User talk:Rlink2

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Hi Rlink2, thank you again for making the requested edits to the Dahua Technology article. The last item was inadvertently left out. I reposted that bullet point along with another suggestion in a new edit request. Would you mind taking a look and implementing if all looks good to you? Thanks again, Caitlyn23 (talk) 23:39, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Caitlyn23

It looks like someone already answered it when I got to it. Is everything you wanted done. If you reword the "partnerships" one then to meet standards maybe I can add it in. Rlink2 (talk) 22:30, 23 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Rlink2, thanks for your reply and continued interest in improving the article. I will consider rewording the sentence about Schwarze Berge Wildlife Park. In the meantime, I do have an outstanding edit request regarding the removal of inaccurate terms which were recently added to the article. Would you please take a look and make the necessary changes? Thank you very much, Caitlyn23 (talk) 23:49, 30 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Can you explain what Ghost Archive is, and why you are adding it to so many references? You added over 1,000 today alone. Are you using automation, and do you have a WP:CONSENSUS for what you are doing? Beyond My Ken (talk) 23:06, 10 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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It's an archive site that has been around for some time. But its not the only site I use. The reason I'm using it for Financial Times is because web.archive.org can not archive financial times properly. I am doing the edits manually via awb as I have also been doing for a while.

As for the policy/consensus I'm following, see Wikipedia:Citing_sources/Further_considerations#Pre-emptive_archiving: The content of any webpage may change at any moment, or disappear completely. To ensure link accessibility and stability, please consider pre-emptively adding an archive URL from an archive source. Along with the fact I get thanked countless times for my archival edits. Rlink2 (talk) 23:35, 10 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation. Beyond My Ken (talk) 00:59, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Beyond My Ken: Ghostarchive has been around for only a little over one year. There's a current discussion about it going on at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#Ghostarchive.org, and there was a discussion last January on the topic of your original question at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1089#Rlink2. Grorp (talk) 02:10, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:41, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I am somewhat of a fan of ghostarchive, but I am seeing that a fraction of these archives of ft.com are failing, though they seem to fail in different modes. In some cases, I have successfully re-archived these with ghostarchive, while in other cases, I've been able to use an existing Wayback archive (generally preferring one of the earliest Wayback archives available). With the ghostarchive copies, thereis a popup that you're free to ignore, but if you click on it, you need to click "accept" or you get an error, and that had confused me for a bit).

Nevertheless, manually reviewing these ghostarchive copies (and fixing as needed) is very tedious, and I am completely unfamiliar with any kind of automated/semi-automated processes on WP, so I can only suggest that something needs to be done to either (1) find one of the older Wayback copies which is actually working, or (2) verify that the ghostarchive copy is actually working (and not displaying a page asking you to subscribe). FWIW, if you are making a second ghostarchive copy, there may be an issue if it has the same calendar date (i.e. such that there would be two archive copies that are not distinguished by the date of archive). Workaround for this would be to wait until the date changes or to access the desired version using the internal pathname. Fabrickator (talk) 17:53, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for the well wishes and Merry Christmas to you as well. Red Director (talk) 21:58, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Happy New Year!

Rlink2,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Your view would be appreciated here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Police#Photographs Dreddmoto (talk) 19:06, 12 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I support that "vs" replace "vs." and "v" in boxing match titles.

However, to get consensus on this issue, I've opened an RfC on the issue.

Please comment and offer your opinions on it.

See: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Boxing#rfc 029C646

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Hello, can you adjust the script you are using to add archive details to references as it keeps adding dates with leading zeros causing a cite error. See as an example. Many thanks. Keith D (talk) 22:49, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Keith D thank you, for some reason I thought the citation format wanted leading zeros.......... Rlink2 (talk) 22:57, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Gun Powder Ma,

I see you are interested in technical subjects and you contributed to Concrete.

Would you maybe be inclined to contribute to the discussions concerning the arrangement of the categories on concrete on Wikimedia Commons which JopkeB lists on my talk page.

We are in need of a native speaker with some insight into the matter as currently me as a German, JopkeB from the Netherlands and a Portugese user are struggling with the correct terminology.

thank you very much for you attention,

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