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I know we dont always agree, but you have, quite rightly, earned great respect for your indefatigablity and you well deserve the award above. If you think I can assist (even though the technicalities of what you propose are beyond me) please say so. Rathfelder ( talk)
Hello. I’m not sure what happened here but a paramilitary force is not a living person. Sildemund ( talk) 08:24, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
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-- Rosiestep ( talk) 18:50, 26 July 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
You might want to take a look at Regé-Jean Page, an article that you successfully nominated for deletion at AfD a year ago, but that has now been recreated. You are probably the most familiar with the availability of sources. – Finnusertop ( talk ⋅ contribs) 03:42, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi - wow you are a wikipedia superuser and no mistake. Forgive me for bothering you with this.
I've been looking at the Brocklehurst family to do with my new page on Emma Dent and I saw the page you created around 10 years ago on her father John Brocklehurst.
Reference number 2 ("Death of a Parliamentary veteran". The Times. London. 11 January 1833. p. 4.) has been there since the start. There's clearly a typo or something in the date as Brocklehurst was only just elected to the House of Commons in 1833, but despite searching in The Times archive I can't work out what it could be.
Many thanks if you get a moment to puzzle on this. Iower ( talk ⋅ contribs) 16:42, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).
This template is populating a lot of category redirects - see User:RussBot/category redirect log for the ones picked up so far. Timrollpickering ( talk) 10:14, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
Category:Unassessed-Class chess articles of Mid-importance has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. 1234qwer1234qwer4 ( talk) 14:08, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
Please see my proposal to merge Category:Vehicle manufacturing companies of Russia to Category:Motor vehicle manufacturers of Russia Hugo999 ( talk) 02:34, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
What's this do? "(wrapped whole page in <pre> tag to stop it poulating non-existent categories ... to remove clutter from cleanup list at Special:WantedCategories. Sorry for the intrusion, User:Irtapil, but it's a nuisance having permanent fixtures on a cleanup list)" Irtapil ( talk) 17:54, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
I noticed that your eponymous category work may have missed some edge cases which I've encountered several times. Category:Lethal Weapon is named after the film, but Lethal Weapon (franchise) also exists which the category should be named after. Do you think you can track down these occurrences? -- Gonnym ( talk) 13:27, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
FYI, something's broken in ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:1991 in Yugoslav television and friends, it's no longer translating Yugoslav into Yugoslavia for the categories. Le Deluge ( talk) 16:10, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
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That was clearly a typo. Yes I should have caught it, yes you could have to. It isn’t necessary to revert and scold for everything yanno. And by the way, there is no rule saying you can’t create a category where needed. But no, that wasn’t what I was doing there Elinruby ( talk) 17:22, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
I am not really offended. It needed to be fixed. But I am just saying, reverting is kinda rude, with overtones of vandalism, and “please use categories that actually exist” is wrong. And also does not apply to the actually issue. 1) “please remember to tidy up your typos” would still have been a bit condescending, but at least have been accurate. 2) It is just fine to create a category, and I am a little concerned that you don’t seem to know this. That wasn’t a case for it, sure, but since it was the first letters of a category I did apply, it should have been pretty clear it was a typo. That’s all. Sometimes slowing down a minute is more productive in the end. And please do not keep telling people that they can only use existing categories Elinruby ( talk) 19:38, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
kinda rudeand
a bit condescending.
A page in any Wikipedia namespace should never be left in a red-linked category. Either the category should be created, or else the non-existent category link should be removed or changed to one that exists.
slowing down a minute is more productive in the end. That is ridiculous: the problem is that you didn't slow down to check own work. A simple glance at the bottom of the page after saving it would have shown that it was red-linked, and that you had added a non-existent category. You did not take the time to do that, so please take your own advice instead of falsely attributing to me the error which you made.
Hi BHG. Thanks very much for your suggestion on my draft of William Fraser (architect) regarding Categories. I have a quick question: Can you confirm for me that my draft is indeed in the queue for editing? Given the fact you made that suggested edit, I suspect it is, and I believe I hit all the correct buttons last week to place it there. However, I can't find any confirmation that it has been submitted, but that's probably because I'm a relative Wikipedia neophyte and I don't know where to look! Thanks very much for your help!! Best regards, Ian Ian.fraser1 ( talk) 17:16, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
{{subst:AFC submission/submit}}
at the top of your article and an experienced user will move your article into
WP:Draftspace for further review.Your recent changes in all subcategories of Category:Years in Los Angeles removed them as subcategories of Category:Years in California. For example Category:1919 in Los Angeles did not appear as a subcategory of Category:1919 in California. I had to restore the parent category manually.
I don't know your reasoning but you should review other such changes for similar problems. Dimadick ( talk) 18:54, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Turkmenistan high jumpers 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) 02:42, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
Good morning. This was clearly wrong (removing the only category of the article). I have seen similar edits yeaterday on my watchlist, and most of these were good, but apparently a fraction went wrong. Could you please have a look?-- Ymblanter ( talk) 07:32, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
OK, all fixed.
Here are the original edits: [12]
And here's the reverts: [13]
Thanks again to Ymblanter for spotting these. And damn WMF for throttling Cat-a-lot, so that it takes multiple passes to do a set. It was the second pass where I misclicked. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 11:00, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
I think I got all the "<network> original programming" categories in Category:Television series by network listed at User:Gonnym/sandbox/tvcat#Networks with fixes to the category name where it didn't match the article in disambiguation or extra space (changed names were kept). I also tried to make sure I removed all the studio categories which didn't belong there. Of course some mistakes in all of what I said above might have slipped in.
