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{{you've got mail|subject=|ts=09:25, 16 September 2013 (UTC)}} Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 09:25, 16 September 2013 (UTC) (Has your email address changed?) Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 00:44, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
Barnstar archived to User:Mr. Stradivarius/Awards. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 02:53, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Hallo again. I think that you are missing the auto parameter in module:WikiProjectBanner/banners/WikiProject Linguistics :-) Christian75 ( talk) 23:53, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
We've got problems at Narendra Modi again, involving Gmcssb ( talk · contribs) and myself. Gmcssb is repeatedly altering content in the lead that took weeks to obtain consensus. They are aware of the discussions, have even participated to some extent today, and have been warned for edit warring. But still they ignore BRD and mess around with the wording as recently as five minutes ago. I could take this to AN3 but might get a response here since you know the background. Is it time for full protection again? I'd hope not. - Sitush ( talk) 12:44, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
lowering to semi-protection - only 895 transclusions "only"? Serious?? I'd think that a vandalized template that appeared on even 200 pages would be highly disruptive and therefor high risk. Was there a discussion or guideline somewhere I missed that provides a range of how many transclusions there must be to justify full protection? -- œ ™ 04:13, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
hi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.79.106.248 ( talk) 15:12, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, I noticed that you haven't been as active at DRN as you was before. DRN has been a bit backlogged lately and we could use some extra hands. We have updated our volunteer list to a new format, Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Volunteers (your name is still there under the old format if you haven't updated it) and are looking into ways to make DRN more effective and more rewarding for volunteers (your input is appreciated!). If you don't have much time to volunteer at the moment, that's fine too, just move your name to the inactive list (you're free to add yourself back to active at any time). Hope to see you again soon :) Steven Zhang ( talk) 13:21, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi.
I understand you are the author of Module:Portal bar. Have there ever been an attempt to make a version of it with no border and no background? I was thinking doing so might make it less showy.
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk) 08:47, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
<div style="text-align: center;">{{portal-inline|Art}} {{portal-inline|Science}}</div>
<div style="width:100%; text-align:center; padding:1px; font-size:88%">
<ul class="hlist">
<li>{{portal-inline|Art|size=tiny}}</li>
<li>{{portal-inline|Science|size=tiny}}</li>
</ul>
</div>
<table>
or <div>
because I don't want it to clear left or right.{{#invoke:Portal bar/sandbox|main|Art|Science|border=no}}
{{
portal bar|border=no}}
. Enjoy! —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 10:46, 29 September 2013 (UTC){{ YGM}} My problem Might be related to my specific install so I sent the (hopefully detailed enough) information via your email rather than post it here. If it turns out to be more general I can and will repost the information on my talk page. Hope you can help as I am totally lost. EDIT:I neglected to mention Scribunto is configured as standalone highest lua version on linux. C.Jason.B ( talk) 20:46, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
Hiii! Mr. Stradivarius
Sorry for the trouble, but since you are deleting administrator to this article, Rashmi Singh (author), I would like to ask your opinion about recreating this page. I have done some research and found some good sources and regarding the notability of the subject, i think it just passes notability requirements. What do you think? S SET ( U- T- C) 17:03, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your interest in evaluating CSD:G13 nominations. Per Wikipedia talk:AFC#HasteurBot Task 1 suspension and User talk:Hasteur#G13 nominations the G13 nominations were suspended for the duration of October to allow editors to focus on the AfC Pending submissions backlog drive. As such your request has not been acted upon automatically. I will give it a manual nudge, but consider that the editors working on saving saving the G13 eligible pages are also the ones working on the backlog burn. Thank you. Hasteur ( talk) 11:54, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
Thank you very much M-236(HZ) ( talk) 15:06, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi Mr. S., I've just performed my first AfC review and have moved the new article Michael Cheng into namespace. If you have a few minutes I was wondering if you might review my work there and give me some feedback on how successful (or unsuccessful) I was at this task. I feel the subject is notable enough for an article but would like your opinion since the news coverage is not overwhelming by any means. I believe you have experience with AfC's right? If not, please correct me. Thanking you in advance. -- — Keithbob • Talk • 00:01, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
I have recently been editing the article Stormfront and added this information into the lead as per WP:NPOV's policies regarding due and undue weight. The two sources I cite are both reliable secondary sources, but other editors want to suppress that information from the lead. I have tried solving the dispute in the talk page here, here and here, but it is going nowhere. Other editors have told me to seek a third opinion, so here I am. I believe the current version of the lead lacks neutrality and balance, thus I am proposing a similar resolution as it is done in these two articles, Golden_Dawn_(Greece) and Jared_Taylor: "Scholars and media have described it as neo-Nazi[3][8][9] and fascist,[10] [11][12] though the group rejects these labels.[13]"; "He rejects these accusations himself, saying that his views are reasonable and moderate.[6]" They insist that adding such information into the lead makes the article unbalanced and against WP:NPOV, when it is exactly the suppression of it that does so. So I am asking you to chip in in the talk page, if you do not mind, and give your third opinion. Thank you, -- Kobayashi245 ( talk) 11:15, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 132#Template links duplicated in article namespace. Thanks. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 11:17, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
{{ambox |name = Cleanup
self.name = args.name
local nameTitle = getTitleObject(self.name)
Hey there, Mr. Stradivarius, just wanted to let you know that I replied to your comment over at Talk:Domonique Foxworth. In short, the matter was resolved, but I'd forgotten about this particular thread. Thanks for your attention and friendly note, WWB Too ( Talk · COI) 14:09, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello Strad. I noticed that you commented on the ANI relating to the Ludwig von Mises Institute and Murray Rothbard articles. I see from your user page that you are a respected and thoughtful Admin here. I invite you to keep an eye on, or join the discussion at, these two articles. We would benefit from some fresh thoughts. Thanks. SPECIFICO talk 14:46, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Please excuse me if I put the cart before the horse. After submitting an article on Keith Paterson some 10 days ago, I only now read that there was a similar article on Keith Paterson which was rejected by you on 26 July 2013. So will you kindly refer me to the article that you rejected so that I can check to see if it was about the same person or some other person having the same name. Thank you. Peminatweb ( talk) 19:52, 23 October 2013 (UTC)Peminatweb
Hi Mr. Stradivarius. Thanks for the details. Peminatweb ( talk) 05:34, 24 October 2013 (UTC)Peminatweb
Hello, Mr. S. Today, there are incoming links to the page
Article from 57 other articles that didn't link to it yesterday, and that don't actually contain a link in their wikitext. As far as I can tell, the common element is that the 57 articles on
[3] all appear to contain {{
Multiple issues}}
, which in turn transcludes {{
Ambox}}
. Is this another Lua issue? --
R'n'B (
call me Russ) 10:13, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
{{ambox|talk=article}}
, as a Lua title object is called for the |talk=
parameter if it's present. Due to the way {{
ambox}} works, and the way the Lua title library works, though, it will be hard to avoid this. It would involve basically rewriting the title library in Lua without hooking through to PHP, complete with lots of fiddly string pattern matching. If we can work out which template is using talk=Article
we may be able to work around it, however. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 10:38, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
|talk=
parameter of Ambox. I'll need to check some more to see if we can change this without breaking things too much, though. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 10:52, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
I don't understand why you removed the "1" parameter in this edit. I read your editsummary, but didn't understand it. Also, if you remove the "1", I think you can remove the |# as well. Can you please explain the edit here in more detail? Debresser ( talk) 15:00, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
|talk=
parameter of {{
ambox}}. In the thread above this one RnB noticed that there were a lot of new links to the
Article page, and after tracking down the cause (explained above) it seemed easiest to make the fix at {{
POV}} rather than try and tinker with {{
multiple issues/message}}. Well, I say fix, but it's really a workaround - a true fix on the Lua side of things would take some non-trivial coding. See
this VPT thread for some more background. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 15:12, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
|talk=
parameter is not set. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 15:15, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
|talk=
parameter on the documentation, if it is now disabled? Also, perhaps we should remove the |# still. Why do we need a link to the talkpage if there is no discussion there or the section is not indicated?
