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I've been meaning to ask you this for a solid six months or so but haven't gotten off my ass to do it. What's up with User:Pppery/noinclude list? It shows in "What links here" as being a page that all templates currently nominated for deletion are transcluded on, which makes things look a bit weird when I go to remove existing transclusions of a template I've just closed a discussion for. The "transclusion" could also be a tad misleading for all the "unused" nominations recently. Is there any way to alter the underlying module to avoid this without breaking whatever you're doing with that page? ~ Rob13Talk 19:23, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
I noticed you changed the way the TV station templates are transcluded. Is this a new method? I've never seen it before. Raymie (t • c) 07:24, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
I know why that tag was added. If you taken note of my edit summary, you might have better understood why I removed it. At the time of my removal of the tag, there was an issue of sorts causing all references to be replaced by the deletion notice. When I tested how my change affected these pages, it seemed to correct the problem, although in hindsight, it seems that purging the page may have been the only reason for this. It seems that the issue may have actually been caused by changes here (although I'm really not certain). Anyway, the problem has been addressed, so no more changes appear to be necessary. Dustin (talk) 00:24, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I'm writing to inform you that I've opened a new general Request for Comment concerning whether predecessors and successors should be included in the Infobox Officeholder template, further to my RfC concerning Michael Portillo specifically. The new RfC can be found here: Template_talk:Infobox_officeholder#RfC:_Should_predecessors_and_successors_be_included_in_officeholders.27_infoboxes.3F. Thanks, Specto73 (talk) 19:22, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
Please stop your disruptive editing at {{Infobox television season}}. The code to restrict use of num_stories
to Doctor Who articles was deliberately added to the template after a discussion. This field is not, and should not be, used by any other series, however it is required by Doctor Who articles, which is why the code is included. If you disagree, please open a discussion on the template's talk page, but modifying the template because of your own preconceived notions without discussion is, at best, disruptive. --AussieLegend (✉) 01:55, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
For your helpful lua module. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 02:29, 29 December 2016 (UTC) |
Pppery,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. –Davey2010 Merry Xmas / Happy New Year 00:29, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
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I am a bit allergic to bold, red text popping up on WP pages, so I did my best to avoid it, and I must admit I did not even read all of the bold, red text. I see now that I was in error, for which I apology. I take this opportunity to wish you all the best for 2017. Regards! --T*U (talk) 13:44, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
Listen, I was a little harsh with you over at the RfD discussion. I know you mean well, just try to take things a bit slower, and think twice before nominating at any of the XfD boards. Each nom sucks up a huge amount of editor time, and there's rarely any hurry, so if in doubt ask someone (especially the page creator) privately first. EEng 01:04, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
Hello Pppery. I noticed that you changed the templates {{Transclude births}} and {{Transclude deaths}} to create real level-3 headings instead of pseudo-headings. I understand your purpose but I wish you had discussed it first. I mentioned my rationale for using pseudo-headers at Talk:0s after you had intervened there but you didn't reply to my ping. I believe we should keep the TOCs light in the decades pages, and the accessibility of properly-bolded pseudo-headers is not an issue. Actually, the repetition of several "AD n" headers on each decade page might create an accessibility problem of its own. Please reconsider. — JFG talk 05:09, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
@Pppery: As explained on Talk:AD 1 I'm experimenting with transclusions of the births and deaths from individual year pages to decades pages, in order to populate them and avoid duplication of effort by editors. The reason I don't want to repeat section headers is that there are typically very few births and deaths per year in this part of history, so that we keep just a decade-wide "Births" and "Deaths" entry in the TOC. If we reduce the TOC level instead, then we lose the detail of events by years, which have more content including subsections. Hence pseudo-headers are an appropriate solution here. — JFG talk 21:24, 12 January 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for trying to improve the capitalisation on Module:WikidataIB. I often find the parser functions are a bit too dumb to do those jobs accurately, so I wrote Module:String2 that has a sentence() call which just capitalises the initial letter of the first word and can cope with wikilinks and piped links. As WikidataIB is really meant as a set of building blocks to help infobox designers create templates, I was expecting them to use String2 on the output of WikidataIB where it was needed, which would allow the option of using the raw result from WikidataIB if anybody needs to. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 01:08, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
It doesn't make too much sense to leave outdated information on the noticeboard. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:57, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
