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Thank you! :) ~ Tom.Reding & his 200-some-odd lines of regex (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf) 02:03, 23 February 2015 (UTC) A barnstar for you![edit]
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There's nothing quite like cleaning up a good, 'ol-fashioned clusterfuck. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction :) ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 04:17, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
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Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors![edit]
Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:08, 3 May 2017 (UTC) Barnstar awarded[edit]
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Editor of the Week[edit]
User:Buster7 submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:
You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week: {{User:UBX/EoTWBox}}
Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 20:38, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
The AWB Barnster[edit]
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Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors![edit]
Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:08, 3 May 2017 (UTC) Congrats on joining the million edit club![edit]
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A Dobos torte for you![edit]
7&6=thirteen, thank you :) And I really should take the test, but I can't be bothered while editing...perhaps that is or should be one of the questions?? ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 16:49, 15 October 2018 (UTC) Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors![edit]
Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 17:41, 28 January 2019 (UTC) A barnstar for you![edit]
Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors![edit]
Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:35, 5 March 2020 (UTC) A barnstar for your efforts[edit]
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I see we both have OCD. I had no choice but to give you this barnstar. Scorpions13256 (talk) 23:27, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
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For improving Navseasoncats[edit]
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Thank you for your support on ANI (while I slept). As you know, I have a DYK on the Main page, but my story would be different, about Figaro, - this Figaro. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:46, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
On the Main page: the person who made the pictured festival possible --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:35, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:52, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Tom,
It is very tricky to move categories which is why most CFD discussions end with bots moving categories around and recategorizing articles and subcategories. If you do move a category page, please make sure that all of the contents of the old category are recategoized so that they are in the category with the new page title. Many thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 22:51, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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For your tireless work in repetitive and laborious tasks. Cheers! Thinker78 (talk) 04:33, 31 January 2024 (UTC) |
Just to note, on WikiProject-specific templates, we use {{WikiProject Articles for creation (admin)}} to avoid errors. Primefac (talk) 12:21, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
I've noticed you've been creating the talk pages of subpages of the current events portals. I really don't see the need in project tagging all of these especially when there is no need to do so. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 13:19, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
The Space Barnstar | ||
I just wanted to say "thank you" for picking up the torch of updating the list of minor planets! (And I hope Rfassbind is doing fine too off WP!) Double sharp (talk) 08:44, 24 February 2024 (UTC) |
Thank you :) Nwebbvillegas (talk) 17:25, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 19:49, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello. May I ask why you are mass-adding WikiProject banner shells to file talk pages such as this one? In the RfCs discussing the redesign of the banner shell and the deprecation of project-independent quality assessments, there was only community consensus to perform those two tasks, not to mass-add WikiProject banner shells to talk pages, and especially not on talk pages where it would produce no effect (file talk pages are automatically classified as file- or NA-class, so your edits are tantamount to cosmetic edits). I am sure you are well aware that bot-like editing that does nothing except spam editors' watchlists is considered disruptive. Thank you. InfiniteNexus (talk) 20:18, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
See this edit for an example. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:43, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
In Special:Diff/1213365807, you changed {{oldpuffull}} to {{oldffdfull}}. This means that the link goes to the wrong discussion page. --Stefan2 (talk) 17:03, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
Hello, can you help me give it a linguistic and cleaning review as the user mentioned to me who is suggesting to link it to other articles that it is not very clear to me how to do it. thank you --Acartonadooopo (talk) 21:47, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
We recently changed the title structure for TV seasons to exclude parenthesis (e.g., Loki season 1 rather than Loki (season 1). I have a list of about 500 categories that need to be renamed to follow the article titles, which will require several thousand edits to recategorize all of the episodes listed in those categories. This could be done by a bot, but I tend to prefer more hands-on supervision. If you take this up, please remove completed categories from the list as you go. Cheers! BD2412 T 17:10, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
Tom, per your edits at Template talk:1967 West Penn Conference football standings, and many analogous ones, articles and templates and the like that apply specifically to American college football or American junior college football are not within the scope of WikiProject American football. The scope of WP American football includes general topics related to the sport and only specific team, league, player, and coach articles are do not fall under the scope of a more specific American football-related WikiProject like WikiProject College football or WikiProject National Football League. Thanks, Jweiss11 (talk) 16:08, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello! My name is Laurie Koziba, I have been researching my last name for a long while. I have been trying to make contact with writers with no luck. I thank you for this update. Email laurie 173.189.199.234 (talk) 20:20, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
Congratulations on becoming the fourth-ranked editor by number of edits. I know exactly how difficult that is! BD2412 T 15:52, 11 April 2024 (UTC) |
Hi Tom
I reverted a number of changes you made from Ras Al Khaimah to Ras al-Khaimah using AWB. Ras Al Khaimah is the spelling of the WP article, the currently used spelling and the locally used spelling. I haven't changed the template, but it really should be changed too. The al-Khaimah spelling is antiquated. Happy to chat if this raises any questions! Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 09:39, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for cleaning up category talk pages. Looking at Special:Diff/1219087395 and related, I don't think {{WikiProject Years}} would belong per my discussion here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years#Is any page with a year in its title within the scope of this WP?. Thanks, --Habst (talk) 17:47, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello Tom,
I saw that you recently edited the WikiProject box for Category:American politicians who are the most recent member of their party to hold statewide office. I created another category, Category:American politicians who are the sole member of their party in statewide office. It has been nominated for deletion here. I find their arguments incredibly ill-conceived - one voter glibly suggested it was as useful as a category for politicians who like eating chips. All who have voted thus far have not substantively responded to my rebuttals.
