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Again, it has more than 100 transclusions (see User talk:AnomieBOT#TemplateSubster: Template:Quotedfrom has too many transclusions). I'd rather an admin other than me make the edit to User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force to avoid the appearance of WP:INVOLVED, so please make the appropriate request. Thanks. Anomie⚔ 11:30, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Also, BTW, it looks like you never added the 'auto' param for {{Unsigned IP}}. Anomie⚔ 11:30, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Done on both counts. Thanks, Oiyarbepsy (talk) 15:20, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing out the Bare URLs on the Batala NYC wikipedia page. I have fixed all of the URLs that I can. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mystifiedacre (talk • contribs) 15:28, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

@Mystifiedacre: There are several tools that help automate this for you. Try User:Dispenser/Reflinks User:Zhaofeng Li/Reflinks or User:ProveIt GT. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 15:59, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Oiyarbepsy Thank you! Mystifiedacre (talk) 16:09, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for patrolling the page: Samesung! Warm wishes from <<< SOME GADGET GEEK >>> (talk) 17:24, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Hello Oiyarbepsy! You reviewed Gay PV yesterday, for which I am grateful. I added an image from Wikicommons, hoping that it is the right licensing to use so that it doesn't get removed. Do you know who I would ask about this? I really don't know where to go. --Lgbtq pride (talk) 15:31, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

@Lgbtq pride: That image won't work on Commons and it will probably be deleted soon, since it's obviously copyrighted. Everything on Commons must be copyright free. However, you can upload it to English Wikipedia as a fair use image. This requires justifying the image for every article it appears on. For GayPV, that's not a problem, since it's an image of the magazine described by the article, but most likely the image couldn't be used anywhere else. To upload it, start here, and don't choose Commons. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 16:52, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you SO much! That's exactly what I had been looking to do. It's been uploaded to the Eng Wiki! :) --Lgbtq pride (talk) 18:59, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

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Hey there, just wondering about your removal of 4/7 of the places known as CaixaForum from the disambiguation page I created. I'm just wondering why - my impression was that it was standard common practice to provide the complete list of places/things that something might refer to regardless of whether an article presently exists for them, especially given that all of the items qualify for articles - see, for instance, Fred Smith which includes several that lack articles. Many other disambiguation pages do the same. Surely a reader seeking information about CaixaForum would prefer to know that 7 exist, even if we only presently have English articles for 3, and the existence of the links may encourage others to create those articles. Please let me know if there's any guidance indicating otherwise. --Goyston talk, contribs 13:16, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

@Goyston:The purpose of disambiguation pages is to help people find the right article when there are more than one of the same name, especially if they have nothing to do with each other. A good example is Mercury, which can be a planet, God, or element, and other things. In this particular case, thinking about it a bit more, Caixaforum shouldn't be a disambiguation page at all. Instead, it should be an article about all the things that the various Caixaforums have in common, and it should include a list in the article, where red links are generally encouraged. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 15:13, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Also, I removed all of those on Fred Smith that didn't have articles. There should be an article before they get listed on disambiguation pages. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 15:24, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

Could you direct me to any sort of policy regarding this? I read everything I could find about disambiguation including the section on what not to include in WP:DISAMBIGUATION and can find nothing that indicates that there needs to be an article first. I could point you to literally hundreds of disambiguation pages with red links, however. I mean no disrespect but I've never seen anyone else take issue with this before and it's the opposite of the practice I've seen to be common. --Goyston talk, contribs 00:15, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

@Goyston:It's at MOS:DABRL, which is a section of Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages, that there shouldn't be red links unless you also supply a blue link that discusses the topic, and only if it would be appropriate for a future article. Remember, the main purpose of disambiguation pages is for items that are completely unrelated but just happen to have the same name. In the Caixaforum example, this is not the case at all. For Caixaforum, Wikipedia:Broad concept articles is what applies. A reader who types Caixaforum into the search box wants to know what Caixaforum is, and they are looking for more about it than a mere list of locations. In short, CaixaForum should be an article, not a disambiguation page. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 00:45, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Moved to Talk:Moe Abutoq

Thanks for making me think about that. I will retrieve the bibliographies after I am done splitting the articles. RuneMan3 (talk) 19:30, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

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