A redirect or redirects you have created has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 December 27 § "Musican" Redirects until a consensus is reached. User:Someone-123-321 (I contribute, Talk page so SineBot will shut up) 12:36, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to ping me...I'm defaulting to prompt multi-week blocks for any IPs and insta-indef for any accounts spamming them (examples: User:John of Reading/Spam links). DMacks (talk) 08:56, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@DMacks: Yes, this has been going on for too long. I wonder if we could add esco\w{0,5}bil{0,5}\.pk\b to the spam blacklist? That would block all domains containing "esco" then "bil" and ending with ".pk". I'd have to run a big scan first to see if there are false positives. -- John of Reading (talk) 09:04, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'd support that. Could feed it to XLinkBot first, to help track what's being caught. DMacks (talk) 09:16, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see any false matches in the most recent database dump. I scanned for \bhttps?://[^ ]*esco.{0,5}bil.{0.5}\.pk\b -- John of Reading (talk) 09:35, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Clever way to check! DMacks (talk) 10:05, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Several of the links have "epco" not "esco", so I did another scan for those. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:42, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@DMacks: Special:Diff/1274292426. Yet another domain. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:24, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Are you ready for another batch? Polygnotus (talk) 11:48, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Polygnotus: Not yet. Thanks to your previous work, I have so many new regular expressions to try out that it will be four to six months before I'm ready for another batch. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:50, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You actually inspired me so I added the option to export the lists to AWB settings.xml format. example Polygnotus (talk) 11:59, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That looks very efficient! -- John of Reading (talk) 12:01, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you are curious. Remember to back up your AWB settings.xml first! Polygnotus (talk) 13:20, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for helping me. That Twinkle thing has been driving me nuts!! Rodney Baggins .talk. 16:56, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi John of Reading. I noticed your edit summary at Wikipedia:Database reports/Unbelievable life spans re the Gittings family. I think John Sterett Gittings should be changed to a disambiguation page and redirects should be created for each of the John Sterett Gittingses, (e.g. John Sterett Gittings (born 1798)) and the relevant year of birth/death categories should be applied to each of the redirects (and current links to John Sterett Gittings should be updated appropriately). What do you think? DH85868993 (talk) 00:06, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@DH85868993: That would work for me! I looked round the redirect and disambiguation help pages without seeing anything relevant. Let's ping GreenC (talk · contribs) before making any change, though. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:42, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Honestly I was confused what to do in this situation. I agree with the solution it's good. -- GreenC 17:56, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GreenC: Let's see if I can do this correctly. -- John of Reading (talk) 18:02, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh I just created the dab page and was going to ask what you thought. -- GreenC 18:04, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, yes, over to you then. No problem! -- John of Reading (talk) 18:07, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Invariably I always get something wrong with dab pages. I notice User:DH85868993 has the dab "(born 1798)" whereas I used "(1798-1879)". Otherwise it would look like:

• John Sterett Gittings (born 1798) (1798-1879), Baltimore banker

Might use

• John Sterett Gittings (banker) (1798-1879), Baltimore banker

But his grandson of the same name is also a banker. So I settled on the full birth-death as the disambiguation.

• John Sterett Gittings (1798-1879), Baltimore banker

-- GreenC 18:36, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GreenC: I've created the three redirects that were red links on the new dab page, and, hopefully, have correctly fixed all the articles that linked there. I hope that's all we need to do for now? -- John of Reading (talk) 18:41, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Looks OK, thanks. I'll work on updating the backlinks. -- GreenC 18:43, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh you got that also, thanks much. -- GreenC 18:44, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Great work, team! DH85868993 (talk) 20:41, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Special:Search/insource:/c\. ?f\./ gives at least 697 results for me and (barring some exceptions I might not know about) should actually say "cf."; would that be something that you could fix (or at least add to some config that you are using for your unrelated corrections)? 1234qwer1234qwer4 02:24, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@1234qwer1234qwer4: Yes, I'll put that on my to-do list. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:49, 6 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]