appreciated, thanks! Penwatchdog (talk) 02:43, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Actual you can't do it by your own, but you can request a deletion by placing {{db-u1}} at the top. (see Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#U1 for that case and other speedy deletion requests)

You have done everything correctly: user pages are exactly invented for preparing, creating and improving proposals, articles and other organization stuff.

Cleaning up (by deleting) old unused user pages is a good thing! mabdul 06:07, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

THANKS for taking the time for reply/advice, always very helpful. While awaiting your reply I investigated, myself, and proceeded as I thought proper. Seems as if I was successful, the page has been deleted. Another process learned! I'll be going-public with a new article in the next 24-hours, it will be Mona Lisa replicas or Mona Lisa replicas & reinterpretations (<is that too-long of a title?) which I'd also been composing on another User-page during free-time. Be sure to keep an eye out for it and send any thoughts/criticisms! Penwatchdog (talk) 02:55, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Oh, we have very long titles at Wikipedia. There isn't any real restriction except they have to be useful! Your article title is a short title.

I mean we have silly articles like How does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD? or Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything... mabdul 05:49, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

about using wikipedia pictures

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Can I use any image on wikipedia without copyright violation? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Asmita yendralwar (talk • contribs) 09:52, 21 March 2013

Depends: At the English Wikipedia are many images uploaded under " fair use". These can't be used. If an image is uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (click the image) then you can be sure that it is licensed under a free licensed like CC-BY-SA or GFDL. Please keep in mind that not every free license allows you to do everything with it. You have to name at least the original contributor(s) and in some cases you have to license a derivate under the same license! mabdul 13:15, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

yeah, what was that?

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how did that AfC template end up in my talk page? weird... FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 02:24, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Rather simply and a rare case: In this edit Rickylio (talk · contribs) requested a review, but the substitution of the template wasn't correctly saved in the database of Wikipedia, and thus in the next edit (by you) it was enlarged with you as submitter. A few edits later OrenBochman (talk · contribs) declined the submission [8] and the AFC Helper tool notified you (correctly). Regards, 13:53, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

thanks for the explanation! regards, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 13:56, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

User:FoCuSandLeArN

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I've been examining this user's edits in a number of areas. It all started when I saw him accepting a large number of Doncram's articles through AfC in a manner that seemed hasty. I've only had a chance to review a few AfC articles where I've noticed that he declined two articles that were obviously Copyvios for reasons other than copyvio, but need to look at more before I bring it up on the project talk page. Is there a way to get a list of all of his AfC reviews this month? Ryan Vesey 00:03, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

[9] Does this link help? It covers some more links, and maybe some submissions at the WP: userspace, but it tracks most submissions... mabdul 11:56, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

I hadn't considered that, thanks for the good idea. Ryan Vesey 23:25, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Programmer

Not all of these are on Wikidata yet. Could you please add them before removing the interwiki links. —Ruud 19:03, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name

This article is below 1,500 characters minimum. It's already raised in the nomination page. --George Ho (talk) 07:32, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for uploading the image and moving the page! 123.225.52.180 (talk) 16:06, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

It has been a week and there has been no response on the nomination page. The article remains at 923 prose characters. Please let us know whether the article will be expanded soon, or if the nomination is not being pursued further. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:24, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to WikiProject Breakfast

Hello, Mabdul. 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. Coolboygcp (talk) 05:08, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, but I don't think that most WikiProjects are useful, moreover this is not the genre I'm interested in. mabdul 19:14, 7 April 2013 (UTC) 

eM Client

Hi, I have removed the PROD as it has previously been at AFD, so is not eligible for PROD. GiantSnowman 13:45, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I didn't saw the the message by the PROD template because I had already closed the tab. I !voted at the AfD. Thx. mabdul 19:04, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Sophie Matisse by Penwatchdog

