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Is it possible for you to help me with a revision request

regards Joseph

Possibly.. what exactly is it you need help with? -- œ^™ 02:48, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi OlEnglish I need a admin to fix all my edits I did to Summer time in Europe because I made big mistakes by accident, thank you. Lachlb (talk) 17:20, 29 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ok will do. -- œ^™ 17:21, 29 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I want to delete pages Help:Daylight saving time in Europe and Book:Summer time in Europe because I accidentally created these pages also. Can you please delete these pages also, thank you. Lachlb (talk) 17:31, 29 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Careful next time! -- œ^™ 17:36, 29 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dear OlEnglish,

In your local river an 800lb White Sturgeon was caught....... Can send you the video-clip.... Forgive me if you know already.... MacOfJesus (talk) 10:43, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Bernard Mc Nally: No I did not not know. I assume you mean this one. Wow! That's impressive! Which video clip are you referring to? -- œ^™ 22:54, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have it on a Page...... kept it...... I can post it to you.... Do you have a Facebookpage...????? MacOfJesus (talk) 09:13, 2 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nah. I steer clear of most social media. :) -- œ^™ 03:49, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I can send it to you, tell me how...???? MacOfJesus (talk) 18:06, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

 Handle:   cottagelife.com   [June19,2019... ]  Put in:  800lb Sturgeon.....MacOfJesus (talk) 18:18, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply] 

I think you found it.... MacOfJesus (talk) 18:20, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply] 

Hey, I was recently recovered from a draft page about a company called fiorano software Draft:Fiorano_Software it was edited a lot of times but I'm still confused about whether the citations are notable or the references are correct I have read the criteria quite a number of times but still need some admin to go through for a professional and experienced help check. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Neverenough5 (talk • contribs) 08:08, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A much better place to ask, and somewhere you'd probably get higher quality help than from me, is the Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard. Wikipedia:WikiProject Companies may also be of some assistance to you. -- œ^™ 08:28, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

when I tried to put the info back it removed the template?

fixed. -- œ^™ 06:15, 9 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!! =)

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Will do, thanks for the reminder. -- œ^™ 00:24, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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You're still around--good thing you didn't choose "Anglo-Saxon" as your handle... Drmies (talk) 00:30, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nice to see you Drmies! Yes, I'll always be around. :)

That article is behind a paywall so I couldn't read it, but it's typical of the left-wing these days to just blindly call everyone a racist or a nazi or a white supremacist, even if they're Jewish! I really do hope we as a society get it together and finally see each other simply as human beings instead of white/black/red/yellow etc. -- œ^™ 03:02, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wow it's been that long huh. Well, I'm happy to be of service! -- œ^™ 03:56, 28 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Awesome

Ten years!

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I've put it at Wikipedia:The CiteWatch instead, where the bot won't overwrite it. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 11:27, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nice. Thanks! -- œ^™ 11:29, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Can I suggest removing the protection from the article since its now been moved away from 911. It was moved away from "911" in June so now should no longer get vandalism that it used to get from people looking for the emergency number and terrorist attacks when you protected it in 2011, thanks. Crouch, Swale (talk) 09:55, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Crouch, Swale: Done, thanks. -- œ^™ 01:21, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Damon Runyon's short story "Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the hot Tom and Jerry This hot Tom and Jerry is an old-time drink that is once used by one and all in this country to celebrate Christmas with, and in fact it is once so popular that many people think Christmas is invented only to furnish an excuse for hot Tom and Jerry, although of course this is by no means true. No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well O. MarnetteD|Talk 20:43, 17 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much MarnetteD :) -- œ^™ 01:22, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Why was the climate chart for Langford removed? TIA — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:569:BE89:1700:E10B:C540:1256:CAE9 (talk) 01:06, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know anything about it. Can you find which edit it was that removed the climate chart and perhaps we can restore it. -- œ^™ 03:27, 5 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, OlEnglish. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Chris Troutman (talk) 14:59, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The article Valéron has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Reads as too promotional, and only source is an unverifiable claim that company's VP Sales & Marketing provided the information

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I converted the page into a disambig page. -- œ^™ 07:00, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for that -- much appreciated. -AppleBsTime (talk) 16:50, 14 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi OlEnglish, your input would be welcome at WP:RFPU. Best regards, ~ ToBeFree (talk) 13:08, 18 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I realize the edit in question is almost two years old now, but I happened to be looking through some old contributions of mine...

I don't understand what you meant by "already categorized there" in this summary. The only other Rcat on the redirect itself, as distinguished from any categories on its target article DNA, is {{R from misspelling}}, and that template does not also categorize the redirect as an initialism because most misspellings are not initialisms. The of parameter does not change that.

