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Thank you for helping Wikipedia grow! Promotional Attack (talk) 20:33, 17 February 2016 (UTC) |
I saw your comment here: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Deprecated_parameters_in_the_citation_template that you fixed a problem related to deprecation of co-authors.
The Google Books citation tool has the same problem. I poked the creator here: User_talk:Apoc2400#Deprecated_parameter:_coauthors but haven't heard a response.
I realize you might not have access to that tool's code, but my guess is that you know exactly how to do the fix, so I am hoping you might offer to help.--S Philbrick(Talk) 14:00, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
|authors=
rather than |coauthors=
/|coauthor=
or any other variant of such. The maintainers should be able to fix their tools' issues within an hour (find + replace + check to ensure nothing else is being placed into that parameter, since the coauthors parameter was exclusive before to coauthors). --Izno (talk) 14:10, 19 February 2016 (UTC)Heard. You can provide the link to my comment, no problem. However, the code source has not been updated in 2 years. I might suggest that it's time to abandon the use of the project or to find a new maintainer for the project and migrate the project e.g. to Labs (I am not so technical as I should be else I would take care of the request, I think?). The code is licensed appropriately for such a migration.
Citoid, which is an extension using VE, may be a suitable alternative since I believe it performs the same functions for a greater set of websites. With the soon-deployment of a single edit interface, you should be able to access Citoid trivially. --Izno (talk) 14:21, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
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This made me laugh. Have a good one, Izno. soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 14:37, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
FWIW, I agree with you somewhat regarding the subtitles crap. It's obnoxious.
Regarding abbreviations, I don't see that you have ground to stand on in this specific instance. You can plug HOTS into the VG/RS search yourself and you will find exactly what the article now provides. --Izno (talk) 14:58, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
Get consensus for that at WT:MOS/WT:MOSABBR first; I'm not particularly objectionable to it, but I think there's a rather large difference between the two: a single (or perhaps multiple) abbreviations still end up taking less space than even one ((nihongo)) does; a second difference is that ((nihongo)) is not English (aside from the literal translation), so less people reading the English Wikipedia can understand it. TLOU is evidently an abbreviation, which English-reading people will understand as such.
That said, I think an improvement you could make (if you wanted) would be to include references to the abbreviations. I'm not sure how I feel about that given the guidance in WP:MOSLEAD, which says to avoid references in the lead. This might be an interesting point of discussion
Aside: I generally agree that hiding ((nihongo)) behind a ((efn)) or similar is an okay practice, though I'm not sure I personally would use it if I were writing an article. --Izno (talk) 12:20, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
In this edit to WP:CITE you edit a bullet, but your edit summary seems to say you want the bullet you edited, and one other, removed. Is that really what you meant? Please discuss on talk page of the guideline; discussion via edit summaries is next to impossible. Jc3s5h (talk) 16:47, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
Good catch, had my mind on something else. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 11:12, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
I'm not gonna revert your edit to the rfa header, because it's not worth my time. But browsers do NOT adjust, thank you. Why did I have the word The smashed up against the page border to the left of that ugly "Who's going for rfa?" table, and a pile of subsequent text below it? Because browsers do not adjust. Have a nice day. Lingzhi ♦ (talk)
Would this user right be of interest to you? I'm sure you meet all the criteria. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:13, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
phab:T54180#2169644 was not primarily directed at you. ;-)
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@Whatamidoing (WMF): Oi! You should make it clear to whom you are addressing; your objection was noted prior by me as an obvious excellent use case. --Izno (talk) 23:57, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
You don't own the article, it's free for all to add material to as long as it's relevant. You reverted my valuable addition of relevant material twice in a 24-hour period. One more time and I will be forced to report you for violation of the 3-revert rule. Sorry, but I am the offended party, and you can't discuss it on my talk page because I don't have any, so I'm posting this notice on yours. As to a discussion, what is there to discuss? Any and all Wiki articles that mention a person should endeavor to provide an image if one is available, so your bold reversion of a whole string of images is not constructive, it's pure vandalism, and can result in disciplinary action if you persist. Using a gallery format saves page space, so don't try to make that the issue please.
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This is actually my first time using the protected edit template. Once I made my reply, should I have re-activated the template to draw attention to it again, or am I nagging you when you already have the discussion on your watchlist? — fourthords | =Λ= | 21:18, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
@Fourthords: Generally: It would be seen as bad faith if you were to reactivate the edit-protected template and either a) the edit still does not have consensus/is noncontroversial (WP:Wikipedia has no deadline) or b) the edit to be made is not immediately obvious, such that any old user with the correct permissions could implement the edit. Both of these criteria are mostly the same as the original criteria to add the edit-protected template in the first place.
Indeed, it can be good to reactivate an answered but not executed request because sometimes the edit is good and has consensus but the original responder is unable to execute; this allows someone else to review the change and perhaps execute on it themselves.
