That wasn't vandalism. I'm putting it back. Alarbus ( talk) 09:44, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Re: Another approach would be to assign FA status outside their process. – such behavior will not be tolerated. Consider yourself warned. Raul654 ( talk) 20:25, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
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torch | |
Thank you for holding up the torch for reformation, for elucidating love and study, for a free project that everybody can edit without petty restrictions, for peace, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:29, 17 February 2012 (UTC) |
All comments welcome at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ice_Hockey#Accessibility. Frietjes ( talk) 22:03, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Just a thought, but edit summaries like "will prevail here" are not helpful. I suggest you avoid taking a
battleground mentality. I think we can find a way to introduce better accessibility features while retaining existing visible styles. But this requires that you actually work with people. If you are not capable of doing that, then I suggest you back out now and let one of the other people Frietjes canvassed initiate an actual discussion.
Reso
lute 02:38, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Welcome to the first edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!
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Hi Alarbus, I know you're a pretty busy guy, but if you get a chance, could you take a look at the templates on Ahalya? I'm doing a copyedit on it right now for someone, it's probably going to be nominated for FAC soonish. Thanks, Mark Arsten ( talk) 21:26, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar | |
Thanks for fixing Kosovo-note. All best! WhiteWriter speaks 11:04, 12 March 2012 (UTC) |
I'm having trouble getting reference 16 (Olson et al) to work on Sinking of the RMS Titanic. Could you please help? Prioryman ( talk) 22:19, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Alarbus, I took a stab at fixing the Endnotes on George Went Hensley, did I do ok? Mark Arsten ( talk) 04:35, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the fix. I had not encountered that particular situation before. Finetooth ( talk) 03:21, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm really happy I happened to see your discussion about the sfn template. I've been looking for something like that. I wish I would have known about it when I did L'ange de Nisida, because I like that ability to click the notes and be taken to the corresponding source. It will be useful as I start working on Scotch whisky, especially since I'm naming references and there are multiple books by the same author. -- Laser brain (talk) 04:13, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
There are three templates on Hindu temples {{ Infobox Mandir}} (created 2006, primarily used infobox), {{ Infobox Hindu Temple}} (different layout, hardly used, 2007), {{ Infobox temple}} (based on Infobox Mandir, some parameters different, used in some articles, 2011). How can I merge them without affecting functionality? -- Redtigerxyz Talk 06:07, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, I would like to thank you for your contributions to Cross of Gold speech, which has fairly recently achieved WP:FA status.
This user helped promote Cross of Gold speech to featured article status. |
-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 20:17, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for that. I see you did them.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 14:58, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
I saw your posts at Sfn talk about the false positives that my HarvErrors script produces. That's indeed annoying, and I should do something about it. I'm thinking of coding it so that it only puts errors on references that are inside a section named "References" or so (or realistically, within the first HTML node following the references header). The risk with that is that there are probably so many ways to declare a reference section out in the wild that the script is likely to miss some cases. What do you think? Ucucha ( talk) 19:21, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Alarbus, I just tried to convert all the ref and cref2 templates on Elias Abraham Rosenberg to sfn and efn, could you check my work? I'll probably nominate that at FAC later this week. Also, I just heeded your advice and installed the harverrors script. The first article I came to after that was A Free Ride, which had 8 "There is no link pointing to this citation" errors, how would I go about fixing them? Mark Arsten ( talk) 00:35, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
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In editing this
Template:Navbox, you substituted
list=
for
list1=.
This broke the template because parameter list requires a number after it.
Roseohioresident (
talk) 18:15, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
thanks. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 18:20, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Help me to understand something. At TT:Citation you advocate using {{ Harvid}} to encapsulate the string being being encoded in a citeref. Now I do understand the use of a procedure to encapsulate standardized processing of a datum (rather than writing such processing anew each time the daturm is processed). But I do not see how "|ref={{harvid|Smith|2001a}}" is better than "|ref=CITEREFSmith2001a". It could be argued it saves having to type "CITEREF", but overall that is no saving. I don't see that Harvid does (in this case) anything more than trivially concatenating the arguments. What is benefit? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 23:28, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
harvid|Smith|2001a}}
then you future-proof your work by allowing developments to use the parameters you pass in whatever way may be useful - emitting metadata, for example - without having to rewrite every article where the call is used. There's almost no downside to enabling developments in this way, whereas hard-coding will always suffer from having to be re-written when a new idea comes along. If editors get into the habit of working in this way, it becomes the norm, and we don't then have to second-guess the hypothetical probability of some worthwhile advancement and make a case for it every time. Surely there's sense in that? --
RexxS (
talk) 23:31, 25 March 2012 (UTC)I'm sure you have for more worthy things to be doing, but this one shouldn't take you too long! ;) Could you have a look at User:HJ Mitchell/Recognised, and see if you can get the top row (the admin icon, etc) to line up, preferably in both Monobook and Vector settings, but I'd settle for just Monobook. You could also check List of field marshals of the British Army for accessibility if you were feeling charitable, though Rexx promised over a whisky that he'd look at it at some point. Cheers, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:10, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
Why change from this format to your preferred style, isn't WP:Retain involved? FWiW, the MOS doesn't dictate style of using citations or bibliographies. Bzuk ( talk) 23:40, 26 March 2012 (UTC).
