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Talkback[change source]

Hello, Curtaintoad. You have new messages at Pratyya Ghosh's talk page.
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Pratyya (Hello!) 12:23, 15 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]


Welcome to Wikiproject Anti-Vandalism[change source]

Hi, Curtaintoad, Welcome to Wikiproject Anti-Vandalism! Thank you for joining to help make a difference. If you need help, check out the Talk page of our Wikiproject, or leave a message on my talk page. Anyway, Welcome! -- Aaqib Talk!| Hola! 18:44, 15 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

--Aaqib Talk!| Hola! 18:44, 15 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reversed my mind[change source]

[1] --Arctic Kangaroo (✉ • ✎) 06:00, 19 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reverting[change source]

Hi, Curtaintoad. You've been doing a great job reverting vandalism lately! I just noticed that one of your reverts (this one) accidentally removed a {{Use British English}} template. No worries, I have put it back, but please be careful! Thanks! --Auntof6 (talk) 07:55, 19 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

rfa[change source]

Hi Curtaintoad! You want me to nominate you as admin? I also have a barnstar for you! --Aaqib Hola! 20:38, 23 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
:) Nice work! Aaqib Hola! 20:38, 23 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, Aaqib. However, I might nominate myself for admin in a few years or so, once I have a few thousand changes and once I have been in a good mood here. I have only been here for around two months. ~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 22:08, 23 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
OK! Take your time. --Aaqib Hola! 23:28, 23 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Good faith?[change source]

I must ask how you consider this edit to Pi good faith. In my opinion, it looked like obvious vandalism. I would just like to hear your reasoning, since you are more experienced than I on this wiki. TCN7JM 07:26, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It looked like to me the IP did something wrong to the title of the section, but didn't mean to do that. The section on the page was broken. ~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 07:31, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
While I disagree with that, as I don't think any user acting in good faith would type two Fs and then save the page without immediately reverting because they did it on accident, I can see where you're coming from. Thanks. TCN7JM 07:33, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
That's not what we would call a "good faith" edit, CT. A good faith edit is one that the editor thought was a good change to the article. This one was either vandalism or a mistake. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:02, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Smile[change source]

Hello Curtaintoad, Aaqib has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
For my last day on Wikipedia, sorry for the disruption --Aaqib  13:41, 4 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Rollback is only for vandalism[change source]

See topic. -Bill — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.144.156.141 (talk • contribs) :... ~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 10:27, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize if I made a mistake. ~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 10:28, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

User Muling Buksan Ang Puso TV[change source]

I saw your warning to this user. What is this the name of? --Auntof6 (talk) 10:16, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Auntof6. At first I thought it was a TV company. But I just looked it up and I think it is a series. Is it still a violation though? --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 10:24, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure, but I don't think it would be considered promotional like the name of a company would. By the way, you don't need to leave me talkback. Most people here don't usually do that. When I leave a specific message for an editor, I watch their talk page so I can see when they answer. That yellow banner we get when we have a new message can be annoying when you're in the middle of some intensive editing, and I check the pages I'm watching periodically. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:31, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Looks good. Thanks. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 10:34, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Question[change source]

I'm curious: is there a particular reason you've been asking different people about becoming admins here? When I became an admin, I didn't think we really needed more, but am I missing something? --Auntof6 (talk) 11:03, 15 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I thought that people were allowed to ask other people to become admins here. But I should ask before making an RfA (if the answer is yes). If yes, then I should continue. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 06:47, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, you're certainly allowed! It just seemed like you had been asking quite a few people, and I just wondered about it. --Auntof6 (talk) 06:49, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Ah. Thanks anyway. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 06:50, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
So, if you want, you could still satisfy my curiosity and tell me why. However, you certainly don't have to tell me, I was just curious. --Auntof6 (talk) 06:57, 16 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relay[change source]

Hi Curtaintoad! You probably noticed, but just letting you know that I had to move the history of Relays to the place where you pasted the content (Relay). Just so that we know who wrote it. Regards, Osiris (talk) 11:01, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Osiris. Thank you for the move. ~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 11:03, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #69[change source]

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Notable numbers[change source]

I noticed your comment at Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2013/2003 FYI, it isn't the shortest numbers that get articles, it's the ones that have something interesting about them. The length of the number isn't relevant. --Auntof6 (talk) 01:52, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You've got mail![change source]

Hello, Curtaintoad. You have a new email! Please check it at your convenience.
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Pratyya (Hello!) 13:59, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Report me to the admins![change source]

