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Yet again R. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2017 August 24 has shown up in the cat. My searching leads me to think it might have something to do with the edits trying to fix the portal on the 24th but a) I could be wrong and b) if I'm right I'm not sure how to fix things. Whatever you can do about this will be appreciated. MarnetteD|Talk 16:13, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
<onlyinclude>...</onlyinclude>
, thus causing the entire article to be transcluded instead of that particular figure. The main question surely is, why is The Simpsons transcluded on so many pages - or indeed, at all? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:19, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
<onlyinclude>...</onlyinclude>
because it broke the portal, causing it to transclude only the episode count, rather than the lead of the article.((Template parameter value|The Simpsons|Infobox television||num_episodes))
.I am forbidding you from reverting my edits. I am afraid you have been banned from reverting my edits. PERMANENTLY.Now you have been unbanned.Northernrailwaysfan (talk) 12:46, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
I may need help with editing on British Rail pages. Northernrailwaysfan (talk) 19:50, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi RedRose64,
Some of us at WP:PROCC have decided to audit internal links to Climate change because that phrase can either mean to point at Climate change (general concept) or global warming.
Not that it matters, but for full disclosure and context, the former article "climate change" was just renamed Climate change (general concept), and a DAB page Climate change was created to point at global warming. There may be move review discussions forthcoming. If not there will almost certainly be an RM proposed to change the title of global warming.
So all that is going on, and none of it matters for the reason I am writing you. Before the reform effort started we had a massive problem with WP:EGGs, and we still have that problem, and no matter what the outcome of future possible discussions the problem will remain until some eds volunteer to do the grunt work to fix it. And that's why I am writing you, to ask for your expert help to support the grunt work.
Specifically, we need to harness the power of maintenance categories to track our progress as we go through all the pages with "What links here" internal links to "climate change". Eds will massage those in some appropriate way (details TBD) so they point at either Climate change (general concept) or global warming and then switch the maintenance category from (whatever the words might be) "climate change links NOT assessed" to "climate change links verified"). Obviously, if the article titles go through future changes we will need to do some fell-swoop updates so the new tweak(s) is auto-applied to the "Verified" category.
The key thing right now is to figure out a simple maintenance category system for simply tracking articles we have and have not reviewed. "What links here" might be enough, but is kind of a kludge.
Is this something you could help us with? If not you, then who? FYI, I also asked user United Statesian, Thanks for any advice etc you can offer NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 23:42, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
I have made an edit on British Rail Class 800 page for depots as 'North Pole (the former Eurostar depot)'. If you are not happy with the edit I have made, you are welcome to revert it. :D Northernrailwaysfan (talk) 15:32, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
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This is an interesting one. It was a private station and is listed in Quick as such and there do seem to be the sources that say that Dod as a director of the company had a right to stop trains for his use. The interesting part is that there is no evidence (that I've found) that there was any physical station existed. Even old maps from the time just after Dod's right expired don't show anything. The only infrastructure was a siding to a brickworks. My speculation that I cannot prove or disprove is that there was no station and that Dod simply informed the station master as Trefnant or St Asaph that he wished to join/alight from a certain train and that the footplate crew were given instructions to stop at the brickworks for this to happen. Nthep (talk) 20:18, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
I'll put them in this afternoon Anamyd (talk) 11:08, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
The South-West England section, not written by me, also doesn't have any sources. Why haven't you also marked that as such...? Anamyd (talk) 11:12, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello again R. The Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates is full of editor dashboards. I've tried tracking down the pp causing it and have come up empty. I also tried letting several days pass in the hope that the protection might expire and then Musikbot would take care of things but that hasn't worked either. As in the past your help will be much appreciated. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 22:25, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
((admin dashboard))
having a prot template that is not inside a <noinclude>...</noinclude>
; and once again, it's Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism - the edit concerned is this one and Finball30 (talk · contribs) has clearly ignored the comments that follow directly after. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:24, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
Also, since Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 November 6, more early book decade categories have been created. – Fayenatic London 23:20, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
Source: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=452905102026464&id=596154300775114 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stephen lee kh (talk • contribs) 09:27, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
This message is being sent to let you know of a discussion at the Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard regarding the date formats used in citation templates. Content disputes can hold up article development and make editing difficult for editors. You are not required to participate, but you are both invited and encouraged to help this dispute come to a resolution. The thread is "British Rail Class 390".The discussion is about the topic British Rail Class 390. Please join us to help form a consensus. Thank you! --DrFrench (talk) 12:33, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
Would you be interested in joining a good faith effort for new poral guidelines at User talk:Scottywong/Portal guideline workspace? I am reaching out to you completely at random because I saw you made a single post in a portal related area. Yeah I know you may be asking yourself "so why me?" It would really help us if there were someone who has been uninvolved share their views on the matter. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 16:39, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for removing the ((use dmy dates))
template from Talk:British Rail Class 390. I didn't realise they weren't allowed on Talk pages.
