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Hi. Thank you for your contributions. However, I doubt whether the community would appreciate articles by well established editors and administrators being nominated for deletion by someone who appears to have an agenda against bagpipe related articles and extremely little experience on Wikipedia. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:24, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Having now reviewed every single one of your edits, it appears that you may well be a valuable authority on pipe bands and I hope you will continue to expand such articles. However, sources are often difficult to find for such a topic and I would still guard against nominating borderline ones for deletion. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:55, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi. I've edited Wikipedia in the past, so know a fair bit about various policies and guidelines - although may not pay much heed to them.

The situation on pipe band articles is very odd - I've collected on my user page some articles that absolutely should exist - historic pipe bands, multiple gold medal winners - and yet don't. On the other hand, there are some articles of very borderline notability. Since there exists a good deal of confusion with people not familiar with the various levels of competition and what the significance of various competitions are, I've created User:Ostrichyearning/Piping, which may become a more specific guideline for pipers and bands. Ostrichyearning (talk) 22:04, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

When you nominate an article for deletion, you should provide a reason based on Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Otherwise the nominations may be considered disruptive and pointless. Would you be so kind as to add the reasons to your recent nominations, or withdraw them? Edison (talk) 20:30, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

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Back issues of Piping Times

Piping Times appears to be available at the British Library. I'd call it the No. #1 source for piping related news, but I have no idea how to search through previous editions to determine which ones to get. Any ideas? Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 12:19, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Hi User:Panyd, just seen this! Not sure there's an online searchable resource other than a few pdfs around but I'm based around London so can go to the British Library if there's issues that might be useful? all the best, Ostrichyearning3 (talk) 21:15, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

I also go to the British Library a lot but unfortunately I can't know what's useful if I can't search through them online. I could just grab an issue at random and look through it but that doesn't seem like the most efficient way to search for things. Always an issue with niche subjects though. Thank you for the offer! Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 11:41, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manhattan College Pipes & Drums

Hi.Please see the comment further above by Edison. You may also wish to familliarise yourself with WP:PROD. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 05:41, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

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Reference formatting tools

Hi Ostrichyearning, I've noticed your work regarding piping and pipe band related articles for some time and with appreciation. I thought you might find this tool useful for formatting and expanding references automatically: https://tools.wmflabs.org/refill/

You just put the name of the article in the "page name" box, click on "fix page", check the results and, if they are correct (which they usually are) save them.

Alternatively you can use: http://dispenser.homenet.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/webreflinks.py

All the best, Mutt Lunker (talk) 14:57, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Hi User:Mutt Lunker, just seen this! Cheers, I do use it now, it's a great tool. I'm hopefully back for a bit doing some piping articles if you want to have a look at them, it's all being logged at Wikipedia:WikiProject Pipe Bands/open tasks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ostrichyearning3 (talk • contribs) 21:21, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

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{{nuclide2}} and tables are worse?

Thanks for the fix. It seems, though, that now tables don't work at all. See activation product for example. I am not sure why they don't work. Somehow the expansion now ruins the table markup. Gah4 (talk) 03:19, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Seems that an extra newline messed up tables. I thought newlines in table entries weren't a problem, but this seemed to fix it. Thanks. Gah4 (talk) 03:58, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Good spot - amazing how much damage you can do with some white space... Ostrichyearning (talk) 13:08, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

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Ways to improve Willie McCallum

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