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Mabdul my friend, I've got another problem beyond the range of my abilities; briefly as possible: I've recently gone "live" with another new article for Sophie Matisse (I was able to quickly build an article from source material I came across while assembling Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations material, upon discovering she didn't have an article of her own). I'd compiled her sources and laid them out offline, then cleared out this&that I'd been storing in my main sandbox so I could move Sophie in and finalize her article there. I did so, but when I was finished and moved her article out of my sandbox, I noticed: my previous Sandbox activity unrelated to her article appears in the "View History" listings. There's nothing top-secret there, but I'd rather it NOT appear there; first of all those activities and the information showing there have nothing to do with Sophie and her article. Is there a procedure to DELETE everything PRIOR to the "Move" from that "View history"?? Penwatchdog (talk) 17:34, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

First a general note: you don't have to add the 4 tildes to the edit summaries, as they aren't rendered in the edit summary, moreover the time and the username is already "saved". (as you cansee in the history tab here.

Second to your actual problem: I would ask an admin at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen to fix the edit history including some useful hints like "revision numbers" (e.g. the last revision before the move includes the id 549027718 as you can see in the URL of [10])

I hope that helps you again.

I will read your new article tomorrow morning at work. ^^

Regards, mabdul 19:10, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

AFC Helper Script beta bugs

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 – Added to the lists at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Helper script/Development page

1. If you are accepting an article and check then un-check the BIO box, 3 of the PersonData checkboxes remain. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 23:39, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
2. If you have Wikiproject templates in the text to prepend to the talk page, it also gets prepended to the article page. Of course it's possible I pasted it in twice and didn't realize it :)
3. The user talk page gets updated before the article talk page, resulting in a redlink on the user talk page pointing to the article talk page. This redlink will turn blue within a few minutes as pages are purged.
4. The section title on the user talk page is still just

• Your submission at Articles for creation

  You had talked about including the article title.

• I frequently get a message that says there are <ref> tags after reflist and that I might not see all the references. See Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Future Cut for one example.

davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 02:13, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

No. 1 fixed

I added a new button for removing the |r| parameter (so that the submission is not longer reviewed).

Regarding to the talk page: I haven't ever seen that, are you sure that you didn't make a small mistake with c&p?

I will add the article title, still need some more time. ;-)

mabdul 06:13, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

No. 5 is fixed.

No. 3 is maybe fixed by a purge by the JS code after the completed move and edits... mabdul 14:01, 8 April 2013 (UTC) not ready, will do it tomorrow (or if I have time today evening...) mabdul 14:14, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Autopatrolled

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I noticed that Category:Template and disambiguation AfC submissions wasn't marked as patrolled. Consider requesting autopatrolled so your new pages don't show up in the new page patrol lists. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 23:09, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Autopatrolled is only useful when creating many mainspace articles and actually I don't create any mainspace articles. Moreover don't ask me, better request it for me (or whom ever you give this kind of tipp.) Regards, mabdul 04:14, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

AFC beta script request

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Have it so if I clear the submission but do NOT put the speedy delete tag on, it uses a template that does not say "may be deleted at any time without further notice. Please do not restore the content that was removed". Maybe a cross between what is there now and {{Courtesy blanked}}. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 04:31, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Do you have any example for me? mabdul 06:14, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Ah I see at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Marisa Russo.

I think it is better if we simply transclude the template in the {{afc cleared}} template. mabdul 06:35, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

I've modified Template:Afc cleared/sandbox so it suppresses " and may be deleted at any time without further notice" if the speedy-delete tags are also suppressed. See Template:Afc cleared/testcases to see how it looks. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 19:39, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

These pages were inadvertently deleted. I have requested restoration, and expect them to be restored within a day or so. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 01:29, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

YMMD... (at 7:30 in the morning) What irony... XD mabdul 05:36, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Hey, the changes look great. Yes, push them live. They are good. mabdul 07:51, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

done. Please allow time for the job queue to swallow this 500+-transclusion elephant. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 22:32, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Template:AFC submission/sandbox

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Are you done using Template:AFC submission/sandbox for now? If so, I would like to copy the main template on top if it and try out some changes to /Reviewing. Thanks. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 19:36, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Not used any more. mabdul 06:13, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Please stop Wikignome bot, you do not have community consensus for the task

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 – -.-

MBisanz is not the en.wiki community in its entirety. Your failure to gain timely community consensus for the task should never have constituted an emergency approval to complete the task in the face of any opposition.

