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Hi. Can you point me to the Redirects for discussion page for this? Deb (talk) 11:36, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

@Deb: Sure, Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2016 October 9#[List] Spaces and parentheses. --XXN, 13:25, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
Okay, I'll fix the link then. Deb (talk) 15:26, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

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User page deletions

I have deleted all, or just about all, of the userpages which you tagged as being created by banned or blocked users. The pages all justified deletion as being inappropriate use of userpages (CSD:U5), but it is worth pointing out to you that a page created by a blocked user before his block is not deletable under the criterion you have been using. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 18:24, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Yep, U5 is a more appropriate criterion for most of them. --XXN, 18:29, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
Can I add that G5 is not applicable if the blocked user hasn't edited their user page either - User:HENRY APPLEGATE for example contains useful information about the block and the LTA page for that user. U5 wouldn't be applicable either tagging inappropriate pages is an important job so thank you but please make sure that they are inappropriate within the speedy deletion criteria before tagging them. Nthep (talk) 18:41, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
I apologize for that inappropriate tag. --XXN, 12:16, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
Certainly I would not delete User:HENRY APPLEGATE because, as you say, of the useful information there. But for the record the user has edited his page, but his edits have been removed. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 23:17, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
I'm going through the userpages of inactive, few edits only users you've tagged for speedy deletion and - because that's my job - deleting them. I must admit I don't really see why you are tagging them for deletion. It's not like they taking up server resources: the deleted pages are still there, and the tags and deletion records add more to them.
Looks to me like busy work instead of actually improving encyclopedia content.
If that's what floats your boat. I don't have any issue with it. Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 09:48, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
When a page is deleted, all its old revisions move from the revision table of DB to the archive table. Thus we are keeping it clean, and perhaps somehow safe:) At least those pages tagged in last session were enormous (several hundreds of thousands of bytes each) and absolutelly useless. There are a lot of other similar pages to check and delete. They may contain inacceptable material. But, I should, probably, provide directly the full list of pages to you, instead of taggind them one by one. --XXN, 12:17, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
And here's a list > User:XXN/userpages to check (user pages with more than 10k bytes, where user has made less than 31 edits). --XXN, 12:32, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
I recognize that in one sense deletion here is pointless, as the pages remain filed in the server. Most (not quite all) of the pages are useless and all are incorrectly edited as being userpages. I just have a slightly obsessive urge to clean up as much as possible. However, going through several thousand pages is a daunting prospect. I will look at a reasonable selection of random samples and decide if a Twinkle deletion is reasonable; it is certainly possible. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 22:42, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
@Anthony Bradbury: Here is one shorter list with candidates for U2 - userpages of nonexistent users. Unfortunately I can't recommend batch deletion, because there are some false positives. But, with the help of Anomie's useridentifier.js script and enabled "popups" gadget, it may be easier to check them. --XXN, 23:52, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

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I tend to feel that it is not, because the two categories have different parameters and serve different purposes. To wit: a person may have served in Parliament in the 20th century, but may also have been a politician in another capacity in the 21st century, or vice-versa. That's not the case now, to be sure, as I only just created the categories. But they can certainly stand more refinement. Also, I tend to feel like the "politicians-by-century" categories and the "politicians-by-parliament" categories tend to relate people via categories in different ways, which is useful. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 21:58, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

ANGPEREIRA27

You nominated ANGPEREIRA27 for deletion on the basis that there is no such user. I agree, but there is a user Angpereira27, so I moved the page. Do you disagree? My assumption is that the brand-new user tried to create a user page and did not know that usernames are case-sensitive. They haven't been around for a while so it may be moot but I still think it's best to move rather than delete.--S Philbrick(Talk) 22:06, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

User:Gabor:My Promised Land

You nominated User:Gabor:My Promised Land for deletion on the basis that there is no such user. I agree, but there is a user Gabor~enwiki so I moved the page. Do you disagree?--S Philbrick(Talk) 22:20, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

But I agree it qualifies as U5 so I deleted it under the basis--S Philbrick(Talk) 22:20, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

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Please do not send inappropriate userpages to Miscellaneous for Deletion. Certainly there are a great number of userpages created here which qualify for deletion, as indeed do the ones you have flagged. But they all qualify for speedy deletion, either as CSD U5 (not webhost or inappropriate content) or as CSD G11 (promotion or advertising). It is helpful, and saves wasting admin and other users' time, if these pages are flagged correctly. --Anthony Bradbury"talk" 13:01, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Not all of them are obvious cases for speedy deletion. At least those old article copies/drafts are not covered by speedy criteria, AFAIK. I already suspended my activity on this area (at least for some time) - there are too many pages to check and tag. XXN, 20:27, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: User:Yappers1000