Hi,
can you enable e-mail? Or mail me?
Amalthea 07:24, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey, Alarbus. Just passed here to give a hello. I hope you're fine. I'm barely editing here since I don't have enough time. Please share the news, I like to hear them. P.S.: I hope Wehwalt is doing well too, I'm really away from everything. -- Lecen ( talk) 22:34, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Dave 1185. Rexx is correct; the user is not banned; he is restricted to using one account at present. The account was globally locked because the user himself publicly revealed the password. If you wish to learn more about this complex and lengthy case, here are a few handy links to get you started:
I am sure there is more, but this will get you started. -- Dianna ( talk) 02:11, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Good to know that he isn't out for good. I hope he'll return one day, although I'm sure that his "friends" will be waiting for the smallest mistake he may commit. Good times those when editors actually cared about articles, not each others... or power on a virtual website. How many have a sterile real life and only find true fulfillment here? Someone should create an article about it... -- Lecen ( talk) 15:01, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
He was despised -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:45, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for expressing your support for me in the Sanddunes Sunrise thread and/or participating in the Easter Egg Tree thread. Peace to everyone. PumpkinSky talk 00:50, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
nb: User talk:Wehwalt#Sanddunes Sunrise
We know that Alarbus is one of many inventive names of a creative contributor who has a long and difficult history with Wikipedia from the project's beginnings. He created Sanddunes Sunrise and voiced Wikipedia Reformation, showing Luther's words "amore e studio elucidandae", roughly translating to "love and eagerness to enlighten". We believe that he has it, and that the project would be better with him than against him. "Well, you have to start somewhere."
Ahalya says Thanks | |
Thanks for helping the article improve to FA standards by your reference cleanup ! Not only did you fix the article but also you taught me how to improve references in my future articles. Though you may kept away from Wikipedia editing, the effect of your constructive edits is impossible to erase. Cheers, Hope you can return some day... -- Redtigerxyz Talk 17:48, 17 April 2012 (UTC) |
Did you know that the above Precious was my 24th PumpkinSky Prize? Proclaiming you an awesome Wikipedian? Doing so for the first time to someone I didn't know for a long time - because your call for Reformation struck me immediately as immensely valuable? - I put "Letting go of the past" on top of my talk, still not giving up my hope for reformation in the future, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:31, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
If you decide to start editing again you might find User:Ucucha/HarvErrors interesting. -- PBS ( talk) 10:12, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
torch
Thank you for holding up the torch for reformation, for elucidating love and study, for a free project that everybody can edit without petty restrictions, for peace, - you are an
awesome Wikipedian!
-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:29, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Three years ago, you were the 24th recipient (but I counted wrong, more like 18a) of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, repeated in br'erly style ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:35, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Did you know that Max Reger composed "in new simplicity" Unser lieben Frauen Traum, about a dream of Mary of a tree growing in her? |
... and sometimes enjoyable to live -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:17, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
... eight years, and still remembered as the model for this award, and inspiring dreams -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:39, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your impact | |
---|---|
in lighting the torch! |
Your impact ... four years after the original warning not to lose a "little bit of our souls", repeated above, and at times heavy to carry, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:57, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. reformation remembered -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:56, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
That wasn't vandalism. I'm putting it back. Alarbus ( talk) 09:44, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
Re: Another approach would be to assign FA status outside their process. – such behavior will not be tolerated. Consider yourself warned. Raul654 ( talk) 20:25, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
Mistress Selina Kyle ( Α⇔Ω ¦ ⇒✉) has given you a cup of tea. Tea promotes WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day ever so slightly better.
Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a tea, especially if it is someone you have had disagreements with in the past or someone putting up with some stick at this time. Enjoy!