And, since you redirect the bot talk page here, I do not expect to see you ignore this while continuing to bot edit.

-166.137.116.38 (talk) 16:49, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Request bot flag be removed

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 – -.-

2

[11]

Now that you've finished your task with an extended trial end-run around the rules. -68.107.137.178 (talk) 15:32, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Hellmilton Roller Ghouls

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 – answered. mabdul 18:17, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

A user has asked a question on an AFC submission you reviewed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Help desk#Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Hellmilton Roller Ghouls Stuck. Please could you take a look? Thanks. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 15:39, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pirates of the Caribbean timeline

There seems to be an error in the nomination, as it refers to an unrelated AFC for "The History of the Beatles". --Metropolitan90 (talk) 13:44, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

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Economy map response

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 – Discussion find its place at Mcnabber091's talk page. mabdul 12:30, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your advice and the editing tips.

I do believe this project is redundant. Wikidata and my project have different goals. Wikidata is a database. My project is an economic model.

There are many databases in the world. The World Bank has a ton of data. The IMF has a ton of data. Wikidata will be another huge collection of data.

The value added of this project is the specific combination of data presented on a single page. The exact combination of data provided is crucial because it is a very concise way to explain an economy. Economists can help determine the best way to present the information. It's comparable to the periodic table in Chemistry.

This project is specifically aimed to improve public understanding of the economy in a simple format. Wikidata would not address this problem since it's top goal is to be a database for all topics.

The Wikidata introduction page says, "(Wikidata) will allow easy reuse of that data by Wikimedia projects and third parties, and will enable computers to easily process and “understand” it."

I believe that the projects can be complimentary. The Wikimedia Foundation is a great collection of projects. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcnabber091 (talk • contribs) 17:21, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Ian K'ser

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 – Page was already resubmitted and again declined. mabdul 11:34, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

I fixed the markup and removed the doubled post so that it is readable! mabdul 07:51, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi Mabdul I am really appreciate your guidance in now my question is how to remove the images . Once I try didn't work.</ref>wimbi (talk) 05:21, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi Mabdul I am really appreciate your guidance in Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Ian K'ser now my question is how to remove them . Once I try didn't work.</ref>

Hi Mr. Mabdul I wonder don't see how or where to click to resubmit? Please, my best for your works if you don't mind tell me once again how to do this. Thank youwimbi (talk) 00:47, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

Note

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Hi Mabdul! You may want to know that your signature still links to your old userpage and thus redirects to this page. I do not know if you care, I just wanted to let you know if you were unaware. ceranthor 20:59, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

I don't understand?! mabdul redirects here, and the signature of my public account, too. Both wanted... 06:12, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Well they do now. No worries. ceranthor 16:20, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

File:PhilHealth logo.png missing description details

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 – By SFan, see edit.

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• File:PhilHealth logo.png

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West Wetlands Park Post

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 – Page was independently created at West Wetlands Park (Yuma, AZ) and an history merge was done.

Wikignome,

The post on West Wetlands Park is a class project and what is posted so far just represents part of our ultimate goal, but we wanted to get the beginnings on line to facilitate student editing.

I understand that some of the West Wetlands post did seem like generic park activities. However, some of those activities are somewhat unique to the park, such as the childrens' creative castle or disc golf.

In addition, a major point that the finished article hopes to make is that the park is a multi-use park that combines standard park activities with riparian habitat and wildlife restoration. The goal out here in the Yuma area is to ultimately create a large riverside group of parks that will allow numerous native species to return and save several endangered ones. The genius of the planning process has been to start with this park, which appeals to a wide swath of locals and visitors, and which helps empower the process of further restoration. While those activities may seem very generic, most of them will not be done at East Wetlands Park, another part of the local system that is still under development.

