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Hello everyone and welcome to the 16th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
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If anyone else would like to contribute to future issues, please comment at Wikipedia talk:Scripts++. -- DannyS712 ( talk) 20:13, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2020).
RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.
The third round of the 2020 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it into the fourth round each had at least 353 points (compared to 68 in 2019). It was a highly competitive round, and a number of contestants were eliminated who would have moved on in earlier years. Our top scorers in round 3 were:
Between them, contestants managed 14 featured articles, 9 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 152 good articles, 136 DYK entries, 55 ITN entries, 65 featured article candidate reviews and 221 good article reviews. Additionally,
MPJ-DK added 3 items to featured topics and 44 to good topics. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 710 good article reviews, in comparison to 387 good articles submitted for review and promoted. These large numbers are probably linked to a GAN backlog drive in April and May, and the changed patterns of editing during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 ( talk), Sturmvogel 66 ( talk), Vanamonde ( talk), Cwmhiraeth ( talk) MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 12:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
I have no idea why you are making edits like this one, but they have no effect on the appearance of the article from the reader end, and they make it very slightly harder to see what's going on in an equation at the editor end. Please stop. -- JBL ( talk) 22:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
Chafin v. Chafin you nominated for
GA-status according to the
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This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by
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The article
Chafin v. Chafin you nominated as a
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I was surprised that there is now a bot approving redirects and I tried to figure out what causes the bot to do so. In that process I realized that I made a self-redirect by accident. Technically such a self-redirect fits the tasks of the bot, but I guess these shouldn't be approved automatically. -- mfb ( talk) 11:41, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi Danny, I noticed your RemindMe script and was wondering if you were aware of the (far too useful for it to be this obscure) W-ping script, which does the same thing without making the notifications being public or adding more revisions to the database. Is that a design that you would consider as an update, or would you be willing to also link to the W-ping script on your page as a "see also"? Best, Kevin ( alt of L235 · t · c) 19:41, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello, DannyS712.
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20:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
I wrote this article which relates to a very notable entomologist as a stub. It was redirected (almost immediately) before completion. I explained this to whoever made the move suggesting a better title would be Eduard Enslin as in the authority controlled German language version. Also I worked on the draft adding a sentence or two and completing the references one of which is a very complete pdf with a full bibliography. So far with no response.Notafly (talk) 16:03, 7 July 2020 (UTC) PS It is not a draft but a referenced article in my subject area. I am sure this will be resolved once the text is properly considered. I can easily add the page again under Eduard Enslin from my saved draft. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Notafly ( talk • contribs) 16:19, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
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Hi DannyS712, just checking in to ask if you received any financial compensation for your edits to Al Cannon, the original editor Knapp84 was paid to make the page as seen here https://apps.sc.gov/PublicReporting/Expenditures/Candidate/ExpCountyFilerResult.aspx
Knapp has now revealed conflict of interest on their talk page. I am here to simply ask you if you also have a conflict, this is not meant to come with any accusatory tone, just pure fact checking. Thank you for your time JTW1998+ ( talk) 20:02, 09 July 2020 (UTC)
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16:29, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Do you want to become an admin? I can start an RfA if you want. NASCARfan0548 ↗ 16:56, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, DannyS712.
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Hi DannyS712. I was wondering if you could change User:DannyS712/FPC voter.js to only display when on a subpage of WP:FPC. As far as I can tell (without bothering to test it), wrapping lines 19-22 as follows ought to work:
if (mw.config.get('wgTitle').includes('Featured picture candidates')) { // new
mw.util.addPortletLink ( 'p-cactions', 'javascript:void(0)', 'FPC voter', 'ca-FPC-vote', 'vote'); // As before
$('#ca-FPC-vote').on('click', function() { // As before
FPC(); // As before
} ); // As before
} // new
Best, -- Mdaniels5757 ( talk) 16:00, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Danny2712
Got to know you from you bot, i created a draft article Draft:Anna Higgs your bot has disabled a category, so my question is will the category be back after it gets approve?
Memon KutianaWala ( talk) 12:56, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
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13:52, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 July 27#Category:Anarchist parties
Hi! In this nom, I'm looking to bundle every category under Category:Political parties by ideology that uses just "parties" instead of "political parties". Many of the categories have subcats that would be tagged as well, such as Category:Left-wing parties by country. Is this something with which your bot can assist? czar 21:51, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
When a sockmaster, whose trait is creating spoof admin accounts, decides to spoof you as Dunny721 - your time has come. The redlink awaits :-) Cabayi ( talk) 09:45, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2020).
Thank you for your interest in the account creation process. I have verified that you have signed the confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information and approved your request.
