User talk:Pkbwcgs/Archive/January 2017

Surnames
We do cover surnames. See Category:French surnames. DTLHS (talk) 18:58, 20 January 2017 (UTC)
 * And if you nominate something for RFD be sure to add it to Wiktionary:Requests for deletion. DTLHS (talk) 19:05, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

A welcome and a tip
If you're going to be reverting vandalism, you need to know our policies and practices. Now, for the tip: When I first started out doing what you're doing (before I became an admin), I would look in the revision history for the edit before the vandalism, then I would edit and save that revision. It gives you a big red warning about how you're going to wipe out all changes after that revision, but in this case, that's what you want. it has the advantage of guaranteeing that you get rid of everything in one edit. It's extra work, so you only do it when you see that there are multiple edits to the vandalism. Thanks for your work patrolling Recent Changes! Chuck Entz (talk) 19:46, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Pkbwcgs (talk) 19:49, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Marking talk pages for deletion
There's rarely a reason to do this, only for really obvious tosh or vandalism. You definitely never want to delete a talk page like Template talk:fr-conjtemp, which has a helpful link to the discussion that led it to be deleted! —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 17:47, 29 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Sorry about that. The template doesn't exist but I didn't know that the link led to a useful page. Pkbwcgs (talk) 17:48, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Maintenance
Hi Pkbwcgs. I noticed your mass-removal of file links that I've added; they're broken not because they got deleted, but because they were renamed on Commons. Please see my list of files there and change the file links to point to the correct title instead of removing them unhelpfully. Thanks, — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 18:58, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

I did most of them but I don't know if I left any out. Pkbwcgs (talk) 19:22, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

All done. Pkbwcgs (talk) 19:34, 29 January 2017 (UTC)