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Your English is not good enough

You made lots of grammatical errors in the article organoxenon compound. --Ideal gas equation (talk) 15:03, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

SCl4 DOES exist

I am pretty sure that SCl4 does not exist, so I am going to redirect that article to sulfur dichloride. I would be glad to discuss this topic if you wish. 张青莲. 《无机化学丛书》第五卷：氧、硫、硒分族. Beijing: Science Press. pp. P179. ISBN 7-03-002238-6. is probably imperfectly copied from western sources (where this area was developed) and is probably not a reliable source of information. Thanks, --Smokefoot (talk) 22:57, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, you are right and I was wrong. --Smokefoot (talk) 20:33, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Source Code

Hi Makecat, You asked for source code for the CSD patrol function for DASHBot. Here it is. Ask me any questions you might have. Tim1357 talk 16:05, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

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I love you

I love you
Makecat, I really love you. Ideal gas equation (talk) 18:49, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

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A cupcake for you!

Long time no see and see you here! 铁铁的火大了 (talk) 06:27, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

AfD of My adventure

I have declined AfD and tagged it under vandalism as it is hox. Such pages should be Speedy deleted under CSD not AfD. Take care of it next time and for any problem, feel free to ask me! Yasht101 10:38, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

Comment?

Hi. Would you like to comment here about a requested move? It involves ".com" in the article title and WP:COMMONNAME. Dan56 (talk) 13:50, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

Re: CSVLoader

Hi Makecat, can you post the data file and a screenshot of the CSVLoader box? That will help me troubleshoot the problem. — Ganeshk (talk) 14:30, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. Remove the column headers (first line) from the data file and try again. — Ganeshk (talk) 14:43, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
Did it work? — Ganeshk (talk) 21:51, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
It worked for me. I have used:
User:Ganeshk/1,1,1
User:Ganeshk/2,2,2
User:Ganeshk/3,3,3
column headers:
##article##,##a##,##b##
Append... Text
##a## is ##b##

[[:Category:Test]]

And was able to create User:Ganeshk/1, User:Ganeshk/2 and User:Ganeshk/3. Make sure to set the skip function (Skip tab) to "exists" or "don't care". It is set to "Doesn't exist" by default. — Ganeshk (talk) 01:59, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

March 2012

I do not give my knowledge to Wikipedia! --147.91.173.31 (talk) 09:19, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you

I appreciate the barnstar. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 05:04, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
I guess now we're even. :) <3 Abigail was here :D Talk to Me. Email Me. 05:44, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Your sign

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Thank you and Happy editing! Yasht101 :) 18:07, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Its okay... I really love the shade of your sign, 1 week ago I was also using larger fonts, but rules are rules (They are also meant to break, and I love doing it which ends up into getting a vandal warning ). Anyways, good to see that you changed it Yasht101 :) 01:36, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

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Abigail was here :D Talk to Me. Email Me. 02:21, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

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Suzhou Rail

You're very welcome! It looks like an exciting new transit line. I was in Shanghai last summer and I just loved the subway there. Are you from Suzhou? CaseyPenk (talk) 01:23, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Lake articles

The template you are using on articles such as 富康泡 are not subst'ing. →Στc. 02:15, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of 小北湖

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Speedy deletion contested: Yorktown, North Carolina

Hello Makecat, and thanks for patrolling new pages! I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Yorktown, North Carolina, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: All towns are considered notable, and the article provides sufficient context. You may wish to review the Criteria for Speedy Deletion before tagging further pages. Thank you. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 05:58, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

高考成绩要公布了

高考成绩要公布了 (translation: "College entrance examination results to be announced") What in the world was that all about? My warning was that he changed the interwiki link to a user page (his own)? I see he just vandalized your page again: edit conflict (and again with a AIV) Keep up the good work! Jim1138 (talk) 09:30, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Autopatrolled

Hi Makecat, just wanted to let you know that I have added the autopatrolled right to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! v/r - TP 12:54, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks!

