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Speedy deletion nomination of The Queen's Awards for Enterprise (2009)

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A tag has been placed on The Queen's Awards for Enterprise (2009) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person, a group of people, an individual animal, an organization (band, club, company, etc.), web content, or an organized event, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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G7'd All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:30, 2 December 2015 (UTC).

Nomination for deletion of Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Use mdy dates

Template:Monthly clean-up category/Messages/Use mdy dates has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 04:15, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Note from Claire

Hi Rich, I am really sorry as I'm very new to Wikipedia and know I am probably doing this completely wrong! My name is Claire and I'm a graphic design student. I am currently working on a film project and am making my film about the subject of Wikipedia and the people behind it. I was wondering if you could help me by answering a few questions? I would really appreciate it.

Thanks for reading this and sorry again for my poor wikipedia talk page etiquette - I have a lot of learning to do!

Claire Claire.graphicdesign (talk) 13:52, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for participating

Thank you for your participation in the Women in Science Virtual Edit-a-thon, 8 to 29 November 2015, hosted by Women in Red together with Women scientists. It was held in parallel with a meet up at the New York Academy of Sciences on 22 November. In addition to improvements, we created well over 300 new articles. Your contributions are appreciated!

Hope you will also join us for the WiR Women in Religion Virtual Edit-a-thon from 5 to 15 December.--Ipigott (talk) 12:08, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

Summary

1. Timothy Allan (AfD) Draft
2. Simon Denny (professor) (AfD)
3. Murdoch MacLeod (AfD)
4. Kenneth Nelson (businessman) (AfD)
5. Paul Davidson (business) (AfD)
6. Maureen Milgram Forrest (AfD)
7. George Douglas Scott (AfD)
8. Ederyn Williams (AfD)

Part 2

1. John May (executive) (AfD)
2. Michael Leithrow (AfD)
3. John Jennens (AfD)
4. Brian Dunsby (AfD)

Part 3

1. Karen Arnold (AfD)

Full version. Queens Award bio AFDs

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:13, 7 November 2015 (UTC).

Notes archived. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:03, 13 November 2015 (UTC).

New ones added. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:32, 17 November 2015 (UTC).

And another. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 13:54, 22 November 2015 (UTC).

Getting there. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:27, 3 December 2015 (UTC).

You're invited! Women in Red World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Religion

You are invited! Join us remotely! World Virtual Edit-a-thon on Women in Religion

Dates: 5 to 15 December 2015 Location: Worldwide/virtual/online event Host: Women in Red (WiR): Did you know that only 15% of the biographies on Wikipedia are about women? WiR focuses on "content gender gap". If you'd like to help contribute articles on women and women's works, we warmly welcome you! Event details: This is a virtual edit-a-thon hosted by WiR. It will allow all those keen to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in religion to participate. All levels of Wikipedia editing experience are welcome. RSVP and learn more: →here← --Rosiestep (talk) 05:36, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

Michael Leithrow

Maybe it doesn't matter, but when I click on isfutile:P the one who nominated this AfD, I get redirected to Tonyinman. Since you created the article, and I don't understand what's going on exactly, I thought I'd ask you. Hopefully you'll know since you've been here longer than me! --MurderByDeletionism^"bang!" 19:26, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

It is just how he sets his signature up - same person. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:58, 5 December 2015 (UTC).

Thanks! Guess I did that to mine too, but that one was so different it flew right over my head. Doh! --MurderByDeletionism^"bang!" 03:37, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

FAC

Rich, it has been quite awhile since we spoke for the last time. I hope you're doing well. I recently nominated Juan Manuel de Rosas for FAC, but the article is often ignored because of its obscure topic. If you have time and interest, could you review it? I'd be truly grateful. The link to the Featured Article Candidacy page is here. Regards, --Lecen (talk) 13:18, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

I've never done a FA review - I am somewhat hazy about the process, and should probably start with getting an article through GA myself. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:19, 6 December 2015 (UTC).

