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My edit to the documentation was based on Sandbox experiments and direct observation. Editing a section with a visible anchor in it produces a blank auto-filled edit summary, not a "broken" summary. There is no "gray" text in the summary, and there has never been "blue" text in the summary: The text in the "Edit summary" box is and always has been black. If you're talking about the article's history page, section information in summaries has always appeared in light gray text, regardless of whether the "Edit summary" box is auto-filled or manually filled. The auto-filled content of the box is optional in any case, and editors often replace it in toto before saving their changes. Moreover, Wikipedia is not generating HTML5. It appears to be an illegal mix of mostly XHTML and some HTML 4.0 Transitional, as is evident by a simple visual inspection of the source code of any page. If a Wikipedia page is submitted to the W3C Validator, it results in copious errors, since the content of the source does not match the DOCTYPE. Now that I've made you aware of this, how are you going to correct the misinformation on the Visible anchor/doc page? — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum) T @ 19:20, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
<!doctype html>
is an HTML 5 document. It may not be valid, but that is what it is. The majority of "invalid" HTML output on Wikipedia is a result of editors using obsolete elements and attributes or incorrect positioning of elements according to the HTML 5 layout rules (see also
WP:Linter) rather than being due to the software itself (many documented exceptions exist as tasks to be worked in
WP:Phabricator). Validation tools are not the be-all end-all, and the original author of that particular tool has since sworn off that tool somewhat. --
Izno (
talk)
20:55, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
Oshawott 12 ==()==
Talk to me! is wishing you
Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's
Solstice or
Christmas,
Diwali,
Hogmanay,
Hanukkah,
Lenaia,
Festivus or even the
Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!
Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{ subst: User:WereSpielChequers/Dec18a}}~~~~ to your friends' talk pages.
Oshawott 12 ==()== Talk to me! 04:57, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
Hey there my lovely pal! Wishing you a merry christmas! I know it's early but mmmm make a good wish =D Enjoy your holiday! Vincent LUFan ( talk) ( Kenton!) 10:55, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{ subst: User:WereSpielChequers/Dec18a}}~~~~ to your friends' talk pages.
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019! |
Hello Redrose64, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this
seasonal occasion. Spread the
WikiLove by wishing another user a
Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you a heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Spread the love by adding {{ subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2019! |
Hello Redrose64, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this
seasonal occasion. Spread the
WikiLove by wishing another user a
Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2019. Spread the love by adding {{ subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages. |
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Wishing everybody a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! Adoration of the Shepherds (Cariani) is my Wiki-Christmas card to all for this year. Johnbod ( talk) 10:26, 23 December 2018 (UTC) |
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
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Hi Redrose64, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas |
Merry
Rexxmas
2018
∰Bellezzasolo✡
Discuss is wishing you
Happy Holidays! This greeting (and season) promotes
WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user
Happy Holidays, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!
Spread the cheer by adding {{ subst:Happy holidays}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
Thank you for the answer about {{div col|colwidth=20em}}. Works great! RJFJR ( talk) 15:35, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
Is it possible to add Mexborough (Ferry Boat) Halt to this template,but I am unsure if it situated before or after Mexborough Junction in the river area shown on the template, from what information that I have gleaned from a reading of the Wikipedia article.
Xenophon Philosopher ( talk) 10:40, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
Redrose64,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Rubbish computer (
Talk:
Contribs)
02:51, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
Send New Year cheer by adding {{ subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.
Some celestial fireworks to herald another year of progress for mankind and Wikipedia. All the very best , Redrose,
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (
talk)
02:21, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
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... gan yr hen Gymro; rwy'n gobeithio eich bod wedi cael gwyliau Nadolig gwych ac rwy'n dymuno 2019 heddychlon i chi! That is Welsh and translates to: Spicy hot wine for you from the old Welshman; I hope you have had a great Christmas holiday and I wish you a peaceful 2019! Thank you for your excellent work on the 'pedia. Sincerely, Gareth Griffith-Jones ( contribs) ( talk) 12:54, 1 January 2019 (UTC) |
Hello Redrose64, thank you for your recent efforts to improve Wikipedia. [1] While the rhetorical question you asked in the edit summary doesn't exactly invite a reply, I wouldn't be true to myself, after seeing it, If I didn't stand tall in your presence to proudly acknowledge the same, and ask you directly if there was anything about that edit that you wanted to discuss? I am willing to account for my actions to any needed degree, and as willing to directly move on; depending on whichever you think is best. I'm not, however, keen with pretending that I don't care when I most certainly do. With esteem, I remain.-- John Cline ( talk) 22:04, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
{{
tlc}}
and {{
tlxs}}
to simplify how markup is demonstrated, so there should not be a need to re-complicate it with the <code>...</code>
and <nowiki>...</nowiki>
tags. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
14:14, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
There is no page in existance for the highlighting of the word double chimney so what is the point of the link as it makes absolutely no sense unless your willing to create an article for it since you clearly claim to know more. XD Either remove the link or create a page for it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moylesy98 ( talk • contribs) 22:12, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
I'm aware that Llansadwrn is not in Ynys Mon, but despite its filename the audio just consists of someone saying "Llansadwrn", which ought to work both for Anglesey Llansadwrn and Carmarthenshire Llansadwrn. I realise there are differences in accent between North and South, but as these two places have the same name should the title of the audio file really be a barrier to including it in this article? Or am I missing something important here? Beorhtwulf ( talk) 22:36, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
How am I meant to know the RFC bot was going to add it all at a later date? .... I waited a good 2 minutes or so and It did nothing .... so I was therefore under the impression it wasn't going to actually to do anything otherwise I would've obviously waited, Damned If I do and damned if I don't. – Davey2010 Talk 00:40, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi there Redrose,
Hope you are well. I wanted to message you to ask why you reverted the Dundee railway station Wikipedia page and placed the former station picture on the infobox?
I don't know if you are from Dundee but there is a new station built and there was updated information I added and I also took a photograph which was then taken down due to copyright even though I captured it because I am a photographer from Dundee.