Debresser (
talk) 15:54, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
|talk=
parameter of {{
POV}} still works - it is the |1=
parameter I disabled. I gather that there is always a talk page link displayed because there should always be discussion on the talk page. The documentation says that it shouldn't be used for "drive-by tagging" or as a "badge of shame", so the correct action in the case of no discussion would be to remove the entire template rather than just make the link not display. That's my understanding of this, anyway. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 21:38, 24 October 2013 (UTC)I sure hope you keep to your word that you will block AndyTheGrump if he continues, as I've seen over my 7? years on Wikipedia a lot of admins promise to do so, and none go through with it. Frankly, he's been given enough chances, in fact many times I have offered an olive branch to work with him, his idea that his views of policy are the only ones are frustrating at best, but when he goes into personal attacks and irrational rants it because all too much. How many newbies and established editors need to be run off because some think Andy does "good" in "defending Wikipedia policies", honestly there are plenty of good Wikipedians willing to take up the good fight who DONT go around insulting people and making them feel stupid in a mistaken belief that, that behavior is acceptable or needed in order to get a point across. Camelbinky ( talk) 17:08, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
Yes, it was tagged wrong. Now looking at the page it needs a merge of the history and a redirect to Template talk:Video game reviews. I do not have the ability to merge histories. Cky2250 ( talk) 14:57, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
I notice that you recently signed up to be informed about Snuggle, a new interface for easy finding of newcomers. Have you tried it already? If so, could you please give your feedback on the same? Aaron would always like to know what can and should be done to better it.
If you haven't tried it already, I suggest you do it :) I find Snuggle to be very helpful when dealing with newcomers, and trying to find helpful and Good Faith new editors.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ping Aaron or me, and we'd be happy to oblige.
Thanks, TheOriginalSoni ( talk) 15:29, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
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Trick or Treat! Happy
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I wanted mediation to continue after the AFD closure, but nothing happened the following day. Unfortunately, Ryulong opted for a merger of the article now - right after removing and re-removing a media file at the NGE page and failing to discuss the matter. I do not know what action needs to be taken, but Ryulong does not appear to want to participate or resolve the issues. Please advise. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 03:37, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
This is some grade A bullshit, though.— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 16:19, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
Barnstar archived to User:Mr. Stradivarius/Awards. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 02:53, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
I'd like to request that the privileged nature of the mediation process be withdrawn for the Ghost in the Shell 2 mediation discussion concerning, Lucia Black, Ryulong and myself. The reason for this request is that the mediation never got off the ground and it provides key information to support that Ryulong continued to be uncivil, expressed disdain for the process and continued a recognized content dispute after the announcement that it would have to cease for mediation. First, the edit warring and AFD which we waited on, then the subsequent merge discussion long after it was disclosed the mediation would not continue as such disputes ran on. Lastly, because his immediate action upon dropping out of mediation was to re-open a merge discussion that has been brought up no less than four times this year with the last one immediately preceding meditation. Simply put, I believe that the diffs and comments made within should not be protected as not a single issue had been discussed between the parties prior to its close and all the issues were known prior to mediation. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 15:49, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
This user is re-undoing undos I am undoing of his edits. I have informed him why I undid it, he has been adding links to this page on every video game within the list List of PC exclusive titles. And adding portals to pages that have portal within the template. If you could help out that would be appreciated. Thanks, Cky2250 ( talk) 18:59, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Stradivarius i am sorry that you misinterpreted m=the intent of a part edit. i was not meant to be taken as a validation but as an example of how Wikipedia can be vandalized. there was another revision stating that it was an example. but, i greater appreciate people like you who clean up Wikipedia.
-poolic — Preceding unsigned comment added by Poolic ( talk • contribs) 02:22, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Mr. S. I hope you can help again. The disambiguation page Synthesis is showing over 400 incoming links, apparently generated by pages that contain either {{ Synthesis}} or {{ Synthesis-inline}} in their text. Although {{ Synthesis}} uses {{ Ambox}}, I noticed that {{ Synthesis-inline}} does not, so apparently this is a different issue than the one you addressed a few weeks ago. The one template that both of them seem to have in common is {{ Category handler}}, so perhaps this is the source of the generated links. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 10:43, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for taking the time to review my submission. I noticed it was rejected for failing to meet notability guidelines. I'm wondering if you can be more specific as to the referencing issue you brought up.
What else is required to establish the subject's notability?
Thank you! I'm Tony Ahn ( talk) 05:22, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
How many pages do I need to mark as patrolled to be treated as a patroller? And BTW, how do you like my signature? And do you like Sonic the Hedgehog? And are you an admin? Answer me ASAP. --[[ Tariqmudallal · my talk]] 00:20, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
<big>...</big>
tags.You've helped in the past with edit-protected requests on {{ Articlehistory}} and {{ GA/Topic}}. Given the new template protection level, I wonder if I could prevail upon you to lower {{ GA/Topic}} from full protection to pp-template? It is merely a lookup list, and the templates that use it are all unprotected (with the exception of articlehistory which is pp-template), so template-level protection should be uncontroversial, and would enable me to make any future tweaks without pestering admins. Thanks! Maralia ( talk) 16:59, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
Hope you don't mind--I took the conversation on ANI as indicative that an unblock of HiLo48 was supported by the community, and have acted accordingly. What remains is dealing with Collingwood. I think I counted 8 to 2 in favor of a site ban. Care to do the honors? Drmies ( talk) 04:04, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
Drmies, While I still can't say that I agree with HiLo's unblock, I do appreciate your efforts to resolve all of this, both at ANI and on HiLo's talk page, and I think that you deserve thanks from all of us. Next time, let's do all of this by consensus. I'll seek consensus for any blocks like this that I am tempted to make, and you - well, I am tempted to say something about judging consensus, but it's probably just that our judgement of the consensus back there was different, which I can't get too uptight about. :)
Jusdafax, I do see what you mean about HiLo - I have never doubted that they are editing in good faith, and your point about differing cultural norms is well taken. Next time I get into a situation like this, I will be sure to keep it in mind. Thanks for the kind message, and your continued trust in me given all of this drama is humbling.