The reason I added it was to demonstrate the effect of the CS1 templates on date formatting and I didn't want anyone accusing me of 'spoofing' or 'faking' the effect. Thank you. --DrFrench (talk) 23:39, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
((use dmy dates))
doesn't do anything other than put an article into a category, in this case Category:Use dmy dates from November 2019. It has two purposes: (i) it shows when an article was last verified to use that date format consistently; (ii) there are certain bots that look for inconsistent date formats in articles, and when such inconsistencies are found, it shows that bot which form should be favoured. It goes hand-in-hand with templates like ((use British English))
, which is similarly a categorise-only template, unlike ((British English))
which displays a banner. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:53, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello DQ. Six years today ago we were at the tippy top of the timey wimey 50th anniversary celebrations. It will always be a special memory that fans saw The Day of the Doctor at the same time all over the planet :-) Things are quieter now but there is still a little extra joy when the 23rd falls on a Saturday. I'm glad to finally be leaving a message for ya that does not involve the incorrect pp cat!! Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 05:40, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello,
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I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.
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Hi Redrose64...Can I ask if there are rules to having names in other languages eg first sentence of this? Whispyhistory (talk) 12:43, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Northernrailwaysfan requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. UnitedStatesian (talk) 15:11, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
With respect to this edit, default values might be undesirable, but the lack of a default for |field=
is causing errors that are logged in Category:Pages_where_expansion_depth_is_exceeded. A better solution would be for the parent template to deal with error, which it doesn't do when the |field-importance=
parameter is missing for |field=
. Jts1882 | talk 20:44, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
((WikiProject India))
- that is 0.25% of WP India pages. But the main problem is the total lack of validation: I could put ((WikiProject India|field=Eggs|field-importance=Top))
and it would display "This page is supported by the Eggs workgroup." which is fine if such a workgroup exists - but there is no check for that; worse, it also puts the page into Category:Top-importance India Eggs articles. Maybe it's time to get rid of them all. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:55, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
|field=
parameters seems to have been to create statistics even when no taskforce (see ((WikiProject India))).|fieldN-importance=
parameters (this edit) doesn't fix the expansion depth issue. The pages have come back at Category:Pages_where_expansion_depth_is_exceeded. I don't understand why it causes the error (some recursion?) so have no clue where to look for the problem. Jts1882 | talk 11:57, 3 December 2019 (UTC)Concerning your undos of my edits to the categorization of Railway Stations in Newmarket and Railway Stations in Cromer:
I did this in an effort to introduce some consistency in the categories. Instead of space sorting, how about using an asterisk instead? This has been done (and not by me!) in categories including Category:Railway stations in Cornwall, Category:Railway stations in Essex and Category:Railway stations in Greater Manchester (not an exhaustive list). If you agree, I'd gladly introduce this. Should you oppose my suggestion, perhaps you can make sure this sorting is removed everywhere it is currently used. At least then it would be consistent (though not optimal in my opinion). --Eddyspeeder (talk) 20:10, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
The three car 158s (excluding 158798) at GWR are not Class 158/0s, they are Class 158/9s - Coradia175 (talk) 20:42, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
Redrose, have you heard that Virgin Trains has gone? Eastmidlandsrailwayfan (talk) 09:19, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
As I've got disambiguations wrong for stations in the past can I ask for your help? On Template:Northern (train operating company) route 9 there is a link to Mill Hill railway station. I think this should be Mill Hill railway station (Lancashire). When I look at Template:Stnlnk I see an example [[Bramley railway station (Hampshire)|Bramley]] but when I use this format there seems to be a stray comma - help appreciated.— Rod talk 20:47, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
((stnlnk|Bramley|Hampshire))
expands to [[Bramley railway station (Hampshire)|Bramley]]
.((stnlnk|Mill Hill|Lancashire))
expands to [[Mill Hill railway station (Lancashire)|Mill Hill]]
.Re this edit, that must have been a simple misclick on my part. I have never knowingly imported a short description from Wikidata, which I don't trust. I have the Shortdesc helper installed in order to detect vandalized short descriptions. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:55, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
Damon Runyon's short story "Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the hot Tom and Jerry
No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well R. MarnetteD|Talk 03:38, 17 December 2019 (UTC) |
