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I am ready to retire for the day whenever you wish to agree to resume tomorrow. You've given me an exercise in Wikipedia diplomacy, but I hope you are as tired/exhausted as I am. (not that I can't drink another red bull & smoke a couple lucky strikes and go for round 2 of our friendly jesting) but the ball is in your court. I am Korean and single so I'm born functional to sit in front of a computer for several hours, as I've already shown so far. I just don't want to open another red bull because you might be drinking 5 hour energy and we're upping each other's blood caffeine levels unneccessarily. I've had 3 already today and have a headache, but I'm fighting it. If you want to retire in about 30 minutes, I can give you more friendly diplomacy on WP:ANI tomorrow. I've had more than enough for 1 session. 완젬스 ( talk) 00:09, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
I noticed that you've had an altercation with Bens dream, as well. He did the exact same thing on the Dota 2 page, where he changed the infobox to "Defense of Allegiance", which seemed like vandalism, since not only does Dota 2 not represent an abbreviation, but that name doesn't have any correlation, so I sent him a warning. He responded poorly; he reverted it while calling me an idiot, he told me I'd pay for it if I ever talked to him again, (mind you, I don't know this person), and he made no less than three reverts in a matter of minutes, (not all against me). He apologized afterwards, but given him rash impulses, lack of knowledge regarding Wikipedia and general immaturity, I would guess that he's probably 12 to 13 years-old. Now, he's already been warned, so I don't want him to be confronted immediately, but I think we should watch this editor; make sure he doesn't persist with this poor behavior. DarthBotto talk• cont 04:59, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
I was wondering if you want to insert this. It is the version which passed the RfC, but edited to break it up into several paragraphs, which were also consensus I think. Nice if you do it, then it would not be me inserting my own work.
Conservative criticism of OWS has sometimes been vitriolic, casting the demonstrators as a thoroughly marginal group. Andrew Hartman wrote in The Chronicle Review that "many conservatives and pundits view the Wall Street protesters as envious ingrates looking for government handouts because they fear responsibility." [1] Kate Zernike said in The New York Times that the Tea Party Patriots "portrayed Occupy protesters as freeloaders, or would-be freeloaders: 'Those occupying Wall Street and other cities, when they are intelligible, want less of what made America great and more of what is damaging to America: a bigger more powerful government to come in and take care of them so they don’t have to work like the rest of us who pay our bills.'" [2]
Brian Montopoli, writing for CBS News said that "The conservative criticism of the Occupy Wall Street movement is that it is a "growing mob" (House majority leader Eric Cantor) of "shiftless protestors" (The Tea Party Express) engaged in "class warfare" (GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain) whose grievances - whatever they are - are far outside the political mainstream." [3] Matthew Continetti, also writing for CBS, said that conservatives "dismiss the movement as a fringe collection of left tendencies, along with assorted homeless, mental cases, and petty criminals." [4] "Conservatives [have tried to] define the Occupy protesters before the protesters define themselves.
Ed Morrissey, writing in The Week, insisted that the Occupy movement wants “seizures and redistributions, which necessarily means more bureaucracies, higher spending, and many more opportunities for collusion between authorities and moneyed interests in one way or another." [5] Linda Colley said in The Guardian "A prime reason for [the diffidence between Democratic and Republican responses to OWS] is suggested by some of the Republican attacks on Occupy. The demonstrators were "mobs", said Eric Cantor, the House minority leader. Occupy was waging "class warfare", claimed Mitt Romney, an accusation some Republicans also level at Obama. But it was a rival of Romney for the Republican nomination, Herman Cain, who voiced the criticism Democrats and demonstrators here fear most. Occupy, and those backing it, according to Cain, are "anti-American"." [6]
Douglas Rushkoff, in a special to CNN said that "Like the spokesmen for Arab dictators feigning bewilderment over protesters' demands, mainstream television news reporters finally training their attention on the growing Occupy Wall Street protest movement seem determined to cast it as the random, silly blather of an ungrateful and lazy generation of weirdos. They couldn't be more wrong and, as time will tell, may eventually be forced to accept the inevitability of their own obsolescence."
On October 5, 2011, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh told his listening audience: "When I was 10 years old I was more self-sufficient than this parade of human debris calling itself Occupy Wall Street." [7] Glenn Beck said on his internet television network GBTV, "Capitalists, if you think that you can play footsies with these people, you are wrong. They will come for you and drag you into the streets and kill you. They will do it. They’re not messing around." [8] [9] Newt Gingrich, said "All the Occupy movements starts with the premise that we all owe them everything. Now, that is a pretty good symptom of how much the left has collapsed as a moral system in this country and why you need to reassert something as simple as saying to them, go get a job right after you take a bath." [10] [11] [12] [13] Rick Santorum also told the protesters to get jobs. [14]
Be——Critical 22:01, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
I'm a bit out of my depth on tinkering here, there is a fair bit of code I'm not entirely familiar with, help ? Penyulap ☏ 06:04, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
The text they're talking about is " Income inequality, defined as a wealthy upper class with economic stagnation or impoverishment for the rest of the population, has increased greatly since the 1960s." link The text in the source seems to me to be related well enough to OWS, but there are other sources for nearly the same info, and anyway, no one even disputes that it's right. Even AKA. The quote from the source:
In an article in the second issue of the Occupy Wall Street Journal entitled “What Liberty Square Means: The Progress of Revolutions,” Rebecca Manski joins the debate from Zuccotti Park, renamed Liberty Square. Manski argues:
Liberty Square is the twenty-first century Liberty Tree. If you want to understand what is happening there, imagine: Under the Liberty Tree that stood in Boston Common, early in the first American Revolution, any and all could come to air their grievances and hammer out solutions collectively, and it was there the promise of American democracy first took root. We are reclaiming a democratic practice in Liberty Square.
Since 2008, national unemployment rates have remained above 9% with much higher rates for African Americans and youth—16% and 24.6% respectively. An estimated 10.4 million mortgages could default this year. Income inequality, with concentrated wealth at the top and flat incomes or impoverishment for the vast majority of the country’s population, has increased precipitously since the 1960s. The well known facts are worth reciting again: the top one percent of the country owns 34.6% of the wealth in total net worth; the next 19% owns 50.5%; the bottom 80% owns 15%.
The "liberty square" is a direct reference to OWS. Be——Critical 20:07, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Non opinion pieces? I don't know, that is pretty hard to get for this article. But more sources? Sure:
The Occupy movement has, according to recent polling, significantly more general support than the Tea Party, and its specific demands are highly popular. Huge majorities agree that corporate special interests have too much clout in Washington, that inequality has gotten out of control, that taxes can and should be raised on the successful, that the gamblers of Wall Street deserve some direct comeuppance for the wreckage they have bestowed on the rest of us. Polling data do not show a salient cultural split between blue-collar whites and the countercultural drum circles in dozens of cities around America. And the facts are behind the majority position. Social and economic inequality is higher than it has been since the 1920s, and is showing no signs of declining.
Sure, multinational corporations have rescued millions from poverty in the developing world in the last decade. But they have also outsourced more and more blue- and white-collar jobs away from the West, pioneered technological innovation that has made entire professions—remember travel agents? librarians? secretaries?—redundant, and rewarded the brilliant and driven at the expense of the middle class and the job security it once enjoyed. Even great Western products like the iPhone now actually employ more Chinese than Americans in their manufacturing. People rightly wonder how they can ever master these powerful forces again. And, yes, the income numbers are staggering by any measure. From the late 1940s to the early 1970s, the median American household saw its income double. Since then: a screeching halt, or barely a 5 percent rise in incomes for the less-affluent 90 percent of Americans. But between 1979 and 2007, the top 1 percent saw their incomes soar by 281 percent. Add to that the collapse in home values, and soaring costs for health insurance and college, and it becomes remarkable that we haven’t seen much more unrest. I believe the man who posted the following statement online: “I work 3 jobs. None which provide health insurance. My son is on Medicaid. We are on W.I.C. We’re 1 paycheck from disaster. I am the 99 percent.” Do we not all know someone like him? [1]
Occupy Wall Street and its coast-to-coast spinoffs captured the headlines in 2011, but the economic debate it helped trigger should reverberate deep into 2012.