Another thing to notice is that not all country categories are written the same: Category:American television series by network, Category:South Korean television shows by network, Category:German television series by channel, and Category:Belizean television shows by channel. -- Gonnym ( talk) 17:17, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting my effort to correct Shem and the two related articles. Before I changed it, it said "Vital ... in the section Philosophy". So I took "Philosophy and religion" to be the section because of the name of the project page Wikipedia:Vital_articles/Level/5/Philosophy_and_religion. On that project page, there is no section "Religion", but only "Religion and spirituality", but the category is Category:Wikipedia level-5 vital articles in Religion. Is there any way to harmonize the names ? -- Rsk6400 ( talk) 11:02, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
Is there any way to harmonize the names?If you want to resolve it, then a discussion is needed. If you can live with it, then no discussion needed. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 11:27, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
Your attention is called to the addition of this display to the article on the Central Business District, Los Angeles (1880s-1890s). Do you have any feelings, for or against? Discussion should take place on that article's Talk page. Thanks. BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 18:01, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
Sorry about that...it was meant for his Commons category! I know better...just got in the late night copy and paste zone. Thankfully the only error made! Thanks for cleaning up my mess! Missvain ( talk) 20:13, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
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I have proposed the categories such as
Category:Articles with text from the Afro-Asiatic languages collective for renaming to
Category:Articles with text from Afro-Asiatic languages, at cfd. Your input is welcome. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough
13:05, 18 August 2020 (UTC).
Should Route Diagram Templates have their own sub-category within Category:Tunnel templates? AlgaeGraphix ( talk) 17:01, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
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On behalf of Wikipedia:WikiProject United States courts and judges, thank you for your excellent work in categorizing courts by date of establishment. BD2412 T 16:03, 18 August 2020 (UTC) |
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Hi brownhaired girl
I was awarded a Ph D in geoscience from the Australian National University in 1973
Regards
Sue Kesson — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:184F:8E01:9914:5E7F:CE1D:9234 ( talk) 05:40, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
Hey, please do not implement Module:Navseasoncats with decades below year. I've already shown this can be done with minimal duplication of code which is the correct way to do it. I waited for Tom to implement it, but I can always go ahead and do it. Duplicating code is always the worst solution. -- Gonnym ( talk) 20:25, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
@ Gonnym, Module:Navseasoncats with centuries below decade/testcases looks weird to me, because it creates no output.
To test Module:Navseasoncats with centuries below decade/testcases, I have created Template:Navseasoncats with decades below year/sandbox, and Template:Navseasoncats with decades below year/testcases. That's the range of use cases we need to test.
Note that there are two types of category:
... and three types of parameter
cat=foo
parameter,
Template:NavseasoncatsThe first case is a fugly hack which should be phased out, so I have added tracking parameters for that usage.
All these cases are handled correctly in the version at Template:Navseasoncats with decades below year/sandbox, which uses Module:Navseasoncats with decades below year. I have also tested it on a live category page at https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Category:2010_in_Irish_politics&oldid=973831053
If you can make a Template:Navseasoncats with decades below year/sandbox2 which does all that, then we I am happy to go live with your version. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 13:31, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
Please can you take the following in the friendly spirit in which it is intended, the usage of a /sandbox template is not to be a copy of the live version. You've already changed the code at Template:Navseasoncats with decades below year, so when you want to compare a sandbox code, the place to do it is at the actual /sandbox page. If you hadn't moved your code and we would have been comparing a few different versions then that would have been something else. Also, I know you have the technical expertise to take my code out of the /sandbox page and create the template you wanted. Why are you making me jump through hoops? -- Gonnym ( talk) 15:21, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
making me jump through hoops. I am just friggin trying to frigging ensure that the code is tested.
I took time to create the framework. But instead of using that framework- are you serious? I set up the frame work for you to see it and instead you created a completely different one that does the same thing and now you are saying that I didn't work with you? That's literally the thing I kept on doing, over and over. BHG, I'm asking for you to please take a look at the code today and let me know your thoughts. I would say there is no rush, but since you felt there is one, then please look at it. I really don't appreciate the fact that while I need your approval, you felt that my opposition to your code was ok to ignore. -- Gonnym ( talk) 11:35, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
To make it even easier for you, please test Category:31 deaths with {{Death year category header/sandbox|3|1}} and Category:2007 in Australian television with {{Year in nationality television category/sandbox}}. Both of these templates were changed by you yesterday to work with your version of the template. I see the exact same result. Correct me if I'm missing something. -- Gonnym ( talk) 11:46, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
your version of the templateapproach.
it would help if you avoided the(and then a line after: )your version of the templateapproach
My version does that:) Anyways, new day so let's start over. BHG, I believe the module code I wrote works with all existing uses and is backwards compatible. I've tested it on pages and in the testcases pages and see no issue. I presented above two templates which you have updated to work with the new code you've added to show you examples of the code I wrote working with existing wrapper templates. The only different I made was point to the /sandbox version, not change the code on the page itself. You've asked me above
Why split the number?That's a good question, but that has nothing to do with {{ Navseasoncats with decades below year}}. The code you wrote at Template:Death year category header currently needs
|1=
and |2=
to set the text and categories, but does not pass these parameters to the navseasoncats template. As the code I wrote was not meant to change these wrapper templates, it has no connection to these parameters. Have I answered your question? What else can I do to help progress this along? I'll try and accommodate any request you have. --
Gonnym (
talk)
12:28, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
{{Navseasoncats with decades below year||{{{1|}}}{{{2|1}}}| deaths}}
... i.e. it combined its two parameters to form the second parameter for {{
Navseasoncats with decades below year}}.Hi @ Gonnym
I have made unexpectedly fast progress on the goal of removing the usage of the multiple unnamed parameters.
