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== Notifcation ==

Please see [[Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification#Request_for_clarification:_Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration.2FPigsonthewing]]. Thank you. '''[[User:MBisanz|<span style='color: #FFFF00;background-color: #0000FF;'>MBisanz</span>]]''' <sup>[[User talk:MBisanz|<span style='color: #FFA500;'>talk</span>]]</sup> 01:58, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

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Tiresome warning

Edit-warring over composer infoboxes? You are back at exactly the same disruptive pattern you previously got a full one-year Arbcom ban for. I strongly recommend you back off, because otherwise I will bring this before Arbcom again, and seeing this issue together with the Hawkins fiasco of just a few days ago, I see a case for a full indef site ban this time. Fut.Perf. ☼ 21:19, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I strongly recommend you stop issuing warnings over content disputes in which you are involved, especially while discussion is ongoing on talk pages; and stop ignoring the findings of the RfC which found that systematic removal of infoboxes would be disruptive. Your unwarranted and out-of-process block of me regarding Hawkins resulted in you being criticised and subsequently undoing it; and the topic ban proposal which it led to twice found no consensus. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:43, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I find info boxes for albums quite useful. But I have always wondered why they don't include that one piece of information that doesn't really belong anywhere else - the label's Catalogue Number. It seems that some editors have an aversion to info boxes that borders on a clinical phobia. But maybe we'll see an article for that particular disabiloty one day. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:29, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi! I'm serving as the wikipedian-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution Archives until June! One of my goals as resident, is to work with Wikipedians and staff to improve content on Wikipedia about people who have collections held in the Archives - most of these are scientists who held roles within the Smithsonian and/or federal government. I thought you might like to participate since you are interested in the sciences! Sign up to participate here and dive into articles needing expansion and creation on our to-do list. Feel free to make a request for images or materials at the request page, and of course, if you share your successes at the outcomes page you will receive the SIA barnstar! Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to your participation! Sarah (talk) 18:29, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Monmouthpedia thanks you for your many contributions Andy. Please keep an eye on the points page as we will be announcing how you can watch the web stream. We have had to postpone the launch because we need the new Monmouthpedia Wifi to be in place to show off your work to people in Monmouth. If you can add your Skype name to the points page then that would enable us to contact you. We are intending to have a second phase of this competition but we wanted to make sure we kept to the deadline we had published. This will be the world's first Wikipedia town with your help Victuallers (talk) 11:11, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox Hindu deity|Deity templates

Hello, Can you show me the afd discussion. Couldn't find it. It is used on 171 articles, why afd ? -- ɑηsuмaη ʈ ᶏ ɭ Ϟ 15:35, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's on Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 March 17. This discussion was for a merge. -- WOSlinker (talk) 15:49, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you very much! -- ɑηsuмaη ʈ ᶏ ɭ Ϟ 09:27, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

QRpedia

Dear my friend! A few weeks ago you placed this message on a Hungarian community page. I answered to you, and I made a much better article for the Hungarian users and editors to-be. With examples, propositions, advices. I've already got appreciating messages after that. I found – and still find – this a very good idea to use Wikipedia for a practical purpose, at last. And a good way to get new editors, new articles and new pictures (!), legally arranged pictures for us. I have living plans to introduce this potentiality for our ministry of culture, some of our museums, our zoo parks and a professional journal of the educational inventions, I'm just working on this. Maybe they can spread this idea for the others. So, you can see, you have found the good man.

This was I've thought. Until now. I have plans to ask you to mediate some practical suggestions for the technical team of the Wikipedia to make this thing working more smoothly. For example: they should create a frequently used procedure to perfectly synchronize the interwiki links, because each article would have to have inkerwikis always for each other articles, mostly the new ones. Or they should manage that interwikis will be shown on the received pages, to find some more informations on other languages if the user wants. You can see that I take this project seriously. You talked me round.

And now you want to delete the template made for using and commending the new project which you have introduced for us?? Not only to place to the talk pages but delete! Completely, forever! Well, man, you missed something, now or earlier.

I will not fight for this template. I wanted to show it only a few articles, and I hoped that you will see them, and start to use them, on any way. But delete that, this is just the same for me, the QRpedia goes on without you and without this template. So I leave you, I take on this project in my land, that's all. Farewell. - Orion 8 (talk) 15:03, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your kind response to my request of a few weeks ago and your plans for using QRpedia are separate issues to the need or otherwise for the template in question. Kindly do not conflate them; and please make your comments about the template on the TfD page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:03, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
It was you who asked us to propagandize a new service. Or you asked us only make a twin article for the English one, because this is the appropriate procedure? I thought you were a supporter of this, and you would use everything to popularize QRpedia. In that case you would have proposed to find some place for a mark like my creature, not to delete it immediately. It was a misunderstanding, I'm sorry.
Shall I really move my first, personal message to a public place, on the TfD page, whatever it may be? Please do me this favour if you find it required. Over and out. Üdv. - Orion 8 (talk) 21:13, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Folksonomy page move

Why did you move Folksonomy to Talk:Folksonomy/old? -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 23:59, 22 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) The obvious answer would be that Andy completely rewrote it at the time of the move. Normally we wouldn't do that for an article rewrite (we'd do it in-place), but I've seen it done. Perhaps a history merge would be the right approach here, especially as at least part of the content (the references) was preserved across the rewrite. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 09:34, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. I noted so at the time (June 2009!), and that section is still visible, on the talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:27, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, ahh, folks. Is there advantages or disadvantages in having these article sub-pages hanging around? -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 20:32, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Having the history in a revision control system really means there is no advantage. These should be history merged. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 23:04, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
No objection from me. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:08, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A thought

It occurred to me, in reviewing the discussion at ANI, that one of the reasons - perhaps the main reason - that you are so insistent about use of the Person infobox rather than the Classical composer one is that the consistent use of one type of infobox makes semantic analysis possible. Is this so? I know you have worked extensively on microformats and semantic analysis. I am a great admirer of this work, and in the debate over infoboxes, argued that inclusion of an infobox would facilitate the work of the semantic web project.

If this is the reason for your insistence, perhaps we can work out a compromise solution, which advances machine readability while maintaining what consensus on the classical music project deems optimal human readability. My suggestion would be to include both infoboxes in the article, but to comment out the person infobox so it would not display. This way the article could be easily read by both human and machine.

I look forward to your comments. --Ravpapa (talk) 06:00, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"If this is the reason for your insistence…" - It isn't. Also, your proposal is both technically and logistically unworkable. Any local consensus in the classical music project is, as has been pointed out many times, not least in the outcome of that project's RfC, and core Wikipedia policy, unenforceable in articles. Matters regarding claims of optimal human readability are best determined through measurement such as those as carried out by our accessibility and usability projects, not the asserted aesthetic preferences of individual editors. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:21, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Marius Moutet

Hi, can you add an infobox and list his terms etc?♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:27, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, yes if you can enter his terms as Minister of Overseas France and as mayor of Romans? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:36, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've done the former - despite edit conflicts ;-) - but can't see the latter in the article. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:41, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

OK thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:57, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Notifcation

Please see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification#Request_for_clarification:_Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration.2FPigsonthewing. Thank you. MBisanz talk 01:58, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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