My compliments also to you. It's very impressive that a Chinese high school student is making prolific contributions to English Wikipedia. Njnu-ban-xueshenghao (talk) 02:17, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 09 July 2012

  • Special report: Reforming the education programs: lessons from Cairo
    Wikipedia has a long history of collaborating with educational institutions. The Schools and universities program — international and in many languages, but dominated by US institutions — started in 2003 and evolved case by case with little system. However, that changed in 2009 as Wikimedia embarked on its formal strategic process, and outreach in higher education came to be seen in terms of achieving explicit goals — especially that of increasing editor participation.
  • News and notes: Russian Wikipedia blackout; WMF tools; Wikitravel proposal revisited
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  • WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Football
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  • Featured content: Keeps on chuggin'
    Eight featured articles were promoted this week: ... Aries (constellation) by Keilana. Aries the Ram (symbol ♈) is one of the constellations of the Zodiac and one of 88 currently recognised constellations. Its area is 441 square degrees (1.1% of the celestial sphere). Although fairly dim, with only three bright stars, it is home to several deep-sky objects.
  • Arbitration report: Three requests for arbitration
    No cases were closed or opened, leaving the number of open cases at three. ... The case concerns alleged misconduct with regards to aggressive responses and harassment by Fæ toward users who question his actions.
  • Technology report: Optimism over LastModified and MoodBar, but change in clock time causes downtime
    The results from last month's trial of the LastModified extension were published this week on the Wikimedia blog. The first analyses have indicated a significant positive impact, suggesting that the extension – which makes the time since a page's last edit much more prominent in the interface – could eventually find its way onto Wikimedia wikis.

The Signpost: 16 July 2012

  • Special report: Chapters Association mired in controversy over new chair
    User:Fæ was elected as the inaugural chair of the new Wikimedia Chapters Association, despite the controversies that have surrounded Fæ on the English Wikipedia and Commons, most recently aired in a live case before the Arbitration Committee. This is in marked contrast with unexciting movement, during the Wikimania meeting, on the most important issues facing the establishment of the association.
  • News and notes: WMF enacts reforms at Wikimania; main page redesign; 4 millionth article milestone
    During Wikimania (July 12-15), the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) board finalized and enacted long-discussed reforms of the movement's financial structures, and considered procedures for creating new ways for Wikimedians to organize themselves into offline communities. The board moved on the controversial image filter issue, approved the 2012–13 annual plan, and issued a statement on the wikitravel proposal. It also appointed the two new chapter-selected trustees and elected the four office-bearers.
  • WikiProject report: Summer sports series: French WikiProject Cycling
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  • Discussion report: Discussion reports and miscellaneous articulations
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    Nearly 1400 Wikimedians and others from 87 countries descended on the capital of the United States, Washington, D.C., for Wikimania 2012. Even with an unprecedented number (1400) of conference attendees — the previous two Wikimanias, held in Gdańsk (Poland) and Haifa (Israel), were attended by fewer than 1100 people combined – Wikimania 2012 was a complete success, with attendees' reaction to the conference coming out as ecstatic and laudatory.
  • Featured content: Taking flight
    Eight featured articles were promoted this week, including Paul McCartney by GabeMc. McCartney (born 1942) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and composer. He gained worldwide fame as a member of the Beatles, and his collaboration with John Lennon is highly celebrated. After the band's break-up he pursued a solo career and formed the band Wings. McCartney has been described by Guinness World Records as the "most successful composer and recording artist of all time", and his song "Yesterday" has been covered more than any other song in history.
  • Technology report: Tech talks at Wikimania amid news of a mixed June
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  • Arbitration report: Fæ faces site-ban, proposed decisions posted
    No cases were closed or opened, leaving the number of open cases at three. A new remedy in the Fæ case calls for him to be indefinitely banned from the site after his attempts to solicit intervention from the Foundation, claiming that publicly listing all his accounts would be too onerous due to "ongoing security risks." He was further criticised for attempting to dodge good-faith concerns; the committee believes that if Fæ's claims are valid then he must be removed from the community.

