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Hello, DannyS712! Here is the April 2019 issue of TheWikiWizard.
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Hey, Danny! Here are a few nit-picky MOS notes on your copy edit of [[Horse Isle (video game):
The MOS stuff isn't required for a copy edit of this quality, but it's good to practise for higher-quality articles. Full marks, keep up the good work! – Reidgreg (talk) 14:55, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
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Hello, DannyS712,
While I appreciate your incredible energy and devotion to editing on Wikipedia, please do not tag categories that are part of CfD nominations or proposed for speedy mergers or renames for speedy deletion. Even if the categories are empty. Once a page is part of a deletion discussion or rename proposal, it should not be speedied. At least that is how it works with categorization. Thanks! Liz Read! Talk! 04:17, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you for taking the time to write that close at Talk:Conspiracy theory; it was a very necessary step to moving forward. FINALLY that RfC is over! :-D Leviv ich 04:17, 19 April 2019 (UTC) |
this edit. ∯WBGconverse 12:30, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello there Danny, I am writing to you to say your CloseRM script is not working (for me at least), as after I enter the rationale, it throws me out of the editing thing, and makes no changes. I'm using Windows 10, on Google Chrome. Can you please tell me how to get it working? Closing RM discussions manually is slow, and inconvenient. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. The Duke 15:48, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
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and copy any errors the next time this happens? Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 17:41, 20 April 2019 (UTC)The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Donors Trust. Legobot (talk) 04:27, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
The article List of Rokdim Im Kokhavim participants has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
There is nothing more comprehensive about this list than the season-by-season listing list already at Rokdim_Im_Kokhavim#Participants, and if more details about contestants are desired/warranted, there's no benefit to a conglomerate list over including details of a season's contestants at individual season articles.
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Why in the world, you converted just a page, that I don't given a damn for the next Quebec election, which I was led someone doing it overtime, into a stupidly pathetic draft page that I clearly don't want, while there another one who been made three days go on next Alberta election gets Scott-free. And because of that, I'm undoing it because your reason isn't enough just because has less thousand of words. Like come on, I was planned on turning my laptop off until this. Chad The Goatman (talk) 08:59, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
it must be held on October 3, 2022, which is more than 3 years from now. See Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a crystal ball and Wikipedia:Other stuff exists. However, as I said at the start, I won't move either of them. I'm sorry, --DannyS712 (talk) 09:04, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
Module:Admin tasks has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the module's entry on the Templates for discussion page. * Pppery * has returned 15:14, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
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This barnstar is awarded to DannyS712 for copy edits totaling between 1 and 1,999 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE April 2019 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 02:05, 23 April 2019 (UTC) |
Hello, DannyS712,
Going through Wikipedia:Database reports/Empty categories tonight, I've come across 10-12 categories that still have CfD tags on them from discussions you closed on April 20th. What is the next step you take when you close a discussion as a NAC? How are you sure that your requests for closure (merger or deletion) are followed through on? Because it looks like these categories should have the CfD tags removed and they should be marked for deletion. Liz Read! Talk! 03:23, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 03:36, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
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I was looking at some of old links for Flooded with them hundreds, and I noticed you'd adopted some of their scripts after I looked at your scripts subpage (which is currently outdated, you might want to update the links there).
Anyway, I noticed one of Flooded's old scripts VisualEditist is linked rather prominently in the lead of Wikipedia:VisualEditor. I'm not sure how important the script is, but I do notice one editor currently has the script imported, so it might be worth REFUNDing and preserving. If not, the link it should be removed from the lead of Wikipedia:VisualEditor. eπi (talk | contribs) 00:14, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
Hello D. I wanted to let you know that 2019 April 17 – Blocked_user ( links | transclusions | talk | doc | sandbox | testcases ) has over 3660 transclusions so it is ready for a bot to remove them. Thanks for your time. MarnetteD|Talk 03:45, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi. I'm DannyS712 (talk), and I just wanted to remind you that you are a current participant in round 2 of this year's WikiCup! There are only a few days until the second round ends – if you haven't made you first submission for this round yet, there is still time to start; if you have already started, keep up the good work. See your submissions page: here. Good luck!
