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Urvashi rautela content

Hi Stardivarius, This is prashant manager of urvashi rautela who handle her all online activities and promotion. The few content was wrong and mention for un necessary reason. The ref video was upload as youtube ref. Her official website is under progress. The Rautela was subsequently dethroned is unwanted news. My email id is prashant.biz@gmail.com and Urvashi Rautela <rautelaurvashi@gmail.com> is the actual id of urvashi if you want cross verify you can mail her directly. ImUrvashiRautela i am trying to recorrect and update unwanted news. You can suggest how to improvise and avoid unwanted content that affect urvashi as a women who is growing public figure in India. You can check Mar 2, 2015, 12.00AM IST TNN content in leading paper http://m.timesofindia.com/life-style/food/food-reviews/Ahmedabad-celebrates-the-best-of-food/articleshow/46419915.cms

{ Ahmedabad's most eagerly awaited annual event, the Times Food Awards 2015, just got bigger and better this year! On a pleasant evening, all roads led to the Courtyard by Marriott, Ahmedabad, the hospitality partner for the event. Bollywood heartthrob Ali Fazal and the gorgeous Urvashi Rautela, actress and Miss Universe India 2012, were the chief guests for the evening. } if she was dethroned in 2012 times of india wont mention in march 2 2015 as Urvashi Rautela, actress and Miss Universe India 2012.

So humble request please dont put back dethroned words again which affect somebody public figure career.

Regards Prashant — Preceding unsigned comment added by ImUrvashiRautela (talk • contribs) 17:12, March 3, 2015‎

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Support request with team editing experiment project

Dear tech ambassadors, instead of spamming the Village Pump of each Wikipedia about my tiny project proposal for researching team editing (see here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Research_team_editing), I have decided to leave to your own discretion if the matter is relevant enough to inform a wider audience already. I would appreciate if you could appraise if the Wikipedia community you are more familiar with could have interest in testing group editing "on their own grounds" and with their own guidance. In a nutshell: it consists in editing pages as a group instead of as an individual. This social experiment might involve redefining some aspects of the workflow we are all used to, with the hope of creating a more friendly and collaborative environment since editing under a group umbrella creates less social exposure than traditional "individual editing". I send you this message also as a proof that the Inspire Campaign is already gearing up. As said I would appreciate of *you* just a comment on the talk page/endorsement of my project noting your general perception about the idea. Nothing else. Your contribution helps to shape the future! (which I hope it will be very bright, with colors, and Wikipedia everywhere) Regards from User:Micru on meta.

ASPO

If you're an admin, feel free to delete that redirect, a bunch of articles refer to ASPO for Lamaze, but I should have checked that we actually had an article. μηδείς (talk) 03:07, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

@Medeis: Thanks for the message. Actually, I was thinking it might be better to create a stub for it. It seems notable - there's an entire book about the history of Lamaze that's independent of Lamaze International. However, the chapter about the popularisation of Lamaze in America, which would include the foundation of the organisation, isn't available on Google Books. I'll keep looking and see if I find anything else that would work as a source. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 03:12, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
Well, it's related to a nomination at WP:ITN, but the nomination itself will probably fail. It's (Lamaze) not something I am versed in myself, I was just hoping to clean up a redlink, and sloppily assumed the existence of the name meant the existence of an article on the subject. Thanks. μηδείς (talk) 03:24, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Syed Ali Shah Geelani

page syed ali shah geelani has been semi protected but what is written there is against Wikipedia guidelines. You are requested to change it what was written before as some one Human3015 is editing it and writing about the person in such a way to defame the image of great person. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimroh (talk • contribs) 07:49, 18 May 2015

@Jimroh: I've had another look at Human3015's edits, and I don't see anything defamatory. Could you tell me what edits you're referring to, specifically? Best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 10:31, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Mr. Stradivarius -Could you please see the edits done by 93.169.187.79 dated 17 May, to Syed Ali Shah Geelani which Human3015 has changed. There are Authentic sources and then why it was deleted?