Since you clearly find value in a very similar category, is there any chance you and perhaps others from WP Biography could please vote Keep on the discussion? You might well see them as distinct for whatever reason... The prominent/accomplished administrator who nominated it thinks categories shouldn't be "temporary." Of course Wikipedia is updated to reflect current events like elections, and he has been unable to point to a formal rule requiring categories to be permanently applicable to biographies (i.e. not subject to regularly scheduled changes of employment). Still, he is undoubtedly respected on here. In that case I will of course respect your opinion too, but it was worth a shot!
Thank you very much for your consideration. 1Matt20 (talk) 16:02, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Tom.Reding,
Please do not make category talk pages for categories that the CFD bot has moved. It usually doesn't leave a redirect so there is no category page and these category talk pages just get speedy deleted as orphaned talk pages. I've run into this over a dozen times now with your use of AWB. I'm not sure where you are getting a list of category talk pages to create but it is obviously not up-to-date. I realize there has been a system lag over the past two days so perhaps that is part of the problem. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 21:07, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
<!--\s*BEGIN
. For good measure, I also excluded all cat talks that contain <!--\s*BEGIN
, but clearly a different check is needed. What text did Category:Auburn, Alabama municipal elections contain prior to deletion? Does the CxD text get removed prior to deletion, or does it remain on the page until the page is deleted? ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 16:56, 18 April 2024 (UTC)Hello, yesterday you added WP Cities to 16 categories of Ukrainian football clubs, player, manager and staff categories. Those categories do not fall under Cities WP. I will revert those additions. Wanted to give an explanation before you are notified of reverts.Ceriy (talk) 12:33, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi, {{WikiProject Germany}} no longer supports a "Frankfurt" parameter, as Wikipedia:WikiProject Frankfurt has been marked as inactive for a while. Articles with that unsupported parameter will appear in Category:Pages using WikiProject Germany with unknown parameters, which I am monitoring to keep empty. I've removed the instruction on Wikipedia:WikiProject Frankfurt relating to the parameter (in case that instruction was what you were following). Harryboyles 00:17, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
Why did you add WikiProject Architecture on Category:Fire Emblem: Three Houses characters. It really does not fit at all. Fire Emblem: Three Houses is a video game that has little to do with architecture. If it was a bot edit that was searching for categories with the word "house", I understand. (Oinkers42) (talk) 15:14, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
Hi Tom — is there a particular reason that you are adding project banner shells to talk pages of files in only a single category, e.g. here? Is there consensus to do this at scale? If so, it would be much preferable for such work to be done by bot to reduce watchlist clutter and increase accountability. Sdkb talk 16:05, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
Why did you add WikiProject Cities to Talk:Ubachsberg? The article is already part of WikiProject Villages. A place can imho not be a village and a city at the same time. The Banner talk 13:45, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
Could you please create a bot account to fulfill edits like done with Estonian villages, et Talk:Valgevälja. You probably achieve some kind of contributions record, but please think about other users as well whose watchlists are extremely populated after your bot-like edits--Estopedist1 (talk) 11:20, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi Tom I've just seen that in that list 2 items were missing: 686067 & 686068. I have added only the data I need for my translation into Italian. Please verify and complete with all other values
Thanks YukioSanjo (talk) 01:58, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
Hi! You seem to be going round removing {{Talk header}} from talk-pages, but without giving any reason for doing so. Is there some discussion of this somewhere? If so, would you kindly link to it in your edit summary? And if there's consensus to remove it from the project, isn't that a task that'd be much better done by a bot (to reduce watchlist clutter, as usual)? Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:34, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