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Hello. You made good test edits. Please, request bot flag and I will grant it. Regards.--Avocato (talk) 12:59, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 23 July 2012

  • Paid editing: Does Wikipedia pay? The skeptic: Orange Mike
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  • News and notes: Chapter head speaks about the aftermath of Russian Wikipedia shutdown
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  • WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Olympics
    With the 2012 Summer Olympic Games beginning this weekend in London, we decided to catch up with the chaps at WikiProject Olympics. The last time we interviewed WikiProject Olympics was in February 2010 when the project was gearing up for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. We wanted to know how the project has grown since then and whether preparing for a Summer Olympics was more grueling.
  • Op-ed: The future of PR on Wikipedia
    There has never been a better time to improve the behavior of marketing professionals on Wikipedia. For the first time we're seeing self-imposed statements of ethics. Professional PR bodies around the globe have supported the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) guidance for ethical Wikipedia engagement. Although their tone is different, CREWE and the PRSA have brought more attention to the issues. Awareness among PR professionals is rising. So are the number of paid editing operations sprouting up and the opportunity for dialogue.
  • Featured content: When is an island not an island?
    One featured article was promoted this week, Melville Island. A small peninsula in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, it was discovered by Europeans in the 1600s and initially used for storehouses. The land was purchased by the British and used to hold prisoners of war, then to receive escaped slaves from the United States. After being used as a place of quarantine and later a recruitment centre, the land was granted to Canada in 1907 and used to house prisoners of war. It is now home to the clubhouse and marina of the Armdale Yacht Club.

The Signpost: 30 July 2012

  • WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Horse Racing
    We continue our Summer Sports Series this week with WikiProject Horse Racing. Started in November 2005, the project has grown to include nearly 8,000 articles maintained by 34 active members. There are 10 Featured Articles and 19 Good Articles included in the project's scope. In addition to preparing articles for GA and FA status, the project attempts to create requested articles and locate requested images. We interviewed Redrose64, Montanabw, Tigerboy1966, Ealdgyth, and Cuddy Wifter.
  • Featured content: One of a kind
    Eight new featured articles, five new featured lists, and eight new featured pictures. The highlights include a new featured picture of Frank Sinatra, created by William P. Gottlieb and nominated by Tomer T. Sinatra (1915–98) was a highly successful American singer and film actor whose career spanned 60 years. This image dates from around 1947.
  • Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases
    Arbitrator Kirill Lokshin proposed a motion requiring the alteration of any instances of an editor's previous username in arbitration decisions to reflect their name changes. The Devil's Advocate has initiated an amendment request for the controversial Race and intelligence case.

Page protected

Hi Makecat. I've protected this page for a period of two weeks. I may have erred too heavily on the side of caution with that timeframe, though, so if you would like me to adjust the length of the protection, please let me know. Cheers, Yunshui 雲‍水 08:51, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 06 August 2012

  • Op-ed: The Athena Project: being bold
    At this year's Wikimania, I [Brandon Harris] gave a talk entitled The Athena Project: Wikipedia in 2015. The talk broadly outlined several ideas the foundation is exploring for planned features, user interface changes, and workflow improvements. We expect that many of these changes will be welcomed, while others will be controversial. During the question-and-answer period, I was asked whether people should think of Athena as a skin, a project, or something else. I responded, "You should think of Athena as a kick in the head" – because that's exactly what it's supposed to be: a radical and bold re-examination of some of our sacred cows when it comes to the interface.
  • News and notes: FDC portal launched
    On August 1, the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) portal was launched on Meta. The FDC will implement the Wikimedia movement's new grant-orientated finance structure in accordance with the WMF board's recent resolutions. As a volunteer committee, the FDC will make recommendations to the WMF board on a $11.4 million budget for 2012–13.
  • Arbitration report: No pending or open arbitration cases
    Arbitrator Kirill Lokshin proposed a motion for a procedure on the alteration of an editor's previous username(s) in arbitration decisions to reflect their name change(s). ... The Devil's Advocate initiated an amendment request for the controversial Race and intelligence case.
  • Featured content: Casliber's words take root
    This week the Signpost interviews Casliber, an editor who has written or contributed significantly to a startling 69 featured articles. We learn what makes him tick, why he edits, and why he can write on everything from vampires to dinosaurs, birds to plants. He also gives some advice to budding featured article writers.
  • Technology report: Wikidata nears first deployment but wikis go down in fibre cut calamity
    The Wikimedia Foundation's engineering report for July 2012 was published this week on the Wikimedia Techblog and on the MediaWiki wiki, giving an overview of all Foundation-sponsored technical operations in that month (as well as brief coverage of progress on Wikimedia Deutschland's Wikidata project). ... At least one fibre-optic cable was damaged at the WMF's Tampa site on August 6, leading to a sharp downwards spike in traffic lasting over an hour and almost three hours of disruption for readers around the globe.
  • WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Martial Arts
    This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Martial Arts. Since April 2004, the project has been the hub for discussion and improvement of martial arts articles, including all disciplines and national origins. The project maintains a variety of conventions for handling the names and descriptions of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, Sikh, Filipino, Okinawan, and hybrid martial arts. WikiProject Martial Arts has spawned or absorbed several subprojects focusing on boxing, kickboxing, sumo, and mixed martial arts.

