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Re your removal

On 23 April 2018 You removed the fact that Dorothy Dietrich was proclaimed the "first lady of magic" way before a latter day female magician, partly because "the citation is a tabloid". This does not change the fact that legendary magician Dorothy Dietrich was described with that reference many years before and it was most likely copied from her. No woman in magic, for even the shortest amount of time, would not be aware of the position Dorothy Dietrich has forged in the business as a early groundbreaking pioneer female magician. You as well!

That said women magician is not even in the business and has fallen by the wayside for many years as far as I can tell.

http://www.dorothydietrich.com/FirstLadyOfMagicFemaleHoudini.html ‎

Respectfully Dick Brookz The Houdini Museum, Scranton, PA magicus@comcast.net

April 2018

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False positive

Sorry about the false positive. I'm new to edit filters, and didn't correctly consider the consequences of mine. Anything with Dan should be able to go through now.—CYBERPOWER (Chat) 21:55, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

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Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN listed at Redirects for discussion

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Going through WP:JCW much?

You seem to be doing a lot of citation-related cleanup/fixing recently. Are you making use of WP:JCW for it, or are you search for problematic citations through other means? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 11:08, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

@Headbomb: I have been using JCW, specifically the potentially problematic patterns page; I don't know of any other method that would allow me to find issues so quickly. Vahurzpu (talk) 16:28, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

Thought so. I was doing some similar cleanup, and I noticed you took care of several of them already, so I though the coincidence was too high. I usually take care of the following

• A Publication of...
• Digital libraries
• Identifiers (I'm skipping the ISBNs, so do feel free to tackle those)
• Legalese
• Official Journal
• Peer review
• Special Issues
• Weird stuff
• Curly ’

Within a day or two of database updates, so don't spend time on those. Everything else is too numerous for me to quickly tackle, so help there is always appreciated.

Anyway, watch the page, I've been tweaking patterns. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 05:23, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

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Howard W. Gill

I want to say thanks for 'Wiki-ing' that portrait of Howard Gill, on the Worthpoint. I think Glenn L. Martin(the Martin in Lockheed-Martin) might have had it and recalled his friend Gill whose life was cut short in a crash. Koplimek (talk) 17:37, 29 July 2020 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 September 15 § Template:Use shortened footnotes

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Re: Attribution on translations

Hey, thanks for your advice. I will do this in the pages I translate.--Limesa143 (talk) 19:08, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

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Wait for the bot flag before unleashing the bot. @Xaosflux: usually takes care of that pretty fast though. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 04:53, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

 Done bibliomaniac15 05:25, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Vahurzpu, please have the bot link to the BRFA in its edit summaries. Thanks. Primefac (talk) 10:55, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

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Moving parenthetical citations to short footnotes

Hi. The decision at the RfC was to deprecate parenthetical citations to short footnotes, not tags. If you wish to convert the article similar to its parent article Actuary, by all means, but please do bot blithely use tagged format. Thank you. -- Avi (talk) 06:29, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Please see detiled instruction on how to properly convert parenthetical citation to shortened footnotes at commons:File:Converting Harvard citations to shortened footnotes (sfn).pdf. Please also see WP:SFN & Help:Shortened footnotes. Peaceray (talk) 06:40, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

@Peaceray and Avraham: Neither the RFC closure statement nor Wikipedia:Citing sources#Parenthetical referencing refer to any particular successor format; rather, both state that conversion should be "into currently accepted formats". That being said, I don't object to someone converting the article to use short footnotes; I was just converting from a deprecated format to a particular well-supported one. Vahurzpu (talk) 06:43, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

User:Vahurzpu/Parenthetical editnotices for deletion

On User:Vahurzpu/Parenthetical editnotices for deletion, most of the articles had been converted to either all or predominately shortened footnote style, but the editnotices had not. I took care of updating the editnotices for those articles to {{Shortened footnote editnotice}}. There were a couple which were mixed style or all regular footnotes, & I took care of blanking those editnotices.

The only one that was on the list that truly had been parenthetical referencing was Wah-wah (music), which you converted to regular footnote style. Only when I have the time, will I revert it then immediately set about converting it to the shortened footnotes that will better suit the original editorial intent.

There was a historical inaccuracy in that shortened footnotes were lumped in with the {{Parenthetical referencing editnotice}}. This was corrected last fall. However, not all editnotices have been updated yet.

I will note that the the Parenthetical referencing editnotice does state If you have previously used this template for pages using the shortened footnote citation style, please switch to the {{Shortened footnote editnotice}}. Similarly, the {{Use Harvard referencing}} template states Please consider using shortened footnotes or another citation style instead, and forgoing the use of this template. I believe that shortened footnotes are generally the best replacement for parenthetical / Harvard referencing.

