John of Reading

Removing Template Assistance

Hi, I'm not an experienced editor here, though I did contribute significantly lately to the Zahran tribe page and would like you to review the authenticity of the template that reads "This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed." 144.86.34.230 (talk) 05:03, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Also, happy birthday! 144.86.34.230 (talk) 05:04, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Zahran tribe (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Thank you for the birthday wishes - that's a few weeks ago now.

Let's see. The tag was added in 2018 by Bradv (talk · contribs) when the article looked like this. Since then, yes, the article has changed substantially, and many new sources have been added. I'm going to remove the tag. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:48, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Direct uses of Template:Infobox

A decade(!) ago, you kindly created User:Pigsonthewing/Direct calls to Infobox. Please could you repeat that exercise (feel free to overwrite the original). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:32, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

 Doing... -- John of Reading (talk) 16:43, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing:  Done - pretty speedy now I have the uncompressed dump on an SSD drive. At the bottom of User:Pigsonthewing/Direct calls to Infobox there's a short list of articles using redirects to {{Infobox}}. There aren't many redirects, and they aren't used much, so I looked through them all manually. I fixed Federal College of Agriculture, Akure. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:17, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Very helpful. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:50, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Deletion policy

Hello, what is the deletion policy? Gdfctjmm (talk) 19:48, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

@Gdfctjmm: You can read about Wikipedia's deletion policy at Wikipedia:Deletion policy. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:25, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Always precious

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:37, 2 August 2024 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: How the time flies! Thank you. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:25, 3 August 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia edits

Good evening, I wanted to ask about a problem I'm having. In this account (MarianoMora23) I can move articles to the mainspace with no problem after barely making 10 edits. However in this SAME account (MarianoMora23) but in the SPANISH wikipedia I have more than 20 edits and still can't move from my sandbox to the mainspace. Any idea why? MarianoMora23 (talk) 03:46, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

@MarianoMora23: Each version of Wikipedia sets its own rules. At es:Ayuda:Cómo cambiar el nombre de una página, it says you have to be autoconfirmed to move a page; at es:Wikipedia:Autoconfirmados, it says you have to make 50 edits to be autoconfirmed - as opposed to only 10 at the English-language Wikipedia. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:45, 27 August 2024 (UTC)