I appreciate your edits but I don't understand the need of removing the relevant content on the page when it was clearly up to date. KeyKing666 ( talk) 16:41, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi Redrose, My apologise I hadn't realised you were reverted otherwise I would've reverted them, I had only just woken up and usually when I've just woken up I never pay any attention to edit summaries but anyway sorry about that, Thanks, – Davey2010 Talk 14:07, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
|date=
parameters of cleanup and maintenance templates for no good reason. For example, amending the date of a {{
use dmy dates}}
implies that they have actually been through the article (as you did) and made any necessary amendments in order to bring about consistency. But their edits to the |date=
params have not been accompanied by any such amendments. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
14:24, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
Please look at this edit and the one that follows it; to help me understand the problems. Thank you.-- John Cline ( talk) 12:24, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
[[Template:Ambox]]
or put the {{
tlc|Ambox}}
on a separate line after the heading. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
22:54, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. --
Cards84664
(talk)
18:55, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
{{
subst:ANI-notice}}
allows the section name to be specified in its |thread=
parameter, without requiring guesswork. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
19:10, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:58, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
Whoops. I thought I cut the bottom and moved it up. -- Tyw7 ( 🗣️ Talk) — If (reply) then ( ping me) 18:57, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
Rhadow created the Sonasan railway station article, then nominated it for deletion seven minutes later. It was tagged as G7. I deleted it as G7/ WP:POINT. Rhadow has recreated it again, and it has been tagged again. This is part of the notability of stations discussion at WT:TWP, which you are probably aware of. As I see it, an essay cannot trump policy, which is why station articles need to demonstrate that GNG is met. Would it be in order for me to delete the article and salt it, as has been suggested to me, or am I now WP:INVOLVED? Mjroots ( talk) 13:46, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello R. Sorry about the error. I hope that you are well. When you have the time would you take a look at our old friend Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates. One of the items is fully protected so I can't fix it and I'm not sure about about the talk pages. I haven't been monitoring the cat as much as in the past and have forgotten some of the pointers you've given me over the years. My apologies. Best regards. MarnetteD| Talk 15:48, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
{{Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow | paragraphs=1-2 | files=1 | more=
| Template:{{PAGENAME}} topics
|
}}
<noinclude>...</noinclude>
technique if I could work out which article it is. These are the articles that are transcluded:@
MarnetteD and
HJ Mitchell: The excerpt slideshow templates have |random=no
and |limit=
parameters, which can be used for diagnostics. Playing around with these in preview mode, I found the problem was in article #11,
La Trinitaria (Dominican Republic), which had the protection template within heading markup from this edit
[2]. This meant that the excerpt functionality (from
Module:Excerpt) got confused, and didn't remove the protection template like it usually would. Fixing the article, and then null-editing the portal, has removed the portal from the category. -
Evad37 [
talk
23:34, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi Redrose. Lots of folks announce themselves as summoned by bot. I agree that it is usually not relevant, but sometimes it is, so I do it by habit. I'm sure you mean the best, if you think it's not a good thing, feel free to talk to me about it -- I've never heard another side to it -- rather than edit my comments for me. Cheers. Chris vLS ( talk) 05:07, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello Redrose64, I received your message about using templates recognized by CluebotIII at wp:an/c, and understand. I actually knew of this already and would have meant to append things correctly; that I did not is one of those inexplicable things that happen, at times, in spite of our best intent. I'll redouble my efforts to ensure future compliance.
Aside that, I noticed the substitution of {{ Happy New Year fireworks}}, further up the page, and observed that it breaks when text is enlarged (in mitigation of visual impairments). I view pages at %170 of the default size; in that situation, its output is thoroughly corrupted. I worked up a tentative fix but would like to see how you would modify the coding (for instructive comparison). If you have the motivation, and time, I'd love to see what changes your experience would bring. Thank you.-- John Cline ( talk) 18:01, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
{{
User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}}
,{{
resolved}}
,{{
Resolved}}
,{{
done}}
,{{
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,{{
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,{{
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not done}}
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- if ClueBot III finds any one or more of those in a thread, it archives the thread; it's case-sensitive, and doesn't follow redirects, hence all the variations.<div>
tag. Instead, it seems that we have another kind of sloppiness - making assumptions about the characteristics of another user's setup (device, monitor, browser etc.). The box with a round-cornered border has been drawn to the same height as the images inside it, without allowing for the fact that the text that is also inside the box may be too much to fit in. Consequently, at high zooms and on narrow screens, some of it spills out.
This edit should fix it for that one specific instance. Since it's a
substituted template, a similar fix to the template itself may be done, but will only affect future uses - it won't fix the hundreds (if not thousands) of times that the template has been used in the past. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
11:40, 5 February 2019 (UTC)Thank you for your instruction. Forgive me, but I don't understand 'pipe' and 'redirect'. Could you enlighten me? Valetude ( talk) 20:53, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
[[British Rail|British Railways]]
which produces
British Railways, see
Help:Link#Piped link. But that can be cumbersome, and a means for simplifying links exists, the redirect: basically, a redirect is a way of giving a page another name - if you link to that other name, and click the link, you are taken directly to the "real" page. This allows us to write [[British Railways]]
which produces
British Railways, see
Help:Redirect. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
21:26, 5 February 2019 (UTC)Hello again R. I hope you enjoyed the first round of the Six Nations. Template:Wikipedia's sister projects/sandbox ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has popped in the category. My fix of a few days ago caused problems so I am hoping that you can figure things out. Cheers. MarnetteD| Talk 03:30, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
{{
pp}}
template, which is completely superfluous because the {{
documentation}}
automatically displays any prot icon that may be appropriate. It seems to have been added to the main template with
this edit by
Ks0stm (
talk ·
contribs) and later copied to the sandbox. I've removed it from both. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
20:53, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
Is there a way of changing the way that a category's name displays on a page, whilst still linking to the actual category? Similar to how a piped link works. Mjroots ( talk) 18:33, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
[[:Category:Pinnipeds]]
[[:Category:Pinnipeds|]]
|display as=
so that a category's display can be changed if desired.
Mjroots (
talk)
21:35, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
Suzannah Lipscomb I wonder why you changed the order of the subject's last book listed under Bibliography. The book I refer to is Witchcraft, it is ordered differently to the previous books, and as she has a new book coming out on 14th February it would be useful to understand why, and also why, if you changed the order of this book, you didn't do the same with her previous books?
Thank you.
Fitzwimarc ( talk) 22:32, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello Redrose64,
I see that you revert my User Talk page edits with the unauthorized survey comment. Therefore, I wondered whom's authorization I would need to ask users to participate in my survey. I already asked the admin noticeboard as well as the help desk if my approach would be ok.
For my posts on the user pages I oriented myself at the sample text provided by Wikipedia.
Kind regards,
Robert Wintermeyer-- Rwinterm ( talk) 16:41, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
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For this brilliant suggestion. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 09:07, 18 February 2019 (UTC) |
You removed my comment on the notability talk page "I have proposed CYM Group for deletion but I am hoping for some input in the discussion as to whether achieving a Guinness World Record and some press attention is sufficient to give notability to this otherwise non-notable student club. Alternatively, the article could be redirected or merged." I wanted to establish what the consensus was about this. Did I put the query in the wrong place? Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 15:16, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
User:Pldx1. Maybe, but I am not that sure ! Pldx1 ( talk) 17:21, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
I think you know something about it, or at least know where to ask.
It's all about cascading ref and efn.
I don't know anything about these. I don't know even the different between #tag and {{ tag}}.