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以下用户为zh:WP:LHLS；

I can see they are the following accounts are related:

请把揭露某人真相、Angelasidedog、Trollishere!、Lihuanbility永久封禁。

Plase block 揭露某人真相、Angelasidedog、Trollishere!、Lihuanbility indefinitely.

参见m:Meta:Requests for CheckUser information。

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--2011wp (talk) 13:01, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

李煌老师在英文版被误为影武者的分身，请澄清此事。--2011wp (talk) 14:32, 9 August 2012 (UTC)


The Signpost: 13 August 2012

  • Op-ed: Small Wikipedias' burden
    In a certain way, writing Wikipedia is the same everywhere, in every language or culture. You have to stick to the facts, aiming for the most objective way of describing them, including everything relevant and leaving out all the everyday trivia that is not really necessary to understand the context. You have to use critical thinking, trying to be independent of your own preferences and biases. To some effect, that's all there is to it. Naturally, Wikipedians have their biases, some of which can never be cured. Most Wikipedians tend to like encyclopedias; but millions of people in the world don't share that bias, and we represent them rather poorly. I'm also quite sure that an overwhelming majority of Wikipedia co-authors are literate. Again, that's not true for everyone in this world. Yet we have other, less noticeable but barely less fundamental biases.
  • News and notes: Bangla-language survey suggests the challenges for small Wikipedias
    The Bangla language, also known as Bengali, is spoken by some 200 million people in Bangladesh and India. The Bangla Wikipedia has a very small active community of about ten to fifteen very active editors, with another 35–40 as less active editors. The project faces particular challenges in being a small Wikipedia, and Dhaka-based WMF community fellow User:Tanvir Rahman is working to understand these challenges and to develop strategies that can improve small wikis that have strong potential to expand their editing communities.
  • Featured content: On the road again
    Six featured articles were promoted this week, including Business US Highway 41, which was a state trunkline highway that served as a business loop in Marquette in the US state of Michigan.
  • Technology report: "Phabricating" a serious alternative to Gerrit
    Three weeks into a month-long evaluation of code review tool Gerrit, a serious alternative has finally gained traction in the review process: Facebook-developed but now independently operated Phabricator and its sister command-line tool Arcanist.
  • WikiProject report: Dispute Resolution
    This week, we interviewed the lively bunch at WikiProject Dispute Resolution. Started in November 2011 to study and discuss improvements to Wikipedia's resources for resolving disputes between editors, the young project has supplemented dispute resolution efforts currently handled at the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard, Mediation Committee, and other venues. Over 40 editors have signed up to provide feedback, a variety of ideas have been proposed, and a manual for dispute resolution has been created.

