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January 2016

Hello, I'm Allthefoxes. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Amarillo Venom  with this edit, without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. --allthefoxes ^(Talk) 02:52, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

(a) Don't template the regulars, (b) there was an edit summary. --bender235 (talk) 08:32, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

Greg Little

I saw you moved Greg Little (American football) to Greg Little (wide receiver), but I'm not sure why you did so at this point. There's only one American football player with this name with an article right now. I know there's a recruit with this name, but I did a quick google search and it doesn't appear he would pass WP:GNG at this point.--Yankees10 18:27, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Maybe not at this point, but certainly a year or two from now. Plus, Greg Little (wide receiver) is only more precise, so no damage IMHO. --bender235 (talk) 21:59, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Then we should wait the year or two to move it. There's no guarantee this other Little will be notable. It's crystal balling right now. I'm gonna move it back for now. If you still feel it should stay at WR then i'm certainly fine with a WP:NFL discussion for others opinions.--Yankees10 05:20, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

Alright, if you insist. --bender235 (talk) 06:07, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

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ESPN RISE football navboxes

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(+) Excuse me idk who to tell but someone needs to fix the date Jesus died cause he is still alive today, he resurrected you need to put that in there he's still alive, that's like the biggest part of my faith as a christian — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.203.217.137 (talk) 03:32, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

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Listing of high schools in NFL player infoboxes

Hey, Bender. I believe you were one of the strong proponents of using the format "Fort Wayne (IN) Bishop Luer" to list players' high schools in Infobox NFL player. I'm in the process of replacing the last 150 or so instances of Infobox NFL coach with Infobox NFL biography (the new Infobox NFL player, improved to accommodate certain additional coaching parameters), and it is apparent to me that the AP Style Book format of listing high schools (i.e. the one above) is too darn long, and more often than not results in line-wrapping whenever the name of the high school does not match the name of the town where it is located (e.g., "Fort Wayne (IN)" for Fort Wayne High School).

I would ask that you put your thinking cap on, and see if we cannot come up with a shorter manner of listing the players' and coaches' high schools, perhaps by simply omitting the name of the town where the high school is located in the infobox. We don't list the location of colleges and universities in the infobox, and we can certainly add the high school location to the main body text if it isn't present in the text already. Please give this some serious thought -- I'd like to contemplate a universal change for all NFL bios in the next two or three months. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 14:46, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

I appreciate that you ask me about this. Actually I encountered this issue with too long high school names in the past. Usually I would abbreviate the name. For instance, St. Thomas Aquinas High School (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) became "Ft. Lauderdale (FL) Aquinas". With the school you mentioned, one could write "Ft. Wayne (IN) Luers" for short. But in general I'd prefer if we stick to the established style. I know we don't list locations for colleges, but that's because there's only one "Duke" or "Notre Dame". But if we're talking about "Central High School" or "Cook County High School," things would get confusing if we left out the location. --bender235 (talk) 22:58, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

So, have we reached a decision on this matter? I noticed you reverted the change on Leonard Fournette. Lizard (talk) 17:10, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Yes, not only because I felt your change premature, but also because "St. Augustine (LA)" is confusing, because it implies the existence of a town "St. Augustine, Louisiana" like St. Augustine, Florida. --bender235 (talk) 20:15, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

So basically, put the town name in front of the school name in instances where the school and town are different names? Lizard (talk) 20:48, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Exactly. So Manuel Dominguez High School in Compton becomes "Compton (CA) Dominguez" for instance. --bender235 (talk) 21:32, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

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List of highest grossing films

With this edit, why did you change every instance of ".co.uk" to ".com" in the refs? It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the RfC you mentioned in your edit summary. - ^theWOLFchild 00:31, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

That is a minor style fix that is done additionally. Just like AWB would also fix "word , word" to "word, word". The point is that we should sent visitors of the English Wikipedia to the generic books.google.com website, which then redirects to the country specific version. Not everyone reading List of highest grossing films is from the UK. --bender235 (talk) 14:24, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

First off, this is not comparable to a minor punctuation correction. Second, this wasn't covered in the RfC you cited, so you should've edited those separately and also explained them in your edit summary. Lastly, once Betty Logan reverted you, you should've gone to the talk page to discuss the issue, not revert her. - ^theWOLFchild 14:34, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

No, it was not in the RfC. And why would it? It's a mere technical change. --bender235 (talk) 15:05, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

