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== Error making talk pages? ==
hi:


Hi Rich Smith! I noticed you made a few pages like these (], ], ]). It looks like they're intended to be talk pages but they're in article space. I just wanted to touch base with you and see what's up with them. If they were made accidentally, I can just tag them for speedy deletion. Thanks! ] (]) 05:41, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
I am working with some C++ programming with char recognition where i am using List of Unicode characters.


:{{re|BuySomeApples}} Oh blah... it came from the ] tool... it screwed that one up - ]<sup>]&#124;]&#124;]</sup> 05:53, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
I have found some errors?? on this page - and made a correction yesterday. U+0250 was placed in <Latin Extended-B>
:{{re|BuySomeApples}} Alright, I think I've fixed them all. Thanks for letting me know - ]<sup>]&#124;]&#124;]</sup> 05:58, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
between C+249 and C+24A - someone must have countrd decimal instate af hex. a very nice gay gave me an answer
== CS1 error on ] ==
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why! the reason was clear - an error in the table - sorry!


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i have found 3 more small errors on de page - so if somebody will correct them the right way?
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Please help me with... List of Unicode characters


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1: U+1E02 is start af table -- U+1E00 & U+E101 is missing - are in Latin Extended Additional (Unicode block)
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2: African scripts: Ottoman Siyaq Numbers (Unicode block '0x1ED00 - 0x1ED4F') point to same codepage


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Semitic languages:
Arabic script in Unicode, including the Persian alphabet, Jawi alphabet and others
Ottoman Siyaq Numbers (1ED00–1ED4F, 61 characters) --- codepage says it belong to <arabic script>
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Hi Rich, did you intend to remove the PROD right after you added it, or was that a mistake? ] (]) 08:58, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
- U+0250 ɐ 586 Latin Small Letter Turned A --- is decimal value for U+249
+ U+0250 ɐ 592 Latin Small Letter Turned A --- must bee the correct decimal value


:{{re|1AmNobody24}} Ah poop, no I did not intend to do that, thought I reloaded the page in WikiCleaner. I'll put it back. Thanks for letting me know - ]<sup>]&#124;]&#124;]</sup> 09:06, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
this I think is a follow-up of my correction - 'John Maynard Friedman' forgot to correct the decimal count
when he moved C+0250 to the IPA block (where it allready was)
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I have a query regarding my company's[REDACTED] article, where you preposed for deletion. i have made some edits as per the feedback. ] (]) 11:55, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
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I notice you are removing this from many categories saying it is not relevant but I do not understand why it is not relevant. Just to pick on one of them e.g. ], why is it not a Town in New South Wales? The article says it is a town in NSW, the says it is a town in NSW. Why is this not a relevant category? ] (]) 21:05, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
:Hi {{re|Kerry Raymond}}, this was in relation to a message posted on ] in relation that the sub-cetegories are not the town articles themselves, but however contains locations with the town, therefore should not have the ] within them as they do not describe the town itself and it just creates a mess of sub-categories on the main category page which may confuse readers. Now I have going though all the sub-cats and removed the root cat, the root cat contains links to the town articles only. <small>Pinging {{ping|Dave Rave}} for context</small> - ]<sup>]&#124;]&#124;]</sup> 21:10, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
:: and now all the subcats you have removed leaving the towns still there, which are already in the subcats in the heading area. ] (]) 22:46, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
::: the category of Macksville is for the things in Macksville, it already contains the town of Macksville, this is a town in NSW. it is already in the cat of Mid North Coast, you need to make a new one for Towns in the Mid North Ocoast. the post office is not a town in nsw, it is a thing in a category. ] (]) 11:02, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
:{{ping|Dave Rave}} I'm afraid I could not quite grasp what point Dave Rave was saying on that Talk page. Here in Australia, we have both towns and localities and they are not either/or. Towns are urban areas, while localities relate to the complete subdivision of Australia into bounded areas called localities (or suburbs in urban areas). So somewhere like Macksville is the name of both a town and the locality the town is within (a very common scenario). It is not normal practice to create separate Misplaced Pages articles for the town and for the locality, both the town and its surrounds are discussed in a single article. That is why some categories for NSW places will have Towns in New South Wales as a parent category and others do not (as they are localities without a town). I really think this is quite an important distinction and I suggest that it is discussed at the ] as this is a convention used throughout Australia. Not all articles are entirely clear if they are discussing towns or localities or both (it would be better if they did, but not all are written as carefully as we might like). Just to be clear, there are localities without towns (if these have a category, then it is the parent category of the local government area), localities with a small town fully contained within them (if these have a category, then the parent category is the local government area and Towns in StateName), and larger towns which spread over multiple localities/suburbs where the town has its town article in addition to the articles for the localities/suburbs it spans over (if the town article has a category, it will have parent cats for the LGA and Towns in State Name, while is the locality/suburbs have categories, then their parent category will often be Suburbs of TownName, which in turn usually has a parent category of the LGA, but will sometimes just be directly into the LGA category without a "Suburbs of" category (although I would expect sooner or later the "Suburbs of" tends to get created). So there is a fairly high level of consistency in this approach which is being changed here without a lot of discussion. I really think this is a discussion to be had there to gather consensus among the Australian community and then then take it to Categories for Discussion noticeboard before making any mass changes. ] (]) 21:46, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
: as I noted, in many more words than I usually do, every town is already an item in a cat of the towns, these aren't town cats I'm talking about, theyre things in the town. ] (]) 22:43, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
::Could we please shift this conversation to ]. {{ping|Dave Rave}} I'm still struggling with the point you are making (not a issue of agree/disagree just not clear what you are trying to achieve and why). Could you give a concrete example of what we currently have and what you think it should be and why? And perhaps a counter-example of what we currently have and should stay that way? Thanks ] (]) 23:12, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