As for what to do now, given Drmies' and Kim's advice to HiLo on their talk page, I don't think HiLo can be under any illusions about what will follow from further personal attacks. Hopefully they can now go forth and edit with some sense of normalcy, and we can all leave the drama behind us. I bear HiLo no ill will, and wish them all the best in their future editing. If they does end up getting blocked again, which I hope very much will not happen, it probably won't be by me. Wishing you all the best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 01:56, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
Barnstar archived to User:Mr. Stradivarius/Awards. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 02:53, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, thanks again for reviewing When In Manila. First of all, the company doesn't have a PR agency. They have a consultant that helps them get press, and that's me. Second, what I do to assist them in getting press is to pitch newspapers and other sources to send a reporter to interview them. Sometimes I write and submit myself. All of these press outlets have independent editors that make the decision on whether or not the article meets their criteria/needs. If it doesn't, then it doesn't run. So in fact, these are all independent articles, because a free press made the decision to run them. These are not press releases. Given the unreferenced state of the current When In Manila article, I think the changes I've submitted really add depth to the organization's entry, and I'd ask you to reconsider. I'm Tony Ahn ( talk) 05:30, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
I'd like you to respond on the AfD page to my statement regarding whether those awards are "well-known and independent," please. I've provided numerous press citations covering those awards, and there's more where that came from. I'm Tony Ahn ( talk) 02:34, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
About
this at VPT and
this at LUA requests. Over at the preproject talkpage [Template:RELC list]
Template:Page reports, I discuss with @
Werieth: (bot programmer) the setup. The bot has many options, and will be very generic.
One topic is the
Meta-Report: the bot writing in wiki the job results ("This page was produced at 08:48, 8 November 2013 (UTC)~ by
User:ExampleBot; 1234 pages"). I have concluded (by your suggestion) that we better write that meta-report in a Lua data page. I'd like to invite you to help setting up these datapage(s). The bot programmer has noted that he can produce Lua data output. I can add: at the moment his focus is on internal bot programming, discussion rate about wiki interaction is low. See you there. -
DePiep (
talk) 08:48, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
This is a quick question regarding Module:Video game reviews/testcases. Do you know how to use Module:Category handler; I am trying to add Category:Empty templates on articles. The category correctly shows on the page with the empty template, as seen here Module talk:Video game reviews/testcases, but is not added to the category page. I am wanting it to be a hidden category, so easy cleanup can be done. So if you are unsure about this I will take it to the lua help page.— CKY2250 ταικ 03:30, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
This change to the CSD helper script has broken Twinkle and Hotcat for me. Armbrust The Homunculus 14:00, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello Mr. Stradivarius,
I'm working on the upcoming Capiunto MediaWiki extension for Wikimedia Deutschland. The extension is supposed to provide a Lua ( Scribunto) Infobox module on all Wikimedia wikis in a consistent way, similar to the Module:Infobox on the English Wikipedia. As a base for this new extension we plan to use the already mentioned Module:Infobox. Because of this we kindly ask you to give us the permission to reuse your contributions to the modules Infobox and HtmlBuilder under the GNU General Public License v2 or newer (GPL v2+). That makes reusing the code easier for us and matches the license of the rest of the extension. To give us the permission to reuse the mentioned code under the GPL v2+, just reply to this message in an unambiguous manner. The diff in which you approved the code reuse under the GPL v2+ will be noted within the extension. Cheers, and thanks for your work - Hoo man ( talk) 22:51, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the permissions to reuse your contributions. I will inform you by the time the extension passed initial code review and is ready to be installed. You will be able to clone the extension from https://git.wikimedia.org/git/mediawiki/extensions/Capiunto.git then. Cheers, Hoo man ( talk) 16:05, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
There is a cascade-protected problem for the templates that are redirected from a shortcut. I believe these two are the only ones. Could you change them for me. Thanks — CKY2250 ταικ 20:33, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
would it be possible to add basic unordered list support to this module? I would like to replace the html in the top image caption in
Billiard ball, and image captions do not support wiki list markup. I believe all you would need to do is add bulleted = makeWrapper( 'bulleted' )
or unordered = makeWrapper( 'unordered' )
or whatever to call it, and then have that option not add any classes. I temporarily created
template:bulleted list/
module:bulleted list and there is also the underused
template:ulist, which might be a better home for it. once this is available, we can clean up more of
Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/012 dump. thank you.
Frietjes (
talk) 23:14, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi.
I seem to have a copyright related issue which I probably need an admin's help with. Last night I was bored out of life and so wrote a funny piece of essay in my user sandbox.
Today, User:FleetCommand popped up on my messenger. I told him about it; he laughed. I gave him the link and suddenly he became serious. He said my parody is using names used in a copyright-protected work of art and so it is fair use; that means I am not allowed to have it in Wikipedia unless in compliance with WP:NFCC.
I, of course, thought what I wrote there does not fall within threshold of originality (e.g. any fictional character can love apples without infringing upon the copyright of the previous apple-loving ones) and besides, since they are only brief references with attribution, they are not plagiarism. I don't think it is even de minimis, let alone fair-use. But if what he says is true, maybe you should hide that revision.
What do you think?