There are a couple of problems I've come across. Can you help me:
Help! Talk about confusing ( talk) 03:23, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
<nowiki>...</nowiki>
it's difficult to work out which are code examples and which are demonstrations of a problem. I get the impression that you are trying to nest two or three templates, and having difficulty. Normally a {{
sfn}}
may be placed within a {{
efn}}
without difficulty, but neither of these may be placed inside <ref>...</ref>
tags.|refs=
parameter inside either {{
notelist}}
or {{
reflist}}
, this is
WP:LDR, and it is known that problems occur if you try to nest a {{
sfn}}
or <ref>...</ref>
inside an {{
efn}}
which is itself within a LDR structure. There have been discussion threads on this, in the last two or three years, and it wasn't satisfactorily resolved in a manner that allowed full use of LDR. Just use plain {{
notelist}}
and {{
reflist}}
without parameters, and put all the {{
efn}}
in the main part of the article, and similarly the {{
sfn}}
or <ref>...</ref>
. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
12:06, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
hi...I created this Joseph H. Kler by moving it from my sandbox....but an old talk page is attached. I'm not sure how to fix it. Are you or @ Philafrenzy: able to help please. Whispyhistory ( talk) 14:12, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
Can you tweak the {{ Réseau Albert RDT}} so that it is normally collapsed please? Also, the Réseau Albert article needs reassessment, if you would be so kind. Mjroots ( talk) 16:30, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
|collapse=no
is provided. The article is certainly better than Start-class, but I don't have time for a
WP:BCLASS assessment, so I've given it C-class. The MILHIST banner has busted this back down to Start because
WP:MHA#CRIT says that for C-class, "the article meets B1 or B2 as well as B3 and B4 and B5 of the
B-Class criteria" and I didn't fill in the checklist. In other words, a MILHIST C-class is the same as everybody else's B-class except that either B1 or B2 is not met, and they don't care about B6. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
17:29, 24 February 2019 (UTC)Re your edit [3], I thought that when a new topic area was added to an RfC tag after the bot had already initially processed the tag, that I needed to place a comment/timestamp before the initial timestamp in opening RfC statement in order to get the bot to process the newly added topic area. Is this not correct? Will Legobot see the change anyway even without a new timestamp? Sparkie82 ( t• c) 05:21, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
|bio
- to an {{
rfc}}
tag that has at least one category already, Legobot will add the RfC to the appropriate listing page - in this case
WP:RFC/BIO - on its next run{{
rfc}}
tag and the first timestamp, or alter that timestamp, Legobot will amend the RfC listing pages will be amended to match on its next run{{
rfc}}
tag, it's not normally necessary to do anything else. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
17:48, 25 February 2019 (UTC)Hi there. Sorry to bother you but if you had a moment could you please have a look / keep a bit of an eye on this editor? They are only editing train articles but with some apparently bizarre/random effects – everything they've done so far has been reverted by me or others. It's not obvious vandalism but it's not really working out either. I don't want to be bitey at them and I don't know enough about trains to know if there is some sense in what they are doing like, I don't know, class numbers that are used in different ways or something. But you might know that stuff! So a quick look would be much appreciated. With thanks and best wishes DBaK ( talk) 22:57, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi...What was the name of that railway station that was never built...in Kent? Would it be in the book by Raymond Butt? Would the book have anything on Victoria station and platform 17? I notice that the article on Victoria station doesn't mention anything about it. Whispyhistory ( talk) 05:48, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for the tip. I don’t fully understand, but at least I know my computer is not malfunctioning. 2A02:C7D:275:4800:1418:BF8B:291E:82CE ( talk) 21:54, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
Few things:
|done=yes
exactly? When the RfC peters out? I thought it was just for when I use {{
Done}}. (I have no intention of completing
the request)Please ping response. Thank you! ― Matthew J. Long -Talk- ☖ 23:50, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
{{
initiated}}
template displays its message in colour (blue, green or boldfaced red according to the supplied date and the |type=
parameter) in order to draw the attention of humans to those threads that still require attention; such instances of the template will also put the page into
Category:Administrative backlog. When no further action is required on this request, we add |done=yes
as a signal to the {{
initiated}}
template that it should display using normal-weight black instead of a colour; it also prevents that instance of the template from putting the page into
Category:Administrative backlog (of course, there is a high probability that other threads are still unfinished, so the page will still end up in
Category:Administrative backlog - but because of other {{
initiated}}
, not because of the one in this thread). Basically, it's used not just when {{
Done}}
is added, but whenever you add any of the templates that will be detected by
ClueBot III (
talk ·
contribs). These templates are listed (in abbreviated form) in the |archivenow=
parameter of the {{
User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis}}
in the first section of the page (please note, the list is case-sensitive, which is why both {{done
and {{Done
are present). Since {{
Already done}}
and {{
Not done}}
are both in that list, use of those templates means that the thread is to be archived on the next ClueBot III run; and so {{
Not done}}
means "this is not going to be done by anybody, so we are rejecting this request".{{
Not done}}
or {{
subst:Not done}}
, it's a signal to everybody that the request is not going to be actioned and can therefore be moved to the archive. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
14:58, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
Hey. I saw this edit you made, where you marked that an rfc had been closed. If you look at the previous edit to the page, you see that Matt did not in fact close the discussion, but nor did they say it shouldn't be closed; rather, they said it should be closed by someone else, meaning that it was not yet done. I would just undo your edit and leave an explanation, but the thread has since been archived, and I know that ClueBot III does some fancy stuff when it archives, so I don't know what to do - the RfC still needs to be closed. Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 00:15, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
|done=yes
because
MattLongCT (
talk ·
contribs) had used {{
Not done}}
. ClueBot III picks up on the {{
Not done}}
- it would have been archived even if I hadn't added |done=yes
. See thread immediately above. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
00:27, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
{{
Not done}}
so that ClueBot III won't re-archive it again. Its indexes are probably all screwed up now, I have no idea how to fix them. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
00:45, 21 February 2019 (UTC)Hello R. A new problem has cropped up in the Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates causing all sorts of user pages to show up there. I think it has something to with a signpost page somewhere but the only one I can find with a recent protection is this one. As ever your help in finding what is going on will be appreciated. MarnetteD| Talk 02:35, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
{{
pp-semi}}
that was
added by
Kingerikthesecond (
talk ·
contribs) to a page that has been protected for a long time (since 10:02, 24 April 2010). The page is transcluded, so <noinclude>...</noinclude>
is mandatory;
this will fix it. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
09:40, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
{{
pp-protected}}
when they should have used either {{
R protected}}
or wrapped the existing {{
R to project}}
in a {{
R cat shell}}
. That MfD page is no longer in the category, it wasn't there when I visited it half an hour ago. It's all clear now. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
20:35, 4 March 2019 (UTC)Fair enough, but should it then be removed from Article Wizard as well? That's where I copy/pasted the text from. Primefac ( talk) 20:26, 4 March 2019 (UTC) (please ping on reply)
IF you rename/move the LNWR Chopper Tank Class class to whereever you want I'll blank the original (As I'm permitted to as original editor) and sort out what links where. (The Irish locomotives where converted from 2-4-0Ts not 2-4-2Ts which was my core focus. Thanks. Djm-leighpark ( talk) 22:29, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
It may serve you well if you were a little bit more caring about important things (particularly removing WP:DRIVEBY tagging, inappropriate photographs) and rather less pedantic about unimportant things such as calling engines "she". Tony May ( talk) 01:33, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
They were also classified as Class G3 under the former LNWR system.The edit summary "It is in the sources." does not satisfy the policy on verifiability (which is a core content policy) - you need to state exactly which sources. If the claim had also been made elsewhere in the article with a source, it would have been a different matter.
There is a very short Wikipedia article on this station, to which you were the last person who made an edit upon, so I send my query to you. The station is shown as being in working timetables, being opened on 1 March 1866 and closed on 1 October 1887. Its situation is said to be between the two stations of Nuneaton Abbey Street and Hinckley.
Do you think it should be included as an entry on the Wikipedia Template : Birmingham to Peterborough Line or any other Wikipedia line templates where Nuneaton Abbey Street and Hinckley are shown?
Xenophon Philosopher ( talk) 14:09, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
Do I find myself caught between an ongoing dispute between Tony May and your good self? I was unaware of any such dispute until I read your response above. I have always been grateful to you for the kind manner in which your have responded to my enquiries in past years, so this is why I made the original response to you. Therefore, can you act as an intermediary on my behalf and ask a fellow member if they can assist in my enquiry.
Xenophon Philosopher ( talk) 04:27, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
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If you look at this very short Wikipedia article on Nuneaton Bridge station, all it gives information about location is the box at the foot stating it lies between the two stations that I have stated above, so it will either be before or after the currently open Nuneaton station. When people write a new Wikipedia article on a station, it would help if information regarding its location could be incorporated. So all I have to go on is this and I do not know the exact location, as this very question was asked of me by someone else who also noted the Wikipedia article on Nuneaton Bridge station. Perhaps you may know someone on Wikipedia well versed in the knowledge of the railway area of Nuneaton who could provide it. However, thank you for responding so quickly.