According to you. But not everyone agrees with you. That's why you should discuss it on the article talk page. - ^theWOLFchild 15:07, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but I'm too busy to get into an argument over this with people who do not understand the technical issue. I leave the UK-domain for Google Books in this article if it makes you happy. --bender235 (talk) 15:10, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Apology accepted. - ^theWOLFchild 15:17, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

February 2016

Please do not attack other editors, as you did at List of highest-grossing films with this edit summary. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. - ^theWOLFchild 15:13, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for templating a 12-yr Wikipedia veteran. Also, I will call a spade a spade. Both of you were reverting for no objective reason, but just irrational misunderstanding of the technical issue. --bender235 (talk) 15:14, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Then you should know better. But anyways, you're welcome - ^theWOLFchild 15:16, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

btw - you should really give WP:NPA a read. Just because people disagree with you is no reason to insult them. Hope your day gets better. Cheers. - ^theWOLFchild 22:23, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

You see, there are things one can disagree about, and others that one cannot. We could, for instance, disagree about whether in that list of highest-grossing films gross revenue should be included in real or nominal terms. That's an issue that merits a debate. On the other hand, whether or not we should link to general websites rather than country-specific ones is nothing any sane person would argue about. --bender235 (talk) 22:58, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

And one could even agree with you about those general vs specific links and at the same time disagree with how you went about changing them. Once you were reverted, you chose to revert again, then manually edit with an insulting edit summary attached. Wouldn't it have been simpler, and less time-consuming, to just post on the talk page the reason for the edit? It's possible Betty would have self-reverted, saving you the trouble of the manual edits and all the grief that followed after. That's all I was I getting at. - ^theWOLFchild 01:07, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Lemon battery

Hi Bender235. On 8 January 2016 you did some good work to Lemon battery to convert http to https. Unfortunately there was some extensive vandalism inflicted on the article on 13 December 2015 that was not rectified. I rectified the vandalism yesterday by reverting the entire article to the version existing at 6 December. This means your http conversions were lost. Would you be so kind to revisit Lemon battery and use AWB to redo the http conversions? Many thanks. Dolphin (t) 04:58, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Done. --bender235 (talk) 15:28, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for all that! Dolphin (t) 22:28, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

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I appreciate, but I won't have time to join. --bender235 (talk) 03:46, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

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Merrick Garland

The addition of a second RS that still refers to unnamed sources (White House or congressional) doesn't mean the conditional wording can be definitively removed, but I won't quibble over that too much. I'll try rewording it to reflect that. The most important thing is to make sure the line doesn't keep getting deleted, which is what we're seeing with another editor (ie. Bmclaughlin9) -- Fuzheado | Talk 14:50, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

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Google released a report on how much of their traffic is encrypted.

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Alright, was that a question? Because I do the same. Also, as for that Regex: keep in mind there are also Google domains like books.google.co.uk, or books.google.com.ar. --bender235 (talk) 18:35, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Wasn't a question, more of a FYI. Just know you like to change Google links to https, so thought you would be interested in their report. The 2nd regex handles the two domains you listed. Both convert http -> https. Bgwhite (talk) 20:49, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Alright, thanks. --bender235 (talk) 22:18, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

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I nominated it for speedy deletion. --bender235 (talk) 20:42, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

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Gleiss Lutz

Full name is more than just Gleiss Lutz, so I have undone your revision, see the legal notice on the website which has the firm's full name: http://www.gleisslutz.com/en/legal-notice/

It's also on the bottom of their lawyers' emails.

Jack Conklin

I know he hasn't been signed yet, but WHY DID YOU DELETE MY TEMPLATES INDICATING HIM AS A DRAFT PICK? Even if he never signs, he still got picked...why did you erase that? Tom Danson (talk) 01:17, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

It was a wholesale vandalism revert. Sorry if a legit edit got wiped. --bender235 (talk) 01:18, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Advice on changing many http links to https?

Hi Bender235, I noticed you used AutoWikiBrowser to change some links to https. I would like to do the same thing to a bunch of external links I've added so our Google Analytics at the BYU library can tell what sub-page a Wikipedia referrer comes from. Is there a bot that does this already? Is this something AWB is good at doing? I'd be grateful for your advice before I launch into editing. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 18:06, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

AWB is for semi-automatic editing, which is what I do (when converting Google Books links, I like to also remove link clutter manually). But your problem seems to be plain link conversion, so I suggest to file a bot request. --bender235 (talk) 18:15, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks. That seems to be an AWB bug. I filed it here. --bender235 (talk) 17:19, 8 May 2016 (UTC)