Prof Davis — Preceding unsigned comment added by ProfDavis (talk • contribs) 17:17, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Repaired vandalism that got archived

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This edit of yours[12] was changed by a vandal[13] and was was archived that way.[14][15] I restored the correct version in the archive.[16] See Wikipedia talk:Citation needed#Repaired vandalism that got archived. --Guy Macon (talk) 19:56, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. mabdul 18:17, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

TimDahl

2991media (talk) 18:07, 15 April 2013 (UTC) Sorry, thought it would take another month before reviewing this is why i have re-posted the submission. I see that the sources are not good enough. I think I would have to wait for better articles to come out first.

for this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Tim_Dahl

Thanks

Simply improve the article and then submit it. Keep in mind that we don't have any deadline. You might also respond here at my talk page for the case you have resubmitted your draft. If I find the time, I will rereview it! mabdul 11:50, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

2991media (talk) 03:29, 2 May 2013 (UTC)Thanks, will do!

LockPath Page

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 – Article looks good now, accepted.

Thank you for reviewing the LockPath page. We've taken your comments into consideration and have revised accordingly. Please review our revisions at your earliest convenience as your feedback is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!Reverbtank (talk) 19:29, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

'Global Economic Map' and Wikidata

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 – Discussion find its place at Mcnabber091's talk page. mabdul 12:30, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

There is a clear distinction between the Global Economic Map and Wikidata. The Global Economic Map focuses on the economy, while Wikidata focuses on all data for all topics. The Global Economic Map will specialize in presenting economic data in an educational way. The draft article for U.S. economy is designed to be concise without excess information. The Global Economic Map will work best as it's own project. If you have any advice, please let me know on my talk page.Mcnabber091 (talk) 07:52, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

rejection of submission

Dear Sir,

I refer to your rejection of my submission on the grounds that “This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources.” And specifically that “The complete section "Career" is still unreferenced. For example I would like to see a reference for the bar code claim.”

Unfortunately at the time of Ponnamperuma’s many accomplishments it was not customary to indulge in self-aggrandizing as is the case today. While some of his work was acknowledged in public media (Retail World Magazine for example) I have not been able to track down references to these now. I doubt there is anyone in Australia would dispute his career credentials or his accomplishments. Ponnamperuma at Payless Supermarkets was the first to implemented barcode technology in supermarkets. However there is no written proof of this today. It is for this reason that I watered down the assertion to read “one of the first”. His compatriots would certainly vouch for the accuracy of this information. As a matter of interest I searched a number of entries on Wikipedia to see if the criteria being applied for this article on Ponnamperuma were also being applied to others. I enclose a random sample. I also searched Bill Gates then his father and mother. Neither of his parents’ career credentials (while no doubt are valid) are supported by “reliable sources”. It is my humble opinion that your rejection doesn’t fairly treat the contribution that a recent migrate to Australia made towards the betterment of society in his adopted country. He continues to contribute to in fields far afield from his original area of expertise. Please reconsider. Some Wikipedia examples are below. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Gates,_Sr. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_Gates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdob_%C5%9Fi_Zdub http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Sturza http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Mincu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumitru_Ghia%C5%A3%C4%83 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Girardelli http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_Panozzo — Preceding unsigned comment added by Darkydoors (talk • contribs) 12:20, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

That we have bad examples in Wikipedia is nothing new. Better orientate on the good ones listed at WP:GA and WP:FA. Do you know that references don't have to be in English nor accessible online? mabdul 12:34, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Hello,

I have taken your advise and included more citations and references. Thanks. Hope this meets the required criteria. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Darkydoors (talk • contribs) 11:51, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

(moved response and added indent mabdul 12:46, 29 April 2013 (UTC))

Haiden island article for creation

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 – Draft was resubmitted and again declined. mabdul 14:13, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Please forgive me for I am new to all this. During my editing i seem to have lost the link to resubmit. I believe I finally got the citations correct and if you would give it a quick glace I would appreciate it.

Thanks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Haiden_island

71.94.235.210 (talk) 04:36, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

RE - post at AFC talk page

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The template I spam with is {{WPAFCDrive}} - If you want to add something about the AFC beta script, if you add it on there, I will send it out with the next batch of spams. Mdann52 (talk) 10:06, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I added some information... mabdul 13:15, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Neighborhood Toy Store Day

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Neighborhood Toy Store Day (edit | project page | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi Mabdul, I need site references for my posting on Neighborhood Toy Store Day. The event has many references from bloggers, but I'm not finding references from print media. Are blog references (these are "Mommy" bloggers mostly) acceptable?