You may now access the interface here. Before you begin handling requests, please ensure you have read and understood the account creation guide and username policy to familiarize yourself with the process.
Please subscribe yourself to the private ACC mailing list following the instructions on that page. I also advise that you also join us on IRC #wikipedia-en-accounts connect where a bot informs us when new account requests come in and you can get real time advice on how to handle requests.
Please note failure to correctly assess requests will result in suspension of tool access. Account creation is not a race, and each one should be handled diligently and thoroughly. Releasing personally identifying information (such as IP and email addresses), whether intentionally or unintentionally, is treated very seriously and will generally result in immediate suspension.
Currently you are allowed to create up to six accounts per day, and you won't be able to create an account with a similar name to that of another user; these requests are marked as "Flagged user needed" on the interface. However, if you reach the limit frequently, you can request the account creator permission at Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Account creator.
Please don't hesitate to get in touch with me if you have any questions. Thank you for participating in the account creation process. Again welcome! — JJMC89 ( T· C) 20:49, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
Robert F. Utter you nominated for
GA-status according to the
criteria.
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by
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23:01, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
On 2 August 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kanye West 2020 presidential campaign, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Kanye West is running under the Birthday Party for his 2020 presidential campaign, because "when we win, it's everybody's birthday"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kanye West 2020 presidential campaign. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Kanye West 2020 presidential campaign), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 12:03, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
@ DannyS712: I wanted to let you know that the article has been added to WP:DYKSTATS for receiving over 5,000 views. Nice4What ( talk · contribs) – ( Thanks ♥) 18:16, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Hello DannyS712,
I was wondering if you take over maintaining my user scripts,
User:Interstellarity/Semi-protected edit requests.js and
User:Interstellarity/Extended-protected edit requests.js which add the links to the sidebar. I am not the best at user scripts so I would like to someone competent in that field to maintain them. Thanks,
Interstellarity (
talk)
18:31, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
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15:43, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
Just out of interest - why did you set this to unreviewed? Can't find anything wrong with the article... -- Elmidae ( talk · contribs) 19:42, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
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16:06, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
I've added an optional parameter to this template to specify the editor who prepared the table – you may want to account for it in your script. Cheers, — swpb T • go beyond • bad idea 17:22, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi, please have DannyS712bot ignore Category:Content moved from mainspace to draftspace when decategorizing drafts. Thanks. BD2412 T 18:07, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I believe the Gudban article has been placed on listing for a little too long. Is it possible for you to clean it up, or if not, give me some tips on what I could do to somehow speed up the process? Thank you. Auxerre dejufan ( talk) 19:21, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
Hello DannyS712,
In the 28th June you declined my submission for an article on The British Art Medal Society and made some every helpful suggestions in how I could improve it. I think I have done all that you have asked, though probably not to the standard that you may expect from someone a novice.
I was just wondering what the next steps are, and how I can get the article approved? I appreciate that there appears to be a very large queue that seems to be getting longer and longer ever time I look! Any handy hints and advice welcome.
With best wishes
Schnoebi — Preceding unsigned comment added by Schnoebi ( talk • contribs) 14:45, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
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20:40, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
Reconstruction Amendments you nominated for
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You said you removed the content I posted. Why and what content? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zooanimals35 ( talk • contribs) 22:10, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Since you undid my initial move per WP:RMUM, I wrote my reasoning for my initial move in the Talk:High Score. My rationale was that high score (the lowercase version) redirected to Score (game)#High score. Yoshiman6464 ♫🥚 00:42, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on Category:Russian football defender, 1999 births stubs 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. Liz Read! Talk! 15:50, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
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Template:User 2fa has been
nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at
the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page.
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21:01, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
Mind if I do it? Clearing out all my old notifications :) Enterprisey ( talk!) 07:24, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
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Hello everyone and welcome to the 17th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
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20:08, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were
Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 ( talk), Sturmvogel 66 ( talk), Vanamonde ( talk), Cwmhiraeth ( talk) MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 19:52, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Can the bot add templates to a group of related categories for renaming? I'm deciding whether to ask help from Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion or from you in nominating the categories. Manabimasu ( talk) 05:00, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
{{
subst:Cfr2|Current category|Proposed name|text=Your reason(s) for the proposed rename.}}
* 1st category
* 2nd category
, so I or and editor can easily create the bundled cfd section.
Is your bot capable of that?
Manabimasu (
talk)
14:57, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
{{subst:cfr|Proposed name|CfD section name}}
So you bot is up to it? These are two large parent categories.
