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The Signpost: 29 April 2013

Thanks

for your help with the Archaeoastronomy mess. Dougweller (talk) 16:12, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

No problem. --Closedmouth (talk) 02:11, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

SLACKER

Broken redirects (configuration) has over 1,000 entries currently! --MZMcBride (talk) 14:28, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

That's because it's outdated and TS replag is high. Come back when the report is accurate. --Closedmouth (talk) 14:55, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, I'm new here. I imported a quick script to nominate the pages for deletion and I'm slowly filling up Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as dependent on a non-existent page (though INeverCry seems to be just as quickly emptying it!). You're welcome. If you could take care of the ".css" and ".js" pages listed at Wikipedia:Database reports/Broken redirects, that would be wonderful. --MZMcBride (talk) 18:21, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
RESOLVED FIXED --Closedmouth (talk) 13:06, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
Thank you, my child. I forgive you for doubting me (it looks like you were able to delete over 600 broken redirects). --MZMcBride (talk) 14:33, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

the show must go on

huzzah!
Give me a chance to tell the Bard's tale, and I give you my word on humble knee, whence you shall not say it wasn't e'er to be. Killiondude (talk) 05:42, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
For as it is written, you shall be with whom you have formed a more perfect union with under God. This isn't working. --Closedmouth (talk) 08:30, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Template:NFT player

Hi, you protected the Template:NFT player in 2011 and the website has recently released a new version, so I am requesting an update to the code as follows:

[http://www.national-football-teams.com/player/{{{1|{{{id}}}}}} {{{2|{{{name|{{PAGENAME}}}}}}}}] at National-Football-Teams.com

Thanks, C679 13:20, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

Done. --Closedmouth (talk) 15:47, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. Unfortunately it doesn't work; there are two issues. First is easy, needs a ".html" after the id number. Second is that the ids seem to have changed, e.g. Beckham was 2233 and his new number is 2189. Do you have any idea how to address this? Thanks, C679 17:55, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
First issue fixed. I think you can only fix the second issue manually, or somehow with a bot. Beyond my limited capabilities. --Closedmouth (talk) 03:15, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
great, so now this change has now made all the links go to the wrong people (e.g., see Carlos Valderrama). it was better when the simply returned a 404. a better option would be to create a new template so we can track which ones have been changed, or go to a wayback machine link, rather than silently making all the links wrong. Frietjes (talk) 19:53, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

You might be interested in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football#NFT player template doesn't seem to be working.... GiantSnowman 20:08, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

You can always wrap a <noinclude> around the whole thing while it's being fixed. --Closedmouth (talk) 01:29, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
I reverted the change as it seems they have fixed their website to send you to the updated page. We should still probably do something about this, but we will probably want to create a new template for the new syntax or use a different parameter for the new ID (e.g., newid or something). Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 02:21, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

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File: Desktop computer with wireless mouse and keyboard..

well,..I don't know what you are talking about,..are u tellimg me about the picture of an all in one pc I added onto Desktop computer ?? If you're talking about this I HAD removed the photo and added a picture of the pc showing it's own wikipedia page,......is that a copyrighted work ?? please reply in MY TALK page....o---Andrew--o 16:56, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

--well if you are talking about the picture of an all in one pc here I would be surprised.....cause this photo was created to replace a photo (after RonHjones told about the computer with Caribbean beach wallpaper (windows 7) ....)so does it have a real problem..?? If you are talking about the one with the carribbean beach wallpaper ... I dont know where to access the file nor do I know how to delete it,...Is there somthing I CAN do or MUST do about it?? plz reply in my talkpage.....o---Andrew--o 16:37, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Herbert Tauss

Can you please undelete my page about Herbert Tauss? I am computer challenged and was trying to create a page that used his name. Karen Tauss sheaKtaushea (talk) 02:58, 22 May 2013 (UTC)5/21/13.