Thanks for your help.

John MacDougall — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johannmsf (talk • contribs) 14:32, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, but blog posts are mostly unreliable. Please read WP:42 and the link provided at this page. mabdul 22:41, 4 May 2013 (UTC) 

Pastebin

Unresolved

hey, I just wanted to contact you tell you that I am finished doing the post bin, it is below:

http://pastebin.com/41Riidsy

Please upload those photos ASAP. Thank you very much, and have a nice day. Coolboygcp (talk) 17:42, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I will do it tomorrow! mabdul 07:51, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I would just like to check to see if you uploaded these yet, and if so, may I have the file names please? Thank you. Coolboygcp (talk) 07:38, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, not yet. This weekend. Very busy at work. -.- mabdul 07:44, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

I would just like to inquire if it has occurred yet. Coolboygcp (talk) 21:22, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Hello, I would once again like to confirm if you have uploaded the images from the Pastebin below: http://pastebin.com/41Riidsy

ThanksCoolboygcp (talk) 22:49, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

I will do this. It is on my list. Strange, that checking the first two articles, I was highly confused that they don't exist (even not a "shorter version" like Nesquik Cereal Bars or ToolKing.com)... I won't upload these. The others aren't checked until now. mabdul 14:29, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Article on Spoken English Corpus

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Spoken English Corpus (edit | project page | history | links | watch | logs)

I am completely baffled by your rejection of my article on the Spoken English Corpus. I have been working hard to improve WP's sometimes inadequate coverage of phonetics for some time now, and have always assumed that one followed the normal conventions of academic writing that I learned in a career of over 40 years as a university teacher and as a widely-read author of academic textbooks. I wrote the article on the SEC because I get so many enquiries about it from researchers around the world, and produced it as a normal piece of academic writing. Now I am told to "collect some good reliable web sources" as if I was some inadequate student trying to pass off a piece of inferior work. I am seriously thinking of giving up on WP altogether. I have read all the WP guidance on references, and still cannot see what your objection is. Please could you explain? RoachPeter (talk) 18:52, 13 April 2013 (UTC)

I'm very sorry that I hadn't earlier time to recheck this draft. Beside the formatting issues (I will/would fix if this draft is accepted), I still believe that all references are written by involved persons.I never said/wrote that this topic isn't notable; actual I believe it is, but it lacks independent sources... Wikipedia has some key policies which are not always easy to understand. At the moment it is a "no" by me, but simply resubmit it and another reviewer might think differently than me. mabdul 23:23, 8 May 2013 (UTC) 

Thank you for the feedback. I have also received some advice from other editors - enough, I think, for me now to see how the article needs to be rewritten. I have found it very hard to come to terms with the principle that the references in an article such as this should not be to work by people who have had a personal involvement in it. In the case of a research tool such as a corpus, generally the people who write about it are the people who have used it and thereby helped to develop it further. As it happens one WP editor has drawn my attention to one authority who has commented on the SEC without (as far as I can see) having used it, so I can include that reference, but that's just a lucky break. Otherwise, I can't see how I could ever rewrite this article in such a way that writers who have a personal involvement with the corpus are excluded from the references. Unfortunately, other articles I was thinking of submitting (on topics in phonetics that I can claim expertise in) are going to run into the same problem, so I think I'm going to have to stick to editing existing articles where I feel I can contribute something. RoachPeter (talk) 16:30, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

New declined article net mobile AG

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/net mobile AG (edit | project page | history | links | watch | logs)

Dear Wikignome,

thank you very much for reviewing my article about net mobile AG. Thank you for your support. Unfortunately, you declined my article because of citing. I would be very happy if you could specify whether this refers to some few citing problems or all and how I can improve them as it is my first article on English Wikipedia.

Thanks a lot before hand for your support. Bspielberg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bspielberg (talk • contribs) 07:28, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Here a indepth analysis:

Ref #1: primary source (official page)

Ref #4: primary source (official page)

Ref #6: A press release: not independent.

