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I wanted to ask aboutyour recent edit to the article forEast Brunswick, New Jersey in which you made significant cuts to some of the links provided in references. As the person who added these references, I am cognizant of the fact that bloated references can be confusing to those maintaining the article and in many cases (especially sources from Google Books), I am aware that the links can be significantly shortened. But in other cases, it's often easier to just grab the URL that comes from the Google search, bloat and all, and just paste it into the reference in the article. Is there any mechanism / automated process that you used to trim those links or is there some procedure that can be used when looking up the reference that can grab a pre-trimmed link? Thanks for the edit and thanks in advance for the information.Alansohn (talk)17:06, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Alan, thanks for the note -- and for your countless NJ updates over the years! I actually wondered myself if a Wikipedia "bot" could efficiently automate the URL trimming that I did by hand, since there must be thousands of cases like these. For example, links to Google Books & Google News generally don't need anything more than "id=<>&pg=<>" after the "?" in the URL. Similarly, old links to PQArchiver "/access/" URLs automatically re-direct to new "/doc/" URLs, which can then be stripped of everything from the "?" onward. I personally don't know how to build or run Wiki bots, but perhaps there's a place we could ask a Wikitech to try? —Patrug (talk)00:03, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A bot would be fantastic, but I will be that much more attuned to the issue going forward. It's so much easier to just grab the full-length link, especially if I'm uncertain of how to trim the excess. I do it all the time at Google Books, but it's not always trivial. Thanks for all of your efforts.Alansohn (talk)19:23, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the articlePetrodollar recycling you nominated forGA-status according to thecriteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period.Message delivered byLegobot, on behalf ofSagecandor --Sagecandor (talk)21:40, 21 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The articlePetrodollar recycling you nominated as agood article has passed; seeTalk:Petrodollar recycling for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you cannominate it to appear in Did you know.Message delivered byLegobot, on behalf ofSagecandor --Sagecandor (talk)04:01, 22 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Your submission ofPetrodollar recycling at theDid You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneathyour nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know!7&6=thirteen (☎) 20:45, 29 December 2016 (UTC)7&6=thirteen (☎)20:45, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you both for the quick approvals! —Patrug (talk)22:32, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

On16 January 2017,Did you know was updated with a fact from the articlePetrodollar recycling, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was... that the 90% purchase of New York'sChrysler Building(pictured) by theAbu Dhabi Investment Council was a prominent example ofpetrodollar recycling? The nomination discussion and review may be seen atTemplate:Did you know nominations/Petrodollar recycling. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page(here's how,Petrodollar recycling), and it may be added tothe statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on theDid you know talk page.

SoWhy12:01, 16 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

On16 April 2017,Did you know was updated with a fact from the articleLasst uns erfreuen, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was... that the 20th-century Easter hymn "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones" takes its melody from "Lasst uns erfreuen" (Let us rejoice), a tune published in 1623 by a German activist againstwitch-hunts? The nomination discussion and review may be seen atTemplate:Did you know nominations/Lasst uns erfreuen. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page(here's how,Lasst uns erfreuen), and it may be added tothe statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on theDid you know talk page.

Mifter (talk)00:03, 16 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Markets and music: oil and joy

Thank you for quality articles such asOPEC,Petrodollar recycling,List of Italian composers,Prayer of Saint Francis andLasst uns erfreuen, for contributing to ITN, for "This editor is here as an encyclopedist.", - you are anawesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk)08:42, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Three years ago, you were recipient no.1636 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk)07:47, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your comments inthis discussion, have you already gone toWP:SPI?Marcocapelle (talk)21:04, 27 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Marcocapelle: Not yet. From disappointing past experiences, the SPI volunteers seem more interested in "closing tickets" than solving behavioral problems, so thought I'd wait to see how efficiently CFD might help the situation. I thought uncontested category deletions are supposed to get implemented after 7 days, but it seems not? MightWP:AIV be a better strategy? —Patrug (talk)04:24, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

• In any case it's not going very fast. CFD discussionsmay be closed after a week, but in practice two months is more likely.WP:AIV is a better option, but only after a direct discussion with the accused editor. So I started that on his talk page. When you're reverting his reverts on my yesterday's category removals from the articles we can build a case.Marcocapelle (talk)04:55, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Marcocapelle: Thanks. AFD seems to be mostly punctual after a week, so it's odd that CFD is so different. Two months is awfully slow when an obsessive editor is violating guidelines dozens of times every week. I'll try to post some Talk page warnings to crystallize the vandalism case. —Patrug (talk)05:56, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Moved this discussion toTalk:List of countries by oil production. Let's continue there. —Patrug (talk)02:07, 30 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the articlePrayer of Saint Francis you nominated forGA-status according to thecriteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period.Message delivered byLegobot, on behalf ofChiswick Chap --Chiswick Chap (talk)17:01, 4 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, a real human here. Enjoyed the article; made a few mostly ridiculously small suggestions, which I hope you'll take in good part. All the best,Chiswick Chap (talk)19:34, 4 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The articlePrayer of Saint Francis you nominated as agood article has passed; seeTalk:Prayer of Saint Francis for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you cannominate it to appear in Did you know.Message delivered byLegobot, on behalf ofChiswick Chap --Chiswick Chap (talk)07:21, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I am just discovering that you have nominated the article I have written on St Francis prayer in the category Good article and that the nomination passed. Read by more than 1 million people ! Wow ! Many thanks. Could you join me at c.r@infonie.fr ? Yours —Prof75

On3 July 2017,Did you know was updated with a fact from the articlePrayer of Saint Francis, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was... that the "Prayer of Saint Francis" is a 20th-century peace prayer mistakenly attributed tothe 13th-century saint? The nomination discussion and review may be seen atTemplate:Did you know nominations/Prayer of Saint Francis. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page(here's how,Prayer of Saint Francis), and it may be added tothe statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on theDid you know talk page.

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