As the category pages purged following the updates to {{ Navseasoncats with decades below year}}, they were categorised in two tracking cats:
As new entries appeared in Category:Navseasoncats with decades below year with multiple unnamed parameters, I updated the cathead template if they used one, or used WP:AWB to fix any cat pages which had the multiple parameters encode directly in the page.
That is now almost complete. Category:Navseasoncats with decades below year with multiple unnamed parameters now has only 85 pages, and the Petscan check for pages which haven't been purged is down to only ~300 pages: https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=17138527
I think that all remaining instances are cases where the cathead template has been updated, and the pages just need to be purged. Either way, some time by early tomorrow we should finally have confirmation that there are no remaining instances of {{ Navseasoncats with decades below year}} with multiple unnamed parameters.
When that's the case, I will update {{
Navseasoncats with decades below year}} to remove support for the multiple parameters, and update the /doc. That will be final delivery of the improved functionality which is what this wall about, i.e. removing the need for editors to chop up the category name when using the template, and making the template simple to use on any page by just adding {{Navseasoncats with decades below year}}
, in the spirit of the parameterless principle of {{
Navseasoncats}}. The multi-parameter thing was a hack which I developed in late 2018/early 2019 on {{
Year in country category}} and then generalised as a standalone template, but it was ugly to use and I'll be glad to see it replaced with something simpler to use.
Of course it will still be better to use a common code base for all two-row variants of Navseasoncats, so I do want to get your version of the module implemented. However, removing the need to support multiple unnamed parameters will simplify the set of testcases ... so I am going to defer the testing of it until tomorrow. Hope that's OK. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 16:15, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
Your bot has created a whole string of category redirects like this which are being populated automatically by Template:Category header anarchist organizations by country. Is there any way to easily stop the template from doing this? Timrollpickering ( talk) 09:50, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
@ Timrollpickering, I created {{ Resolve category redirect}}, and deployed it in this edit [19] to Template:Category header anarchist organizations by country.
As far as I can see, that has fixed the problem ... but please let me know if there are other cases, or if there are unwanted side-effects. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 19:35, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
I was thinking to nominate this for deletion, as it appears to be a permastub on a fairly low-notability figure. However, since I see that you are the article creator, I'd like your thoughts, and to give you the chance to improve it if you think it can be expanded. Cheers! BD2412 T 20:42, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
Hello, what is the point in replacing a template shortcut by the full name? 1234qwer1234qwer4 ( talk) 09:43, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi BrownHairedGirl, How clumsy of me to allow Cats in my user space. Thank you for your help. - Samf4u ( talk) 13:21, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Template:WikiProject Free Software. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 August 21#Template:WikiProject Free Software until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 1234qwer1234qwer4 ( talk) 18:08, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
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... for dumping something that's bothered me for a while on your thread. I didn't seek out to distract from your question, just saw an opportunity to dump it. :-) --- Sluzzelin talk 00:22, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi, how are you?
As you know, right now the Chris Mullin page leads directly to the basketball player, which I find a tad ridiculous, as outside of the US, hardly anyone has heard of him, and in Britain when they say Chris Mullin they clearly refer to the politician Chris Mullin (politician).
I've started a discussion on the Talk:Chris Mullin page, under the title Talk:Chris Mullin#Requested move 22 August_2020, and would really appreciate it if you could voice your piece there.
Thank you! Maxim.il89 ( talk) 00:55, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Do not edit other people's messages. Salvio 13:54, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
(ec)on my own post, but misplaced it. Thanks for the fix. [21] -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 13:59, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Morning - hope all is still well in lockdown. Regardless of the outcome, that was one of the nicest and sincere threads I've ever seen at AN/ANI, esp. when you state that you're not a fan of Justin. For once common sense was applied over "rulez-is-rulez". Take care. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:12, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
Category:South Bank St Peter's F.C. players has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Lettler hello 16:20, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
I have a request for you, please delete this page Draft:Marr Ji-hyun which was unknowingly created by myself 6 months ago. Actually there is already a page for the above-mentioned player and I wasn't aware at that time. Thanks ~ Zoglophie ( talk) 11:12, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for your interest in the articles that I create. I value your input, however I use a tool called PrepBio and it creates categories. So asking me to not create these categories (twice) misses the point. I am not creating these to annoy you, that is what the tool does. HTH Victuallers ( talk) 22:02, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
A page in any Wikipedia namespace should never be left in a red-linked category.
— Please use only categories which actually exist. See WP:REDNOT. If the same editor is doing it repeatedly, I add a ping.
It doesn't say "except for a few days". It says "never". So please try not to do it.A page in any Wikipedia namespace should never be left in a red-linked category
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.-- Chris.sherlock ( talk) 16:48, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
The end result was WP:BOOMERANG: Chris.sherlock banned from interacting with me [22].