Hello XXN. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:Yappers1000, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The reason given is not a valid speedy deletion criterion. Thank you. Primefac (talk) 16:55, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

@Primefac: are you sure that the given reason is not valid? Is it ok to have comments of some other users in a user page? This is not the purpose of user pages, but of user talk pages;) XXN, 17:00, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
Just because the page was created by someone else does not make it automatically eligible for deletion. I've blanked out the chatroom comments. Primefac (talk) 17:04, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

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Hi XXN, I noticed you are tagging a lot of files for transfer to Commons. Have you considered transferring them yourself? -FASTILY 01:24, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

I'm working on this (reviewing/transferring) currently, selectively; half of files I transfer, other part I just tag as eligible for transfer, and other goes to FFD. XXN, 01:45, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
I'm not sure I understand. If you tag a file as eligible for transfer, then why not transfer it yourself? That would go a long way towards helping reduce the backlog at Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons :) -FASTILY 01:56, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
@Fastily: I have a page tagger script installed, and for some files it's just a one-click job for me to mark them as eligible for transfer to Commons, instead of spending up to few more minutes to do the transfer myself :) When I'll have some more free time I'll transfer some of them to Commons, but many of these text logos should be converted to SVG first... XXN, 14:49, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Discussion at WT:NFCC#Possible NFCC exception

You are invited to join the discussion at WT:NFCC#Possible NFCC exception. Marchjuly (talk) 00:33, 2 March 2017 (UTC) -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:33, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Permission for File:RDG110951.jpg

Thanks for pointing out the permission problem with the photograph of myself on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RDG110951.jpg

The photograph was taken by my wife, and given to me for use on internet web pages etc. I cropped it and uploaded it for use on the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Gill which I avoid editing (or even reading) as much as possible.

I have sent the standard email to permissions-en@wikimedia.org stating that I own the copyright and agree to publish ... I added the information: {{OTRS pending}}, volunteer response team Ticket#: 2017031410017777

Hope it can now stay where it is.

Please could you check these additions are correct Richard Gill (talk) 16:16, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

@Gill110951: Thank you! There is some backlog currently on OTRS permissions-en queue, and we'll have to wait until some OTRS agent will process this ticket and will confirm it. XXN, 16:28, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

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File PROD is live

I notice that you're sending lots of unused personal files to FFD - just a note that PROD has been extended to files, and it's live in Twinkle now. Please use it for these cases to avoid cluttering FFD.  Train2104 (t  c) 14:52, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

@Train2104: have you tested PROD on files? For me it's not working yet. Only for me? --XXN, 16:48, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
I wrote the template, so I know that works. Just tested with Twinkle and it looks fine. You may have to clear your cache?  Train2104 (t  c) 17:00, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
@Train2104: hmm... This is what I see. Those two options are grayed out and clicking the "Propose deletion" has no effect. Maybe it's not enabled for all users? --XXN, 17:17, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Assuming you can PROD articles with no problem, I'm not sure what's going on there. If it were disabled for you you wouldn't even be able to get to that window at all. Pinging @MusikAnimal:...  Train2104 (t  c) 17:33, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
@XXN: What browser / operating system are you using? It seems for you the issue is the main form ("work area") is not loading. The "PROD type" options are greyed out because only normal PROD applies to files. Could you also see if the PROD module properly loads on articles? MusikAnimal talk 17:58, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
@MusikAnimal: Windows 7, Firefox. Disabled/re-enabled Twinkle in prefs, disabled all user scripts (to be sure there are no conflicts); didn't helped. In articles I never had problems with PROD; just found an article on which I can 'test' it, edit done.
This is what the browser console shows me when I press on "Propose deletion" on file pages:
TypeError: form.notify is undefined[Learn More] load.php:385:905
	twinkleprodCallbackEvaluate https://en.wikipedia.org/w/load.php:385:905
	Morebits.simpleWindow.prototype.addContent/</< https://en.wikipedia.org/w/load.php:367:37

The TypeError this_recipeManager not always appeared. --XXN, 18:24, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Looks like it was a bug specific to Firefox. I've now made it hide the PROD options entirely when viewing a File, since as you know only normal PROD applies there. This in turn should fix the Firefox issue. Let me know if it is working for you now – keeping in mind it may take 5-10 minutes for the ResourceLoader cache to catch up. Sorry for not giving Firefox some love before deploying :) The errors you are seeing in the console, "this_recipeManager", etc., are apparently unrelated to Twinkle. Nonetheless thank you very much for checking that, as usually that's what pinpoints the issue! :) MusikAnimal talk 18:44, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
@MusikAnimal: Now it works for me too (successfull edit). Thanks for fixing it! XXN, 19:00, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

