User talk:John of Reading

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Happy Birthday!

@The Herald: Thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 06:09, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Low background steel

Hi, thought this might be relevant. https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/12u7ve0/is_there_any_absolute_dating_methods_for_metal/ 91.190.161.160 (talk) 07:46, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A blog doesn't count as a reliable published source. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:36, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Removing Template Assistance

Hi, I'm not an experienced editor here, though I did contribute significantly lately to the Zahran tribe page and would like you to review the authenticity of the template that reads "This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed." 144.86.34.230 (talk) 05:03, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also, happy birthday! 144.86.34.230 (talk) 05:04, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the birthday wishes - that's a few weeks ago now.

Let's see. The tag was added in 2018 by Bradv (talk · contribs) when the article looked like this. Since then, yes, the article has changed substantially, and many new sources have been added. I'm going to remove the tag. -- John of Reading (talk) 10:48, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Direct uses of Template:Infobox

A decade(!) ago, you kindly created User:Pigsonthewing/Direct calls to Infobox. Please could you repeat that exercise (feel free to overwrite the original). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:32, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Doing... -- John of Reading (talk) 16:43, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Pigsonthewing:

Done - pretty speedy now I have the uncompressed dump on an SSD drive. At the bottom of User:Pigsonthewing/Direct calls to Infobox there's a short list of articles using redirects to {{Infobox}}. There aren't many redirects, and they aren't used much, so I looked through them all manually. I fixed Federal College of Agriculture, Akure. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:17, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Very helpful. Thank you. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:50, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion policy

Hello, what is the deletion policy? Gdfctjmm (talk) 19:48, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Always precious

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:37, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]