Xenophon Philosopher ( talk) 08:20, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
Is there an accessibility issue in using № that requires the use of No.? Mjroots ( talk) 06:25, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
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The Special Barnstar |
For your excellent work at WP:ANRFC and the patience you exhibit when dealing with other editors there. It is most appreciated!! – MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 13:35, 9 March 2019 (UTC) |
Re your edit here... Thank you for letting me know about that (other) Legobot bug. I was not aware that including div tags in the opening statement would mess up Legobot's handling of entries in the RfC topic discussion pages. I carefully reviewed WP:RFC and Template:Rfc/doc prior to making my edit, but there were no warnings there about using div tags. (Note: I just edited each of those pages to add such a warning.) My intention is to extend the discussion another thirty days per Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment#Length, which says to add a new timestamp between the rfc tag and the original signature. There is no guideline provided as to how to do that -- I thought that placing a short comment about the extension, right justified immediately after the the template message would be appropriate. Sparkie82 ( t• c) 16:03, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
{{
rfc}}
tag is copied to the RfC listings, up to and including the next timestamp. This means that if you have an opening HTML tag in that interval, but the matching closing HTML tag is after the timestamp, only one of the pair will be copied to the RfC listings. It doesn't matter if it is div, small or anything else - imbalanced HTML is an error. So if there is an opening <div>
between the {{
rfc}}
and the timestamp, there must also be a closing </div>
between that <div>
and the timestamp in order to balance it. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
18:40, 9 March 2019 (UTC)Hi
Should have checked my Ian Allan "combine" one car appears to be from a 108 and one from a 111 according to the number series, unfortunately (for me) the 108 is the leading vehicle. Cheers Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 09:22, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
Could you help with some dabs on Template:Abellio Greater Anglia RDT? I think Bampton should be Brampton railway station (Suffolk) but I'm unsure about how to handle Newmarket railway station. Alresford railway station, Hythe railway station and Hockley railway station are also dabs. Any help appreciated (so I don't break the templates).— Rod talk 09:02, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
{{
routemap}}
by
Useddenim (
talk ·
contribs), which means that it is no longer maintainable by me (see
this recent TfD); if I touch it, I'll probably break it too. If Useddenim has introduced incorrect links, we have two options: (i) revert their last edit, putting it back to the easily-maintained {{
BS-map}}
form; or (ii) tell Useddenim that they are responsible for fixing it. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
09:55, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
The {{ Longueau-Boulogne RDT}} isn't displaying correctly on the Longueau-Boulogne railway article. The top continuation arrow is in the wrong column, but it's correct on the diagram. On the article, with the diagram displayed, there appears to be a stray - . Can't work out what is wrong, would you take a look please? Mjroots ( talk) 10:11, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
{{
routemap}}
by guess who. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
23:00, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
On self-promoting your own images in Wikipedia, especially if better images are available? Tony May ( talk) 00:21, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
I have been given three copies, from 1982, 83 and 84. Would you like them? It's you or the recycling bin. Philafrenzy ( talk) 10:07, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
Not yet Gareth but I will be looking for it. Thanks for the heads up. MarnetteD| Talk 17:09, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
He's constantly tampering with articles and deliberately changing photographs to try and bring me down. He needs sorting out ASAP, he's just pulled this trick on a number of pages for carnforth based engines including the one for Galatea. LMS_Jubilee_Class_5699_Galatea — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moylesy98 ( talk • contribs) 21:06, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
Yes sorry about the blanking. I appreciate my error just forgot how to move the page. Hope it can be fixed overall. Does the logo need to be added on the city line page? Babydoll9799 ( talk) 00:08, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
Well, I suppose so. There is also no harm in setting the comma inside the link. I was trained many, many years ago to set the following punctuation mark in the same style as the preceding word. Do you have some special reason to change it? ''Paul, in Saudi'' ( talk) 04:01, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi RedRose64
I couldn't help but notice you seem to keep challenging me on the former South Staffordshire Line from Walsall to Lichfield City and other pages. I provided evidence but you keep refusing to except it. I'm not happy with some of the replies you gave me. I had no problems with you but you do with me.
Sorry you feel that way
JoshIsTheFalco JoshuaIsTheFalco ( talk) 18:32, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
There's some good railway porn in the maps here that should excite you. Philafrenzy ( talk) 21:16, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
I believe you once helped me—I think at
WP:VPT back in 2016—with something related to time formatting and it involved doing something in my vector.js or something somewhere in one of my settings pages. Currently, signatures are displaying like this: Today, 9:32 am (UTC−7)
, March 9, 2019, 2:21 pm (UTC−8)
. In terms of what's actually displayed once an edit is saved, is it possible to just have Today, 9:32 AM
, March 9, 2019, 2:21 PM
? (Capital AM or PM and no UTC -X, as I know what time zone the times are in.) The current display is already a little bit customized from you helping me before and can probably just be customized further. Thanks in advance.
Amaury (
talk |
contribs)
22:13, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
March 9, 2019, 2:21 pm (UTC−8). Without that code in there, they display like so:
2:21 pm, 9 March 2019, Saturday (12 days ago) (UTC−8). Is there anything I can add to that code so signatures display as
March 9, 2019, 2:21 PM? Capital AM/PM and no (UTC-X). Amaury ( talk | contribs) 02:34, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
FYI the reason I had changed my original post was that another editor (Quon) edited my original questions beyond what they were. I am going to return them to the original state. ThatMontrealIP ( talk) 14:45, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello, Redrose64! I'm just letting you know that I responded to your points at Talk:Motion_picture_content_rating_system#RfC: Should we install a color scheme with 9 colors in the comparison table?. If you're still interested in helping out, please let me know and we can organize something. Zenkaino lovelive ( talk) 04:43, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi....if you have chance to look at this....how do I calculate today's equivalent in money? ie £21 thousand in 1935 is what in 2019? Whispyhistory ( talk) 18:45, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
{{
inflation}}
(first box, including the phrase "For inflating capital expenses, government expenses, or the personal wealth and expenditure of the rich") and compare this:
{{formatnum:...}}
if you use the |fmt=c
parameter:
Hi. About
Special:Diff/890084385 - I marked it as "done" because the 1 remaining sub-proposal is separate, and isn't anywhere near ready for closure, so I didn't think it needed to stay listed. Would it be okay to set done=yes and replace "partially done" with {{
done|partially done}}
? --
DannyS712 (
talk)
23:45, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
|done=yes
but by template. Near the top of the page you will find this line: |archivenow=<!-- <nowiki>{{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}},{{resolved,{{Resolved,{{done,{{Done,{{DONE,{{already done,{{Already done,{{not done,{{Not done,{{close,{{Close,{{nd,{{xXxX</nowiki> -->
{{
done|partially done}}
will trigger archiving. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
00:46, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
{{
initiated}}
as |done=yes
in the same edit. If none of those templates is used, leave off the |done=yes
. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
08:02, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi, RR - I was wondering if there is/could be a search function implemented in user contributions to allow keyword searches so we can more easily locate a specific edit we made weeks or years ago? For example, I remember working on Abinta Kabir Foundation which is now deleted but I don't remember when I worked on it and only vaguely recall tagging it for deletion. In article edit history, we can isolate a specific user's edits but not if the page is deleted, and that's where a keyword search in our user contribs would come in handy, or perhaps there's already a way available to us now and I'm not aware of it? The date range feature only works if you remember the dates. Atsme Talk 📧 11:41, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
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My edit to the documentation was based on Sandbox experiments and direct observation. Editing a section with a visible anchor in it produces a blank auto-filled edit summary, not a "broken" summary. There is no "gray" text in the summary, and there has never been "blue" text in the summary: The text in the "Edit summary" box is and always has been black. If you're talking about the article's history page, section information in summaries has always appeared in light gray text, regardless of whether the "Edit summary" box is auto-filled or manually filled. The auto-filled content of the box is optional in any case, and editors often replace it in toto before saving their changes. Moreover, Wikipedia is not generating HTML5. It appears to be an illegal mix of mostly XHTML and some HTML 4.0 Transitional, as is evident by a simple visual inspection of the source code of any page. If a Wikipedia page is submitted to the W3C Validator, it results in copious errors, since the content of the source does not match the DOCTYPE. Now that I've made you aware of this, how are you going to correct the misinformation on the Visible anchor/doc page? — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum) T @ 19:20, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
<!doctype html>
is an HTML 5 document. It may not be valid, but that is what it is. The majority of "invalid" HTML output on Wikipedia is a result of editors using obsolete elements and attributes or incorrect positioning of elements according to the HTML 5 layout rules (see also
WP:Linter) rather than being due to the software itself (many documented exceptions exist as tasks to be worked in
WP:Phabricator). Validation tools are not the be-all end-all, and the original author of that particular tool has since sworn off that tool somewhat. --
Izno (
talk)
20:55, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
Oshawott 12 ==()==
Talk to me! is wishing you
Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's
Solstice or
Christmas,
Diwali,
Hogmanay,
Hanukkah,
Lenaia,
Festivus or even the
Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!
Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{ subst: User:WereSpielChequers/Dec18a}}~~~~ to your friends' talk pages.
Oshawott 12 ==()== Talk to me! 04:57, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
Hey there my lovely pal! Wishing you a merry christmas! I know it's early but mmmm make a good wish =D Enjoy your holiday! Vincent LUFan ( talk) ( Kenton!) 10:55, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
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Hello Redrose64, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this
seasonal occasion. Spread the
WikiLove by wishing another user a
Merry Christmas and a
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seasonal occasion. Spread the
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Wishing everybody a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! Adoration of the Shepherds (Cariani) is my Wiki-Christmas card to all for this year. Johnbod ( talk) 10:26, 23 December 2018 (UTC) |
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Hi Redrose64, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas |
Merry
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Spread the cheer by adding {{ subst:Happy holidays}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
Thank you for the answer about {{div col|colwidth=20em}}. Works great! RJFJR ( talk) 15:35, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
Is it possible to add Mexborough (Ferry Boat) Halt to this template,but I am unsure if it situated before or after Mexborough Junction in the river area shown on the template, from what information that I have gleaned from a reading of the Wikipedia article.
Xenophon Philosopher ( talk) 10:40, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
Redrose64,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Rubbish computer (
Talk:
Contribs)
02:51, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
Send New Year cheer by adding {{ subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.
Some celestial fireworks to herald another year of progress for mankind and Wikipedia. All the very best , Redrose,
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (
talk)
02:21, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
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... gan yr hen Gymro; rwy'n gobeithio eich bod wedi cael gwyliau Nadolig gwych ac rwy'n dymuno 2019 heddychlon i chi! That is Welsh and translates to: Spicy hot wine for you from the old Welshman; I hope you have had a great Christmas holiday and I wish you a peaceful 2019! Thank you for your excellent work on the 'pedia. Sincerely, Gareth Griffith-Jones ( contribs) ( talk) 12:54, 1 January 2019 (UTC) |
Hello Redrose64, thank you for your recent efforts to improve Wikipedia. [1] While the rhetorical question you asked in the edit summary doesn't exactly invite a reply, I wouldn't be true to myself, after seeing it, If I didn't stand tall in your presence to proudly acknowledge the same, and ask you directly if there was anything about that edit that you wanted to discuss? I am willing to account for my actions to any needed degree, and as willing to directly move on; depending on whichever you think is best. I'm not, however, keen with pretending that I don't care when I most certainly do. With esteem, I remain.-- John Cline ( talk) 22:04, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
{{
tlc}}
and {{
tlxs}}
to simplify how markup is demonstrated, so there should not be a need to re-complicate it with the <code>...</code>
and <nowiki>...</nowiki>
tags. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
14:14, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
There is no page in existance for the highlighting of the word double chimney so what is the point of the link as it makes absolutely no sense unless your willing to create an article for it since you clearly claim to know more. XD Either remove the link or create a page for it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moylesy98 ( talk • contribs) 22:12, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
I'm aware that Llansadwrn is not in Ynys Mon, but despite its filename the audio just consists of someone saying "Llansadwrn", which ought to work both for Anglesey Llansadwrn and Carmarthenshire Llansadwrn. I realise there are differences in accent between North and South, but as these two places have the same name should the title of the audio file really be a barrier to including it in this article? Or am I missing something important here? Beorhtwulf ( talk) 22:36, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
How am I meant to know the RFC bot was going to add it all at a later date? .... I waited a good 2 minutes or so and It did nothing .... so I was therefore under the impression it wasn't going to actually to do anything otherwise I would've obviously waited, Damned If I do and damned if I don't. – Davey2010 Talk 00:40, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi there Redrose,
Hope you are well. I wanted to message you to ask why you reverted the Dundee railway station Wikipedia page and placed the former station picture on the infobox?
I don't know if you are from Dundee but there is a new station built and there was updated information I added and I also took a photograph which was then taken down due to copyright even though I captured it because I am a photographer from Dundee.
I appreciate your edits but I don't understand the need of removing the relevant content on the page when it was clearly up to date. KeyKing666 ( talk) 16:41, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi Redrose, My apologise I hadn't realised you were reverted otherwise I would've reverted them, I had only just woken up and usually when I've just woken up I never pay any attention to edit summaries but anyway sorry about that, Thanks, – Davey2010 Talk 14:07, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
|date=
parameters of cleanup and maintenance templates for no good reason. For example, amending the date of a {{
use dmy dates}}
implies that they have actually been through the article (as you did) and made any necessary amendments in order to bring about consistency. But their edits to the |date=
params have not been accompanied by any such amendments. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
14:24, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
Please look at this edit and the one that follows it; to help me understand the problems. Thank you.-- John Cline ( talk) 12:24, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
[[Template:Ambox]]
or put the {{
tlc|Ambox}}
on a separate line after the heading. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
22:54, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at
Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. --
Cards84664
(talk)
18:55, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
{{
subst:ANI-notice}}
allows the section name to be specified in its |thread=
parameter, without requiring guesswork. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
19:10, 30 January 2019 (UTC)
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Six years! |
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 09:58, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
Whoops. I thought I cut the bottom and moved it up. -- Tyw7 ( 🗣️ Talk) — If (reply) then ( ping me) 18:57, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
Rhadow created the Sonasan railway station article, then nominated it for deletion seven minutes later. It was tagged as G7. I deleted it as G7/ WP:POINT. Rhadow has recreated it again, and it has been tagged again. This is part of the notability of stations discussion at WT:TWP, which you are probably aware of. As I see it, an essay cannot trump policy, which is why station articles need to demonstrate that GNG is met. Would it be in order for me to delete the article and salt it, as has been suggested to me, or am I now WP:INVOLVED? Mjroots ( talk) 13:46, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello R. Sorry about the error. I hope that you are well. When you have the time would you take a look at our old friend Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates. One of the items is fully protected so I can't fix it and I'm not sure about about the talk pages. I haven't been monitoring the cat as much as in the past and have forgotten some of the pointers you've given me over the years. My apologies. Best regards. MarnetteD| Talk 15:48, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
{{Transclude list item excerpts as random slideshow | paragraphs=1-2 | files=1 | more=
| Template:{{PAGENAME}} topics
|
}}
<noinclude>...</noinclude>
technique if I could work out which article it is. These are the articles that are transcluded:@
MarnetteD and
HJ Mitchell: The excerpt slideshow templates have |random=no
and |limit=
parameters, which can be used for diagnostics. Playing around with these in preview mode, I found the problem was in article #11,
La Trinitaria (Dominican Republic), which had the protection template within heading markup from this edit
[2]. This meant that the excerpt functionality (from
Module:Excerpt) got confused, and didn't remove the protection template like it usually would. Fixing the article, and then null-editing the portal, has removed the portal from the category. -
Evad37 [
talk
23:34, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi Redrose. Lots of folks announce themselves as summoned by bot. I agree that it is usually not relevant, but sometimes it is, so I do it by habit. I'm sure you mean the best, if you think it's not a good thing, feel free to talk to me about it -- I've never heard another side to it -- rather than edit my comments for me. Cheers. Chris vLS ( talk) 05:07, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello Redrose64, I received your message about using templates recognized by CluebotIII at wp:an/c, and understand. I actually knew of this already and would have meant to append things correctly; that I did not is one of those inexplicable things that happen, at times, in spite of our best intent. I'll redouble my efforts to ensure future compliance.