Thank you for your patience with this. Peaceray (talk) 06:53, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

@Peaceray: Thanks for cleaning up those editnotices. I don't intend to convert any more articles in the future, but I'll keep your note in mind if I end up doing so. Vahurzpu (talk) 07:00, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Variety magazine

Hello Vahurzpu, you helped me obtain a Variety page in the past on the ResourceExchange, and I was just wondering is this something you were able to find through the Wikipedia Library? I'm going far back in time at this point to 1980 for The Empire Strikes Back, and my best luck has been on Gale, but that only goes back as far as 1997 in terms of full text. Darkwarriorblake / SEXY ACTION TALK PAGE! 20:54, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

@Darkwarriorblake: I found it via ProQuest, and at least some subset of ProQuest is available via the Wikipedia Library. However, I typically use my university's subscription, since it's more convenient for me; it's very possible that the article was within the scope of my university's subscription but not TWL's. Vahurzpu (talk) 21:16, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Hmmm...I think I did try ProQuest but perhaps my searching was not as precise. Plus the document you got for me was post 1990 so perhaps it's just easier to get more recent stuff. Thanks for the information Vahurzpu, I'll put it to good use! Darkwarriorblake / SEXY ACTION TALK PAGE! 21:22, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Yes it's my fault, I was just using the default ProQuest search instead of under magazines. There's like 91000 articles here. Thanks Vahurzpu. Darkwarriorblake / SEXY ACTION TALK PAGE! 21:45, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Law of 4 February 1794

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Nothing too major.

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Unexpected twist (for me)

Hey. Not sure if you were aware of yesterday's WP:AN#Government_of_Rhodesia_problematic_process_with_consequences_in_real_life (perm link). Just noting how strange I found how this incident unraveled — "only part time in an institution ... unsupervised internet access" — what? I really shouldn't jest about such matters. Still, never a dull moment! PS: I've been to well over half the states in the US, but by far, I've spent the most time in Virginia. Beautiful state. Many fond memories. Best, El_C 01:18, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

@El C: Yeah, that whole situation was pretty confusing. A user in the Discord server (the only one of the regulars there not linked to any particular on-wiki user) posted that link and mentioned their suspicions about potential association with Klaus Bells, as well as the other hoax articles. From there I was able to dig up enough evidence to verify the connections. I will note TNT's closing comment on the SPI, and that Klaus Bells's explanation doesn't seem entirely consistent with their behavior.

I believe it's the most complicated scenario I've waded into so far in my editing career, and it's not over yet. It raised serious doubts about the reliability of "blastingnews.com", which is used hundreds of times across the wiki, and I believe there's still one more account and one more hoax out there, though I'm waiting a bit for more evidence. Vahurzpu (talk) 03:17, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Correction: multiple more hoaxes out there; someone just pointed out a couple more to me. Vahurzpu (talk) 03:40, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Oh? Please let it be Rhodesia-related! Anyway, feel free to email me any evidence you wish to keep private at this juncture. El_C 04:37, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

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Thanks for this reversion of one of my edits. It looks like it was an unrecognized misclick on my part. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 17:25, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Your bot's edits to Talk:Ryan Watson (politician)

Hello Vahurzpu - I have noticed that VahurzpuBot has edited Talk:Ryan Watson (politician) several times since September, incorrectly "Remove redirect-class assessment from non-redirect" when in fact the article IS a redirect. Please fix whatever error your bot is making. Thank you, PKT(alk) 15:31, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

@PKT: Sorry about that; I've fixed the issue. It appears that the page was not technically a redirect. For a proper redirect, the "#REDIRECT" line must come at the very beginning, but the short description was interfering with the software recognizing it. Per Wikipedia:Short description#Short descriptions on redirect pages I've moved it to stop that problem. The bot shouldn't mess with it any more (unless it's converted into an article); please let me know if it does. Vahurzpu (talk) 18:11, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Perfect - thanks very much! PKT(alk) 19:05, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

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Removing redirects from non-redirects

It would be cool if your bot, while it was at it, could also remove redirects from non-redirects since other bots and editors don't. wbm1058 (talk) 20:20, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

False positive?

Hi @Vahurzpu, in this edit your bot removed a redirect-class assessment from a redirect, that's currently waiting waiting for RevDel. Is that intended? Nobody (talk) 05:53, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

@1AmNobody24: nope, not intended. I just updated the bot so it should skip things marked for RD1 in the future. That being said, I'm not too worried about it, since once the redaction is complete and the page is a true redirect again, the template will automatically sense that the page is a redirect. Vahurzpu (talk) 06:00, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

I see. Thanks for taking a look. Nobody (talk) 06:03, 16 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi Vahurzpu. If you wanted to expand the scope of task 1, you could remove |class=redirect from all pages, because redirects are always detected automatically so there is no need ever to specify this — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:01, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

I considered doing this originally, but it would massively expand the scope of the task (editing hundreds of thousands of pages rather than a small handful per week). Also, at least when I wrote the bot, a few templates (MILHIST's among them) couldn't auto-detect redirects. That being said, I think their template now is {{WPBannerMeta}} based, so maybe this would no longer be an issue. Vahurzpu (talk) 22:19, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Would you be willing to open a BRFA to see if we can get approval for this big job? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:21, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

I'll take a look later this week when I have some time. Vahurzpu (talk) 01:13, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Poke ... Could also do this with other non-article classes like Disambig too, if possible — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:49, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

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