Manabimasu (
talk)
15:20, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
@ DannyS712:The two parent categories are Category:Roman Catholics and Category:Roman Catholic dioceses. The X is “Roman Catholic" and the Y or proposed name is "Latin Catholic". Manabimasu ( talk) 15:53, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
I talked to User:Nihiltres who created Module:Hatnote group, but I want to ask you on what you think about Module:Footnote group. This template's documentation Template:Footnote_group gives an idea of how it will work. The main purpose of it is to merge two footnote template or more. I am unsure how <ref> tags are rendered by mediawiki. Manabimasu ( talk) 05:08, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
<ref>
tags have been (partially) expanded; in the text Lua receives there'll be a replacement string, something like "UNIQ--ref-00000002-QINU", where the tag used to be. {{
hatnote group}} works on hatnotes because Lua runs after templates are expanded, and it operates on the output of those hatnote templates. Your idea must operate on the input of reference tags when it does not have access to that input, but only a mid-parsing placeholder. It's a neat idea, but it's not (currently?) technically possible. {{
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mustor
shoulduse the articles for creation process.
Curious why you don't want your script linked from the template – I think a lot of editors find it useful. — swpb T • go beyond • bad idea 17:59, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Danny
Long time no speak. Hope you are well in these tough times.
I have recently cleaned up the content category tree by removing lots of template categories and other project categories, so I can now use Petscan to find pages in the user and user talk namespaces (described at WT:Categorization#The_cleanup_which_is_possible_now_that_templates_have_been_removed_from_many_content_categories).
Most of those are user sandboxes, which can be easily fixed in one click by using your very handy User:DannyS712/Draft no cat.
However, today I spotted one such page where the user had again added live categories to a page which I had converted to links only yesterday. I assume that this was a good faith effort by them as they created a new draft, and that they probably had not spotted my DNC fix.
So I thought it would be helpful to add a ping when DNC is used in the User namespace. I have forked DNC to User:BrownHairedGirl/Draft no cat.js ( permalink), and added some code which generates the ping. I tested it on an ancient sandbox draft in my own userspace [37], and it seems to be working fine.
Would you feel able to incorporate this in the live version of DNC?
Obviously you're a much better coder than me, so you may code it differently. But I think it is a useful enhancement. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 14:18, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
mw.config.get( 'wgRelevantUserName' )
should be enough to get the relevant user's name, rather than the regex replacement of the page title. I'll take a look at adding this in shortly
DannyS712 (
talk)
14:26, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the update, @ DannyS712.
Just a wee afterthought: would it be better to pipe the ping link?
It's currently: DNC_summary = '@[[User:' + username + ']]: ' + DNC_summary
... which displays as per my original hack.
But maybe it would be better as DNC_summary = '@[[User:' + username + '|' + username + ']]: ' + DNC_summary
-- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 21:17, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
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The article
Robert F. Utter you nominated as a
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16:18, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Danny, hope you are fine. I was here for your help. You know that a there is a gadget present in the preferences that displays current time in UTC near logout button. However, I wanted to change its time zone according to my time zone (UTC +5). Do you know how to do that? I tried to paste the code window.LiveClockTimeZone = 'local';
in my
Special:MyPage/common.js but the time doesn't changes. Thank you.
Empire AS
Talk!
11:20, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
Pakistan/Islamabad
is not a valid timezone. Please try with one that is listed at
List of tz database time zones
DannyS712 (
talk)
05:05, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
mw.util.addPortletLink(
but not the rest of the method call, so lines 15-22 might be causing the problem. Suggest commenting those out as well
DannyS712 (
talk)
01:31, 20 September 2020 (UTC)Hello, I'm SkyGuy94. I was wondering if You could help with something. I want to import the traditional Mongolian script template to Fanon Wiki, where I am an active user. The current method I'm using on Fanon Wiki – <span style="writing-mode:tb-rl"></span> – results in the mongol script I use to be aligned this "ᠵᠢᠱᠢᠶᠡ ᠲᠧᠺᠰᠲ". As you can see, while the text is in the right direction, the bottom end of the text is aligned to the bottom of the line and ascending upwards instead of the top end being aligned to the top of the line and descending downwards. That just doesn't look authentic. Is there any way to properly import the template and all its components to Fanon wiki. I'd try to do it myself, but my programing skills are far below mediocre and I'm worried I'd mess it up if I tried. -- SkyGuy94 ( talk) 22:29, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter
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September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Election reminder: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 December. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. Drive and Blitz reports
June Blitz: An uncorrected typo (even copy editors make copy editing mistakes!) led to an eight-day "leap blitz" from 14 to 21 June, focusing on requests and articles tagged in May. 19 participating editors claimed 54 copy edits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Over 750,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event, keeping pace with the previous three self-isolated drives. Of the 38 people who signed up, 30 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 16 to 22 August, we copy edited articles tagged in June and July 2020 and requests. 12 participating editors completed 37 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news
June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Baffle gab1978, Tdslk, Twofingered Typist, and first-time coordinator Puddleglum2.0. Reidgreg took a break after serving for a couple years. Thanks to everyone who participated! Progress report: As of 01:33, 18 September 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 532 requests since 1 January and there were 38 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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Hello, DannyS712! Here is the September 2020 issue of TheWikiWizard.