In the course of the discussion, I discovered that in addition to trolling me at WP:AN and at WT:WOMRED (which I was aware of), Chris had had also made his only-ever visit to CFD under his current account, to troll me multiple times [23]. Events summarised in this post by me [24].
Also note
Special:PermaLink/916237175#Chris.Sherlock/Letsbefiends_unblock_request Chris.sherlock's Sept 2019 request to be unblocked after 3 years, where
Iridescent noted
[25] of Chris this editor rightfully earned a well-deserved reputation as a vicious and aggressive bully
.
Since being unblocked despite that warning, Chris.sherlock launched a vendetta against DuncanHill (see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1034#Editor_emptying_categories_then_requesting_CfD,_refuses_to_discuss_or_use_WP:CFD). I defended Duncan's exemplary conduct in that episode, and subsequently Chjris launched this series of attempts to troll me. That's why I have made this log entry, because I fear that if Chris returns, this will all happen again, and these notes may be helpful ... but I hope that my fears are misplaced, and that these notes will never be needed again. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 16:52, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Hey, BHG,
I hesitate to add to your heavy workload but you created some cricket & Asian sport categories that have been empty for a few days. Maybe they could get added to what I'm sure is a lengthy "to do" list. I'm sure when you created them, you had some idea which pages/subcategories would be assigned to them. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 04:30, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
It turns out that I had forgotten to do the Asian categories. Sorry. Done now, in these edits. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 12:03, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Hiya BHG, I am creating a list at User:Usedtobecool/Tea of editors willing to be pinged to the Teahouse on occasions that would benefit from subject-specific expertise. I was wondering if you would be interested. I am thinking of adding you for "Categories" and possibly "Bots" with your permission; you are free to add yourself to or remove yourself from any row on the list. I don't expect you'd be pinged more than a few times a year. Currently, the Teahouse has Wikipedia:Teahouse#Guideline on categorization of transcontinental countries in lists in "Foreign relations of" articles; this might be the sort of discussion you get called to help with. Best, Usedtobecool ☎️ 05:12, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
Women in Red | September 2020, Volume 6, Issue 9, Numbers 150, 151, 176, 177
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-- Megalibrarygirl ( talk) 17:53, 29 August 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Since this was one of several you added a plural category to and started RMs for (like Novae) I'm wandering what you think should be done with this one? Page views[ [27]] show that the animal got 33,656 views compared to only 282 for the place and 563 for the band. By long-term significance the animal is clearly the primary topic so I'd say either there is no primary topic or its the animal. I would also note that its on User:Certes/misdirected links#Examples because there were 18 errors. Crouch, Swale ( talk) 20:50, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
here. Best, Johnbod ( talk) 21:35, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
HI BHG, please could you assist with replacing templates as offered here? [29] E.g. Special:WhatLinksHere/Category:2020_in_Puerto_Rican_sport – Fayenatic London 16:12, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I've proposed that this article be deleted as redundant. Since you have edited it in the past, I wanted to alert you to the proposal: Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz ( talk) 01:55, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
Enough. Hagar333, WP:Teahouse is thataway. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 08:21, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Hagar333 ( talk) 07:22, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
BrownHairedGirl, the page under discussion had requests to provide missing page number for articles and various other information. I looked up all the page numbers. It took hours to do. This was what was requested. You eliminated all of it, claiming it was unsourced. You made this claim because you didn't bother to look at the sources, i.e., the professional journals with the page numbers.
You behavior is completely unprofessional. If you were in a university, charges could be brought against you for this behavior. Please stop acting like a bully. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hagar333 ( talk • contribs) 07:54, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
You eliminated all the page numbers and publisher information that was requested! You are in the wrong here.
I was in the process of providing citations. You eliminated everything.
This took several days of work. You just destroyed everything. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hagar333 ( talk • contribs) 08:16, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, going through the maintenance category tree for the {{
Authority control}} template, I stumbled upon this empty category
Category:Miscellaneous pages with ' .. id .. ' identifiers created by you in 2017. There are similar useful non-empty categories with ' .. id .. ' being replaced by the name of an actual identifier. This would suggest that this particular category was either created in error (perhaps while batch creating such categories), or to track some error in a template or module normally populating the other [[Category:Miscellaneous pages with ID identifiers]]
categories. Can you shed some light on this? Which template or module populates it? Is or was it actually useful for some purpose? Or can we delete it so it does not cause confusion? Thanks. --
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Just as a note, a lot of the US state WikiProject template are subst-only, which causes havoc with AnomieBOT when they're not listed on User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force. I've gone ahead and added those, but in the future if you're going to be adding a lot of subst-only templates please make sure to update the list first. Thanks! Primefac ( talk) 17:20, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
{{WikiProject StateName}}
was possible only by using a bit of complex parseing of the category page title (e.g. {{subst:str crop|{{subst:str right|{{subst:PAGENAME}}|6}}|10}}
), and I took care to do a lot of sample-checking that this was producing the right output.{{WikiProject Foo}}
where it works and produces the right result. Those who want such templates to be substed can look after that, but please don't go problematising my edits. Those ~1600 edits of mine did the job they set out to do, with no errors ... and the fact that they exposed some glitches in the substing system is beyond the remit of my task. --
BrownHairedGirl
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{{WikiProject Foo}}
without worrying about whether the template should be substed. Otherwise the job just gets too complex, and in my uses I know I'd end up substing some banners which should not be substed, which would be very messy. Done on a big scale, that would justfiably earn me a barrage of rotten fruit.