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk) 16:12, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
Mr. Stradivarius, as the other member of the debate over the proposed edits, I would also like to contribute to the editing process since I am opposed to the Mr. Strauss' edits. I'm not exactly sure how this process works, but I'd be happy to provide you with the sources that are used in the current edit as well as additional sources, and could answer any questions you may have on the topic. 88.218.9.122 ( talk) 07:11, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
I finally got around writing a feature for Module:Redirect that replaces all the redirects in a block of text; it's at Module:Redirect/sandbox. You protected the module in the meanwhile, so it needs an admin edit to go live - besides, I'd appreciate if you looked it over, because I modularized the existing 'main' function also so that I could reuse part of it, so there's a chance I broke something that doesn't show up on the unit tests. Speaking of unit tests... nothing, not even Module:convert/tester (which gets an expandTemplate error), can figure out what are wrong with these. Wnt ( talk) 18:04, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
The reason why the unit tests are failing for the block function is that when nowiki tags are preprocessed in Lua, they get converted to strip markers. (Same with ref tags, gallery tags, and a few others.) MediaWiki needs the strip markers to be unique so that it knows which code to insert back in which place after the wikitext is returned from Scribunto. This means that even if you put preprocessed nowiki tags around the exact same text, you will get a different strip marker every time, and because you have different code every time your unit tests will always fail. To get the unit tests to work, you either need to test the text before it gets nowiki'd, or you can use mw.text.nowiki rather than nowiki tags and write the unit tests with HTML entities.
It's up to you if you want to go through the extra effort it would take to get some working unit tests for the block function, but in any case, take a look through my changes to the sandbox and see if you like them. If everything seems ok, I'll update the module. And the main function seems to be working just fine. :)
Also, while I'm thinking about it, would you like me to make you a template editor? You seem like an ideal candidate. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 12:20, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
Mr. Stradivarius
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:AndyTheGrump&diff=578773690&oldid=578773223
REFERENCES:
and
I now leave this matter to your discretion. Have a good day. Worldedixor ( talk) 09:54, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
Perhaps you remember answering an editprotected request regarding a weird situation at Talk:Webserver directory index last month. In case you're curious and still care about the issue, I've explained in that thread what was going on. Nyttend ( talk) 15:48, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I've noticed you are a rather active person in the linguistic topics and I would like to request your help. I am a student of the University of Alberta and I have been given an assignment to modify some wiki articles for my Psychology of Language class. I have chosen to make additions and revisions to the
speech production page as well as the
speech error page. I have not submitted any changes to either page itself thus far however I am working on my revisions in my sandbox. What I am asking of you, if you wouldn't mind, is for you to keep an eye on my progress and make suggestions that might improve my work. The Professor of the course, Paula Marentette, is also keeping an eye on my progress and has made some comments as well, but your experience with the wiki community would be beneficial to helping me make an acceptable revision to my chosen articles.
Thank you,
Jenaya (
talk) 19:38, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
Regarding this, I may have made an error in judgment with my pings. I simply looked at the top contributors to the permission request page and notified those users, without realizing that would include a lot of individuals who had trouble being granted the right. Probably not the best way to get a balanced discussion going. Sorry for any negativity that gets tossed your way as a result of my stupidity. equazcion → 13:35, 27 Nov 2013 (UTC)
Hello Mr. Stradivarius.
I am contacting you from St. Louis Public Library. I'm having a problem getting the ISBN url to work on the following page. Can you share with me what you were able to provide to have the search work successfully?
Thanks so much. Ljoneill13 ( talk) 21:25, 25 November 2013 (UTC) ljoneill13
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Book_sources
Hi,
You said you might give building something in Lua to handle football tables a shot. Did you try it?
Thanks TheOriginalSoni ( talk) 18:40, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick grant of the template editor user right. But when I went to edit the pink-padlocked {{ Ambox}}, it just told me, "This page is currently protected from editing because it is transcluded in the following page, which is protected with the "cascading" option: Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items". So I guess it isn't really useful to pink-padlock pages that transclude that page, as long as it remains red-locked. Wbm1058 ( talk) 00:42, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. How do you do? I was wondering if you could review a NAC for me: This discussion was listed at WP:ANRFC a couple of weeks ago by another users, and was NAC-closed today as "no consensus". I wouldn't be bothered much by that outcome, if not another user had tried to close the same discussion two days ago as "delete" but reverted the closure once they realized that "WP:NACD prohibits me from closing this discussion as the result is deletion, which I cannot act upon". I realize that the delete closure was more of a WP:SUPERVOTE, but on the other hand it looks like the other closer was merely counting votes. I believe I am too WP:INVOLVED in this one to revert the closure, what do you think about it? Mentoz86 ( talk) 23:38, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Mr. Stradivarius
How do you do?
A Microsoft UX designer, Mathias Wendlinger, has contacted me over the email, asking for negotiation about edit #584210006 which I previously reverted. (Well, his edit wasn't exactly resume material for a UX designer.) So, I think I am going to need a copy of File:Xbox Music W8 logo.jpg and File:Xbox Music everywhere.png as well as their description pages for reference. Do you think you can arrange that?
I have asked him not to communicate with me over email anymore and reply in my talk page only, because copyright issues are best solved with transparency in mind. Surely, the foundation wouldn't want a lawsuit from Microsoft on the grounds that I mistreated their employee, does it?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk) 20:02, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I noticed you made this edit [6] a few hours ago. Is it possible that the code refactor broke something? I am noticing that Module:Infobox road/length is now broken, and no longer displays anything in any of the 10,000+ transclusions of Template:Infobox road. -- Rs chen 7754 03:58, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
{args={x, y, z}}
to just {x, y, z}
would fix the problem. But even better would be to pass it to the new _precision_value
function directly, which is what I have done in
the sandbox. I'll have to go through and see if any other modules have used tricks like this before I switch back to the new version of Module:Math. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 04:52, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi. You are one of the editors involved in the Premier league table template at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 121#Displaying a part of the table. The work is very close to the end and the template now loks like the one currently used at 2013–14 Premier League. I just wanted to see if you could take a look at what I did last night at Template:2013–14 Premier League table/sandbox so that the code looks okay. What I did was that previously there was "Qualified for champions league" on three rows (1,2 and 3) and the same for relegation, so now i wanted it to span over all these rows (as in 2013–14 Premier League) using the rows-parameter in the template used inside our template.
My idea was that when teams 1,2,3 are shown (for the first 3 teams in table) there should be a span over three rows and when the table should show teams 2-6 (for team on pos4) i wanted it to be a span over 2 rows. Hard to explain in writing. I used switches and ifeq for that. The result can be seen at User:Spudgfsh/sandbox. Please take a look at it and comment on the result. Then it is only to decide if we should highlight the team or not and then we should use it. Discussion about that on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Highlighting or bolding.