That's the debate over the future of the American middle class....
There isn't any question that income inequality has increased over the last three decades or so, despite a conservative campaign to discredit the notion. A straightforward description of the trend was issued in October by the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office, which determined that for the highest-income 1% of the population, average after-tax household income almost quadrupled from 1979 to 2007, while income for the 60% of Americans in the middle of the scale grew by just over one-third. (Both figures are adjusted for inflation; in 2007, that middle group comprised households with earnings between about $15,000 and $70,000.) As a consequence of this trend, the CBO says, the share of after-tax household income collected by the top 20% of income earners grew to 53% in 2007 from 43% in 1979. Everyone else fell....
And ends the article with:
One message of the Occupy movement is that the trend to deliver wealth to those at the top of the economic pyramid undervalues the contributions made by everyone else. This is not merely an important cause of our economic malaise, but a moral and political failing too. [2]
And:
Occupy Wall Street is not known for the precision of its economic analysis, but new research on income distribution in the United States shows that the group’s sloganeering provides a stunningly accurate picture of the economy. In 2010, according to a study published this month by University of California economist Emmanuel Saez, 93 percent of income growth went to the wealthiest 1 percent of American households, while everyone else divvied up the 7 percent that was left over. Put another way: The most fundamental characteristic of the U.S. economy today is the divide between the 1 percent and the 99 percent.
It was not ever thus. In the recovery that followed the downturn of the early 1990s, the wealthiest 1 percent captured 45 percent of the nation’s income growth. In the recovery that followed the dot-com bust 10 years ago, Saez noted, 65 percent of the income growth went to the top 1 percent. This time around, it’s reached 93 percent — a level so high it shakes the foundations of the entire American project....
Finally, as Saez points out, there has been “an explosion of top wages and salaries” since 1970. In that year, 5.1 percent of all wages and salaries paid in the United States went to the wealthiest 1 percent. In 2007, the share going to the wealthiest 1 percent had more than doubled, to 12.4 percent. [3]
Be——Critical 21:14, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
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It appears the thread at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Unique page anchors is dying down. Are you willing to consider some more ideas here on your talk page? EdJohnston ( talk) 03:40, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
As it stands, there has been no determination if the account you are reverting is in fact a sock or not. And while it has been blocked for disruption, your use of rollback in this specific situation appears to fall outside of policy. Please consider using a tool (or the undo button) that allows you to make informative edit summaries. Also, note that you yourself have now violated WP:3RR. Tiptoety talk 04:00, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
←FYI: [5]. Tiptoety talk 04:47, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
... that you are still around. Every time I see a jerk in WP, I sigh and think ... "well, at least there are editors like Equazcion out there". But not enough of them. -- Noleander ( talk) 14:20, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
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I wanted to formally thank you for creating the CatListMainTalkLinks script I requested. It is a great improvement over the old category view. Kumioko ( talk) 01:32, 28 April 2012 (UTC) |
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What do you think we should do about the OWS article? I'm kind of tired of it at the moment, but I don't think the article should be the result of aggressive editing practices by AKA and MadSci. I made a new draft which I think is better than the one they blanked. I'm leaning toward formal mediation. What do you think? Be——Critical 18:04, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
You just did 4 reverts on the OWS article. You should undo your last one or risk being blocked. In any case, this is edit warring. The Artist AKA Mr Anonymous ( talk) 00:23, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Warning. It does appear that you have made 4 reverts in a 24 hr period.-- Amadscientist ( talk) 01:02, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
I need to at least inform you that I have filed a report at 3rr.-- Amadscientist ( talk) 01:25, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
You may be about to fix these, in which case ignore this, but you recent condensing of a section in the hydraulic fracturing article resulted in a set of broken ref links. Mikenorton ( talk) 22:17, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
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Please blame your technical system. Every time I clicked "Save page" the message came up that the Wikipedia server is having technical difficulties—please try again in a few minutes. I am truly very sorry for the irritating annoyance inflicted on you people, but I had no response on my screen indicating that the message had been saved, and thus I had no way of knowing that it had been submitted 10 times. Not only that, but I myself had just now finished re-copying my posting-request in physically painful long-hand, with intention to attempt to resubmit it after exiting the system, hoping that the problem had finally been corrected, and when I accessed WP I saw the "You have new messages (last change)" alert. When I read your irritation and anger, I could only sympathize. Again, I am very sorry this happened to you and to me. I had no knowledge of the distress it caused you. I wasted about 2 hours, too, in effort and frustration, so perhaps we're somewhat equal in this. It was the system. Please, don't blame me. I would never have knowingly done such a thing. Respectfully, 75.162.4.130 ( talk) 07:50, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks. I found the text for the references. That makes it easier - I don't have to check to see if a ref has already been mentioned to use the abbreviated ref format. Also, references aren't completely lost if someone deletes their inline citation. Cool. Smm201`0 ( talk) 04:00, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
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I reverted what appeared to be a misclick of your use of rollback as that removed a comment of mine.— cyberpower ChatOnline 21:03, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
After all the edit conflicts, I just hit end and pasted my comment at the bottom of the section. I don't think there was anything that would upset you specifically, but it ended up confusedly placed. -- Onorem ♠ Dil 21:28, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
How did you get your signatures's time to be styled as well? (If it's something really complicated like .js, or .css, save the the hassle of explaining it to me by not doing so.) Thanks! Tboii99 ✉ 23:32, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
{{subst:User:Equazcion/s}}
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instead of ~~~~
(3 tildes instead of 4).Equazcion, where do you find a selection of fonts ? the lists that I can found a few days ago seem disorderly, and reverse searching doesn't seem to turn up anything but the vaguest of references to fonts like auntie Pesky and a few others use (I combined a few for a search to find the list). Also, where is the page for a list of my sub pages in userspace ? I always lose it. Penyulap ☏ 18:42, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
I am the new user who is experienceing signature issues. I removed the text that was in the box but it hasn't seemed to work. What could be the issue. I am going to provide an example of my signature issue by placing four tildes at the end of this sentence > DJ Mell Starr 14:33, 11 May 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by DJ Mell Starr ( talk • contribs)
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You should get a barnstar for your wonderful scripts and helping others with technical advice, but when I see the tech pump, it seems you are always one who stays calm and rational, especially with the watchlist fiasco. Thank You. Bgwhite ( talk) 20:56, 12 May 2012 (UTC) |
I set down to figure out why the bolding of my watchlist stopped. If I remove RemoveMarkAll.js from my vector.js, bolding returns. I add the script back and the bolding disappears.
It does, very briefly, add bolding, but then it disappears after your scirpt loads. I load the bolding in my common.css Bgwhite ( talk) 19:57, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
$('#mw-watchlist-resetbutton').remove();
Thought you might be hungry after all that mediation :)
I'm working on a new award again :) quirky as usual :) It looked as if it disrupted Amadscientist's talkpage, I think maybe some style thingy wikicode whatsie or something. anyhow, the larger one with the black surround didn't really work here I think I need to add text onto the page for that.
Oh, you can comment on the taste here if you like :) Penyulap ☏ 14:58, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Your help and advice was much appreciated (and taken). I left him a nice friendly message at his tp, very much heart-felt. INeverCry 06:42, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
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Sorry, I am a bit tired. Arcandam ( talk) 05:30, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
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- IDK how you managed to accidentally the vast majority of ANI while changing the header! Next time I think it might be a good idea to use the preview button hmm? Barts1a / Talk to me / Help me improve 22:34, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
Can you tell me where the autocollapse was done? I find it annoying. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 23:14, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
I have a question that I think is easy but not sure. I work a lot with Templates and many of them have sandboxes. I would like to add a tab, next to talk, for sandbox. This mostly applies to Templates but could also apply to other things like Users. Is that a very hard thing to do? Kumioko ( talk) 02:51, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
importScript('User:Equazcion/SandTab.js');
to
your skin's .js page or
your common.js page. I've only tested this in the Vector skin though.
