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Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/England cricket team Test results (1946–1959)/archive1

I wonder if you'd consider taking a look at this one, after your useful critique at the previous lists? Harrias ^talk 22:19, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi Harrias, I have just completed my review. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 10:02, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Peta Taylor

I shall continue to revert your edits for several reasons. (1) Failure to provide a reliable source for your changes. (2) Making major changes to an established article without due discussion. (3) Failure to use edit summary. I think that you have got your facts wrong, and have this person mixed up. I shall make a report to on the admins noticeboard if you persist, or do not provide a valid explanation for your edits. - Morphenniel (talk) 10:14, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

Responded to at WT:CRIC. – Ianblair23 (talk) 11:28, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

My sincere thanks

Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/Laureus World Sports Awards/archive1 has just been promoted to featured topic. Thanks for your help in getting it there! The Rambling Man (talk) 21:42, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi TRM, it was a pleasure reviewing them and I'm glad I played my part in getting this to featured topic status. Congratulations again for leading the charge. Hope to see the ESPY Awards achieve featured topic status as well. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 10:06, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Millennia in the Republic of Upper Volta

I have nominated Category:Millennia in the Republic of Upper Volta and two sub-cats for merging to Burkina Faso. Please see the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 February 19.

I do like the appearance of the templates you made in Category:2nd-millennium establishments templates by country. However, Template:2nd-millennium establishments in the Republic of Upper Volta will become obsolete if the category is merged. Also, as it's only used on one page, a template is not really needed. Would you consent to it being manually merged to the target category page? My usual practice has been to combine multiple territory names into one table, e.g. at Category:20th-century establishments in Russia. – Fayenatic London 10:32, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Well, the appearance which I believe you devised for these templates has now been rolled out to myriads of category pages. Category:2nd-millennium establishments in Burkina Faso incorporates the period that is needed from Template:2nd-millennium establishments in the Republic of Upper Volta, so may we delete the template as a housekeeping matter? – Fayenatic London 22:57, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Fayenatic, no objection from me. Go ahead. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 00:51, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I made corresponding changes to Template:2nd-millennium establishments in Grenada and then incorporated it into the one page that transcluded it, Category:2nd-millennium establishments in Grenada. Is it OK for me to delete that template as well, and then tag the category for deletion as empty? – Fayenatic London 20:42, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi Fayenatic, yes please do. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 01:43, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi again Ian, Template:17th-century establishments in Grenada was also good work, but the table of years is not really needed, so I have used the standard template in Category:17th-century establishments in Grenada and suppressed the table.

Would you agree to delete this template also? – Fayenatic London 09:53, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

Hi Fayenatic, no objections from me. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 00:34, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

Netball templates

Hi Ian, I was wondering if you might be able to help sort out a template problem that seems (?) to be from one of your templates. I thought I'd take a crack at creating a rosters list for the netball competition at this year's Commonwealth Games, and it seems as if the only other one we have is the one you did for the 2006 games. The problem is that, since they're template-based - see Template:2006 Commonwealth Games England netball team roster - there seems to be an error (I think in Template:IFNA player?) that is throwing a ton of "<span="font-size:140%;">" into the template. Any chance you could work out what's going on there? I have nowhere near the template skills needed to fix it, and I'd love to be able to do this year's games. The Drover's Wife (talk) 08:49, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi The Drover's Wife, I have fixed the template. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 02:07, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! The Drover's Wife (talk) 02:59, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you again, but is there any chance you'd be able to alter this template so clubs can be disambiguated? Plenty of netball club names are not terribly original, and it doesn't appear to give me the option to do it as it is. The Drover's Wife (talk) 08:59, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi The Drover's Wife, please see this diff. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 10:49, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Ah, thank you! I'd looked everywhere I could think of and hadn't found that. The Drover's Wife (talk) 10:56, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Shehzad_Poonawalla

Hello, Can you please takeout few minutes to comment on this. Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Shehzad_Poonawalla Regards Sonia89f (talk) 12:14, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

On 21 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Charles Jewtraw (pictured) was the first Winter Olympics gold medallist, winning the 500 m speed skating event at the 1924 Games? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres), and it may be added to the 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 the Did you know talk page.

