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Nielsen Ratings

Posted copyright warning for Nielsen Media.

Is IMDB a reliable source?

1. Misplaced Pages:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 17#Is IMDb a reliable_source?
2. Misplaced Pages:Citing IMDb

Prefix search

• Special:PrefixIndex

Catscan

• US nuclear plants and NRC region # templates

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Put a smile in thou face

Hello Plastikspork, Eduemoni has given you a shinning smiling star! You see, these things promote WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the Shinning Smiling Star whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or someone putting up with some stick at this time. Enjoy!

Some cricket TfDs

Hi, a long time ago now, you closed Misplaced Pages:Templates for discussion/Log/2014 February 19#Cricket team infoboxes. Nothing has since been done to enact the merge, and the notifications are clogging up Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Cricket/Article alerts. I haven't been around much lately, and don't have the technical know-how to really merge these myself. Is there anyone you can suggest contacting to possibly get this cleared up? Thanks, Harrias 11:03, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

I would suggest asking Frietjes. She is pretty good at merging infoboxes. If that doesn't work, you could try one of the other editors of the WP:List of infoboxes pages. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ 20:53, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

Infobox college cross country team

could you history merge this with Infobox College Cross Country, but use Infobox college cross country team as the merged name? thank you. Frietjes (talk) 15:33, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

thank you. same with Template talk:Infobox American football team and the doc page. Frietjes (talk) 16:29, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

thank you again, same with Template:George Bernard Shaw (or at least swap the names). Frietjes (talk) 17:58, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

Done! Plastikspork _―Œ 23:06, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

thank you. Frietjes (talk) 14:49, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Halloween cheer!

Hello Plastikspork:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Misplaced Pages, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!
    – NorthAmerica 14:19, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

TfD and other template business

		The Template Barnstar
		Here, have a barnstar for (pretty much singlehandedly) handing TfD and all your other template-related efforts. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 10:09, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Deletion of UAS Intl Trip Support Article

Hi :)

You declined my submission and I was wondering why? I realize it's because of copyright infringement (according to my message because of the Make-A-Wish source), but I directly cited the source. So I'm wondering why it says I'm "infringing copyright" if I'm giving credit to the source in question?

Thanks so much for your insight! I just want to get this article published. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ballen1109 (talk • contribs) 22:50, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Ballen1109, you need to be more specific. You have no edit history and you have provided no link to the submission. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ 22:52, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Okay, I found it, it was your sandbox and was tagged as a copyvio of http://wish.org/ways-to-help/calendar-of-events/eventdetail?id=%7B0EAF7433-D14F-4D7A-94AE-373A44A00095%7D by Joe Decker. You should ask Joe for more tips about avoiding copyvio. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ 22:55, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Plastikspork So, I basically need to submit an external link to the company's (UAS) URL and I should be fine, correct? If all sources are cited then there should be no issue, right? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ballen1109 (talk • contribs) 22:59, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Ballen1109, you should start by making sure there is not a single phrase or sentence that is copied from the sources or any sources on the web or in print. However, you should have citations for every fact that's in the article. I will get you started by giving you some of the non copyvio content in a moment. Plastikspork _―Œ 23:04, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Ballen1109, see User:Ballen1109/sandbox. I restored all the clearly non-copyvio stuff. Feel free to try again. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ 23:14, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

That's right--please write in your own words. Copyrighted material (as nearly every bit of text is, whether it is marked as such or not, under US law) would need to be signed over because of their licensing formally, but doing that would be a waste of time, since the text that was copied is also non-encyclopedic--it's written in a somewhat promotional style. Much easier to avoid the wasted effort and to simply write in your own words, trying to maintain a neutral point of view, from the start. Thanks! --j⚛e decker 23:21, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Confine the bot to article space.

Bots should not make edits related to citations, like this one, for two reasons. First, there is no good reason to make such edits outside article space. Talk pages of articles should also be excluded. Second, it is especially bad to make changes to pages that discuss citations, because such pages may contain deliberate "errors" to illustrate the wrong way of doing something.

Please acknowledge that you will restrict the bot as described by 13:00 UT 2 November 2014, otherwise I will request the bot be blocked.Jc3s5h (talk) 12:07, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

Sure, no problem, I will restrict it to articles until there is approval to do otherwise. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ 21:57, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

quotation sandbox on test

Hi Plastikspork, if you want to play with the quotation/quote templates and see what works, I advice using the one over at test wiki, mainly because you can hack at common.css there. It's not protected, and if you accidentally break quote or quotation it's no big deal. There are testcases over at https://test.wikipedia.org/User:Ais523/quotes and the test template itself is at https://test.wikipedia.org/Template:Quote/Sandbox Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 11:03, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

Template:Tfd links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Template:Tfd_links&curid=17877760&diff=630431220&oldid=630429719

(Something went wrong ...