Equazcion
(talk)
03:05, 19 May 2012 (UTC)Hi Equazcion, I was wondering what the code was to the faded old changes option that you put up an image for on the requests for comments. I'm using Modern, and customized my watchlist to do stars and bold, but I'd like to add the faded as well (why not?). Thanks! – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 05:08, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
importScript('
User:Equazcion/ReverseMarked.js');
to
your skin's .js page or
your common.js page).Hi Equazcion, I wonder if you could help or advise me please. I placed an article on a company called Black Grape Global on Wikipedia a few days ago. Before doing so I reviewed the submission to Wikipedia for SYCO, a much more substantial company but one also operating in the entertainment industry. My article almost immediately attracted a multiple issues tag as you can see and I have been talking with Hghyux who put it there to better understand why it was put there.
Hghyux has only made one constructive suggestion I feel, and has given no clue as to how he has arrived at his point of view. The one constructive suggestion in my opinion is that I get someone else to review the article. I came across some examples of how you have assisted others and wondered if you would be so kind as to let me know what you think of the Black Grape Global article please?
If I do not agree with the view and the marker put there by Hghyux, is it within protocol for me to remove it? It is not really a matter of life and death and I can see life passing me by as I try to get on to Hghyux's wavelength. There has been no reply to my last comment and I note that there is mention that this person is not well, so I don't really want to press for a response.
I look forward to hearing from you. Please put a notification on my talk page should you reply to this.
Thank you -- Idtenti ( talk) 17:32, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Thank you very much for looking at the article and the editing that you have done. It gets the information across very efficiently and I can see now what the problems were that prompted the tag. I have had these observations about my writing style ever since my early school days; I should be writing novels not encyclopaedic contributions I guess. Once again I really appreciate your help and your generosity in sharing your experience. (too flowery a thank you maybe, but genuine nevertheless)-- Idtenti ( talk) 22:57, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Flowery it is then...by the way I used to be a promoter of concerts in Spain and although retired I do keep up with developments in the music industry especially around Jazz, Urban and Latin music. I do track the activities of Black Grape Global and their projects and they know it; but I am not involved with or contracted to them as such.-- Idtenti ( talk) 10:58, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your help in fixing the sorting of dates in sortable tables! :) Salvidrim! 16:11, 20 May 2012 (UTC) |
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but as I mentioned, it was my intention to expand the article significantly before taking it public. It was also my intention to think a bit on how best to add links to this list from other articles. I know that even user pages are open to editing by anyone, but it seems a little forward to move someone else's work without asking first, particularly as I was actively editing it. Matt Deres ( talk) 16:13, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Why did you add Template:Skip to bottom to this template? It messes up my user page layout so I have to either remove the template from it or revert your change. Please consider reverting it yourself. Targaryen speak or forever remain silent 19:51, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Do join the stalker brigade then and follow me around and criticize my every move. NOT. Yworo ( talk) 04:20, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the laugh. :) - Maggie Dennis (WMF) ( talk) 18:31, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
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Oh wise one, can one image change to another when the mouse hovers? or any such thing ? Penyulap ☏ 06:48, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. It appears that you added some code to the {{ Auto archiving notice}} template that automatically includes an {{ stb}} (skip to bottom) to the page. I do see there is a new "nostb" parameter to disable this addition, but I'm concerned because this change was unexpected, not discussed beforehand at all as far as I can tell, and the {{ Auto archiving notice}} template seems like a very counterintuitive place to put such a thing. It took me at least half an hour of searching through all the templates that were being transcluded into my talk page before I finally managed to find your addition (and discover how to disable it, because I already have "top icons" on my talk page and do not want these to be stomped on by the new "skip to" links). I would strongly recommend removing this new feature from the {{ Auto archiving notice}} template until such time (if ever) that a discussion results in a broader consensus to add it. — Rich wales 01:47, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hello, Equazcion/Archive 7. Can you kindly say what is the code for personally enabling the watchlist with green stars? Dipankan ( Have a chat?) 10:24, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
span.updatedmarker {
background-color: transparent;
color: #006400;
}
strong.mw-watched a {
font-weight: normal;
background: url(//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Pentagram_dis.svg/13px-Pentagram_dis.svg.png) no-repeat left;
/* @noflip */
padding-left: 16px;
}
Please use Wikipedia_talk:Wikiquette_assistance to discuss changing the consensus of how WQA should operate before changing the header. Nobody Ent 09:15, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, i am not getting, what is this. can you fix the problem.also let me know what kind of software it is and how it works. cheers 25 CENTS VICTORIOUS ( talk) 12:32, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
As what you realized I didn't revert your revert of my contributions about nine to ten hours ago; I decided to place a dispute and now I'm feeling after reading through your history on your Talk Page, I feel the need to revert your revert of my contributions. I don't know what your conflict is with "CentristFiasco" or any user you accuse of being him but if actually look past your own bias, you'll find that his contributions as of late is actually good for the Article. I admit I disagree with some of the content presented in the contribution he made a couple of weeks ago, and that's why I didn't include it in my contribution. I simply touched upon it in a reasonable manner that complies with the Neutral Point of View Wikipedian Guideline. There is no need for you to hold such a grudge on a banned user and if he does come back, there is definitely no need to quickly revert his contributions with your only justification to be "rv sock" or something on the likes of that. It seems that you have nothing to say when he appears anymore and for all we know, you could be reverting and claiming sockpuppetry to random individuals that you think is CentristFiasco. This is a warning to you that your behavior thus far is a sign of poor judgement; thus, I cannot stand by and let you revert my contributions because of your personal vendetta with CentristFiasco. I reckon that you take a break from the Occupy Wall Street Article for awhile, pal, put it off your watchlist and settle down for at least a full week. Come back on June 8, 2012 and see how you feel, it's obvious that CentristFiasco's past has gotten to you. :) Publis the Second ( talk) 12:15, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Equazcion. I noticed your comments at the help desk re ANI archiving, and have replied there. I also wanted to respond to your collapse of the corresponding thread at ANI. I know you did that with the best of intentions, but I'm afraid I didn't find that a helpful action at this point, for several reasons.
First, IP 209.6.69.227 who'd just come off the block he received in that self-same thread was continuing to post to it, in the same (imo) disruptive way that got him blocked on a different page, two days previously. Your collapse encompassed comments he'd just added to the thread, and incorporated some disruption that I reverted there, too, e.g. the late addition of a derisively named subheading immediately above another's post in a way that made it look like the subheading had been added by that other.
Second, the thread and particular segments within it are linked-to from other talk pages, and collapsing it made those links inoperable.
Third, when someone is blocked in an ANI thread, it's my opinion that the thread should be able to be found by a search of the ANI archives. As you probably know, only the level two heading/title beneath which a thread is collapsed is accessible via our search site-wide search facility, via a page-specific "search the archives" box, or via an individual's in-browser "find this text" function. Since the heading/title says nothing about the IP that was blocked, it would be very difficult to discover the thread that led to his block by searching archives, e.g. just for his IP address, or a timestamp. You'd only find it via your in-browser search feature if you knew the thread name in advance, and first clicked on the "show" toggle for the collapse. It appears to be a long-term static IP, btw, so the ability to search for it isn't irrelevant.
Fourth, the admin who blocked the IP in the first place, The Blade of the Northern Lights, will want to see the IP's new, just-off-a-block behaviour in that thread. I'm about to leave a comment on his talk to ask him to review that, and he may want to comment there, in the ANI thread, again, himself.
