some of your DMY edits are surfacing articles from before the temp watchlist where I made an edit eons ago but not one where I cared to "maintain" the article. Probably wikilink or other gnoming. They're low traffic so hadn't bubbled up on my watchlist since so with your edits, it made for an easy unwatch. And of course thanks for the actual work behind these edits! Star Mississippi 12:48, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi, i was trying to create new categories, but something didn't quite add up. I need help. I have already red the guidelines but i didn't quite get how to order the categories in a tree. I do well in new category see here, and here, but as you can see here my subcategory "Defunct tennis tournament in Czech Republic" got enlisted alphabetically and not in the hot categories at the top of the same page. Any suggestion on how to do it would be helpful. Cheers.
ps: it looks like i needed to wait some more time for ... an update of the page, but anyhow i would appreciate if you could take a look at it and share some of your advices on how-to-do-it better. -- Opencross ( talk) 13:04, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.
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Hello BHG,
I hope you can help, as I know little about Wikipedia errors.
I get this message from my music scraping app:
phaseThree bad HTML at:: Index 58 of 58: 'Category:2010 establishments in the United States"}}}]}}}}'
"phaseThree bad HTML at ..." is from my app when it senses something wrong with the html, perhaps imbalanced brackets, etc., but I'm not sure. I get this message only once, as if this is the only category that has whatever the problem is. My scraping starts at 'Category:Musicians' and descends to every leaf.
Can you explain and fix whatever the problem is?
Thank you! -Ron Ron ( talk) 18:47, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
Do you know how to create a page for Richard Price and link it to legend of the sea devils and all his other doctor who monster roles ? 86.172.22.195 ( talk) 08:38, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello. Your help is greatly appreciated over on McGarry Ontario page. It is on a couple editors watchlist, whom jump all over me and I feel picked on, bullied , and alone. Thank you. 2605:B100:D34:2E29:C936:82F7:47DC:606F ( talk) 08:17, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi BrownHairedGirl. I've noticed your AWB job has added 'Use dmy dates' to some disambiguation pages such as Negative and Issue [1] [2]. To me those seem like false positives as disambiguation pages are not articles, very few would ever contain dates, and could you classify them as dmy vs mdy anyway? Just wanted to find out your thoughts. Thanks! Tassedethe ( talk) 20:11, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi BrownHairedGirl. Thanks for all your hard work with adding {{Use dmy dates}}. I wondered how long your project will take, as my watchlist is currently clogged with all these additions. Can I filter out all your edits for a while? Many thanks. Martinevans123 ( talk) 09:32, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
Our institution has large gaps missing on our Wikipedia page in comparison to our local competitors. A Wikipedia editor continues to delete any of our updates stating POV. How do we go about finding someone willing to volunteer to update our page? 38.123.35.131 ( talk) 18:45, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
our Wikipedia page???
Note that this all appears to relate to
Daemen University. This IP has edited that article, and the university has employed a paid writer:
ManHV1S1on (
talk ·
contribs).
I hope that this newly-created university will clean up its promotional act. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 21:02, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello BHG,
I hope you are doing well. I know the bot request has been approved for some time. Note that I have not abandonded it, I have been away from Wikipedia for a while due to IRL stuff and as such i havent' been doing much editing compared to usual for a better part of late March/early-mid April. But now I should have some free time, so I will work on getting the bot tested and trialed soon in the next couple of days. Sorry for keeping you waiting! Rlink2 ( talk) 23:24, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
This looks like a problem (example here). I'm seeing it elsewhere. There's lots of manual work involved in reacting after-the-fact, digging the titles out then, and fixing this. Could that work be done concurrently with these sorts of fixes? Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 17:38, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
Clarification, following on maint message in header on editing the previous version -- title taken from the linked archived copy. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 17:44, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
|title=Archived copy
. This task starts with a bare URL archived link and adds the missing original URL, wrapping both URLs in a citation template with the placeholder value of |title=Archived copy
.|title=
is not available to the tool doing the work. My AWB job is simply a clever set of
regex replacements; it knows nothing whatsoever about the content of URLs. In each case we have an incremental improvement, not a full solution.|title=
is a much more complex task which needs to be done manually. Some of the work could in theory by done by a sophisticated bot which does not yet exist. I did propose such a bot, a
User talk:Citation bot/Archive_30#Feature:_usurped_title, and found a talented programmer who was willing to try taking this one ... but the whole thing ran into the sands due to one excitable editor demanding that any such bot respect some bizarre hobbyhorse of theirs. It all became too much grief to continue.
BrownHairedGirl
(talk) • (
contribs) 18:54, 26 April 2022 (UTC)OK. I understand all of that. That understanding is not new to me, though its particular application here is. I guess this, which came up following on my action responding to error/maint messages following an edit by BrownHairedGirl. The final paragraph of the above probably says it all Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 19:35, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
|title=
parameter, and optionally add |work=
and/or |date=
parameters.|title=Archived copy
.Understood, and thanks for all of that. I will slog away with the manual work in my own inefficient manner in some of the cases I happen to stumble across. The above from me was not in any way intended as criticism. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 10:13, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
Hope you are well. Just stopping by to say thanks because you've sent my watchlist into overdrive. Much appreciated. Schwede 66 08:10, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi BHG, what is driving the addition of this tag? I'm seeing Use dmy dates being added to multiple video game articles that currently utilize mdy. -- ferret ( talk) 14:03, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
It looks like this edit to Jacky Hunt-Broersma is the same issue as the video games above or adjacent thereto. She was born/raised in South Africa, which is why she pulled in your list to work through. What she's actually notable for is her running career, which is entirely in the US. Just flagging so you know why it was removed. There's nothing you can fix since it's one of those context ones. Thanks again for all the clean up Star Mississippi 14:04, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
Since you changed the {{ dead link}} tags in the Adaptations section ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Washington_Square_(novel)&action=edit§ion=4), neither of them show in the article anymore and one has disappeared entirely for reasons I can't fathom. Can you please take another look at them? Just Another Cringy Username ( talk) 20:24, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
18:35, April 28, 2022 diff hist +824 Antonella Tosti Alter: template type. Add: journal, date, title. Changed bare reference to CS1/2. Removed parameters. Some additions/deletions were parameter name changes. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by BrownHairedGirl | Linked from User:BrownHairedGirl/Articles_with_bare_links | #UCB_webform_linked 1034/2847 current [rollback] [vandalism]
The above might be the last edit from that run, and you might have to start over from that point. AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 18:37, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Hilton College (South Africa) has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or 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. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:49, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red May 2022, Vol 8, Issue 5, Nos 214, 217, 227, 229, 230
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-- Megalibrarygirl ( talk) 16:51, 30 April 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
I was surprised to see that you seem to have resigned as admin. It's a pity, I liked you being around and contributing and administrating cases at CfD in former times. Looking you up I was as well impressed about your huge collection of barnstars. Such a mass of them seem to relativize their value a bit, or do I see that wrong in your eyes?