Specifically: I wanted to add a test to the sandbox but was unable to for two reasons: 1) I was called away from the computer just about as I was looking at the sandbox and 2) while I was looking at the sandbox, I verified that there was a delta between the sandbox and the main template and wanted to ping the most recent editors of the sandbox to see if they knew why. --Izno (talk) 17:16, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
For cleaning up after my mistake (at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 April 18) --S Philbrick(Talk) 13:39, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
Greetings, Izno. I noticed that you just archived my request at ORCP. Now I recognize that there had not been very much activity on my post, but I had really been hoping for feedback from more than two editors (the third was an IP that clearly had an axe to grind); so would it be impolitic for me to unarchive it? Regards, Vanamonde93 (talk) 15:46, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
... for putting my name forward for the template editor user right, if only to keep the existing template editors from getting mad at me for the repeated "add/remove/change the dates of a TfD notice" requests. ~ RobTalk 00:34, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
I saw this edit summary you gave that says "further reading is for books and other offline sources". That is not true. Further reading is for any material editors think is worthwhile that provides additional information. These can be offline or online. They can be book or non-book. Jason Quinn (talk) 05:55, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
In Xenoblade Chronicles, I noticed your removal of the track list and saw your reasoning for it. However, I feel the need to point out that I used Final Fantasy Tactics as a template, which is currently a Featured Article. I don't understand how that page is a Featured article and yet, it goes against the article guidelines. --MomoQca (talk) 14:46, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
Hello Izno,
I have a question: What was the reason of your modification here on Melsbach? I used the <b/> in my older modification because I wanted the blue link to end after "Wied" and not to extend to "ischen". As far as I understand, any tag of the type <any_tag/> is sufficient for this, so <b/> and <nowiki/> should work exactly the same way, or am I wrong? If so, why did you changed it?
Regards and sorry for the question, --Cyfal (talk) 23:10, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, we seem to cross paths quite a lot on our travels, but I'm not sure we've ever directly interacted before! As an uninvolved editor I was wondering if you could have a look at the above navbox and give your considered opinion at Template talk:Seth MacFarlane#Navbox needs improvements. --Rob Sinden (talk) 08:01, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
Izno, pardon me for bothering you again, but you've been very helpful in improving my understanding of Wikidata, and I was hoping you could answer another question. RexxS's recommendation in the current conversation at the Village Pump is to provide a citation as an ISBN. Surely there's a better way to do that? I can see that a full ((cite book)) citation structure is probably too much too ask, but if I understood our earlier conversations, one can construct composite entities in Wikidata, so surely some form of structured citation is possible. E.g. a property called book-source with properties
Can this be done? Is anything like this being discussed or built on Wikidata? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 20:03, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
(If there's a forum where I can ask these questions, so I don't need to bug you all the time, please let me know.) On my watchlist I see the Wikidata entries looking like this:
Since the label information exists, is there any reason this couldn't be formatted like so?
Who would I request this of -- is this a WMF development task? So a phab ticket would be needed? I think something like this would make editors much more likely to show Wikidata changes in their watchlists. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 16:50, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
Hey come you're not saying anything on the talk page, I brought up the conversation so you and the editor can talk about something ridiculous like this, but you haven't. Make yourself welcomed at the talk page so we can talk about this. 107.77.228.122 (talk) 17:46, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
Well technically I don't want to talk about this issue, but the other editor is making something so small into something big. I'm just pointing out that there is a major difference with something that airs on television and on a website. 107.77.228.122 (talk) 18:09, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
Deleted. Thanks for the link! Nyttend (talk) 14:45, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
Hey Izno, would you know whether there are plans in place to lock down entries or properties on Wikidata eventually? For example, once something is sufficiently referenced, is the idea that the Wikidata entry will follow the Wikipedia model (open to change by anybody, kept accurate only by the vigilance of watching editors)? I imagine some high-profile "facts" will also be contested or subject to fringe opinion so I'm curious if there has been any discussion on how to handle this. czar 22:22, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
FYI: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ships#Bulk stripping of pennant numbers? Andy Dingley (talk) 12:51, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
Why are you removing WikiProjects from articles such as here, and here? These are relevant drafts to the projects and for example, if I looked at User:S@bre/StarCraft Ghost: Nova and wanted to delete an nine year old draft for a redirected page, the project should probably be notified via article alerts rather than not finding out. Actually I'll probably MFD that one right now. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 21:39, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
that pretty much guarantees their work will just sit stagnant, but I'm not entirely sure this is a bad thing. Indeed, for WikiProjects that care about their drafts actively, it's probably a bad thing. But for those that don't? Or who recognize that some drafts just will never be mainspaced (I find it likely that most of those drafts of WP East Enders will never see the light of mainspace given their primarily fictional bent)? --Izno (talk) 12:05, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
@Ricky81682: The last handful of drafts I MFDd (in draftspace, mind you) I saw little participation from VG members, which likely means either a) they don't care or b) they didn't disagree with the MFDs I submitted. Would the same hold true in user space? Who knows.