I would also like to thank you for all the work you have done with this table. Thank you!. QED237 (talk) 11:34, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
Barnstar archived to User:Mr. Stradivarius/Awards. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 02:53, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
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{{you've got mail|subject=|ts=09:25, 16 September 2013 (UTC)}} Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 09:25, 16 September 2013 (UTC) (Has your email address changed?) Steven Zhang Help resolve disputes! 00:44, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
Barnstar archived to User:Mr. Stradivarius/Awards. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 02:53, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Hallo again. I think that you are missing the auto parameter in module:WikiProjectBanner/banners/WikiProject Linguistics :-) Christian75 ( talk) 23:53, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
We've got problems at Narendra Modi again, involving Gmcssb ( talk · contribs) and myself. Gmcssb is repeatedly altering content in the lead that took weeks to obtain consensus. They are aware of the discussions, have even participated to some extent today, and have been warned for edit warring. But still they ignore BRD and mess around with the wording as recently as five minutes ago. I could take this to AN3 but might get a response here since you know the background. Is it time for full protection again? I'd hope not. - Sitush ( talk) 12:44, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
lowering to semi-protection - only 895 transclusions "only"? Serious?? I'd think that a vandalized template that appeared on even 200 pages would be highly disruptive and therefor high risk. Was there a discussion or guideline somewhere I missed that provides a range of how many transclusions there must be to justify full protection? -- œ ™ 04:13, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
hi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.79.106.248 ( talk) 15:12, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi there, I noticed that you haven't been as active at DRN as you was before. DRN has been a bit backlogged lately and we could use some extra hands. We have updated our volunteer list to a new format, Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard/Volunteers (your name is still there under the old format if you haven't updated it) and are looking into ways to make DRN more effective and more rewarding for volunteers (your input is appreciated!). If you don't have much time to volunteer at the moment, that's fine too, just move your name to the inactive list (you're free to add yourself back to active at any time). Hope to see you again soon :) Steven Zhang ( talk) 13:21, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Hi.
I understand you are the author of Module:Portal bar. Have there ever been an attempt to make a version of it with no border and no background? I was thinking doing so might make it less showy.
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk) 08:47, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
<div style="text-align: center;">{{portal-inline|Art}} {{portal-inline|Science}}</div>
<div style="width:100%; text-align:center; padding:1px; font-size:88%">
<ul class="hlist">
<li>{{portal-inline|Art|size=tiny}}</li>
<li>{{portal-inline|Science|size=tiny}}</li>
</ul>
</div>
<table>
or <div>
because I don't want it to clear left or right.{{#invoke:Portal bar/sandbox|main|Art|Science|border=no}}
{{
portal bar|border=no}}
. Enjoy! —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 10:46, 29 September 2013 (UTC){{ YGM}} My problem Might be related to my specific install so I sent the (hopefully detailed enough) information via your email rather than post it here. If it turns out to be more general I can and will repost the information on my talk page. Hope you can help as I am totally lost. EDIT:I neglected to mention Scribunto is configured as standalone highest lua version on linux. C.Jason.B ( talk) 20:46, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
Hiii! Mr. Stradivarius
Sorry for the trouble, but since you are deleting administrator to this article, Rashmi Singh (author), I would like to ask your opinion about recreating this page. I have done some research and found some good sources and regarding the notability of the subject, i think it just passes notability requirements. What do you think? S SET ( U- T- C) 17:03, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your interest in evaluating CSD:G13 nominations. Per Wikipedia talk:AFC#HasteurBot Task 1 suspension and User talk:Hasteur#G13 nominations the G13 nominations were suspended for the duration of October to allow editors to focus on the AfC Pending submissions backlog drive. As such your request has not been acted upon automatically. I will give it a manual nudge, but consider that the editors working on saving saving the G13 eligible pages are also the ones working on the backlog burn. Thank you. Hasteur ( talk) 11:54, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
Thank you very much M-236(HZ) ( talk) 15:06, 11 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi Mr. S., I've just performed my first AfC review and have moved the new article Michael Cheng into namespace. If you have a few minutes I was wondering if you might review my work there and give me some feedback on how successful (or unsuccessful) I was at this task. I feel the subject is notable enough for an article but would like your opinion since the news coverage is not overwhelming by any means. I believe you have experience with AfC's right? If not, please correct me. Thanking you in advance. -- — Keithbob • Talk • 00:01, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello,
I have recently been editing the article Stormfront and added this information into the lead as per WP:NPOV's policies regarding due and undue weight. The two sources I cite are both reliable secondary sources, but other editors want to suppress that information from the lead. I have tried solving the dispute in the talk page here, here and here, but it is going nowhere. Other editors have told me to seek a third opinion, so here I am. I believe the current version of the lead lacks neutrality and balance, thus I am proposing a similar resolution as it is done in these two articles, Golden_Dawn_(Greece) and Jared_Taylor: "Scholars and media have described it as neo-Nazi[3][8][9] and fascist,[10] [11][12] though the group rejects these labels.[13]"; "He rejects these accusations himself, saying that his views are reasonable and moderate.[6]" They insist that adding such information into the lead makes the article unbalanced and against WP:NPOV, when it is exactly the suppression of it that does so. So I am asking you to chip in in the talk page, if you do not mind, and give your third opinion. Thank you, -- Kobayashi245 ( talk) 11:15, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 132#Template links duplicated in article namespace. Thanks. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 11:17, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
{{ambox |name = Cleanup
self.name = args.name
local nameTitle = getTitleObject(self.name)
Hey there, Mr. Stradivarius, just wanted to let you know that I replied to your comment over at Talk:Domonique Foxworth. In short, the matter was resolved, but I'd forgotten about this particular thread. Thanks for your attention and friendly note, WWB Too ( Talk · COI) 14:09, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
Hello Strad. I noticed that you commented on the ANI relating to the Ludwig von Mises Institute and Murray Rothbard articles. I see from your user page that you are a respected and thoughtful Admin here. I invite you to keep an eye on, or join the discussion at, these two articles. We would benefit from some fresh thoughts. Thanks. SPECIFICO talk 14:46, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Please excuse me if I put the cart before the horse. After submitting an article on Keith Paterson some 10 days ago, I only now read that there was a similar article on Keith Paterson which was rejected by you on 26 July 2013. So will you kindly refer me to the article that you rejected so that I can check to see if it was about the same person or some other person having the same name. Thank you. Peminatweb ( talk) 19:52, 23 October 2013 (UTC)Peminatweb
Hi Mr. Stradivarius. Thanks for the details. Peminatweb ( talk) 05:34, 24 October 2013 (UTC)Peminatweb
Hello, Mr. S. Today, there are incoming links to the page
Article from 57 other articles that didn't link to it yesterday, and that don't actually contain a link in their wikitext. As far as I can tell, the common element is that the 57 articles on
[3] all appear to contain {{
Multiple issues}}
, which in turn transcludes {{
Ambox}}
. Is this another Lua issue? --
R'n'B (
call me Russ) 10:13, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
{{ambox|talk=article}}
, as a Lua title object is called for the |talk=
parameter if it's present. Due to the way {{
ambox}} works, and the way the Lua title library works, though, it will be hard to avoid this. It would involve basically rewriting the title library in Lua without hooking through to PHP, complete with lots of fiddly string pattern matching. If we can work out which template is using talk=Article
we may be able to work around it, however. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 10:38, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
|talk=
parameter of Ambox. I'll need to check some more to see if we can change this without breaking things too much, though. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 10:52, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
I don't understand why you removed the "1" parameter in this edit. I read your editsummary, but didn't understand it. Also, if you remove the "1", I think you can remove the |# as well. Can you please explain the edit here in more detail? Debresser ( talk) 15:00, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
|talk=
parameter of {{
ambox}}. In the thread above this one RnB noticed that there were a lot of new links to the
Article page, and after tracking down the cause (explained above) it seemed easiest to make the fix at {{
POV}} rather than try and tinker with {{
multiple issues/message}}. Well, I say fix, but it's really a workaround - a true fix on the Lua side of things would take some non-trivial coding. See
this VPT thread for some more background. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 15:12, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
|talk=
parameter is not set. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 15:15, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
|talk=
parameter on the documentation, if it is now disabled? Also, perhaps we should remove the |# still. Why do we need a link to the talkpage if there is no discussion there or the section is not indicated?