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I know we dont always agree, but you have, quite rightly, earned great respect for your indefatigablity and you well deserve the award above. If you think I can assist (even though the technicalities of what you propose are beyond me) please say so. Rathfelder ( talk)
Hello. I’m not sure what happened here but a paramilitary force is not a living person. Sildemund ( talk) 08:24, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
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You might want to take a look at Regé-Jean Page, an article that you successfully nominated for deletion at AfD a year ago, but that has now been recreated. You are probably the most familiar with the availability of sources. – Finnusertop ( talk ⋅ contribs) 03:42, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi - wow you are a wikipedia superuser and no mistake. Forgive me for bothering you with this.
I've been looking at the Brocklehurst family to do with my new page on Emma Dent and I saw the page you created around 10 years ago on her father John Brocklehurst.
Reference number 2 ("Death of a Parliamentary veteran". The Times. London. 11 January 1833. p. 4.) has been there since the start. There's clearly a typo or something in the date as Brocklehurst was only just elected to the House of Commons in 1833, but despite searching in The Times archive I can't work out what it could be.
Many thanks if you get a moment to puzzle on this. Iower ( talk ⋅ contribs) 16:42, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
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This template is populating a lot of category redirects - see User:RussBot/category redirect log for the ones picked up so far. Timrollpickering ( talk) 10:14, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
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Please see my proposal to merge Category:Vehicle manufacturing companies of Russia to Category:Motor vehicle manufacturers of Russia Hugo999 ( talk) 02:34, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
What's this do? "(wrapped whole page in <pre> tag to stop it poulating non-existent categories ... to remove clutter from cleanup list at Special:WantedCategories. Sorry for the intrusion, User:Irtapil, but it's a nuisance having permanent fixtures on a cleanup list)" Irtapil ( talk) 17:54, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
I noticed that your eponymous category work may have missed some edge cases which I've encountered several times. Category:Lethal Weapon is named after the film, but Lethal Weapon (franchise) also exists which the category should be named after. Do you think you can track down these occurrences? -- Gonnym ( talk) 13:27, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
FYI, something's broken in ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.› Category:1991 in Yugoslav television and friends, it's no longer translating Yugoslav into Yugoslavia for the categories. Le Deluge ( talk) 16:10, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
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That was clearly a typo. Yes I should have caught it, yes you could have to. It isn’t necessary to revert and scold for everything yanno. And by the way, there is no rule saying you can’t create a category where needed. But no, that wasn’t what I was doing there Elinruby ( talk) 17:22, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
I am not really offended. It needed to be fixed. But I am just saying, reverting is kinda rude, with overtones of vandalism, and “please use categories that actually exist” is wrong. And also does not apply to the actually issue. 1) “please remember to tidy up your typos” would still have been a bit condescending, but at least have been accurate. 2) It is just fine to create a category, and I am a little concerned that you don’t seem to know this. That wasn’t a case for it, sure, but since it was the first letters of a category I did apply, it should have been pretty clear it was a typo. That’s all. Sometimes slowing down a minute is more productive in the end. And please do not keep telling people that they can only use existing categories Elinruby ( talk) 19:38, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
kinda rudeand
a bit condescending.
A page in any Wikipedia namespace should never be left in a red-linked category. Either the category should be created, or else the non-existent category link should be removed or changed to one that exists.
slowing down a minute is more productive in the end. That is ridiculous: the problem is that you didn't slow down to check own work. A simple glance at the bottom of the page after saving it would have shown that it was red-linked, and that you had added a non-existent category. You did not take the time to do that, so please take your own advice instead of falsely attributing to me the error which you made.
Hi BHG. Thanks very much for your suggestion on my draft of William Fraser (architect) regarding Categories. I have a quick question: Can you confirm for me that my draft is indeed in the queue for editing? Given the fact you made that suggested edit, I suspect it is, and I believe I hit all the correct buttons last week to place it there. However, I can't find any confirmation that it has been submitted, but that's probably because I'm a relative Wikipedia neophyte and I don't know where to look! Thanks very much for your help!! Best regards, Ian Ian.fraser1 ( talk) 17:16, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
{{subst:AFC submission/submit}}
at the top of your article and an experienced user will move your article into
WP:Draftspace for further review.Your recent changes in all subcategories of Category:Years in Los Angeles removed them as subcategories of Category:Years in California. For example Category:1919 in Los Angeles did not appear as a subcategory of Category:1919 in California. I had to restore the parent category manually.
I don't know your reasoning but you should review other such changes for similar problems. Dimadick ( talk) 18:54, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
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Good morning. This was clearly wrong (removing the only category of the article). I have seen similar edits yeaterday on my watchlist, and most of these were good, but apparently a fraction went wrong. Could you please have a look?-- Ymblanter ( talk) 07:32, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
OK, all fixed.
Here are the original edits: [12]
And here's the reverts: [13]
Thanks again to Ymblanter for spotting these. And damn WMF for throttling Cat-a-lot, so that it takes multiple passes to do a set. It was the second pass where I misclicked. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 11:00, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
I think I got all the "<network> original programming" categories in Category:Television series by network listed at User:Gonnym/sandbox/tvcat#Networks with fixes to the category name where it didn't match the article in disambiguation or extra space (changed names were kept). I also tried to make sure I removed all the studio categories which didn't belong there. Of course some mistakes in all of what I said above might have slipped in.
