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The categories were added because of the medal templates in his infobox. Since you removed the categories, I will remove the medal templates (bronze medal as coach 2004, gold medal as coach 2000). Thanks. -- Zyxw (talk) 10:38, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
But the medal table serves a different purpose. Coaching an Olympic-medal winning team is an achievement and the medal table is the way to display it as opposed to as a bullet point in the coaches' highlights field. In the case of the medal table, it indicates team finish, it doesn't specifically call a coach a medalist, as a category does. In short, the two aren't necessarily linked in that manner. Rikster2 (talk) 12:32, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I also note this has been mentioned recently on the talk page.
I see that you are, by far the largest single editor of the article. I have no idea who introduce the eraerror but my hope is that you have enough familiarity with what the table should look like to make the correction. The talk page, suggest that it was made some time ago so I'm not comfortable simply reverting to an earlier version and losing all subsequent edits.--S Philbrick(Talk)13:34, 27 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi Zyxw, thank you for improving references and misc formatting of weightlifters. But one question, why are you deleting all the external links with a link to their sports-reference profile? Thanks, Sander.v.Ginkel(Talk)14:46, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Sander.v.Ginkel: Hello and thanks for your great work creating so many articles. All of the pages I edited still have the same Sports-Reference link, but now it is an inline citation for the sentence about the person's Olympic participation/results (the existing inline reference was often for the World Championships). Since the Sports-Reference link now appears in the references section, it seemed redundant to keep the exact same link in the external links section. -- Zyxw (talk) 18:19, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for adding IWF links to articles :). Yes I see your point. And on the other hand I added the data from Sports-reference to the article. One thing I don't know: is the link via the Sports-reference template copied to WikiData? Then it can be usefull keeping it. But that is not a big point.. Please tell me if there are some 'errors' in the article I created you are now changing, then I can do it the good way for upcoming articles, as there will come many more (from other sports) :). Thanks again, Sander.v.Ginkel(Talk)21:42, 19 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah it definitely needs to be done, you are the first to template archive.is (except those in CS1|2 templates). Looks like you have a good script. The 14-digit 20130703132007 is probably best because what archive.org uses so editors/tools are familiar. The 2013.07.03-132007 format is an optional convenience not technical format. It's a European style I think (using "." between dates instead of "-") .. they are based in Eastern Europe. But one could use all "-" as well 2013-07-03-132007. http://archive.is/YYYYMMDDhhmmss/http://www.example.com is probably best for English Wikipedia it's very similar to http://web.archive.org/web/YYYYMMDDhhmmss/http://www.example.com which is 95% of archive links on en Wikipedia. -- GreenC20:01, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks for recategorizing the infobox error categories a couple of days ago. I had noticed that about half of them were in that "unsupported parameter" subcategory, but I didn't want to go through the bother of fixing the other half. Thanks for bothering. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:41, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Just wondering if you had any idea what happened in this AWB edit[1] on 3 November 2016 to Kym Ireland?
That one was easily fixed when I found it, but since you were using AWB I just wondered if there had been some undetected glitch in your AWB settings which might have hit other articles that I haven't spotted.
I have been doing a big run of gendering field hockey players, and was using Petscan to identify any I had missed. This was one of the ones which came up, but only because it had another hockey category. Other articles might fall outside this search.
Would you be kind enough to check whether this was a 1-off?
I wonder if you would like, have the time and knowledge to create an AWB bot that will perform this living people category recatogorisations such as this one. This is not done by AWB's general fixes. I found 250 pages. You could also add a logic to remove categories that are mutually excluded. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:38, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I use AWB for repetitive tasks and the edit summary described the main reason for my edit: "remove Category:Date of birth missing (living people) since already using Category:Year of birth missing (living people) (mutually exclusive)". However, I often read the articles and make other changes. In the instance you pointed out, I noticed the article contained Category:Place of birth missing (living people), and found that the subject of the article lists her place of birth on her website, so I updated the article and added a reference. Are you taking issue with the additional update or that the edit summary didn't mention it? If the former, feel free to revert. If the latter, I will try to be more aware of changing the edit summary when needed. -- Zyxw (talk) 12:25, 30 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I think it would be more transparent if you made the other changes in a separate edit (with it's own summary). No, I am absolutely not looking to revert over an edit summary. When I saw that an AWB cat change added over 300 characters to the article, it was a head-scratcher. It made me wonder if someone was using a benign edit summary to camouflage content changes.
It would have been easier to review the edits if they had been separated, is my main point. Cheers,
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