Aside that, I noticed the substitution of {{ Happy New Year fireworks}}, further up the page, and observed that it breaks when text is enlarged (in mitigation of visual impairments). I view pages at %170 of the default size; in that situation, its output is thoroughly corrupted. I worked up a tentative fix but would like to see how you would modify the coding (for instructive comparison). If you have the motivation, and time, I'd love to see what changes your experience would bring. Thank you.-- John Cline ( talk) 18:01, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
{{
User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}}
,{{
resolved}}
,{{
Resolved}}
,{{
done}}
,{{
Done}}
,{{
DONE}}
,{{
already done}}
,{{
Already done}}
,{{
not done}}
,{{
Not done}}
,{{
close}}
,{{
Close}}
,{{
nd}}
- if ClueBot III finds any one or more of those in a thread, it archives the thread; it's case-sensitive, and doesn't follow redirects, hence all the variations.<div>
tag. Instead, it seems that we have another kind of sloppiness - making assumptions about the characteristics of another user's setup (device, monitor, browser etc.). The box with a round-cornered border has been drawn to the same height as the images inside it, without allowing for the fact that the text that is also inside the box may be too much to fit in. Consequently, at high zooms and on narrow screens, some of it spills out.
This edit should fix it for that one specific instance. Since it's a
substituted template, a similar fix to the template itself may be done, but will only affect future uses - it won't fix the hundreds (if not thousands) of times that the template has been used in the past. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
11:40, 5 February 2019 (UTC)Thank you for your instruction. Forgive me, but I don't understand 'pipe' and 'redirect'. Could you enlighten me? Valetude ( talk) 20:53, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
[[British Rail|British Railways]]
which produces
British Railways, see
Help:Link#Piped link. But that can be cumbersome, and a means for simplifying links exists, the redirect: basically, a redirect is a way of giving a page another name - if you link to that other name, and click the link, you are taken directly to the "real" page. This allows us to write [[British Railways]]
which produces
British Railways, see
Help:Redirect. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
21:26, 5 February 2019 (UTC)Hello again R. I hope you enjoyed the first round of the Six Nations. Template:Wikipedia's sister projects/sandbox ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has popped in the category. My fix of a few days ago caused problems so I am hoping that you can figure things out. Cheers. MarnetteD| Talk 03:30, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
{{
pp}}
template, which is completely superfluous because the {{
documentation}}
automatically displays any prot icon that may be appropriate. It seems to have been added to the main template with
this edit by
Ks0stm (
talk ·
contribs) and later copied to the sandbox. I've removed it from both. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
20:53, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
Is there a way of changing the way that a category's name displays on a page, whilst still linking to the actual category? Similar to how a piped link works. Mjroots ( talk) 18:33, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
[[:Category:Pinnipeds]]
[[:Category:Pinnipeds|]]
|display as=
so that a category's display can be changed if desired.
Mjroots (
talk)
21:35, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
Suzannah Lipscomb I wonder why you changed the order of the subject's last book listed under Bibliography. The book I refer to is Witchcraft, it is ordered differently to the previous books, and as she has a new book coming out on 14th February it would be useful to understand why, and also why, if you changed the order of this book, you didn't do the same with her previous books?
Thank you.
Fitzwimarc ( talk) 22:32, 8 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello Redrose64,
I see that you revert my User Talk page edits with the unauthorized survey comment. Therefore, I wondered whom's authorization I would need to ask users to participate in my survey. I already asked the admin noticeboard as well as the help desk if my approach would be ok.
For my posts on the user pages I oriented myself at the sample text provided by Wikipedia.
Kind regards,
Robert Wintermeyer-- Rwinterm ( talk) 16:41, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
For this brilliant suggestion. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 09:07, 18 February 2019 (UTC) |
You removed my comment on the notability talk page "I have proposed CYM Group for deletion but I am hoping for some input in the discussion as to whether achieving a Guinness World Record and some press attention is sufficient to give notability to this otherwise non-notable student club. Alternatively, the article could be redirected or merged." I wanted to establish what the consensus was about this. Did I put the query in the wrong place? Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 15:16, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
User:Pldx1. Maybe, but I am not that sure ! Pldx1 ( talk) 17:21, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
I think you know something about it, or at least know where to ask.
It's all about cascading ref and efn.
I don't know anything about these. I don't know even the different between #tag and {{ tag}}.
