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Yeti (application)

Hello! I hope all's well. I wanted to thank you for reaching out in regards to the Yeti (application) page. I deleted the content of this page (which I wrote) because Yeti is a company, not an application. I am working to get the page redirected to a company page. I am still relatively new to this, though, so any and all help would be greatly apppreciated. Thanks.Imarapaholic (talk) 19:10, 29 May 2015 (UTC)imarapaholic (talk)

Article was moved.-- Dewritech (talk) 18:23, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

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Tunisian Arabic

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Yours Sincerely,

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A kitten for you!

Ulrich date of birth - source?

Dear Dewritech. Recently you have edited the english page about Ulrich von Jungingen Teutonic Order great master. There you changed birth data from "1360" to "6.01.1360". Could you please give me source of this day date? Article, book, author? This is vitally important to me: as a scholar I need it for my historical research. Thank very much you in advance - and I am attaching kitten for your job. ;) krysiaida

Krysiaida (talk) 15:03, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

I added the given date to Persondata. The original edit was made in November 2012 by IP, User talk:89.79.63.219. You may want to ask him for a reference.-- Dewritech (talk) 19:33, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank you- I will try to know something from that user. best wishes Krysiaida — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.70.93.208 (talk) 19:47, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Happy to help.-- Dewritech (talk) 19:50, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

AWB

Hi Dewrittech, I was wondering why you made this edit to Veganism, apparently to fix the spelling of nevertheless, but it's already okay. You're not the first editor to do this, so I've been wondering whether there's something odd (to AWB) about the way that word is written. Sarah (talk) 18:53, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

I added a comma.-- Dewritech (talk) 18:58, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
Okay, thank you. I was going by the edit summary: "clean up, typo(s) fixed: Nevertheless → Nevertheless." Also, when you next do this, could you switch off whatever causes the references to move (assuming that's possible)? Sarah (talk) 19:14, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
AWB sorts references by numbers.-- Dewritech (talk) 19:25, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

And I've also found you changed 2000's back to 2000s with comment "...using AWB", then sentence you changed now represented like below

What does "2000s" mean? The first decade of 21 century? or the same meaning of 2000's with a different form? With either situation, 2000s NT 5.0 kernel is an ill representation, at least it does not look like English. Fairnessfighter (talk) 23:03, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Take a look at WP:DECADE and WP:CENTURY, no ambiguity with 2000s.-- Dewritech (talk) 13:33, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Nein, nein, es verstehst du nicht. There is nothing wrong with WP:DECADE, WP:CENTURY and 2000s, but you might get it wrong. The original sentence,

,

wants to refer the definitive year (2000) rather than the first decade of 21st century, because one year later (2001), NT 5.1 was brought up with Windows XP, which that article really talks about. Fairnessfighter (talk) 16:00, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
Latest release of NT 5.0 was in 2005. But you might be right.-- Dewritech (talk) 20:19, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar
why delete a post when a man has done somthing for regular people but famous people have not Stezzylyg (talk) 15:29, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

John Sculley Edit (Sorry if this is in the wrong place)

I edited the Personal Life section of John Sculley (former Apple CEO) about a month ago, adding detail on previous divorces etc. Last week, a user named 'Truthnik' has removed the previous marriages from the info bar as well as the pending lawsuit by an ex-wife among other edits. User 'Truthnik' does not seen to have any other contributions beyond editing this page.

Please check for vandalism, as I lack confidence that the edit is legitimate.

