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A bot edit Punctuation goes before References has been made (and reverted by me) me a couple of times now. There is a sentence with three references. Two of them refer to keywords in the sentence, and one of them to the whole sentence. Only the last reference (the one applying to the complete sentence) should go after the punctuation mark. The article is correct (in this regard) as it stands now. YohanN7 ( talk) 01:56, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Egyptian Revolution of 2013 is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Egyptian Revolution of 2013 until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. GreyShark ( dibra) 19:34, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello Bgwhite, please move User:Captain Assassin!/sandbox5 to Hero (2014 film). The filming has begun, given sources confirmed. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 16:35, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Bgwhite. Since I agreed not to edit the Twins' page, I've decided to edit more melodic and relaxing music pages, such as Slayer. Anyway, I was just wondering if an exception can be made in the case of clear vandalism, supposing that you or GoingBatty are not around at the time. There was a recent edit by an anonymous user, and it was a good one, but at first I feared possible vandalism. So please let me know if in an indisputable case of vandalism I can directly edit the Kitt page, as the only exception to the agreement. Thank you as always for your time. Dontreader ( talk) 07:14, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Sir, I once again thank you for the edits in Padmapur. But sir, don't you think that the images of personalities like Comrade Nagabhushana Patnaik (Who is born in Padmapur) and Sadguru Arjuna (Who is born near a village padmapur) have glorified India by their selfless deeds and as such their images should be displayed in the page Padmapur . I still admit that the problems ,if any, regarding copyright, should be considered leniently. Hpsatapathy ( talk) 04:35, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Sir, Many many thanks for the brilliant email.You are really justified.
With regards: hpsatapathy 117.214.93.4 ( talk) 08:14, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello Bgwhite - I am new to editing Wikipedias so I apologize if I'm not accomplishing things in the correct way. I'm writing in regards to the recent reversions on the edits I made to the page for the Texistepec Language. I have already written to Materialscientist in hopes of addressing what I did wrong so I can ensure my edits are correct in information and formatting. I am a linguistics student with a semester long project of updating a Wikipage for my chosen Indigenous American language every week on a different aspect of the language. All of my sources are from peer-reviewed articles and books authored by experts recognized in their field. I realized I failed to make a citation and tried to go back and correct it but that was also reverted. What I am having trouble understanding is why my initial edits to the page were left intact (after they were edited by you for formatting, thank you very much) but my second attempt on 15 Feb. 2014 was completely erased. My sources are peer-reviewed and cited in the edits, and I found my sources as a result of the Reference sections in the back of other books in this field. I'm not writing anything opinion based, I am not even trying to put my own spin on any of the information. I am taking information out of physical texts and copying it onto the Wiki. I know my Professor's hopes in this assignment was that we could have useful homework that would give back to the community at large, I'm finding this more difficult to accomplish than I'd expected since the info is being deleted and I have no idea why. I have been using Microsoft Front Page to code my entries because I don't know how to code. If this is not acceptable please let me know what I can do better so the information is allowed to remain on the page. I'm not trying to start any editing 'wars', I don't even know how I'd do that, but I do have to update this on a weekly basis. Please help me so I can pass the information along to the rest of my classmates, who are encountering the same problems, so we can contribute something useful to the world instead of just frustration to the tireless Wiki editors such as yourself. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can give me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.165.149.83 ( talk) 18:17, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Thank you Bgwhite. Most of my info was from the stuff already referenced, but now I see which citations I forgot to include. Thanks for the information on the formatting. I will avoid MFP in the future and try to code it by hand using the tutorials on wiki tables. Thank you for your assistance and I will take some more time to practice my tables on the "sandbox" before I try to edit the page again. Thank you. -AzLinguist (I don't have a username so I thought I'd try that one out) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.165.149.83 ( talk) 16:36, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Do you have any website of your own with some storage to host some HTML/javascript code? We have this page. I uploaded it at my3gb, because it is free and you don't need to sign in in every few weeks to keep the account active. But the site my3gb itself, not my account, has some bad impression. The code itself is very simple. If you have some host, and it is not going to ber terminated soon, could you host the code at your site? It'll take only 10 kb. Tito☸ Dutta 09:25, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi there BG, AL "here",
don't bother talking/warning this guy ( /info/en/?search=User_talk:Alexanderalgrim#DEFAULTSORT_2 please see your message here), i've followed him extensively as he seems to dabble in Portuguese football, and thus be my compatriot, i've tried everything, speaking in Portuguese, speaking in English, other people have talked to him, offered help, warned him due to his continuing BLP violations... NOTHING works, he does not utter one word in reply to ANYONE, and he speaks English, not a very good one but he does.