Btw, I couldn't find anywhere in ANI page history where the thread had been collapsed previously. Perhaps I just missed that? I'd have no objection to the use of {{ Archive top}} at this point, though, since that retains the ability to see the text and subsections, but please don't reinstate the collapse, per WP:RTP which states that if an editor objects to a refactor, it should be reverted. Nothing remotely personal, of course, and as I said (or meant to say, I forget now) in one of my edit summaries, I do recognise that your intention was merely to help "curate" the thread, and I thank you for that intention. I'm off to post at the blocking admin's talk page, now. Best regards, -- OhioStandard ( talk) 17:35, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
On the ANI archiving. Nobody Ent 03:56, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
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well, as you may know, it is my substitute for arguing, and it has many advantages, hey, what I was just thinking, as there are images in the banner and it would look a bit better with something nice there, you know, suggesting it's not 99% arguing and 1% editing :) do you think it would help to have a still image of the little guy, or even just his free hand moving ? lighten up the all the hostility between the editors a bit ? Just a thought. Penyulap ☏ 21:56, 7 Jun 2012 (UTC)
I don't know what happend, but thanks for this. I was quite surprised when I found the revert in my contributions - must have been fat fingers on the track pad. -- Stephan Schulz ( talk) 06:47, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Here you go !! http://thewik.net/index.php/Main_Page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.139.70.252 ( talk) 08:22, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
we have to talk there, otherwise my friend can't keep up. It is serious, and I would like your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.139.70.252 ( talk) 08:48, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
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Template:wan can now deal with multiple archive pages. That's great, but in the process the extremely useful feature of a redlink to the archive page for a previously unarchived page has been lost. Any chance of restoring this? Also, I am not sure that the link to the archiving help page adds value. At least, not when it is so prominent and called "archives". We have only recently got rid of this nuisance on template:Archive box which was forever fooling people into thinking they would get the actual archives by following that link. Spinning Spark 00:16, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
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I've mentioned you as starting up the BLPN-notice template at WP:BLPN#Chris Rogers. I've started up a section on the talk page about it WT:BLPN#BLPN-notice as another editor seems to be vehemently against informing editors. Dmcq ( talk) 13:58, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
you removed a picture of an electronic cigarette - this is unjust as every other picture on the page has branding on it...I will remove the Vapestick name from the caption, but the picture, in the name of objective fairness is valid as it uses the latest 4th generation electronic cigarette technology. Other brands are present on tbe page, albeit surreptitiously . Iam not promoting or advertising the brand, just including it as an example of the new technology available. I do not work for, am not employed by or have any professional association with Vapestick...I am simply a satisfied customer. There is no contravention of the Wikipedia rules on advertising - but there are several other pics ont he page which prominently feature brand names and this is simply unjust. This picture is my copyright and I am free to post it as I have on other social media sites.
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I thank you for your edit summary tool. I came across it at the village pump and it has been very helpful. Bzweebl ( talk • contribs) 01:40, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your contributions to the Teahouse project - your thoughts, code, and help giving more new editors access to the space are all deeply appreciated. I love the reply gadget idea, hope we can move it forward! Sbouterse (WMF) ( talk) 22:35, 29 June 2012 (UTC) |
moved this to Wikipedia talk:Teahouse#Response gadget based on a request there - Equazcion (talk) 17:41, 30 Jun 2012 (UTC)
Your tool stopped working again.— cyberpower ChatOnline 17:38, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
I was midst unthreading the Civility enforcement discussion, when you did much the same thing with your statement. We edit conflicted, and whilst I think I have restored what you did, I might have missed something. If that is the case, please accept my apologies. -- Alexandr Dmitri ( talk) 12:47, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
I don't think we've met but I've seen you around; most recently at Arbitration/Requests. I'm discussing the behavior of a couple of admins here. If you have the interest and time to form an opinion on the situation, I'd very much like to hear it, but I won't be a bit offended if you'd rather not. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk) 13:09, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
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As usual, you show up to save the day when something changes with the watchlist code. Thank you. Thank you for keeping Wikipedia:Customizing watchlists updated. Bgwhite ( talk) 19:47, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
I fixed the code now when you answered someone else's question with the same problem I had. How do I restore the button?— cyberpower ChatOnline 20:21, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
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Equazcion
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I am working on editing pages, but still learning how to talk to other Wikipedians.
I accept your current version of Wetlands. (I missed that the the world's largest wetlands were still there when I reverted.) But, I cannot find a single source that says there are only three types of wetlands. What are they? If you give me a reference, I will read it. I am not sure why you have chosen to change this. Every book I have says four and maybe six. All the others are sub-types that fall under the four main types.
Regards, Dignity Sun 53 DignitySun53 ( talk) 23:31, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
If I were to write that there are four fundamental forces in physics, with a reference to a standard physics text, no one (I hope) would presume to revise the page and suggest that it is just a matter of opinion. Equally, there are four main kinds of wetlands, and there are subtypes within these. I could cite other books, but do not want to load the page with citations. It is an issue because if one takes the time to read the scholarly work in the field, and then the effort to put the material into Wikipedia, one tires of people who revert edits without citing any references to justify their actions. Life is short, time is precious. Unless you can cite specific counter-references to authoritative texts, further edits simply contribute to the constant minor changes that have made this page the mess it is. This page needs major work. But I have no desire to put more effort into bringing organization to that page if I am simply going to get people changing referenced text to non-referenced unsubstantiated opinion. This is nothing personal, Equazcion, just that there are only so many hours in a day. DignitySun53 ( talk) 00:41, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
There is a thread at Talk:Main Page#Gadgets and scripts where someone pointed out your script at User:Equazcion/SidebarTranslate. I commented here saying that I'd not heard of that script before, though it is exactly what I was looking for. How many people are using it, and can you think of places where it could be more widely publicised? Do you think there is any chance it could be implemented by default or as a gadget one day? Carcharoth ( talk) 07:41, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Regarding User:Equazcion/ActiveWatchers.js, it seems to generate the "Active" link in the wrong spot. I have the default skin, and if I open the History tab of an article, it gives me "External tools: Revision history search · Contributors · User edits · Number of watchers: All · Page view statistics / Active" instead of "External tools: Revision history search · Contributors · User edits · Number of watchers: All / Active · Page view statistics". Is something the matter at my end? Other than that, from one programmer to another, congratulations on your scripting skills. :) Jesse V. ( talk) 06:14, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Equazcion, I'm wondering if anything new is happening with your awesome Teahouse response gadget! I've still got it installed, and had almost forgotten that most guests aren't able to reap its benefits yet, until this question reminded me :-) Since you've already got the single indent working, are you still thinking to get it packaged up as a full on gadget and have an admin default enable it? Hope things are all good with you! Siko ( talk) 22:48, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
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A recent discussion at Wikipedia WikiProject Editor Retention has been disussing the need for members with abilities such as yours at spotting and identifying Sock Puppets. I suggested your name to User:Dennis Brown...ya know my memory is kinda short and I am now remembering how I even met Dennis now! LOL! (seriously...kinda funny if ya think about it)...any way I mentioned your name because you are extremly good at this and he suggested I invite you to WP:WER and i hope you'll consider helping out at WP:SPIas they can really use members like you!-- Amadscientist ( talk) 02:29, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
I have outlined a proposal for a potential project that you might be interested in at User:Betty Logan/BRD enforcer. The essence of it is a peer review system in relation to challenged unilateral edits. I'm contacting you because you expressed an interest in a previous discussion in regards to a more stringent enforcement of BRD. If you are not interested then no worries, I'm just testing the waters at this stage to see how much interest there would be in such a co-ordinated task force. Betty Logan ( talk) 15:51, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Equazcion! So, about your awesome Teahouse response gadget again (yes, we're still talking about it) :-) It sounds like building it into the question gadget is the best way forward, right? Any chance you can help with the code? Or, any suggestions you've got on what needs to happen would be really great. I still love the feature you made and want every guest to have access to it! Siko ( talk) 08:33, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey, Equazcion! Hopefully you're still around! Anyway, I'm gonna go ahead with merging your script into the Teahouse gadget, so that it'll be enabled by default for all guests. If you have any comments, advice, changes, whatevs, please let me know. Thanks! Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 20:03, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
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I am ready to retire for the day whenever you wish to agree to resume tomorrow. You've given me an exercise in Wikipedia diplomacy, but I hope you are as tired/exhausted as I am. (not that I can't drink another red bull & smoke a couple lucky strikes and go for round 2 of our friendly jesting) but the ball is in your court. I am Korean and single so I'm born functional to sit in front of a computer for several hours, as I've already shown so far. I just don't want to open another red bull because you might be drinking 5 hour energy and we're upping each other's blood caffeine levels unneccessarily. I've had 3 already today and have a headache, but I'm fighting it. If you want to retire in about 30 minutes, I can give you more friendly diplomacy on WP:ANI tomorrow. I've had more than enough for 1 session. 완젬스 ( talk) 00:09, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
I noticed that you've had an altercation with Bens dream, as well. He did the exact same thing on the Dota 2 page, where he changed the infobox to "Defense of Allegiance", which seemed like vandalism, since not only does Dota 2 not represent an abbreviation, but that name doesn't have any correlation, so I sent him a warning. He responded poorly; he reverted it while calling me an idiot, he told me I'd pay for it if I ever talked to him again, (mind you, I don't know this person), and he made no less than three reverts in a matter of minutes, (not all against me). He apologized afterwards, but given him rash impulses, lack of knowledge regarding Wikipedia and general immaturity, I would guess that he's probably 12 to 13 years-old. Now, he's already been warned, so I don't want him to be confronted immediately, but I think we should watch this editor; make sure he doesn't persist with this poor behavior. DarthBotto talk• cont 04:59, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
I was wondering if you want to insert this. It is the version which passed the RfC, but edited to break it up into several paragraphs, which were also consensus I think. Nice if you do it, then it would not be me inserting my own work.