There are a couple of problems I've come across. Can you help me:
Help! Talk about confusing ( talk) 03:23, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
<nowiki>...</nowiki>
it's difficult to work out which are code examples and which are demonstrations of a problem. I get the impression that you are trying to nest two or three templates, and having difficulty. Normally a {{
sfn}}
may be placed within a {{
efn}}
without difficulty, but neither of these may be placed inside <ref>...</ref>
tags.|refs=
parameter inside either {{
notelist}}
or {{
reflist}}
, this is
WP:LDR, and it is known that problems occur if you try to nest a {{
sfn}}
or <ref>...</ref>
inside an {{
efn}}
which is itself within a LDR structure. There have been discussion threads on this, in the last two or three years, and it wasn't satisfactorily resolved in a manner that allowed full use of LDR. Just use plain {{
notelist}}
and {{
reflist}}
without parameters, and put all the {{
efn}}
in the main part of the article, and similarly the {{
sfn}}
or <ref>...</ref>
. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
12:06, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
hi...I created this Joseph H. Kler by moving it from my sandbox....but an old talk page is attached. I'm not sure how to fix it. Are you or @ Philafrenzy: able to help please. Whispyhistory ( talk) 14:12, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
Can you tweak the {{ Réseau Albert RDT}} so that it is normally collapsed please? Also, the Réseau Albert article needs reassessment, if you would be so kind. Mjroots ( talk) 16:30, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
|collapse=no
is provided. The article is certainly better than Start-class, but I don't have time for a
WP:BCLASS assessment, so I've given it C-class. The MILHIST banner has busted this back down to Start because
WP:MHA#CRIT says that for C-class, "the article meets B1 or B2 as well as B3 and B4 and B5 of the
B-Class criteria" and I didn't fill in the checklist. In other words, a MILHIST C-class is the same as everybody else's B-class except that either B1 or B2 is not met, and they don't care about B6. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
17:29, 24 February 2019 (UTC)Re your edit [3], I thought that when a new topic area was added to an RfC tag after the bot had already initially processed the tag, that I needed to place a comment/timestamp before the initial timestamp in opening RfC statement in order to get the bot to process the newly added topic area. Is this not correct? Will Legobot see the change anyway even without a new timestamp? Sparkie82 ( t• c) 05:21, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
|bio
- to an {{
rfc}}
tag that has at least one category already, Legobot will add the RfC to the appropriate listing page - in this case
WP:RFC/BIO - on its next run{{
rfc}}
tag and the first timestamp, or alter that timestamp, Legobot will amend the RfC listing pages will be amended to match on its next run{{
rfc}}
tag, it's not normally necessary to do anything else. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
17:48, 25 February 2019 (UTC)Hi there. Sorry to bother you but if you had a moment could you please have a look / keep a bit of an eye on this editor? They are only editing train articles but with some apparently bizarre/random effects – everything they've done so far has been reverted by me or others. It's not obvious vandalism but it's not really working out either. I don't want to be bitey at them and I don't know enough about trains to know if there is some sense in what they are doing like, I don't know, class numbers that are used in different ways or something. But you might know that stuff! So a quick look would be much appreciated. With thanks and best wishes DBaK ( talk) 22:57, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi...What was the name of that railway station that was never built...in Kent? Would it be in the book by Raymond Butt? Would the book have anything on Victoria station and platform 17? I notice that the article on Victoria station doesn't mention anything about it. Whispyhistory ( talk) 05:48, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
Thank you for the tip. I don’t fully understand, but at least I know my computer is not malfunctioning. 2A02:C7D:275:4800:1418:BF8B:291E:82CE ( talk) 21:54, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
Few things:
|done=yes
exactly? When the RfC peters out? I thought it was just for when I use {{
Done}}. (I have no intention of completing
the request)Please ping response. Thank you! ― Matthew J. Long -Talk- ☖ 23:50, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
{{
initiated}}
template displays its message in colour (blue, green or boldfaced red according to the supplied date and the |type=
parameter) in order to draw the attention of humans to those threads that still require attention; such instances of the template will also put the page into
Category:Administrative backlog. When no further action is required on this request, we add |done=yes
as a signal to the {{
initiated}}
template that it should display using normal-weight black instead of a colour; it also prevents that instance of the template from putting the page into
Category:Administrative backlog (of course, there is a high probability that other threads are still unfinished, so the page will still end up in
Category:Administrative backlog - but because of other {{
initiated}}
, not because of the one in this thread). Basically, it's used not just when {{
Done}}
is added, but whenever you add any of the templates that will be detected by
ClueBot III (
talk ·
contribs). These templates are listed (in abbreviated form) in the |archivenow=
parameter of the {{
User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis}}
in the first section of the page (please note, the list is case-sensitive, which is why both {{done
and {{Done
are present). Since {{
Already done}}
and {{
Not done}}
are both in that list, use of those templates means that the thread is to be archived on the next ClueBot III run; and so {{
Not done}}
means "this is not going to be done by anybody, so we are rejecting this request".{{
Not done}}
or {{
subst:Not done}}
, it's a signal to everybody that the request is not going to be actioned and can therefore be moved to the archive. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
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14:58, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
Hey. I saw this edit you made, where you marked that an rfc had been closed. If you look at the previous edit to the page, you see that Matt did not in fact close the discussion, but nor did they say it shouldn't be closed; rather, they said it should be closed by someone else, meaning that it was not yet done. I would just undo your edit and leave an explanation, but the thread has since been archived, and I know that ClueBot III does some fancy stuff when it archives, so I don't know what to do - the RfC still needs to be closed. Thanks, -- DannyS712 ( talk) 00:15, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
|done=yes
because
MattLongCT (
talk ·
contribs) had used {{
Not done}}
. ClueBot III picks up on the {{
Not done}}
- it would have been archived even if I hadn't added |done=yes
. See thread immediately above. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
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00:27, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
{{
Not done}}
so that ClueBot III won't re-archive it again. Its indexes are probably all screwed up now, I have no idea how to fix them. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
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00:45, 21 February 2019 (UTC)Hello R. A new problem has cropped up in the Category:Wikipedia pages with incorrect protection templates causing all sorts of user pages to show up there. I think it has something to with a signpost page somewhere but the only one I can find with a recent protection is this one. As ever your help in finding what is going on will be appreciated. MarnetteD| Talk 02:35, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
{{
pp-semi}}
that was
added by
Kingerikthesecond (
talk ·
contribs) to a page that has been protected for a long time (since 10:02, 24 April 2010). The page is transcluded, so <noinclude>...</noinclude>
is mandatory;
this will fix it. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
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09:40, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
{{
pp-protected}}
when they should have used either {{
R protected}}
or wrapped the existing {{
R to project}}
in a {{
R cat shell}}
. That MfD page is no longer in the category, it wasn't there when I visited it half an hour ago. It's all clear now. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
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20:35, 4 March 2019 (UTC)Fair enough, but should it then be removed from Article Wizard as well? That's where I copy/pasted the text from. Primefac ( talk) 20:26, 4 March 2019 (UTC) (please ping on reply)
IF you rename/move the LNWR Chopper Tank Class class to whereever you want I'll blank the original (As I'm permitted to as original editor) and sort out what links where. (The Irish locomotives where converted from 2-4-0Ts not 2-4-2Ts which was my core focus. Thanks. Djm-leighpark ( talk) 22:29, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
It may serve you well if you were a little bit more caring about important things (particularly removing WP:DRIVEBY tagging, inappropriate photographs) and rather less pedantic about unimportant things such as calling engines "she". Tony May ( talk) 01:33, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
They were also classified as Class G3 under the former LNWR system.The edit summary "It is in the sources." does not satisfy the policy on verifiability (which is a core content policy) - you need to state exactly which sources. If the claim had also been made elsewhere in the article with a source, it would have been a different matter.
There is a very short Wikipedia article on this station, to which you were the last person who made an edit upon, so I send my query to you. The station is shown as being in working timetables, being opened on 1 March 1866 and closed on 1 October 1887. Its situation is said to be between the two stations of Nuneaton Abbey Street and Hinckley.
Do you think it should be included as an entry on the Wikipedia Template : Birmingham to Peterborough Line or any other Wikipedia line templates where Nuneaton Abbey Street and Hinckley are shown?
Xenophon Philosopher ( talk) 14:09, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
Do I find myself caught between an ongoing dispute between Tony May and your good self? I was unaware of any such dispute until I read your response above. I have always been grateful to you for the kind manner in which your have responded to my enquiries in past years, so this is why I made the original response to you. Therefore, can you act as an intermediary on my behalf and ask a fellow member if they can assist in my enquiry.
Xenophon Philosopher ( talk) 04:27, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
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If you look at this very short Wikipedia article on Nuneaton Bridge station, all it gives information about location is the box at the foot stating it lies between the two stations that I have stated above, so it will either be before or after the currently open Nuneaton station. When people write a new Wikipedia article on a station, it would help if information regarding its location could be incorporated. So all I have to go on is this and I do not know the exact location, as this very question was asked of me by someone else who also noted the Wikipedia article on Nuneaton Bridge station. Perhaps you may know someone on Wikipedia well versed in the knowledge of the railway area of Nuneaton who could provide it. However, thank you for responding so quickly.