That was deleted by Boing! said Zebedee (talk · contribs), I only deleted the broken redirect. Please ask them to restore the page for you. --Closedmouth (talk) 03:05, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

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Deleted map of the Rarh region

Hello Closedmouth,
I'm shocked to see suddenly that the printscreen map I'd uploaded have been deleted. I didn't even know that it was under deletion review. I was messaged by Veggies, few days ago about an improper copyright tag. I've replied him in to his talk page that I don't understand very much about the proper copyright tagging, explained him how I'd made the image and that there was no other in Commons and that he could go on and tag it properly if the tagging was wrong. Please see: User talk:Veggies#Replaceable fair use File:Rarh region.png.
The map is not repleacable. Or if it is replacable, why do you delete it not replace it instead? Could you please undelete the file and tag it properly.
Thank you,
Friendly --Universal Life (talk) 16:15, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

"except if someone recreated a better image from Google Earth in .jpg format and drawing lines separating what is historically known as West and East Rarh and may be even the previous denominations such as Northern and Southern Rarh". You pretty much said it here. It's possible for somebody to create a free alternative (even if nobody has done that yet) so therefore it fails WP:NFCC#1: Non-free content is used only where no free equivalent is available, or could be created, that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose. --Closedmouth (talk) 10:40, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Hi closedmouth, Thank you for your reply. One question though, I also created it by printscreening on my computer from Google Earth. So why it isn't free content? What should I have done to make it "free content"? Friendly --Universal Life (talk) 23:42, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for taking care of my talk page and for blocking the vandal. This is the strangest case I have ever encountered. The user made one bad edit and after receiving a warning from me proceeded to vandalize my user page and talk page many times. Two other editors also caught this vandalism. It's difficult to understand how someone could be that wasteful and crude. I am sure the user would have continued until blocked. It is almost as if he was looking for it. I've had pages vandalized before and I am sure most others who review recent changes have as well. But the sheer number of vandalisms and the focus on my pages is truly baffling. Anyway, thanks again. Donner60 (talk) 23:56, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

No problem. --Closedmouth (talk) 03:02, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

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Please block User:Daredevil7

Dear Closedmouth, please block User:Daredevil7 with an expiry time of indefinite, because the user may contributing without common sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.171.176.100 (talk) 11:04, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

You hope for vandalism?

I'm sure you don't, but that's the way it looks: [1]. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:51, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Seriously though, the alternative being that this guy was making good edits and being labelled a vandal for no reason, I'd rather I was missing something and it turned out to be an obscure form of vandalism I wasn't familiar with. --Closedmouth (talk) 12:26, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
OK, I see what you mean. However, I still prefer it not to be vandalism. JamesBWatson (talk) 17:31, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

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Template

Hi, is there a template 'warning' for linking to disambiguation pages? Thanks. Denisarona (talk) 10:10, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

User:DPL bot usually does that automatically. You should probably just write a non-template message to the person. --Closedmouth (talk) 10:30, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks, will do (was just being lazy!!) Denisarona (talk) 10:37, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
I sympathise. --Closedmouth (talk) 10:44, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

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File:Jennifer-lopez-green-versace-dress.jpg

Hello there. You're gonna have to explain yourself. This image has been on Wikipedia for many years. No free images of the dress are available, and as stated in its use (maybe you didn't even bother reading it), it's importance of being displayed.  — Statυs (talk, contribs) 14:29, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

The file was tagged for more than ten days, with no attempt to improve the fair use rationale. Those ten days are for you to discuss the issues with the tagging editor and make improvements to the fair use rationale. However, in spite of your incredible rudeness in this message, I did take a closer look, and I would say that Werieth used the wrong tag for this. There is a fair use rationale, though it is inadequate, specifically with regard to WP:NFCC#10c. I will restore the file, and tag it for deletion correctly so that you have the chance to improve the rationale and potentially prevent the image from being deleted. --Closedmouth (talk) 16:07, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
Well, I wasn't even aware that there was an issue (as I wasn't notified as such). I wasn't aware of the tagging, so I apologize. All I saw was that the file was deleted. Thank you for restoring.  — Statυs (talk, contribs) 03:32, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Damn Kids Headshot Picture

Hi,

I stated that I owned the picture that I uploaded for the article for "Damn Kids". I would like it to be put back up. I own the picture, and hold an exclusive copyright to it. It is not in public domain, and I am not allowing access for other people to use it without my permission. Can you please put it back up? If not, can you tell me which copyright it is under, and help me put it back up? Thank you in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thisisprovoke (talk • contribs) 20:16, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

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TemplateData is here

Hey Closedmouth

I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :).

So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere.

What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default.

