Welcome to my talk page. If a comment requires a reply, I'll endeavour to reply to it within 24 hours.
Hello, Harryboyles, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! D a Gizza Chat 04:24, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Complete Archive | Summarised Archive (2006) | ||
---|---|---|---|
Archive 1 | January 1, 2006 - August 10, 2006 | Congratulations | Mistakes |
Archive 2 | August 11, 2006 - December 31, 2006 | Suggestions | Issues |
Archive 3 | January 1, 2007 - June 13, 2007 | ||
Archive 4 | June 2007 - June 2013 | ||
Archive 5 | June 2013 - December 2021 |
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).
Interface administrator changes
|
|
Hi!
You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.
When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.
Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.
If you have not seen it before, you can read more on Meta. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can subscribe to the weekly technical newsletter.
We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.
Thank you. / Johan (WMF)
18:13, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
oversight
will be renamed suppress
in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for
technical reasons. You can comment
in Phabricator if you have objections.News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
|
|
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
deletelogentry
and deletedhistory
rights. This means that those in the
Researcher user group and
Checkusers who are not administrators can now access
Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (
T301928)The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.
Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:
Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.
22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
|
|
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).
|
|
problems with the links of the songs and more links are needed List of most-streamed songs on Spotify Tirso Gutiérrez ( talk) 02:59, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).
|
Interface administrator changes
|
user_global_editcount
is a new variable that can be used in
abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (
T130439)News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).
So I and @ Hippo43 are having a content dispute. Quick background; after it did not resolve naturally through gradual edits of 4 days of reverts, I brought it to the talk page where disagreement was still present, and after that I first sought an informal WP:3O and after an editor contributed I prompted @ Hippo43 to it on their talk page. It was definitely not going to resolve it but I wanted to at least try before I went to RfC and as expected on @ User talk:Hippo43#3O they replied reaffirming that disagreement remained. To move it along I copied his response in reply to the 3O on his talk page so as to document that disagreement remained and move on from what was always going to be a formality. The issue is that they are now trying to hide this by removing my forwarded reply on the article's talk page and it could undermine the RfC by making it look like I did not first see if the Third Opinion resolved the dispute. They keep justifiying it by saying I can't copy and paste their responses into other discussion but 1) it is the same discussion just linking up the different talk pages 2) they haven't shown me any policy or guidline that says this is a good reason for removing an editor's discussion input. It is my first RfC and I am an inexperienced editor so lack of the understanding of processes which could get it stopped in its tracks anyway. But I at least don't want it to be because of removal of talk page discussion or in an attempt to stonewall it. I mentioned in my revert summary what I have mentioned here about it potentially undermining the process and saying that I will seek an admin on this but they have since persisted. JamesLewisBedford01 ( talk) 19:06, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).
{{
rangeblock|create=yes}}
or {{
uw-ublock|contains profanity}}
.Hello! Voting in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 12 December 2022. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2022 election, please review
the candidates and submit your choices on the
voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{
NoACEMM}}
to your user talk page.
MediaWiki message delivery (
talk) 00:23, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).
/64
to the end of an IP in
Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and
consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.Harryboyles,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. See
this for background context.
—
Moops ⋠
T⋡ 22:27, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
Send New Year cheer by adding {{ subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.
— Moops ⋠ T⋡ 22:27, 3 January 2023 (UTC)Hey, Harryboyles. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the
Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Chris Troutman ( talk) 19:41, 5 January 2023 (UTC) |
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).
|
|
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).
|
|
[p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Harryboyles! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 23:38, 4 March 2023 (UTC) |
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).
|
|
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).
|
|
I have a question about certain WikiProject template parameters. As you can see
here, I've been adding an |importance=
parameter to articles in WikiProject Cities, even though I believe that's no longer supported (per
this and
this). Should I not continue to add this parameter? Thank you.
Nythar (
💬-
🍀) 13:23, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
Hey. Accidentally hit "Publish" on a page and I'm worried an Admin might think I'm griefing or something. Saw you were recently online and I wanted to ask you to delete it. Weird request, right?
Here's the page.
Thanks.
Bourbonbounce ( talk) 02:34, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).
|
|
Why does this come up as an unknown parameter at Wikipedia talk:Wikipe-tan if a category exists for it? Category:Project-Class anime and manga articles The other pages from what I have seen display "Project" "This page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale." (ex: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga/Digimon) - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 16:59, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
have just seen the positive effect on the plants project - is/has there been one for the oz and subsidiary projects yet ?