Request to revoke deletion tag from Vega Schools page

Hi User:XXN, It's too early to add deletion tag in Vega Schools. I have added some more detail and references. Request to remove this tag and give some time to add more information in this page. GKCH (talk)

@Gokulchandola: Sorry but I will not remove my tag. I don't think the subject of this article is notable. The article can stay up to seven days with that tag. From my part, what can I do is to convert the PROD tag with a regular AFD discussion. --XXN, 20:04, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Please add a rationale to the PROD tag, if you don't convert it to AFD.  Train2104 (t  c) 21:14, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
Done. --XXN, 21:23, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

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File:Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova logo.png

I saw your message. At present it has a non-free license and ends up in Category:All non-free media, hence the reduce tag. I agree, it should survive as free (even on commons - where I am an admin as well) - commons has the similar c:template:PD-textlogo for such images. I'll leave it with you - your choices are...

  1. Leave as non-free, but reduce to 318 x 313
  2. Edit it to free image on Wikipedia (remove "Non-free use rationale 2" and replace with {{Information}}
  3. Move it to commons -or do the above and add {{copy to commons}}, and someone else will move it.
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Moved to Commons. --XXN, 20:51, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

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Hello, thank you for you work, but for the future, please remember to affix Template:Translated page to the talk page of articles you have translated from a foreign Wikipedia. Thank you :) Winner 42 Talk to me! 14:22, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

For a stub of one phrase? Nah. FYI, I've contributed to the original article with more content than to the newly created stub here. --XXN, 14:37, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Iurie Chirinciuc

Please do not restore unsource or poorly sourced (primary source in this case) content on a BLP. Also, the website link in the external links section is redundant with the website link in the infobox. Thank you! Waggie (talk) 18:32, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi @Waggie: just letting you know, I've restored removed content (and added few more), citing independent reliable sources. Thank you for your vigilance. You may want to check the article in its current state; but unfortunately all references are in Romanian, I hope this is not an inconvenience for you. Regarding that personal website link, you probably know about WP:INFOBOXPURPOSE - the purpose of an infobox is to summarize (and not supplant) the content that appears in the article (some users can prefer to hide any infoboxes in their own browsers). --XXN, 19:35, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi XXN! Thanks for improving the article! I took a quick look over your changes, and did some cursory review of the sources. The article is most definitely improved now. Best wishes and thanks for collaborating! Waggie (talk) 19:56, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks for creating this; can you please add a source? Boleyn (talk) 05:05, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Done. --XXN, 10:31, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Regarding the Wiki Page T S Nandakumar

Hi, can you help me to improve the page of T S Nandakumar.What needs to be edited and removed in order to delete the template with an example or useful links so that i can start with that work. Thanks for your time. RichardIsler (talk) 03:01, 27 July 2017 (UTC)RichardIsler

@RichardIsler: There must be added more references from reliable sources which confirms the information from that article. Currently some sections are absolutely unreferenced, and other large text passages also are unreferenced, but almost every distinct statement should be referenced, with inline citations, preferably. XXN, 10:13, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

@XXN, Hi, I have edited and improved the page of T S Nandakumar with references and have removed the template so can you please review and let me know in case of any other changes to be done. And thanks for your prompt response and excuse me in case i have done anything wrong in the page. Thanks for your time RichardIsler (talk) 05:17, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

@RichardIsler: the entries from the section "Titles, awards and honours" must be referenced as well. XXN, 10:48, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

@XXN, Hi, I have referenced the the section of the entries from the section "Titles, awards and honours" and have removed the template so can you please review and let me know in case of any other changes to be done. And thanks for your prompt response and excuse me in case i have done anything wrong in the page. Thanks for your time RichardIsler (talk) 12:55, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

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@Nadezhda Bravo Cladera: the file in question already was deleted. There is a process for undeleting deleted material upon request with valid arguments (WP:UND), but this is not the case. As I stated in the nomination for deletion There is no evidence that this photography really is in the public domain or free (under any other license). Licensing details are important on Wikipedia and related sites. The fact that image was widely used in newspapers or even on web it's not a valid argument if the license under which that file is available is not known. By default, all photographies are considered copyrighted if there is no evidence of contrary.
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Hi. Please see WP:BLPREMOVE - basically EVERYTHING needs to be sourced for a WP:BLP. Feel free to re-add this, if you provide reliable sources to verify everything that has been added. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 09:49, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

Re-added some content with sources (imported from the origin wiki). --XXN, 13:03, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

