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Arriva Shires & Essex

I spent much time on the Arriva Shires & Essex article, improving the format and details of references and updating a few of the photos. You have reverted the article to a state in which its photos show no bus more recent than 2009, no photograph taken since 2011 and no publishers named in the citations. Citation templates include a parameter for publishers because they should be named.

An article about a bus operator can include some photos of older vehicles to illustrate the company's history. But it should also include recent ones of recent vehicles to represent its current operations. Thanks to you, this article no longer does.

The photos that I removed ranged in quality from mediocre to poor. The ones that I added in their stead are better quality. I say that not out of vanity because I took two of them, but entirely objectively. The photo of a Green Line coach with an over-exposed sky is particularly grotty.

Even the photo in the infobox is inadequate. The subject is entirely in shade, the background entirely sunlit and the bus is 18 years old. I am sorry I did not find a better one on Wikimedia Commons to replace it.

Why do you want to exclude good quality photos of Arriva the Shires buses built in 2014 and 2015 and photographed in 2016 and 2017? What you have done is quite unconstructive. It serves neither Misplaced Pages nor its readers.

Motacilla (talk) 20:48, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi Motacilla, My apologies, My main issues were the image changes, The images you added IMHO looked awful, I have no objections to image replacements providing they're better than what their replacing .... however that all being said I should've replaced the images instead of reverting all of your edits and so I apologise for that, I've obviously since self reverted (except for the images), Thanks, –Davey2010 21:02, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Lord & Taylor

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User talk pages with inapprorpiate expressions

JYI, I started checking the pages I requested to be checked recently in AN. I have sent many for MfD and for speedy deletion. It turns, the pages are being deleted and the number of racist/sexist expressions is being reduced. Any help is appreciated though. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:06, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Magioladitis Consensus was to leave the pages well alone so stop meddling and find something productive to do. –Davey2010 15:11, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

I think the problem was not to go and revdel. Removing vandalism / racism / sexism is well accepted practise. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:12, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Magioladitis - You're removing comments made in 2009! .... Whilst I don't condone anyone calling another editor "a nigger faggot" or "cunt" at the same time these comments were made over 10 years ago .... In my eyes you're wasting your time and and your focusing all of your energy on something pointless and which could be better spent on improving articles, Stop with the removal and seek consensus for your removals. –Davey2010 15:15, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Magioladitis FWIW some of the stuff you've deleted has been vile and I whole heartedly support the removals but others not so much, FWIW I do agree and I don't agree on it but I can't stop you nor am I going to ANI over it but it might be better to get consensus so that way people can have their say, I will say not all of your removals have been bad and some I would've removed myself .... but for me I just feel like you could be better spending your energy on articles which is the whole point of this site, As I said I'm not going to stop you if you honestly believe removing 10-15yo "nigger" and "cunt" comments is the best use of your time then by all means carry on. –Davey2010 15:24, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for your feedback! -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:28, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

No worries, Happy editing :), –Davey2010 15:29, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2018)

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FYI

Hi, I'm just letting you know that I've unstruck the !vote here: . My rationale was: "SPAs are allowed to vote and the comment was already marked as such". Please let me know if there are any concerns. K.e.coffman (talk) 01:03, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Hi K.e.coffman, Ah right sorry I thought it was common thing to strike but guess not, Thanks for kindly unstriking, Cheers, –Davey2010 01:07, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-09

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Recent changes

• Checkusers and stewards can now view private data such as the IP address in the abuse log. This data is removed regularly.

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version was rolled back because of a bug.
• Since the deployment train last week until late evening on 20 February UTC, when you thanked someone for an edit, the thank went to the latest unthanked edit to that page. It didn't matter which edit you tried to give thanks for. This has been fixed.
• Special:Statistics did not take newly created pages into account since 13 February 2018. Because of this the statistics are recreated.

Changes later this week

• Users with version 10 of the Internet Explorer browser will no longer get JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis. If you use this browser on your computer, you can try upgrading to a newer version.
• The Wikinews wikis will switch to use the Remex parsing library. This is to replace Tidy. It will happen on 27 February. Other wikis will be recommended to switch soon when they have fixed the errors that must be fixed. Tidy will be removed in the middle of 2018.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 1 March (calendar).