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Please review edits such as this that just leave text in the middle of navigation. This is not how you should be unlinking deleted content. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:29, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
(((Portal[^{}]*)\|Hip hop([^{}]*))\n)
-> $1$2
. Second, do you think that a bot to remove the simple transclusions, eg ((Portal|Hip hop))
would be a good idea? --DannyS712 (talk) 04:39, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
Your recent bot approvals request has been approved. Please see the request page for details. Apologies for the delay. --TheSandDoctor Talk 21:36, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 28 has been approved. — xaosflux Talk 22:11, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 27 was approved. — xaosflux Talk 23:31, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 29 was approved. --TheSandDoctor Talk 08:07, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I want to thank you for your recent contribution on Draft:Autospix edit. And now I want to ask you how to publish that page? Thanks RichardBravoBoss (talk) 09:57, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/DannyS712 bot 31 was approved. --TheSandDoctor Talk 19:41, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
Hey Danny create a userbox for me please. About something with this text "Although this editor helps out newcomers, he doesn't want to be a mentor." Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Masum Reza☎ 01:29, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi, I might be missing it but can you please point me to the policy which states that a bundled AFD must have each article tagged with the notice? Thanks! Praxidicae (talk) 21:48, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
On each of the remaining articles, at the top insert the following...(bolding added). All articles that are being considered for deletion need to be tagged as such. Otherwise, I could open a random AfD that bundles a CSD-worthy advertisement and an article like Carbon without tagging it, and then it could be deleted based on that AfD (I'm sure this bundle was made in good faith, but it still needs to be tagged). Hope this clears it up, --DannyS712 (talk) 21:53, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
For this userscript, it writes an edit summary for you (that is almost always unhelpful imo but whatevs) when you tag a redirect. However, if you make a redirect out of a page that was previously a redlink, you get to check the source code once before you make the edit. Could you please edit the above script to make this the case for all redirects you edit with? It's just for my own person use. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 23:58, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
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Hi @DannyS712, I just saw your message about the speedy deletion tag on the article I created about Thomas R. Russell. I'm fairly new to Wikipedia and this is the first time I've received the notice before, having created 11 pages. Apologies for the possible infringement, as that was never my intention! Would it possible to be more specific as to which section or element of the article the software flagged, so I could do a better job editing the information from the secondary source to ensure it has no copyright issues but is still a verifiable statement? Sorry again for the trouble!
Thank you so much
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Thank you for linking it, it appears as though the majority of the issues come from listing names of people/programs he created or led during his career, not that full statements or sentences were copied over directly. Is there anything you recommended doing - like linking to other verifiable references, or taking out mention of those things entirely? Not really sure what to do in this situation, as that article was a hive of information! - thank you again for the help :) EMT STL (talk) 01:06, 29 April 2019 (UTC) @EMT_STL
On 29 April 2019, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Richard Lugar, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page.
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Yes, I know very well that are reliable sources, but is hard to find sources on English. -- Bojan Talk 01:34, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
This is the first article on whole wikipedia. There aren't (m)any English sources on Google books. There are Hungarian soruces, but Hungarian is not my native langue. I have a book in Serbian that from time to time mentions actions of this organisation in occupied Bačka. These is quote from 1939 book/survey/article: Even the chauvinist Turáni Vadászok (Turanian hunters) were suppressed, since they had been staunchly anti-German as well as anti-everything else. The Gestapo arrested all those well known for their dislike of Hungary's association with ...[7]. I cant get broader context (who, what, when, where, why), but i hope this satisfies laymen that this confirms that the organisation existed? -- Bojan Talk 01:47, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Look, it participated in Šajkaška and Novi Sad raid, it persecuted Serbs, Jews and Romani people, killed, looted, their property. Membership in the organisation was enough for partisans (and probably Soviets) to execute them without any/much trial. Is it now notable? But I did't write in article yet, because I know it will be challenged. I just wrote basic facts, that anybody with elementary knowledge won't challenge. -- Bojan Talk 02:02, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
It is not your fault. Tt wasn't big and notorious as SS, but existed. I will add reference on my native language. Bojan Talk 02:06, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
Is it OK now? I can't do better. -- Bojan Talk 02:53, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
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A small point, but in your script at User:DannyS712/common.js you use the word "develope"; I think you mean "develop"? --David Biddulph (talk) 09:30, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Danny, funny that I should find you on the bureaucrats' noticeboard like that. I was just talking to DrMel; She and I have set up a proposed WikiBlind user-group for teaching blind people how to edit Wikipedia, and we were talking about creating a userbox for it. I told her that you were the only very active Wikipedian I knew of on the list of users who make userboxes upon request. I'll let DrMel let you know what she had in mind when she can, but that coincidence was too good not to mention! Graham87 11:29, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Danny! Graham87 encouraged me to get in touch to get your help with the userboxes we want our new wikiblind volunteers to be able to include on their user pages. I did a mock-up on my art program here and just uploaded it to commons. Here’s the link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposed_layout_for_1st_wikiBlind_user_group_userbox.jpg
Can you tell me how easy it would be to create the userbox? We want to welcome our newbies with this on their user page as soon as we get them setup and ready to participate for the first time. We are very excited to see so much enthusiasm so quickly! We would love to include everyone in the fun, too - experienced wikipedians are a huge part of what happens next! Come join us? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiBlind_Wikimedians_User_Group
Implementation of the new portal design has been culled back almost completely, and the cull is still ongoing. The cull has also affected portals that existed before the development of the automated design.