Do you mind if I revert? If so, what else do you suggest I do? --SoledadKabocha (talk) 16:26, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@SoledadKabocha: Ah yes. Let me explain that edit. What I was trying to do there was tidy up the Redirects to initialisms category itself from duplicate, redundant categorizations, as it being a Tracking Category, it does not benefit anyone who may happen to be doing any kind of data analysis, or just wants an accurate count of just how many initialized pages there are on Wikipedia. The way I see it, it's much more helpful to tag only one example of a redirect in a particular category rather than tag every single variation, it just pollutes the category and kind of defeats the purpose of tracking these things. Category:Redirects to initialisms is a good example here too as according to WP:ACRONYMTITLE the default seems to be to title a page with the expanded form, so this rcat is essentially keeping track of the target of the redirect so we can know just how many Wikipedia pages there are out there that are titled as an acronym/initialism, while duplicated variations in capitalizations, misspellings etc. would just skew that number. So to put it plainly, two years ago I was browsing through Category:Redirects to initialisms, saw that there are multiple variations of redirects to a single page (DNA) categorized there, and decided to clean it up a bit. I don't feel strongly enough about this that I would deter you from reverting though, I don't think I could ever keep it totally clean of duplicated categorizations anyway, so feel free to edit however you please. But please let me know what you think: should we be categorizing every variation of a redirect simply because it fits the definition of the rcat? Or is keeping an accurate count of the target of the redirect the more important goal here? Hope all that made sense. -- œ^™ 03:43, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't believe that avoiding duplication or "keeping an accurate count of the target of the redirect" has been much of the practical purpose of redirect categorization. However, I am really not that familiar with the development of the guidelines and templates; @Paine Ellsworth: might know better...? --SoledadKabocha (talk) 05:38, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hey friends! I agree with œ and would only add that I never categorize misspellings, miscapitalizations and the like to other maintenance categories. If a redirect is a misspelling, then that's all it is, just a search term to the target. It's not to an initialism or from a surname, etc. There are exceptions, as noted in the {{R from misspelling}} documentation, but they are rare. Ya'll stay healthy! P.I. Ellsworth  ed. ^put'r there 06:56, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. I will not touch this redirect further. Thanks for the information. --SoledadKabocha (talk) 16:27, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I’m confused as to why you moved my technical move request to the “Requests to revert undiscussed moves” section[3]. There is no move to revert and the proposed move was discussed. It makes no sense to put this request in that section. If you have an issue with my close please let me know. But the mechanism for challenging move decisions is via WP:MR. Thanks. —В²C ☎ 08:46, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Born2cycle: My apologies, that was a simple editing mistake that I didn't catch, not sure how it happened but I only intended to remove the request for the Michel V. Tell article. Did not mean to touch your request. -- œ^™ 08:50, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Another version, but also a good one. Donner60 (talk) 10:33, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello OlEnglish,

I saw a page you added your name to that offered to help out newcomers. Thanks for your service and help here on Wikipedia!

I've been quite frustrated lately that Wikipedia editors seem to be very eager to slap the "conspiracy theory" label on everything. For instance, despite the fact that the US State Department is reporting that its diplomats were the target of microwave directed energy weapons, the Directed Energy Weapons page says that DEWs are merely a conspiracy theory. What a joke!

The UFO page says UFOs are a conspiracy theory, despite the fact that the US Department of Defense now acknowledges that UFOs are real. The Origins of Covid page says that the Wuhan lab-origination hypothesis is a conspiracy theory, despite the fact that this is now the leading theory of Covid's origin!

There are literally dozens more pages that have this bias, and these pages are all incorrect. I'm concerned that Wikipedia is overrun by special interests at this point. Do you have any advice for me on what to do about it?

Thanks, Adam Good day1 (talk) 02:20, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Good day1:, I completely agree with you, I've long noticed this bias. Part of the problem is how the Wikipedia:Fringe theories content guideline is worded, and you could make your point at the talk page there. However I have some bad news for you. It's so hard to get things changed around here, you must devote so much of your time and patience that it may sometimes feel hopeless to make any real change for the positive. After many years of experiencing this I've become quite jaded unfortunately and simply don't have the fortitude to put up a fight. That said, there are three other places I recommend you make your case: there's the Wikipedia:Neutral point of view/Noticeboard, and the Wikipedia:Fringe theories/Noticeboard, and you can also make a comprehensive, point-by-point case at Wikipedia:Requests for comment, and be sure to show clear examples of bias with diffs and reliable references backing up your case. A well worded WP:RFC I'd say is your best chance to make some change or at least find some solidarity with other users like you. Thanks for reaching out to me. -- œ^™ 12:49, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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