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Comparison of Business Process Modeling Notation tools

Hello Excirial, I have reported the issue, and requested that you and TJRC be blocked from the page. Thank you.

WP:ANI#User Excirial threatened to block me

You might want to see the above. --S.G. _ping! 20:56, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Note: Editor was blocked for WP:3RR. I have little to add except that i received no request to intervene and instead noticed the changes while on my regular vandalism patrol. Excirial 23:10, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Fabrice Etiennette

Hello Excirial,

Im actually making a page on of a golfer name fabrice etiennette and with some other collegue we are facing problem due to all link and material to construct the article and we need time to re group all of this! our article is actually on a deletion spot can you be good with us and make our article safe for some time then we can still work and make it as proper as it should for the wikipedia world and also for this golfer world as he has faced problem in this early life of pro golfer.

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sdemall (talk • contribs) 18:53, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Seems no further action is needed here. Excirial 19:53, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

sub-page

The sub page to record reviews doesnt appear to be working for me Makro (talk) 18:02, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

@Makro: AFCBuddy only runs manually. It there are no results or if the results are out of date this is mostly due to the program not having run recently. If i am not around or if a drive starts in a weekend it can take a little while to update them. Either way, done now as intended. Excirial 19:53, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Perfect Girl

The page I edited was deleted as it was not seen as constructive? I was merely adding the correct facts — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.152.224.199 (talk) 20:24, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

blanking a page and adding an Opinion instead is indeed not considered constructive editing. Excirial 20:27, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

gender

that was fast! sorry about the "complete utter stupid bullshit" or whatever it was that i wrote. otherwise i really think the edit should be kept ;) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.119.141.3 (talk) 21:15, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

I think there are some wikis that let you act like a total jerk, but Misplaced Pages is not one of them. K6ka (talk | contribs) 21:19, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks!

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Thanks for the help with the link! We are currently working on fixing all of the banners we just placed. Loving the Misplaced Pages love :-) DrX (talk) 21:27, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Hi

Hi I have been editing the TIGA page - I work for TIGA, but can also assure you all the edits were entirely accurate, is is possible to revert? I am happy to collaborate on creating a more neutral tone, if genuinely needed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DAField (talk • contribs) 21:17, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

If you are an employee of the subject of TIGA, i would first point you to the Conflict of interest policy. Since the page is rather long i suppose i can summarize it as "If you have vested interest in an article that goes beyond providing encyclopedic content, it is strongly discouraged that you edit the article directly". Editors who have a conflict of interest often have difficulty writing neutral and unbiased text, and the edit you made is no example to this rule as it is clearly non neutral. I would note that the Misplaced Pages definition of "Neutral" tends to be several degrees of magnitude more stringent then most people would use while writing a text. Excirial 18:53, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

wrong count

Hi @Excirial:, AFC Buddy is giving me undeserved extra credit. I reviewed Jay A. Levy, M.D., but forgot to check for copyvio. Realizing my mistake, I undid my review and then failed for the copyvio. Problem is AFCBuddy is counting it as two reviews, not one as it should. I'm not sure the best way to fix this, but thought I should bring it to your attention. Thanks! 78.26 (I'm no IP, talk to me!) 20:50, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

I think that AFCBuddy is currently working as intended and by design. In order to calculate the amount of reviews you made AFCBuddy scans a users contributions for summaries that are left by the AFCH script (These always have the same format). Since you reviewed the article twice AFCBuddy will detect that you made two reviews for that page, and award score as such. Reviewing a page twice by itself is not unusual; if an editor resubmitted a declined page the reviewer should receive a point for the review even if they alo checked it an hour/day/week earlier. Any mechanisms that prevent this would be a waste of processing time at best and shoddy at worst. For example: Scanning an editors edits to determine if they reverted their own edits is both shoddy and wastefull in terms of resources used. After all, what is a revert? Does it leave a default rollback summary? What if an editor just removed the template manually? To detect that we would have to parse the full text of each revision that every user made which requires substantial extra resources.

To be frank i doubt that the extra point is really an issue - i don't think anyone will complain that it is there. If you really wish to correct the score you could either opt to review a page manually (AFCBuddy cannot detect this and thus will not award you a point for it), or you could add two failed re-reviews to your own review for failing to notice the copyvio. That would cause the usual -3 points adjustment penalty on that edit, which would more then level the score. But honestly: I would say: Honest mistake, waste of time to try and correct it. Excirial 19:04, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Great idea! Actually, that should work out right. -3 points for failed review, but AFCBuddy will probably give 2 points as I re-review myself twice as failing. Brilliant, sir! 78.26 (I'm no IP, talk to me!) 20:31, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Saw you busy reverting the vandals (and beating me to the reverts ), figured you might like a drink. Thank you for all your hard work. :) AddWittyNameHere (talk) 20:51, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! I actually settled for a nice cup of coffee though. Reverting things while intoxicated i likely a bad idea . Excirial 19:04, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Ambassadors Studies and Work Abroad

My page is promotional.However, every time I try and make a page that isn't promotional you delete me while I'm making the page. I'm trying to create a page about my company as a lot of my interns coming from england find it hard to understand the russian website. The page is factual not promotional. Promotional implies bias which it isn't. If you feel I written biased info tell where it is and I'll delete it. I keep having my page deleted by different "monitors" and so I'm to explain myself ever time. Could please help/ Advise me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yours Ambassadors Work and Studies Abroad Unsigned comment signed for User:Independent information 07:09, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Retroactive?

Does AFCBuddy add reviews I have done before signing up, or do I need to add those manually? Thanks, Samwalton9 (talk) 14:11, 6 March 2014 (UTC) Nevermind I answered my own question! Samwalton9 (talk) 18:51, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

@Samwalton9: I figured i should let AFCBuddy run so i could link the result after mentioning it can run at any time retroactively, but it seems you beat me to it! As you already noticed: Provided that the AFCH script is used for reviews ANYBuddy can retroactively generate any results at any point in the future. Excirial 18:57, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

An antidote to vandalism of hot and dry articles for you!

	The hot and dry patience award
	For your calm patience with the nonsense at Sahara. Not many admins would be patient enough to warn and warn again up to however many before blocking. Please have a cold (fairly) strong dry drink on me, to help you deal with the nonsense going on at that hot dry location (and anywhere else). --Demiurge1000 (talk) 21:26, 6 March 2014 (UTC)