Keep up the good work! JarrahTree 01:41, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi there. I don't think it is a good idea to remove all these parameters. If WikiProject Alabama decided to start using importance ratings again in the future, then they would have to add all of these again. I think it is better just to leave them in the template and ignore them. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 15:33, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Pages using WikiProject x with unknown parameters
. I've always thought that without
Module:Check for unknown parameters in place, there's zero feedback to an editor that there might be a mistake in the way they are calling a template (since in the English Wikipedia, VisualEditor is not enabled for any talk pages). Hence why I was rolling out the unsupported parameters module to WikiProject banner templates.
Harryboyles 10:17, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
category, listas, class, importance, auto, attention, infobox, b1-6
). These parameters are common enough that they would probably cover 90% or more of the parameters that are added by auto-rater scripts/tools, and those cases where a WikiProject might decide to start using said functionality in the future (especially for "importance" ratings which was the trigger for this discussion in the first place). As for how to implement it, would it be easy or hard to take the array of input parameters, "subtract/remove" the above display parameters, then run the array of remaining parameters through the check? |cat 8={{{core|}}}{{{needs-photo|{{{needs-image|{{{image-needed|{{{photo-needed|{{{image-requested|}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}{{{needs-infobox|}}}{{{needs-filmography|}}}{{{needs-discography|}}}{{{past-collaboration|}}}
|CAT_8 = {{#ifeq:{{pagetype|{{{class|}}}}}|article||Incorrectly tagged WikiProject Biography articles}}
|needs_photo=
parameter should not trigger the error category in draft space, that pagetype test could be modified, or the whole of CAT_8 could be wrapped in {{
draft other}}, or something else could be done. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 11:33, 11 July 2023 (UTC)News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).
The hidden span tag wrapping an error message appears to cause two Linter errors when an unknown parameter includes a line break. The fix appears to be using a div tag instead of a span tag. Please update your copy/paste routine to include this change, unless you know of any harm that it will do. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 15:23, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).
Interface administrator changes
Template:Attached KML/Blacktown Road, Sydney has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym ( talk) 11:29, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).
|
|
[s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.
local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to
note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).
Interface administrator changes
Hello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2023 election, please review
the candidates and submit your choices on the
voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{
NoACEMM}}
to your user talk page.
MediaWiki message delivery (
talk) 00:24, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
Template:Attached KML/Southern Cross Drive, Canberra has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym ( talk) 09:22, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).
A tag has been placed on Category:Undated GA templates indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 01:07, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).
Hi, I was wondering if you could point me to where there was some discussion or consensus that lead to your mass removal of parameters from WikiProject banners? These extraneous parameters are harmless if the template doesn't support them yet, but will already be place if and when support for them is added. Plus there are several article rating tools out there that adds these parameters regardless of their support, explicitely because if they are not supported yet they are ignored, thus harmless. So it's kind of weird of me to see you massively removing them when I know me and others are intentionally adding them, it feels like that's gonna be tens of thousands of edits back and forth with no net change.. Thanks in advance for pointing me in ther right direction to find where this was discussed. :) Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 21:36, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
“ | To avoid needlessly cluttering up talk pages, it is usually appropriate to remove any unused parameters from the template. | ” |
— Special:Search |
Happy First Edit Day! Hi Harryboyles! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! The Herald (Benison) ( talk) 02:53, 5 January 2024 (UTC) |
Template:Attached KML/Kingsford Smith Drive, Canberra has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym ( talk) 13:14, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
Happy birthday! Hi Harryboyles! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy birthday! Enjoy this special day! The Herald (Benison) ( talk) 02:36, 6 February 2024 (UTC) |
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).
|
|
Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Harryboyles! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! The Herald (Benison) ( talk) 01:58, 4 March 2024 (UTC) |
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
Hi, based on the topics above, it's obvious you're the right person to ask, I'm so glad. I tried to add the A-class parameter to Template:WikiProject Figure Skating/doc because the WikiProject is setting up an A-class assessment, and then you reverted me. Could you please advise me how to add the parameter correctly? I'm considering bypassing using the template and just directing nominators to create a talk page. What would you advise? Thanks in advance. Christine (Figureskatingfan) ( talk) 17:05, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Welcome to my talk page. If a comment requires a reply, I'll endeavour to reply to it within 24 hours.
Hello, Harryboyles, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! D a Gizza Chat 04:24, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Complete Archive | Summarised Archive (2006) | ||
---|---|---|---|
Archive 1 | January 1, 2006 - August 10, 2006 | Congratulations | Mistakes |
Archive 2 | August 11, 2006 - December 31, 2006 | Suggestions | Issues |
Archive 3 | January 1, 2007 - June 13, 2007 | ||
Archive 4 | June 2007 - June 2013 | ||
Archive 5 | June 2013 - December 2021 |
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2021).
Interface administrator changes
|
|
Hi!
You get this message because you are an admin on a Wikimedia wiki.