Season's Greetings | ||
Wishing you a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! Mystical Nativity (Filippo Lippi) is my Wiki-Christmas card to all for this year. Johnbod (talk) 16:39, 17 December 2019 (UTC) |
Hello R. Module:Protected edit request/sandbox has shown up in the cat. I am wondering if it has anything to do with this edit. From what I can find that is the only transclusion with recent activity. Of course it could be something else that I missed. Cheers. MarnetteD|Talk 19:31, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
((pp))
template? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:55, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
((pp-move-indef))
right at the top. MelanieN (talk · contribs) reduced the level of move protection from full to semi yesterday, without removing the template. Either the full move prot should be restored, or the template removed. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:57, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
On this page, I fixed the spelling of Birmingham. The addition of </li> was just an incidental edit for syntax highlighting reasons. Leaving unclosed html tags means the whole edit window becomes highlighted. I don't think closing the tags changes the visual output. kennethaw88 • talk 22:15, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2020! | |
Hello Redrose64, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2020. Spread the love by adding ((subst:Seasonal Greetings)) to other user talk pages. |
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Merry Christmas Redrose64 and to others in Oxford. See you soon. Thank you for everything. Whispyhistory (talk) 18:57, 24 December 2019 (UTC) |
Hi! Thank you for being kind enough to mention me about the easier ways to formatting tags in articles. I have to say, you have a nice user page! Regards from Chile, from an es.wiki editor! --Rjelves (talk) 14:46, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
The Technical Barnstar | |
For fixing someones greeting mess across various talkpages,Good to know it's not me causing mayhem with a messed up template this year! *cough* unlike last year *cough*, Anyway just wanted to says thanks for fixing that!, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 00:25, 26 December 2019 (UTC) |
</center>
tag going back to 11 December. I'll see if I can fix those tomorrow. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 00:41, 26 December 2019 (UTC)BTW, this edit with |display-authors=
does not display 'et al'. If that was your intention, then either the value of display-authors must be less than the total authors in the template (i.e., removing at least one author from display), or you must set |display-authors=et al
. --Izno (talk) 18:38, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
((cite book))
would throw an error if exactly nine authors were specified but |displayauthors=
was blank or absent. I guess Trappist the monk (talk · contribs) must have changed the code again: it's impenetrable. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 00:01, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
|display-authors=etal
– I'm ok taking the blame for that. Unlimited name-list support was implemented before that and in fact, was not done by me. If you find the Lua impenetrable, the template doc might be more accessible. Of course, editors do complain that cs1|2 documentation is also incomprehensible ... The documentation changed with this edit to remove mention of the limitations imposed by ((citation/core))
. So, nothing new here.Hello there, I notice you keep reverting my edits for the stations above. I try to make it so that people know that the train goes from West Ealing to High Wycombe - however in the edit you recently reverted it only shows as the terminus of the first part from South Ruislip - however there is no mention of the latter section to High Wycombe - except on the High Wycombe page, which is no use. Please let me know what I am doing wrong... IamMattDavies (talk) 14:52, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
Your wealth of knowledge about computers and code is amazing. The extent of what I know is quite simply to not use "beef stew" as a password - it's not stroganoff. 😊 Atsme Talk 📧 00:46, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
Happy new year
Whispyhistory (talk) 00:39, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
I moved the List of rail accidents (2010–present) to List of rail accidents (2010–2019) per prior consensus at the talk page. This has had the effect of altering the ToC called by ((lists of rail accidents years)) from 2010s to 2020s! Any idea why this happened and how to fix it? Mjroots (talk) 06:18, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
I may need help to become a Wikipedia administrator, can you help me, please? Eastmidlandsrailwayfan (talk) 09:21, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
Hi Redrose64
You recently made an unnecessary revert on the Sutton Park Line to passengers services reintroduced in future. Now you've accused me of an "unsourced opinion/speculation". I did link Aldridge station page as a reference to my opinion. So can you please explain how this is unsourced speculation? https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-country/huge-step-new-aldridge-railway-17479108 and it mentions that the station is a step forward to reopening the station and line to passengers. So unless the documents are fake... this article is completely compulsory with the line in general as Aldridge is on the line.
