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"detected that your edit to Lee Hays..."

Actually I was only moving a citation that was in a paragraph of the text to a footnote without altering it since I wasn't who placed it there. Of course it should have a full stop, but I thought I'd perhaps modified another's contribution enough. :) Masalai (talk) 17:16, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

You removed the opening parenthesis before "Source:" but left the corresponding closing parenthesis; that summoned the bot. Fixed. Huon (talk) 02:16, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

BracketBot - 71.218.17.71

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Comment/question: Hi, I'm not sure I understand what "syntax" I've broken. Can you please give me more information so I can make the necessary corrections? Thanks, Deborah Mendez-Wilson 71.218.17.71 (talk) 19:47, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

I could probably do so if you could give me some information to go by. The IP address you used for this question was not notified by BracketBot, has not made any other edits, and you didn't tell us what article or what diff this is about. Please provide either the article title or the talk page with the relevant BracketBot notification, preferably the latter. Huon (talk) 02:51, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

BracketBot - 76.102.182.236

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Page: Paul Harvey, Jr.

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I never replaced Paul Harvey Jr. As Paul's sub I did the show whenever Paul was sick and filled in for Paul Jr. on the AM show when his dad was ill. I also did the memorial shows which lasted two or three weeks after Paul Sr. died. The oft-cited release that I was going to do a permanent show was wrong. This was announced by someone at Citadel but it was news to me and to my agent. I already had my show at KGO and my Real Estate show and had no need or desire to do a daily commentary, especially since making it newsworthy now that I lived in Sn Francisco would mean waking up at Midnight every night which I was glad to do once in awhile when I filled in for the Harveys but never considered doing as a regular thing. the release was put out by a Citadel official who apparently thought I would jump at the chance to do it, but I declined, especially since their offer was profit sharing of the spots. Since Citadel, though they were always perfectly nice to me, was near bankruptcy at that time, I didn't see the future of being a single creditor behind a bunch of banks and investment houses and figured I'd never actually see any money from this arrangement, and so, thanking them for the offer, said, thanks, but no thanks. It is the way of the internet that articles like the one cited never die, but it was wishful thinking on someone's part and not reality.

All BracketBot pointed out was that when you removed part of the source you left other parts, leading to mismatched brackets. I've proposed the page for deletion because there's no indication that Paul Harvey, Jr. is independently notable. Huon (talk) 02:51, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

BracketBot - 78.1.163.30

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78.1.163.30 (talk) 16:56, 5 July 2013 (UTC) send me you email address

BracketBot - Frietjes

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Page: 2011 Egyptian revolution

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Comment/question: I was closing the table, so if anything, the bot should have thanked me for matching the brackets.

Frietjes (talk) 20:05, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Frietjes, I thank you for doing it as it means one less for me to fix.

A930913, the bot reported this as an error: 1.) protest against Egypt's military council which dissolved a new

Could the bot skip these as you already do with 1) and 2) or should the syntax be fixed from 1.) to 1)? Bgwhite (talk) 21:12, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Pick one, surely? Don't try and put two formats together. I've never seen a numbering system like that. 930913(Congratulate) 00:55, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

BracketBot - CennoxX

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Page: Internet television Diff: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?diff=563124582 Comment/question: I fixed the broken table, shouldn't the guy with this edit get the message? CennoxX (talk) 16:32, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Velirs

Hi, can you have a look on Velirs page, someone is removing ref contents. Thank You.Rajkris (talk) 19:26, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Simeon Simeonov (footballer born 1946)

Thanks for detecting the error in Simeon Simeonov (footballer born 1946). The broken wikilink has been corrected. That's one of the weaknesses of the new visual editor. You can't see all of the characters, some of which are important, as you edit/move/delete text. I'm experimenting with the new visual editor as well as using the old wikimedia editor, which I've used for years. Thanks again. Truthanado (talk) 02:09, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

BracketBot - Kailash29792

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Chandralekha (1948 film)

here

I don't understand what went wrong. The article is under construction.

Kailash29792 (talk) 04:35, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

You rewrote a rather editorializing parenthetical remark and forgot to also remove the closing parenthesis. Fixed with your very next edit. Huon (talk) 03:48, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

BracketBot - Synthwave.94

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Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/Blame_It_on_the_Boogie

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Comment/question: I don't understand where is the syntax mistake in {|style="width: 0"; margin: auto |- valign="top" |style="width: 15%"|, because I copied and pasted it from another Misplaced Pages article in order to create 3 singlecharts coast-to-coast (for a better readability).

Synthwave.94 (talk) 19:32, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Arguably this might be a false positive, but you did strange things here. You had nested one copy of {{col-begin}}...{{col-end}} within another, and the code you pasted above is the beginning of yet another table; I believe it means that the first {{col-begin}} doesn't correspond to any {{col-end}} and thus all the rest of the article is placed in one big column. Anyway, the curly bracket at the beginning of that code which didn't correspond to any closing bracket was the cause of the imbalance that summoned the bot. I have simplified the columns, resulting in a slightly different spacing; you may want to either add width= parameters to the {{col-break}} templates (25% for the first column and 30% for the second looked ok to me) or revert outright if you think your version's spacing is preferable. Huon (talk) 03:48, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

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151.224.107.17 (talk) 07:28, 9 July 2013 (UTC) I dont understand?