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protection on impalement

There is a misrepresentation of the request on protection on impalement. Talk:Impalement/GA3 was written and opened for over 9 days. It was an individual assessment. The concerns on the page was not addressed. User:OccultZone has hidden it with this revert: [8].

I seems that User:I am One of Many have informed "major" contributors to the article but neglected to inform User:94.72.205.97.96.52.0.249 (talk) 13:36, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

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MfD: Wikipedia:Lua/To do

I've put Wikipedia:Lua/To do up for MfDeletion. -DePiep (talk) 00:01, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

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Articlehistory

Hi there! Hope the last few months treated you well.

I did some research, and found that the old |gacat= parameter in T:AH has been truly defunct since mid-2007. Consequently, I bit the bullet and removed the parameter from the 70-odd talk pages that still (uselessly) employed it. If you have time to do a little cleanup, you could drop the gacat handling from the module (and from the documentation) and delete Category:Article history templates with deprecated parameters. For that matter, Category:Wikipedia good biographies and its subcats could go as well.

I've been meaning to tell you that the introduction of explanatory error messages has been a huge bonus for me. Users are noticing their mistakes and figuring out how to fix them, and the cleanup workload at Category:Article history templates with errors has been reduced to a mere trickle. Success!

Thank you so much for your work on the template. I was pretty concerned when you showed up with a Lua rewrite just as we were finally getting a replacement FAC bot; things could have really gone haywire there, but they didn't, thanks largely to your willingness to listen. I hope we can tackle some of the to do list later this year. Maralia (talk) 04:44, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

@Maralia: Thanks for going through all those talk pages. I've removed the gacat code from the module, the docs, and the to-do list. I've also removed Category:Wikipedia good biographies and its subcats, but I've left Category:Article history templates with deprecated parameters, as we might well use that in the future if we decide to deprecate the currentstatus parameter. Although I suppose we could always use a different category for that. And also, thanks for the kind words - I'm glad that the module and those error message descriptions are doing their jobs well. :) — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 13:44, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

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AfD: Pantacles of Athens has closed

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Module:Set

It looks like I'm the first person to use this module (here), which I thought was surprising! Many thanks for your many utility modules. Alakzi (talk) 16:54, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome. :) I guess I never advertised it. Let me know if you find any bugs, and if you feel like implementing the symmDiff function, please feel free. ;) — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 23:15, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
Good news - I might've uncovered an itsy bitsy bug in valueIntersection. Duplicates are not removed till the very end, so if any of its arguments contain duplicates, they become part of the intersection. For instance, the return value of p.valueIntersection({"b", "c"}, {"a", "a", "c"}) is {"a", "c"}. I'm quite the Lua amateur, so I'll leave it to you to fix in whichever way you feel best. Alakzi (talk) 14:21, 7 June 2015 (UTC) [Sets also used extensively here now. Alakzi (talk) 19:50, 7 June 2015 (UTC)]
@Alakzi: That's by design - sets are collections of distinct objects, so a set of {a,a,c} is the same thing as a set of {a,c}. That is, unless I've made a horrible mistake. :) If you need to find shared values between two tables while preserving duplicates, I'm afraid you might have to roll your own function. (I'm not aware of any modules that do that at the moment, at any rate.) — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 10:18, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
I think you might've misunderstood; the module is preserving duplicates in tables. The output of the intersection between {a,a,c} and {b,c} is {a,c}, whereas it should be {c}. Alakzi (talk) 10:28, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
Ah, of course. I'll take a look at that now. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 10:41, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

Need help at Bhojpuri wikipedia (bhwiki) regarding Module:Citation/CS1/Date validation/sandbox

Hi Sir! I am from Bhojpuri wikipedia (bhwiki) and first of all, let me tell you, I don't know programing. Thus, I will tell you my problem in simple language.

One of the users at bhwiki converted our citation templates to lua based templates which use "Module:Citation/CS1" and its supporting other modules. my problem is that we use Devnagari script to write dates e.g. ०५ जून २०१५ for 05 June 2015. and this produces error because "Module:Citation/CS1/Date validation" does not recognize them as numbers and month name as month.