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AWB

Hi, I've seen users do specific cleanup with a number labelled in the edit summary before: do you know how this is done? Thanks, --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 16:36, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

If you mean things like "Checkwiki error 4" I think they simply set the edit summary on the "Start" tab. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:12, 6 December 2015 (UTC).

Okay, thanks. --Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 21:40, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #187

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Past: Semantic Web Application and Tools 4 Life Science
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  • Slides for talk "Building the sum of all human citations"
  • Op-ed in Signpost (Lydia is working on a piece to address some of the points)
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Closing in towards 1 million links between Commons categories and Wikidata article-type items -- 8,000 more by next week?
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  • Showcase items: Bertus Aafjes
• Development
  • Polished the patch that adds icons to the item pages (for actions like edit, remove etc) and makes them cleaner. This will go live later today.
  • Worked more on a separate section for identifiers
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Speedy deletion nomination of Until the End (band)

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A tag has been placed on Until the End (band) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a band or musician, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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This is a redirect and the speedy was declined. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:20, 16 December 2015 (UTC).

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Boxing MOS

Hello Rich Farmbrough, there is an ongoing discussion about professional boxing record tables and I would appreciate if you could share your opinion or at least voice you support or opposition. It would be great if you could voice your opinion here in the "RfC: Flag icons in professional boxing record tables" and "MoS:Boxing Final call" section. Cheers!--Fallengrademan (talk) 19:38, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Ellen Coolidge Burke

Hi! This has been languishing at WP:SCV for a while now. I've just looked at it, and I find the amount of direct copy-pasting from the single source to the initial version to be quite unacceptable. I've blanked the page and listed it at WP:CP for review. Sorry about that, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 12:12, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #188

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  • Wikidata: knowledge from different points of view (Signpost op-ed on knowledge diversity and our thinking on data quality)
  • The Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program is now accepting applications for Wikimania 2016 (deadline: 09 January 2016 23:59 UTC)
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Commiserations/congratulations!

Not bad figures at all, Cheers Johnbod (talk) 03:38, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Yu did better than I did and had my vote. I didn't think either of us would pass, but at least we put up some competition. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 08:04, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you both! I was pleased to get (that we both got) a positive score - but somewhat relieved not to be appointed. I felt I had to offer. Nine worthies of different types were appointed, so we can hope they will do better, but I'm not holding my breath. My main concern is that the same pressures will result in the same results as previously.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 16:37, 10 December 2015 (UTC).

• Yes, Rich, I was surprised you had received so many opposes, after all the extensive help you have provided to Wikipedia (1 million real edits!), plus promoting the fast-cite templates which would have made large pages format 2x faster (4 years ago!). So I am stunned by the way some people think; however, I have seen many other intelligent people frustrated in committee work, so I am actually glad your talents would not be wasted in that manner. Meanwhile, we need smarter templates, and I see people want a type of Template:Inflation to handle larger expenditures, such as capital investments, so we need to see if our templates can be improved or expanded (and not deleted by a small core of opposes). -Wikid77 (talk) 16:42, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

I also just want to say that within my general voting I supported you. We didn't talk before but I saw some cases-discussions, I noticed you with giving professional comments - knowledgeable and pleasant. I think you would have been great for this committee, hope you may want to try again in the future. Best wishes. אומנות (talk) 15:36, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:44, 14 December 2015 (UTC).

Please provide input

Please provide your invaluable input at Template_talk:Complete_list#Category:Articles_containing_potentially_dated_statements. Debresser (talk) 16:27, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

I posted a follow-up question there. Debresser (talk) 20:39, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of 2100

Hello Rich Farmbrough,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged 2100 for deletion, because it's too short to identify the subject of the article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Joel.Miles925 (talk) 16:11, 18 December 2015 (UTC)

• @Joel.Miles925: You made a mistake here. There was vandalism to the article a few hours before you tagged it for speedy deletion [1]. Rich hasn't edited it since 2004. --Hammersoft (talk) 17:25, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
  • There's a regular trickle of these sorts of things. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:28, 18 December 2015 (UTC).
    

I didn't know that it was vandalized... it came through the new page feed, and so naturally I thought that was a new page. I apologize.

Season's Greetings

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Season's Greetings!