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19:52, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Happy St. David's Day

The leek is one of the national emblems of Wales, worn along with the daffodil (in Welsh, the daffodil is known as "Peter's leek", Cenhinen Bedr) on St. David's Day. According to one legend, King Cadwaladr of Gwynedd ordered his soldiers to identify themselves by wearing the vegetable on their helmets in an ancient battle against the Saxons that took place in a leek field. Cheers! ‑ ‑ Gareth Griffith‑Jones  ‑ ‑ 17:18, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

References

1. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Vol. 5. London: J Limbard. 1825.

Gareth Griffith-Jones - Wow certainly an interesting read thanks Gareth!, Happy St. David's Day to you too :), Thanks, –Davey2010 17:31, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for that, Dave. ‑ ‑ Gareth Griffith‑Jones  ‑ ‑ 09:58, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

You're welcome and thank you for thinking of me! :), Take care, –Davey2010 13:50, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Happy St. David's Day

The leek is one of the national emblems of Wales, worn along with the daffodil (in Welsh, the daffodil is known as "Peter's leek", Cenhinen Bedr) on St. David's Day. According to one legend, King Cadwaladr of Gwynedd ordered his soldiers to identify themselves by wearing the vegetable on their helmets in an ancient battle against the Saxons that took place in a leek field.
Cheers! Iggy (Swan) 18:34, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

   Send St David's Day messages by adding {{subst:St. David's Day}} to user talk pages.

Thanks Iggy the Swan & a happy St Davids Day to you too :), Thanks, –Davey2010 13:51, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

References

1. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Vol. 5. London: J Limbard. 1825.

Another Daily Mail RfC

There is an RfC at Talk:Daily Mail#Request for comment: Other criticisms section. Your input would be most helpful. --Guy Macon (talk) 16:19, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up Guy Macon much appreciated. –Davey2010 16:30, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank you

I am grateful for your kind vote of support at my WP:AN#Topic ban appeal. My appreciation also for the words "Everyone deserves a second chance". —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 05:18, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi Roman Spinner, No worries :), Glad to see you're "un-topic banned" :), Happy editing, –Davey2010 14:29, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2018)

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Tech News: 2018-10

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can now make longer edit summaries.

Changes later this week

• You can notify users in edit summaries. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page.
• On Special:AbuseLog you can now choose to list only actions that actually made an edit. Other actions are when the filter warned the editor or blocked the edit from being made. There are also more search options.
• Wikis can enable Citoid to provide automatic reference look-up in the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor, but it is complex. The tool will now warn in the JavaScript console if the configuration isn't correct. Soon Citoid will disable itself if the configuration isn't correct. Check that your wiki is configured correctly. You can ask for help if you need it.
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 March. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 March. It will be on all wikis from 8 March (calendar).

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• You can now read about planned works on maps during 2018. This will be done by June. You can give feedback on the planned maps work.

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17:11, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

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19:43, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Migrants sponsored banking (MSB) system: NRB bank for Bangladesh for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Migrants sponsored banking (MSB) system: NRB bank for Bangladesh is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 23:18, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Sent the notice to Jewelrangers as I was just the article mover/redirect creator .... not really the article creator, –Davey2010 23:29, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

Watch out for those Discretionary Sanctions!

Hi, Davey. About this edit, where you reinstated something that had been deleted: I know you are aware that the Trump article is under Discretionary Sanctions. And I know you know what that means, since you were reminded just a couple of months ago. When you reinstated "material that had been challenged via reversion" you violated those sanctions. The reinstatement has been reverted again, so I guess you could say "no harm no foul", but be more careful in the future. As you know, any administrator can give you a block on sight for this kind of edit. And now that you have been reminded, that is more likely to happen if there is a next time. --MelanieN (talk) 19:51, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi MelanieN, Thanks for your message, I hope all is well with you and yours,

Will do, I wasn't actually aware MrX had added it I just assume it was already in the article and Mark was reverting but ofcourse i'll tread carefully in future, Thanks, –Davey2010 20:20, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2018)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	Thank you... :) Yourmistake (talk) 14:57, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

You're welcome :), Happy editing, –Davey2010 14:58, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

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Problems

• On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 March. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 March. It will be on all wikis from 22 March (calendar).

