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Dear GoldRingChip, you are an exceptionally experienced wikipedian and very good with family trees. I have tried my hand at similar trees but with much less success. "Mine" seem fine in desktop view but get distorted horribly in mobile view. I looked at your tree in James Francis Edward and that seems to pass to mobile view unaffected. I suppose you know what I am doing wrong. May I ask you to be so kind to have a look at the tree in Antoine Hamilton in destop and in mobile view. You will see what I am talking about. With many thanks and best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 09:21, 15 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Thank you for coming to me and for the lovely flattery. The article in both views — desktop & mobile — looks fine to me, other than leaving out Philibert & Elizabeth's child(ren). When I work on family trees I like to make them evenly spaced, but that's a personal preference, not a requirement. The tree in Antoine Hamilton is not evenly spaced, if that's your concern. The mobile view was a bit squished, but that's how lots of things look on mobile, and it was better when I rotated my mobile device for a wider view. I also have noticed that the template requires an extra space at the end of a line (applied like this: | ) when that line ends with a syntax line, such as: ! . or (. (See my edit.) If you'd like me to space the whole thing out evenly (or explain that all to you), just let me know. —GoldRingChip 20:42, 15 October 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Hyphens in ISBNs are usually placed between each element of the isbn: country group, publisher, title and checksum. You appear to be placing the hyphens in a 1-4-4-1 formation which ignores the elements. This is not a particularly useful way to hyphenate isbns as it removes the relationship between the elements. As an editor with an interest in isbns, you may wish to comment at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RfC: Standardizing ISBN formatting (and an end to editwarring about it). Celia Homeford (talk) 13:54, 6 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• That's very good to know! I'll look at that VP article. Thanks for quickly noticing it and informing me. —GoldRingChip 14:00, 6 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• @Celia Homeford: I've restored the formatting, in light of that VP discussion. —GoldRingChip 14:22, 6 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

On the Template:Forbes family tree, you list William Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill as being the male line ancestor of all subsequent Forbes baronets, and list them as also holding the title of Lord Sempill, when in actuality, Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet was his brother and the subsequent baronets were their cousins, while the title of Lord Sempill passed to William's daughter. 98.228.137.44 (talk) 04:34, 23 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Thanks for noticing this template and letting me know about this problem. I’ll try to get to it shortly. —GoldRingChip 16:54, 23 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
  • 98.228.137.44: How does it look now? —GoldRingChip 17:03, 24 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
    • (Same IP poster as before) It still lists Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet as being the father of the next baronet, when he wasn't.2601:249:9301:D570:DCE:DB6E:BCC:F04D (talk) 19:01, 24 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
      • How about now? And have you please considered getting yourself a registered account? —GoldRingChip 20:12, 24 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
        • Looks good. Thank you for your time.2601:249:9301:D570:DCE:DB6E:BCC:F04D (talk) 21:06, 24 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Sorry to bother you again, but I noticed that on Template:Royal dukes family tree Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale is listed as the son of Queen Victoria, when he was the son of Edward VII. 2601:249:9301:D570:DCE:DB6E:BCC:F04D (talk) 22:02, 24 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• Fixed. —GoldRingChip 22:27, 24 November 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]

User:Bruce1ee & User:Jonesey95 — Thank you for fixing the linter errors and for your patience.

I actually have turned on the syntax highlighter, but apparently I still miss the errors. I think that the highlighter is not as compatible or functional as I need it to be, although reviewing mw:User:Remember the dot/Syntax highlighter#Known issues I can not figure out where the problem lies. When I open an italics (via double-apostrophe) the highlighting sometimes does not continue (in both Mac Firefox and Mac Safari), therefore I can not see the error.

I tend to make frequent small edits instead of one infrequent large edit, so maybe more opportunities have led to more errors. I will try to be more diligent. —GoldRingChip 12:44, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

In addition to the syntax highlighter, you can also see if there are any lint errors on a page by clicking "Page information" in the left side bar and scrolling to the bottom. You can also add a "lintHint" button to the top right corner of each page by following the instructions at User:PerfektesChaos/js/lintHint. —Bruce1ee^talk 14:15, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

That's a good start, thanks. I've now installed the linthint button, but it is mainspace-only, I think. —GoldRingChip 15:16, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

To extend it to all namespaces, have a look at User:PerfektesChaos/js/lintHint#Configuration by JavaScript. Add the four lines of js code shown to your common.js (in that order), but set "myLintHints.rooms" to "*" (star) – that enables LintHint for all namespaces. —Bruce1ee^talk 15:42, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I guess I will stop bombarding you with thanks; you aren't a new editor that needs praise for good referencing. I just saw a series of gnomish reference edits that I liked at French Third Republic, that's all. Stuff that matters when you go to actually try to verify a reference. Appreciate you. Elinruby (talk) 01:46, 1 February 2024 (UTC)Reply[reply]