Thanks for notification. I reverted the unexplained removal.-- Dewritech (talk) 20:03, 23 September 2015 (UTC)


I am John Sculley's wife and the information you added was gossip. It is not factual and therefore does not belong on wikipedia and I would appreciate your leaving his wikipedia as is. Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Diane0524 (talkcontribs) 21:02, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Dewritech, why do you keep changing my entries? Your info is heresay, gossip, not true

Diane0524 (talk) 22:23, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

This is diane0524 Diane0524 (talk) 22:23, 27 September 2015 (UTC)


Mrs. Sculley, regardless of whether or not it is true, the fact remains that your predecessor filed a lawsuit. It is not gossip in any way that your predecessor //filed a lawsuit in court// regardless if her allegations are true. PS: It's spelled "hearsay" not "heresy"


Dewritech, thanks for the acknowledgement. The history of edits reads like a temper tantrum. Mrs. Sculley insists upon removing her husband's lawsuit, previous spouses etc. I can keep editing it back in and edit the article in full of all the edits, if it makes it easier for you guys. Thanks for your hard work.

Serneholt

If you want to, please help by improving this weeks TAFI article Marie Serneholt. Any help is appreciated.--BabbaQ (talk) 20:37, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Lufthansa name meaning & sanskrit language

Basic premise of my below mentioned paragraph is Sanskrit language is basis of German Language. Do you know about this fact??? Answer me on this fact.

"As a whole, the Word Lufthansa is made of two words: 'Lupth' and 'Hansa' which are two Sansrkit words meaning Disappearing swan or a crane (bird). The logo was designed by Dr. Otto Firle and when he designed it he was thinking of a swan or a crane(bird) and "free as a bird" so that's how he came up with the logo. When an aeroplane service first started in Germany, the aircraft they employed in service were pure white, resembling huge white swans. When these aeroplanes would fly into the sky and grow slowly smaller and disappear, they would look like swans disappearing into the heart of the sky. In Sanskrit, the word that could describe them was lupth-hansa, or the hidden swan and that's the correct meaning. German language grammer has foundation of Sanskrit language. Sanskrit language originates in India used for depicting its ancient manuscripts. It is also said that best computer algorithms are made though Sanskrit language. No language in the world competes Sanskrit in terms of vocabulary. French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Latin scripts have their origins rooted in Sanskrit". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.79.169.180 (talk) 22:07, 21 November 2015 (UTC)

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Ulrich date of birth - source?

Dear Dewritech. Recently you have edited the english page about Ulrich von Jungingen Teutonic Order great master. There you changed birth data from "1360" to "6.01.1360". Could you please give me source of this day date? Article, book, author? This is vitally important to me: as a scholar I need it for my historical research. Thank you very much in advance - krysiaida

Regarding my changes to the Spatial anit-aliasing page

Hello Dewritech, you wrote: >> I noticed that you made a change to an article, Spatial anti-aliasing, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! <<

I don't have a citation. The page I edited had a code snippet that I tried to use but it didn't work. I debugged the problems myself (which is why I have no citation) and updated the page with what I found. The two problems I found were:

1) without the "1 - " that I added, the algorithm was saying that a point at 5.3 for example is 30% close to 5 and 70% close to 6 which is backwards. Without my changes, you can notice unsightly discontinuities in the result. With my changes, the output looks as it should.

2) the second change I made is explained in the Note I added so I won't repeat the explanation. Quite simply, you can't allow points that have small components at a given pixel, wipe out the large components that are already there due to other points. If you do that (as the original algorithm instructs), you end up with a very dark, completely wrong picture.

I don't know how to contact the original authors of the page, but I would bet if you ran my changes by them, they would agree.

Thanks.

Bad Blood

Sorry about that edit. I had two windows open and thought I was in my sandbox.

Admin nomination

Hi, I have nominated you for adminship. Would this be ok? Kernosky talk2me! 16:52, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Hello Kernosky. Thanks for your confidence. But I don't want to be an admin.-- Dewritech (talk) 17:08, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

K. I haven't substed the nomination so ok. Kernosky talk2me! 17:16, 9 December 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kernosky (talkcontribs)

Eurasian tree sparrow

Your script got a bit carried away, I've reverted your edit back to "native American" because it refers to a bird native to the Americas, not an aboriginal North American person! (: Jimfbleak - talk to me? 18:32, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing!-- Dewritech (talk) 18:36, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

Manuel Abad

Hi,

Thanks for contact me about the Manuel page. Sorry, but the correct name of the article should be "Manuel Abud." Could this one be deleted immediately? I posted the new article.

Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Salmer914 (talkcontribs) 18:46, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

I nominated the article for speedy deletion.-- Dewritech (talk) 18:51, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Great, thanks so much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Salmer914 (talkcontribs) 19:02, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

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Conversation

This conversation might involve you, sir! Basically everyone who opposes their edits is a "Paki POV-pushing vandal" as i was accused here. Sheriff | ☎ 911 | 17:32, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Paul Chiasson

You reverted someone so clever they found ", a complete Chinese town and fort at Laversdale NY47710-62343), just north of Hadrian`s Wall"? I guess they'll be back on one of our articles. Doug Weller talk 21:17, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

You're probably right.-- Dewritech (talk) 16:17, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

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Company Page

Hello Dewritech,

We are a competitor of this company and feel we should also have a page on Wikipedia. I noticed you editing their page recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocus

As an independent editor, would you be able to create a page for our organization?

Connectus Software Baltimore, Maryland connectus.net primary platform; NewsBox.com (platform originally created as PRSafe, a platform for PR professionals, but rebranded as NewsBox at the end of 2012)

http://baltimore.citybizlist.com/article/291134/connectus-software-plans-launch-of-newsbox-version-30

https://twitter.com/newsbox

https://www.crunchbase.com/product/newsbox-com

http://technical.ly/baltimore/2014/12/02/newsbox-gary-pick/

http://technical.ly/baltimore/2015/03/10/baltimore-people-at-sxsw-2015/

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/connectus#/entity https://www.linkedin.com/in/garypick http://www.meetup.com/TechBreakfast/events/216867642/

http://etcbaltimore.com/2015/07/28/beehive-spotlight-gary-pick-newsbox/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnccoyne (talkcontribs) 14:50, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Hello Johnccoyne,
The references do not indicate that company meets WP:CORP.-- Dewritech (talk) 17:35, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Broadcom?

I noticed you have contributed to articles on Broadcom Corporation and/or Broadcom Limited (formerly Avago Tech). Just a quick note that there is a discussion here about whether or not Broadcom should be a disambiguation page or refer solely to Broadcom Corporation. Cheers! Talk to SageGreenRider 17:50, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for notification.-- Dewritech (talk) 20:07, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Ibeacon

Hello

I´m new contributing Wikipedia. Please, why you consider the sources are not reliable? Now I post it again, and I have provided a new "more realiable" citation so you can ensure the information is highly contrastable with no error or miss-information, but it is in Spanish (I hope that the language not to be a problem in the citation)

http://www.eleconomista.es/apps/noticias/7055571/10/15/gestalia-incorpora-la-tecnologia-de-seeketing-en-sus-centros-comerciales.html http://www.bbvaopen4u.com/en/actualidad/what-are-beacons-and-how-can-they-change-shopping-experience

Thank you for your support

Here you can find more sources/references about Seeketing technology:

http://www.bbvaopen4u.com/en/actualidad/what-are-beacons-and-how-can-they-change-shopping-experience https://www.mobileworldcongress.com/exhibitor/seeketing/ "http://haybeacon.marketing/ibeacons-vs-seeketing/" http://www.digitalassetsdeployment.com/en/business/seeketing/ http://www.bbvaopen4u.com/es/actualidad/como-mejora-nuestra-vida-el-internet-de-las-cosas-siete-aplicaciones-practicas http://awakke.com/observar/ http://www.neodoc.es/en/news/catorce-empresas-participan-desde-ayer-junto-a-neodoc-en-un-programa-de-inmersion-en-silicon-valley https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ibeacons-vs-seeketing-nodes-javier-espadas-bard%C3%B3n- http://thestartupconference.com/exhibitor/seeketing/ http://9to5mac.com/2014/11/19/comscore-ibeacon-app-usage/ http://www.amazon.es/Seeketing-Node-ibeacon-bluetooth-cellular/dp/B00IG0XV9S https://econsultancy.com/blog/65221-ibeacon-trials-13-brands-trying-to-find-a-use-case/ http://mktfan.com/story.php?title=ibeacons-vs-nodos-seeketing http://www.modaes.es/back-stage/20140606/diez-tendencias-clave-para-el-retail-de-moda-en-2015.html http://www.comunicae.es/nota/nace-el-google-analytics-offline_1-1084299/ https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/we-observe-deals/id1073113719?mt=8 https://datafox.com/seeketing — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.218.48.120 (talk) 16:03, 20 February 2016 (UTC)


but I haven´t included all these (because most are in spanish)


— Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.218.48.120 (talk) 15:19, 20 February 2016 (UTC) 

Mark Labbett

Hi, You messaged me in regards to changing Mark Labbett's page, please can I contact you privately to discuss my changes.

Thank you.

5.64.197.69 (talk) 11:00, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Discuss on Talk:Mark Labbett.-- Dewritech (talk) 11:06, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Intereconomics

Dear Dewritech,

I have noticed that you have decide to classify Intereconomics as a maganize. But as stated in Springer (the publisher), it is a journal: http://www.springer.com/economics/policy/journal/10272?countryChanged=true

And if you see the classification in here: http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/research-assistance/format-type/scholarly-journals you will see that it is not necessary that a journal is peer-reviewed to be a journal (for example: "•The majority of scholarly journals go through the peer-review process, although there are some that are scholarly and non-peer reviewed, such as Journal of financial econometrics."(I am guessing that that is the reason why you changed from journal to magazine. If it is because something else please tell me).


Here you can also see the difference between a peer-reviewed journal and a journal that is not peer-reviewed: http://guides.library.cornell.edu/c.php?g=31867&p=201759

Thank you for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.245.95.210 (talk) 09:00, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

I created a user in case it is easier for you to contact me that way. Isanjar (talk) 09:19, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Intereconomics is within the scope of WP:WikiProject Magazines. You may want to discuss with them.-- Dewritech (talk) 09:27, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! Isanjar (talk) 12:18, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Toyota Avanza

Hi, I edited the Toyota Avanza article to reflect that Toyota never offered a diesel engine in that vehicle. I really don't know how to edit in Wikipedia due to my limited knowledge on webpage editing but I live in the Philippines (where the Mitula link you provided redirects) and am very sure that Toyota only offered gasoline-powered engines in the Avanza. A diesel was supposed to be offered in the Indian market model but the [Toyota India website] points that the Avanza's launch didn't push through.

Thanks. 114.108.229.221 (talk) 12:50, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

Peculiar wee AWB error

See your AWB edit [1] at Romulus and Remus. Quite odd. Just thought you might like to know. Haploidavey (talk) 18:54, 7 March 2016 (UTC)

Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia

Hello, your edit there was in error; that was not a typo. Graham87 11:54, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

You're right. Thanks!-- Dewritech (talk) 07:47, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Elena Ochoa

Hello. I edited the text because it looks completely autobiographical. All those books and exhibitions should be on her company's page. I am following Wikipedia guidelines... How can I edit it properly? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.61.65.164 (talk) 13:09, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Discuss your removals on Talk:Elena Ochoa Foster first.-- Dewritech (talk) 13:18, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

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Lesotho

Please keep in mind that such edits [2] violate the WP:AWB rule #4. They cover up vandalism [3] (good that someone noticed that). Materialscientist (talk) 12:14, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

The edit removed a superflous blank. So it had a noticeable effect on the page according to AWB rule #4. But you're right that the blank was the result of previous vandalism. I did not realize that. Thanks for notification!-- Dewritech (talk) 12:33, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi. On 5 April you changed two instances of "a uop" to "an uop" using AWB, then 25 minutes later changed it back. Today you've again followed AWB and changed it. I'm about to revert it since "uop" is usually pronounced yew-op or micro-op so "a" is the natural form. Regards, Martin of Sheffield (talk) 16:16, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing.-- Dewritech (talk) 08:45, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Concerning your recent edits at Dutch nationality law.