Attentively, happy editing -- AL ( talk) 01:16, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Example: if a player plays ONE MINUTE in a minor competition (i.e. Taça da Liga) then goes months without playing anything else (and he could die/retire in the meantime for all we know), Mr.Algrim feels the subject is already worthy of a WP article, and voilà!
Also interesting is that he received a notification after i highlighted his name in my message to you, and did he feel the need to defend himself/comment here? No way! Quite a one-man show he's running there...
All in all, sorry for any misunderstanding, keep it up -- AL ( talk) 00:12, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm currently (impatiently) waiting for the next database scan of svwp. Could you plese update me when it hits? (I hope I'm sending to the right user, too many to keep track of in my watchlist...) :-P ( t) Josve05a ( c) 17:19, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Please see TOC#Floating_the_TOC for the reasons that the Poem For Want of a Nail had the table of contents moved right. The way you changed the article leaves a lot of whitespace in the center of the heading, and is poor visual formatting - which is why WP:TOC specifically allows this exception. I have reverted your edit for now, please let us take this discussion to the talk page and come to consensus with other editors on this topic. Thank you! Timmccloud ( talk) 15:20, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
An article that you either edited or previously proposed for deletion has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Willy Monfret. Due to lack of discussion the article has now been relisted twice. If you have a chance could you please stop by and weigh in on the deletion debate. — Bill W. ( Talk) ( Contrib) — 14:05, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for editing my edits, Bgwhite, always learn from others' edits. say, do you think that needs additional citations box from 4/09 can go? I added where I could to clean up rotting links etc. true, the top of the article has very few citations, but almost all sections refer to main article full of citations. Should only admins remove these box warnings? Didnt see a thank you link behind your name so am posting this on your talk page (BTW: why do/how can some people have this and some not?). Thanks.-- Wuerzele ( talk) 17:11, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Interwiki Complete list is being linked to Meta Wikipedia list. How to disable it? I found nothing in interwiki table. Tito☸ Dutta 13:07, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
ª Ac. Abhidevananda edited commons.js file and fixed it . Tito☸ Dutta 07:16, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Please show me the POLICY that prohibits redlinks. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 08:07, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Can I use the "Draft" namespace to create articles, it's better way to create future articles like upcoming novels, films, etc. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 17:11, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I just want to inform that there is no lock symbol on the article Causes of World War I which you recently marked as semi-protected. - Anonimski ( talk) 14:58, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Please take a look at User:Captain Assassin!/sandbox1 and move it to Midnight Rider (film) - Thanks. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 11:32, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
You do realise that your edit summary is pointing to a Help page, no guideline, policy or anything someone could genuinely refer to as "how to format an article"? The Rambling Man ( talk) 21:55, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Tito☸ Dutta 11:25, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Tito☸ Dutta 05:34, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
I noticed this change by BG19bot to Coordinated Universal Time. It seems to be an invisible change, in that it would not change the appearance of the article to a reader. Also, it seems to be outside the scope of the approval of the bot, which was to add a template to certain biography talk pages. Jc3s5h ( talk) 13:21, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
{{
Use dmy dates|date=February 2014}}
and {{
Redirect|UTC}}
- this is permitted because hatnotes should always go at the very top, see
WP:HNP and
MOS:LEAD; (ii) it moved a reference {{
sfn|Seidelmann|1992|p=7}}
from before a comma to after it - this was in line with
MOS:REFPUNC; (iii) it altered a link from [[List_of_UTC_time_offsets|List of UTC time offsets]]
to [[List of UTC time offsets]]
which does exactly the same thing, but is just over half the length. Only the third was purely cosmetic, the first two were in accordance with the Manual of Style. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
21:06, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