Thanks for spotting and reverting. I'm away for the rest of today, but am curious to learn on my return what caught your attention. The testcases look okay (although they're not particularly probing) as did a preview of a TfD page where I'd replaced {{Tfd links}} with {{Tfd links/sandbox}}. Regards, Sardanaphalus (talk) 07:16, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

• Am still intrigued to learn what you saw. Regards, Sardanaphalus (talk) 11:26, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

  The indentation was entirely off and the format mysteriously changed without discussion. Feel free to propose something on the talk page if there is a problem with the current format. Plastikspork _―Œ 22:57, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Underground comix

not sure if it's possible but could you history merge Special:PrefixIndex/Template:Underground_comix/ with Underground comix cartoonists, Underground comix characters, Underground comix publishers, Underground comix works? Frietjes (talk) 22:04, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

and Template:Election table/doc with Template:Electiontable/doc. ty Frietjes (talk) 00:34, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

Done! Plastikspork _―Œ 22:58, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

thank you. Frietjes (talk) 14:49, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Error in bot?

It looks like something went wrong in this edit. Your username was inserted in article space. −Woodstone (talk) 05:01, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Woodstone, Yes, that should not have happened. That's the problem with trying to substitute templates inside of citations. I will have the bot go back and check all the prior edits. Thanks for finding it! Plastikspork _―Œ 05:04, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Infobox gunpowder plotter

Hi,

Please reconsider your closure at Misplaced Pages:Templates for discussion/Log/2014 October 15#Template:Infobox gunpowder plotter. There were no keep !votes. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:58, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Relisted, and I will refrain from closing any discussions that you have opened since you are concerned with how I close discussions. Plastikspork _―Œ 04:58, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Template fix

Thanks for making all the template fixes like this as a result of Misplaced Pages:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2014_October_28#Template:1983_Pan_Am_medal_titles. You saved me quite a bit of work! SFB 21:26, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

No problem! Plastikspork _―Œ 01:29, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Saibal bassi

just curious as to why edited my wiki pages and took out true, and accurate information. On whose behest? Saibal bassi (talk • contribs) 08:33, 15 November 2014‎ (UTC)

Saibal bassi, can you tell me which IP or other user you are? You have no edit history. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ 01:28, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Move a templates

could you move Template:Atlanta Dream navbox to Template:Atlanta Dream? thank you. Frietjes (talk) 13:57, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Done! Plastikspork _―Œ 01:27, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Block quote

hi, I replaced some of these, but the rest are on talk pages. it would be good if your bot could do the rest? Frietjes (talk) 14:47, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Done, and thanks for the help! Plastikspork _―Œ 01:27, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

chambery france url confusion

Hello I'm contacting you because you were the last to edit the page on Chambery France and contacting anyone else is a mysterious labyrinth of links that gets nowhere. If there is nothing you can do, then forgive me for sending this. Either way, no response is needed. I have solved this little problem myself but others may not figure it out. I recently bookmarked the wikipedia page on Chambery but today when I returned all the text was gone... Only the name "Chambéry" appeared. Where did it all go? It's strange but here is what I finally figured out.--- Somehow there are 2 URL's. Both have only one tiny difference.

1.http://en.m.wikipedia.org/Chambéry (no words for this one) 2.http://en.m.wikipedia.org/Chambery (Full info is located here)

Notice the difference? It's the "e" in Chambery. the url that is an actual wikipedia page that says "Chambéry" has the little slash above the letter, "é" But thats it. Just "Chambéry" The URL #2 is the full wikipedia page that one hopes to find. This is my best attempt at passing this along. Even if it doesn't help, you have to admit it's an interesting glitch.

Infobox book merge

I reverted your edit in {{Infobox book}} (that followed this TfD closure). The reason is that it was not discussed in or with the receiving template.

• The original request was a deletion and so only one template was tagged. That discussion, in the posts, turned into a 'merge' topic. That is when {{infobox book}} got involved, but it was not tagged. As a result, the merge was imposed upon the receiving one. This way a change was entered through the backdoor. It was not a mature discussion.

A better route would have been to changed the open discussion formally (into a TfD-merge), by tagging & adding the second template. Also, a relist would have been appropriate (no reason to accept time pressure in such a process change). Maybe a talkpage note too. All this would not make you an involved admin.

Added: another option is to add a {{request edit}} section+template to the talkpage. While you have TE/admin rights, this way more eyes are invited. -DePiep (talk) 11:41, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

• More background. I happened to work on {{infobox book}} just last week, in a similar situation (very similar). For a 30k transc'd template, some care was necessary, not everybody knows enough about book publishing. Sandboxing, discussing and patience: the usual stuff. And this was by this TfD, posted right below the one we are talking about (it was not tagged either, but I happened to pick it up). It also resulted in an update of the documentation.

Interestingly, just half a day before you did the conclusion this way I noted exactly this issue in another TfD . Another immature proposal. -DePiep (talk) 10:31, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

• I note that Pigsonthewing‎ is edit warring in this reversal without entering this talk (abusing their TE status). I request that you settle the status of the page into the before your edit, as I intended and as you mentioned in your original es. Pigsonthewings might need a warning. -DePiep (talk) 11:41, 18 November 2014 (UTC)