Well, the proper reason to approach you is a case about the apparently most important person at CfD (for some years as it seems): Marcocapelle. As you resigned no other admin seemed to be interested to replace you as admin in that section. So he developped the 'emergency' habit of using the possibility of 'non-admin closures'. In most cases that was okay with me. But then I found cases like the following one which I protested against. Protest against evidently wrong non-admin closure decision by user Marcocapelle. But no response was given. At almost the same time I discovered that I have lost most delight to participate any longer in a Wp section that doesn't give a damn on my protest. It's just like in George Orwell's Animal farm parable: All are equal; but some are even more 'equal' than others. And those don't respect equality just if they like. Today I decided to ask someone of longtime experience, exactly: you, to speak out. Do you think that a 'top dog' like Marco in CfD can be easily convinced to revise this case and do as I proposed: no more 'non-admin closures' in controversial cases?! What do you think about that? The voting was clear and his closure decision was not at all adequate to that evidence. Which is the hard-edged way to get the correction and the serious promise of him to do no more abuse like that? (You might eventually prefer to send me a Wp e-mail. It's a thorny, not an easy question. And I'd like to have a honest answer about the non-formal aspect of it (or else your denial).) -- Just N. ( talk) 20:42, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
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abuse. That is a very strong allegation for which I see no supporting evidence, and such a grave allegation should never be made without compelling evidence.
abusein multiple venues, the chances of productive dialogue are low. I don't like seeing any closer attacked in this way, but I am particularly sad to see to see a hard-working, conscientious editor like Marcocapelle maligned like this.
I want to know why the page I wrote last month does not appear in Google search! I asked you before but you did not give a convincing answer. Ljvdp ( talk) 16:41, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
Troll indeffed, please take a rest if you feel too stressed. PAVLOV ( talk) 17:42, 1 May 2022 (UTC) |
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Check out this cute cat playing with a lizard. It's adorable! – MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 17:36, 1 May 2022 (UTC) |
Category:Scholars and academics 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. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:55, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
Hello would be good to connect, are you related to the Macdonald's 2A02:C7C:C23:D200:10B1:C4AA:B79B:E627 ( talk) 21:24, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
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Always seeing you on Recent Changes. Really appreciate the hard work! Taxin609 ( Talk To Me) 01:51, 6 May 2022 (UTC) |
Hi,
It’s simple. The reason I reverted the edit is because it disrupted the article structure, similar to vandalism. The content had moved out of the table and been dropped further down the page. Although I respect editors who add maintenance tags, I don’t think that should include disrupting formatting or dragging content out of boxes and so on. I added the tag back, as the point probably needs to be fixed anyway, ( Kreb ( talk) 16:31, 7 May 2022 (UTC)) Screenshot
I posted a question on your talk page. Why not answer it there? There is a big edit notice at the top of this page saying To reply to a message I left on your talk page, then please post the reply on your talk page, and use {{
ping}} to notify me
. What part of that is unclear?
Then when you do post here, why post your reply before the message you are replying to?
The substance of your reply could and and should have been explained in your edit summaries at
Northern Ireland Assembly (1973). Please go read
Help:Edit summary, and start using edit summaries. --
BrownHairedGirl
(talk) • (
contribs) 16:38, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
editors that feel "challenged": what nasty remark. How dare you try to depict your abysmal communication skills as some sort of failing on my part.