Please take a look at User:Captain Assassin!/sandbox5 and move it to The End of the Tour (2014 film) - Thanks. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 03:48, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello Bgwhite, don't have a minute here? -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 02:45, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I was going through the short pages page when I noticed that the article Recognition of same-sex unions in Europe has been blanked by BG19bot in this edit. The edit summary for the blanking was: m (using AWB (9949)). I believed that this was in error, and I have reverted the edit. Please advise. Thanks. KJ click here 10:03, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Yes, this is a very rare problem that occurs most probably due to temporary internet connection loss. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:55, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Please review this User:Captain Assassin!/sandbox5 and move it to Boychoir (film) - Thanks. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 19:07, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Of course there are exceptions. Per WP:TOC, "Although usually a heading after the TOC is preferable, __TOC__ can be used to avoid being forced to insert a meaningless heading just to position the TOC correctly, i.e., not too low." That's a direct quote. Yes, Point #2 in "Floating the TOC" says "If floating the TOC, it should be placed at the end of the lead section of the text, before the first section heading." but Point #5 says "The default TOC is placed before the first headline, but after any introductory text (unless changed by the page's editors). If the introductory summary is long enough that a typical user has to scroll down to see the top of the TOC, you may float the TOC so it appears closer to the top of the article. However, the floating TOC should in most cases follow at least the first paragraph of article text." This is an explicit exception, and blind reversion is uncalled for. - Dravecky ( talk) 09:26, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
“ | 2. If floating the TOC, it should be placed at the end of the lead section of the text, before the first section heading. Users of screen readers do not expect any text between the TOC and the first heading, and having no text above the TOC is confusing. See the last line in the information about elements of the lead section. | ” |
( t) Josve05a ( c) 19:09, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
I've just been invited to comment here by a bot, but I'm not entirely sure what question is actually being asked so I'll just comment based on my reading of the thread (no links to background have been given). It seems to be in dispute whether accessibility concerns, particularly for people using screen readers, prohibits the placing of a TOC before the end of the first section of an article - something that is technically possible and not explicitly forbidden by the guidelines for tables of contents? If I've understood this correctly then the answer is that, yes, accessibility concerns are more important than pretty visual design. The reasoning behind this interpretation comes from pillars 1 and 3 of the five fundamental principles by which Wikipedia operates:
As a final comment, this discussion really should be happening somewhere more central than a user talk page. Thryduulf ( talk) 00:57, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Please take a look at following sandboxes and move these to required targets
Thanks. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 04:13, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
And please move this User:Captain Assassin!/sandbox5 to Untitled Warren Beatty project -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 19:37, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
thanks for your help with formatting.
Just for your information I am currently working on the Lae wikipage and including all the suburbs (listed in section called suburbs)
It is my plan to complete all suburbs then to reformat the Lae main page and submit this page for peer review.
I would appreciate any assistance in formatting prose or facts and even contributions within any of these suburbs.
thank you for your help Phenss ( talk) 21:45, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I believe you are mistaken in the changes you have been making, with the Edit summary "TOC must come before first headline per WP:TOC". Can you elucidate here? Thanks a bunch. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 06:59, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
see this edit which put most of the page into a blue background. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 22:17, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I'm
ReferenceBot. I have automatically detected that an edit performed by you may have introduced errors in referencing. It is as follows:
Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, ReferenceBot ( talk) 01:14, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Evidently your error #97 project will hit many Bridge world competitions pages that I updated a few years ago, because I(we) commonly floated {TOC right} after the lead paragraph, in multi-paragraph lead sections. Probably I will revisit them all at once, maybe next month.
These notes and questions concern the "general fixes and cleanup" in one world competition page on my watchlist today ( Bgwhite diffs). If you have answers or other comments, I prefer this location. Anyway I'll post summary with link(s) on the WP:WPCB project talk page.
Thanks in advance. -- P64 ( talk) 01:54, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
Thanks for teaching me a lesson Sda030 ( talk) 22:34, 28 February 2014 (UTC) |
Sda030, thank you for the barnstar and you are welcome, I think. I hope it wasn't lesson that my wife "teaches" me... "Dear, I'm going to teach you lesson. Bad #($*)@ dog." Rather as a teacher teaching a lesson. Bgwhite ( talk) 00:43, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
since you seem to be good at generating lists :) how about a search for either moz-column-count
or column-count
? possibly restricted to inside div tags if there are too many false positives. these should always be swapped for {{
colbegin}}/{{
colend}} or {{
columns-list}} or {{
refbegin}}/{{
refend}} or {{
reflist}}. of course, the "always" may be a strong statement, but I have never seen a case to the contrary.