Conservative criticism of OWS has sometimes been vitriolic, casting the demonstrators as a thoroughly marginal group. Andrew Hartman wrote in The Chronicle Review that "many conservatives and pundits view the Wall Street protesters as envious ingrates looking for government handouts because they fear responsibility." [1] Kate Zernike said in The New York Times that the Tea Party Patriots "portrayed Occupy protesters as freeloaders, or would-be freeloaders: 'Those occupying Wall Street and other cities, when they are intelligible, want less of what made America great and more of what is damaging to America: a bigger more powerful government to come in and take care of them so they don’t have to work like the rest of us who pay our bills.'" [2]
Brian Montopoli, writing for CBS News said that "The conservative criticism of the Occupy Wall Street movement is that it is a "growing mob" (House majority leader Eric Cantor) of "shiftless protestors" (The Tea Party Express) engaged in "class warfare" (GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain) whose grievances - whatever they are - are far outside the political mainstream." [3] Matthew Continetti, also writing for CBS, said that conservatives "dismiss the movement as a fringe collection of left tendencies, along with assorted homeless, mental cases, and petty criminals." [4] "Conservatives [have tried to] define the Occupy protesters before the protesters define themselves.
Ed Morrissey, writing in The Week, insisted that the Occupy movement wants “seizures and redistributions, which necessarily means more bureaucracies, higher spending, and many more opportunities for collusion between authorities and moneyed interests in one way or another." [5] Linda Colley said in The Guardian "A prime reason for [the diffidence between Democratic and Republican responses to OWS] is suggested by some of the Republican attacks on Occupy. The demonstrators were "mobs", said Eric Cantor, the House minority leader. Occupy was waging "class warfare", claimed Mitt Romney, an accusation some Republicans also level at Obama. But it was a rival of Romney for the Republican nomination, Herman Cain, who voiced the criticism Democrats and demonstrators here fear most. Occupy, and those backing it, according to Cain, are "anti-American"." [6]
Douglas Rushkoff, in a special to CNN said that "Like the spokesmen for Arab dictators feigning bewilderment over protesters' demands, mainstream television news reporters finally training their attention on the growing Occupy Wall Street protest movement seem determined to cast it as the random, silly blather of an ungrateful and lazy generation of weirdos. They couldn't be more wrong and, as time will tell, may eventually be forced to accept the inevitability of their own obsolescence."
On October 5, 2011, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh told his listening audience: "When I was 10 years old I was more self-sufficient than this parade of human debris calling itself Occupy Wall Street." [7] Glenn Beck said on his internet television network GBTV, "Capitalists, if you think that you can play footsies with these people, you are wrong. They will come for you and drag you into the streets and kill you. They will do it. They’re not messing around." [8] [9] Newt Gingrich, said "All the Occupy movements starts with the premise that we all owe them everything. Now, that is a pretty good symptom of how much the left has collapsed as a moral system in this country and why you need to reassert something as simple as saying to them, go get a job right after you take a bath." [10] [11] [12] [13] Rick Santorum also told the protesters to get jobs. [14]
Be——Critical 22:01, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
I'm a bit out of my depth on tinkering here, there is a fair bit of code I'm not entirely familiar with, help ? Penyulap ☏ 06:04, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
The text they're talking about is " Income inequality, defined as a wealthy upper class with economic stagnation or impoverishment for the rest of the population, has increased greatly since the 1960s." link The text in the source seems to me to be related well enough to OWS, but there are other sources for nearly the same info, and anyway, no one even disputes that it's right. Even AKA. The quote from the source:
In an article in the second issue of the Occupy Wall Street Journal entitled “What Liberty Square Means: The Progress of Revolutions,” Rebecca Manski joins the debate from Zuccotti Park, renamed Liberty Square. Manski argues:
Liberty Square is the twenty-first century Liberty Tree. If you want to understand what is happening there, imagine: Under the Liberty Tree that stood in Boston Common, early in the first American Revolution, any and all could come to air their grievances and hammer out solutions collectively, and it was there the promise of American democracy first took root. We are reclaiming a democratic practice in Liberty Square.
Since 2008, national unemployment rates have remained above 9% with much higher rates for African Americans and youth—16% and 24.6% respectively. An estimated 10.4 million mortgages could default this year. Income inequality, with concentrated wealth at the top and flat incomes or impoverishment for the vast majority of the country’s population, has increased precipitously since the 1960s. The well known facts are worth reciting again: the top one percent of the country owns 34.6% of the wealth in total net worth; the next 19% owns 50.5%; the bottom 80% owns 15%.
The "liberty square" is a direct reference to OWS. Be——Critical 20:07, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Non opinion pieces? I don't know, that is pretty hard to get for this article. But more sources? Sure:
The Occupy movement has, according to recent polling, significantly more general support than the Tea Party, and its specific demands are highly popular. Huge majorities agree that corporate special interests have too much clout in Washington, that inequality has gotten out of control, that taxes can and should be raised on the successful, that the gamblers of Wall Street deserve some direct comeuppance for the wreckage they have bestowed on the rest of us. Polling data do not show a salient cultural split between blue-collar whites and the countercultural drum circles in dozens of cities around America. And the facts are behind the majority position. Social and economic inequality is higher than it has been since the 1920s, and is showing no signs of declining.
Sure, multinational corporations have rescued millions from poverty in the developing world in the last decade. But they have also outsourced more and more blue- and white-collar jobs away from the West, pioneered technological innovation that has made entire professions—remember travel agents? librarians? secretaries?—redundant, and rewarded the brilliant and driven at the expense of the middle class and the job security it once enjoyed. Even great Western products like the iPhone now actually employ more Chinese than Americans in their manufacturing. People rightly wonder how they can ever master these powerful forces again. And, yes, the income numbers are staggering by any measure. From the late 1940s to the early 1970s, the median American household saw its income double. Since then: a screeching halt, or barely a 5 percent rise in incomes for the less-affluent 90 percent of Americans. But between 1979 and 2007, the top 1 percent saw their incomes soar by 281 percent. Add to that the collapse in home values, and soaring costs for health insurance and college, and it becomes remarkable that we haven’t seen much more unrest. I believe the man who posted the following statement online: “I work 3 jobs. None which provide health insurance. My son is on Medicaid. We are on W.I.C. We’re 1 paycheck from disaster. I am the 99 percent.” Do we not all know someone like him? [1]
Occupy Wall Street and its coast-to-coast spinoffs captured the headlines in 2011, but the economic debate it helped trigger should reverberate deep into 2012.
That's the debate over the future of the American middle class....
There isn't any question that income inequality has increased over the last three decades or so, despite a conservative campaign to discredit the notion. A straightforward description of the trend was issued in October by the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office, which determined that for the highest-income 1% of the population, average after-tax household income almost quadrupled from 1979 to 2007, while income for the 60% of Americans in the middle of the scale grew by just over one-third. (Both figures are adjusted for inflation; in 2007, that middle group comprised households with earnings between about $15,000 and $70,000.) As a consequence of this trend, the CBO says, the share of after-tax household income collected by the top 20% of income earners grew to 53% in 2007 from 43% in 1979. Everyone else fell....