Hi, I noticed that you have been using User:Dispenser/Reflinks, which has been leaving some urls bare after a visit. I ran Zhaofeng_Li/Reflinks on a few that you marked "bare" and it seemed to be a deeper metadata trawler, finding data for almost all of them. -- Ohc revolution of our times 21:11, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
Out of five references on Ringing Bell, only two are using the cite web templates. The other three only have the titles listed manually. I was hoping you could fill the rest of them in properly with reflinks. Also, on Gordy, I am suspicious of the recent edits to the home media section; however, I found out that there is now Paramount Global era of Miramax. But on the other hand, it said 49% was sold, so that leaves another 51%. I don't know which one is true regarding Gordy. I flagged the statement for needing citation, but I don't know if it is true and sourceable or not. Otherwise, it might be challenged. If you know what to do or who to ask, please tell me. Meanwhile, I will start a discussion about Gordy at the talk page. Thank you. 2600:1700:53F1:5560:D438:2B7E:AEF7:4F8 ( talk) 18:49, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
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Recently, I took a Wikibreak. It's not the first time. I find when I get fed up with Wikipedia, it's the best thing to do. Wikipedia can be a toxic place. You take a lot of guff, but people do recognize your value. I was perusing your user page, and was amazed that you didn't have that many awards. Poking around a little further, I realized that you have not updated this page, User:BrownHairedGirl/Barnstars. Our colleague, @ Gerda Arendt: does a great job letting people know that they are precious. I'm not going to start giving out precious awards, but I wanted to do something else to let you know you are esteemed. So, I went through and culled the barnstars and other awards that you have been given, and I updated your awards page. I did not include kittens, or puppies. Thanks again! -- evrik ( talk) 19:55, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
Thanks ☺ Inoxent AR ( talk) 17:07, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
Brown girl i need help 😐 Inoxent AR ( talk) 17:17, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Malian expatriates in Japan indicating that it is currently empty, 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 it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
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. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. LucasKannou ( talk) 20:42, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to request for your comment on an Arbitration case request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Dispute on Portal:Iceland, since you had some involvement in the case. Thanks. Snævar ( talk) 08:08, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi BHG - hope you are well. Do you have access to Irish newspaper sources that may or may not help with this AfD? Thank you. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 17:01, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
I think that we are broadly on the same side so let's not let the frustration goad us into taking it out on each other. My reference to bottom trawling was aimed at Abductive, not you. (That article is far too npov. Bottom trawling is a nasty and destructive method of fishing, very high impact for very low reward. ) -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 19:01, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
Hey. I noticed a few days ago you filled in a bare reference on [[Bisexuality]. I was wondering why you used Template:Cite web and not Template:Cite book. The Google Books link itself seemed broken, insofar as it's returning a page that says "No preview available" with no obvious way to clear it. Does reflinks only output "cite web" citations? I've fixed it now by grabbing the correct info from Worldcat and Citer, but I know you do many such edits and was wondering if this might be impacting elsewhere on your workflow? Sideswipe9th ( talk) 02:14, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi, the discussion you participated to was closed without having any correction to it, just cancelling the proposal. You left a comment about having the name of the category "..in Czech Republic" listed alphabetically correct using "sort keys" so as people looking for it on HotCat won't have to scroll down counterintuitively to the bottom of the list to find "...in the Czech Republic" between "Vietnam" and "in the Dominican Republic". Can you follow up on that and make the change you talked about? Thank you. -- Opencross ( talk) 11:21, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi! You may want to run your tool/script over this page again the next time you do a run where it fits the criteria. A handful of your URL clean up edits were casualties of a massive sock reversion ( Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Xoni98). Hated to lose your work but this was the simplest way to de-sock. Hope you're well! Star Mississippi 01:22, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
Here's how to look at user contribs and page histories in a big way; in the contribs or history select 500. Then in the url change where it has &limit=500
to a larger number. My old computer can easily handle 3500 (takes a few seconds), but struggles with 5000. Then use 'Ctrl F' to search for the desired text; most browsers will return a number of instances of that text appearing on the page, usually up to 1000. If needed, you can even click on the link for next 3500 and get taken to the next 3500.
Abductive (
reasoning) 06:31, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
didn't want to crash your computeris yet more of your self-serving nonsense. A page of 350 contribs would not crash my computer, even if it did cause problems, those probs would be no greater if I had follow a link instead of doing my own research. Please stop wasting y time with your absurd games.
Ah, I see. I didn't want to crash your computer.I tried opening the link on multiple devices ranging from 1 year old to 10+ years old, multiple operating systems (mac, windows, linux, openbsd, freebsd), and multiple browsers (chrome, safari, firefox, pale moon, and even text-based browsers) and it worked on all of them. So i don't know what computer is going to crash from sharing the link.
It seems that I was wrong and the job was a good performer, but it took 49 hours and was spread out on two of the 'view 3500' pages. I only captured 399 of those edits and I am sorry. I will correct the thread. I know the discussion is over and I would like to keep it that way, but "evidence" like this seriously puts into question literally everything else you are saying. How are we supposed to believe that
mine are above averagewhen you've shown that your way of determining things is wrong in the first place? In the future, make sure the evidence is correct without a doubt before trying to stand by it 100%. And always support the evidence with links and diffs in the first post, not at the end. Its a common but costly Wiki blunder.
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Mosaic (vocal band), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Royal Caribbean.
( Opt-out instructions.) -- DPL bot ( talk) 06:07, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
I hope I did not hurt you. If I did, it was not my intention. Perhaps I am too sensitive to some irregularities which sometimes seem susspicious to me. All irregularities will be handled by ... nevermind. ⸻ Nikolas Ojala ( talk) 14:33, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
do not replywas unclear to you, so I will simplify it: sod off. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 20:29, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
If you fill a sandbox page with a couple thousand of pages to run the bot on, I can do that for you, outside of the web interface. I can post the Zotero worked/failed files afterwards. AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 21:23, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
Hey BHG, I was wondering if you currently have a subscription to BNA. If you don't I'd be willing to gift you one since I have a feeling you'd get a lot more use out of it for Wikipedia than I would. Mesidast ( talk) 11:21, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
Do you have plans to use {{ Is country an EU member state}}? I've been going through a list of templates with no transclusions, nominating them for deletion, but knowing that you are a competent editor, I thought I would ask first. If you don't need it anymore, you can tag it with {{ db-author}}, or I'll be happy to nominate it. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 14:44, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
The case request that you were a party to, Dispute on Portal:Iceland, has been declined by the Arbitration Committee. You can view the declined case request through this wikilink. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 19:27, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
Category:Members of the 1st Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly 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. - MPGuy2824 ( talk) 02:55, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
Category:Members of the 4th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly 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. - MPGuy2824 ( talk) 03:08, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
May I inquire about the reasoning behind this revert of Citation bot's edit to Marie Curie? The only changes made by the bot were a cosmetic template-call-name change and the addition of a (correct, according to my checking) publication date for a referenced webpage, which doesn't seem to me like it warrants reverting. Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes 20:47, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi BrownHairedGirl,
I saw a diff https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Tooms_Lake&curid=19278627&diff=1089253924&oldid=1087854900 where AWB filled in a bare url that was archived. But it said title=Archived copy. That is not a useful title, and if you see this, you have better take a look at the URL manually to determine the title, and whether indeed there is a copy and not an error screen. AWB needs checking for this sort of modification. Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 08:02, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
|title=Archived copy
is more useful than it first appears. If you look more closely at that edit, see how it did all the tedious clerical work of filling the cite template, including the messy bit of extracting the original URL from the archive URL. That's quite slow work to do manually: I used to allow two minutes per ref to do that and check its accuracy, before adding the actual titles. On some pages with many such refs, that clerical part of the task could take ten or twenty minutes. But my AWB module can do it in seconds, with much higher accuracy than a human. (Certainly more accurate than this human
)|title=Archived copy
to |title=Tooms Lake suburb profile
... and hey presto, we have a fully-formed cite.|title=Archived copy
is used because it is the same one as used by @
InternetArchiveBot when it archives a completely bare URL: see e.g.