Could you report me to the admins please?--94.197.217.89 (talk) 07:08, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Only if you vandalize once more, you will be reported and blocked. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 07:10, 5 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #70[change source]

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Nelson Mandela GA[change source]

Hey. I've been working hard into making Nelson Mandela into a good article. Can you please read the article and then write your suggestions in the article's talk page. Thanks. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 04:14, 13 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 17:57, 14 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #71[change source]

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  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Wikivoyage is scheduled to get access to Wikidata data (aka phase 2) on August 26th.
    • Listen to and watch beautiful Wikidata edits
    • To support the inclusion of geographical coordinates in Wikidata, just about two months a new data type came available and d:Property:P625 "coordinate location" was created. Already 565,000 pairs of coordinates are now available on WikiData. Compare this to 870,000 coordinates on English Wikipedia or 1,500,000 items with d:Property:P17 "country", likely to have coordinates. Have a look at them on a map.
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: approved by (P790), ISIL ID (P791), chapter (P792), Key event (P793), as (P794), distance along (P795), geo datum (P796), executing authority (P797), mission design series designation (P798), air ministry specification (P799), work (P800), notable work (P801), student (P802), professorship (P803), GNIS Antarctica ID (P804), subject of (P805). Italian cadastre code (P806) In Addition new properties to describe mushrooms were created: hymenium type (P783), mushroom cap shape (P784), hymenium attachment (P785), stipe character (P786), spore print color (P787), mushroom ecological type (P789), edibility (P789). These will allow to build the data for a mushroom infobox (as w:Template:Mycomorphbox).
    • Newest task forces: Physics task force
    • Wikidata helped remove 240,000,000 language links from Wikipedia's wiki text.
  • Development
    • Want to get an overview of what Pragun, our Google Summer of Code student working on Wikidata for mobile, is doing? Check here
    • Worked on simple special page to make a query (bugzilla:52385)
    • Worked on ability to move qualifiers
    • Started improving API and Special Page tests
    • Fixed links to Special:SetSiteLink in non-JavaScript interface (bugzilla:51914)
    • ChangeOps, custom summaries and autocomments for SetStatementRank API module
    • Fixed displaying “0” as label/description in autocomments
    • Some minor fixes for rare crashes of editing UI
    • Worked on moving Selenium tests to Cucumber
  • Open Tasks for You
    • See if you can connect some of these Wikivoyage pages to their item on Wikidata.
    • Check if some of the items on this and this list can be merged. But be careful to only merge if they are really about the same topic! Help about merging is at d:Help:Merge.
    • Update, expand and translate d:Wikidata:Introduction to make it easier for newcomers to understand what Wikidata is all about.
    • Hack on one of these.
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Wikidata weekly summary #72[change source]

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  • Discussions
  • Events/Press/Blogs
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
    • Average edits per page is nearly 5 now.
    • Wikivoyage is still scheduled to get access to data on Wikidata (aka phase 2) on August 26.
    • Developers are working hard to also make the URL datatype available by August 26 but there are factors that are not in their hands so it might have to be delayed until the next deployment in 2 weeks. URL as a datatype will soon be available on test.wikidata.org. Please give it some thorough testing and report bugs.
    • Outsch! (Help collect and fix paper cuts.)
  • Did you know?
    • 20 undescribed monsters
    • Newest properties: separated from (P807), code Bien de Interés Cultural (P808), WPDA id (P809), academic minor (P811), academic major (P812), date retrieved (P813), IUCN protected areas category (P814), ITIS TSN (P815), decays to (P816), decay mode (P817)
  • Development
    • Prepared deployment of phase 2 on Wikivoyage
    • Worked on ability to sort qualifiers and references inside a statement
    • Started work on an api module to merge items
    • Worked on special page to query for items with one specific property and value
    • Cleaned up code for handling recent change entries from Wikidata in the clients (Wikipedia/Wikivoyage)
    • Worked on generic script for populating sites table and better integration with WMF process for creating new wikis
    • Setup new git repo for WikibaseMobile skin and extension
    • Fixed SetClaim api module to properly mark bot edits in recent changes and advised pywikipedia maintainers about adding support for the module. SetClaim can be used to create claims with references in a single edit.
    • Reviewed code for Google Summer of Code students
    • Updated doxygen documentation
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Your edit to User talk:Osiris[change source]

About this edit: I'm not going to speak for Osiris, but if you ever see something like that on my talk page, I would prefer you not reply unless you have something to contribute to the subject being discussed. We don't need to police each other's talk pages. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:38, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks. I will not do that anymore. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 08:40, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have undone your change to WP:Vandalism in progress[change source]