Due to your edits it was harder for me to revert a case of WP:VANDALISM at this page, please when you notice vandalism revert it yourself too. Thank you in advance.

Sincerely, --86.81.201.94 (talk) 09:20, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Concerning your recent edits at Microsoft Mobile Oy.

Coloud is a company that partnered with Microsoft for the Lumia headphones, it's not a misspelled name and since this is the 3rd time that you specifically have "fixed" this "typo" I'd like to alarm you to it as you apparently didn't read my reversions earlier, please check the sources that mention coloud by name specifically in the article. The company is also mentioned here in this link.

Sincerely, --86.81.201.94 (talk) 09:19, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

I was too fast. Thanks for fixing.-- Dewritech (talk) 18:55, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Merger discussion for Vitalik Buterin

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Your reversal of my edit under Raylan Givens - Depiction

Concerning your reversal of my edit on Elmore Leonard's comments on Timothy Olyphant's portrayal of Raylan Givens. You wrote to me: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ April 2016

Hello. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Raylan Givens has been undone because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Dewritech ___________________________________________________________________________________________________

My response: Read what you wrote. Whatever the source material Leonard was quoted as he was describing his opinion of actors & a director as they related to the characters he had thought up and heard in his head. You wrote:

"My favorite character is Raylan. Raylan’s perfect because there are not many actors who have delivered the lines the way I heard them when I was writing them. George Clooney was close, and Tarantino was faithful. Richard Boone was in two movies of mine, and every word he said was the way I heard it when I wrote it. I think it’s great.[6]"

'Raylan' is the character and as Leonard himself would probably have said, he is not a perfect person. Also not an ACTOR, as Mr. Leonard then refers to ACTORS Clooney & Boone and their depictions of his characters. His referral is to Olyphant (as the ACTOR)and his 'perfect' portrayal of Givens. (see Below) Either a sentence was dropped or the referral to 'Raylan' was erroneous in that regard. It made no sense especially in light of the subsequent description of other actor's portrayals of his characters, and that is why I changed it.

Second: The link to that quote is erroneous. I found nothing found there that describes the notation.

Here is a link to a CORRECT quote, in the Christian Science Monitor:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2012/0118/Elmore-Leonard-on-Raylan-and-Justified

It reads as follows:

"On how his approach changes because of the TV show: That didn’t bother me because as soon as I met [Raylan] in earlier books, I liked him a lot. He just seemed to work. He seemed easygoing, but serious, too.

But seeing him now [as a TV character] just reinforces my feeling about it. That he’s the guy. [Timothy Olyphant] is probably the best one to do one of my characters. [The late actor] Richard Boone would recite the lines exactly the way I heard them, he was in a couple of movies [based on Leonard works], but this guy’s perfect. He’s the good guy. Richard Boone was always the bad guy."


I changed it because it didn't read right. And after you're reversal it took me a moment but I found a article where Elmore Leonard speaks of actors and their portrayals of his characters as he wrote and 'heard' them in his head.

I will change it back.

NtvyprNtvypr (talk) 17:02, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Allied Masonic Degrees

As I explained in the previous reversion of your edit, the title "Sovereign Master's Degree" is a title. Therefore, it is capitalized. It is not a typo. Do not revert it again. MSJapan (talk) 18:54, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing.-- Dewritech (talk) 11:39, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

AWB edits

Hi there. Just pointing to your attention a couple of your semi-automated edits that created errors instead of fixing them:

  • [4] "William Payman" isn't a misspelling of "William Payment", this is the guy's name. Payman is a common Persian given name and surname.
  • [5] "the first six second member" doesn't refer to members that are six-seconds long, but to the fist six of a series of "second members".
  • [6] "hta" wasn't a misspelling for "hat" but for "heta".

