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Hi Peter,
I found International class while doing new page patrolling, and the question that came to mind was "When was it discontinued, and was it replaced by something else?". I couldn't find answers with a quick web search, and thought you might know.
Cheers, -- Slashme ( talk) 09:51, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi Peter, I am familiar with the use of redlinks, but there is another approach when there is a need for context. By using links and redirects one achieves a first level of coherence for the material. If that is sufficient for a given reader, problem solved. If another reader would like more detail, then sure, he or some author or editor should climb in and find out more, at which point the redirect page may become an article in its own right, and I have on occasion expanded redirects into articles, or even sets of articles, but at present I have too little time or knowledge of the Tunicata to indulge myself in expending these. Thanks anyway. JonRichfield ( talk) 06:02, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
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I removed the {{ under construction}} from Hyperbaric Medicine, which you had added and then commented out in March. Hope that's OK. David Brooks ( talk) 18:26, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
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Have you noticed the code in the diffs for your "done" comments at the GA review page? Are you a Texan? Atsme 📞 📧 21:43, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Peter, it certainly makes editing an article easier when all of the reference definitions are where you'd expect to find them - in the Reference section (my old wiki-pal, User:Jack Merridew, used to call it "de-snotting" the text)! Can I make a suggestion? After you've finished cleaning up and tidying the references, collect the definitions all together in alphabetical order (not in groups). The reason is that any editor wanting to re-use a citation, for example, will start from the wikitext and will go looking for the definition by the name you've used to label it; but you can't tell from the label whether it's web, book, journal, etc. so they may have to scan though multiple groups to find it, and that's a pain in a large article. It's by no means crucial, but I'm all for making life as easy as possible for other editors. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 18:04, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
There's a script I use at
User:PleaseStand/segregate-refs.js. I don't know if you've seen it, but it collects all the references from a page into a separate text-box. When you edit the whole article page (not a section), it shows up as a green 'button' labelled "Segregate refs for editing" underneath the edit window, which you click to trigger the script. It's easy to copy and paste all of the reference definitions from the separate box into the References section; you then only need to scan through the text and change the inline reference definitions, <ref name="xyz">{{cite blah |... }}</ref>
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The loader to place in your Common.js looks like this:
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Hi. Further to the conversation at the Wikiproject, at least two of the rating titles that you have de-capped have gone into redlinks when they were blue linked before (Aviation storekeeper and Postal clerk). Just thought you should know. Regards. The joy of all things ( talk) 18:44, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
Well done for reverting yourself there. "Sulfur" is the international spelling for science just as "aluminium" is. See WP:ALUM. -- John ( talk) 09:07, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
Place in Special:MyPage/Common.js
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Thank you very much for moving the page Talk:Merano back to its previous name, Pbsouthwood. Could you do the same with the article page too, please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.95.8.200 ( talk) 15:15, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
Well there are many countries where the term Allopathic medicine is used. These three are just a few among the many. References can be found in the article that I am currently in process of writing. Diptanshu 💬 18:03, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
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You say "better before" may be a "simple truth", but that doesn't make it a good edit summary. There's actually specific policy that says it's a bad edit summary. "Better before" doesn't say what was better before, and is a form of article ownership. If there's something specific that was better before, it should be named, otherwise it's as vague as "I don't like it." Same for "that's a guideline", "stable version", and so on. Nothing favors not following the guidelines, and nothing favors a stable version. Reverts of a good-faith edit based on these non-reasons are bad, they prevent improvement under the guise of protecting the article. Bright☀ 13:30, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
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You may be wondering why the importance rating you gave to Oxygen toxicity isn't showing up :) . When I implemented the classification system for WPSCUBA in 2009, I didn't include the importance parameters because the number of active WikiProject Scuba members was small. At that time, it was generally accepted that the importance rating was a guide for members of a WikiProject to the importance that the WikiProject gave to improving that article. In other words, a high-importance article was one that members wanted to work on. Of course things change over time, but even now, the number of active editors on scuba-related topics is so small that we all know each other and I've never felt the need to implement the importance ratings. Nevertheless, if you think that it would benefit WPSCUBA, I'd be happy to modify the template to accept those ratings. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 21:30, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Peter,
I found International class while doing new page patrolling, and the question that came to mind was "When was it discontinued, and was it replaced by something else?". I couldn't find answers with a quick web search, and thought you might know.