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Would you please explain what "No FOP in UA" means here and here? I figure that UA means Ukraine, but FOP is utterly uninformative. (I took those photos myself in 2008.) --Taivo (talk) 14:16, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

@TaivoLinguist: see c:COM:FOP; there is no "freedom of panorama" in Ukraine, that's why I tagged these images so, to prevent their transfer to Commons where is a high probability that they will be deleted sooner or later - in such cases usually the files are kept locally on Wikipedia. It's true that I should be using full terms instead of acronyms, there exists even a specific template - {{FoP-USonly}} which gives all the needed explanations, but at that moment I didn't had too much free time to spend for each file to do perfect actions, while reviewing them:) XXN, 15:53, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
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Hi, I'm Iulian2000! I don't understand what mistake did I make. Please let me know, as I corrected the outdated ortography of the Romanian language and replaced "Moldovans" with "Romanians" because it is scientifically proven that they are the same ethnic group. And also I saw that the Moldovan language is in fact the standard Romanian language, but written with the Cyrillic alphabet, so I changed the name for the article to be more accurate! I'm glad we can discuss and I'm waiting for your reply. Iulian2000 (talk) 16:53, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

@Iulian2000: Hi. That's not an outdated ortography of Romanian, it's a valid ortography, the one which currently is used Moldova officially. There are no reasons to change it in articles related to Moldova.
"... it is scientifically proven that they are the same ethnic group ..." - no, it isn't. It's something debatable and controversial. Please refrain making in future such changes.
Moldovan is formally an official language of Transnistria. Let it be written so, instead of attributing some Cyrillic text to Romanian (a Latin-script language).
And remember that the content and changes to articles must be based only on sources, not on personal opinions and conclusions. XXN, 17:31, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Well I found official sources from Moldova about the ortography change made by The Moldovan Education Ministry in the schools across the country. The letter "î" is used at the beginning of the word, while the letter "â" is used inside the word (exeption making the words obtained by derivation). These changes were made in 2016. Also, the newest official documents used in the Parliament and in the public institutions respect those rules. Now, the ortography used Romania and Republic of Moldova is identical. You can verify that. This is one of the sources: http://www.jc.md/scolile-din-r-moldova-vor-scrie-obligatoriu-cu-a-si-sunt-ce-prevad-regulile-sextil-puscariu-si-de-ce-le-au-anulat-sovieticii/. Iulian2000 (talk) 18:15, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Other institutions still use the old style ortography. The rule of Ministry of Education is not mandatory for all institutions in the country and the transition process will be long. Doing such individual changes in some articles it's not recommended without a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Moldova. XXN, 19:03, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

@XNN: I definetly agree with you, because even in Romania the old ortography is sometimes used by mistake. The transition is still happening for both countries. Another justification that I wanted to make is that the subject of the heritage of Romanians and Moldovans is debatable and controversial only in political context. By a making a simple comparison between the two we find that the language, culture and historic heritage are all Romanian. People of Moldova always tought that they are the same ethnic group with people of Wallachia, a reason for the unification between the two countries in the middle of XIX century, forming Romania. Unfortunately for them, East Moldova was already annexed by Russia from the year 1812, so the Romanians of this region were left behind with a process of russification starting. Even the first printed book in Moldova in XVII century is locally entitled "Carte românească de învățătură" and means "Romanian teaching book". The name "Moldovan" simply doesn't refer to a separate nation but to a person who is native to the Romanian province of Moldova. By a simple analogy, we cannot say that "Texans" are another nation, they're just Americans who were born in Texas. Even some pro-Russian and communist politicians from Republic of Moldova recognized that the nationality of this country's people is Romanian. For more details about what I mean, I got some sources: http://adevarul.ro/international/europa/jirinovski-moldovenii-romani-noi-rusii-le-am-dat-numele-moldoveni-romani-1_5561d986cfbe376e358a1f16/index.html, https://www.historia.ro/sectiune/general/articol/sunt-moldovenii-romani-sau-nu-despre-teoria-moldovenismului, http://www.timpul.md/articol/de-ce-basarabenii-nu-(se-mandresc-ca)-sunt-romani-18270.html, http://www.ziarulnatiunea.ro/2011/12/06/de-ce-moldovenii-sunt-romani/  Preceding unsigned comment added by Iulian2000 (talkcontribs)

Please note that we are not doing original research on Wikipedia; instead we are just resuming the widely accepted conclusions, studies, and ideas. This is an official policy of Wikipedia. And until there is an ongoing Controversy over ethnic identity in Moldova we can't push only one point of view. XXN, 10:13, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

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