These have been corrected now. As these edits produced nonsensical text, they could have been easily avoided by a quick look at the sentence in which they were made. Feel free to remove this message from your talk page. Thanks! Uanfala (talk) 21:14, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Was too fast. Thanks for fixing.-- Dewritech (talk) 11:39, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

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Incorrect AWB edits to "hsa"

Hi, on Graphics Core Next you have three times changed the text "hsa" to "has". "hsa" is correct there, and it's had to be reverted each time.

Do you have any way of detecting when one of your AWB-based edits has been reverted (or partially reverted) and being more careful on that page in the future? Or some other way to make sure you don't repeatedly make the same wrong edits? dolphinling (talk) 01:57, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

@Dolphinling: I don't think Dewritech will have an easy way of figuring out one of their edits was reverted unless, when undoing, you don't discard the automatic undo summary. But I think there's a more general solution here (and I'm just repeating something I've touched on in an earlier thread here) – AWB users are expected to have a look at the diffs before saving their edits, this way any "typo fixes" that produce nonsense would be spotted. After all, this is the whole point of semi-automated editing. If it were sensible to completely automate typo fixes like these, they would have been handled by a bot and there wouldn't be any need for AWBers to spend their time on them. Uanfala (talk) 16:23, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for notification. You're right. I reviewed my last 10,000 edits and Graphics Core Next was the only article with this (double) mistake. Thanks for fixing!-- Dewritech (talk) 09:30, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Query

What happened here? --John (talk) 18:18, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

I was too fast. Thanks for notification.-- Dewritech (talk) 09:33, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Native American vs. native American

Just a heads up that there are situations, albeit rare, where the word "native" before "American" should not be capitalized, such as in "the native American tree sparrow species" (here); therefore, the automated change from "native American" to "Native American" should be reviewed for context. Cheers, Deli nk (talk) 16:57, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Be careful

This edit was wrong. The concourse is new, not "New". Ground Zero | t 02:14, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

And this. The grammar's clear. No hyphen required. Haploidavey (talk) 12:49, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

Pearl Jam + AWB

Hi. This is about the third time you've made this edit to the article - it's not a typo. More info can be found here. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 10:12, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for notification! You're right.-- Dewritech (talk) 10:26, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Quick request

Is there a way to have AWB ignore typos in links that go to articles (as opposed to going to redirects), or piped text that matches the name of the linked article, when you're fixing spelling? My request arises from this edit; you were fixing occurrences of "embarras", but you accidentally changed the spelling of the Embarras River (Illinois), which really does have this spelling. Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 18:22, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I think there is a solution and that is to do what AWB users are meant to do anyway: inspect the context before saving an edit. If it were sensible to skip this step, making such typo corrections would have been relegated to the bots ages ago. Uanfala (talk) 18:32, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
Well, AWB's typo fixing feature is supposed to only be used if you're willing to check every edit before you save it. And if you're making mistakes like that, then you clearly didn't check the edit first. Omni Flames (talk) 22:52, 16 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for notification.-- Dewritech (talk) 11:26, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

De Rosee Sa

Hi there, I have not finished editing the page yet. The project I named "The Little Hall" was designed around the writings of Roald Dahl, who based his book "Matilda" on the school. The practice were shortlisted for Building Design's Young Architect of the Year Award this year which is also a significant accolade for a small practice. Perhaps you can reconsider? Thank you! Architecturalhistorian (talk) 10:21, 6 September 2016 (UTC)Architecturalhistorian