When someone edits a Wikimedia wiki without being logged in today, we show their IP address. As you may already know, we will not be able to do this in the future. This is a decision by the Wikimedia Foundation Legal department, because norms and regulations for privacy online have changed.
Instead of the IP we will show a masked identity. You as an admin will still be able to access the IP. There will also be a new user right for those who need to see the full IPs of unregistered users to fight vandalism, harassment and spam without being admins. Patrollers will also see part of the IP even without this user right. We are also working on better tools to help.
If you have not seen it before, you can read more on Meta. If you want to make sure you don’t miss technical changes on the Wikimedia wikis, you can subscribe to the weekly technical newsletter.
We have two suggested ways this identity could work. We would appreciate your feedback on which way you think would work best for you and your wiki, now and in the future. You can let us know on the talk page. You can write in your language. The suggestions were posted in October and we will decide after 17 January.
Thank you. / Johan (WMF)
18:13, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2022).
oversight
will be renamed suppress
in around 3 weeks. This will not affect the name shown to users and is simply a change in the technical name of the user group. The change is being made for
technical reasons. You can comment
in Phabricator if you have objections.News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2022).
|
|
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2022).
deletelogentry
and deletedhistory
rights. This means that those in the
Researcher user group and
Checkusers who are not administrators can now access
Special:RevisionDelete. The users able to view the special page after this change are the 3 users in the Researcher group, as there are currently no checkusers who are not already administrators. (
T301928)The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.
Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:
Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work.
22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2022).
|
|
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2022).
|
|
problems with the links of the songs and more links are needed List of most-streamed songs on Spotify Tirso Gutiérrez ( talk) 02:59, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2022).
|
Interface administrator changes
|
user_global_editcount
is a new variable that can be used in
abuse filters to avoid affecting globally active users. (
T130439)News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2022).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2022).
So I and @ Hippo43 are having a content dispute. Quick background; after it did not resolve naturally through gradual edits of 4 days of reverts, I brought it to the talk page where disagreement was still present, and after that I first sought an informal WP:3O and after an editor contributed I prompted @ Hippo43 to it on their talk page. It was definitely not going to resolve it but I wanted to at least try before I went to RfC and as expected on @ User talk:Hippo43#3O they replied reaffirming that disagreement remained. To move it along I copied his response in reply to the 3O on his talk page so as to document that disagreement remained and move on from what was always going to be a formality. The issue is that they are now trying to hide this by removing my forwarded reply on the article's talk page and it could undermine the RfC by making it look like I did not first see if the Third Opinion resolved the dispute. They keep justifiying it by saying I can't copy and paste their responses into other discussion but 1) it is the same discussion just linking up the different talk pages 2) they haven't shown me any policy or guidline that says this is a good reason for removing an editor's discussion input. It is my first RfC and I am an inexperienced editor so lack of the understanding of processes which could get it stopped in its tracks anyway. But I at least don't want it to be because of removal of talk page discussion or in an attempt to stonewall it. I mentioned in my revert summary what I have mentioned here about it potentially undermining the process and saying that I will seek an admin on this but they have since persisted. JamesLewisBedford01 ( talk) 19:06, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2022).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2022).
{{
rangeblock|create=yes}}
or {{
uw-ublock|contains profanity}}
.Hello! Voting in the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 12 December 2022. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2022 election, please review
the candidates and submit your choices on the
voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{
NoACEMM}}
to your user talk page.
MediaWiki message delivery (
talk) 00:23, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2022).
/64
to the end of an IP in
Special:Contributions to see all of a subnet's edits, and
consider blocking the whole subnet rather than an IP that may change within a minute.Harryboyles,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable
New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. See
this for background context.
—
Moops ⋠
T⋡ 22:27, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
Send New Year cheer by adding {{ subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.
— Moops ⋠ T⋡ 22:27, 3 January 2023 (UTC)Hey, Harryboyles. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the
Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Chris Troutman ( talk) 19:41, 5 January 2023 (UTC) |
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2022).
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2023).
|
|
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2023).
|
|
[p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.
Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Harryboyles! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 23:38, 4 March 2023 (UTC) |
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2023).
|
|
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).
|
|
I have a question about certain WikiProject template parameters. As you can see
here, I've been adding an |importance=
parameter to articles in WikiProject Cities, even though I believe that's no longer supported (per
this and
this). Should I not continue to add this parameter? Thank you.
Nythar (
💬-
🍀) 13:23, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
Hey. Accidentally hit "Publish" on a page and I'm worried an Admin might think I'm griefing or something. Saw you were recently online and I wanted to ask you to delete it. Weird request, right?
Here's the page.
Thanks.