Debresser (
talk) 15:54, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
|talk=
parameter of {{
POV}} still works - it is the |1=
parameter I disabled. I gather that there is always a talk page link displayed because there should always be discussion on the talk page. The documentation says that it shouldn't be used for "drive-by tagging" or as a "badge of shame", so the correct action in the case of no discussion would be to remove the entire template rather than just make the link not display. That's my understanding of this, anyway. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 21:38, 24 October 2013 (UTC)I sure hope you keep to your word that you will block AndyTheGrump if he continues, as I've seen over my 7? years on Wikipedia a lot of admins promise to do so, and none go through with it. Frankly, he's been given enough chances, in fact many times I have offered an olive branch to work with him, his idea that his views of policy are the only ones are frustrating at best, but when he goes into personal attacks and irrational rants it because all too much. How many newbies and established editors need to be run off because some think Andy does "good" in "defending Wikipedia policies", honestly there are plenty of good Wikipedians willing to take up the good fight who DONT go around insulting people and making them feel stupid in a mistaken belief that, that behavior is acceptable or needed in order to get a point across. Camelbinky ( talk) 17:08, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
Yes, it was tagged wrong. Now looking at the page it needs a merge of the history and a redirect to Template talk:Video game reviews. I do not have the ability to merge histories. Cky2250 ( talk) 14:57, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Hi,
I notice that you recently signed up to be informed about Snuggle, a new interface for easy finding of newcomers. Have you tried it already? If so, could you please give your feedback on the same? Aaron would always like to know what can and should be done to better it.
If you haven't tried it already, I suggest you do it :) I find Snuggle to be very helpful when dealing with newcomers, and trying to find helpful and Good Faith new editors.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ping Aaron or me, and we'd be happy to oblige.
Thanks, TheOriginalSoni ( talk) 15:29, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
![]() |
Trick or Treat! Happy
Halloween Mr. Stradivarius! I hope you have a great day and remember to be safe if you go
trick-or-treating tonight with friends, family or loved ones. Happy Halloween!
![]() Help spread Wikilove by adding {{subst:User:Dainomite/HappyHalloween}} to other users' talk pages whether they be friends, acquaintances or random folks. |
I wanted mediation to continue after the AFD closure, but nothing happened the following day. Unfortunately, Ryulong opted for a merger of the article now - right after removing and re-removing a media file at the NGE page and failing to discuss the matter. I do not know what action needs to be taken, but Ryulong does not appear to want to participate or resolve the issues. Please advise. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 03:37, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
This is some grade A bullshit, though.— Ryulong ( 琉竜) 16:19, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
Barnstar archived to User:Mr. Stradivarius/Awards. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 02:53, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
I'd like to request that the privileged nature of the mediation process be withdrawn for the Ghost in the Shell 2 mediation discussion concerning, Lucia Black, Ryulong and myself. The reason for this request is that the mediation never got off the ground and it provides key information to support that Ryulong continued to be uncivil, expressed disdain for the process and continued a recognized content dispute after the announcement that it would have to cease for mediation. First, the edit warring and AFD which we waited on, then the subsequent merge discussion long after it was disclosed the mediation would not continue as such disputes ran on. Lastly, because his immediate action upon dropping out of mediation was to re-open a merge discussion that has been brought up no less than four times this year with the last one immediately preceding meditation. Simply put, I believe that the diffs and comments made within should not be protected as not a single issue had been discussed between the parties prior to its close and all the issues were known prior to mediation. ChrisGualtieri ( talk) 15:49, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
This user is re-undoing undos I am undoing of his edits. I have informed him why I undid it, he has been adding links to this page on every video game within the list List of PC exclusive titles. And adding portals to pages that have portal within the template. If you could help out that would be appreciated. Thanks, Cky2250 ( talk) 18:59, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
Dear Mr. Stradivarius i am sorry that you misinterpreted m=the intent of a part edit. i was not meant to be taken as a validation but as an example of how Wikipedia can be vandalized. there was another revision stating that it was an example. but, i greater appreciate people like you who clean up Wikipedia.
-poolic — Preceding unsigned comment added by Poolic ( talk • contribs) 02:22, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Mr. S. I hope you can help again. The disambiguation page Synthesis is showing over 400 incoming links, apparently generated by pages that contain either {{ Synthesis}} or {{ Synthesis-inline}} in their text. Although {{ Synthesis}} uses {{ Ambox}}, I noticed that {{ Synthesis-inline}} does not, so apparently this is a different issue than the one you addressed a few weeks ago. The one template that both of them seem to have in common is {{ Category handler}}, so perhaps this is the source of the generated links. -- R'n'B ( call me Russ) 10:43, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for taking the time to review my submission. I noticed it was rejected for failing to meet notability guidelines. I'm wondering if you can be more specific as to the referencing issue you brought up.
What else is required to establish the subject's notability?