This template should be placed in accordance with talk page guidelines. This template does not need to be placed on every talk page, and should not be indiscriminately added to talk pages using automated editing tools. Talk pages that are frequently misused, that attract frequent debate, articles often subject to controversy, articles that typically attract new editors, and highly-visible or popular topics may be appropriate for this template., so I don't see why it should stay on Template talk:Donkey breeds of Spain and Portugal, Template talk:Chicken breeds of Japan, etc. I'll add that link to the summary to be more obvious. I'm not simply removing the template, but doing a large amount of additional cleanup and standardization which requires supervision, so I'll slow down for watchlists' sake. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 21:53, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
Is there future intent to go around and add the archive template to pages that have archives and the talk header has been removed? Moxy🍁 17:36, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 22:26, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
Hi Tom.Reding. Nice to meet you. I noticed your previous editing on other Hong-Kong based companies, and was hoping you'd be willing to help with the request I've made on the Talk page of Oasis Management. There's a lot of information included there that seems to be unnecessary, skewing the neutrality of the content. Would value your input and assistance. Thank you, SandraMurphy33 (talk) 13:19, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
The redirect Goerdel's theorem has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 July 15 § Goerdel's theorem until a consensus is reached. 1234qwer1234qwer4 20:27, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
Hi Tom.Reding. Thank you for your work on List of minor planets: 706001–707000. Another editor, MPGuy2824, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:
I checked links for three of the planets at random (706001, 706418 and 706389). None of them worked for me.
To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|MPGuy2824}}
. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)
-MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:38, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
Hi Tom I've just added the last 10 asteroids in this list from MPC - Please verify if eveything is OK-
Thanks YukioSanjo (talk) 21:24, 25 July 2024 (UTC)
Was adding WP Biography to Category talk:COVID-19 models a mistake? ☆ Bri (talk) 16:19, 29 July 2024 (UTC) You might want to reconsider Template talk:Attack models in cryptanalysis and Template talk:Cryptographic models as well. ☆ Bri (talk) 16:32, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
Would you mind please editing James’s weight it states he is 40kg his weight is 88kg 45.248.143.142 (talk) 02:22, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
An automated process has detected that you recently added links to disambiguation pages.
(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 08:03, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
Hi, when converting IPA-xx templates, if they include |3=
, make sure to replace it with |audio=
. Thanks. Nardog (talk) 00:30, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Tom,
Once again, you are creating talk pages where there is no main page, leaving orphaned talk pages that need to be deleted. Here are a few of the recent category talk pages you created where there was no category page...if you look at them, you'll see that the category page has been deleted once while the talk page has been deleted twice, once when the category page was deleted and later this week when you created a new talk page that needed to be deleted:
I don't know what editing tool you use to find pages without a talk page that prompt you to create these talk pages but please, go to these pages and check first to make sure there is a main page that exists before creating an unnecessary talk page. This has been a problem in the past and if you recently returned to using this tool, maybe a note to the script or bot creator is warranted if the tool is telling you that talk pages are appropriate when they are not. Or if this is a database report, look to see how old the report is because all of these talk pages had category pages that were deleted over the past three months. Perhaps you are working with information that is outdated. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 18:26, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
Please mark things like this as minor! My over-long watchlist is seeing literally hundreds daily, by you and others. Thanks! Johnbod (talk) 02:32, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
Just a curious question, as I saw this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ingeborg_%28film%29&diff=1242550465&oldid=1237295977 . Why are we capitalizing short description as Short description and Infobox for example, but not {{use dmy dates as {{Use dmy dates ?