And ends the article with:
One message of the Occupy movement is that the trend to deliver wealth to those at the top of the economic pyramid undervalues the contributions made by everyone else. This is not merely an important cause of our economic malaise, but a moral and political failing too. [2]
And:
Occupy Wall Street is not known for the precision of its economic analysis, but new research on income distribution in the United States shows that the group’s sloganeering provides a stunningly accurate picture of the economy. In 2010, according to a study published this month by University of California economist Emmanuel Saez, 93 percent of income growth went to the wealthiest 1 percent of American households, while everyone else divvied up the 7 percent that was left over. Put another way: The most fundamental characteristic of the U.S. economy today is the divide between the 1 percent and the 99 percent.
It was not ever thus. In the recovery that followed the downturn of the early 1990s, the wealthiest 1 percent captured 45 percent of the nation’s income growth. In the recovery that followed the dot-com bust 10 years ago, Saez noted, 65 percent of the income growth went to the top 1 percent. This time around, it’s reached 93 percent — a level so high it shakes the foundations of the entire American project....
Finally, as Saez points out, there has been “an explosion of top wages and salaries” since 1970. In that year, 5.1 percent of all wages and salaries paid in the United States went to the wealthiest 1 percent. In 2007, the share going to the wealthiest 1 percent had more than doubled, to 12.4 percent. [3]
Be——Critical 21:14, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is " Occupy Wall Street". Thank you. -- Amadscientist ( talk) 06:40, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
It appears the thread at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Unique page anchors is dying down. Are you willing to consider some more ideas here on your talk page? EdJohnston ( talk) 03:40, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
As it stands, there has been no determination if the account you are reverting is in fact a sock or not. And while it has been blocked for disruption, your use of rollback in this specific situation appears to fall outside of policy. Please consider using a tool (or the undo button) that allows you to make informative edit summaries. Also, note that you yourself have now violated WP:3RR. Tiptoety talk 04:00, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
←FYI: [5]. Tiptoety talk 04:47, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
... that you are still around. Every time I see a jerk in WP, I sigh and think ... "well, at least there are editors like Equazcion out there". But not enough of them. -- Noleander ( talk) 14:20, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
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I wanted to formally thank you for creating the CatListMainTalkLinks script I requested. It is a great improvement over the old category view. Kumioko ( talk) 01:32, 28 April 2012 (UTC) |
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What do you think we should do about the OWS article? I'm kind of tired of it at the moment, but I don't think the article should be the result of aggressive editing practices by AKA and MadSci. I made a new draft which I think is better than the one they blanked. I'm leaning toward formal mediation. What do you think? Be——Critical 18:04, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
You just did 4 reverts on the OWS article. You should undo your last one or risk being blocked. In any case, this is edit warring. The Artist AKA Mr Anonymous ( talk) 00:23, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
Warning. It does appear that you have made 4 reverts in a 24 hr period.-- Amadscientist ( talk) 01:02, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
I need to at least inform you that I have filed a report at 3rr.-- Amadscientist ( talk) 01:25, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
You may be about to fix these, in which case ignore this, but you recent condensing of a section in the hydraulic fracturing article resulted in a set of broken ref links. Mikenorton ( talk) 22:17, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
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User:Encyclopedic Joshua.-- Amadscientist ( talk) 20:10, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
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Please blame your technical system. Every time I clicked "Save page" the message came up that the Wikipedia server is having technical difficulties—please try again in a few minutes. I am truly very sorry for the irritating annoyance inflicted on you people, but I had no response on my screen indicating that the message had been saved, and thus I had no way of knowing that it had been submitted 10 times. Not only that, but I myself had just now finished re-copying my posting-request in physically painful long-hand, with intention to attempt to resubmit it after exiting the system, hoping that the problem had finally been corrected, and when I accessed WP I saw the "You have new messages (last change)" alert. When I read your irritation and anger, I could only sympathize. Again, I am very sorry this happened to you and to me. I had no knowledge of the distress it caused you. I wasted about 2 hours, too, in effort and frustration, so perhaps we're somewhat equal in this. It was the system. Please, don't blame me. I would never have knowingly done such a thing. Respectfully, 75.162.4.130 ( talk) 07:50, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks. I found the text for the references. That makes it easier - I don't have to check to see if a ref has already been mentioned to use the abbreviated ref format. Also, references aren't completely lost if someone deletes their inline citation. Cool. Smm201`0 ( talk) 04:00, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
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I reverted what appeared to be a misclick of your use of rollback as that removed a comment of mine.— cyberpower ChatOnline 21:03, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
After all the edit conflicts, I just hit end and pasted my comment at the bottom of the section. I don't think there was anything that would upset you specifically, but it ended up confusedly placed. -- Onorem ♠ Dil 21:28, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
How did you get your signatures's time to be styled as well? (If it's something really complicated like .js, or .css, save the the hassle of explaining it to me by not doing so.) Thanks! Tboii99 ✉ 23:32, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
{{subst:User:Equazcion/s}}
.~~~
instead of ~~~~
(3 tildes instead of 4).Equazcion, where do you find a selection of fonts ? the lists that I can found a few days ago seem disorderly, and reverse searching doesn't seem to turn up anything but the vaguest of references to fonts like auntie Pesky and a few others use (I combined a few for a search to find the list). Also, where is the page for a list of my sub pages in userspace ? I always lose it. Penyulap ☏ 18:42, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
I am the new user who is experienceing signature issues. I removed the text that was in the box but it hasn't seemed to work. What could be the issue. I am going to provide an example of my signature issue by placing four tildes at the end of this sentence > DJ Mell Starr 14:33, 11 May 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by DJ Mell Starr ( talk • contribs)
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You should get a barnstar for your wonderful scripts and helping others with technical advice, but when I see the tech pump, it seems you are always one who stays calm and rational, especially with the watchlist fiasco. Thank You. Bgwhite ( talk) 20:56, 12 May 2012 (UTC) |
I set down to figure out why the bolding of my watchlist stopped. If I remove RemoveMarkAll.js from my vector.js, bolding returns. I add the script back and the bolding disappears.
It does, very briefly, add bolding, but then it disappears after your scirpt loads. I load the bolding in my common.css Bgwhite ( talk) 19:57, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
$('#mw-watchlist-resetbutton').remove();
Thought you might be hungry after all that mediation :)
I'm working on a new award again :) quirky as usual :) It looked as if it disrupted Amadscientist's talkpage, I think maybe some style thingy wikicode whatsie or something. anyhow, the larger one with the black surround didn't really work here I think I need to add text onto the page for that.
Oh, you can comment on the taste here if you like :) Penyulap ☏ 14:58, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
Your help and advice was much appreciated (and taken). I left him a nice friendly message at his tp, very much heart-felt. INeverCry 06:42, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
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Sorry, I am a bit tired. Arcandam ( talk) 05:30, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
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- IDK how you managed to accidentally the vast majority of ANI while changing the header! Next time I think it might be a good idea to use the preview button hmm? Barts1a / Talk to me / Help me improve 22:34, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
Can you tell me where the autocollapse was done? I find it annoying. Beyond My Ken ( talk) 23:14, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
I have a question that I think is easy but not sure. I work a lot with Templates and many of them have sandboxes. I would like to add a tab, next to talk, for sandbox. This mostly applies to Templates but could also apply to other things like Users. Is that a very hard thing to do? Kumioko ( talk) 02:51, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
importScript('User:Equazcion/SandTab.js');
to
your skin's .js page or
your common.js page. I've only tested this in the Vector skin though.
Equazcion
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03:05, 19 May 2012 (UTC)Hi Equazcion, I was wondering what the code was to the faded old changes option that you put up an image for on the requests for comments. I'm using Modern, and customized my watchlist to do stars and bold, but I'd like to add the faded as well (why not?). Thanks! – Kerαunoςcopia◁ gala xies 05:08, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
importScript('
User:Equazcion/ReverseMarked.js');
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your skin's .js page or
your common.js page).Hi Equazcion, I wonder if you could help or advise me please. I placed an article on a company called Black Grape Global on Wikipedia a few days ago. Before doing so I reviewed the submission to Wikipedia for SYCO, a much more substantial company but one also operating in the entertainment industry. My article almost immediately attracted a multiple issues tag as you can see and I have been talking with Hghyux who put it there to better understand why it was put there.