The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

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RE: ‎FYI

Thanks, would be interesting to know who this individual is. Cheers, Mattythewhite (talk) 16:29, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

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Demetris Moulazimis

hello, im about to Re-Create Demetris Moulazimis, i got this notice, and a message to contact you before recreating it
08:46, 19 January 2011 Closedmouth (talk | contribs) deleted page Demetris Moulazimis (Expired PROD, concern was: unsourced BLP)
this player now has professional contract. http://www.omonoia.com.cy/default.asp?lang=GR&tab=football&section=news&nid=1361 this is written in greek, it means that moulazimis is part of omonoia ac now, if i have the authority to continue i'll provide more sources about his bio and moves. regards Argento1985 21:32, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Go ahead, doesn't bother me. --Closedmouth (talk) 03:10, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

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Request to take part in a survey

Hi there. I would very much appreciate it if you could spend ~2 minutes and take a short survey - a project trying to understand why the most active Wikipedia contributors (such as yourself) may reduce their activity, or retire. I sent you an email with details, if you did not get it please send me a wikiemail, so that I can send you an email with the survey questions. I would very much appreciate your cooperation, as you are among the most active Wikipedia editors who show a pattern of reduced activity, and thus your response would be extremely valuable. Thanks! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 12:46, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Hello, Closedmouth. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.
No thanks. --Closedmouth (talk) 08:25, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

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Image of Marina DeBris' work

I had written previously on eeekster's talk page: "I added this image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marina_DeBris_Hoop_Trash_Dress.jpg

Eeekster's comment was that a freely licensed version could be found. I added the contested response to the description of that page, but I'm not sure I did it right. I searched the web and could not find a freely licensed version of an image that shows Marina DeBris's work. If anyone can find one, I'll use it."

Now the image is deleted, apparently by you. Could you tell me on what grounds it was deleted? I contested the intent to delete, but never was told why you (or someone) declined the contestation. There is no freely licensed version of an image that shows Marina DeBris' work, therefore the image DOES qualify for fair use. So what is the problem?

Thanks Socialresearch (talk) 00:59, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

From the NFCC: Non-free content is used only where no free equivalent is available, or could be created, that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose. The point isn't that a free image doesn't exist, it's that it's reasonable to assume that some person could take a photo of the dress and release it under a free license. It's why we don't allow non-free images of living people, but we do allow them of dead people: even if a free photo doesn't exist anywhere in the world, it's still possible for somebody to take a photo of the living person and release it under a free license; but it's not possible to take a photo of a dead person, let alone a free one, so it qualifies for fair use. If the dress was burned after that photo was taken, it would most likely qualify. Otherwise, you have to settle for a textual description. These are the pitfalls of requiring the content of your encyclopedia be free and open. --Closedmouth (talk) 08:54, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

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File:Préparez vos mouchoirs.jpg

You deleted this image as unused, when it was on Get Out Your Handkerchiefs the whole time. Ribbet32 (talk) 00:41, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, not sure how I missed that. --Closedmouth (talk) 08:04, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

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Ugh

Thanks for blocking that account. I just read the name the right (wrong?) way. I was reading it differently and didn't parse the other way. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:55, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

S'alright, I'm really good at spotting these things because I'm from Pen Island. --Closedmouth (talk) 06:02, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
I'd laugh, but there is an article for that, Pen Island. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 05:05, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

STiki emergency

Igloo is back!

We are proud to announce that Igloo is once again functioning. This message was sent by TyAbot for Kangaroopower, one of Igloo's current maintainers at 20:31, 25 August 2013 (UTC).

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August 2013

Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Henry, Duke of Lower Lorraine may have broken the syntax by modifying 4 "{}"s. If you have, don't worry, just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page:
  • {{S-hou|[[House of Ardennes]]||c. 1059}}||c. 1119}}}}

Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 08:14, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

 Fixed --Closedmouth (talk) 08:16, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Nigel (bishop of Ely) may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 "{}"s. If you have, don't worry, just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page:
  • {{Infobox Officeholder

Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 08:50, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

God damn stupid fingers.  Fixed --Closedmouth (talk) 08:52, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

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Redirect of a deleted page

In November 2010, you deleted the article County Road 333 (Liberty County, Florida) on the grounds of lack of notability. While I'm not disputing the deletion, I have redirected the article to List of county roads in Liberty County, Florida, and I fully intend to do this with others that were deleted. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 17:11, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

OK. --Closedmouth (talk) 23:47, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