Thank you! I'm Tony Ahn ( talk) 05:22, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
How many pages do I need to mark as patrolled to be treated as a patroller? And BTW, how do you like my signature? And do you like Sonic the Hedgehog? And are you an admin? Answer me ASAP. --[[ Tariqmudallal · my talk]] 00:20, 5 November 2013 (UTC)
<big>...</big>
tags.You've helped in the past with edit-protected requests on {{ Articlehistory}} and {{ GA/Topic}}. Given the new template protection level, I wonder if I could prevail upon you to lower {{ GA/Topic}} from full protection to pp-template? It is merely a lookup list, and the templates that use it are all unprotected (with the exception of articlehistory which is pp-template), so template-level protection should be uncontroversial, and would enable me to make any future tweaks without pestering admins. Thanks! Maralia ( talk) 16:59, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
Hope you don't mind--I took the conversation on ANI as indicative that an unblock of HiLo48 was supported by the community, and have acted accordingly. What remains is dealing with Collingwood. I think I counted 8 to 2 in favor of a site ban. Care to do the honors? Drmies ( talk) 04:04, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
Drmies, While I still can't say that I agree with HiLo's unblock, I do appreciate your efforts to resolve all of this, both at ANI and on HiLo's talk page, and I think that you deserve thanks from all of us. Next time, let's do all of this by consensus. I'll seek consensus for any blocks like this that I am tempted to make, and you - well, I am tempted to say something about judging consensus, but it's probably just that our judgement of the consensus back there was different, which I can't get too uptight about. :)
Jusdafax, I do see what you mean about HiLo - I have never doubted that they are editing in good faith, and your point about differing cultural norms is well taken. Next time I get into a situation like this, I will be sure to keep it in mind. Thanks for the kind message, and your continued trust in me given all of this drama is humbling.
As for what to do now, given Drmies' and Kim's advice to HiLo on their talk page, I don't think HiLo can be under any illusions about what will follow from further personal attacks. Hopefully they can now go forth and edit with some sense of normalcy, and we can all leave the drama behind us. I bear HiLo no ill will, and wish them all the best in their future editing. If they does end up getting blocked again, which I hope very much will not happen, it probably won't be by me. Wishing you all the best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 01:56, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
Barnstar archived to User:Mr. Stradivarius/Awards. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 02:53, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
Hi, thanks again for reviewing When In Manila. First of all, the company doesn't have a PR agency. They have a consultant that helps them get press, and that's me. Second, what I do to assist them in getting press is to pitch newspapers and other sources to send a reporter to interview them. Sometimes I write and submit myself. All of these press outlets have independent editors that make the decision on whether or not the article meets their criteria/needs. If it doesn't, then it doesn't run. So in fact, these are all independent articles, because a free press made the decision to run them. These are not press releases. Given the unreferenced state of the current When In Manila article, I think the changes I've submitted really add depth to the organization's entry, and I'd ask you to reconsider. I'm Tony Ahn ( talk) 05:30, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
I'd like you to respond on the AfD page to my statement regarding whether those awards are "well-known and independent," please. I've provided numerous press citations covering those awards, and there's more where that came from. I'm Tony Ahn ( talk) 02:34, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
About
this at VPT and
this at LUA requests. Over at the preproject talkpage [Template:RELC list]
Template:Page reports, I discuss with @
Werieth: (bot programmer) the setup. The bot has many options, and will be very generic.
One topic is the
Meta-Report: the bot writing in wiki the job results ("This page was produced at 08:48, 8 November 2013 (UTC)~ by
User:ExampleBot; 1234 pages"). I have concluded (by your suggestion) that we better write that meta-report in a Lua data page. I'd like to invite you to help setting up these datapage(s). The bot programmer has noted that he can produce Lua data output. I can add: at the moment his focus is on internal bot programming, discussion rate about wiki interaction is low. See you there. -
DePiep (
talk) 08:48, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
This is a quick question regarding Module:Video game reviews/testcases. Do you know how to use Module:Category handler; I am trying to add Category:Empty templates on articles. The category correctly shows on the page with the empty template, as seen here Module talk:Video game reviews/testcases, but is not added to the category page. I am wanting it to be a hidden category, so easy cleanup can be done. So if you are unsure about this I will take it to the lua help page.— CKY2250 ταικ 03:30, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
This change to the CSD helper script has broken Twinkle and Hotcat for me. Armbrust The Homunculus 14:00, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello Mr. Stradivarius,
I'm working on the upcoming Capiunto MediaWiki extension for Wikimedia Deutschland. The extension is supposed to provide a Lua ( Scribunto) Infobox module on all Wikimedia wikis in a consistent way, similar to the Module:Infobox on the English Wikipedia. As a base for this new extension we plan to use the already mentioned Module:Infobox. Because of this we kindly ask you to give us the permission to reuse your contributions to the modules Infobox and HtmlBuilder under the GNU General Public License v2 or newer (GPL v2+). That makes reusing the code easier for us and matches the license of the rest of the extension. To give us the permission to reuse the mentioned code under the GPL v2+, just reply to this message in an unambiguous manner. The diff in which you approved the code reuse under the GPL v2+ will be noted within the extension. Cheers, and thanks for your work - Hoo man ( talk) 22:51, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the permissions to reuse your contributions. I will inform you by the time the extension passed initial code review and is ready to be installed. You will be able to clone the extension from https://git.wikimedia.org/git/mediawiki/extensions/Capiunto.git then. Cheers, Hoo man ( talk) 16:05, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
There is a cascade-protected problem for the templates that are redirected from a shortcut. I believe these two are the only ones. Could you change them for me. Thanks — CKY2250 ταικ 20:33, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
would it be possible to add basic unordered list support to this module? I would like to replace the html in the top image caption in
Billiard ball, and image captions do not support wiki list markup. I believe all you would need to do is add bulleted = makeWrapper( 'bulleted' )
or unordered = makeWrapper( 'unordered' )
or whatever to call it, and then have that option not add any classes. I temporarily created
template:bulleted list/
module:bulleted list and there is also the underused
template:ulist, which might be a better home for it. once this is available, we can clean up more of
Wikipedia:CHECKWIKI/012 dump. thank you.
Frietjes (
talk) 23:14, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi.
I seem to have a copyright related issue which I probably need an admin's help with. Last night I was bored out of life and so wrote a funny piece of essay in my user sandbox.
Today, User:FleetCommand popped up on my messenger. I told him about it; he laughed. I gave him the link and suddenly he became serious. He said my parody is using names used in a copyright-protected work of art and so it is fair use; that means I am not allowed to have it in Wikipedia unless in compliance with WP:NFCC.
I, of course, thought what I wrote there does not fall within threshold of originality (e.g. any fictional character can love apples without infringing upon the copyright of the previous apple-loving ones) and besides, since they are only brief references with attribution, they are not plagiarism. I don't think it is even de minimis, let alone fair-use. But if what he says is true, maybe you should hide that revision.
What do you think?