Frietjes (
talk)
23:16, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
moz-column-count
is at
User:Bgwhite/Sandbox1. After the depression recedes and after the 10 years it takes to do the list, I'll make more lists for you. On the bright side, the few articles I looked at also contained moz-column-count
or webkit-column-count
Bgwhite (
talk)
00:33, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
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Archive 20 | ← | Archive 23 | Archive 24 | Archive 25 | Archive 26 | Archive 27 | → | Archive 30 |
A bot edit Punctuation goes before References has been made (and reverted by me) me a couple of times now. There is a sentence with three references. Two of them refer to keywords in the sentence, and one of them to the whole sentence. Only the last reference (the one applying to the complete sentence) should go after the punctuation mark. The article is correct (in this regard) as it stands now. YohanN7 ( talk) 01:56, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Egyptian Revolution of 2013 is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Egyptian Revolution of 2013 until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. GreyShark ( dibra) 19:34, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello Bgwhite, please move User:Captain Assassin!/sandbox5 to Hero (2014 film). The filming has begun, given sources confirmed. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 16:35, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi Bgwhite. Since I agreed not to edit the Twins' page, I've decided to edit more melodic and relaxing music pages, such as Slayer. Anyway, I was just wondering if an exception can be made in the case of clear vandalism, supposing that you or GoingBatty are not around at the time. There was a recent edit by an anonymous user, and it was a good one, but at first I feared possible vandalism. So please let me know if in an indisputable case of vandalism I can directly edit the Kitt page, as the only exception to the agreement. Thank you as always for your time. Dontreader ( talk) 07:14, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Sir, I once again thank you for the edits in Padmapur. But sir, don't you think that the images of personalities like Comrade Nagabhushana Patnaik (Who is born in Padmapur) and Sadguru Arjuna (Who is born near a village padmapur) have glorified India by their selfless deeds and as such their images should be displayed in the page Padmapur . I still admit that the problems ,if any, regarding copyright, should be considered leniently. Hpsatapathy ( talk) 04:35, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Sir, Many many thanks for the brilliant email.You are really justified.
With regards: hpsatapathy 117.214.93.4 ( talk) 08:14, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello Bgwhite - I am new to editing Wikipedias so I apologize if I'm not accomplishing things in the correct way. I'm writing in regards to the recent reversions on the edits I made to the page for the Texistepec Language. I have already written to Materialscientist in hopes of addressing what I did wrong so I can ensure my edits are correct in information and formatting. I am a linguistics student with a semester long project of updating a Wikipage for my chosen Indigenous American language every week on a different aspect of the language. All of my sources are from peer-reviewed articles and books authored by experts recognized in their field. I realized I failed to make a citation and tried to go back and correct it but that was also reverted. What I am having trouble understanding is why my initial edits to the page were left intact (after they were edited by you for formatting, thank you very much) but my second attempt on 15 Feb. 2014 was completely erased. My sources are peer-reviewed and cited in the edits, and I found my sources as a result of the Reference sections in the back of other books in this field. I'm not writing anything opinion based, I am not even trying to put my own spin on any of the information. I am taking information out of physical texts and copying it onto the Wiki. I know my Professor's hopes in this assignment was that we could have useful homework that would give back to the community at large, I'm finding this more difficult to accomplish than I'd expected since the info is being deleted and I have no idea why. I have been using Microsoft Front Page to code my entries because I don't know how to code. If this is not acceptable please let me know what I can do better so the information is allowed to remain on the page. I'm not trying to start any editing 'wars', I don't even know how I'd do that, but I do have to update this on a weekly basis. Please help me so I can pass the information along to the rest of my classmates, who are encountering the same problems, so we can contribute something useful to the world instead of just frustration to the tireless Wiki editors such as yourself. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can give me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.165.149.83 ( talk) 18:17, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Thank you Bgwhite. Most of my info was from the stuff already referenced, but now I see which citations I forgot to include. Thanks for the information on the formatting. I will avoid MFP in the future and try to code it by hand using the tutorials on wiki tables. Thank you for your assistance and I will take some more time to practice my tables on the "sandbox" before I try to edit the page again. Thank you. -AzLinguist (I don't have a username so I thought I'd try that one out) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.165.149.83 ( talk) 16:36, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Do you have any website of your own with some storage to host some HTML/javascript code? We have this page. I uploaded it at my3gb, because it is free and you don't need to sign in in every few weeks to keep the account active. But the site my3gb itself, not my account, has some bad impression. The code itself is very simple. If you have some host, and it is not going to ber terminated soon, could you host the code at your site? It'll take only 10 kb. Tito☸ Dutta 09:25, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi there BG, AL "here",
don't bother talking/warning this guy ( /info/en/?search=User_talk:Alexanderalgrim#DEFAULTSORT_2 please see your message here), i've followed him extensively as he seems to dabble in Portuguese football, and thus be my compatriot, i've tried everything, speaking in Portuguese, speaking in English, other people have talked to him, offered help, warned him due to his continuing BLP violations... NOTHING works, he does not utter one word in reply to ANYONE, and he speaks English, not a very good one but he does.
