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Red link recovery

Glad to see you're back. A suggestion; fixup projects have moved on, you know ;) Check out Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Punctuation and one of their child pages, such as . An edit link on your project lists, taking us into the article needing editing in edit mode (and maybe filling in the edit summary with proganda) would help us all. I've put you in the active wiki fixup list, as you'll have seen. --Tagishsimon (talk)

enfield paul (talk · contribs)

please can you return the article kingston hospital radio to my sandbox. i do not understand what you mean by redirects etc, and I find the[REDACTED] guidelines confusing and complicated. i work for the charity involved so am not sure how why i don't seem to be able to use our content. all i need is for someone to say do this, don't do this in relation to my article. if necessary i will move it to a special page. thanks.

Robert R. Roberts - nothing but a typo!

See Talk:Ralph R. Roberts (politician), in case it's not on your watchlist! PamD (talk) 20:21, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Wow, good catch! This leaves Robert Richford Roberts as our only notable Robert R. Roberts, making the redirect correct once more. Good job. - TB (talk) 07:13, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Archive 2 link added

Hello Topbanana,

This is just to let you know that I've added a link to an archive of your talk page (User talk:Topbanana/Archive 2) on the talk page itself. JIP | Talk 09:16, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of William W. Jones

The article William W. Jones has been proposed for deletion because under Misplaced Pages policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Misplaced Pages:Referencing for beginners or ask at Misplaced Pages:Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. M J ₉ ₄ 22:30, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

19th century politician. The 'L' in 'BLP' does not apply. Reverted. - TB (talk) 22:42, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Good catch. My apologies. M J ₉ ₄ 22:51, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

DYK for John Hyde Harris

On 13 October 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John Hyde Harris, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

— Rlevse • Talk • 06:02, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

List of California Schools Closed in the 1970's and 1980's

Thanks for your note. No problem. Will Beback talk 22:08, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

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Summerlin, Nevada

I undid your change to the link for St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic High School which is in Washington State. If the two schools have the same name, then they need to be disambiguated. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:55, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Well spotted. Definitely a case of cross-eyed editing. The primary disambig page for schools named for St. Seton seems to be Seton High School. I've added the Summerlin school to this list for now, assuming that it's a high school rather than a junior. If you know better, please do correct me (again!). - TB (talk) 21:17, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

The Cleanup Barnstar

		The Cleanup Barnstar
		For your excellent efforts in making Red Link Recovery Live such a valuable aid to cleaning up Misplaced Pages. Tassedethe (talk) 23:56, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Awww, thanks! - TB (talk) 08:22, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

December 2010 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive

Hi there! I thought you might be interested in the December 2010 Wikification Backlog Elimination Drive. We're currently recruiting help to clear a massive backlog (22,000+ articles), and we need your help! Participants in the drive will receive barnstars for their contributions! If you have a spare moment, please join and wikify an article or tell your friends. Thanks! Guoguo12 --Talk-- 22:21, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Re Afghan spice rub

Ah that is odd! I wonder what were all those links to begin with? In that case sorry for the revert! :) Cheers!Calaka (talk) 11:34, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Beats me - I spent 15 mins trying to work it out and failed. I can only imagine it to be a fault in the replication between the live Misplaced Pages servers and the toolserver database from which the report was created. A quick check of the top 20 showed the other entries to be more or less accurate. If not perfect, then probably more useful than the 2-3 year old reports we had before. Ho hum ;) - TB (talk) 12:02, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

ISO 639 templates

The best place to post a link that I can think of is Template talk:Lang. I did a similar exercise right after I created the template family and sorted the top "n" of them. Bear in mind that Lang is designed to work even with missing templates, and the template family is designed to be open to creative and constructive abuse. Rich Farmbrough, 21:27, 7 December 2010 (UTC).

Having said that, yes I would still be interested to see the list. Rich Farmbrough, 12:02, 9 December 2010 (UTC).

For your delectation (and as posted per your suggestion on Template talk:Lang): http://toolserver.org/~tb/ISO639/ - TB (talk) 13:12, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. For comparison: Template talk:Lang/Parameters used in 20080724 dump by frquency. Rich Farmbrough, 21:14, 9 December 2010 (UTC).

Nice. I reached more or less the same place from a completely different direction - the elimination of unnecessary red links. Here, my usual mechanism for detecting red links that are 'near misses' of existing article titles showed up an unusually high number of false positives. Investigation showed that was deciding that a red link such as {{ISO 639 name gr}} might be a mistyped attempt at {{ISO 639 name gd}} and so forth.

http://toolserver.org/~tb/ISO639/ is a live report driven from the toolserver database - it should represent the 'live' Misplaced Pages database and continue to do so indefinitely. Hopefully it'll help kep the number of language-template redlinks to a minimum. - TB (talk) 22:06, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Template:RandstadRail

I answered your question at WT:TWP yesterday. It shouldn't be too hard to create a template from the skeletion I provided. Mjroots (talk) 08:17, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Have replied there now, ta. - TB (talk) 10:15, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Disambiguation necessary?

Hi, you changed Pan American Championships to Pan American Racquetball Championships on the Jennifer Saunders entry. Is that really necessary? I mean, it's an entry about a racquetball player, so can't we safely assume that she was playing in a racquetball championship? If it was a soccer player playing in the World Cup, would it have to be the FIFA World Cup? I don't know. Seems a bit much to me and perhaps goes against Strunk and White's dictum to omit needless words. Cheers. Trb333 (talk) 14:00, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Ah - I see the source of confusion. The links in Jennifer Saunders (racquetball) were piped the wrong way round. Originally ], I retargetted them from the disambig page to the raquetball comp, making them ], abbreviated to just ]. I'd say that the originally intended ] is neater and removes redundancy - please do adjust them. - TB (talk) 23:37, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of George Finkle

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Proposed deletion of William A. Redmond

The article William A. Redmond has been proposed for deletion because under Misplaced Pages policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

Proposed deletion of Dave Clark (Canadian politician)

The article Dave Clark (Canadian politician) has been proposed for deletion because under Misplaced Pages policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.