Ref #7: primary source (official page)

Ref #8: A press release: not independent.

Ref #9: Just a generic page with a list with some information, not really independent, not really useful.

Ref #10: primary source (official page)

Leaving us to Ref# 2,3,5: all very short and looks like a repost of press release. No reference is analysing and talking about the company indepth. Nor can't any source be called as independent or third party. Please read WP:42 and the relevant links on that page. You might also have a look at WP:FA and WP:GA for our finest works.

Hope that help more. ;-) mabdul 11:47, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Dear Wikignome,

thank you very much for your support. I shortened the article leaving only facts with independent or third party sources. I hope now it's fine.

Best bspielberg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bspielberg (talk • contribs) 12:31, 29 April 2013‎

Just for your information: I have submitted your draft again in your name as I'm not having the time at the moment. mabdul 23:26, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Afc proposal

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ADELI Medical Center

Resolved

 – User resubmitted the page on its own. mabdul 09:46, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Hello Mabdul, I have made substantial changes to the article about the ADELI Medical Center at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/ADELI_Medical_Center. The article itself has been considerably shortened by excluding information which could be considered unreliable. I have added a link to the Business Registry at the Department of Justice of Slovak Republic as means of verifying the basic information about the company. I have further left there two links from the SCOPE charity which collects all the information on treatments and therapies for kids with cerebral palsy and other neurological deficits. I also tried to create a hyperlink for the ADELI Suit as there is an already existing article about it, but I don't think it is properly done, so if you could take a look at that, I would appreciate it very much as well. Please let me know if I need to provide more reliable resources, given the article has ben substantially edited out.--Fixxer85 (talk) 09:29, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

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my signature again!

Resolved

now I made some changes to my signature Osama Al-Saady Talk  13:11, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Bug got noticed

Resolved

FYI: User talk:Legoktm#User-talk:... cleanup. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 14:04, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Noted. mabdul 09:46, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

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Pol430 talk to me 09:47, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Hello?

I am contemplating reappearing and I was wondering if you were back to working on the script? Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 01:42, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Please see User talk:Nathan2055/Archive 7#Talkback. Yes, the beta script was pushed and new features and bug fixes are on the way. I will work this week a bit more as I will have some time at work. mabdul 10:28, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Cool. Now I have to find time to reteach myself MediaWiki since the WMF botched it up (why do you care so much about new editors?!). Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 16:43, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Man, is it just me or are the AfCers all different? Anyway, anything you need me to work on? What changes have been implemented since I was gone? --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 23:01, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

David Harding

Hello Mabdul, back in October 2011 you helped me with an expansion of David Harding (finance) which I had prepared on behalf of Mr. Harding's firm, Winton Capital. They've come back to me recently, pointing out some aspects that are now outdated, and just yesterday I recommended a few changes on the article's Talk page. By any chance would you be interested in looking at this again? Cheers, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 15:37, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

I will when I have time to check it. I'm very busy in real life at the moment. :( mabdul 06:27, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Critical crashing in the script

I had to revert to the old stable today because some pages are throwing "O is null" errors. The issue has been quarantined to beta and alpha at this point. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 16:22, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Will do. Bad Firefox. XD mabdul 06:27, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Ping. I tried to talk to you on IRC, but you weren't there. I'm having to make an emergency build with decline interface changes because of various complaints by reviewers. It will be pushed to stable and I'll copy my changes to beta, but we seriously need the O is null issue fixed ASAP. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 16:09, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Also, could you please figure out why the version in my userspace is crashing? It's not giving me any info in the error console. --Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 16:17, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Qualpro

Hi Mabdul. Do you think you could take a look at this? I pinged Pol430, but I noticed he hasn't made any edits in a while. I'm trying to get an update to pass along to them by tomorrow, so admittedly I am a little rushed and apologize for imposing my deadlines on the community :-( CorporateM (Talk) 17:45, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi Mabdul. After seeing that you didn't get around to it, I posted on the COIN board as well, adding the request to a pre-existing post I had. I totally understand that the community doesn't run on deadlines, so no worries, but if you do have time to take a look I'd still appreciate it. CorporateM (Talk) 19:16, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Yes, sadly, it is very busy at work. mabdul 06:27, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Deletion warming