You had added an opening parenthesis without a corresponding closing parenthesis. Fixed. Huon (talk) 03:48, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

BracketBot - Johnluisocasio

About your last two posts on my talk page, I've fixed the small errors you've tracked down on the Patriot League and Atlantic Sun Conference pages respectively. Hope you'll check those out for yourself. jlog3000 (talk) 14:19, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! The bot is an automated program which won't re-check edits, but fixing errors it points out is appreciated. Huon (talk) 03:48, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

BracketBot - Shillog

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Page:http://en.wikipedia.org/Maythil_Radhakrishnan#cite_note-1

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Shillog 15:01, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

You added an opening parenthesis without a corresponding closing parenthesis. Fixed. Huon (talk) 03:48, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

User Tan Meifen

This user is continously removing sourced contents in Velirs page. Please have a look.Rajkris (talk) 20:29, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

second time likely employee of IIROC is vandalizing their page by removing content

Please take a look at the removal of three sourced sections by this IP address and let me know if you agree this is an "Unexplained removal of content". You reversed the last one by this user.

http://en.wikipedia.org/Investment_Industry_Regulatory_Organization_of_Canada

I am guessing 96.49.212.106 must be a direct employee or contracted company working for IIROC.

BracketBot - Dimension10

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Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/Twistor_String_theory

Diff: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Twistor_String_theory&diff=563650545&oldid=563649763

Comment/question: @BracketBot: I was already fixing the problem when you sent the notification. I am writing this message Just so that you don't think it was vandalism.

Dimension10 (talk) 11:14, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! Don't worry; the bot is an automated program that's aimed at pointing out mistakes, not combating vandalism. Huon (talk) 03:48, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

BracketBot - TheTrolleyPole

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Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_derailment

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Comment/question: Re: broken the syntax by modifying 2 "{}"s in "Lac-Mégantic derailment"

I think you are referring to the ref tags. I think I understand the problem now and corrected another instance of it.

Thanks for pointing this out.

TheTrolleyPole (talk) 19:46, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing it! Huon (talk) 03:48, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

BracketBot - Jokkmokks-Goran

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Page: Battle of Bint Jbeil

Diff: http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?diff=563726731 Comment/question: I don't understand what rule I have broken or what I can do to correct it. Jokkmokks-Goran (talk) 22:05, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

BracketBot didn't like the ">" within the reference date: Since <> are used in HTML tags, BracketBot points out any imbalances lest such a tag get broken. That's not what happened here, but I removed the ">" anyway. Huon (talk) 03:48, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

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Babagirl2002 (talk) 00:14, 11 July 2013 (UTC) i am not sure if you can hep. how do i add an image to the article i am currently working on "greenwashing"

That depends on the image. If the image has already been uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons or to Misplaced Pages itself, the picture tutorial explains how to add it to the article. In short, code like ] will display a thumbnail of File:Example.jpg with a caption of "Image caption". If you want to upload the image, things get more tricky, especially regarding copyright. If the image has been released under a free license such as the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License you can upload it to the Commons via their Upload Wizard. If the image is not freely licensed, you'll have to check the non-free content criteria to determine whether it can be used; I don't expect non-free images would be acceptable for that article. Non-free images must be uploaded to Misplaced Pages itself; see WP:File Upload Wizard. Huon (talk) 03:48, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

BracketBot - Epinedo

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Page:Arequipa

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Comment/question:You misunderstood that BracketBot. Everything's fine in the article Arequipa.

Epinedo (talk) 02:17, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

I have to disagree with that. There were misplaced parentheses, there are large amounts of what looks like machine-translated content that should be copyedited for gramar, the {{quote box}} templates didn't work alongside images (moving the quotes away from where they should have appeared), and links were broken because they referred to Spanish articles without an English equivalent, or because they referred to non-existing Spanish articles which did have an English equivalent under a different title. I fixed many of those issues, but not the most severe, the problematic translations. That would probably require someone who speaks both Spanish and English. Huon (talk) 03:48, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

BracketBot - TrackguyRH

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Page: VfB Stuttgart

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Comment/question: I'm unsure of what I did wrong with the page edit, can you explain or tell me where the mistake was made exactly?

TrackguyRH (talk) 07:54, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

You accidentally removed a square bracket. BracketBot isn't all that competent at determining where a bracket is missing, especially if you have multiple nested brackets, so its message wasn't all that helpful beyond stating that you had modified one square bracket. You fixed the issue yourself with this edit. Huon (talk) 03:48, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

BracketBot - 91.125.237.6

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91.125.237.6 (talk) 09:31, 11 July 2013 (UTC) I am new to inserting relevant information to Misplaced Pages but I have registered as a member. However, I seem to be able to insert an additional reference link info without logging in. I have read the instructions and I am not a computer illiterate but I am unsure as to relevance of logging in if it is not necessary in order to make an edit. Nostrebor48

There are several advantages to creating (and using) an account as opposed to editing without logging in; see WP:Why create an account?. I'd say the most important is attributability: Your IP address might change; the account will be yours forever, and editing while logged in will attribute all your edits to that one account. That makes it easier for other editors to contact you if they want to thank you or discuss your edits.

Also, some parts of Misplaced Pages's functionality are available only to registered users, or only to autoconfirmed users whose accounts are at least four days old and have made at least ten edits. Huon (talk) 03:48, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

BracketBot - PinkAmpersand

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Page: Bracket

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Comment/question: Might wanna whitelist any changes to this page, A. Think you'll get more false positives than true.

— PinkAmpers& 12:43, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Error in my edit to Mallee (Victoria)

Hello, thank you. I simply made an error (since corrected). Regards, Carlo Colussi (talk) 07:31, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing it! Huon (talk) 03:48, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

BracketBot - George.Hutchinson

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Port of Southampton

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You left me a message about a problem with my edit. I cannot understand what your message refers to. Perhaps you'd like to fix it yourself? George.Hutchinson (talk) 22:46, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

When you added that image you also added a fragment that contained some square brackets; that's what summoned the bot. The issue was already fixed by Palmiped. Huon (talk) 03:48, 14 July 2013 (UTC)