Some of the reasons for the purge are:
Most of the deletions have been made without prejudice to recreation of curated portals, so that approval does not need to be sought at Deletion Review in those cases.
In addition to new portals being deleted, most of the portals that were converted to an automated design have been reverted.
Which puts us back to portals with manually selected content, that need to be maintained by hand, for the most part, for the time being, and back facing some of the same problems we had when we were at this crossroads before:
These and other concepts require further discussion. See you at WT:POG.
However, after the purge/reversion is completed, some of the single-page portals might be left, due to having acceptable characteristics (their design varied some). If so, then those could possibly be used as a model to convert and/or build more, after the discussions on portal creation and design guidelines have reached a community consensus on what is and is not acceptable for a portal.
See you at WT:POG.
A major theme in the deletion discussions was the need for portals to be curated, that is, each one having a dedicated maintainer.
There are currently around 100 curated portals. Based on the predominant reasoning at MfD, it seems likely that all the other portals may be subject to deletion.
See you at WT:POG.
An observation and argument that arose again and again during the WP:ENDPORTALS RfC and the ongoing deletion drive of ((bpsp)) default portals, was that portals simply do not get much traffic. Typically, they get a tiny fraction of what the corresponding like-titled articles get.
And while this isn't generally considered a good rationale for creation or deletion of articles, portals are not articles, and portal critics insist that traffic is a key factor in the utility of portals.
The implication is that portals won't be seen much, so wouldn't it be better to develop pages that are?
And since such development isn't limited to editing, almost anything is possible. If we can't bring readers to portals, we could bring portal features, or even better features, to the readers (i.e., to articles)...
An approach that has received some brainstorming is "quantum portals", meaning portals generated on-the-fly and presented directly on the view screen without any saved portal pages. This could be done by script or as a MediaWiki program feature, but would initially be done by script. The main benefits of this is that it would be opt-in (only those who wanted it would install it), and the resultant generated pages wouldn't be saved, so that there wouldn't be anything to maintain except the script itself.
Another approach would be to focus on implementing specific features independently, and provide them somewhere highly visible in a non-portal presentation context (that is, on a page that wasn't a portal that has lots of traffic, i.e., articles). Such as inserted directly into an article's HTML, as a pop-up there, or as a temporary page. There are scripts that use these approaches (providing unrelated features), and so these approaches have been proven to be feasible.
What kind of features could this be done with?
The various components of the automated portal design are transcluded excerpts, news, did you know, image slideshows, excerpt slideshows, and so on.
Some of the features, such as navigation footers and links to sister projects are already included on article pages. And some already have interface counterparts (such as image slideshows). Some of the rest may be able to be integrated directly via script, but may need further development before they are perfected. Fortunately, scripts are used on an opt-in basis, and therefore wouldn't affect readers-in-general and editors-at-large during the development process (except for those who wanted to be beta testers and installed the scripts).
The development of such scripts falls under the scope of the Javascript-WikiProject/Userscript-department, and will likely be listed on Wikipedia:User scripts/List when completed enough for beta-testing. Be sure to watchlist that page.
Being curated. At least for the time being.
New encyclopedia program features will likely eventually render most portals obsolete. For example, the pop-up feature of MediaWiki provides much the same functionality as excerpts in portals already, and there is also a slideshow feature to view all the images on the current page (just click on any image, and that activates the slideshow). Future features could also overlap portal features, until there is nothing that portals provide that isn't provided elsewhere or as part of Wikipedia's interface.
But, that may be a ways off. Perhaps months or years. It depends on how rapidly programmers develop them.