I saw you provided some script to a Benagali wiki user in the past and I modified it to devnagari script too and created a module named "Module:BhToEn" on my wiki. But I don't even know how to call this module within 'Module:Citation/CS1/Date validation" to get my work done.

All (I think so) I need is to provide converted dates to this "Module:Citation/CS1/Date validation" in English and when they get validated, re convert them back to Devnagari script to be inserted into citation. I have somehow modified and created another "Module:EnToBh" to convert back to devnagari dates but here too, the same problem, I'm unable to use it within this module. I have sandbox versions of all these modules where I can test, e.g. "Module:Citation/CS1/Date validation/sandbox"; but what to test?

Is it possible that you can help me in any way?--Satyam Mishra --talk-- 15:10, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

@सत्यम् मिश्र: Sure, all that you need to do is use the require function to call your module inside Module:Citation/CS1/Date validation. Can you give me links to all of the modules involved? I'll see if I can get it working. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 16:04, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for such a quick response! here are the links of freshly created test templates and modules:
  • I have modified your script (to get Bhojpuri date text into English) and created bh:Module:BhToEn and its opposite is bh:Module:EnToBh which can convert English dates into Bhojpuri.
This is all I have. --Satyam Mishra --talk-- 17:13, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Signpost (8)

How's the tagger going? It's currently freezing the contents of the page for me without displaying anything, but I don't know if that's because of a bug you are aware of and working on or because you're testing things out. In web console the error seems to be "TypeError: dialog.luaTitle is undefined". I'll have a lot less time to spend on this once the summer is over, so I hope you're getting close.

It's not related to article tagging, but I wrote something too this week—an FC importer script. ResMar 18:31, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Yep, it's broken at the moment, so it's quite likely that it will stop all your other scripts from running. I'm in the middle of restructuring it more sensibly so that the Dialog class isn't doing all the work, which might take a bit more time yet. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 12:32, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Good to hear! Let me know when you're done, then. ResMar 16:30, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Bot requests

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Protection request

Hi Mr. Stradivarius! The page List of awards and nominations received by Taylor Swift has been experiencing a lot of vandalism from non-Wikipedia users lately. I am humbly requesting for a semi-protection on the said page for us to further improve the page and leave it without worrying for vandals. Thank you very much! :) Mat 1997 (talk) 03:07, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

@Mat 1997: Hi Mat, and thanks for your message. :) It sounds like you're looking for the page Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Just leave a new request there and an admin will review it and grant it if appropriate. (I try not to accept direct requests for admin involvement on my talk page, as people can sometimes see it as playing favourites.) Best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 12:30, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

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Script stuff

Strangest of strange things, the close/relist AfD and Delsort script now seem to work and I did not refresh or logout/login since the time I noticed the problem! There seems to be a minor issue with the Delsort script in that it hasn't picked up the selected options, but no biggie. However, I do remember having this nice template link on the top menu that took me to the admin dashboard and that has disappeared, it's the admindash script from Plastikspork on my monobook.js. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 13:13, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