this demo edit on my sandbox. The result of my module's edit is designed to be very similar to IAbot's, with the key differences being that:|status=dead
, because the use of a bare archived ref by the editor who added it is a clear indication that they intended the archived copy to be used.|website=
parameter, 'cos the module can so that easily.|title=Archived copy
is tracked in
Category:CS1 maint: archived copy as title, allowing all sort of ways of identifying its usage within a topic area, and possibly using other tools to fill it. See for example
https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=22153143 which finds 40 articles on members of the
Oireachtas which currently use |title=Archived copy
.Hi BHG! We should probably have something like Template:Cite Twitter profile for Twitter events. Chris Packham is an article where it would be relevant. I've reached out as you are the one who figured out how to put the profile one together...would you mind creating one for events and pinging me, please? -- TheSandDoctor Talk 17:11, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
"Canonicalie" could do with an "s" perhaps? (But it's working: I'll fix Transport in Leeds when not on phone). Pam D 06:57, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
Since you are a glutton for punishment , I thought maybe you [or someone you know] might have A Cunning Plan to solve this? Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography#Dead links for 2011 census. Feel free to totally ignore if it doesn't interest you. -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 10:24, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi there I noticed you edited “Eric Allan” recently. The actor of 82 years of age who was in such shows as “Tell me Lies”. This man is my grandad. I don’t understand wikipedia text, but his photo has been changed very recently to the wrong Eric Allan. I wondered if this was you and if you could change it back if it was/if you could help me change it back? I have access to the previous picture as it is on google if his name is typed in. Its a photo of a clearly much older gentleman. Im sorry to bother you with this but it is something that means the world to me. My email is bradley.allan@hotmail.co.uk If you could contact me there I would be must appreciative Kind Regards Brad — Preceding unsigned comment added by BradleyAllan97 ( talk • contribs) 22:41, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
The page has always had his photo. It hasn’t been edited by anyone other than yourself in over 6 months prior. So you must have removed it. This was incorrect to do so BradleyAllan97 ( talk) 21:03, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
Template:Is country an EU member state has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 04:13, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
Template:Is valid full month name has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 04:13, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
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Template:Is valid short month name has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 04:14, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi, i was wondering how "tennis tournaments in Portugal" is present as single page on category, but not in the HotCat list.
Also i would like to know if you have some kind of bot which can fill up the ref, since i saw a lot of bare or essential links on tennis pages (some have just the url, others also the title, and less the date too, and very few the website mentioned).
In case of positive answer, can it be run over all the subpages of a wikipage
like this ?
Thanks for your consideration.
Opencross (
talk) 14:59, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
Your pronouns say "her" did you forget she? That one is also a pronoun. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.120.0.144 ( talk) 20:41, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red June 2022, Vol 8, Issue 6, Nos 214, 217, 227, 231, 232, 233
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-- Megalibrarygirl ( talk) 09:19, 31 May 2022 (UTC) via MassMessaging
Category:Leisure activity vehicles has been nominated for deletion. 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. HumanBodyPiloter5 ( talk) 07:10, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
Hello, hello, hello! Do you have any idea why the number 1983 at this category page is not being put in alphabetical order with the other numbers? Cheers. Anythingyouwant ( talk) 22:00, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
Thanks, @ PamD, for yet again giving a prompt and helpful reply while I was offline. It's v kind of you. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 01:53, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
In this edit you processed a bunch of archive.org links into {{ cite web}} invocations, which did preserve the archive dates, but I am wondering if this will bring it in conflict with other scripts? For example, is there anything that will try to "auto-update" archive URLs to the most recent? If so, is there a way to "lock in" the current URLs and prevent such updating? The reason I ask is because the cited archive URLs are being used to cite statements about what was on the website during particular periods of time. jp× g 18:47, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
|url-status=dead
, even tho the page is not dead.
|title=
parameter etc, but some of the tedious work is done.|url-status=deviated
also triggers the archive-url to become the live url. The documentation at {{
cite web}} supports that by saying to use that parameter when the original URL is 'live' but no longer supports the article textSideswipe9th ( talk) 01:56, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
|url-status=deviated
is just the sort of thing that I was looking for in that
discussion in June 2021 which I mentioned above.deviated
parameter a shot the next time this comes up. Hopefully, everything will become less completely fucked up in the future ;)
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I want to know who you are and how you received all this information on my father most is public knowledge but some is not if you could email me at glitterandglam1522@gmail.com that would be great. 2600:1017:B020:A8C3:D0E2:7F61:56FD:2540 ( talk) 02:44, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
Template:YYYY crimes in countryname category header is used on the likes of Category:1921 crimes in Turkey and populates Category:1921 in Turkey when it should be populating Category:1921 in the Ottoman Empire. My attempt to add the redirect resolve failed miserably. Are you able to sort out the template? Timrollpickering ( talk) 10:55, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
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some of your DMY edits are surfacing articles from before the temp watchlist where I made an edit eons ago but not one where I cared to "maintain" the article. Probably wikilink or other gnoming. They're low traffic so hadn't bubbled up on my watchlist since so with your edits, it made for an easy unwatch. And of course thanks for the actual work behind these edits! Star Mississippi 12:48, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi, i was trying to create new categories, but something didn't quite add up. I need help. I have already red the guidelines but i didn't quite get how to order the categories in a tree. I do well in new category see here, and here, but as you can see here my subcategory "Defunct tennis tournament in Czech Republic" got enlisted alphabetically and not in the hot categories at the top of the same page. Any suggestion on how to do it would be helpful. Cheers.