For the record it would be easier to simply drop a line on my talk page asking if I did a copyvio check/hook length check rather than pinging every DYK review I've done over the last few days. Every hook I reviewed was copyvio checked (with some flagged and noted for being probable copyvios) with Earwigs during their review and the hook lengths were also eyeballed for length. Best, Mifter (talk) 21:53, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
... Earwig ...). Nor was I specifically focusing on you. I was going through Template talk:Did you know/Approved, starting just above the special occasion area, and scrolling up, flagging any incomplete reviews I noticed. Pppery 14:53, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
Since in the discussion at Talk:Haswell (CPU)#Requested move 11 February 2017, you expressed an opinion regarding the use of disambiguators, these two current discussions, Talk:Catherine Blake (disambiguation)#Requested move 4 February 2017 and Talk:Edward Wynne#Requested move 10 February 2017, both of which focus on that subject, may be of interest. —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 15:25, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
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Hi Pppery
I'm not sure about the station entries you're adding at WP:RMTR. Although I sort of agree that the disambiguator is not necessary, there's a fairly strong precedent for including the line in parentheses in every case, even where there's no ambiguity. See, for example, Category:IRT Second Avenue Line stations, Category:IRT Lenox Avenue Line stations, Category:New York City Subway stations in Queens, New York, etc. Practically all of them have a disambiguator. I think this might be better handled as a multimove request at WP:RM. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 15:40, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
I have followed the crisis closely and it has been regularly been referred to as the 'Flint Water Crisis' - if at all it has rarely been referred to as the "Flint, Michigan Water Crisis" - even if it has, the most common term is the former. Rather than undo-ing the change I suggest an alternative title: "Flint Water Crisis (Michigan)" or something similar. Thoughts? Pajokie (talk) 01:03, 25 February 2017 (UTC)pajokie
Possibly attributed to George Washington...
It is generally best to keep silent
and be thought a fool,
than to open one's mouth
and remove all doubt.
I'm totally bemused by your hyper-focus on a simple discussion about future strategy, nor why you would want to affect so many pages with a unnecessary protected edit accomplished no additional publicity for the discussion. Between the Vpump and the TFD. As I noted in the VP, the many probably don't realize there exist a better and best choice than the column templates... which I've used extensively btw, over the years. God knows, I'm the last person anyone around here would call a deletionist, especially for a template tool! For Pete's sake, I headed up the old interwiki templates dissemination and co-ordination project back in 2008-09ish, and helped categorize most back then. Also invented the doc-page documentation system with CBD and Tim, though the implementation was improved a bit by the template programmers crowd a few weeks in. Most good template documentation started from those projects! So Relax. That TFD snowball is just to get a consensus without a RFC! And to improve performance in PAD computers. Kids have them integrated onto a space 14" below their nose, these days! // FrankB 21:53, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
I see that you had reverted my edit. I've undone your revert, and am here to prevent any edit wars. Here is the link to my rationale. The talk page also clarifies my reasoning. Please read them carefully.
Good day.
LoMStalk 17:30, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
Page names consisting of exactly one or two periods (full stops), or beginning with ./ or ../, or containing /./ or /../, or ending with /. or /.., are not allowed. In most such cases DISPLAYTITLE will not work, so {{correct title}} should be used. As a result of this, the abbreviation of Slashdot, /., does not redirect to the page.
policy dictates that we may not use . or .. in a title.[citation needed] I see no such policy at WP:NC-SLASH. The text you are quoting prohibits titles designed to look like unnecessary long file paths like "a/b/../c", or "a/b/.". Pppery 00:19, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
I see you removed the year. It's been fixed now but it's important to look at what other articles exist before removing part of articles' titles. Cheers. In ictu oculi (talk) 08:05, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
Thanx for the fix. I just wanted you to know my change was inadvertent. My browser is glitchy today, and I didn't even notice what happened. Alsee (talk) 20:48, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
Regarding this request: I ended up settling on Triple Zero (000) as the title, largely due to the subject being referred to that way throughout the article (i.e. 18 times), and it being presented that way in some of the sources (especially official ones). However, as an American, I'm largely unfamiliar with the topic. If you think another title is more appropriate, let me know, and I'll either implement it or start a requested move (depending on the suggested title). Best Regards, — Godsy (TALKCONT) 06:16, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
A request to change the title and content of a comics article has begun at Talk:X-Men (film series)#Requested move 7 April 2017. Any interested WikiProject:Comics editor may comment there within one week. --Tenebrae (talk) 02:57, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
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