Spread the lovely, warm, refreshing goodness of tea by adding {{ subst:wikitea}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
Thank you for your thoughtful comments and patient work on so many articles. Wehwalt ( talk) 10:45, 6 February 2012 (UTC) |
torch | |
Thank you for holding up the torch for reformation, for elucidating love and study, for a free project that everybody can edit without petty restrictions, for peace, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:29, 17 February 2012 (UTC) |
All comments welcome at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ice_Hockey#Accessibility. Frietjes ( talk) 22:03, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
Just a thought, but edit summaries like "will prevail here" are not helpful. I suggest you avoid taking a
battleground mentality. I think we can find a way to introduce better accessibility features while retaining existing visible styles. But this requires that you actually work with people. If you are not capable of doing that, then I suggest you back out now and let one of the other people Frietjes canvassed initiate an actual discussion.
Reso
lute 02:38, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Welcome to the first edition of The Tea Leaf, the official newsletter of the Teahouse!
You are receiving The Tea Leaf after expressing interest or participating in the Teahouse! To remove yourself from receiving future newsletters, please remove your username here. Sarah ( talk) 15:57, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Alarbus, I know you're a pretty busy guy, but if you get a chance, could you take a look at the templates on Ahalya? I'm doing a copyedit on it right now for someone, it's probably going to be nominated for FAC soonish. Thanks, Mark Arsten ( talk) 21:26, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar | |
Thanks for fixing Kosovo-note. All best! WhiteWriter speaks 11:04, 12 March 2012 (UTC) |
I'm having trouble getting reference 16 (Olson et al) to work on Sinking of the RMS Titanic. Could you please help? Prioryman ( talk) 22:19, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Alarbus, I took a stab at fixing the Endnotes on George Went Hensley, did I do ok? Mark Arsten ( talk) 04:35, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the fix. I had not encountered that particular situation before. Finetooth ( talk) 03:21, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
I'm really happy I happened to see your discussion about the sfn template. I've been looking for something like that. I wish I would have known about it when I did L'ange de Nisida, because I like that ability to click the notes and be taken to the corresponding source. It will be useful as I start working on Scotch whisky, especially since I'm naming references and there are multiple books by the same author. -- Laser brain (talk) 04:13, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
There are three templates on Hindu temples {{ Infobox Mandir}} (created 2006, primarily used infobox), {{ Infobox Hindu Temple}} (different layout, hardly used, 2007), {{ Infobox temple}} (based on Infobox Mandir, some parameters different, used in some articles, 2011). How can I merge them without affecting functionality? -- Redtigerxyz Talk 06:07, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, I would like to thank you for your contributions to Cross of Gold speech, which has fairly recently achieved WP:FA status.
This user helped promote Cross of Gold speech to featured article status. |
-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 20:17, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for that. I see you did them.-- Wehwalt ( talk) 14:58, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
I saw your posts at Sfn talk about the false positives that my HarvErrors script produces. That's indeed annoying, and I should do something about it. I'm thinking of coding it so that it only puts errors on references that are inside a section named "References" or so (or realistically, within the first HTML node following the references header). The risk with that is that there are probably so many ways to declare a reference section out in the wild that the script is likely to miss some cases. What do you think? Ucucha ( talk) 19:21, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Alarbus, I just tried to convert all the ref and cref2 templates on Elias Abraham Rosenberg to sfn and efn, could you check my work? I'll probably nominate that at FAC later this week. Also, I just heeded your advice and installed the harverrors script. The first article I came to after that was A Free Ride, which had 8 "There is no link pointing to this citation" errors, how would I go about fixing them? Mark Arsten ( talk) 00:35, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedian, the hardworking hosts and staff at Wikipedia:Teahouse would like your feedback! We have created a brief survey meant to help us better understand the experience of new editors on Wikipedia. You are being selected to participate in our survey because you either received an invitation to visit the Teahouse, or edited the Teahouse Questions or Guests page.
Click here to be taken to the survey site.
The survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete. We really appreciate your feedback, and we look forward to your next vist to the Teahouse!
Happy editing,
J-Mo, Teahouse host, 15:08, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
Message sent with Global message delivery.
In editing this
Template:Navbox, you substituted
list=
for
list1=.
This broke the template because parameter list requires a number after it.