The only objection I see with that user is that the user name is the name of an orgranization. That may violate our policies, but it is not vandalism. WP:Vandalism in progress is for vandalism only. Please report other kinds of things at WP:AN. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:42, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 08:43, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
For what it's worth, they were (and still are) adding spam to their talk page in spambot fashion, which is fine for WP:VIP. Also, why was rollback used here? --Rschen7754 09:47, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, the rollback was my mistake. I was trying to click undo, but hit rollback instead. Curtaintoad's edits were not vandalism. As for the other user's edits, the only warning I saw from Curtaintoad was about the user name. There was nothing about other edits. --Auntof6 (talk) 09:56, 29 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #73[change source]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Discussions
  • Events/Press/Blogs
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: interchange station (P833), public holiday (P832), parent club (P831), Encyclopedia of Life (P830), OEIS ID (P829), possible causes (P828), BBC programme identifier (P827), tonality (P826), dedicated to (P825), Meteoritical Bulletin Database ID (P824)
    • Newest task forces: Wikidata:País Valencià task force
  • Development
    • Work on allowing API module editentities to edit claims
    • Work on entity / item redirects
    • Work on support for moving qualifiers in API and Frontend
    • Adding coordinates to diff display and improving diff display code
    • Allowing site groups for language links on clients to be configurable (needed for commons)
    • EntityId changes, we are now working on 0.5!
    • Show snaktype in summary for novalue and somevalue snaks
    • Further work on merge module for the API
    • Wrote missing tests for various jQuery widgets
    • Work on value formatters
    • Continue on moving tests to cucumber
    • Bug fixes for coordinates following the latest deployment
  • Open Tasks for You
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The Signpost: 28 August 2013[change source]

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Your recent revert activity[change source]

Could you explain these reverts that you did:

The edits you reverted don't look like problem edits to me. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 10:48, 3 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I reverted those changes because another one of the IP's contributions had vandalism on it as well as a warning from a rollbacker on the IP's talk page, so I thought that the contributions I reverted are possibly the same style. Also, when I looked through the difference between the two contributions on the on all of the three articles that I looked at from the IP, it was something related to categories and I noticed that the words of some categories were lowercase letters and thought it would affect the article and looked like vandalism.

BTW (please note), I used to contribute to WMF sites with Internet Explorer 9/10, now I am contributing with Google Chrome because there are problems with IE9/10; however GC is going much slower then what IE9/10 does, so I will probably be inactive for most of the time for now as well as issues with some of the buttons. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 06:53, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Use of warning templates[change source]

Please refer to en:Wikipedia:WikiProject_user_warnings/Usage_and_layout#Levels. Level4im warnings are designed to be the only warning for vandals. Please refrain from using level 4im warnings unless absolutely necessary. Chenzw  Talk  10:25, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 04 September 2013[change source]

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Wikidata weekly summary #74[change source]

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Your recent comment[change source]

Hi Curtaintoad. Regarding your comment on the request for rollback page, it says that if you have rollback rights on other projects, you don't need the requirements here, which I have on en.wiki and Commons. I'll also may be a frequent vandal patroller here. So I will need rollback. Jianhui67 (talk) 13:02, 11 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 11 September 2013[change source]

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Wikidata weekly summary #75[change source]

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
  • Events/Press/Blogs
  • Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Did you know?
    • Newest properties: Saskatchewan Register of Heritage Property identifier (P845), Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (P846), United States Navy aircraft designation (P847), Japanese military aircraft designation (P849), World Register of Marine Species identifier (P850), ESRB rating (P852), CERO rating (P853), URL (P854), Sandbox-URL (P855), official website (P856), CNKI (P857), ESPN SCRUM ID (P858), sponsor (P859), e-archiv.li ID (P860), premiershiprugby.com ID (P861), Operational Requirement of the UK Air Ministry (P862), InPhO identifier (P863), ACM Digital Library author identifier (P864), BMLO (P865), Perlentaucher (P866), ROME Occupation Code (P867), foods traditionally associated (P868), instrumentation (P870), printed by (P872), phase point (P873), UN class (P874), UN code classification (P875), UN packaging group (P876), NFPA Other (P877), avionics (P878), pennant number (P879), CPU (P880), Variable type (P881), FIPS 6-4 (US counties) (P882), FIPS 5-2 (code for US states) (P883), State Water Register Code (Russia) (P884), origin of the watercourse (P885), LIR (P886), based on heuristic (P887), JSTOR (P888), Mathematical Reviews identifier (P889), Request for Comments number (IETF) (P892), Social Science Research Network (P893)
    • Newest task forces: Occupations and professions task force
  • Development
    • Breaking change to the API in the last deployment
    • Started work on number data type
    • Worked on simple query special page
    • Worked more on moving (ordering) of qualifiers
    • Worked on JSON dumps
    • Continued working on allowing editentities API module to allow editing of claims
    • Continued work on the merge items API module
    • Worked on fixing the way Claim GUIDs are used throughout the code
    • Worked on TableDefinitionReaders for Database component
    • Unified and improved rendering of property values in summaries, diffs, wiki-pages, etc.
    • Continued moving to new browsertests framework
    • Bugfixes on autosummaries
    • Worked with GSoC student on mobile skin
    • Worked on refactoring of how we serialize and provide data about used entities on a page (e.g. entity pages or certain special pages) to the frontend
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The Signpost: 18 September 2013[change source]