The features of Wikipedia and its articles will continue to evolve, even if Portals go by the wayside. Most, if not all of portals' functionality, or functions very similar, will likely be made available in some form or other.
And who knows what else?
No worries.
Until next issue... — The Transhumanist 00:20, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
The move request for Spygate (conspiracy theory by Donald Trump) was relisted by Paine Ellsworth a few hours back, and therefore the discussion is no longer ready to be closed. Do you know if/how the corresponding close-request should be handled for such cases? Abecedare (talk) 04:35, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
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Not only is it missing a small tag, but it's also missing a timestamp, which (a) is just really bad for timekeeping purposes and (b) means that lowercase sigmabot III will never archive the message. Is there any chance you could add the timestamps semi-automagically, as well? I've done it on my end. Thanks! Graham87 01:43, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
<small>
tag that was unclosed, but I've already gone and fixed that. Do you want the timestamp to be now (~~~~~
) or when it was sent? --DannyS712 (talk) 01:50, 4 May 2019 (UTC)Hi Danny, I understand the A-League 2019/20 season pages, don't have a lot of citations, but this happens all the time and the pages are not moved to drafts. There are a lot of pages like that with only about two/three references in the articles.
I created 2018–19 Central Coast Mariners FC season on April 2018, no-one moved it to a draft if there is not a lot of citations. Even 2019–20 Arsenal F.C. season has like two references and it's not moved to a draft. There is enough information to be shown into these articles.
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I see I somehow replaced your edit for mine. I am sorry, it was not intentional and I don't know why it happened. Best regards, CapnZapp (talk) 21:13, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
Just following up with this conversation.
I'm just curious now that you are page mover as well (in addition to being a: mass message sender, new page reviewer, pending changes reviewer|, rollbacker), at what point will you realize you would be a great admin? Does September 5th sound good? Levivich, can you back me up here again? –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 22:47, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
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I reposted the article with refs so you can delete the Draft:Jason Servis page. Thanks. Stretchrunner (talk) 09:30, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
The article Nancy Pelosi you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Nancy Pelosi for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of StudiesWorld -- StudiesWorld (talk) 13:00, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello, DannyS712.
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Many thanks for the note on my talk page. I was not aware of this draftspace thing - I largely gnome my way around wikipedia these days looking for things to fix, and pay little, if any, attention to the procuedures that others create to govern it. I still maintain an interest in elections and occasionally have the joy of creating new articles about them when I discover nobody else has. I have ample experience of editing, some might consider me an experienced editor, but I'll leave that distinction to dis-interested observers. I have modified the page as requested with references for all the content, which I was planning to get around to - if I had been aware of a need to create it in another space before adding references, I would have done so and will know for next time. When I pressed the godly "Submit your draft for review" button I was informed it could take two months, which is not fast enough if we're being entirely honest, so I decided to Ignore All Rules (the only wikipedia rule I can remember in its entirity!) and just return it to the mainspace. If I've broken one of the many rules that govern me doing so on basis of a COI, just remember I'm ignoring them, but felt it was polite that I let you know. --New Progressive (talk) 14:32, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
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I saw you revert my edit on Lars Edegran. Here are some points to keep in mind. I was cleaning out categories, and "dixieland guitarists" had only four entries. I'm not a big fan of categories. There are usually too many, creating clutter. For me, it's enough to know he's a jazz musician from Switzerland. Edegran does appear in the List of jazz guitarists. I don't like to debate divisions of genres. The term jazz is OK with me and debatable enough for most people. Nevertheless, "dixieland" is a term that isn't used much anymore, and its use was always debatable, bumping elbows with New Orleans jazz and maybe a couple other terms. What is Edegran's main instrument? I know he plays several. In his article picture, he is playing piano. I wish people applied categories in a way that is representative. Michael Jordan is known as a basketball player, but he also plays golf. See what I mean? If we include everything a person has ever done, we encourage on every article a long list of categories that makes the eyes glaze over. Too much information is very much a problem.
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Danny, I want to help Template:Did you know nominations/XIX Army Corps move forward. I left a couple suggestions on the template. I hope we can get this featured in DYK. Thanks in advance. Flibirigit (talk) 02:10, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
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Hello DannyS712!
Can I check any user's IP with Quick_CheckUser_requests, or is there a requirement? Maybe some documentation?