Hghyux has only made one constructive suggestion I feel, and has given no clue as to how he has arrived at his point of view. The one constructive suggestion in my opinion is that I get someone else to review the article. I came across some examples of how you have assisted others and wondered if you would be so kind as to let me know what you think of the Black Grape Global article please?
If I do not agree with the view and the marker put there by Hghyux, is it within protocol for me to remove it? It is not really a matter of life and death and I can see life passing me by as I try to get on to Hghyux's wavelength. There has been no reply to my last comment and I note that there is mention that this person is not well, so I don't really want to press for a response.
I look forward to hearing from you. Please put a notification on my talk page should you reply to this.
Thank you -- Idtenti ( talk) 17:32, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Thank you very much for looking at the article and the editing that you have done. It gets the information across very efficiently and I can see now what the problems were that prompted the tag. I have had these observations about my writing style ever since my early school days; I should be writing novels not encyclopaedic contributions I guess. Once again I really appreciate your help and your generosity in sharing your experience. (too flowery a thank you maybe, but genuine nevertheless)-- Idtenti ( talk) 22:57, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Flowery it is then...by the way I used to be a promoter of concerts in Spain and although retired I do keep up with developments in the music industry especially around Jazz, Urban and Latin music. I do track the activities of Black Grape Global and their projects and they know it; but I am not involved with or contracted to them as such.-- Idtenti ( talk) 10:58, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your help in fixing the sorting of dates in sortable tables! :) Salvidrim! 16:11, 20 May 2012 (UTC) |
I appreciate your enthusiasm, but as I mentioned, it was my intention to expand the article significantly before taking it public. It was also my intention to think a bit on how best to add links to this list from other articles. I know that even user pages are open to editing by anyone, but it seems a little forward to move someone else's work without asking first, particularly as I was actively editing it. Matt Deres ( talk) 16:13, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Why did you add Template:Skip to bottom to this template? It messes up my user page layout so I have to either remove the template from it or revert your change. Please consider reverting it yourself. Targaryen speak or forever remain silent 19:51, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Do join the stalker brigade then and follow me around and criticize my every move. NOT. Yworo ( talk) 04:20, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the laugh. :) - Maggie Dennis (WMF) ( talk) 18:31, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
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Oh wise one, can one image change to another when the mouse hovers? or any such thing ? Penyulap ☏ 06:48, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi. It appears that you added some code to the {{ Auto archiving notice}} template that automatically includes an {{ stb}} (skip to bottom) to the page. I do see there is a new "nostb" parameter to disable this addition, but I'm concerned because this change was unexpected, not discussed beforehand at all as far as I can tell, and the {{ Auto archiving notice}} template seems like a very counterintuitive place to put such a thing. It took me at least half an hour of searching through all the templates that were being transcluded into my talk page before I finally managed to find your addition (and discover how to disable it, because I already have "top icons" on my talk page and do not want these to be stomped on by the new "skip to" links). I would strongly recommend removing this new feature from the {{ Auto archiving notice}} template until such time (if ever) that a discussion results in a broader consensus to add it. — Rich wales 01:47, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hello, Equazcion/Archive 7. Can you kindly say what is the code for personally enabling the watchlist with green stars? Dipankan ( Have a chat?) 10:24, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
span.updatedmarker {
background-color: transparent;
color: #006400;
}
strong.mw-watched a {
font-weight: normal;
background: url(//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Pentagram_dis.svg/13px-Pentagram_dis.svg.png) no-repeat left;
/* @noflip */
padding-left: 16px;
}
Please use Wikipedia_talk:Wikiquette_assistance to discuss changing the consensus of how WQA should operate before changing the header. Nobody Ent 09:15, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, i am not getting, what is this. can you fix the problem.also let me know what kind of software it is and how it works. cheers 25 CENTS VICTORIOUS ( talk) 12:32, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
As what you realized I didn't revert your revert of my contributions about nine to ten hours ago; I decided to place a dispute and now I'm feeling after reading through your history on your Talk Page, I feel the need to revert your revert of my contributions. I don't know what your conflict is with "CentristFiasco" or any user you accuse of being him but if actually look past your own bias, you'll find that his contributions as of late is actually good for the Article. I admit I disagree with some of the content presented in the contribution he made a couple of weeks ago, and that's why I didn't include it in my contribution. I simply touched upon it in a reasonable manner that complies with the Neutral Point of View Wikipedian Guideline. There is no need for you to hold such a grudge on a banned user and if he does come back, there is definitely no need to quickly revert his contributions with your only justification to be "rv sock" or something on the likes of that. It seems that you have nothing to say when he appears anymore and for all we know, you could be reverting and claiming sockpuppetry to random individuals that you think is CentristFiasco. This is a warning to you that your behavior thus far is a sign of poor judgement; thus, I cannot stand by and let you revert my contributions because of your personal vendetta with CentristFiasco. I reckon that you take a break from the Occupy Wall Street Article for awhile, pal, put it off your watchlist and settle down for at least a full week. Come back on June 8, 2012 and see how you feel, it's obvious that CentristFiasco's past has gotten to you. :) Publis the Second ( talk) 12:15, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Equazcion. I noticed your comments at the help desk re ANI archiving, and have replied there. I also wanted to respond to your collapse of the corresponding thread at ANI. I know you did that with the best of intentions, but I'm afraid I didn't find that a helpful action at this point, for several reasons.
First, IP 209.6.69.227 who'd just come off the block he received in that self-same thread was continuing to post to it, in the same (imo) disruptive way that got him blocked on a different page, two days previously. Your collapse encompassed comments he'd just added to the thread, and incorporated some disruption that I reverted there, too, e.g. the late addition of a derisively named subheading immediately above another's post in a way that made it look like the subheading had been added by that other.
Second, the thread and particular segments within it are linked-to from other talk pages, and collapsing it made those links inoperable.
Third, when someone is blocked in an ANI thread, it's my opinion that the thread should be able to be found by a search of the ANI archives. As you probably know, only the level two heading/title beneath which a thread is collapsed is accessible via our search site-wide search facility, via a page-specific "search the archives" box, or via an individual's in-browser "find this text" function. Since the heading/title says nothing about the IP that was blocked, it would be very difficult to discover the thread that led to his block by searching archives, e.g. just for his IP address, or a timestamp. You'd only find it via your in-browser search feature if you knew the thread name in advance, and first clicked on the "show" toggle for the collapse. It appears to be a long-term static IP, btw, so the ability to search for it isn't irrelevant.
Fourth, the admin who blocked the IP in the first place, The Blade of the Northern Lights, will want to see the IP's new, just-off-a-block behaviour in that thread. I'm about to leave a comment on his talk to ask him to review that, and he may want to comment there, in the ANI thread, again, himself.