To change your subscription, or to subscribe click Here. We hope you like this month's issue! If you'd like to discuss this issue, please go to this issue's talk page. Happy Reading & stay safe! -- Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 00:48, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
Your closure was controversial WP:BADNAC. Reopen or I will challenge this at deletion review. Lightburst ( talk) 21:49, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Lightburst ( talk) 21:59, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
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21:26, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
On 26 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Robert F. Utter, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Robert Utter resigned from the Washington Supreme Court in protest of the death penalty? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Robert F. Utter. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Robert F. Utter), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Maile ( talk) 00:02, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
The X-Calibur article is open for edits to help it conform to Wikipedia’s standards, but there are a plethora of references that are cited in the draft.
I’m trying to create a historical record for the artist X-Calibur, not a promotional article. Please help me do this, by not deleting my draft, but in helping me edit it so it does become a published article that meets the community standards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Urbanunityproductions ( talk • contribs) 05:11, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
On 27 September 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Jaswant Singh, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 12:55, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
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21:23, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Is it possible to have a script created that will help over at RM just like XFD closure, it should be able to relist, close, fix links , log the RM at the articles talk page and move the page if necessary. This would really help since we do things over there manually Megan☺️ Talk to the monster 15:52, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
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News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2020).
1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.
Hello DannyS712. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:2605:A000:1133:810F:3DE0:A0D6:62A0:6B6E, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: U2 specifically excludes "user pages for IP users who have edited". Thank you. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 05:13, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
You have added a "too technical" template on the page Late onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia in 2019. We have edited the page since then. Is it still too technical? If yes, can you point out the places that we can rewrite? Otherwise, can you please remove the template? --- Maxim Masiutin ( talk) 16:13, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
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Hello, DannyS712! Please, let me know more in detail how to improve the draft on "Influencer Marketing Hub" - it looks like the nature and the main occupation of the company is "advertising" and "marketing", so I'd be happy to hear how to align this draft with the most stringent Wikipedia standards for neutrality. I'd appreciate your help and knowledge. With regard -- Ronnyprone777 ( talk) 22:30, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
Could you please tag the categories listed in Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 October 4 § Neologisms, words and phases introduced in time periods with the bot? Thanks. — andrybak ( talk) 01:02, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
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16:24, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Danny - I was just wondering if it's possible to make copy editing one's own comment real-time? IOW - my original post misspelled something, or wasn't clear, and I go back to correct it, but instead of correcting the original, it creates a new diff. The problem arises when the old diff is used instead of the new diff, and it could result in an editor being blocked or t-banned, especially if the editor doesn't remember or think about the fact they corrected it. Does that make sense? Maybe set a time limit for realtime corrections? FB allows such editing, and changes the comment in real time. Atsme Talk 📧 18:41, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
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15:23, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
What LTA do you think this is? Ridinghightide and Janjoness are similar non-constructive talk page editors from the past few hours, but there wasn't quite enough for me to file a sock report. power~enwiki ( π, ν) 02:38, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
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16:30, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello, DannyS712
Thank you for creating October 2020 Afghanistan attacks.
User:TimothyBlue, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:
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17:37, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
Hey Danny, are you using mw:Talk pages project/replying? ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA talk 12:21, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
dtenable=1
to the url you can try it now
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12:40, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
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Straightforward request: can you make an option to copy section too? Enjoyer of World 💬 09:29, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
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16:08, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
The 2020 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round going down to the wire. Our new Champion is
Lee Vilenski (
submissions), the runner-up last year, who was closely followed by
Gog the Mild (
submissions). In the final round, Lee achieved 4 FAs and 30 GAs, mostly on cue sport topics, while Gog achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on important battles and wars, which earned him a high number of bonus points.
The Rambling Man (
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submissions) close behind with 19 GAs and 16 DYK's, his interest being the buildings of New York.
The other finalists were
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submissions). The final round was very productive, and besides 15 FAs, contestants achieved 75 FAC reviews, 88 GAs and 108 GAN reviews. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!
All those who reached the final will receive awards and the following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. So that the finalists do not have an undue advantage, these prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field in a single round, or in the event of a tie, to the overall leader in this field.
Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2021 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13, Sturmvogel 66, Vanamonde and Cwmhiraeth MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 11:37, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
Hey there! First of all, thank you so much for DiscussionCloser - it's such a helpful script. I've noticed though that it adds quite a few excess blank lines between the bottom of the starting closing template and the discussion being closed. Any idea why this might be occurring? ItsPugle (please ping on reply) 10:14, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
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15:49, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dandy Jackson Chukwudi. Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 02:29, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
Please join a discussion here regarding whether the terms "First Lady of the United States Designate" and "Second Gentleman of the United States Designate" should be in the infoboxes of Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff, spouses of the president-elect and vice president-elect, respectively. We need to come to a consensus. Thank you for your participation. cookie monster (2020) 755 21:25, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
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Hello everyone and welcome to the 16th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
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RfC regarding on-wiki harassment. The RfC has been posted at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Anti-harassment RfC and is open to comments from the community.
all discussions about pharmaceutical drug prices and pricing and for edits adding, changing, or removing pharmaceutical drug prices or pricing from articles.
The third round of the 2020 WikiCup has now come to an end. The 16 users who made it into the fourth round each had at least 353 points (compared to 68 in 2019). It was a highly competitive round, and a number of contestants were eliminated who would have moved on in earlier years. Our top scorers in round 3 were:
Between them, contestants managed 14 featured articles, 9 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 152 good articles, 136 DYK entries, 55 ITN entries, 65 featured article candidate reviews and 221 good article reviews. Additionally,
MPJ-DK added 3 items to featured topics and 44 to good topics. Over the course of the competition, contestants have completed 710 good article reviews, in comparison to 387 good articles submitted for review and promoted. These large numbers are probably linked to a GAN backlog drive in April and May, and the changed patterns of editing during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we enter the fourth round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.
If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 ( talk), Sturmvogel 66 ( talk), Vanamonde ( talk), Cwmhiraeth ( talk) MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 12:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
I have no idea why you are making edits like this one, but they have no effect on the appearance of the article from the reader end, and they make it very slightly harder to see what's going on in an equation at the editor end. Please stop. -- JBL ( talk) 22:33, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
Chafin v. Chafin you nominated for
GA-status according to the
criteria.
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by
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The article
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22:01, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
I was surprised that there is now a bot approving redirects and I tried to figure out what causes the bot to do so. In that process I realized that I made a self-redirect by accident. Technically such a self-redirect fits the tasks of the bot, but I guess these shouldn't be approved automatically. -- mfb ( talk) 11:41, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi Danny, I noticed your RemindMe script and was wondering if you were aware of the (far too useful for it to be this obscure) W-ping script, which does the same thing without making the notifications being public or adding more revisions to the database. Is that a design that you would consider as an update, or would you be willing to also link to the W-ping script on your page as a "see also"? Best, Kevin ( alt of L235 · t · c) 19:41, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
Hello, DannyS712.
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Fine art • William Mariner (writer) Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 6 July 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI • |
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20:18, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
I wrote this article which relates to a very notable entomologist as a stub. It was redirected (almost immediately) before completion. I explained this to whoever made the move suggesting a better title would be Eduard Enslin as in the authority controlled German language version. Also I worked on the draft adding a sentence or two and completing the references one of which is a very complete pdf with a full bibliography. So far with no response.Notafly (talk) 16:03, 7 July 2020 (UTC) PS It is not a draft but a referenced article in my subject area. I am sure this will be resolved once the text is properly considered. I can easily add the page again under Eduard Enslin from my saved draft. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Notafly ( talk • contribs) 16:19, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
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Hi DannyS712, just checking in to ask if you received any financial compensation for your edits to Al Cannon, the original editor Knapp84 was paid to make the page as seen here https://apps.sc.gov/PublicReporting/Expenditures/Candidate/ExpCountyFilerResult.aspx
Knapp has now revealed conflict of interest on their talk page. I am here to simply ask you if you also have a conflict, this is not meant to come with any accusatory tone, just pure fact checking. Thank you for your time JTW1998+ ( talk) 20:02, 09 July 2020 (UTC)
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16:29, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
Do you want to become an admin? I can start an RfA if you want. NASCARfan0548 ↗ 16:56, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, DannyS712.
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Hi DannyS712. I was wondering if you could change User:DannyS712/FPC voter.js to only display when on a subpage of WP:FPC. As far as I can tell (without bothering to test it), wrapping lines 19-22 as follows ought to work:
if (mw.config.get('wgTitle').includes('Featured picture candidates')) { // new
mw.util.addPortletLink ( 'p-cactions', 'javascript:void(0)', 'FPC voter', 'ca-FPC-vote', 'vote'); // As before
$('#ca-FPC-vote').on('click', function() { // As before
FPC(); // As before
} ); // As before
} // new
Best, -- Mdaniels5757 ( talk) 16:00, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
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19:13, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
Hi Danny2712
Got to know you from you bot, i created a draft article Draft:Anna Higgs your bot has disabled a category, so my question is will the category be back after it gets approve?