Hello Rich Farmbrough: Enjoy the holiday season and upcoming winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:10, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

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Complete list

Long time, no post on your talk page — hope you're doing well. Just wanted to drop in quickly to ask a question about an edit you made recently, to {{Complete list}}. The edit was the inclusion of the Articles containing potentially dated statements category. This category tree is built at the year and month level, however some uses of the template went right down to the day because that level of accuracy was possible, which broke the categorization when that was included.

Wondering if you had any thoughts on how that could be resolved without losing the specificity, short of creating sub-categories for every day of every month going forward? Mlaffs (talk) 13:31, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

I don't think it did. Can you give an example? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:24, 21 December 2015 (UTC).

OK I found one. I will attend to this when I get in, in a few hours. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:30, 21 December 2015 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #189

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Discussions
  • Successful request for adminship: Eurodyne
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • World Health Summit yearbook for 2015
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• Development
  • <3 Thanks for being awesome. Enjoy the holidays :)
  • We will take the "in other projects"-sidebar out of beta features in January (phabricator:T103102)
  • Making ranking information like label and statement counts available to the CirrusSearch index in order to improve ranking in search results (phabricator:T110648)
  • Continued work on the identifier data type for identifiers like VIAF and ISBN so we can easily put them into a separate section in the items and properly link them in the exports (phabricator:T95682, phabricator:T121274)
  • Continued work on making external identifiers clickable links without the help of the authority control gadget (phabricator:T95684)
  • Fixed a mistake in the set reference API documentation (gerrit:259171)
  • More work on cleaning up the statement section (phabricator:T121390)
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Technical Help

Hey, I need your help with this Template:Quote_Quran_translation. Can you please edit this template and make the text begins from the left side instead of the center? Also, it would be better if you remove this site: http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/religious-texts/quran/ and add this site: http://www.islamawakened.com/index.php/qur-an because this website has much more translations. And there's another thing – the template gives the "Translatornumber" for a specific number of translators, and when I replace the number with name of translator it shows "translated by error", for example:

The Quran, chapter 2 (Al-Baqara), verse 164:

Surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day (with their periods shortening and lengthening), and the vessels sailing in the sea with profit to people, and the water that God sends down from the sky, therewith reviving the earth after its death and dispersing therein all kinds of living creatures, and His disposal of the winds, and the clouds subservient between sky and earth – surely there are signs (demonstrating that He is the One God deserving worship, and the sole Refuge and Helper) for a people who reason and understand.
— translated by Ali Ünal

I really hope that you can help me with this. Thanks in advance!--65.111.173.161 (talk) 22:22, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Most of this is overstyled for Wikipedia. I have made some of the changes you suggest, and replaced the "pull quotes" with "block quote". The translator number seems to be based on a table now long gone, I can't see that it has any academic or reference basis. I have provided {{{translator}}} to override this.

I will look at this again presently in more detail. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:05, 22 December 2015 (UTC).

Closer (Tegan and Sara song)

Can you protect the page to persistent unsourced content. 123.136.106.185 (talk) 00:18, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, not an admin. Try WP:AN/I. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:20, 23 December 2015 (UTC).

Amendment request

Regarding your amendment request, a motion has been proposed. For the arbitration committee, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:28, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! I saw. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:29, 23 December 2015 (UTC).

Clarification request archived

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Season's greetings!

Hello Rich Farmbrough: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Esquivalience ^t 21:22, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

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Ash'ari

You seem happy about the socks' edits there, why? Doug Weller (talk) 05:52, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

And not just at this article. Doug Weller (talk) 06:00, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Happy? I have no idea what the sock added or deleted. Nor have I recently edited (on this browser on this machine at least) any other pages that this user has edited, except the ISIL page. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:30, 23 December 2015 (UTC).

Sorry, false assumption. I've reverted back and protected. I'll probably add a note to the talk page about using sources and avoiding quotes from primary sources. Doug Weller talk 07:13, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

No problem. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 14:56, 24 December 2015 (UTC).

Solstice & Season's greetings

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Merry Christmas!