Please don't mis-paraphrase me. I did not say anything remotely similar to no one is going to be reviewing these pages and no one will work on these drafts
-- only that that is likely the case, precisely because I don't speak for the entire group. If you want their opinion in plural, WT:VG is that way. On that point, I anticipate such a discussion would be an even split of "it's not hurting anyone" and "a number drafts don't provide us a whole lot of value, in user space or draft space, because they don't approach what is usually a fictional subject IAW WP:WAF", more likely leaning to the latter than the former. The project tends toward being skeptical of too much fictional content, likely as a defensive mechanism to the ancient spite of the pop culture wars from when I started, where hosts of pages were deleted from mainspace for failing to establish real-world context.
All in all, do what you want or feel is necessary. If you should feel it informative to that end, my opinion is that none of the video games members will be likely to target most video games drafts which are older than 2-3 years of age, since that's about when the group as a whole matured toward WP:WAF. All of the ones I touched recently in userspace failed to meet the WP:WAF bar, if not also the WP:N bar, and topics without WP:N potential don't get worked on. --Izno (talk) 17:53, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
You still haven't explained the removal of other projects. Nevertheless, WP:N isn't the bar for drafts (I haven't figured out one). Either way, I tagged them, you removed them and I'm not going to revert so fine. If these drafts aren't going anywhere, I suggest we take them to MFD rather than debate whether or not the project should care. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 00:49, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
You said that just hat this -- recommendation that a response to nableezy's last comment would also be a tban vio, so don't do that. That is not correct. The discussion is about reliable sources, not about the IP-conflict. Also, please refrain from archiving discussions on my talkpage. If you have anything to say to me, simply write me on my talkpage. That's what it's for. Debresser (talk) 20:20, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
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Could you read over and fix any clear obvious issues? Haven't gotten a lot of feedback thus far. WP:VG/WD. Need someone with a really solid WD understanding to take a pass over it. -- ferret (talk) 13:25, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
The correct name is now placed in the RfC. Nice of you to pick that up and let me know. Fountains-of-Paris (talk) 16:02, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
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Thank you for the explanation on my talk page about disambig/class=C. It was a big help to me. How did you know I wanted help?--Dthomsen8 (talk) 17:58, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Izno. I see from the history at Help:Interlanguage links that you work with these issues, so I hope I have come to someone who can propose a solution. I was looking for the French page of Children's literature and was struck by its absence. Then I saw that Portuguese and others are also missing. I eventually found there here at fr:Littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse. It would be easy enough to "Edit links" and add them. However, I then saw that some of the languages — like Spanish and German — appear linked to where the English article is found, but also to where the French is found. In other words, in some of those languages, the articles have been duplicated, probabaly because originally two separate trees evolved. Is there a central place where I can take this up, or do I need to contact each language to suggest looking into possible merging of the articles and subsequnelty linking them under the same tree? Regards, Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 08:21, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Let's discuss the merge policy there and whether the redirect conforms to that policy. If you interpreted the policy correctly, then I'll defer. The Transhumanist 11:40, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Forgot to use ping. You have another reply waiting for you there. Thanks for your patience. The Transhumanist 12:04, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Copied to User talk:Diego Moya/Archive 8#Introduction article tagging. --Izno (talk) 12:46, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
Diego (talk) 13:13, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
DO you happen to know how the mass page creation bot works? can you explain please Saadkhan12345 (talk) 17:49, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
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Hi, re this - ((italic title))
doesn't put pages in Category:Pages which use a template in place of a magic word, because there isn't a directly-equivalent magic word - you can simulate ((italic title))
on some pages - such as this one - by using ((DISPLAYTITLE:''((PAGENAME))''))
, but as soon as the page name contains parentheses it becomes much more complicated (e.g. using ((italic title))
on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) produces ((DISPLAYTITLE:Wikipedia:''Village pump'' (technical)))
. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:51, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
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hi - can you please explain your changes and the details surrounding an active politician - thanks - is Hillary Clinton an active politician when she has no position at all, active, yes or no seems like a simple question, do you assert that a person without any political positions, no political job, nothing at all should be classed on wikipedia as an active politician, yes or no? an active politician?Govindaharihari (talk) 03:52, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
AHhhh!!!!! Stupid fat fingers... I meant to thank you for your edit to Wikipedia:Bot requests and instead rolled back your edits. Fixed my error but just wanted to apologize. WP:TROUT to wake me up.... Sorry! --Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 16:35, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Would you mind explaining why the project link doesn't belong on the template exactly and where is says so. It's not an external link so I don't see how it's any different than the book or portal.★Trekker (talk) 16:30, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
Moved to Talk:Polygyny#Map of polygyny w.r.t. Russia. --Izno (talk) 13:45, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
Moved to Talk:American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics#Removal of "controversies" section. --Izno (talk) 13:30, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
Moved to Talk:Systems engineering#Some external links. --Izno (talk) 12:47, 5 May 2017 (UTC)