Another thing to notice is that not all country categories are written the same: Category:American television series by network, Category:South Korean television shows by network, Category:German television series by channel, and Category:Belizean television shows by channel. -- Gonnym ( talk) 17:17, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting my effort to correct Shem and the two related articles. Before I changed it, it said "Vital ... in the section Philosophy". So I took "Philosophy and religion" to be the section because of the name of the project page Wikipedia:Vital_articles/Level/5/Philosophy_and_religion. On that project page, there is no section "Religion", but only "Religion and spirituality", but the category is Category:Wikipedia level-5 vital articles in Religion. Is there any way to harmonize the names ? -- Rsk6400 ( talk) 11:02, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
Is there any way to harmonize the names?If you want to resolve it, then a discussion is needed. If you can live with it, then no discussion needed. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 11:27, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
Your attention is called to the addition of this display to the article on the Central Business District, Los Angeles (1880s-1890s). Do you have any feelings, for or against? Discussion should take place on that article's Talk page. Thanks. BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 18:01, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
Sorry about that...it was meant for his Commons category! I know better...just got in the late night copy and paste zone. Thankfully the only error made! Thanks for cleaning up my mess! Missvain ( talk) 20:13, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
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I have proposed the categories such as
Category:Articles with text from the Afro-Asiatic languages collective for renaming to
Category:Articles with text from Afro-Asiatic languages, at cfd. Your input is welcome. All the best:
Rich
Farmbrough
13:05, 18 August 2020 (UTC).
Should Route Diagram Templates have their own sub-category within Category:Tunnel templates? AlgaeGraphix ( talk) 17:01, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
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On behalf of Wikipedia:WikiProject United States courts and judges, thank you for your excellent work in categorizing courts by date of establishment. BD2412 T 16:03, 18 August 2020 (UTC) |
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Hi brownhaired girl
I was awarded a Ph D in geoscience from the Australian National University in 1973
Regards
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Hey, please do not implement Module:Navseasoncats with decades below year. I've already shown this can be done with minimal duplication of code which is the correct way to do it. I waited for Tom to implement it, but I can always go ahead and do it. Duplicating code is always the worst solution. -- Gonnym ( talk) 20:25, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
@ Gonnym, Module:Navseasoncats with centuries below decade/testcases looks weird to me, because it creates no output.
To test Module:Navseasoncats with centuries below decade/testcases, I have created Template:Navseasoncats with decades below year/sandbox, and Template:Navseasoncats with decades below year/testcases. That's the range of use cases we need to test.
Note that there are two types of category:
... and three types of parameter
cat=foo
parameter,
Template:NavseasoncatsThe first case is a fugly hack which should be phased out, so I have added tracking parameters for that usage.
All these cases are handled correctly in the version at Template:Navseasoncats with decades below year/sandbox, which uses Module:Navseasoncats with decades below year. I have also tested it on a live category page at https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Category:2010_in_Irish_politics&oldid=973831053
If you can make a Template:Navseasoncats with decades below year/sandbox2 which does all that, then we I am happy to go live with your version. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 13:31, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
Please can you take the following in the friendly spirit in which it is intended, the usage of a /sandbox template is not to be a copy of the live version. You've already changed the code at Template:Navseasoncats with decades below year, so when you want to compare a sandbox code, the place to do it is at the actual /sandbox page. If you hadn't moved your code and we would have been comparing a few different versions then that would have been something else. Also, I know you have the technical expertise to take my code out of the /sandbox page and create the template you wanted. Why are you making me jump through hoops? -- Gonnym ( talk) 15:21, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
making me jump through hoops. I am just friggin trying to frigging ensure that the code is tested.
I took time to create the framework. But instead of using that framework- are you serious? I set up the frame work for you to see it and instead you created a completely different one that does the same thing and now you are saying that I didn't work with you? That's literally the thing I kept on doing, over and over. BHG, I'm asking for you to please take a look at the code today and let me know your thoughts. I would say there is no rush, but since you felt there is one, then please look at it. I really don't appreciate the fact that while I need your approval, you felt that my opposition to your code was ok to ignore. -- Gonnym ( talk) 11:35, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
To make it even easier for you, please test Category:31 deaths with {{Death year category header/sandbox|3|1}} and Category:2007 in Australian television with {{Year in nationality television category/sandbox}}. Both of these templates were changed by you yesterday to work with your version of the template. I see the exact same result. Correct me if I'm missing something. -- Gonnym ( talk) 11:46, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
your version of the templateapproach.
it would help if you avoided the(and then a line after: )your version of the templateapproach
My version does that:) Anyways, new day so let's start over. BHG, I believe the module code I wrote works with all existing uses and is backwards compatible. I've tested it on pages and in the testcases pages and see no issue. I presented above two templates which you have updated to work with the new code you've added to show you examples of the code I wrote working with existing wrapper templates. The only different I made was point to the /sandbox version, not change the code on the page itself. You've asked me above
Why split the number?That's a good question, but that has nothing to do with {{ Navseasoncats with decades below year}}. The code you wrote at Template:Death year category header currently needs
|1=
and |2=
to set the text and categories, but does not pass these parameters to the navseasoncats template. As the code I wrote was not meant to change these wrapper templates, it has no connection to these parameters. Have I answered your question? What else can I do to help progress this along? I'll try and accommodate any request you have. --
Gonnym (
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12:28, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
{{Navseasoncats with decades below year||{{{1|}}}{{{2|1}}}| deaths}}
... i.e. it combined its two parameters to form the second parameter for {{
Navseasoncats with decades below year}}.Hi @ Gonnym
I have made unexpectedly fast progress on the goal of removing the usage of the multiple unnamed parameters.
