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please can you return the article kingston hospital radio to my sandbox. i do not understand what you mean by redirects etc, and I find the wikipedia guidelines confusing and complicated. i work for the charity involved so am not sure how why i don't seem to be able to use our content. all i need is for someone to say do this, don't do this in relation to my article. if necessary i will move it to a special page. thanks.

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Royal Marines Badge SVG issue - Gday MAte the SVG on the Royal Marines Page for the badge no longer works correctly, will display but when click on to view the SVG it goes to a text documentHawkeyebasil (talk) 14:10, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:R Alternate search method. Since you had some involvement with the Template:R Alternate search method redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Steel1943 (talk) 19:54, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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This page has two query's you wrote & ran over a year ago. I'd like to ask you if you could rerun them. The page can be overwritten. Thanks, -DePiep (talk) 15:50, 23 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done. - TB (talk) 16:59, 23 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. -DePiep (talk) 17:47, 23 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, since the new year RLRL hasn't been displaying correctly. Is this my setup or a problem with the database? Cheers. welsh (talk) 21:17, 19 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I get the headers but no suggestions, on two differently configured machines, so it's not your setup. Topbanana hasn't edited for several weeks - I do hope all is well. I'll try e-mailing the Labs. Certes (talk) 16:00, 20 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

All fixed now - you caught me on a hemi-demi-semi wikibreak, apologies. The underlying problem was some boneheaded code implemented by me many years ago that has been working all this time only because the nice folks at tool labs have set up such up their environment in a very accomodating and fault-tolerant manner. RLRL (along with all the other tools sharing the same code-base) should be tickety-boo now. Cheers. Things are mostly working, but now that I've checked things out an unrelated error is causing problems (database permission errors) in some tools. Fix pending - TB (talk) 17:24, 21 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much. Good to see you back! Certes (talk) 17:56, 21 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Now generally working but a small bug report in case it helps: Multifix [1] gives SELECT command denied to user 's51111'@'10.68.16.239' for table 'namespace'. Certes (talk) 19:39, 21 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ta. I await DBA assistance to fix this (T155902). - TB (talk) 20:53, 21 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Search suggestions" is now working, including Multifix. Thanks to Topbanana, and to the DBA if they're watching!

I've looked at the first page of each list and fixed the links where I agree with the suggestion. Is there any way to get past the first 50 cases I've rejected and see a second page, or do I just need to be patient until they've been viewed enough times to lower their score?

On a slightly different topic, all the Unlikely Links lists are empty, even including whitelisted entries. Have we fixed them all? Certes (talk) 17:41, 23 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Other than the controls you see at the top of the screen, you can't adjust the suggestions the tool gives you, no. It picks out a selection of those meeting your criteria that it has the highest confidence about; suggestions that have been shown to someone but not fixed have their scores lowered and are less likely to be seen again - unless of course the pool of suggestions being worked through grows too small in which case let me know and I'll 'restock' the tool.

I'll have a look at the Unlikely Links tool this evening for you. - TB (talk) 08:57, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! When doing queries @quarry.wmflabs, I can't access lvwiki tables. I can access ptwiki and enwiki. And can you do a rescan for lvwiki? --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 13:10, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]