Signed: JoshuaistheFalco, 07:04, 4th January 2020 JoshuaIsTheFalco (talk) 07:04, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
£10m funding is needed to take the proposal to the next stage- so there's no funding, which means that the proposal might not happen
It is hoped- this is pure wishful thinking, a very long way from a certainty
A new feasibility survey- feasibility surveys are no more than somebody sitting at a desk and doing some calculations. Every major project should begin with one, but that in no way means that further progress will occur.
deemed the project viable- still doesn't mean that it will happen. Money has to be found first.
ordered the organisation to draw up a business case- a business case is the next step, but it's not happened. And there is still no money.
Hi..I can't remember how to do this. Whispyhistory (talk) 18:01, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi can you assist me, I'm having a "reverting war" on Uldale amd Ireby, Cumbria how do I take this to the next level?
Devokewater (talk) 17:44, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
Could you please cite your source for correcting my entry for the closure of Farringdon Goods from 5th August 1968 to 13th August 1968? I have 3 separate published books which all state the earlier date. Thanks Ultratorque (talk) 17:22, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
See et:KKK and et:Korduma kippuvad küsimused. This is re: your recent reversion of my edit to KKK (disambiguation). Heepman1997 (talk) 12:14, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
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For your fast and good technical answers on Wikipedia:SVG help, Thanks, — Johannes Kalliauer - contrib. 22:05, 13 January 2020 (UTC) |
I sometimes take a opposing position on Wikipedia:SVG_help to show another viewpoint. I hope its ok for you, It's not against you. I sometimes have a different experience, since I cannot create SVG by hands, and I mainly use tools to repair images. I think I know most SVG-rendering-bugs mentioned on phab:. Since I'm not so much on the en.wikipedia, if you think I might can add something usefull, you could ping me. — Johannes Kalliauer - contrib. 22:05, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
I just noticed that a user has not been keeping the railway station figures at five for a lot of Scottish railway stations. Pkbwcgs (talk) 21:48, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for pointing out, is the updated rfc entry ok? RonaldDuncan (talk) 17:49, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
3rd time lucky :) I have put in the rfc again. It was ok the last time https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Politics,_government,_and_law&oldid=935779632 apart from the hat template being put on whilst in the midst of the process. I have requested on the talk page that other editors do not hat the discussion whilst the rfc is in progress. RonaldDuncan (talk) 14:21, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
Sorry about the WP:INDENTGAP problem. Sometimes when editing discussions, reading the text in the editor, it is hard to follow the discussion. That is, where one comment ends and the next begins. If I understand WP:INDENTGAP, I should put the appropriate number of : on lines between comments from different users? Thanks, Gah4 (talk) 02:33, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
7&6=thirteen (☎) has given you a Dobos torte to enjoy! Seven layers of fun because you deserve it.