Kind regards,
Coldbolt (talk) 12:03, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
Looking at this it would probably be better to ask for a bot to do this instead manually doing 12,122 pages. Gonnym (talk) 18:18, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
Please stop adding them to {{WP:Television}} as film and TV are two different industries and already come under {{WP:Film}} Kailash29792 (talk) 01:39, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
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Congratulations for reaching three million edits! GTrang (talk) 03:52, 15 September 2024 (UTC) |
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that after your recent update to the Template:WikiProject Pakistan now whenever any page is tagged with the template its automatically showing 'This article is supported by WikiProject Khyber Pakhtunkhwa' which shouldn't be the case. For example you can see Talk:Pakistan Naval Air Arm. Hopefully you can look into it. Thanks! Wikibear47 (talk) 05:48, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Tom,
You are once again creating orphaned category talk pages for categories that were deleted weeks or months ago. These include:
If you look at these pages, you'll see they have all been deleted twice, the first time when the category was deleted and then again today. Please adjust the settings in your AWB search so that this doesn't keep happening. Thank you for your contributions. Liz Read! Talk! 23:09, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
Can you explain why you removed living=yes in special:diff/1247255838? According to the documentation at Template:WikiProject Biography the living parameter is required. –jacobolus (t) 16:59, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
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has migrated to {{WikiProject banner shell}}; see Template:WikiProject banner shell#Parameters and various discussions on the template & module talk pages. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 17:04, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
Congratulations on crossing three million edits! No doubt a massive accomplishment. Best wishes. Red Director (talk) 21:34, 26 September 2024 (UTC) |
Hi there! The trial of the RfA discussion-only period passed at WP:RFA2024 has concluded, and after open discussion, the RfC is now considering whether to retain, modify, or discontinue it. You are invited to participate at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase II/Discussion-only period. Cheers, and happy editing! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:38, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
Hey there! I think you might want to consider applying for autopatrol, especially with the amount of pages you'll be creating using AWB. Having it would definitely reduce backlog. Thanks! Sincerely, Guessitsavis (she/they) (Talk) 18:46, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
Hello Tom.Reding, since Danny's redirect autopatrol bot is down, I am going through your redirects and marking them as reviewed. As there are over 1,200 redirects, you will receive a lot of review notifications, so I just wanted to apologise in advance for the notification flood! – DreamRimmer (talk) 09:15, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
Straightforwardly, Hey may LubanaPB02 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) have been recently involved in the manipulation and extreme case of vandalism in a well planned organised manner can you please try to revert his latest edit specifically on Ranjit Singh thanks in advance if your received my message!! Bold 14.192.211.11 (talk) 21:07, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
Heya, I've seen you around minor planets articles (especially the creation of new minor planet list articles), and thought I'd give this a shot: I wondered if it would be possible to somehow autoedit the corrections into the articles that the minor planets are featured in. Because recently I've been adding new minor planet names into the list of named minor planets articles (from the website https://www.wgsbn-iau.org/), and the bulletins (from volume 4, #7 onwards from what I've seen) also contain "corrected discovery information", which is also corrected on the MPC and JPL websites (the most recent bulletin has thirteen pages worth of corrections!). So I was wondering if somehow auto doing it was possible or whether it would have to be done manually. Appreciate the work you've done btw! Procyon117 (talk) 02:14, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
Hi Tom.Reding, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the autopatrolled user right to your account. This means that pages you create will automatically be marked as 'reviewed', and no longer appear in the new pages feed. Autopatrolled is assigned to prolific creators of articles, where those articles do not require further review, and may have been requested on your behalf by someone else. It doesn't affect how you edit; it is used only to manage the workload of new page patrollers.
Since the articles you create will no longer be systematically reviewed by other editors, it is important that you maintain the high standard you have achieved so far in all your future creations. Please also try to remember to add relevant WikiProject templates, stub tags, categories, and incoming links to them, if you aren't already in the habit; user scripts such as Rater and StubSorter can help with this. As you have already shown that you have a strong grasp of Wikipedia's core content policies, you might also consider volunteering to become a new page patroller yourself, helping to uphold the project's standards and encourage other good faith article writers.
Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! – Joe (talk) 12:16, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
For all your hard work! Babysharkboss2!! (Trout me, pull the trigger.) 13:19, 4 October 2024 (UTC) |
Why did you remove {{R to anchor}} on pages like Special:Diff/1250364962 and (many) others? That rcat should still apply. 1234qwer1234qwer4 15:09, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
|-id=Tantalum-183m2
, {{R to anchor}} for {{Anchor}}, and {{R to list entry}}{{R to anchor}} for {{Anchor}} in wikitables. Please discuss here if any issues. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 15:20, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
|id=
in {{R to anchor}}...I'll restore. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 15:31, 10 October 2024 (UTC)