Btw, I couldn't find anywhere in ANI page history where the thread had been collapsed previously. Perhaps I just missed that? I'd have no objection to the use of {{ Archive top}} at this point, though, since that retains the ability to see the text and subsections, but please don't reinstate the collapse, per WP:RTP which states that if an editor objects to a refactor, it should be reverted. Nothing remotely personal, of course, and as I said (or meant to say, I forget now) in one of my edit summaries, I do recognise that your intention was merely to help "curate" the thread, and I thank you for that intention. I'm off to post at the blocking admin's talk page, now. Best regards, -- OhioStandard ( talk) 17:35, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
On the ANI archiving. Nobody Ent 03:56, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
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I notice that you still did not receive a descent acknowledgment for your excellent work on summarizing the Environmental impact section of the Hydraulic fracturing article. Hereby I, Beagel, award you this Environmental Barnstar for your calm and balanced actions on this overheated topic. I hope you will still find a time to help improving the Hydraulic fracturing and its related articles. Thank you. Beagel ( talk) 12:16, 7 June 2012 (UTC) |
well, as you may know, it is my substitute for arguing, and it has many advantages, hey, what I was just thinking, as there are images in the banner and it would look a bit better with something nice there, you know, suggesting it's not 99% arguing and 1% editing :) do you think it would help to have a still image of the little guy, or even just his free hand moving ? lighten up the all the hostility between the editors a bit ? Just a thought. Penyulap ☏ 21:56, 7 Jun 2012 (UTC)
I don't know what happend, but thanks for this. I was quite surprised when I found the revert in my contributions - must have been fat fingers on the track pad. -- Stephan Schulz ( talk) 06:47, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
Here you go !! http://thewik.net/index.php/Main_Page — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.139.70.252 ( talk) 08:22, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
we have to talk there, otherwise my friend can't keep up. It is serious, and I would like your help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.139.70.252 ( talk) 08:48, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
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Template:wan can now deal with multiple archive pages. That's great, but in the process the extremely useful feature of a redlink to the archive page for a previously unarchived page has been lost. Any chance of restoring this? Also, I am not sure that the link to the archiving help page adds value. At least, not when it is so prominent and called "archives". We have only recently got rid of this nuisance on template:Archive box which was forever fooling people into thinking they would get the actual archives by following that link. Spinning Spark 00:16, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
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I've mentioned you as starting up the BLPN-notice template at WP:BLPN#Chris Rogers. I've started up a section on the talk page about it WT:BLPN#BLPN-notice as another editor seems to be vehemently against informing editors. Dmcq ( talk) 13:58, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
you removed a picture of an electronic cigarette - this is unjust as every other picture on the page has branding on it...I will remove the Vapestick name from the caption, but the picture, in the name of objective fairness is valid as it uses the latest 4th generation electronic cigarette technology. Other brands are present on tbe page, albeit surreptitiously . Iam not promoting or advertising the brand, just including it as an example of the new technology available. I do not work for, am not employed by or have any professional association with Vapestick...I am simply a satisfied customer. There is no contravention of the Wikipedia rules on advertising - but there are several other pics ont he page which prominently feature brand names and this is simply unjust. This picture is my copyright and I am free to post it as I have on other social media sites.
Thanks
Alex — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexbartman ( talk • contribs) 13:57, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
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I thank you for your edit summary tool. I came across it at the village pump and it has been very helpful. Bzweebl ( talk • contribs) 01:40, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for your contributions to the Teahouse project - your thoughts, code, and help giving more new editors access to the space are all deeply appreciated. I love the reply gadget idea, hope we can move it forward! Sbouterse (WMF) ( talk) 22:35, 29 June 2012 (UTC) |
moved this to Wikipedia talk:Teahouse#Response gadget based on a request there - Equazcion (talk) 17:41, 30 Jun 2012 (UTC)
Your tool stopped working again.— cyberpower ChatOnline 17:38, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
I was midst unthreading the Civility enforcement discussion, when you did much the same thing with your statement. We edit conflicted, and whilst I think I have restored what you did, I might have missed something. If that is the case, please accept my apologies. -- Alexandr Dmitri ( talk) 12:47, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
I don't think we've met but I've seen you around; most recently at Arbitration/Requests. I'm discussing the behavior of a couple of admins here. If you have the interest and time to form an opinion on the situation, I'd very much like to hear it, but I won't be a bit offended if you'd rather not. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk) 13:09, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
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Bad Wolfie didn't mean to do bad :o( Hugz! Pesky ( talk) 06:26, 9 July 2012 (UTC) |
Following from the brief discussion on the village pump last month I wanted to inform you about a proposal I have made. Although not all participants of that discussion were fans of the small format, one of the main criticisms put forward was the lack of consistency in current usage. My proposal may help improve this. We could also continue discussion on adjusting the styling of these boxes. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 08:15, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
As usual, you show up to save the day when something changes with the watchlist code. Thank you. Thank you for keeping Wikipedia:Customizing watchlists updated. Bgwhite ( talk) 19:47, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
I fixed the code now when you answered someone else's question with the same problem I had. How do I restore the button?— cyberpower ChatOnline 20:21, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
.mw-special-Watchlist #mw-watchlist-resetbutton {display: inline;}
Equazcion
(talk) 20:23, 16 Jul 2012 (UTC)
I am working on editing pages, but still learning how to talk to other Wikipedians.
I accept your current version of Wetlands. (I missed that the the world's largest wetlands were still there when I reverted.) But, I cannot find a single source that says there are only three types of wetlands. What are they? If you give me a reference, I will read it. I am not sure why you have chosen to change this. Every book I have says four and maybe six. All the others are sub-types that fall under the four main types.
Regards, Dignity Sun 53 DignitySun53 ( talk) 23:31, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
If I were to write that there are four fundamental forces in physics, with a reference to a standard physics text, no one (I hope) would presume to revise the page and suggest that it is just a matter of opinion. Equally, there are four main kinds of wetlands, and there are subtypes within these. I could cite other books, but do not want to load the page with citations. It is an issue because if one takes the time to read the scholarly work in the field, and then the effort to put the material into Wikipedia, one tires of people who revert edits without citing any references to justify their actions. Life is short, time is precious. Unless you can cite specific counter-references to authoritative texts, further edits simply contribute to the constant minor changes that have made this page the mess it is. This page needs major work. But I have no desire to put more effort into bringing organization to that page if I am simply going to get people changing referenced text to non-referenced unsubstantiated opinion. This is nothing personal, Equazcion, just that there are only so many hours in a day. DignitySun53 ( talk) 00:41, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
There is a thread at Talk:Main Page#Gadgets and scripts where someone pointed out your script at User:Equazcion/SidebarTranslate. I commented here saying that I'd not heard of that script before, though it is exactly what I was looking for. How many people are using it, and can you think of places where it could be more widely publicised? Do you think there is any chance it could be implemented by default or as a gadget one day? Carcharoth ( talk) 07:41, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
Regarding User:Equazcion/ActiveWatchers.js, it seems to generate the "Active" link in the wrong spot. I have the default skin, and if I open the History tab of an article, it gives me "External tools: Revision history search · Contributors · User edits · Number of watchers: All · Page view statistics / Active" instead of "External tools: Revision history search · Contributors · User edits · Number of watchers: All / Active · Page view statistics". Is something the matter at my end? Other than that, from one programmer to another, congratulations on your scripting skills. :) Jesse V. ( talk) 06:14, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi Equazcion, I'm wondering if anything new is happening with your awesome Teahouse response gadget! I've still got it installed, and had almost forgotten that most guests aren't able to reap its benefits yet, until this question reminded me :-) Since you've already got the single indent working, are you still thinking to get it packaged up as a full on gadget and have an admin default enable it? Hope things are all good with you! Siko ( talk) 22:48, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
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A recent discussion at Wikipedia WikiProject Editor Retention has been disussing the need for members with abilities such as yours at spotting and identifying Sock Puppets. I suggested your name to User:Dennis Brown...ya know my memory is kinda short and I am now remembering how I even met Dennis now! LOL! (seriously...kinda funny if ya think about it)...any way I mentioned your name because you are extremly good at this and he suggested I invite you to WP:WER and i hope you'll consider helping out at WP:SPIas they can really use members like you!-- Amadscientist ( talk) 02:29, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
I have outlined a proposal for a potential project that you might be interested in at User:Betty Logan/BRD enforcer. The essence of it is a peer review system in relation to challenged unilateral edits. I'm contacting you because you expressed an interest in a previous discussion in regards to a more stringent enforcement of BRD. If you are not interested then no worries, I'm just testing the waters at this stage to see how much interest there would be in such a co-ordinated task force. Betty Logan ( talk) 15:51, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi Equazcion! So, about your awesome Teahouse response gadget again (yes, we're still talking about it) :-) It sounds like building it into the question gadget is the best way forward, right? Any chance you can help with the code? Or, any suggestions you've got on what needs to happen would be really great. I still love the feature you made and want every guest to have access to it! Siko ( talk) 08:33, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
Hey, Equazcion! Hopefully you're still around! Anyway, I'm gonna go ahead with merging your script into the Teahouse gadget, so that it'll be enabled by default for all guests. If you have any comments, advice, changes, whatevs, please let me know. Thanks! Writ Keeper ⚇ ♔ 20:03, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
While working on another script, I noticed that
sysopdetector.js does slice(2)
in an attempt to remove *
and user
from the list of user groups.
However, the API has recently started to return groups out of order, such that *
and user
do not necessarily come first.
I believe this will require
manually iterating through the groups (that example only removes *
). --
SoledadKabocha (
talk)
17:58, 11 November 2012 (UTC)