To give a Dobos torte and spread the WikiLove, just place ((subst:Dobos Torte)) on someone else's talkpage, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. |
You know how to ping me. Cheers. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 20:16, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
Either way works. Its a common referencing error I encounter a lot. Just seem easier (and faster) my way. I'm aware of all the ways to fix that particular problem with that template. Thanks, I guess. Isaidnoway (talk) 21:31, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
How did I add them? How can you see them? Rathfelder (talk) 08:58, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I just removed a parameter called "1" from the article Shoeburyness railway station. Do you know what is the purpose of this parameter? The parameter was blank. Pkbwcgs (talk) 22:59, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
((Infobox GB station|
| name = Shoeburyness
((Infobox UK station
|symbol=rail|
|name=Ynyswen
Hi Red Please can you take a look at this page for me. I am not sure all the references on the page are showing and am not sure how to add a Harvard reference of my own. I added my source book - Anglia East by Ian Cowley - but cannot work out how to link the information I added about 1980s departmental deployment in East Anglia to the reference. Thanks--Davidvaughanwells (talk) 11:13, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
<ref>((harvnb|Cowley|1987|p=(pagenumbers)))</ref>
or ((sfn|Cowley|1987|p=(pagenumbers)))
replacing (pagenumbers)
with the actual page numbers where you found the material. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:30, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi, the RfC is not related to that section. It is not a follow-on. The section that is related to is Lack of neutrality not that request to edit the protected page. I thought it was a typo and fixed it.--SharʿabSalam▼ (talk) 10:10, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi Redrose64,
Sorry about that. I hadn't realized there was a parameter in the Template:Initiated to mark the request as "done." Thank you and I've noted that for the future! :)
Many thanks,
Doug Mehus T·C 23:30, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
((initiated))
doesn't recognise a |nac=
parameter. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:58, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi there I am new to Wikipedia and want to upload a few photos I had taken of some closed railway stations. The uploader for photos keeps failing when I try to upload to the wiki page. How can I fix it as I've made my tenth. Kind regards. JoshuaGuest96 (talk) 10:37, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
Thank you RedRose64 JoshuaGuest96 (talk) 21:15, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi RR64, Rather than just reverting my valid edit why not fix the info box? CrossHouses (talk) 14:42, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
West Highland Line‽ CrossHouses (talk) 22:52, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi RR64 clearly you don’t remember your edit of 6 days ago? CrossHouses (talk) 21:08, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
Special:Diff/937326341 CrossHouses (talk) 21:08, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
Seven years! |
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--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:44, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
I am not aware of changing anyone else's posts, and if I did so, it was an accident. It appears that the change you pointed to was the erasure of the end of a date at the end of a previous post. That might have been a glitch of some sort, but could not possibly be a meaningful or malicious change. I remember looking at a potential post I was making, and realizing I needed to go back to add a colon to indent my own reply properly, so I'm guessing that in adding the colon, a few characters got erased in the process, if it was indeed due to me. Perhaps my cursor jumped unasked? It does that. At any rate, thank you for repairing any unmeant damage. WordwizardW (talk) 21:56, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for closing the regen power pty ltd AfD last week - much appreciated. Bookscale (talk) 01:16, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
hi. If I have some general questions about helping or participating at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention, whom could I contact? would that be yourself? I appreciate it. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 17:44, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
--Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:43, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi RedRose64
You recently reverted three edits I made and accused me of wishful thinking. I would like to correct you on that the source was from ITVNEWS. It has been further confirmed by Andy Street. What passes as evidence to stop you making these unnecessary reverts? And also if I cant say a long term aspiration then what wording? It is hoped? It is possible?. Seems you unesscasary you reverted the edits given there pages with similar wording like the Peak Rail and Sutton Park Line pages. JoshuaGuest96 (talk) 11:06, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Can I ask why the external link is 'not necessary'?
If you haven't visited this website, I'm not really certain why it MUST be deleted.
I would imagine that, as the page cites no sources, it would be worthwhile to at least have some form of link?
IamMattDavies (talk) 17:02, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi, do you happen to know: in Requests for closure noticeboard, for a request about a page that has been archived, should the closer do anything special to mark the close? E.g. put a note on the archived page and a new thread on the current talk page, with the same heading? Peter Gulutzan (talk) 16:58, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
In the unlikely event that you have nothing better to do with your time, would you glance at the speculative service tables I've added to Cambourne and Tempsford to see if I have managed to stay on the right side of WP:OR? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 22:29, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
Having just made a comment on the undue weight of class 86 on Lancashire Witch I did notice you has just improved it. WP:TROUT me for that it wasn't intentional. Just so as you are aware where I'm coming from on this I've come over to the Liverpool and Manchester and in bits of background for the Dublin and Kingstown railway and occasionally looking at related articles when the're not up to scratch ... probably Henry Booth in particular and articles that he touches ... notably Rocket and Rainhill which I have typically spent my life avoiding! Djm-leighpark (talk) 09:15, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
Hope you're doing well. Regarding your undoing of my edit, I know WP:VPT isn't WP:ANI and formal closure isn't required, but on the same hand, what's the harm in closing the discussion? Just curious.