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== nukkar ==

I accidentally linked the two names (nukkar/wahbi) together. Could you check out the two names which are now separate please? Thanks. ] (]) 02:18, 16 June 2020 (UTC)
:{{re|92.0.196.8}} sorry, you meant to request 2 redirects > Nukkari. That correct? - ]<sup>]&#124;]&#124;]</sup> 19:16, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Let me contact my[REDACTED] mentor

== Cleaning up .. ==

Thanks for your assistance re draft ] ] (]) 14:23, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

==Nuski==
good noon Dear,
I am feeling interested to talk with you here.
i am Arefin .(a mechanical engineer passed from KUET )......bla bla
I want to publish the page on "nuski baby" .Though i'm a new user.
hope your assistance will feel me happy finally.


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:Not going to happen, the references do not show notability and some seem to have false information - ]<sup>]&#124;]&#124;]</sup> 14:39, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

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== FreeTON page ==

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would you please tell me which part is the problem ?
or which source is not reliable ?
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Tech News: 2025-03

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  • The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.

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  • On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the inproject: keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Misplaced Pages, English Misplaced Pages, English Wikivoyage, French Misplaced Pages, Hungarian Misplaced Pages, Nepali Misplaced Pages, Turkish Misplaced Pages, Chinese Misplaced Pages)
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  • Advanced item Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.
  • Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
  • Advanced item For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its sub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13.
  • Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output.

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Error making talk pages?

Hi Rich Smith! I noticed you made a few pages like these (World of Tomorrow 2 talk: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts, World of Tomorrow 3 talk: The Absent Destinations of David Prime, World of Tomorrow Episode II talk: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts). It looks like they're intended to be talk pages but they're in article space. I just wanted to touch base with you and see what's up with them. If they were made accidentally, I can just tag them for speedy deletion. Thanks! BuySomeApples (talk) 05:41, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

@BuySomeApples: Oh blah... it came from the WP:AFC/R tool... it screwed that one up - Rich 05:53, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
@BuySomeApples: Alright, I think I've fixed them all. Thanks for letting me know - Rich 05:58, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

CS1 error on Abdul Waheed Kakar

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CS1 error on Can't Take Me Home

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Re: Amber Valley

Hello Rich Smith, This is to let you know that one of your recent edit at Amber Valley caused a citation error. you have added invalid url at {{Cite web}} template.

Do not add invalid url and use preview before saving your edit. Happy editing.––kemel49 17:38, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

@KEmel49: Thanks for that, however 1. You might want to subst your template and 2. WP:DONTTEMPLATE - Just a little "Ya broke it, I fixed it" would have been fine - Rich 17:45, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
@Rich Smith, AnomieBot do that substitution part but was might late on traffic. On the run to give such good news frequently to fellow editors, i used all my brain cell to create a test template on sandbox. and a "hangover show off" you can say.––kemel49 07:00, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

ClueBot NG: Reverting vandalism failure

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Bank of Maharashtra

Hi Rich, did you intend to remove the PROD right after you added it, or was that a mistake? Nobody (talk) 08:58, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

@1AmNobody24: Ah poop, no I did not intend to do that, thought I reloaded the page in WikiCleaner. I'll put it back. Thanks for letting me know - Rich 09:06, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-04

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  • Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address.
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  • The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Misplaced Pages, Kabyle Misplaced Pages, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki.
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ClueBot III: Archiving discussions failure

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Query regarding article deletion

I have a query regarding my company's[REDACTED] article, where you preposed for deletion. i have made some edits as per the feedback. Vijith05 (talk) 11:55, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

@Vijith05: First of off, if you work for the bank, you need to disclosed paid editing, please read WP:PAID. This is a REQUIREMENT of the Wikimedia Terms of Use and MUST be done before ANY further editing. Second, what you have added/changed does nothing to change the reason for the proposed deletion. - Rich 22:35, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
Please let me know how can i fix this Vijith05 (talk) 05:25, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
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