ps: it looks like i needed to wait some more time for ... an update of the page, but anyhow i would appreciate if you could take a look at it and share some of your advices on how-to-do-it better. -- Opencross ( talk) 13:04, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.
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Hello BHG,
I hope you can help, as I know little about Wikipedia errors.
I get this message from my music scraping app:
phaseThree bad HTML at:: Index 58 of 58: 'Category:2010 establishments in the United States"}}}]}}}}'
"phaseThree bad HTML at ..." is from my app when it senses something wrong with the html, perhaps imbalanced brackets, etc., but I'm not sure. I get this message only once, as if this is the only category that has whatever the problem is. My scraping starts at 'Category:Musicians' and descends to every leaf.
Can you explain and fix whatever the problem is?
Thank you! -Ron Ron ( talk) 18:47, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
Do you know how to create a page for Richard Price and link it to legend of the sea devils and all his other doctor who monster roles ? 86.172.22.195 ( talk) 08:38, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello. Your help is greatly appreciated over on McGarry Ontario page. It is on a couple editors watchlist, whom jump all over me and I feel picked on, bullied , and alone. Thank you. 2605:B100:D34:2E29:C936:82F7:47DC:606F ( talk) 08:17, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi BrownHairedGirl. I've noticed your AWB job has added 'Use dmy dates' to some disambiguation pages such as Negative and Issue [1] [2]. To me those seem like false positives as disambiguation pages are not articles, very few would ever contain dates, and could you classify them as dmy vs mdy anyway? Just wanted to find out your thoughts. Thanks! Tassedethe ( talk) 20:11, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi BrownHairedGirl. Thanks for all your hard work with adding {{Use dmy dates}}. I wondered how long your project will take, as my watchlist is currently clogged with all these additions. Can I filter out all your edits for a while? Many thanks. Martinevans123 ( talk) 09:32, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
Our institution has large gaps missing on our Wikipedia page in comparison to our local competitors. A Wikipedia editor continues to delete any of our updates stating POV. How do we go about finding someone willing to volunteer to update our page? 38.123.35.131 ( talk) 18:45, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
our Wikipedia page???
Note that this all appears to relate to
Daemen University. This IP has edited that article, and the university has employed a paid writer:
ManHV1S1on (
talk ·
contribs).
I hope that this newly-created university will clean up its promotional act. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 21:02, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello BHG,
I hope you are doing well. I know the bot request has been approved for some time. Note that I have not abandonded it, I have been away from Wikipedia for a while due to IRL stuff and as such i havent' been doing much editing compared to usual for a better part of late March/early-mid April. But now I should have some free time, so I will work on getting the bot tested and trialed soon in the next couple of days. Sorry for keeping you waiting! Rlink2 ( talk) 23:24, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
This looks like a problem (example here). I'm seeing it elsewhere. There's lots of manual work involved in reacting after-the-fact, digging the titles out then, and fixing this. Could that work be done concurrently with these sorts of fixes? Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 17:38, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
Clarification, following on maint message in header on editing the previous version -- title taken from the linked archived copy. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 17:44, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
|title=Archived copy
. This task starts with a bare URL archived link and adds the missing original URL, wrapping both URLs in a citation template with the placeholder value of |title=Archived copy
.|title=
is not available to the tool doing the work. My AWB job is simply a clever set of
regex replacements; it knows nothing whatsoever about the content of URLs. In each case we have an incremental improvement, not a full solution.|title=
is a much more complex task which needs to be done manually. Some of the work could in theory by done by a sophisticated bot which does not yet exist. I did propose such a bot, a
User talk:Citation bot/Archive_30#Feature:_usurped_title, and found a talented programmer who was willing to try taking this one ... but the whole thing ran into the sands due to one excitable editor demanding that any such bot respect some bizarre hobbyhorse of theirs. It all became too much grief to continue.
