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Hi, can you look at Murders of Margaret and Seana Tapp please? Paul Benjamin Austin (talk) 14:34, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Rich, questioning why you made the seemingly useless updates to List of former tractor manufacturers to change USA to US??? The common reference for the United States of America is USA. If you want to yous the ISO 3166 2-alpha standard of US, why wouldn't you change all of the other countries as well? (Except that most people wouldn't know what they stand for). USA makes sense, is easily understood, and is the common, accepted, abbreviation. Your edit was unnecessary and causes more confusion than anything.

Please refrain from this type of useless editing. Thanks Scoty6776 (talk) 02:21, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Scoty6776, see MOS:NOTUSA. – Jonesey95 (talk) 08:10, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

I’m King, a current Junior at Stanford University. You’ve spent many years on Wikipedia. I am curious what you think about the current system of flagging articles and issues and how it could be optimized. Maybe Machine Learning tools could be implemented? I can also be reached at iamking-at-stanford-dt-edu. (Formatted weirdly to protect myself from bots) Would love to hear from you either on Wikipedia talk or via email. Thank you for your time!

P.S. I grew up using Wikipedia and would love to have the opportunity to contribute back to this community-powered knowledge base. Speaking with you would be greatly advantageous. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kingalandydy (talk • contribs) 04:51, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_17_nuclear_bomb&diff=878996018&oldid=816995855

8-( Andy Dingley (talk) 10:58, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:05, 18 January 2019 (UTC).[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

Rich Farmbrough/Archive (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I'm currently struggling under an IP range block, namely: 94.117.32.0/20 blocked by User:Kuru (due to an LTA). I decided it was time to request IP Block exemption. Using the proper procedures, unfortunately does not work. https://utrs.wmflabs.org/index.php claims

There were errors processing your unblock appeal: We need to know which administrator placed your block.

Needless to say there is no field for this information. The page also threw the following errors: Warning: file_get_contents(http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvlimit=1&rvprop=content&format=json&titles=User_talk:Rich Farmbrough): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request in /usr/utrs/production/public_html/src/appealObject.php on line 811 Notice: Undefined index: by in /usr/utrs/production/public_html/src/appealObject.php on line 226 (Note that the JSON format is deprecated so there is a deeper issue here too.)

Accept reason:

Dropped that range block down to anon-only, which should resolve the short-term issue. Not sure how to troubleshoot the error with the IPBE. Kuru (talk) 18:30, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:25, 26 January 2019 (UTC).[reply]

Many thanks! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:32, 26 January 2019 (UTC).[reply]

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I am curious why you are once again violating the very specific restriction placed on you regarding replacing a template redirect with a template. Primefac (talk) 17:00, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

For example, this is "changing template redirects to templates", explicitly mentioned in the restriction. Huon (talk) 17:05, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly related: as far as I can tell, this edit is a cosmetic edit made with AWB, in violation of AWB rule 4. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:30, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for your interest. I was specifically mystified by a template called "III", which turned out to be "Ill" though in the typeface selected by our beneficent graphic designers they cannot be distinguished - see my comments suggesting better candidates for the font stack at the time of the graphic makeover. It seemed like a good idea to remove this obfuscation, so I made a start. (A better solution would be to create the required articles on en.wikipedia, of course.) All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:17, 3 January 2019 (UTC).[reply]

That doesn't at all answer my question, unless you are implying that you made your edits knowing full well that they violate your restriction. Primefac (talk) 22:50, 3 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Rich Farmbrough, did you violate your editing restriction with these edits? Did you violate AWB rule 4 with the edit I linked to? – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:55, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

With no reply after a week, I have removed your AWB access. You are welcome to re-apply at WP:PERM/AWB or contest it at the appropriate noticeboard. Primefac (talk) 11:36, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I read your comment on the last Signpost arbitration report. Could you tell me more about the editors who left? Feel free to email privately if you prefer. ☆ Bri (talk) 03:31, 10 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

User:Bri: There was a discussion of this on one of the ArbCom talk pages, I think. Another example is User:EncycloPetey. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:50, 14 January 2019 (UTC).[reply]

Can you maybe fix the Duplicate default sort key message at the bottom of the Rhys Hoskins page? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:E010:1100:9C19:B275:FD24:77C4 (talk) 04:07, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This appears to have been fixed. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 17:39, 26 January 2019 (UTC).[reply]