Cheers,
Doug Mehus T·C 22:24, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
((atop))
/((abot))
to discourage further mudslinging. But at boards like WP:VPT we don't want to stifle the addition of further constructive comments and advice: the issue may have been resolved, so we use ((resolved))
to indicate that people need not devote hours into investigating. But somebody may know of a better (shorter/easier/more efficient) way of fixing it, so we leave discussions open until the archiving bot ships them out - this means that should people look in the archives in a year or two, they can see several other people's experiences, what they did about it, etc. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 00:06, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
Does that mean that everywhere I've used an Openstreetmap snip, I don't need to say "copyright Openstreetmap contributors" as I (I think!) they specify? It would certainly make them less clunky if I could delete that tag line. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 00:05, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
I had forgotten that bit of buggeration. Will fix my regex. Guy (help!) 10:01, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
Hello R. I hope you are well. Martyrdom in Judaism showed up in the cat today. There is no protection there. The only thing I can find is this edit to the ((Antisemitism)) but its last protection expired in April of 2019. Of course it could be something else causing the problem. Any help you can provide will be appreciated. MarnetteD|Talk 08:51, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
((pp-protected|small=yes))((pp-move-indef))((pp-pc|small=yes))
((Use American English|date=November 2019))
((short description|Genocide of the European Jews by Nazi Germany and other groups))
((redirect-multi|2|Holocaust|Shoah))
((Use dmy dates|date=November 2019))
((infobox civilian attack))
is relevant either. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 09:06, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
Hello, just so you know almost all of my project banners that are put on talk pages are done so through an automated process, as such there's no way for me to "preview" my edits. Also, all the projects are listed as part of a pre-populated list, they're not manually put in. Most AfC people including myself aren't going to fully know what project pages are active or not as we deal with a myriad of different subjects daily. If you see errors with how the project pages are getting posted and/or errors with projects that are pre-populated in the AfC script, you might want to make a note of it at the projects talk page. Cheers. Sulfurboy (talk) 22:24, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
After performing any of these actions, the page will reload in place, allowing you to inspect your changes. Diff links are available for each edit the script made automatically.This means that you had the opportunity to revert or otherwise correct your edits.
Recently you said that indenting references was bad. I didn't see that documented anywhere so I did some testing and updated Template:Reflist/doc, Template talk:Reflist, and some related pages. Hopefully this will make this kind of error less common and will give people someplace to point to when an editor trips over the bug and doesn't understand why things look funny as a result.
Anyway, "it's all your fault," or, to put it another way, you inspired me to improve Wikipedia.
Oh, and thanks for changing # to *. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 22:17, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
((reflist))
template makes an ordered list inside a div. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:23, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
Never put a reflist inside a list. For any talk-page stalkers you might have, Template talk:Reflist#Detailed example of problem with indenting references, using Template:reflist has more technical information on what happens when you indent ((reflist)). By the way, I assume by ordered list, you mean HTML_element#Lists. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 22:39, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
I see that when you remove the invalid stations-importance parameter, you're also removing ((talkheader)). What's the reasoning behind that? It's a useful template to have on every talk page. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:47, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
This template should be used only when needed. There is no need to add this template to every talk page.and at WP:TPG#Creating talk pages:
... should not be added to pages that do not have discussions on them. There is no need to add discussion warning templates to every talk page, or even to every talk page that contains a discussion..
The reason it was empty is that the creator immediately renamed it to Category:LGBT Mennonites and refiled everybody in it to that other category instead. So it wasn't necessary to hold off for seven days, because it was just as deletable under either C2 ("speedy renaming") or G7 ("content blanked or erased by creator"). Bearcat (talk) 17:23, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
Adding the short description template marks a page as having been reviewed so that it no longer turns up in TODO lists. A value of "none" shows that no SD text is really appropriate. As far as I could see, the page title was enough, but if you can think of suitable SD text then please add it. GhostInTheMachine (talk) 23:35, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
If the article title alone is sufficient to ensure reliable identification of the desired article, a null value of ((Short description|none))
may be used. However, this will not override the descriptions from Wikidata.