Memon KutianaWala ( talk) 12:56, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
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13:52, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 July 27#Category:Anarchist parties
Hi! In this nom, I'm looking to bundle every category under Category:Political parties by ideology that uses just "parties" instead of "political parties". Many of the categories have subcats that would be tagged as well, such as Category:Left-wing parties by country. Is this something with which your bot can assist? czar 21:51, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
When a sockmaster, whose trait is creating spoof admin accounts, decides to spoof you as Dunny721 - your time has come. The redlink awaits :-) Cabayi ( talk) 09:45, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article
Robert F. Utter you nominated for
GA-status according to the
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On 2 August 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kanye West 2020 presidential campaign, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Kanye West is running under the Birthday Party for his 2020 presidential campaign, because "when we win, it's everybody's birthday"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kanye West 2020 presidential campaign. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Kanye West 2020 presidential campaign), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 12:03, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
@ DannyS712: I wanted to let you know that the article has been added to WP:DYKSTATS for receiving over 5,000 views. Nice4What ( talk · contribs) – ( Thanks ♥) 18:16, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Hello DannyS712,
I was wondering if you take over maintaining my user scripts,
User:Interstellarity/Semi-protected edit requests.js and
User:Interstellarity/Extended-protected edit requests.js which add the links to the sidebar. I am not the best at user scripts so I would like to someone competent in that field to maintain them. Thanks,
Interstellarity (
talk)
18:31, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
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Just out of interest - why did you set this to unreviewed? Can't find anything wrong with the article... -- Elmidae ( talk · contribs) 19:42, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
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I've added an optional parameter to this template to specify the editor who prepared the table – you may want to account for it in your script. Cheers, — swpb T • go beyond • bad idea 17:22, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi, please have DannyS712bot ignore Category:Content moved from mainspace to draftspace when decategorizing drafts. Thanks. BD2412 T 18:07, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I believe the Gudban article has been placed on listing for a little too long. Is it possible for you to clean it up, or if not, give me some tips on what I could do to somehow speed up the process? Thank you. Auxerre dejufan ( talk) 19:21, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
Hello DannyS712,
In the 28th June you declined my submission for an article on The British Art Medal Society and made some every helpful suggestions in how I could improve it. I think I have done all that you have asked, though probably not to the standard that you may expect from someone a novice.
I was just wondering what the next steps are, and how I can get the article approved? I appreciate that there appears to be a very large queue that seems to be getting longer and longer ever time I look! Any handy hints and advice welcome.
With best wishes
Schnoebi — Preceding unsigned comment added by Schnoebi ( talk • contribs) 14:45, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
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You said you removed the content I posted. Why and what content? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zooanimals35 ( talk • contribs) 22:10, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
Since you undid my initial move per WP:RMUM, I wrote my reasoning for my initial move in the Talk:High Score. My rationale was that high score (the lowercase version) redirected to Score (game)#High score. Yoshiman6464 ♫🥚 00:42, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
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Mind if I do it? Clearing out all my old notifications :) Enterprisey ( talk!) 07:24, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
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The fourth round of the competition has finished, with 865 points being required to qualify for the final round, nearly twice as many points as last year. It was a hotly competitive round with two contestants with 598 and 605 points being eliminated, and all but two of the contestants who reached the final round having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were
Between them, contestants achieved 14 featured articles, 14 featured lists, 2 featured pictures, 87 good articles, 90 DYK entries, 75 ITN entries, 95 featured article candidate reviews and 81 good article reviews. Congratulations to all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.
Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Godot13 ( talk), Sturmvogel 66 ( talk), Vanamonde ( talk), Cwmhiraeth ( talk) MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 19:52, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Can the bot add templates to a group of related categories for renaming? I'm deciding whether to ask help from Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion or from you in nominating the categories. Manabimasu ( talk) 05:00, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
{{
subst:Cfr2|Current category|Proposed name|text=Your reason(s) for the proposed rename.}}
* 1st category
* 2nd category
, so I or and editor can easily create the bundled cfd section.
Is your bot capable of that?
Manabimasu (
talk)
14:57, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
{{subst:cfr|Proposed name|CfD section name}}
So you bot is up to it? These are two large parent categories.
