Hello. I have noticed that you have been replacing the twenty year lists of Acts of Parliament with yearly lists. The pre-1880 lists are already in the process of being corrected and improved. I think those lists should be left intact until that process is completed. If the footnotes in those lists were deleted or orphaned, it would negate months of effort to correct the errors in those lists, to ensure that articles and redirects are located at appropriate page names, and to identify the status and origins of short titles and popular titles. (Template:Legislationuk does not seem to have provision for footnotes, popular titles, or Acts that have multiple names, as far as I can see). Best regards. James500 (talk) 23:18, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for the thanks, even though it seems from the above that my assumption was incorrect. What I was really lookiy for was the infobox. I use it so rarely that I misremembered it as a template. So it would be good if you could add a least some skeleton doc for other editors if I was wrong. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 09:47, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
You might want to add that book reference to New Year's Day? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 13:21, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
Did you have a particular reason to replace the Wikisource version in favour of PepysDiary.com? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:10, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your additions here. However, I have found that it's often best to be clear that precision is not possible, especially in the metal type period. Often a lack of surviving archives makes it hard to date when exactly typefaces appeared, you often only know which specimens include types but they were not released annually, or there are dates in reference works with no source or explanation which are hard to trust. I explain this in the Semplicità and Albertus articles for example. With very very few exceptions (like Clarendon, which was registered) I would not give dates of introduction for any pre-1950 typeface, certainly not unless you've personally verified it in a very, very reliable reference book.
You seem to be categorising a lot of redirects taking them from the names of typefaces on the Stephenson Blake article. I don't think that article is very good, it was created by an editor who threw in a lot of information I don't believe is reliable. (It's one of the things I just haven't got around to checking and cleaning up.) In particular now I look at it, I suspect that "Doric 12" is a confusion of Caslon's first sans-serif, which first appears in 1816 but is probably earlier (and isn't 12pt size), with Caslon's later sans-serifs named Doric, introduced about 70 years later. I would not use it as a source for creating redirects and categories, they could confuse people. Blythwood (talk) 21:22, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi. Based on your edit summary for your page move of Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 1965, the text of Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010 seems to be outdated. Can you correct it to say what the current status is, if this was repealed? Thanks, wbm1058 (talk) 15:42, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
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Hello! You moved the article titled Chōchin-obake to Chōchin'obake; I am considering moving it back, because there was prior consensus for that version, but I thought I would just ask you personally to see if we can sort it out. I do not know how much you know about Japanese - for example your previous edit to Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle was precisely correct, but your edit summary to this article suggests you have missed the point. You mentioned a "dash", but there is no dash, only a hyphen. You have not "normalised" the romanisation, you have changed the form of the term. This is a noun-noun compound, of two (quite ordinary) words: chōchin (lantern) and obake (ghost). There are no rules in Japanese for word spacing or hyphenation, because these do not exist in normal writing; it is simply written 提灯おばけ. I think it is better to show the non-Japanese-reader that there are two elements; these could be separated either by a space or a hyphen. See my comments at the top of the talk page about the name. Imaginatorium (talk) 08:05, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hi -- I noticed your post on Trappist's talk page about a parser, and have a couple of thoughts about how it might be useful. From what you say it sounds like it's a template parser, meaning that it doesn't generate any internal structure for text between templates. Is that correct? The suggestions below are mostly for something that can do at least a crude parse of an article -- identifying the text blocks between templates, and finding <ref> tags and their contents.
See this discussion about switching a page away from list-defined references and the use of the R template. To make the change Piotr requested I wrote a simple parser in Python for the wikitext, and then wrote an output routine to take the parsed representation and print it in named reference format without the list definition. A more general capability -- to take an article written in a certain citation style and change it to another style -- might be of interest to some people. Mostly people want to do things like convert short form refs to sfn, and there would be a certain amount of guesswork in matching up the short form names such as "Smith (2011), p. 123" with the cited sources.
I do some source reviewing at FAC, and I've been planning to write a parser for that as well to help spot some inconsistencies. For example, if an article cites a dozen books, it should either cite the publisher location for all or none of them. Having a parsed tree of citation templates would allow questions like "are all book citations consistent in their use of locations?" Other possibilities: inconsistent use of ISBNs, use of "p." for multiple pages or "pp." for single pages, domain names used as website titles. A few of the errors might even be auto-correctable. I had planned to simply scan the article for the cite templates and parse those, but if you already have them in a parse tree that would simplify things.
Does any of this sound possible? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 21:43, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Template
, but there's also Argument
(3 braces), Tag
(parser tag blocks, e.g. <ref>some text</ref>
would be one node), and the generic Wikitext
. Any of these can be nested inside each other arbitrarily, and the parser (run from wikt:Module:parser) uses recursive iteration to traverse the tree. The internal structure of each type of node is pretty different, but nodes don't need to know or care about other nodes, since the recursive iterator simply calls the applicable next
method for each node as it encounters it. This is a highly flexible model, and the intention is for Module:parser to be used for parsing code, as here, as well as in the complex linguistic parsing we do at Wiktionary for things like pronunciation modules. Does that sound like it fits what you need? If you're interested, there's also the much more complex wikt:Module:User:Theknightwho/wikitext parser which is designed for things like internal/external links, headers, HTML etc. It's not finished yet, though.Mongolian language has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 01:08, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
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