As the category pages purged following the updates to {{ Navseasoncats with decades below year}}, they were categorised in two tracking cats:
As new entries appeared in Category:Navseasoncats with decades below year with multiple unnamed parameters, I updated the cathead template if they used one, or used WP:AWB to fix any cat pages which had the multiple parameters encode directly in the page.
That is now almost complete. Category:Navseasoncats with decades below year with multiple unnamed parameters now has only 85 pages, and the Petscan check for pages which haven't been purged is down to only ~300 pages: https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=17138527
I think that all remaining instances are cases where the cathead template has been updated, and the pages just need to be purged. Either way, some time by early tomorrow we should finally have confirmation that there are no remaining instances of {{ Navseasoncats with decades below year}} with multiple unnamed parameters.
When that's the case, I will update {{
Navseasoncats with decades below year}} to remove support for the multiple parameters, and update the /doc. That will be final delivery of the improved functionality which is what this wall about, i.e. removing the need for editors to chop up the category name when using the template, and making the template simple to use on any page by just adding {{Navseasoncats with decades below year}}
, in the spirit of the parameterless principle of {{
Navseasoncats}}. The multi-parameter thing was a hack which I developed in late 2018/early 2019 on {{
Year in country category}} and then generalised as a standalone template, but it was ugly to use and I'll be glad to see it replaced with something simpler to use.
Of course it will still be better to use a common code base for all two-row variants of Navseasoncats, so I do want to get your version of the module implemented. However, removing the need to support multiple unnamed parameters will simplify the set of testcases ... so I am going to defer the testing of it until tomorrow. Hope that's OK. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 16:15, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
Your bot has created a whole string of category redirects like this which are being populated automatically by Template:Category header anarchist organizations by country. Is there any way to easily stop the template from doing this? Timrollpickering ( talk) 09:50, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
@ Timrollpickering, I created {{ Resolve category redirect}}, and deployed it in this edit [19] to Template:Category header anarchist organizations by country.
As far as I can see, that has fixed the problem ... but please let me know if there are other cases, or if there are unwanted side-effects. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 19:35, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
I was thinking to nominate this for deletion, as it appears to be a permastub on a fairly low-notability figure. However, since I see that you are the article creator, I'd like your thoughts, and to give you the chance to improve it if you think it can be expanded. Cheers! BD2412 T 20:42, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
Hello, what is the point in replacing a template shortcut by the full name? 1234qwer1234qwer4 ( talk) 09:43, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi BrownHairedGirl, How clumsy of me to allow Cats in my user space. Thank you for your help. - Samf4u ( talk) 13:21, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Template:WikiProject Free Software. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 August 21#Template:WikiProject Free Software until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. 1234qwer1234qwer4 ( talk) 18:08, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
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... for dumping something that's bothered me for a while on your thread. I didn't seek out to distract from your question, just saw an opportunity to dump it. :-) --- Sluzzelin talk 00:22, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi, how are you?
As you know, right now the Chris Mullin page leads directly to the basketball player, which I find a tad ridiculous, as outside of the US, hardly anyone has heard of him, and in Britain when they say Chris Mullin they clearly refer to the politician Chris Mullin (politician).
I've started a discussion on the Talk:Chris Mullin page, under the title Talk:Chris Mullin#Requested move 22 August_2020, and would really appreciate it if you could voice your piece there.
Thank you! Maxim.il89 ( talk) 00:55, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Do not edit other people's messages. Salvio 13:54, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
(ec)on my own post, but misplaced it. Thanks for the fix. [21] -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 13:59, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Morning - hope all is still well in lockdown. Regardless of the outcome, that was one of the nicest and sincere threads I've ever seen at AN/ANI, esp. when you state that you're not a fan of Justin. For once common sense was applied over "rulez-is-rulez". Take care. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:12, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
Category:South Bank St Peter's F.C. players has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Lettler hello 16:20, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
I have a request for you, please delete this page Draft:Marr Ji-hyun which was unknowingly created by myself 6 months ago. Actually there is already a page for the above-mentioned player and I wasn't aware at that time. Thanks ~ Zoglophie ( talk) 11:12, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for your interest in the articles that I create. I value your input, however I use a tool called PrepBio and it creates categories. So asking me to not create these categories (twice) misses the point. I am not creating these to annoy you, that is what the tool does. HTH Victuallers ( talk) 22:02, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
A page in any Wikipedia namespace should never be left in a red-linked category.
— Please use only categories which actually exist. See WP:REDNOT. If the same editor is doing it repeatedly, I add a ping.
It doesn't say "except for a few days". It says "never". So please try not to do it.A page in any Wikipedia namespace should never be left in a red-linked category
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.-- Chris.sherlock ( talk) 16:48, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
The end result was WP:BOOMERANG: Chris.sherlock banned from interacting with me [22].
In the course of the discussion, I discovered that in addition to trolling me at WP:AN and at WT:WOMRED (which I was aware of), Chris had had also made his only-ever visit to CFD under his current account, to troll me multiple times [23]. Events summarised in this post by me [24].