Cheers, -- Slashme ( talk) 09:51, 7 July 2016 (UTC)
Hi Peter, I am familiar with the use of redlinks, but there is another approach when there is a need for context. By using links and redirects one achieves a first level of coherence for the material. If that is sufficient for a given reader, problem solved. If another reader would like more detail, then sure, he or some author or editor should climb in and find out more, at which point the redirect page may become an article in its own right, and I have on occasion expanded redirects into articles, or even sets of articles, but at present I have too little time or knowledge of the Tunicata to indulge myself in expending these. Thanks anyway. JonRichfield ( talk) 06:02, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
As an experienced editor, you know our copyright policy. I'm puzzled by this edit which looks problematic. I wondered if the source was public domain, but it is not. Those excerpts are longer than most editors feel are appropriate.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 17:27, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
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I removed the {{ under construction}} from Hyperbaric Medicine, which you had added and then commented out in March. Hope that's OK. David Brooks ( talk) 18:26, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
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Have you noticed the code in the diffs for your "done" comments at the GA review page? Are you a Texan? Atsme 📞 📧 21:43, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
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I noticed your
following my revert fix of an image bracket, and wondered where the "original" concept originated. You might also want to correct the following Nevermind, I see where you already fixed it.
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hi Pbsouthwood you've posted a few times at WPMED/talk and I noticed you have experience in terms of Good Article noms I recently nominated the above article and would therefore appreciate if you could take a look at it (review [1]), thank you -- Ozzie10aaaa ( talk) 16:31, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
Pbsouthwood ,Thank you very much for taking on the review of West African Ebola virus epidemic I know that due to its length it wasn't easy, however you were very professional and I was very fortunate to work w/ you. Should you find yourself needing a reviewer (or any type of help in the future do not hesitate to ask). Bringing this article to GA has a special meaning to so many that worked on it.......God bless you-- Ozzie10aaaa ( talk) 10:04, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi Peter, Re names: aaargh!! Was trying to help and the end was finally in sight. Now I'll have to start again? Whiteghost.ink ( talk) 08:09, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Peter, it certainly makes editing an article easier when all of the reference definitions are where you'd expect to find them - in the Reference section (my old wiki-pal, User:Jack Merridew, used to call it "de-snotting" the text)! Can I make a suggestion? After you've finished cleaning up and tidying the references, collect the definitions all together in alphabetical order (not in groups). The reason is that any editor wanting to re-use a citation, for example, will start from the wikitext and will go looking for the definition by the name you've used to label it; but you can't tell from the label whether it's web, book, journal, etc. so they may have to scan though multiple groups to find it, and that's a pain in a large article. It's by no means crucial, but I'm all for making life as easy as possible for other editors. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 18:04, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
There's a script I use at
User:PleaseStand/segregate-refs.js. I don't know if you've seen it, but it collects all the references from a page into a separate text-box. When you edit the whole article page (not a section), it shows up as a green 'button' labelled "Segregate refs for editing" underneath the edit window, which you click to trigger the script. It's easy to copy and paste all of the reference definitions from the separate box into the References section; you then only need to scan through the text and change the inline reference definitions, <ref name="xyz">{{cite blah |... }}</ref>
to the just the named reference <ref name="xyz" />
, as you do anyway.
The loader to place in your Common.js looks like this:
// var SegregateRefsJsAllowConversion = true; mw.loader.load( '/?title=User:PleaseStand/segregate-refs.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript', 'text/javascript' );
Hope you might find it useful. -- RexxS ( talk) 19:24, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
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Hi. Further to the conversation at the Wikiproject, at least two of the rating titles that you have de-capped have gone into redlinks when they were blue linked before (Aviation storekeeper and Postal clerk). Just thought you should know. Regards. The joy of all things ( talk) 18:44, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
Well done for reverting yourself there. "Sulfur" is the international spelling for science just as "aluminium" is. See WP:ALUM. -- John ( talk) 09:07, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
Place in Special:MyPage/Common.js
/* * Will pop-up a confirmation dialog when rollback link is clicked from Watchlist. * Hit the "cancel" button if you had clicked Rollback accidentally and the edit will not be reverted. * 'User:Zvn/confirmwatchlistrollback.js'); */ if(mw.config.get("wgCanonicalSpecialPageName")==="Watchlist") jQuery(function($){ $(".mw-rollback-link a").click(function(event){ if(confirm("Are you sure you want to rollback this edit?")) return; event.preventDefault(); }); });
Especially useful if you ever use a touch-screen. Cheers -- RexxS ( talk) 15:07, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
Thank you very much for moving the page Talk:Merano back to its previous name, Pbsouthwood. Could you do the same with the article page too, please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.95.8.200 ( talk) 15:15, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
Well there are many countries where the term Allopathic medicine is used. These three are just a few among the many. References can be found in the article that I am currently in process of writing. Diptanshu 💬 18:03, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
Unfortunately the discussion closed before I noticed your comment. Are you participating in the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin? Anyway.
You say "better before" may be a "simple truth", but that doesn't make it a good edit summary. There's actually specific policy that says it's a bad edit summary. "Better before" doesn't say what was better before, and is a form of article ownership. If there's something specific that was better before, it should be named, otherwise it's as vague as "I don't like it." Same for "that's a guideline", "stable version", and so on. Nothing favors not following the guidelines, and nothing favors a stable version. Reverts of a good-faith edit based on these non-reasons are bad, they prevent improvement under the guise of protecting the article. Bright☀ 13:30, 22 April 2017 (UTC)