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15:20, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
@ DannyS712:The two parent categories are Category:Roman Catholics and Category:Roman Catholic dioceses. The X is “Roman Catholic" and the Y or proposed name is "Latin Catholic". Manabimasu ( talk) 15:53, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
I talked to User:Nihiltres who created Module:Hatnote group, but I want to ask you on what you think about Module:Footnote group. This template's documentation Template:Footnote_group gives an idea of how it will work. The main purpose of it is to merge two footnote template or more. I am unsure how <ref> tags are rendered by mediawiki. Manabimasu ( talk) 05:08, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
<ref>
tags have been (partially) expanded; in the text Lua receives there'll be a replacement string, something like "UNIQ--ref-00000002-QINU", where the tag used to be. {{
hatnote group}} works on hatnotes because Lua runs after templates are expanded, and it operates on the output of those hatnote templates. Your idea must operate on the input of reference tags when it does not have access to that input, but only a mid-parsing placeholder. It's a neat idea, but it's not (currently?) technically possible. {{
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mustor
shoulduse the articles for creation process.
Curious why you don't want your script linked from the template – I think a lot of editors find it useful. — swpb T • go beyond • bad idea 17:59, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi Danny
Long time no speak. Hope you are well in these tough times.
I have recently cleaned up the content category tree by removing lots of template categories and other project categories, so I can now use Petscan to find pages in the user and user talk namespaces (described at WT:Categorization#The_cleanup_which_is_possible_now_that_templates_have_been_removed_from_many_content_categories).
Most of those are user sandboxes, which can be easily fixed in one click by using your very handy User:DannyS712/Draft no cat.
However, today I spotted one such page where the user had again added live categories to a page which I had converted to links only yesterday. I assume that this was a good faith effort by them as they created a new draft, and that they probably had not spotted my DNC fix.
So I thought it would be helpful to add a ping when DNC is used in the User namespace. I have forked DNC to User:BrownHairedGirl/Draft no cat.js ( permalink), and added some code which generates the ping. I tested it on an ancient sandbox draft in my own userspace [37], and it seems to be working fine.
Would you feel able to incorporate this in the live version of DNC?
Obviously you're a much better coder than me, so you may code it differently. But I think it is a useful enhancement. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 14:18, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
mw.config.get( 'wgRelevantUserName' )
should be enough to get the relevant user's name, rather than the regex replacement of the page title. I'll take a look at adding this in shortly
DannyS712 (
talk)
14:26, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the update, @ DannyS712.
Just a wee afterthought: would it be better to pipe the ping link?
It's currently: DNC_summary = '@[[User:' + username + ']]: ' + DNC_summary
... which displays as per my original hack.
But maybe it would be better as DNC_summary = '@[[User:' + username + '|' + username + ']]: ' + DNC_summary
-- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 21:17, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
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16:18, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Danny, hope you are fine. I was here for your help. You know that a there is a gadget present in the preferences that displays current time in UTC near logout button. However, I wanted to change its time zone according to my time zone (UTC +5). Do you know how to do that? I tried to paste the code window.LiveClockTimeZone = 'local';
in my
Special:MyPage/common.js but the time doesn't changes. Thank you.
Empire AS
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11:20, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
Pakistan/Islamabad
is not a valid timezone. Please try with one that is listed at
List of tz database time zones
DannyS712 (
talk)
05:05, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
mw.util.addPortletLink(
but not the rest of the method call, so lines 15-22 might be causing the problem. Suggest commenting those out as well
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talk)
01:31, 20 September 2020 (UTC)Hello, I'm SkyGuy94. I was wondering if You could help with something. I want to import the traditional Mongolian script template to Fanon Wiki, where I am an active user. The current method I'm using on Fanon Wiki – <span style="writing-mode:tb-rl"></span> – results in the mongol script I use to be aligned this "ᠵᠢᠱᠢᠶᠡ ᠲᠧᠺᠰᠲ". As you can see, while the text is in the right direction, the bottom end of the text is aligned to the bottom of the line and ascending upwards instead of the top end being aligned to the top of the line and descending downwards. That just doesn't look authentic. Is there any way to properly import the template and all its components to Fanon wiki. I'd try to do it myself, but my programing skills are far below mediocre and I'm worried I'd mess it up if I tried. -- SkyGuy94 ( talk) 22:29, 18 September 2020 (UTC)
Guild of Copy Editors September 2020 Newsletter
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September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Election reminder: our end-of-year Election of Coordinators opens for nominations on 1 December. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. Drive and Blitz reports
June Blitz: An uncorrected typo (even copy editors make copy editing mistakes!) led to an eight-day "leap blitz" from 14 to 21 June, focusing on requests and articles tagged in May. 19 participating editors claimed 54 copy edits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Over 750,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event, keeping pace with the previous three self-isolated drives. Of the 38 people who signed up, 30 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 16 to 22 August, we copy edited articles tagged in June and July 2020 and requests. 12 participating editors completed 37 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news
June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Baffle gab1978, Tdslk, Twofingered Typist, and first-time coordinator Puddleglum2.0. Reidgreg took a break after serving for a couple years. Thanks to everyone who participated! Progress report: As of 01:33, 18 September 2020 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors had processed 532 requests since 1 January and there were 38 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Baffle gab1978, Puddleglum2.0, Tdslk and Twofingered Typist. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from
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To change your subscription, or to subscribe click Here. We hope you like this month's issue! If you'd like to discuss this issue, please go to this issue's talk page. Happy Reading & stay safe! -- Thegooduser Life Begins With a Smile :) 🍁 00:48, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
Your closure was controversial WP:BADNAC. Reopen or I will challenge this at deletion review. Lightburst ( talk) 21:49, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Lightburst ( talk) 21:59, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
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On 26 September 2020, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Robert F. Utter, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Robert Utter resigned from the Washington Supreme Court in protest of the death penalty? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Robert F. Utter. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, Robert F. Utter), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
— Maile ( talk) 00:02, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
The X-Calibur article is open for edits to help it conform to Wikipedia’s standards, but there are a plethora of references that are cited in the draft.