You may want to contest the article's speedy deletion and discuss there.-- Dewritech (talk) 10:30, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. Have done what you suggested and left an update on the items talkpage. Architecturalhistorian (talk) 14:10, 6 September 2016 (UTC)Architecturalhistorian

The TA Network

The TA network is not a hoax, and I ask that you remove your speedy deletion from the page. I have added proper citations and proof to its legitimacy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dranagoon (talkcontribs) 18:02, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Too-speedy tagging

Thanks for patrolling new pages, a vital and under-appreciated task, but please don't tag newly created articles with WP:CSD#A1 or WP:CSD#A3 too soon after creation. While things like copyright violations and attack pages need to be tagged at once, new contributors often put in a word or two and then click "Save page" to see how it looks: it is discouraging and BITEy if a speedy-deletion template pops up at once. For incomplete articles like Aliqasimjaffery just now (which you tagged only two minutes after creation), you should make a note of the title and wait at least 10 - 15 minutes before tagging. See {{uw-hasty}}. There is general advice about new page patrolling at WP:NPP, and about speedy tagging at WP:10CSD and WP:A7M. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 18:18, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Careful with the AWB

In this diff from July, you changed a company name "ind.ie" to "ind.i.e." using AWB. Do keep an eye out for that sort of thing while using AWB in the future. AWB does make mistakes. Tom Morris (talk) 16:52, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Your're right!-- Dewritech (talk) 16:57, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

The Truth

James Cameron really will never make Avatar2. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:7830:859:2C43:879F:3E71:9A0C (talk) 17:03, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

What the hell is wrong with you?

and yes, that's there to get your attention. Three times you have been told not to make changes on Allied Masonic Degrees with AWB, and yet you've done it anyway, introducing errors into the article as a result, because you don't actually understand what you're editing. If you can't use the tools properly, don't use them. I see it again, you're going to ANI for WP:CIR. MSJapan (talk) 19:30, 22 September 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your eager comment. I added a hidden comment there.-- Dewritech (talk) 11:38, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Not improvements

Some (a minority) of the edits you are making are not actually improvements. For example I have just partially reverted two of your edits, on Lebanese pound and Franc. Please could you stop making large numbers of unreliable edits.---Ehrenkater (talk) 15:11, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your comment. As for my edit on Lebanese pound you may want to read Conjunctive adverb#placement; as for my edit on Franc you may want to read MOS:CAPS#Anglo- and similar prefixes.-- Dewritech (talk) 16:15, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

What I did was remove non notable blogs from the review section. They aren't reliable sources and don't belong in the article. 2602:306:C5E9:B450:1427:2307:C266:D1C9 (talk) 15:20, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Discuss on Talk.-- Dewritech (talk) 15:27, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
Learn policy before blindly reverting IP addresses because you have a large ego. 2602:306:C5E9:B450:1427:2307:C266:D1C9 (talk) 15:33, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
You don't need to discuss things violating policy on the talk page. Please learn policy before threatening people. 2602:306:C5E9:B450:1427:2307:C266:D1C9 (talk) 15:40, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
You don't create consensus to add unreliable sources. It isn't incumbent on me to discuss removing policy violations first. Please remove yourself from the situation as clearly your ego won't allow you to see clearly. 2602:306:C5E9:B450:1427:2307:C266:D1C9 (talk) 15:48, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
You may want to read WP:CON and WP:SILENCE as the content you removed has been undisputed since September 2012.-- Dewritech (talk) 15:53, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
I am familiar with WP:CON as I showed before. You cannot gain consensus to violate policy. Those links are blogs that are not reliable sources. The fact that nobody removed them before now doesn't mean they shouldn't have been removed. Those same links were removed from other articles in the past which belies your erroneous belief that something sitting there long enough magically becomes reliable. 2602:306:C5E9:B450:1427:2307:C266:D1C9 (talk) 16:06, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
These blogs are cited in many other articles. Therefore, discuss your removals.-- Dewritech (talk) 16:11, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

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