F5 deletions

When making F5 deletions please check for and also delete the associated talk page please. I noted you have missed several that are on my watchlist. Werieth (talk) 15:55, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Eh, it's not that big a deal, and someone always comes along and cleans up afterwards (sometimes I clean up after myself without even realising). If Twinkle had an option in its batch deletion process to delete talk pages at the same time, I would totally go to the effort of checking that box. --Closedmouth (talk) 16:44, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

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File:Microsoft Lync icon.png

Can you undelete File:Microsoft Lync icon.png so it can be re-added to Microsoft Lync and Microsoft Lync Server, to replace the one on Commons currently tagged for deletion? Jackmcbarn (talk) 19:11, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Also File:Microsoft Outlook Icon.png and File:Microsoft Access icon.png, for the same reason. Jackmcbarn (talk) 19:13, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Closedmouth. I am here for the same reason.
The undeletion rationale is simple: Someone uploaded them to Commons. You deleted them here. (No hard feelings.) Someone on Commons noticed they are copyright-protected and deleted them. And now we are left with no images. Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 10:19, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
Sorry, I forgot I had new messages. All restored. --Closedmouth (talk) 10:25, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

User talk:98.246.221.62

User IP 98.246.221.62 just left you a message on his Talk page. - Areaseven (talk) 14:28, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

User talk:Homosexuality is a disease

Mind deleting the talk page? Whispering 03:08, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

If you're going to take that route, can you also delete the deletion log, block log, and filter log entries that contain his username? Jackmcbarn (talk) 03:22, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
User:Acroterion took care of the talk page. I see no reason to delete the log entries. --Closedmouth (talk) 03:29, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

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BBC Radio 2‎

Two years passed after content dispute. Is "unprotection" too soon? --George Ho (talk) 01:27, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

I don't even remember protecting it, so it's probably been long enough. --Closedmouth (talk) 03:08, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

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File:1 eurocent malta.png

Hi, Closedmouth. I see that you have deleted File:1 eurocent malta.png, with the rationale: '"F7: Violates non-free use policy." Could you please explain this in a bit more detail, as the WP:NFCC#1 states: "Where possible, non-free content is transformed into free material instead of using a fair-use defense, or replaced with a freer alternative if one of acceptable quality is available."? There is no evidence that an alternative of acceptable quality is currently available. Thank you. --Eleassar my talk 20:52, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

What? You're the one who tagged it? I can just restore it if you want. --Closedmouth (talk) 16:10, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
I did not request that you restore it. I would like to know why did you do delete it: was it just a routine or do you think that the policy should be interpreted this way & the text corrected? --Eleassar my talk 22:19, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
The former. --Closedmouth (talk) 15:25, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
Thank you. You've cited the F7 criterion. Which one of the clauses of this criterion does apply in this case per your understanding? --Eleassar my talk 07:15, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
I deleted it in accordance with the {{di-disputed fair use rationale}} which you added to the file. There didn't appear to be any significant objections. --Closedmouth (talk) 08:20, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for the reply. I've nominated the file for undeletion at [2]. --Eleassar my talk 09:02, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

User:70.186.222.63

Hi. I've seen that you blocked User:70.186.222.63 once. Their disruptive behaviour hasn't changed apparently. I tried to warn them; no response. Raamin (talk) 07:03, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Quick action needed

Hi, User talk:Suckmycock212 needs talkpage access revoked. Not linked to for obvious reasons. Thanks, --Mdann52talk to me! 13:23, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for Archpoet

Hey Closedmouth, I just meant to thank you for cleaning up some of the formatting on the Archpoet article on 28 August 2013 (a while ago, I know...). I care very much about this page, and your contribution was very pertinent and useful. Keep up the good work!
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Thank You

Thanks for the changes to the WGLI and WCUP images. I'm a stickler for making sure the added information remains in the updated FURs (though it confuses me why it needed an updated FUR). I do that because there are editors who have nom'd images of mine for deletion for not having that information in the past. Again, thanks for the changes. Take Care...Neutralhomer • Talk • 06:18, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

File:The Night Before Xmas Tom and Jerry Poster.jpg

Hello, this image has been reduced once again to a fitter size, so if you would like to delete the revisions now, please do so. Thank You! Blurred Lines 04:46, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Jeez, what's the big rush? You know there's a bot that does this right? --Closedmouth (talk) 04:53, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
Nope. Blurred Lines 04:54, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
Tada. --Closedmouth (talk) 05:00, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

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