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A Barnstar for you

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The Very Best of Regards, Barbara ✐  ✉ 21:12, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Module:Country alias

Hi, you've broken two flags in Module:Country alias causing a lot of image errors to be flagged up Category:Articles with missing files

File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1924–1936).svg instead of File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1924-1936).svg

File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1936–1955).svg instead of File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1936-1955).svg

Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 09:30, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Fixed. Sorry about that. – Ianblair23 (talk) 09:32, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi again, another one... File:Flag of Australia 1903–1909.svg is not valid. Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 11:04, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Done – Ianblair23 (talk) 13:01, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi, that ones not valid either File:Flag of Australia 1903–1908.svg - note it was File:Flag of Australia 1903-1909.svg that is still valid. Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 13:29, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Opps, forgot the parentheses. Fixed now. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 13:34, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of List of England Test cricket records

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WT20I five-wicket hauls

Hi Ian. Incase you haven't seen it, Nida Dar of Pakistan took a five-wicket haul earlier today (scorecard). Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 14:20, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi Lugnuts, no I wasn't aware. Thanks for the heads up. I have updated List of five-wicket hauls in women's Twenty20 International cricket accordingly. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 00:04, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. I wasn't being lazy, it was something I would get round to myself at some point, but I thought I'd let you know! Thanks again. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 06:41, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Category:Sports in Highland, California has been nominated for discussion

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DYK for List of England Test cricket records

On 10 June 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article List of England Test cricket records, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that at the age of 52, Englishman Wilfred Rhodes is the oldest cricketer ever to play in a Test match? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/List of England Test cricket records. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, List of England Test cricket records), and it may be added to the 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 the Did you know talk page.

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Steve Smith

Please expand the "Early life" and "Personal life" sections of this page. This article may meet the criteria for "Good Article". Due to insufficient material and sources I can't do it. Please help.

Thank you so much sir.

Binod Basnet(Talk to me) 09:03, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Hi. I recently nominated : List of Sunrisers Hyderabad cricketers as featured list candidate (discussion) and Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2018 as good article candidate (someone is yet to start a review). It would be great if you can review and provide your comments on any of those. Thanks. Sagavaj (talk) 14:48, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Noble Nobels

Hi Ian. Great work on fixing up the Nobel list currently sitting at TFL. It got me thinking that probably all the other Nobel lists suffer from the same problems, e.g. List of Nobel laureates in Literature recipient names sort by first name. Are you working from a script or a Word macro or something to get the fixes in, or hand-crafting it all? If the former, would you mind blitzing the other lists in the series? If the latter, not to worry, it's a lot of work... Cheers. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:29, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Ireland A cricket team

Hi. This article has been directly given GA status without passing through GA criteria. The creator of the article himself gave that rating. I hope that you will correct it and hence brought it to your attention. Thanks. Sagavaj (talk) 11:36, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Hi Sagavaj, thanks for being this to my attention. I have given the article the correct rating. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 12:12, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Precious

sports in Australia

Thank you for many many many (more than userboxes) quality articles around sports, especially in Australia and the Commonwealth Games, for lists such as list of Australia Test cricket records and List of centuries in women's One Day International cricket, for admin services from 2005, - Ian, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:48, 1 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks Gerda Arendt, I appreciate the recognition. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 03:27, 2 July 2018 (UTC)

A year ago, you were recipient no. 1966 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:46, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

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Queue 4 fix not quite complete

Ianblair23, when you fixed Queue 4, you didn't add the "by" after "coached", so the hook is worded strangely. If you could add "by", I think the hook would work. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:20, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

Oops, thanks for that BlueMoonset. Corrected – Ianblair23 (talk) 07:23, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

Another thing still needs fixing. You changed the link to The Photo Ark, but the corresponding credit needs to be changed too. It should be {{DYKmake|The Photo Ark|Rp2006|subpage=The Photo Ark}}. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 17:59, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

Done. Thanks Mandarax – Ianblair23 (talk) 20:22, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of that. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 20:48, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

Cheers for sorting out some of the real issues affecting the main page in due course. I'm glad to see the main ERRORS page has improved markedly since my departure! The Rambling Man (talk) 08:09, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

No worries TRM, happy to help where I can. Although I do hope that you will return to ERRORS soon. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 02:14, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Template shortcuts

Just out of curiosity, is there a reason why you're replacing perfectly valid template redirects (such as this and that) with the base template? Primefac (talk) 16:08, 23 July 2018 (UTC) (please ping on reply)

TFL notification

Hi, Ian. I'm just posting to let you know that List of England Test cricket records – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for July 30. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 23:15, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi Giants, thanks for accommodating this request, it is very much appreciated. Cheers – Ianblair23 (talk) 00:44, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your helping maintain the integrity of the Main Page!

		The Outlaw Halo Award
		In the last 17 days alone, we've identified and fixed more than 100 errors at the ALL NEW TRM ERRORS page!! Thanks so much for your diligence and your dedication to ensuring our readers get the best possible experience from Wikipedia! The Rambling Man (talk) 09:13, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

List of international cricket five-wicket hauls at the Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium

Hi. Since the main nominator for the above article (see discussion here) is not responding and you did the second most edits and also added second most text in the article, I am hoping if you could take a look at those comments and see if you can do anything on that. Thanks. Sagavaj (talk) 17:28, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

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Bangladeshi English

What's that and how it's different from Indian English? ∯WBG^converse 06:09, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Hi WBG, see our article on the topic! – Ianblair23 (talk) 07:08, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

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