@SpacemanSpiff: Let's go with the Delsort script first. Which one are you using, and which options do you mean? — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 13:45, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
I'm using User:Fox Wilson/delsort-monobook.js and it has the ability to just select a few lists rather than having to go through the whole list every time, I have India (WP:DSI) and Cricket (WP:DSC) as choices, but it shows the whole list on the sidebar and not just these two. cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 13:54, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
@SpacemanSpiff: Ok, I've had some time to look at the delsort code, and it appears that the way you describe is the way that it has always worked. You can add extra choices to the delsort list from your personal js page, but you can't remove any of the default options. (I've added a note to the documentation about this.) Probably the best way to get this fixed is to leave Fox Wilson a message on his talk page - he still seems to be around on and off. I could do it myself, but I'd prefer to focus on code that is actually broken first, rather than feature requests. Which brings us to the admindash script - I'll have a look at this probably later on today. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 04:32, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
@SpacemanSpiff: I've played around with the admindash script, and it looks as though a MediaWiki bug has stopped it from working. It's working in the Vector skin, but not any of the others. I'll have a poke around the MediaWiki code later on to see if I can work out what's wrong. (Whatever it is, I think it must be affecting all scripts, not just this one, so it's definitely worth the effort.) — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 06:38, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks, From the history of my monobook it appears i had to switch delsort scripts because the old one stopped working and that is likely the reason for my confusion. That is also very likely linked to your other point about the mediawiki issue with non vector skins. I'm guessing that I'm one of the last few holdouts against vector so this may not bea big problem. Thanks again for checking thisout. Cheers --—SpacemanSpiff 06:56, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
@SpacemanSpiff: Actually, it turns out that the script only working in vector was more of a PEBKAC problem than a MediaWiki problem - I was trying to load scripts via my vector.js page, which of course isn't going to work in Monobook. Testing it from my common.js page, it works just fine. Does the link appear for you? — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 09:25, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
I've transferred my scripts to common.js, everything else seems to work except the admin dash (when I use monobook; have also done the usual logout, refresh/bypass cache etc), but this is more likely a Ten-T error on my part than anything else, I'll figure out where I've gone wrong on this. Eitherways, I'll probably switch to vector soon (once I get myself to accept that the eyesore of the skin is more functional!), so this problem isn't likely to exist much longer. Thanks again for your patient help! cheers. —SpacemanSpiff 16:02, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
@SpacemanSpiff: Aha, on actually trying out your setup, it seems that your use of defineLink was causing errors, as the function in Fox Wilson's delsort script had not yet loaded. I've made this edit to add the code specified in the docs, which should fix it. Is the admin dashboard link appearing for you now? — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 23:35, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
  • Yes it is working now -- on my tablet, but i'm guessing it shouldnt be a problem on my computer. Thank you very very much! —SpacemanSpiff 08:42, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Marreese Speights vandalism fest

Hi, Mr. Strad. I just noticed that we have had a vandalism fest ongoing at the Marreese Speights article for the last two days. Apparently Speights must a dunk in a high-profile NBA game, and every self-perceived funnyman in North America has decided to mess with his Wikipedia article. Can you put the article on an appropriate level of lockdown so that IPs and newly registered users cannot continue to vandalize it? Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 04:39, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

  • Nevermind, sir. The newbie admin, NeilN, jumped on it. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 04:49, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
    • Heh. Saw it at WP:RFPP. --NeilN talk to me 04:54, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
      • Thanks, Neil. Recently RFPP is not that fast to respond, but apparently there's a new sheriff in town. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 04:59, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
        • I don't know about that. I see a lot of processed reports by CambridgeBayWeather and other admins. Hopefully many hands make light work and all that. --NeilN talk to me 05:20, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Templates for discussion

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Template translation help?

I've been trying to translate {{User8}} into French as fr:Modèle:U8, but I can't seem to get the languages to work properly - it works as expected with no project set, but setting English as the project results in Utilisateur:Nikkimaria instead of User:Nikkimaria. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks, Nikkimaria (talk) 19:01, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

@Nikkimaria: These edits should fix it.[25][26] "User" and "User talk" are the canonical namespace names as well as the localised English names, so they will work on every project. As long as "User" and "User talk" aren't displayed in the template output, it's fine to use them on other-language wikis. You could also check for the {{{Projet}}} parameter and use "User" or "Utilisateur" accordingly, but the simplest way is just to stick with canonical namespace names. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 23:26, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
Better, but the contribs, edit-count and email are still French-only - any way to fix those? Nikkimaria (talk) 00:07, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
@Nikkimaria: I've fixed the contribs, but the edit-count and email will be more difficult. You would need to pass {{{Projet}}} through to the subtemplates, and then adjust their output depending on it. That's a big change that I don't really feel comfortable making without being able to explain my actions in French. Plus, if you're going to do that, you may as well change the whole thing to use Module:UserLinks. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 01:02, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
If you can give me a step-by-step of whichever of those you think is better, I can explain it in French - it's the tech part I'm struggling with at the moment. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:54, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

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