User talk:A930913/Archives/2013/Jul


"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)

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)

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)

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)

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: Minor error in message

At User talk:Svpnikhil § July 2013, Bracketbot posted:

...may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 "{}"s.
| [[Kolhapur]

The first part says to look for broken brace pairing, while the detail shows the problem is actually with a missing right bracket. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 13:45, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Both parts of BracketBot's message are correct: Svpnikhil added a brace, and we had a surplus bracket in the end. Rightly or wrongly (probably more often wrongly), BracketBot assumes that a brace and a bracket may form a pair, so in BracketBot's opinion adding a brace may lead to a surplus bracket. Huon (talk) 14:41, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for catching my typos at Oval Office. I should proofread before pressing SAVE. They're now fixed. -- BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 22:10, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

How to opt out

Hi, could you let me know how to opt out of receiving Bracket bot notices? I already have {{bots|deny=DPL bot, BracketBot}} on my talk page, but the notices are still arriving. Many thanks in advance, SlimVirgin (talk) 20:32, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

See User:BracketBot#Opting out. Making the {{bots}} template work for BracketBot seems like a good idea, though. Huon (talk) 20:53, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
Many thanks, Huon. SlimVirgin (talk) 22:10, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Hi

I was about to go back and fix the Dolby 7.1 page after trying to stop the person that keeps sending me attacks, abuse and adding films that don't carry 7.1 sound. But all is good now that I blocked him/her and everything is fixed.S_hannon434 (talk) 12:13, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Re: Question about My id.

                                                                               24th of July 2013

Hi James12345/ bracket bot, 

                               I'm writing you regarding my id, when I enter my id and email it says that my id has been taken, but that's just not true, I created that ID back in the days of Old Basic, long before it became Visual Basic.

I want to know why I cannot log in now, my id is B1N4RYGH0ST and I've entered every single one of my email addresses in a bid to retrieve my password, but it says that there is no email address associated with this id. Then I go to remake my account and I'm told that my ID is taken. This ID goes back to 1989. Please fix this error, as I do not want my IP address being used each and every time I write Wikipedia. I ask this question 1 or 2 days ago and received no answer. And I also asked why the Zionist are being allowed to make edits to whatever they want, they're even laughing at the fact that the Balfour Declaration is almost out of date, and I copied and pasted the words in Hebrew to you, and I took the time to go to Google translate and had it translated and I put that in my message to you.

Please answer this message as soon as possible, because I want to be able to log in as soon as possible. I recent the fact that my ID, My own ID which is over 20yrs old has been used all over the internet as well as registering software that I purchased at computer stores in my area. Please rectify this error and let me know when it's safe to log in again.


Regards,

B1N4RYGH0ST. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.41.17.123 (talk) 18:09, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

I replied the last time, but the reply was archived.
User:B1N4RYGH0ST likely isn't your ID. Wikipedia has no way of knowing what you used this ID for in 1989; Wikipedia did not exist back then. You may have created the ID at that time, but you cannot have created a Wikipedia account at that time. User:B1N4RYGH0ST was created in 2007, and it seems likely that you weren't the one who did so. Thus you cannot log into that account - you're effectively trying to hijack someone else's account.
The good news is that there is a way to resolve this issue. The current User:B1N4RYGH0ST hasn't made any contributions. Thus you can create an account with a different username, and after you have edited with that account for a few months, when we can see it's worth the effort, you can ask to usurp the B1N4RYGH0ST username and have your account renamed to that ID.
We allow everybody to edit Wikipedia as long as the users comply with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, without regard for a user's political or religious persuasion (though Wikipedia demands a neutral point of view and should not be used as a soapbox to promote such a persuasion). You should also assume good faith, especially when dealing with a machine translation of a language you don't speak yourself. For all I can tell, the Hebrew image description doesn't say anything about the Balfour Declaration being "almost out of date", much less did anybody laugh about it; rather, it says something about "the late [dead] Lord Balfour and his famous declaration". Whatever the Declaration's status, Balfour himself certainly is dead, and I don't see how that description could be seen as "Zionists laughing at something". You may want to ask someone who actually speaks Hebrew for a better translation than the one provided by Google. Huon (talk) 12:44, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

Lord of the Flies Movie

Yeah, I accidentally didn't delete one of the "]"s. Someone said that "Brandon Shih" starred in the movie, a very random thing to put... --24.67.49.175 (talk) 22:56, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for removing that; I've fixed the brackets. Huon (talk) 12:07, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing the syntax error

Have now fixed it Prodigyhk (talk) 06:14, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

how to lock pages to protect them

how to lock a page or to make it semi-protected.

please explain me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cricketingmania (talk • contribs) 09:17, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

@Cricketingmania: - See Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Good luck! GoingBatty (talk) 00:02, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
please teach me how to make a page semiprotected Cricketingmania (talk) 14:20, 30 July 2013 (UTC)