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Fadyl Meedin (edit | project page | history | links | watch | logs)

as advised referencing has been updated, please advise accordingly — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fadylmeedin (talk • contribs) 14:59, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Which deletion warning? Actually the article was only declined. Click on EDIT at the very top and improve it. After that you can request another review. The article won't get deleted within a year. Moreover: you should write something about the topic. At the moment the only information about International University of Fundemental Studies is that it is in Russia...

Please read WP:42, your article doesn't include any reference, only an external link. mabdul 06:31, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) It's also a copyright violation. Pol430 talk to me 17:07, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

HELP!!!

Please can you give me a link to the O is null bugfix so I can get the script ready for pushing? I really need the bugfix ASAP. Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 15:26, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

A beer for you!

I'd never blame you mabdul ;-) Pol430 talk to me 17:12, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

afc

I saw your review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Dr. J.C. Batra, in which you said, "I didn't read the article" . I can tell that, because you also said "his title is noted as being Prof. Dr., however, one cannot have the title Professor and Doctor at the same time excepting that they are hold a doctorate and a teaching position" . The article gives his doctorate, and lists his professorship as "faculty member, Faculty of Law, Delhi University" and several honorary professorships. That's enough to support the title, and it's characteristic for an distinguished practicing professional in a field like law and medicine to hold such positions. The links to bookshops are not advertising links: they're verifcation of the book titles, and they'll do for that, tho they are not ideal.

We need to respect our contributors. I would never review an article if I weren't prepared to actually read it and evaluated it on the basis of what I read. You declined on the basis of "inadequate sources," but it would have helped to explain that the sources needed to support the most likely notability, NAUTHOR, are book reviews.

The actual problem is the promotional tone, which will require extensive rewriting. I gave the ed. a personal note, & will follow up. an ed who repeated resubmits an inadequate article needs more than a template. DGG ( talk ) 02:51, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi DGG,

Actually in my initial first comment I wrote that I didn't read the article [17];

~50 revisions and ~1.5 months later I actually did a "fresh" review (and reading the article) [18]; and declined the article as the sources still were not justifying.

The problem with the bookshops: really a simple ISBN is mostly better than any like to amazon or any other bookshop. As we all know that many AfC submissions are self created by the "subject" (e.g. a music band) or by a PR agent/agency, they often try to increase the selling... mabdul 05:32, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Clone updates

If you have any clones of WPAFC/afch lying around on your box, you need to run these two commands on them to fix the tag issues:

git tag -l | xargs git tag -d

git fetch --prune

This is because I broke the tags and had to push some fixes. I've also given you push access. Please don't break anything and please read the README. Thanks, Nathan2055^{talk - contribs} 00:38, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

AFCH

I just used Firefox, and it still didn't work. You can switch it back to the current version. It probably is just me. buffbills7701 19:52, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

@Buffbills7701 The script was reverted to the old version. Please WP:BYPASS and try it in every browser (you have to bypass your cache in every browser). Actually that has nothing to do with Internet Explorer! mabdul 20:50, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Nothing works. I've tried everything and it still doesn't work. The same thing happened to me on VE. I used the beta for a bit, then all of a sudden, it turned itself off. I have no idea what the problem is. buffbills7701 22:39, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

The VE was turned of for IE users as there are some blockers that prevent IE users for now to use VE. mabdul 22:54, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Thank You! The AFCH now works again for me. buffbills7701 00:46, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Why did you undo my edit?

My edit declined an AFC submission, and then the citation bot undid my actions. I had to revert him, or else the submission would have to be re-reviewed. Thank you. buffbills7701 22:37, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

I have reinstalled your decline. I have reinstalled the changes by the bot. the bot changes were too useful to through it simply away. It makes the code and the references much more readable. mabdul 22:48, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Update. mabdul 22:53, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Trout

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

make 'em stop... Theopolisme (talk) 00:05, 8 July 2013 (UTC)