BrownHairedGirl
(talk) • (
contribs) 18:54, 26 April 2022 (UTC)OK. I understand all of that. That understanding is not new to me, though its particular application here is. I guess this, which came up following on my action responding to error/maint messages following an edit by BrownHairedGirl. The final paragraph of the above probably says it all Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 19:35, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
|title=
parameter, and optionally add |work=
and/or |date=
parameters.|title=Archived copy
.Understood, and thanks for all of that. I will slog away with the manual work in my own inefficient manner in some of the cases I happen to stumble across. The above from me was not in any way intended as criticism. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 10:13, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
Hope you are well. Just stopping by to say thanks because you've sent my watchlist into overdrive. Much appreciated. Schwede 66 08:10, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
Hi BHG, what is driving the addition of this tag? I'm seeing Use dmy dates being added to multiple video game articles that currently utilize mdy. -- ferret ( talk) 14:03, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
It looks like this edit to Jacky Hunt-Broersma is the same issue as the video games above or adjacent thereto. She was born/raised in South Africa, which is why she pulled in your list to work through. What she's actually notable for is her running career, which is entirely in the US. Just flagging so you know why it was removed. There's nothing you can fix since it's one of those context ones. Thanks again for all the clean up Star Mississippi 14:04, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
Since you changed the {{ dead link}} tags in the Adaptations section ( https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Washington_Square_(novel)&action=edit§ion=4), neither of them show in the article anymore and one has disappeared entirely for reasons I can't fathom. Can you please take another look at them? Just Another Cringy Username ( talk) 20:24, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
18:35, April 28, 2022 diff hist +824 Antonella Tosti Alter: template type. Add: journal, date, title. Changed bare reference to CS1/2. Removed parameters. Some additions/deletions were parameter name changes. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by BrownHairedGirl | Linked from User:BrownHairedGirl/Articles_with_bare_links | #UCB_webform_linked 1034/2847 current [rollback] [vandalism]
The above might be the last edit from that run, and you might have to start over from that point. AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 18:37, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Hilton College (South Africa) has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or 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. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:49, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red May 2022, Vol 8, Issue 5, Nos 214, 217, 227, 229, 230
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I was surprised to see that you seem to have resigned as admin. It's a pity, I liked you being around and contributing and administrating cases at CfD in former times. Looking you up I was as well impressed about your huge collection of barnstars. Such a mass of them seem to relativize their value a bit, or do I see that wrong in your eyes?
Well, the proper reason to approach you is a case about the apparently most important person at CfD (for some years as it seems): Marcocapelle. As you resigned no other admin seemed to be interested to replace you as admin in that section. So he developped the 'emergency' habit of using the possibility of 'non-admin closures'. In most cases that was okay with me. But then I found cases like the following one which I protested against. Protest against evidently wrong non-admin closure decision by user Marcocapelle. But no response was given. At almost the same time I discovered that I have lost most delight to participate any longer in a Wp section that doesn't give a damn on my protest. It's just like in George Orwell's Animal farm parable: All are equal; but some are even more 'equal' than others. And those don't respect equality just if they like. Today I decided to ask someone of longtime experience, exactly: you, to speak out. Do you think that a 'top dog' like Marco in CfD can be easily convinced to revise this case and do as I proposed: no more 'non-admin closures' in controversial cases?! What do you think about that? The voting was clear and his closure decision was not at all adequate to that evidence. Which is the hard-edged way to get the correction and the serious promise of him to do no more abuse like that? (You might eventually prefer to send me a Wp e-mail. It's a thorny, not an easy question. And I'd like to have a honest answer about the non-formal aspect of it (or else your denial).) -- Just N. ( talk) 20:42, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
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abuse. That is a very strong allegation for which I see no supporting evidence, and such a grave allegation should never be made without compelling evidence.
abusein multiple venues, the chances of productive dialogue are low. I don't like seeing any closer attacked in this way, but I am particularly sad to see to see a hard-working, conscientious editor like Marcocapelle maligned like this.
I want to know why the page I wrote last month does not appear in Google search! I asked you before but you did not give a convincing answer. Ljvdp ( talk) 16:41, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
Troll indeffed, please take a rest if you feel too stressed. PAVLOV ( talk) 17:42, 1 May 2022 (UTC) |
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Check out this cute cat playing with a lizard. It's adorable! – MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 17:36, 1 May 2022 (UTC) |
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Hello would be good to connect, are you related to the Macdonald's 2A02:C7C:C23:D200:10B1:C4AA:B79B:E627 ( talk) 21:24, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
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Always seeing you on Recent Changes. Really appreciate the hard work! Taxin609 ( Talk To Me) 01:51, 6 May 2022 (UTC) |
Hi,
It’s simple. The reason I reverted the edit is because it disrupted the article structure, similar to vandalism. The content had moved out of the table and been dropped further down the page. Although I respect editors who add maintenance tags, I don’t think that should include disrupting formatting or dragging content out of boxes and so on. I added the tag back, as the point probably needs to be fixed anyway, ( Kreb ( talk) 16:31, 7 May 2022 (UTC)) Screenshot
I posted a question on your talk page. Why not answer it there? There is a big edit notice at the top of this page saying To reply to a message I left on your talk page, then please post the reply on your talk page, and use {{
ping}} to notify me
. What part of that is unclear?
Then when you do post here, why post your reply before the message you are replying to?
The substance of your reply could and and should have been explained in your edit summaries at
Northern Ireland Assembly (1973). Please go read
Help:Edit summary, and start using edit summaries. --
BrownHairedGirl
(talk) • (
contribs) 16:38, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
editors that feel "challenged": what nasty remark. How dare you try to depict your abysmal communication skills as some sort of failing on my part.