I’m trying to create a historical record for the artist X-Calibur, not a promotional article. Please help me do this, by not deleting my draft, but in helping me edit it so it does become a published article that meets the community standards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Urbanunityproductions ( talk • contribs) 05:11, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
On 27 September 2020, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Jaswant Singh, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 12:55, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, Is it possible to have a script created that will help over at RM just like XFD closure, it should be able to relist, close, fix links , log the RM at the articles talk page and move the page if necessary. This would really help since we do things over there manually Megan☺️ Talk to the monster 15:52, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
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1) if the result of a deletion discussion is to draftify; or 2) if the article is newly created.
Hello DannyS712. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:2605:A000:1133:810F:3DE0:A0D6:62A0:6B6E, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: U2 specifically excludes "user pages for IP users who have edited". Thank you. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 05:13, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
You have added a "too technical" template on the page Late onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia in 2019. We have edited the page since then. Is it still too technical? If yes, can you point out the places that we can rewrite? Otherwise, can you please remove the template? --- Maxim Masiutin ( talk) 16:13, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
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Hello, DannyS712! Please, let me know more in detail how to improve the draft on "Influencer Marketing Hub" - it looks like the nature and the main occupation of the company is "advertising" and "marketing", so I'd be happy to hear how to align this draft with the most stringent Wikipedia standards for neutrality. I'd appreciate your help and knowledge. With regard -- Ronnyprone777 ( talk) 22:30, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
Could you please tag the categories listed in Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 October 4 § Neologisms, words and phases introduced in time periods with the bot? Thanks. — andrybak ( talk) 01:02, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
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16:24, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi, Danny - I was just wondering if it's possible to make copy editing one's own comment real-time? IOW - my original post misspelled something, or wasn't clear, and I go back to correct it, but instead of correcting the original, it creates a new diff. The problem arises when the old diff is used instead of the new diff, and it could result in an editor being blocked or t-banned, especially if the editor doesn't remember or think about the fact they corrected it. Does that make sense? Maybe set a time limit for realtime corrections? FB allows such editing, and changes the comment in real time. Atsme Talk 📧 18:41, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
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15:23, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
What LTA do you think this is? Ridinghightide and Janjoness are similar non-constructive talk page editors from the past few hours, but there wasn't quite enough for me to file a sock report. power~enwiki ( π, ν) 02:38, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, DannyS712
Thank you for creating October 2020 Afghanistan attacks.
User:TimothyBlue, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:
Greetings. I wanted to thank you for creating October 2020 Afghanistan attacks and let you know I marked it as reviewed. I hope you are able to find more sources for the individual attacks.
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17:37, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
Hey Danny, are you using mw:Talk pages project/replying? ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA talk 12:21, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
dtenable=1
to the url you can try it now
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12:40, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
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Straightforward request: can you make an option to copy section too? Enjoyer of World 💬 09:29, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
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standard discretionary sanctions are authorized for all edits about, and all pages related to post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people.( American Politics 2 Arbitration case).
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The 2020 WikiCup has come to an end, with the final round going down to the wire. Our new Champion is
Lee Vilenski (
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Gog the Mild (
submissions). In the final round, Lee achieved 4 FAs and 30 GAs, mostly on cue sport topics, while Gog achieved 3 FAs and 15 GAs, mostly on important battles and wars, which earned him a high number of bonus points.
The Rambling Man (
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Epicgenius (
submissions) close behind with 19 GAs and 16 DYK's, his interest being the buildings of New York.
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