The whole point about adding local short descs is to override those Wikidata ones, which may be unreliable, and are definitely prone to vandalism. See for example Wikipedia talk:Short description/Archive 5#Null value, or ask RexxS (talk · contribs). --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:47, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
((Closed stations Kent)) is not displaying the Ashford to Ramsgate line in "other lines" at the bottom of the template. Can't see anything obvious that is causing this. Any ideas? Mjroots (talk) 21:13, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
Nobody's saying he was a bad person, or definitely a racist, or anything like that - I have a great deal admiration for Hartnell, but it still just isn't right for the Wikipedia article to delete information this way, especially since Jessica Carney (Hartnell’s granddaughter) acknowledged it. And as it is now trending through on Twitter (via Claudia Boleyn), it needs to be addressed before the media takes hold it and a big debate arrives on the Internet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.69.227.38 (talk) 23:09, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
Allegations of anti-Semitism and racism came from co stars that worked with Hartnell like Nicholas Courtney and Anneke Wills - they're not smears. Even if the Hartnell allegations are considered not noteworthy enough, we should still take into consideration the first hand sources surrounding them and debate on whether they are notable enough. 79.69.227.38 (talk) 09:59, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
I have taken it to the talk page to see if we can reach a consensus on this matter. [Talk:William_Hartnell#Alleged_racism]] 79.69.227.38 (talk) 11:28, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing the timestamps. They were subtle and got away from me, which makes it even more important that they be fixed.
I'm assuming the IP editor is new and he just copied and pasted previous comments from other people's talk pages and put them on my talk page. WP:AGF and all. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 21:11, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
Yes, I did. This was before I was informed I can use the ping or reply-to template. I was just trying to get people's attention to the issue at hand. I am sorry for faking the timestamps and I apologise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.69.227.38 (talk) 21:20, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
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--Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:33, 2 March 2020 (UTC)I left a comment on RexxS's page in reply to your comment. Since he removed it, I'm not sure whether you were notified and apologize beforehand if you already were. Thank-you note You the man(converse) 20:17, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
I'm a new XFDcloser user. I'm still learning. NASCARfan0548 ↗ 15:51, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello R. I hope you are well. The recently created Help:Introduction to/All has shown up in the cat. I've been through all of the pages (I hope but still may have missed one or more) transcluded to it and added noinclude templates to those that didn't already have them. Did I miss one or is there some other item that I missed? Thanks for your time. MarnetteD|Talk 17:08, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I saw that my request for editing the period color template was denied. I'm not upset with you or anything, and I'm going to do what you said, but when I do that, do I make a new edit request, or do I edit the request I sent previously? I want to make sure I'm doing this right. Thank you! Benniboi01 (talk • contribs) 18:25, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
|pleistocene=rgb(254,239,184) |upper pleistocene|tarantian=rgb(254,241,214) |middle pleistocene|ionian|chibanian=rgb(254,240,204) ...
|answered=yes
to |answered=no
. Also, please don't suggest additional template changes here - they belong on the template talk page. Not only do they deserve a more appropriate audience but it is bad practice to fragment an ongoing discussion across multiple pages. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:31, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
Hello there, you removed my edit on the status of MK1 BG coach No.80590. I can confirm what I wrote was correct information backed up by visits to the TUGS Exhibition and photographic evidence of 80590 being used for their display, as that has been its purpose on the railway for the past six years. It is no longer a stores vehicle, hence why I was updating it. Please can you explain why you removed it? --Bashed3g (talk) 14:45, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
You have the right combination of rail knowledge and technical understanding for this question. It appears that there are somewhere around 100 articles that have a short citation attempting to link to "Jowett 2000", but which are missing a full citation. See Brigham railway station as an example. Many of those articles list ((Jowett-Atlas)), a 1989 book, in their sources; I do not think that is a coincidence. Do you have any idea what might be going on here and how the problem might best be fixed? I'm happy to edit the articles and/or the template if you have a solution. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:26, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
I'm completely lost here. I went back and re-thought how I could display my diagrams on the page without compromising other people's work, and now you're telling me to just bugger off? I should have every right to share my work on a website that is community driven, especially if it's providing more accurate references for digital work, which it is. And if sharing my 507 diagrams is an issue, why isn't it an issue for the 313? Or the 314? Or the 315? Or literally anyone else who has posted UK train diagrams to Wikipedia? PennCentral9 (talk) 08:50, 28 March 2020 (UTC)