Attentively, happy editing -- AL ( talk) 01:16, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Example: if a player plays ONE MINUTE in a minor competition (i.e. Taça da Liga) then goes months without playing anything else (and he could die/retire in the meantime for all we know), Mr.Algrim feels the subject is already worthy of a WP article, and voilà!
Also interesting is that he received a notification after i highlighted his name in my message to you, and did he feel the need to defend himself/comment here? No way! Quite a one-man show he's running there...
All in all, sorry for any misunderstanding, keep it up -- AL ( talk) 00:12, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
I'm currently (impatiently) waiting for the next database scan of svwp. Could you plese update me when it hits? (I hope I'm sending to the right user, too many to keep track of in my watchlist...) :-P ( t) Josve05a ( c) 17:19, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Please see TOC#Floating_the_TOC for the reasons that the Poem For Want of a Nail had the table of contents moved right. The way you changed the article leaves a lot of whitespace in the center of the heading, and is poor visual formatting - which is why WP:TOC specifically allows this exception. I have reverted your edit for now, please let us take this discussion to the talk page and come to consensus with other editors on this topic. Thank you! Timmccloud ( talk) 15:20, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
An article that you either edited or previously proposed for deletion has been nominated for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Willy Monfret. Due to lack of discussion the article has now been relisted twice. If you have a chance could you please stop by and weigh in on the deletion debate. — Bill W. ( Talk) ( Contrib) — 14:05, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for editing my edits, Bgwhite, always learn from others' edits. say, do you think that needs additional citations box from 4/09 can go? I added where I could to clean up rotting links etc. true, the top of the article has very few citations, but almost all sections refer to main article full of citations. Should only admins remove these box warnings? Didnt see a thank you link behind your name so am posting this on your talk page (BTW: why do/how can some people have this and some not?). Thanks.-- Wuerzele ( talk) 17:11, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Interwiki Complete list is being linked to Meta Wikipedia list. How to disable it? I found nothing in interwiki table. Tito☸ Dutta 13:07, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
ª Ac. Abhidevananda edited commons.js file and fixed it . Tito☸ Dutta 07:16, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Please show me the POLICY that prohibits redlinks. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 08:07, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Can I use the "Draft" namespace to create articles, it's better way to create future articles like upcoming novels, films, etc. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 17:11, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I just want to inform that there is no lock symbol on the article Causes of World War I which you recently marked as semi-protected. - Anonimski ( talk) 14:58, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Please take a look at User:Captain Assassin!/sandbox1 and move it to Midnight Rider (film) - Thanks. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 11:32, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
You do realise that your edit summary is pointing to a Help page, no guideline, policy or anything someone could genuinely refer to as "how to format an article"? The Rambling Man ( talk) 21:55, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Tito☸ Dutta 11:25, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
Tito☸ Dutta 05:34, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
I noticed this change by BG19bot to Coordinated Universal Time. It seems to be an invisible change, in that it would not change the appearance of the article to a reader. Also, it seems to be outside the scope of the approval of the bot, which was to add a template to certain biography talk pages. Jc3s5h ( talk) 13:21, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
{{
Use dmy dates|date=February 2014}}
and {{
Redirect|UTC}}
- this is permitted because hatnotes should always go at the very top, see
WP:HNP and
MOS:LEAD; (ii) it moved a reference {{
sfn|Seidelmann|1992|p=7}}
from before a comma to after it - this was in line with
MOS:REFPUNC; (iii) it altered a link from [[List_of_UTC_time_offsets|List of UTC time offsets]]
to [[List of UTC time offsets]]
which does exactly the same thing, but is just over half the length. Only the third was purely cosmetic, the first two were in accordance with the Manual of Style. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
21:06, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