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Wikidata weekly summary #76[change source]

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The Signpost: 25 September 2013[change source]

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Talkback[change source]

Hello, Curtaintoad. You have new messages at 78.26's talk page.
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Wikidata weekly summary #78[change source]

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The Signpost: 02 October 2013[change source]

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Possible sock puppets and only warnings[change source]

I see your report at WP:VIP about User:Southern Wear 604, and I see that you left a final warning on that user's talk page. I don't see the issues were, and I don't see what deserved a final warning without any previous warnings. If it was because of your suspicions that that user is a sock puppet, please explain why you think it is a sock. The page DWTL-TV started out as a bit of a mess, but that looks like formatting issues, not vandalism, and it was cleaned up. As far as I know, only people with certain rights have the tools to determine whether a user is a sock puppet. Even garden-variety admins don't have those tools. Please explain, because I am not willing to take any action without understanding the issues here. --Auntof6 (talk) 09:11, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Other sock puppets of Christian2941 edited the page List of television stations in the Philippines (see history), and the edits were reverted and removed too. These edits were reverted because the other edits of sock puppet Christian2941 were reverted and removed, plus these socks have similar usernames and have been editing some of the same pages to before. There was another sock puppet which created their account a couple of weeks ago, Sanyo2038, which was blocked, and edits reverted from me. You may have not been here at the time or saw what happened. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 09:31, 9 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 09 October 2013[change source]

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[change source]

Please upload al Logo for me, can you? Please, I'm sure you can.

The article is WikiMANNia and the logo is here: http://wikimannia.org/skins/common/images/wiki.png

Thank you! --77.0.184.118 (talk) 09:35, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: sorry. I searched it up on Wikimedia Commons just then but no notable results were found. Also, I'm not sure how to paste the above link (image) onto the page. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 09:42, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
This file (http://wikimannia.org/skins/common/images/wiki.png) is to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons! "To be uploaded", not "to be searched!
"wikimannia.org/skins/common" is NOT "Wikimedia Commons". "wikimannia" n.e. "wikimedia". --77.0.184.118 (talk) 21:22, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #79[change source]

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QD reasons[change source]

Hi Curtaintoad. When you tag something for quick deletion, please make sure that you use a criterion from WP:QD. If the reason you use is not on there, then it probably can't be deleted under that reason. If it helps, try sticking to the list used by Twinkle. Osiris (talk) 10:40, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #80[change source]

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The Signpost: 16 October 2013[change source]

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Hey[change source]

TDKR Chicago 101 has given you some cookies! Now enjoy them!
WOW, thank you very much!! Just logged in and now you have made me cheer up! =p nomnomnomnomnomnom --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 23:24, 20 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your qd requests[change source]

On several of your qd requests, you have put the word "unclean" in the comments. What do you mean by that? --Auntof6 (talk) 09:41, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

When I see sentences that do not leave spaces after their comments, commas, full stops, etc. I may also add the word when I nominate an article for fast deletion if there are broken templates, links, and such. I have done this on other WMF projects too. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 09:46, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
That does not make an article "unclean". Unclean articles are not eligible for quick deletion, anyway. Please see the deletion policy. Chenzw  Talk  09:51, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You should change your "welcome" to equate with what you do[change source]

Can't say I feel "welcome". 141.218.36.59 (talk) 05:05, 24 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please see WP:TP: you used your talk page incorrectly. --~ curtaintoad ~~ talk ~ 05:12, 24 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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