Special:Contributions/Pro. Li Huang

Who the hell is this guy, and why is he making such strange edits? -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 13:31, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Reply: Why I removed the content

I am really sorry if this is not the way to respond to your question. I am still learning the editing guidelines. I removed that content because there is no plan for any Jupiter Colonization by ISRO. The person who added that detail has added a source, but source is for a music video and not for ISRO claiming Jupiter Colonization. Also there are no internet references nor any reference on ISRO's website claiming such thing. I think someone played a joke and went pass the edition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Foxfox9 (talk • contribs) 14:17, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

Sorry for barging in, but it seems this editor's claims are correct as I myself reverted it and later found out that I had made a mistake so please look in to it and take down the note you have put on user's talk page. It's a polite request from my part. As I also reverted other user for this same reason.--Vyom25 (talk) 17:12, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

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Discuss categories before creating them

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My RfA

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Take care. =) Kurtis (talk) 15:06, 18 August 2012 (UTC)

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AWB edits

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Do not do test cases such as West Baodai Road Station, Wangwu Road Station and South Yingchun Road Station. Turn them back to the original infobox. Any tests should only be conducted in your sandbox. Bgwhite (talk) 07:49, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 August 2012

  • Op-ed: Wikimedians are rightfully wary
    The Wikimedia Foundation sometimes proposes new features that receive substantive criticism from Wikimedians, yet those criticisms may be dismissed on the basis that people are resistant to change—there's an unjustified view that the wikis have been overrun by vested contributors who hate all change. That view misses a lot of key details and insight because there are good reasons that Wikimedians are suspicious of features development, given past and present development of bad software, growing ties with the problematic Wikia, and a growing belief that it is acceptable to experiment on users.
  • News and notes: Core content competition in full swing; Wikinews fork taken offline
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  • In the news: American judges on citing Wikipedia
    In the Utah Court of Appeals this week, the majority opinion in Fire Insurance Exchange v. Robert Allen Oltmanns and Brady Blackner relied on Wikipedia for the basic premise of their legal opinion, and included a concurring opinion devoted solely to the issue of citing Wikipedia in a legal opinion.
  • Featured content: Enough for a week – but I'm damned if I see how the helican.
    Thirteen featured articles were promoted this week, including pelicans, which are a genus of large water birds comprising the family Pelecanidae, characterised by a long beak and large throat-pouch. They have a fossil record dating back at least 30 million years and are most closely related to the Shoebill and Hammerkop. These fish-feeders have a patchy relationship with humans: the birds are sometimes persecuted and sometimes feature in mythology.
  • Technology report: Lua onto test2wiki and news of a convention-al extension
    New embeddable scripting ("template replacement") language Lua received considerable scrutiny this week when it began its long road to widespread deployment, landing on the test2wiki test site on Wednesday (wikitech-l mailing list). ... the fourth in our series profiling participants in this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme.
  • WikiProject report: Land of Calm and Contrast: Korea
    This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Korea. Started in September 2006, WikiProject Korea covers the history and culture of the Korean people, including both countries that currently occupy the Korean peninsula. This task has proven difficult with North Koreans notably absent from the Wikipedia community due to tight control over access to external media. The project is home to over 16,000 pages, including 15 pieces of Featured material and 66 Good and A-class Articles.

The Signpost: 25 September 2013

  • Op-ed: Q&A on Public Relations and Wikipedia
    Over the last year, there's been extensive debate about whether public relations professionals and other corporate representatives should participate on Wikipedia and, if so, to what extent and what kinds of rules should be followed.
  • Traffic report: Look on Walter's works
    The saga of Walter White, chemistry teacher-turned-drug kingpin, as told in the critically adored television series Breaking Bad, has been a water-cooler necessity for years, and now, as it nears its end, audiences are feverishly following every plot thread to guess what the finale will reveal.
  • News and notes: Last call for Wiki Loves Monuments; Community–WMF tension over VisualEditor
    On 30 September, Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), the Wikimedia community's global photo competition, will reach to the end of its submission period. The proceedings have been underway since the first of this month; national juries will start reviewing submissions for the first round of selections after it closes ... Community aggravation with one of the Wikimedia Foundation's signature initiatives, the VisualEditor, came to the fore again this week with the announcement and implementation of code blocking the tool.
  • WikiProject report: Babel Series: GOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!!!
    This week, we continued our exploration of other language editions of Wikipedia by visiting the Spanish Wikipedia's Wikiproyecto Fútbol (WikiProject Football).
  • Featured content: Wikipedia takes the stage
    Twelve articles, six lists, and five pictures were promoted to "featured" status on the English Wikipedia this week.
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