Also note
Special:PermaLink/916237175#Chris.Sherlock/Letsbefiends_unblock_request Chris.sherlock's Sept 2019 request to be unblocked after 3 years, where
Iridescent noted
[25] of Chris this editor rightfully earned a well-deserved reputation as a vicious and aggressive bully
.
Since being unblocked despite that warning, Chris.sherlock launched a vendetta against DuncanHill (see Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1034#Editor_emptying_categories_then_requesting_CfD,_refuses_to_discuss_or_use_WP:CFD). I defended Duncan's exemplary conduct in that episode, and subsequently Chjris launched this series of attempts to troll me. That's why I have made this log entry, because I fear that if Chris returns, this will all happen again, and these notes may be helpful ... but I hope that my fears are misplaced, and that these notes will never be needed again. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 16:52, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
Hey, BHG,
I hesitate to add to your heavy workload but you created some cricket & Asian sport categories that have been empty for a few days. Maybe they could get added to what I'm sure is a lengthy "to do" list. I'm sure when you created them, you had some idea which pages/subcategories would be assigned to them. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 04:30, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
It turns out that I had forgotten to do the Asian categories. Sorry. Done now, in these edits. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 12:03, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
Hiya BHG, I am creating a list at User:Usedtobecool/Tea of editors willing to be pinged to the Teahouse on occasions that would benefit from subject-specific expertise. I was wondering if you would be interested. I am thinking of adding you for "Categories" and possibly "Bots" with your permission; you are free to add yourself to or remove yourself from any row on the list. I don't expect you'd be pinged more than a few times a year. Currently, the Teahouse has Wikipedia:Teahouse#Guideline on categorization of transcontinental countries in lists in "Foreign relations of" articles; this might be the sort of discussion you get called to help with. Best, Usedtobecool ☎️ 05:12, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
Women in Red | September 2020, Volume 6, Issue 9, Numbers 150, 151, 176, 177
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-- Megalibrarygirl ( talk) 17:53, 29 August 2020 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Since this was one of several you added a plural category to and started RMs for (like Novae) I'm wandering what you think should be done with this one? Page views[ [27]] show that the animal got 33,656 views compared to only 282 for the place and 563 for the band. By long-term significance the animal is clearly the primary topic so I'd say either there is no primary topic or its the animal. I would also note that its on User:Certes/misdirected links#Examples because there were 18 errors. Crouch, Swale ( talk) 20:50, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
here. Best, Johnbod ( talk) 21:35, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
HI BHG, please could you assist with replacing templates as offered here? [29] E.g. Special:WhatLinksHere/Category:2020_in_Puerto_Rican_sport – Fayenatic London 16:12, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I've proposed that this article be deleted as redundant. Since you have edited it in the past, I wanted to alert you to the proposal: Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz ( talk) 01:55, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
Enough. Hagar333, WP:Teahouse is thataway. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 08:21, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Hagar333 ( talk) 07:22, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
BrownHairedGirl, the page under discussion had requests to provide missing page number for articles and various other information. I looked up all the page numbers. It took hours to do. This was what was requested. You eliminated all of it, claiming it was unsourced. You made this claim because you didn't bother to look at the sources, i.e., the professional journals with the page numbers.
You behavior is completely unprofessional. If you were in a university, charges could be brought against you for this behavior. Please stop acting like a bully. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hagar333 ( talk • contribs) 07:54, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
You eliminated all the page numbers and publisher information that was requested! You are in the wrong here.
I was in the process of providing citations. You eliminated everything.
This took several days of work. You just destroyed everything. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hagar333 ( talk • contribs) 08:16, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, going through the maintenance category tree for the {{
Authority control}} template, I stumbled upon this empty category
Category:Miscellaneous pages with ' .. id .. ' identifiers created by you in 2017. There are similar useful non-empty categories with ' .. id .. ' being replaced by the name of an actual identifier. This would suggest that this particular category was either created in error (perhaps while batch creating such categories), or to track some error in a template or module normally populating the other [[Category:Miscellaneous pages with ID identifiers]]
categories. Can you shed some light on this? Which template or module populates it? Is or was it actually useful for some purpose? Or can we delete it so it does not cause confusion? Thanks. --
Matthiaspaul (
talk)
10:09, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
Just as a note, a lot of the US state WikiProject template are subst-only, which causes havoc with AnomieBOT when they're not listed on User:AnomieBOT/TemplateSubster force. I've gone ahead and added those, but in the future if you're going to be adding a lot of subst-only templates please make sure to update the list first. Thanks! Primefac ( talk) 17:20, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
{{WikiProject StateName}}
was possible only by using a bit of complex parseing of the category page title (e.g. {{subst:str crop|{{subst:str right|{{subst:PAGENAME}}|6}}|10}}
), and I took care to do a lot of sample-checking that this was producing the right output.{{WikiProject Foo}}
where it works and produces the right result. Those who want such templates to be substed can look after that, but please don't go problematising my edits. Those ~1600 edits of mine did the job they set out to do, with no errors ... and the fact that they exposed some glitches in the substing system is beyond the remit of my task. --
BrownHairedGirl
(talk) • (
contribs)
17:52, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
{{WikiProject Foo}}
without worrying about whether the template should be substed. Otherwise the job just gets too complex, and in my uses I know I'd end up substing some banners which should not be substed, which would be very messy. Done on a big scale, that would justfiably earn me a barrage of rotten fruit.