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Future changes

• From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days.
• In-Context Help and Onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page, especially from people working with newcomers.

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This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2018)

The Grand Bazaar, held in Istanbul, is one of the oldest existing examples of a bazaar. Hello, Davey2010. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Bazaar Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Environment of the United States • Ted Gärdestad Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot 00:06, 26 March 2018 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • Opt-out instructions

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Signpost issue 4 – 29 March 2018

• Op-ed: Death knell for The Signpost?

• News and notes: Wiki Conference roundup and new appointments.

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Stop changing people’s content

Why are you changing my stuff for you have no right to that was all valid information how dare you. Jacsal44 (talk) 18:01, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Stop changing everything Essex/Kent/London-border related and get consensus on the respective talkpages. –Davey2010 18:03, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

See also Jascal. CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 18:03, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Transclusion

How to know the transclusion count of a page? For instance, of this: Template:Infobox video game character. Harsh Rathod Poke me! 19:24, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Harshrathod50, https://en.wikipedia.org/Special:WhatLinksHere/User:Harshrathod50/Da_Funk shows how many pages have that userbox, –Davey2010 19:31, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

😏 I knew I was being watched. Don't worry, now I will tackle everything with patience. I'm not an idiot, I don't wanna get blocked from editing. Harsh Rathod Poke me! 19:50, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

No you're not ? .... I didn't understand your question so ventured to your contributions to see if I could get a better understanding, Unless you do something silly you're not gonna get blocked, Happy editing. –Davey2010 19:55, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi, replying to your message...

This person has already been contacted on their page, because they are stalking not only my edits on several wikis but also removing entire sections from various pages. I have contacted them on both their talk page and an individual wiki article talk page. I believe its one for the 'BBC'. Kb217 (talk) 12:31, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Contact or no contact you're still edit warring, If the reverter isn't replying then there are various other ways to resolve said dispute. –Davey2010 12:35, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Notice

There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is I am literally being stalked on wiki by EdRivers56, Aquillion, and Davey2010. NeilN 14:09, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Neil!, Oh the joys of Misplaced Pages at times! ... and I'm only an editor!, Feel sorry for all the admins who have to put up with this shit 24/7. –Davey2010 14:20, 31 March 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:John R. Bolton

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:John R. Bolton. Legobot (talk) 04:23, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2018)

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Tech News: 2018-14

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Template Wizard script available for testing. It will show up as a puzzle-piece icon in the 2010 WikiEditor. You can click on the icon to insert a template.
• The Wikimedia Communities and Contributors survey is to be sent to participants around the world this week. If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please take 20 to 40 minutes to complete the survey.

Problems

• MediaWiki deployment train has been rolled back to version 1.31.0-wmf.26 on week 13, due to a multiplication of lost connections during MySQL queries. Some of the recent changes may have not been applied. They will be deployed next week.
• The Notifications badge icons were overlapping other links. This has been fixed.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 April. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 April. It will be on all wikis from 5 April (calendar).
• User subpages ending in .json will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js and .css pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json to do this without concerns.
• Tidy will be replaced by RemexHtml on the next set of wikis. On April 4, we plan to turn off Tidy on all Wikiquotes (except frwikiquote) and Wikimedia chapters and user groups wikis. 23 wikis will have Tidy replaced this time.
• AbuseFilter will transition to use OOUI starting April 4, and the rule editor will also be changed to a CodeEditor (ACE) similar to what is found on user JavaScript pages. The move to OOUI will continue over the next few weeks.
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A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Good Humor
	For your excellence during the April Fool's Day. --Ný(rönn)-Holtredéþch-Deskrúð / Nyholtredehn 11:56, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, Meh didn't think I was that funny tbh but hey thanks! :) –Davey2010 17:18, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Trouted

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.

You have been trouted for: Maybe reverting out very good infobox photos for lousy ones at three in the morning isn't a good idea. Just sayin'. -- ψλ ● ✉ ✓ 01:46, 6 April 2018 (UTC)