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Arbitration enforcement 2 case closed

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A Merry Christmas to All Our Readers!

And a Happy New Year! Rich Farmbrough, 23:44, 25 December 2015 (UTC).

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Rich Farmbrough case amended

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Remedy 2 of the Rich Farmbrough case shall not apply in Rich Farmbrough's user space, his user talk space, or any subpage of Wikipedia:Database reports. Subject to the normal bot policy Rich Farmbrough may use automation in these exempted areas.

For the Arbitration Committee, Mdann52 (talk) 09:03, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi

Can you help fix this ref error, as the page has since been edited? I'm usually too careful to mess up like this with AWB. Thanks and have a great New Year, --Rubbish computer (Merry Christmas!: ...And a Happy New Year!) 18:12, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

Cheers! Rubbish computer (Merry Christmas!: ...And a Happy New Year!) 18:18, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! Here's three useful tips:

1. Often you can undo edits that are not the most recent, using the "undo" function.
2. If AnomieBot (or one day Helpful Pixie Bot) are dating tags, you can undo that with no worries, the bot will reapply its edit after a decent interval.
3. You are quite competent enough to have fixed this yourself.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:21, 27 December 2015 (UTC).

Wikidata weekly summary #190

Wikidata weekly summary #186

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

• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Ongoing: 32C3
  • Upcoming: Wikimedia Developer Summit
  • Upcoming: StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar
  • Upcoming: Office hour on IRC
  • Upcoming: FOSDEM (Lucie will give a talk about the ArticlePlaceholder extension)
  • Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Israel are open
  • Don't forget your talk submissions for Wikimania 2016. Lydia can help if needed.
  • Getting CAS registry numbers out of WikiData
  • The quality of SMILES strings in Wikidata
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Paper: Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond
  • The Wikidata for Research proposal has now been published in a journal
  • New tool to turn string claims to monolingual claims
  • Johl built a card game about German politicians using Wikidata
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: number of awards, Prosopographia Attica, Structurae person ID, stage classification, sports disciplines competed in, personal best, substrate of
• Development
  • Some small bugfixes and tweaks.
  • Enjoying the holidays and editing on Wikidata. Hope you are too :)
• Monthly Tasks
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item
  • Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
  • Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:07, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Romans 12:17 listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Romans 12:17. Since you had some involvement with the Romans 12:17 redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. --BDD (talk) 17:00, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi

Thanks for the tea! I enjoyed it:) Flabsterpal (talk) 22:17, 29 December 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 30 December 2015

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Happy New Year!

Someone wishes you a Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year!

Rich Farmbrough,
Have the best New Year in the whole wide world, and thanks for your hard work on Wikipedia for the past 11⅓ years! From 2602:306:CF2A:5580:B4A1:AD04:ACF9:4A0A (talk) 19:47, 30 December 2015 (UTC)TheGreatEditor

Psst! Pass around New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year 2016}} to user talk pages.

Note: I was not able to put the picture on the left into the message because I hadn't uploaded it to Wikipedia yet.

I look forward to the time-travelling image. Which reminds me I have to photograph an inertial damper I made yesterday. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:58, 30 December 2015 (UTC).

Happy New Year 2016!

	Happy New Year 2016!
	Wishing you a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! Rosiestep (talk) 22:52, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

2016

	Happy New Year 2016!
	Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles with axes, hammers and chisels? Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unneccessary blisters.    – Cullen328 Let's discuss it 02:27, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Rich Farmbrough!

Happy New Year!

Rich Farmbrough,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regards, Yamaguchi先生 (talk) 22:42, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Happy New Year 2016}} to send this message

Happy New Year, Rich Farmbrough!

Happy New Year!

Rich Farmbrough,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Rubbish computer (Merry Christmas!: ...And a Happy New Year!) 23:53, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

78.26's RFA Appreciation award

	The 78.26 RFA Appreciation award
	Thank you for the participation and support at my RFA. It is truly appreciated. I hope to be of further help around here, and if you see me doing something dumb, you know where to find me. Again, I thank you. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 24:53, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 24:53, 23 December 2015 (UTC)