User talk:Closedmouth/Archive 24
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- Good job, dummies. --Closedmouth (talk) 01:08, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Your opinion/vote appreciated
Hi Mr Closedmouth,
Feel free to voice your opinion regarding this proposal here. --Philippe Jackson (talk) 05:50, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
Euro coins
Per Wikipedia talk:Non-free content/Archive 61#Euro coins, your decision that we've discussed here was correct, so I've nominated the rest of the non-free files for review; see Category:Disputed non-free Wikipedia files as of 11 September 2013 (the month is not the current, but I think this should not be a problem). --Eleassar my talk 08:55, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hi! You may want to restore the original version of this file as it doesn't seem to be a fair use image any more. Thanks! 193.40.10.181 (talk) 11:59, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
- Sorry, haven't been around much lately. Looks like it's been taken care of. --Closedmouth (talk) 12:44, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
Fucking Machines thanks
Thank you for your help at Fucking Machines, most appreciated, — Cirt (talk) 06:03, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
- No worries. --Closedmouth (talk) 12:45, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hiding edit summaries
Hi Closedmouth, when you recently changed the visibility of a revision on page User talk:Bilby: edit summary hidden (RD2: Grossly insulting, degrading, or offensive material), you missed hiding the edit summary of Bilby's subsequent reversion of the troll's edit - so some of the insulting material is still visible in the edit history. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 10:26, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
Oops, my mistake, I've just checked it again - you hid the edit summary of Bilby's reversion, but not the troll's edit summary. Cheers, Bahudhara (talk) 10:30, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- I didn't think the edit summary was so bad, just reads like regular vandalism. --Closedmouth (talk) 12:05, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- No worries, it just seemed a little inconsistent. Chers, Bahudhara (talk) 04:12, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
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Hello Closedmouth! I've recently had an interaction with Luigi911 (talk · contribs · page moves · current autoblocks · block log) who you blocked back on 10:19, June 5, 2011 with an expiry time of indefinite for abuse. He or she would like to try and become unblocked and be a productive editor (was the impression I got from the message I received), and I noticed that you didn't leave a {{Blocked}} template on their talk page with what they need to do to become unblocked. I'd just figured I would pop in and inform you that I'm going to put the template on their talk page and instruct them to follow the directions for becoming unblocked in case you wanted to monitor the situation or whatnot. Happy editing! — {{U|Technical 13}} (t • e • c) 22:53, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
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Protected template needs update
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I noticed that in 2011 you protected this template, which seems like a good idea to me, but it needs updating. --Bejnar (talk) 04:24, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
- Done. The /doc probably needs to be updated. --Closedmouth (talk) 07:47, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
Andrewbf's another account Special:Contributions/Laratadelaciudad is doing genre warring and attacking. 183.171.177.214 (talk) 08:12, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
- Not really familiar with this guy, try asking Kuru about it. --Closedmouth (talk) 08:17, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
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Changed procedure for F5 deletions
With File:Treasure Cove Concept Art.jpg and some other files, you have used an alternative method for handling F5 deletions where the file history, but not the files, remain on the page. Would you mind changing back to the previous method where all information was removed? When you carry out F5 deletions in the way done with File:Treasure Cove Concept Art.jpg, you confuse the database report of non-free files with orphaned revisions: files with revisions deleted this way are still listed there, making it harder to find files which need to be tagged with {{subst:orfurrev}}. --Stefan2 (talk) 14:30, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
- Which report is this? It's probably simple enough to update the code to exclude files with revdel'd old versions. --Closedmouth (talk) 13:57, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
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Older audio versions
Hi Closedmouth. Thanks for removing the older versions of File:Megadeth - Rattlehead.ogg and File:Symphony of Destruction clip.ogg, but it seems that you've forgot to delete the older version from the file history of the audios. Can you fix this up?--Вик Ретлхед (talk) 19:59, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
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Request for comment
Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
A heading
Do not undo those edits or you will be sorry. I don't go around and fucking up your business do I ?
- Don't be absurd. --Closedmouth (talk) 12:13, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
File deletion
Hi, you rev-deleted a higher-resolution version of File:SSU-logo.png. Can I ask why? I've been asked to restore it, and it does seem to have been released under a CC BY license. -Pete (talk) 19:04, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
- If you look at the history, the licence was changed after I deleted the file. Do what you want with it. --Closedmouth (talk) 05:40, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
- Aah, now I see. Thank you. -Pete (talk) 17:59, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
User talk:ChoateRosemaryHall
Any concerns with unblocking ChoateRosemaryHall? New name is within guidelines, although I would prefer one that does not appear to be a role account. His edits were COI, but not overtly promotional. Rope? Kuru (talk) 13:57, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
- Yeah no objections here. You can do it if you want, I won't be editing for at least the next 12 hours. --Closedmouth (talk) 15:15, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
- Done; I've put their talk page and the target article on my watchlist as well. Thanks. Kuru (talk) 15:27, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
Nicholaos Mixaloliakos
The wikipedia page on the latest national elections in Greece Greek_legislative_election,_2015 lacks a photo of the leader of the third party. I tried to upload his official photo to wikipedia but the system tells me that you have previously deleted the same file [1] citing non-free criterion. Which does not apply in this case since the official photo is meant to be freely used for publishing purposes. Please advice. Dianelos (talk) 14:50, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
"annoyinng" ?