Please take a look at User:Captain Assassin!/sandbox5 and move it to The End of the Tour (2014 film) - Thanks. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 03:48, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello Bgwhite, don't have a minute here? -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 02:45, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I was going through the short pages page when I noticed that the article Recognition of same-sex unions in Europe has been blanked by BG19bot in this edit. The edit summary for the blanking was: m (using AWB (9949)). I believed that this was in error, and I have reverted the edit. Please advise. Thanks. KJ click here 10:03, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Yes, this is a very rare problem that occurs most probably due to temporary internet connection loss. -- Magioladitis ( talk) 20:55, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Please review this User:Captain Assassin!/sandbox5 and move it to Boychoir (film) - Thanks. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 19:07, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Of course there are exceptions. Per WP:TOC, "Although usually a heading after the TOC is preferable, __TOC__ can be used to avoid being forced to insert a meaningless heading just to position the TOC correctly, i.e., not too low." That's a direct quote. Yes, Point #2 in "Floating the TOC" says "If floating the TOC, it should be placed at the end of the lead section of the text, before the first section heading." but Point #5 says "The default TOC is placed before the first headline, but after any introductory text (unless changed by the page's editors). If the introductory summary is long enough that a typical user has to scroll down to see the top of the TOC, you may float the TOC so it appears closer to the top of the article. However, the floating TOC should in most cases follow at least the first paragraph of article text." This is an explicit exception, and blind reversion is uncalled for. - Dravecky ( talk) 09:26, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
“ | 2. If floating the TOC, it should be placed at the end of the lead section of the text, before the first section heading. Users of screen readers do not expect any text between the TOC and the first heading, and having no text above the TOC is confusing. See the last line in the information about elements of the lead section. | ” |
( t) Josve05a ( c) 19:09, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
I've just been invited to comment here by a bot, but I'm not entirely sure what question is actually being asked so I'll just comment based on my reading of the thread (no links to background have been given). It seems to be in dispute whether accessibility concerns, particularly for people using screen readers, prohibits the placing of a TOC before the end of the first section of an article - something that is technically possible and not explicitly forbidden by the guidelines for tables of contents? If I've understood this correctly then the answer is that, yes, accessibility concerns are more important than pretty visual design. The reasoning behind this interpretation comes from pillars 1 and 3 of the five fundamental principles by which Wikipedia operates:
As a final comment, this discussion really should be happening somewhere more central than a user talk page. Thryduulf ( talk) 00:57, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Please take a look at following sandboxes and move these to required targets
Thanks. -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 04:13, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
And please move this User:Captain Assassin!/sandbox5 to Untitled Warren Beatty project -- Captain Assassin! « T ♦ C ♦ G» 19:37, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
thanks for your help with formatting.
Just for your information I am currently working on the Lae wikipage and including all the suburbs (listed in section called suburbs)
It is my plan to complete all suburbs then to reformat the Lae main page and submit this page for peer review.
I would appreciate any assistance in formatting prose or facts and even contributions within any of these suburbs.
thank you for your help Phenss ( talk) 21:45, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I believe you are mistaken in the changes you have been making, with the Edit summary "TOC must come before first headline per WP:TOC". Can you elucidate here? Thanks a bunch. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 06:59, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
see this edit which put most of the page into a blue background. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 22:17, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, Evidently your error #97 project will hit many Bridge world competitions pages that I updated a few years ago, because I(we) commonly floated {TOC right} after the lead paragraph, in multi-paragraph lead sections. Probably I will revisit them all at once, maybe next month.
These notes and questions concern the "general fixes and cleanup" in one world competition page on my watchlist today ( Bgwhite diffs). If you have answers or other comments, I prefer this location. Anyway I'll post summary with link(s) on the WP:WPCB project talk page.
Thanks in advance. -- P64 ( talk) 01:54, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
Thanks for teaching me a lesson Sda030 ( talk) 22:34, 28 February 2014 (UTC) |
Sda030, thank you for the barnstar and you are welcome, I think. I hope it wasn't lesson that my wife "teaches" me... "Dear, I'm going to teach you lesson. Bad #($*)@ dog." Rather as a teacher teaching a lesson. Bgwhite ( talk) 00:43, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
since you seem to be good at generating lists :) how about a search for either moz-column-count
or column-count
? possibly restricted to inside div tags if there are too many false positives. these should always be swapped for {{
colbegin}}/{{
colend}} or {{
columns-list}} or {{
refbegin}}/{{
refend}} or {{
reflist}}. of course, the "always" may be a strong statement, but I have never seen a case to the contrary.
Frietjes (
talk)
23:16, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
moz-column-count
is at
User:Bgwhite/Sandbox1. After the depression recedes and after the 10 years it takes to do the list, I'll make more lists for you. On the bright side, the few articles I looked at also contained moz-column-count
or webkit-column-count
Bgwhite (
talk)
00:33, 1 March 2014 (UTC)