Roseohioresident (
talk) 18:15, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
thanks. -- Floquenbeam ( talk) 18:20, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
Help me to understand something. At TT:Citation you advocate using {{ Harvid}} to encapsulate the string being being encoded in a citeref. Now I do understand the use of a procedure to encapsulate standardized processing of a datum (rather than writing such processing anew each time the daturm is processed). But I do not see how "|ref={{harvid|Smith|2001a}}" is better than "|ref=CITEREFSmith2001a". It could be argued it saves having to type "CITEREF", but overall that is no saving. I don't see that Harvid does (in this case) anything more than trivially concatenating the arguments. What is benefit? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) ( talk) 23:28, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
{{
harvid|Smith|2001a}}
then you future-proof your work by allowing developments to use the parameters you pass in whatever way may be useful - emitting metadata, for example - without having to rewrite every article where the call is used. There's almost no downside to enabling developments in this way, whereas hard-coding will always suffer from having to be re-written when a new idea comes along. If editors get into the habit of working in this way, it becomes the norm, and we don't then have to second-guess the hypothetical probability of some worthwhile advancement and make a case for it every time. Surely there's sense in that? --
RexxS (
talk) 23:31, 25 March 2012 (UTC)I'm sure you have for more worthy things to be doing, but this one shouldn't take you too long! ;) Could you have a look at User:HJ Mitchell/Recognised, and see if you can get the top row (the admin icon, etc) to line up, preferably in both Monobook and Vector settings, but I'd settle for just Monobook. You could also check List of field marshals of the British Army for accessibility if you were feeling charitable, though Rexx promised over a whisky that he'd look at it at some point. Cheers, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:10, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
Why change from this format to your preferred style, isn't WP:Retain involved? FWiW, the MOS doesn't dictate style of using citations or bibliographies. Bzuk ( talk) 23:40, 26 March 2012 (UTC).
Hi,
can you enable e-mail? Or mail me?
Amalthea 07:24, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey, Alarbus. Just passed here to give a hello. I hope you're fine. I'm barely editing here since I don't have enough time. Please share the news, I like to hear them. P.S.: I hope Wehwalt is doing well too, I'm really away from everything. -- Lecen ( talk) 22:34, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Dave 1185. Rexx is correct; the user is not banned; he is restricted to using one account at present. The account was globally locked because the user himself publicly revealed the password. If you wish to learn more about this complex and lengthy case, here are a few handy links to get you started:
I am sure there is more, but this will get you started. -- Dianna ( talk) 02:11, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
Good to know that he isn't out for good. I hope he'll return one day, although I'm sure that his "friends" will be waiting for the smallest mistake he may commit. Good times those when editors actually cared about articles, not each others... or power on a virtual website. How many have a sterile real life and only find true fulfillment here? Someone should create an article about it... -- Lecen ( talk) 15:01, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
He was despised -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 22:45, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for expressing your support for me in the Sanddunes Sunrise thread and/or participating in the Easter Egg Tree thread. Peace to everyone. PumpkinSky talk 00:50, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
nb: User talk:Wehwalt#Sanddunes Sunrise
We know that Alarbus is one of many inventive names of a creative contributor who has a long and difficult history with Wikipedia from the project's beginnings. He created Sanddunes Sunrise and voiced Wikipedia Reformation, showing Luther's words "amore e studio elucidandae", roughly translating to "love and eagerness to enlighten". We believe that he has it, and that the project would be better with him than against him. "Well, you have to start somewhere."
Ahalya says Thanks | |
Thanks for helping the article improve to FA standards by your reference cleanup ! Not only did you fix the article but also you taught me how to improve references in my future articles. Though you may kept away from Wikipedia editing, the effect of your constructive edits is impossible to erase. Cheers, Hope you can return some day... -- Redtigerxyz Talk 17:48, 17 April 2012 (UTC) |
Did you know that the above Precious was my 24th PumpkinSky Prize? Proclaiming you an awesome Wikipedian? Doing so for the first time to someone I didn't know for a long time - because your call for Reformation struck me immediately as immensely valuable? - I put "Letting go of the past" on top of my talk, still not giving up my hope for reformation in the future, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:31, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
If you decide to start editing again you might find User:Ucucha/HarvErrors interesting. -- PBS ( talk) 10:12, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
torch
Thank you for holding up the torch for reformation, for elucidating love and study, for a free project that everybody can edit without petty restrictions, for peace, - you are an
awesome Wikipedian!
-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 16:29, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
Three years ago, you were the 24th recipient (but I counted wrong, more like 18a) of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, repeated in br'erly style ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 11:35, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Did you know that Max Reger composed "in new simplicity" Unser lieben Frauen Traum, about a dream of Mary of a tree growing in her? |
... and sometimes enjoyable to live -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:17, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
... eight years, and still remembered as the model for this award, and inspiring dreams -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 07:39, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for your impact | |
---|---|
in lighting the torch! |
Your impact ... four years after the original warning not to lose a "little bit of our souls", repeated above, and at times heavy to carry, -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:57, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. reformation remembered -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 06:56, 17 February 2022 (UTC)