Hi, I noticed that you have been using User:Dispenser/Reflinks, which has been leaving some urls bare after a visit. I ran Zhaofeng_Li/Reflinks on a few that you marked "bare" and it seemed to be a deeper metadata trawler, finding data for almost all of them. -- Ohc revolution of our times 21:11, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
Out of five references on Ringing Bell, only two are using the cite web templates. The other three only have the titles listed manually. I was hoping you could fill the rest of them in properly with reflinks. Also, on Gordy, I am suspicious of the recent edits to the home media section; however, I found out that there is now Paramount Global era of Miramax. But on the other hand, it said 49% was sold, so that leaves another 51%. I don't know which one is true regarding Gordy. I flagged the statement for needing citation, but I don't know if it is true and sourceable or not. Otherwise, it might be challenged. If you know what to do or who to ask, please tell me. Meanwhile, I will start a discussion about Gordy at the talk page. Thank you. 2600:1700:53F1:5560:D438:2B7E:AEF7:4F8 ( talk) 18:49, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
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Recently, I took a Wikibreak. It's not the first time. I find when I get fed up with Wikipedia, it's the best thing to do. Wikipedia can be a toxic place. You take a lot of guff, but people do recognize your value. I was perusing your user page, and was amazed that you didn't have that many awards. Poking around a little further, I realized that you have not updated this page, User:BrownHairedGirl/Barnstars. Our colleague, @ Gerda Arendt: does a great job letting people know that they are precious. I'm not going to start giving out precious awards, but I wanted to do something else to let you know you are esteemed. So, I went through and culled the barnstars and other awards that you have been given, and I updated your awards page. I did not include kittens, or puppies. Thanks again! -- evrik ( talk) 19:55, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
Thanks ☺ Inoxent AR ( talk) 17:07, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
Brown girl i need help 😐 Inoxent AR ( talk) 17:17, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Malian expatriates in Japan indicating that it is currently empty, 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 it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
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. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. LucasKannou ( talk) 20:42, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to request for your comment on an Arbitration case request at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Dispute on Portal:Iceland, since you had some involvement in the case. Thanks. Snævar ( talk) 08:08, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi BHG - hope you are well. Do you have access to Irish newspaper sources that may or may not help with this AfD? Thank you. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 17:01, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
I think that we are broadly on the same side so let's not let the frustration goad us into taking it out on each other. My reference to bottom trawling was aimed at Abductive, not you. (That article is far too npov. Bottom trawling is a nasty and destructive method of fishing, very high impact for very low reward. ) -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 19:01, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
Hey. I noticed a few days ago you filled in a bare reference on [[Bisexuality]. I was wondering why you used Template:Cite web and not Template:Cite book. The Google Books link itself seemed broken, insofar as it's returning a page that says "No preview available" with no obvious way to clear it. Does reflinks only output "cite web" citations? I've fixed it now by grabbing the correct info from Worldcat and Citer, but I know you do many such edits and was wondering if this might be impacting elsewhere on your workflow? Sideswipe9th ( talk) 02:14, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi, the discussion you participated to was closed without having any correction to it, just cancelling the proposal. You left a comment about having the name of the category "..in Czech Republic" listed alphabetically correct using "sort keys" so as people looking for it on HotCat won't have to scroll down counterintuitively to the bottom of the list to find "...in the Czech Republic" between "Vietnam" and "in the Dominican Republic". Can you follow up on that and make the change you talked about? Thank you. -- Opencross ( talk) 11:21, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi! You may want to run your tool/script over this page again the next time you do a run where it fits the criteria. A handful of your URL clean up edits were casualties of a massive sock reversion ( Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Xoni98). Hated to lose your work but this was the simplest way to de-sock. Hope you're well! Star Mississippi 01:22, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
Here's how to look at user contribs and page histories in a big way; in the contribs or history select 500. Then in the url change where it has &limit=500
to a larger number. My old computer can easily handle 3500 (takes a few seconds), but struggles with 5000. Then use 'Ctrl F' to search for the desired text; most browsers will return a number of instances of that text appearing on the page, usually up to 1000. If needed, you can even click on the link for next 3500 and get taken to the next 3500.
Abductive (
reasoning) 06:31, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
didn't want to crash your computeris yet more of your self-serving nonsense. A page of 350 contribs would not crash my computer, even if it did cause problems, those probs would be no greater if I had follow a link instead of doing my own research. Please stop wasting y time with your absurd games.
Ah, I see. I didn't want to crash your computer.I tried opening the link on multiple devices ranging from 1 year old to 10+ years old, multiple operating systems (mac, windows, linux, openbsd, freebsd), and multiple browsers (chrome, safari, firefox, pale moon, and even text-based browsers) and it worked on all of them. So i don't know what computer is going to crash from sharing the link.
It seems that I was wrong and the job was a good performer, but it took 49 hours and was spread out on two of the 'view 3500' pages. I only captured 399 of those edits and I am sorry. I will correct the thread. I know the discussion is over and I would like to keep it that way, but "evidence" like this seriously puts into question literally everything else you are saying. How are we supposed to believe that
mine are above averagewhen you've shown that your way of determining things is wrong in the first place? In the future, make sure the evidence is correct without a doubt before trying to stand by it 100%. And always support the evidence with links and diffs in the first post, not at the end. Its a common but costly Wiki blunder.
An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Mosaic (vocal band), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Royal Caribbean.
( Opt-out instructions.) -- DPL bot ( talk) 06:07, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
I hope I did not hurt you. If I did, it was not my intention. Perhaps I am too sensitive to some irregularities which sometimes seem susspicious to me. All irregularities will be handled by ... nevermind. ⸻ Nikolas Ojala ( talk) 14:33, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
do not replywas unclear to you, so I will simplify it: sod off. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 20:29, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
If you fill a sandbox page with a couple thousand of pages to run the bot on, I can do that for you, outside of the web interface. I can post the Zotero worked/failed files afterwards. AManWithNoPlan ( talk) 21:23, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
Hey BHG, I was wondering if you currently have a subscription to BNA. If you don't I'd be willing to gift you one since I have a feeling you'd get a lot more use out of it for Wikipedia than I would. Mesidast ( talk) 11:21, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
Do you have plans to use {{ Is country an EU member state}}? I've been going through a list of templates with no transclusions, nominating them for deletion, but knowing that you are a competent editor, I thought I would ask first. If you don't need it anymore, you can tag it with {{ db-author}}, or I'll be happy to nominate it. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 14:44, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
The case request that you were a party to, Dispute on Portal:Iceland, has been declined by the Arbitration Committee. You can view the declined case request through this wikilink. For the Arbitration Committee, Dreamy Jazz talk to me | my contributions 19:27, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
Category:Members of the 1st Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly 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. - MPGuy2824 ( talk) 02:55, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
Category:Members of the 4th Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly 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. - MPGuy2824 ( talk) 03:08, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
May I inquire about the reasoning behind this revert of Citation bot's edit to Marie Curie? The only changes made by the bot were a cosmetic template-call-name change and the addition of a (correct, according to my checking) publication date for a referenced webpage, which doesn't seem to me like it warrants reverting. Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes 20:47, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi BrownHairedGirl,
I saw a diff https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Tooms_Lake&curid=19278627&diff=1089253924&oldid=1087854900 where AWB filled in a bare url that was archived. But it said title=Archived copy. That is not a useful title, and if you see this, you have better take a look at the URL manually to determine the title, and whether indeed there is a copy and not an error screen. AWB needs checking for this sort of modification. Graeme Bartlett ( talk) 08:02, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
|title=Archived copy
is more useful than it first appears. If you look more closely at that edit, see how it did all the tedious clerical work of filling the cite template, including the messy bit of extracting the original URL from the archive URL. That's quite slow work to do manually: I used to allow two minutes per ref to do that and check its accuracy, before adding the actual titles. On some pages with many such refs, that clerical part of the task could take ten or twenty minutes. But my AWB module can do it in seconds, with much higher accuracy than a human. (Certainly more accurate than this human
)|title=Archived copy
to |title=Tooms Lake suburb profile
... and hey presto, we have a fully-formed cite.|title=Archived copy
is used because it is the same one as used by @
InternetArchiveBot when it archives a completely bare URL: see e.g.