Bourbonbounce ( talk) 02:34, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).
|
|
Why does this come up as an unknown parameter at Wikipedia talk:Wikipe-tan if a category exists for it? Category:Project-Class anime and manga articles The other pages from what I have seen display "Project" "This page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale." (ex: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga/Digimon) - Knowledgekid87 ( talk) 16:59, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
have just seen the positive effect on the plants project - is/has there been one for the oz and subsidiary projects yet ?
Keep up the good work! JarrahTree 01:41, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi there. I don't think it is a good idea to remove all these parameters. If WikiProject Alabama decided to start using importance ratings again in the future, then they would have to add all of these again. I think it is better just to leave them in the template and ignore them. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 15:33, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Pages using WikiProject x with unknown parameters
. I've always thought that without
Module:Check for unknown parameters in place, there's zero feedback to an editor that there might be a mistake in the way they are calling a template (since in the English Wikipedia, VisualEditor is not enabled for any talk pages). Hence why I was rolling out the unsupported parameters module to WikiProject banner templates.
Harryboyles 10:17, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
category, listas, class, importance, auto, attention, infobox, b1-6
). These parameters are common enough that they would probably cover 90% or more of the parameters that are added by auto-rater scripts/tools, and those cases where a WikiProject might decide to start using said functionality in the future (especially for "importance" ratings which was the trigger for this discussion in the first place). As for how to implement it, would it be easy or hard to take the array of input parameters, "subtract/remove" the above display parameters, then run the array of remaining parameters through the check? |cat 8={{{core|}}}{{{needs-photo|{{{needs-image|{{{image-needed|{{{photo-needed|{{{image-requested|}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}{{{needs-infobox|}}}{{{needs-filmography|}}}{{{needs-discography|}}}{{{past-collaboration|}}}
|CAT_8 = {{#ifeq:{{pagetype|{{{class|}}}}}|article||Incorrectly tagged WikiProject Biography articles}}
|needs_photo=
parameter should not trigger the error category in draft space, that pagetype test could be modified, or the whole of CAT_8 could be wrapped in {{
draft other}}, or something else could be done. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 11:33, 11 July 2023 (UTC)News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).
The hidden span tag wrapping an error message appears to cause two Linter errors when an unknown parameter includes a line break. The fix appears to be using a div tag instead of a span tag. Please update your copy/paste routine to include this change, unless you know of any harm that it will do. – Jonesey95 ( talk) 15:23, 8 July 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).
Interface administrator changes
Template:Attached KML/Blacktown Road, Sydney has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym ( talk) 11:29, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).
|
|
[s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.
local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to
note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.
News and updates for administrators from the past month (October 2023).
Interface administrator changes
Hello! Voting in the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 11 December 2023. All eligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
If you wish to participate in the 2023 election, please review
the candidates and submit your choices on the
voting page. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, you may add {{
NoACEMM}}
to your user talk page.
MediaWiki message delivery (
talk) 00:24, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
Template:Attached KML/Southern Cross Drive, Canberra has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym ( talk) 09:22, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2023).
A tag has been placed on Category:Undated GA templates indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 01:07, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2023).
Hi, I was wondering if you could point me to where there was some discussion or consensus that lead to your mass removal of parameters from WikiProject banners? These extraneous parameters are harmless if the template doesn't support them yet, but will already be place if and when support for them is added. Plus there are several article rating tools out there that adds these parameters regardless of their support, explicitely because if they are not supported yet they are ignored, thus harmless. So it's kind of weird of me to see you massively removing them when I know me and others are intentionally adding them, it feels like that's gonna be tens of thousands of edits back and forth with no net change.. Thanks in advance for pointing me in ther right direction to find where this was discussed. :) Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 21:36, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
“ | To avoid needlessly cluttering up talk pages, it is usually appropriate to remove any unused parameters from the template. | ” |
— Special:Search |
Happy First Edit Day! Hi Harryboyles! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! The Herald (Benison) ( talk) 02:53, 5 January 2024 (UTC) |
Template:Attached KML/Kingsford Smith Drive, Canberra has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym ( talk) 13:14, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2024).
Happy birthday! Hi Harryboyles! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy birthday! Enjoy this special day! The Herald (Benison) ( talk) 02:36, 6 February 2024 (UTC) |
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2024).
|
|
Happy adminship anniversary! Hi Harryboyles! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of your successful request for adminship. Enjoy this special day! The Herald (Benison) ( talk) 01:58, 4 March 2024 (UTC) |
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2024).
Hi, based on the topics above, it's obvious you're the right person to ask, I'm so glad. I tried to add the A-class parameter to Template:WikiProject Figure Skating/doc because the WikiProject is setting up an A-class assessment, and then you reverted me. Could you please advise me how to add the parameter correctly? I'm considering bypassing using the template and just directing nominators to create a talk page. What would you advise? Thanks in advance. Christine (Figureskatingfan) ( talk) 17:05, 16 April 2024 (UTC)