* 20:57, 21 December 2015 Closedmouth (talk | contribs) changed visibility of a revision on page Wikipedia:Requested moves: edit summary hidden (annoyinng) [2]
Curious as to what sort of annoyance (and annoyance to whom) justifies/ed removal from the public record?
I've seen many edit summaries I consider annoying for various reasons. Should I start bringing them to your attention? Spelling 'annoying' "annoyinng"(sic) might be irksome to some for instance ... ;-) ... but personally I find typos pretty trivial and readily forgivable.
Jesting aside, I really am curious what happened. 'Twas an anomalous/puzzling entry to come across. A bit of elaboration would be appreciated.
--Kevjonesin (talk) 05:46, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
- It was character spam that screwed up the layout of the page's history. I could have selected RD3 from the dropdown box but I figured "annoying" is more accurate and that nobody would really even care. And yes, my keyboard's "N" key is playing up and I didn't catch the typo before pressing submit. --Closedmouth (talk) 07:12, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for clarifying. Makes sense now. In hindsight—20/20, and all that—perhaps an edit summary of "edit summary hidden (character spam)" would have communicated better as 'annoying' without elaboration can come off a bit capricious. Thank you for responding, --Kevjonesin (talk) 07:35, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
That has to be one of the funnier declines I've seen. Thanks for the comic (yet still apt) relief.--Bbb23 (talk) 00:59, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
Template talk:Short pages monitor
You may be interested in the discussion at Template talk:Short pages monitor#Need to define and possibly rethink this template. —Anomalocaris (talk) 23:27, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
I'm sorry to make unconstructive edits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shrub140 (talk • contribs) 09:11, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
This is claimed to be an album cover but doesn't look like one. It seems that the picture was overwritten in 2008. Could you check if it should be reverted to the original deleted file revision? I suspect that someone overwrote the album cover with an unrelated photograph. --Stefan2 (talk) 22:38, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
- It was indeed, though I'm getting an error when trying to undelete the album cover. It's probably easier just to upload the version from Amazon, especially considering the version we had was almost incomprehensibly small and low-quality. --Closedmouth (talk) 04:42, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
- Never mind, the bug that was causing the error has been squashed and I've reverted back to the album cover. --Closedmouth (talk) 14:33, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
- I also disambiguated the file name, to help prevent it happening again. --Closedmouth (talk) 05:20, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for fixing this! --Stefan2 (talk) 13:39, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Hard Worker's Barnstar | |
Looks like you've been around here a while! Just about all your edits appear to be constructive. Peter Sam Fan 15:36, 6 April 2016 (UTC) |
A barnstar for you!
The Resilient Barnstar | |
For those edits that weren't constructive! Keegan (talk) 22:17, 6 April 2016 (UTC) |
Thank you!
I left user:your new account has been created a create-page warning for an unpleasant page about bad things happening to wiki admins, and he proceeded to post a page about similar things happening to me. Thanks for blocking him! Joel.Miles925 (talk) 13:13, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
A Dobos torte for you!
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New York Mets
Would you please also PP New York Mets (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)? Also being vandalized. Thank you Jim1138 (talk) 02:41, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
Talkback
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Loxley?
You have just told me that you undid my contribution to this page. I made no contribution at all so your message must have been intended for someone else. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.150.98.91 (talk) 07:17, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
I believe that was outside A7's scope (apps are software, not web content), and there was evidence of notability, as given on the talk page. Adam9007 (talk) 13:15, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
- http://musical.ly/
- You're arguing semantics, the article isn't just about the piece of software, it's about the network of information that the software accesses to provide its service, not to mention the company that operates and profits from said service. There was nothing in the article indicating its importance or significance. It was a simple sentence describing what it is. --Closedmouth (talk) 13:35, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
- It's still not web content, as the world wide web is not the same thing as the internet. As the article said "musical.ly is an app that..." blah blah blah, it sounds like software to me. It also has coverage in reliable secondary sources, as given on the talk page. Adam9007 (talk) 13:40, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
Vandalism @Urban studies and planning
Thank you Dan arndt (talk) 04:56, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
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A new user right for New Page Patrollers
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Happy New Year, Closedmouth!
Closedmouth,
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