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk) 16:12, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
Mr. Stradivarius, as the other member of the debate over the proposed edits, I would also like to contribute to the editing process since I am opposed to the Mr. Strauss' edits. I'm not exactly sure how this process works, but I'd be happy to provide you with the sources that are used in the current edit as well as additional sources, and could answer any questions you may have on the topic. 88.218.9.122 ( talk) 07:11, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
I finally got around writing a feature for Module:Redirect that replaces all the redirects in a block of text; it's at Module:Redirect/sandbox. You protected the module in the meanwhile, so it needs an admin edit to go live - besides, I'd appreciate if you looked it over, because I modularized the existing 'main' function also so that I could reuse part of it, so there's a chance I broke something that doesn't show up on the unit tests. Speaking of unit tests... nothing, not even Module:convert/tester (which gets an expandTemplate error), can figure out what are wrong with these. Wnt ( talk) 18:04, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
The reason why the unit tests are failing for the block function is that when nowiki tags are preprocessed in Lua, they get converted to strip markers. (Same with ref tags, gallery tags, and a few others.) MediaWiki needs the strip markers to be unique so that it knows which code to insert back in which place after the wikitext is returned from Scribunto. This means that even if you put preprocessed nowiki tags around the exact same text, you will get a different strip marker every time, and because you have different code every time your unit tests will always fail. To get the unit tests to work, you either need to test the text before it gets nowiki'd, or you can use mw.text.nowiki rather than nowiki tags and write the unit tests with HTML entities.
It's up to you if you want to go through the extra effort it would take to get some working unit tests for the block function, but in any case, take a look through my changes to the sandbox and see if you like them. If everything seems ok, I'll update the module. And the main function seems to be working just fine. :)
Also, while I'm thinking about it, would you like me to make you a template editor? You seem like an ideal candidate. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 12:20, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
Mr. Stradivarius
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:AndyTheGrump&diff=578773690&oldid=578773223
REFERENCES:
and
I now leave this matter to your discretion. Have a good day. Worldedixor ( talk) 09:54, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
Perhaps you remember answering an editprotected request regarding a weird situation at Talk:Webserver directory index last month. In case you're curious and still care about the issue, I've explained in that thread what was going on. Nyttend ( talk) 15:48, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I've noticed you are a rather active person in the linguistic topics and I would like to request your help. I am a student of the University of Alberta and I have been given an assignment to modify some wiki articles for my Psychology of Language class. I have chosen to make additions and revisions to the
speech production page as well as the
speech error page. I have not submitted any changes to either page itself thus far however I am working on my revisions in my sandbox. What I am asking of you, if you wouldn't mind, is for you to keep an eye on my progress and make suggestions that might improve my work. The Professor of the course, Paula Marentette, is also keeping an eye on my progress and has made some comments as well, but your experience with the wiki community would be beneficial to helping me make an acceptable revision to my chosen articles.
Thank you,
Jenaya (
talk) 19:38, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
Regarding this, I may have made an error in judgment with my pings. I simply looked at the top contributors to the permission request page and notified those users, without realizing that would include a lot of individuals who had trouble being granted the right. Probably not the best way to get a balanced discussion going. Sorry for any negativity that gets tossed your way as a result of my stupidity. equazcion → 13:35, 27 Nov 2013 (UTC)
Hello Mr. Stradivarius.
I am contacting you from St. Louis Public Library. I'm having a problem getting the ISBN url to work on the following page. Can you share with me what you were able to provide to have the search work successfully?
Thanks so much. Ljoneill13 ( talk) 21:25, 25 November 2013 (UTC) ljoneill13
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Book_sources
Hi,
You said you might give building something in Lua to handle football tables a shot. Did you try it?
Thanks TheOriginalSoni ( talk) 18:40, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the quick grant of the template editor user right. But when I went to edit the pink-padlocked {{ Ambox}}, it just told me, "This page is currently protected from editing because it is transcluded in the following page, which is protected with the "cascading" option: Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items". So I guess it isn't really useful to pink-padlock pages that transclude that page, as long as it remains red-locked. Wbm1058 ( talk) 00:42, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi there. How do you do? I was wondering if you could review a NAC for me: This discussion was listed at WP:ANRFC a couple of weeks ago by another users, and was NAC-closed today as "no consensus". I wouldn't be bothered much by that outcome, if not another user had tried to close the same discussion two days ago as "delete" but reverted the closure once they realized that "WP:NACD prohibits me from closing this discussion as the result is deletion, which I cannot act upon". I realize that the delete closure was more of a WP:SUPERVOTE, but on the other hand it looks like the other closer was merely counting votes. I believe I am too WP:INVOLVED in this one to revert the closure, what do you think about it? Mentoz86 ( talk) 23:38, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
Hello, Mr. Stradivarius
How do you do?
A Microsoft UX designer, Mathias Wendlinger, has contacted me over the email, asking for negotiation about edit #584210006 which I previously reverted. (Well, his edit wasn't exactly resume material for a UX designer.) So, I think I am going to need a copy of File:Xbox Music W8 logo.jpg and File:Xbox Music everywhere.png as well as their description pages for reference. Do you think you can arrange that?
I have asked him not to communicate with me over email anymore and reply in my talk page only, because copyright issues are best solved with transparency in mind. Surely, the foundation wouldn't want a lawsuit from Microsoft on the grounds that I mistreated their employee, does it?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Codename Lisa (
talk) 20:02, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi! I noticed you made this edit [6] a few hours ago. Is it possible that the code refactor broke something? I am noticing that Module:Infobox road/length is now broken, and no longer displays anything in any of the 10,000+ transclusions of Template:Infobox road. -- Rs chen 7754 03:58, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
{args={x, y, z}}
to just {x, y, z}
would fix the problem. But even better would be to pass it to the new _precision_value
function directly, which is what I have done in
the sandbox. I'll have to go through and see if any other modules have used tricks like this before I switch back to the new version of Module:Math. —
Mr. Stradivarius
♪ talk ♪ 04:52, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi. You are one of the editors involved in the Premier league table template at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 121#Displaying a part of the table. The work is very close to the end and the template now loks like the one currently used at 2013–14 Premier League. I just wanted to see if you could take a look at what I did last night at Template:2013–14 Premier League table/sandbox so that the code looks okay. What I did was that previously there was "Qualified for champions league" on three rows (1,2 and 3) and the same for relegation, so now i wanted it to span over all these rows (as in 2013–14 Premier League) using the rows-parameter in the template used inside our template.
My idea was that when teams 1,2,3 are shown (for the first 3 teams in table) there should be a span over three rows and when the table should show teams 2-6 (for team on pos4) i wanted it to be a span over 2 rows. Hard to explain in writing. I used switches and ifeq for that. The result can be seen at User:Spudgfsh/sandbox. Please take a look at it and comment on the result. Then it is only to decide if we should highlight the team or not and then we should use it. Discussion about that on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Highlighting or bolding.
I would also like to thank you for all the work you have done with this table. Thank you!. QED237 (talk) 11:34, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
Barnstar archived to User:Mr. Stradivarius/Awards. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 02:53, 20 February 2014 (UTC)