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Anglicized

Hello, Rich. For my own edification, can you inform me of the nature of the letter "z" in "Angliciɀed"? Axl ¤ [Talk] 10:42, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It is a Z with swash tail, which closely represents how I like to write the letter. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 02:34, 19 October 2014 (UTC).

Ah, thanks. Axl ¤ [Talk] 09:40, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
	Your thoughtful response in the gender gap task force arbitration case was brilliant, wise, and insightful. You expressed every concern I had in the most eloquent way possible. Amazingly done. v/r - T P 01:23, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! I hope it has a positive effect. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 01:27, 24 October 2014 (UTC).

The Signpost: 22 October 2014

Featured content: Admiral on deck: a modern Ada Lovelace

Op-ed: Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution—a wiki-protest

In the media: The story of Wikipedia; Wikipedia reanimated and republished; New UK government social media rules; death of Italian Wikipedia administrator

Traffic report: Death, War, Pestilence... Movies and TV

WikiProject report: De-orphanning articles—a huge task but with a huge team of volunteers to help

Category:Radioactive Man albums

Category:Radioactive Man albums, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:10, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #114

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The Wikidata Game now has a 'Commons Categories' game
Did you know?
- Newest properties: At the Circulating Library ID, MacTutor id (biographies), allmovie identifier, number of survivors, given name version for other gender, name in native language, tempo marking, manifestation of, zbMATH author ID, Executive Order number
Development
- Made significant performance improvements (to be rolled out next week)
- Worked on usability improvements to the editing of sitelinks
- When you link to an image on Wikimedia Commons in a statement it will now show up in “global usage” there.
- Made the phpunit tests for Wikibase much faster
- Wikibase phpunit tests on travis pass with hhvm now
- Fixed label/description uniqueness constraint checks
- Work on entity usage tracking
- Year formatter now shows the year instead of the unformatted ISO string in case of a precision mismatch
- Diff and old revision pages don’t run the JavaScript UI any more, should be much faster now
- Introduced a Changers concept to the JavaScript frontend, wrapping the API and entityStore functionality
- Identified issue causing content in the old serialization format to be included in XML dumps
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help fix these items which have been flagged using Wikidata - The Game.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 20:27, 25 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Michael Ford (composer) albums

Category:Michael Ford (composer) albums, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:27, 26 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey - slight problem with the French Commune template.

Hey,

I was working on the Paris article for the first time since a while, and I noticed that its infobox has the city (commune, department) population way down at the bottom, and hardly recognisable as a population at all. I understand the logic going on here (if a commune's urban unit population is smaller than its total population), but in Paris' case the opposite is true, and the result is odd and even misleading to anyone not knowing any better. Just wanted to give you a heads-up. Here's the diff where you made the changes [1] (but it looks like you were just activating whatever you were working on). Thanks, and cheers. THEPROMENADER ✎ ✓ 23:58, 26 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Goodness this was a long time ago. The main thrust of the changes I made to the commune infobox was to translate it from French, and make it compatible with {{Infobox populated place}} (possibly then named {{Infobox settlement}}), with a view to using one as a wrapper for the other.

The change you link to, however, merely changes the include style, so that the documentation for the template is visible on the first screen.

The reason the population (and other text) is so low down the page is because the infobox contains so many images. The population figures are explained in the lead, so I'm not sure that it is much of an issue, nor what the solution would be if it is.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:58, 27 October 2014 (UTC).

It's odd that the {{Infobox settlement}} doesn't have this problem, only the "communes" 'son of' template does. But I've addressed the question to that template page (as I should have - sorry for bothering you with this). Cheers! THEPROMENADER ✎ ✓ 09:14, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

See my suggestions here: Template_talk:Infobox_French_commune#Population_stat_order.3F. Der Statistiker (talk) 11:42, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Arbitration clarification request(Pseudoscience)

An arbitration clarification request(Pseudoscience), either involving you, or in which you participated has been archived. The request resulted in a motion.

The original discussion can be found here For the arbitration Committee --S Philbrick (Talk) 14:53, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

noticing what is "soul destroying"
Thank you, Rich, third user to hit over a million edits, for the quality of those edits, helpful bots, articles such as Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, "assisting smaller language wikis with technical issues", for copyedit with added precision, for noticing what is "soul destroying", for support and trust - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (10 December 2009)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:48, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! It's always good to be appreciated! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:49, 27 October 2014 (UTC).

It's easy to appreciate you who understands ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:02, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

merge proposal

Hello, thanks for editing Heinrich von Louffenburg. Someone deleted the edits and redirected it to Heinrich von Laufenberg. I undid that and placed a merger tag. I'm new at this, will you look that over and see that I did that correctly? Dr. Mike (talk) 19:51, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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 : It's easy to appreciate you who understands ;) --[[User:Gerda Arendt|Gerda Arendt]] ([[User talk:Gerda Arendt|talk]]) 22:02, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
+== merge proposal ==
+Hello, thanks for editing [[Heinrich von Louffenburg]]. Someone deleted the edits and redirected it to [[Heinrich von Laufenberg]]. I undid that and placed a merger tag. I'm new at this, will you look that over and see that I did that correctly? [[User:Miguel Pena|Dr. Mike]] ([[User talk:Miguel Pena|talk]]) 19:51, 29 October 2014 (UTC)