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Dean Wicks

Hey 5AS, can you protect this page. This ip is set on an agenda of inclusion of banal details.GunGagdinMoan 14:06, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Yup they certainly do seem that way especially as I had a word with them earlier, they've acknowledged the warning and then carried on.  Done for one week.--5 albert square (talk) 15:28, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for that :) GunGagdinMoan 15:40, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
Hiya 5AS, when you get a moment can you check out AP's discussion re backstories on my talk page. Be good to have more opinions.GunGagdinMoan 17:23, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-23

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

Problems

  • Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [1]
  • Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [2]
  • Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [3] [4]

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  • The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
  • You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [5]

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  • You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:46, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Question

Original message: Hello, I'm 5 albert square. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person on Terry Sue-Patt, but you didn’t support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it. Wikipedia has a strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Please read the reference. It refers to him as African. 5 albert square (talk) 17:23, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

My response: Hi, I haven't edited any web pages recently, and I rarely do. I don't even know who the person you've referred to is, so I'm slightly concerned if this editing is connected to my IP. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.69.189.67 (talk) 01:12, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi, no worries, you may have simply been allocated an IP that has previously been assigned to someone else who did edit the page.--5 albert square (talk) 05:36, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
  • For journal articles one can just remove the urls if they are dead rather than tagging them as long as either a PMID or DOI is present. (the url just means there was once a freely viewable version and there is not any more)
  • If an archive url is present such as this one was [7] adding a second dealink tag is not needed, especially as one dead link tag was already there
  • If links are dead it is much more useful to add an archive.org link. We really need a bot to do this for all our urls. Will look at seeing if I can convince anyone to build one. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:18, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
Ok, thanks.--5 albert square (talk) 05:37, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

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