this demo edit on my sandbox. The result of my module's edit is designed to be very similar to IAbot's, with the key differences being that:|status=dead
, because the use of a bare archived ref by the editor who added it is a clear indication that they intended the archived copy to be used.|website=
parameter, 'cos the module can so that easily.|title=Archived copy
is tracked in
Category:CS1 maint: archived copy as title, allowing all sort of ways of identifying its usage within a topic area, and possibly using other tools to fill it. See for example
https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=22153143 which finds 40 articles on members of the
Oireachtas which currently use |title=Archived copy
.Hi BHG! We should probably have something like Template:Cite Twitter profile for Twitter events. Chris Packham is an article where it would be relevant. I've reached out as you are the one who figured out how to put the profile one together...would you mind creating one for events and pinging me, please? -- TheSandDoctor Talk 17:11, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
"Canonicalie" could do with an "s" perhaps? (But it's working: I'll fix Transport in Leeds when not on phone). Pam D 06:57, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
Since you are a glutton for punishment , I thought maybe you [or someone you know] might have A Cunning Plan to solve this? Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK geography#Dead links for 2011 census. Feel free to totally ignore if it doesn't interest you. -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 10:24, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi there I noticed you edited “Eric Allan” recently. The actor of 82 years of age who was in such shows as “Tell me Lies”. This man is my grandad. I don’t understand wikipedia text, but his photo has been changed very recently to the wrong Eric Allan. I wondered if this was you and if you could change it back if it was/if you could help me change it back? I have access to the previous picture as it is on google if his name is typed in. Its a photo of a clearly much older gentleman. Im sorry to bother you with this but it is something that means the world to me. My email is bradley.allan@hotmail.co.uk If you could contact me there I would be must appreciative Kind Regards Brad — Preceding unsigned comment added by BradleyAllan97 ( talk • contribs) 22:41, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
The page has always had his photo. It hasn’t been edited by anyone other than yourself in over 6 months prior. So you must have removed it. This was incorrect to do so BradleyAllan97 ( talk) 21:03, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, i was wondering how "tennis tournaments in Portugal" is present as single page on category, but not in the HotCat list.
Also i would like to know if you have some kind of bot which can fill up the ref, since i saw a lot of bare or essential links on tennis pages (some have just the url, others also the title, and less the date too, and very few the website mentioned).
In case of positive answer, can it be run over all the subpages of a wikipage
like this ?
Thanks for your consideration.
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Your pronouns say "her" did you forget she? That one is also a pronoun. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.120.0.144 ( talk) 20:41, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
Women in Red June 2022, Vol 8, Issue 6, Nos 214, 217, 227, 231, 232, 233
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Category:Leisure activity vehicles has been nominated for deletion. 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. HumanBodyPiloter5 ( talk) 07:10, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
Hello, hello, hello! Do you have any idea why the number 1983 at this category page is not being put in alphabetical order with the other numbers? Cheers. Anythingyouwant ( talk) 22:00, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
Thanks, @ PamD, for yet again giving a prompt and helpful reply while I was offline. It's v kind of you. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 01:53, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
In this edit you processed a bunch of archive.org links into {{ cite web}} invocations, which did preserve the archive dates, but I am wondering if this will bring it in conflict with other scripts? For example, is there anything that will try to "auto-update" archive URLs to the most recent? If so, is there a way to "lock in" the current URLs and prevent such updating? The reason I ask is because the cited archive URLs are being used to cite statements about what was on the website during particular periods of time. jp× g 18:47, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
|url-status=dead
, even tho the page is not dead.
|title=
parameter etc, but some of the tedious work is done.|url-status=deviated
also triggers the archive-url to become the live url. The documentation at {{
cite web}} supports that by saying to use that parameter when the original URL is 'live' but no longer supports the article textSideswipe9th ( talk) 01:56, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
|url-status=deviated
is just the sort of thing that I was looking for in that
discussion in June 2021 which I mentioned above.deviated
parameter a shot the next time this comes up. Hopefully, everything will become less completely fucked up in the future ;)
jp×
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I want to know who you are and how you received all this information on my father most is public knowledge but some is not if you could email me at glitterandglam1522@gmail.com that would be great. 2600:1017:B020:A8C3:D0E2:7F61:56FD:2540 ( talk) 02:44, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
Template:YYYY crimes in countryname category header is used on the likes of Category:1921 crimes in Turkey and populates Category:1921 in Turkey when it should be populating Category:1921 in the Ottoman Empire. My attempt to add the redirect resolve failed miserably. Are you able to sort out the template? Timrollpickering ( talk) 10:55, 4 June 2022 (UTC)