Xenophon Philosopher ( talk) 08:20, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
Is there an accessibility issue in using № that requires the use of No.? Mjroots ( talk) 06:25, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
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The Special Barnstar |
For your excellent work at WP:ANRFC and the patience you exhibit when dealing with other editors there. It is most appreciated!! – MJL ‐Talk‐ ☖ 13:35, 9 March 2019 (UTC) |
Re your edit here... Thank you for letting me know about that (other) Legobot bug. I was not aware that including div tags in the opening statement would mess up Legobot's handling of entries in the RfC topic discussion pages. I carefully reviewed WP:RFC and Template:Rfc/doc prior to making my edit, but there were no warnings there about using div tags. (Note: I just edited each of those pages to add such a warning.) My intention is to extend the discussion another thirty days per Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment#Length, which says to add a new timestamp between the rfc tag and the original signature. There is no guideline provided as to how to do that -- I thought that placing a short comment about the extension, right justified immediately after the the template message would be appropriate. Sparkie82 ( t• c) 16:03, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
{{
rfc}}
tag is copied to the RfC listings, up to and including the next timestamp. This means that if you have an opening HTML tag in that interval, but the matching closing HTML tag is after the timestamp, only one of the pair will be copied to the RfC listings. It doesn't matter if it is div, small or anything else - imbalanced HTML is an error. So if there is an opening <div>
between the {{
rfc}}
and the timestamp, there must also be a closing </div>
between that <div>
and the timestamp in order to balance it. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
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18:40, 9 March 2019 (UTC)Hi
Should have checked my Ian Allan "combine" one car appears to be from a 108 and one from a 111 according to the number series, unfortunately (for me) the 108 is the leading vehicle. Cheers Murgatroyd49 ( talk) 09:22, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
Could you help with some dabs on Template:Abellio Greater Anglia RDT? I think Bampton should be Brampton railway station (Suffolk) but I'm unsure about how to handle Newmarket railway station. Alresford railway station, Hythe railway station and Hockley railway station are also dabs. Any help appreciated (so I don't break the templates).— Rod talk 09:02, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
{{
routemap}}
by
Useddenim (
talk ·
contribs), which means that it is no longer maintainable by me (see
this recent TfD); if I touch it, I'll probably break it too. If Useddenim has introduced incorrect links, we have two options: (i) revert their last edit, putting it back to the easily-maintained {{
BS-map}}
form; or (ii) tell Useddenim that they are responsible for fixing it. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
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09:55, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
The {{ Longueau-Boulogne RDT}} isn't displaying correctly on the Longueau-Boulogne railway article. The top continuation arrow is in the wrong column, but it's correct on the diagram. On the article, with the diagram displayed, there appears to be a stray - . Can't work out what is wrong, would you take a look please? Mjroots ( talk) 10:11, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
{{
routemap}}
by guess who. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
23:00, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
On self-promoting your own images in Wikipedia, especially if better images are available? Tony May ( talk) 00:21, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
I have been given three copies, from 1982, 83 and 84. Would you like them? It's you or the recycling bin. Philafrenzy ( talk) 10:07, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
Not yet Gareth but I will be looking for it. Thanks for the heads up. MarnetteD| Talk 17:09, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
He's constantly tampering with articles and deliberately changing photographs to try and bring me down. He needs sorting out ASAP, he's just pulled this trick on a number of pages for carnforth based engines including the one for Galatea. LMS_Jubilee_Class_5699_Galatea — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moylesy98 ( talk • contribs) 21:06, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
Yes sorry about the blanking. I appreciate my error just forgot how to move the page. Hope it can be fixed overall. Does the logo need to be added on the city line page? Babydoll9799 ( talk) 00:08, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
Well, I suppose so. There is also no harm in setting the comma inside the link. I was trained many, many years ago to set the following punctuation mark in the same style as the preceding word. Do you have some special reason to change it? ''Paul, in Saudi'' ( talk) 04:01, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi RedRose64
I couldn't help but notice you seem to keep challenging me on the former South Staffordshire Line from Walsall to Lichfield City and other pages. I provided evidence but you keep refusing to except it. I'm not happy with some of the replies you gave me. I had no problems with you but you do with me.
Sorry you feel that way
JoshIsTheFalco JoshuaIsTheFalco ( talk) 18:32, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
There's some good railway porn in the maps here that should excite you. Philafrenzy ( talk) 21:16, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
I believe you once helped me—I think at
WP:VPT back in 2016—with something related to time formatting and it involved doing something in my vector.js or something somewhere in one of my settings pages. Currently, signatures are displaying like this: Today, 9:32 am (UTC−7)
, March 9, 2019, 2:21 pm (UTC−8)
. In terms of what's actually displayed once an edit is saved, is it possible to just have Today, 9:32 AM
, March 9, 2019, 2:21 PM
? (Capital AM or PM and no UTC -X, as I know what time zone the times are in.) The current display is already a little bit customized from you helping me before and can probably just be customized further. Thanks in advance.
Amaury (
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contribs)
22:13, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
March 9, 2019, 2:21 pm (UTC−8). Without that code in there, they display like so:
2:21 pm, 9 March 2019, Saturday (12 days ago) (UTC−8). Is there anything I can add to that code so signatures display as
March 9, 2019, 2:21 PM? Capital AM/PM and no (UTC-X). Amaury ( talk | contribs) 02:34, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
FYI the reason I had changed my original post was that another editor (Quon) edited my original questions beyond what they were. I am going to return them to the original state. ThatMontrealIP ( talk) 14:45, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello, Redrose64! I'm just letting you know that I responded to your points at Talk:Motion_picture_content_rating_system#RfC: Should we install a color scheme with 9 colors in the comparison table?. If you're still interested in helping out, please let me know and we can organize something. Zenkaino lovelive ( talk) 04:43, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi....if you have chance to look at this....how do I calculate today's equivalent in money? ie £21 thousand in 1935 is what in 2019? Whispyhistory ( talk) 18:45, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
{{
inflation}}
(first box, including the phrase "For inflating capital expenses, government expenses, or the personal wealth and expenditure of the rich") and compare this:
{{formatnum:...}}
if you use the |fmt=c
parameter:
Hi. About
Special:Diff/890084385 - I marked it as "done" because the 1 remaining sub-proposal is separate, and isn't anywhere near ready for closure, so I didn't think it needed to stay listed. Would it be okay to set done=yes and replace "partially done" with {{
done|partially done}}
? --
DannyS712 (
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23:45, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
|done=yes
but by template. Near the top of the page you will find this line: |archivenow=<!-- <nowiki>{{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveNow}},{{resolved,{{Resolved,{{done,{{Done,{{DONE,{{already done,{{Already done,{{not done,{{Not done,{{close,{{Close,{{nd,{{xXxX</nowiki> -->
{{
done|partially done}}
will trigger archiving. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
00:46, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
{{
initiated}}
as |done=yes
in the same edit. If none of those templates is used, leave off the |done=yes
. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk)
08:02, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi, RR - I was wondering if there is/could be a search function implemented in user contributions to allow keyword searches so we can more easily locate a specific edit we made weeks or years ago? For example, I remember working on Abinta Kabir Foundation which is now deleted but I don't remember when I worked on it and only vaguely recall tagging it for deletion. In article edit history, we can isolate a specific user's edits but not if the page is deleted, and that's where a keyword search in our user contribs would come in handy, or perhaps there's already a way available to us now and I'm not aware of it? The date range feature only works if you remember the dates. Atsme Talk 📧 11:41, 3 April 2019 (UTC)