Thank you! — Aron Manning (talk) 04:44, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
@DannyS712: There's a disruptive editor hiding behind 2 dynamic ip WP:SPASOCKs. I wish to find out which one out of about 3. — Aron Manning (talk) 05:31, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
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Pls note when fighters verball agree to fight each other, it does not mean it is official. Until both parties have signed the contract and anounced, then you are welcome to add the info back. Until then, pls refrain yourself of doing so. Thank you. -- CASSIOPEIA(talk) 04:02, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
Can you please comment on the naming issue on the talk page? -ApexUnderground (talk) 04:47, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
I received this message on my talk page from you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ghostofnemo#Speedy_deletion_nomination_of_Template:Ghostofnemo_sandbox
When I try to click the "visiting the page" link to see what this is about, it says the page has already been deleted. I have no idea what was on that page or why it was deleted. Can you clue me in? Thank you. Ghostofnemo (talk) 05:00, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
If you look at the history of my Sandbox page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ghostofnemo/sandbox&action=history you'll see that it was created on May 8, 2019. Where did my old Sandbox page go? Why did I have to create a new one? Ghostofnemo (talk) 05:12, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello. If PR has been closed after one month no activity can I request it again? Eurohunter (talk) 07:01, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
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Danny, this draft should be accepted. All of the information within it is sourced, and election results are almost always notable. It can be further improved and expanded in mainspace. – bradv🍁 20:51, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
To provide encyclopedic value, data should be put in context with explanations referenced to independent sources.Looking at the context, there isn't enough to move it to mainspace (imo) - if you feel strongly about this, I don't object if you move it yourself. --DannyS712 (talk) 20:54, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
So when's the big day. When you running for adminship then ? Nick (talk) 21:22, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
Hi D. It works pretty well. Thanks for trying it. MarnetteD|Talk 21:47, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
Stop that. Give me one notification of all the redirects together, not god knows how many separate notifications. DS (talk) 01:11, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
The article Nancy Pelosi you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Nancy Pelosi for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of StudiesWorld -- StudiesWorld (talk) 10:02, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
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I just hovered over your username and noticed a welcome change, but your talk page is missing this...
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Happy template editing! Cabayi (talk) 06:34, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
temporary TPE - while there were some reservations initially, this will give them an opportunity to demonstrate that those reservations were unnecessary. Since then, I've been cautious - my template-protected edits so far have been [21], [22], and [23] (more complicated, but see Template:DRV links/sandbox and Template:DRV links/testcases. Thanks for noticing, and for the
Thanks for producing User:DannyS712/Subcategories.js which looks very useful. I'm having difficulty using it: it appears to do nothing. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Where exactly should I look for a new "Sub category" button? I've tried installing both manually and automatically. Logging shows https: GETs on both the enwiki wrapper script and the core code from Meta, so I think it's loading ok. I've visited several categories I'd never looked at before, and done full reloads just in case. I do have an ad blocker but turned it off for this exercise, and I have WP and Meta whitelisted anyway. As a last resort, I even read the documentation! Any help would be welcome. Thanks, Certes (talk) 11:51, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
Please do something about the infobox at User:DannyS712/DiscussionCloser so that it lists the author as Abelmoschus Esculentus. They clearly worked hard on the script so it hardly bodes well for you to make it look as if you wrote it. (I tried adding the author field to the infobox but it didn't work of course as you're using a wrapper that doesn't support the author field.) Thanks for your understanding. SD0001 (talk) 17:57, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
| author = (({author|[[User:DannyS712|DannyS712]]))}
so that it allows the author field, but defaults to yourself if not present. And then put in the author field for the scripts you didn't write. SD0001 (talk) 18:07, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
[[User:(({author|DannyS712))}|(({author|DannyS712))}]]
so that I don't need to write the link each time, but that is a much better way of doing things. But, what about scripts that I then improve? Should I add "original author" and "current maintainer" fields? --DannyS712 (talk) 18:09, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
Please deliver this issue, thanks! --Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 23:53, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello, DannyS712! Here is the May 2019 issue of TheWikiWizard.
Hope you like this month's issue! If you'd like to discuss this issue, please go to this issue's talk page. Happy Reading! --Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 23:51, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
Hello! Your submission of Nancy Pelosi at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:35, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
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On 17 May 2019, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Ashley Massaro, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page.
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Hi, the automated system delivered the same message twice on your behalf [24]. Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 19:21, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
On 18 May 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article United States v. Ramsey (1977), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that according to a US Supreme Court decision, the Fourth Amendment does not apply to searches at the border? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/United States v. Ramsey (1977). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, ), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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