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At Warakamai I've been fiddling for over an hour to get the right url, without success. The problem is, when I open up and downbload the book through Acrobat, it gives me a pdf that ain't functional, though it is a resumé of the one you get at google. Can you get one that works? Sorry for this endless bother. And the very best for a healthy and prosperous New Year by the way, N. Nishidani ( talk) 12:49, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
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At Maringar, I can see the words 'in Gallurese' on the page, after the citation from Rodney Needham. However I cannot find any trace of it in the edit version (in order to remove them). What the eff is going on? My unspectacled sight for my age is diagnosed as abnormally acute, but perhaps if I'm seeing things I need to check back with the optometrist, or ask around if he has a private drinking problem. Nishidani ( talk) 16:15, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
It may be influenza'd eyes, but I have a hard time finding Kuungkari and Bidia, to name but a few, in the Queensland aboriginal tribe category lists on those pages. I have put in the correct cats, I believe, but at least on the pages as I view them, they are missing from the list? Nishidani ( talk) 16:36, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
could you see this Nishidani ( talk) 18:06, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
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Could an admin please revdel the highly offensive edit summary in this diff, please? I've copied it to my "fan mail" (link at the top of this page), where it is available for reference if needed, but this stuff really doesn't need to be broadcast in an edit summary. There is no need to revdel the whole edit, just the edit summary. Thanks in advance. -- NSH001 ( talk) 15:15, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
I am sorry that you constantly have to fix the citations for my edits. Im not very good with html, but I do try and copy and paste your templates so I can reuse when I can, I just don't know how to add a source, sorry again. Very much appreciate your work. BlackfullaLinguist ( talk) 09:08, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
How did I screw up the note (efn etc) at Arrernte people? I know it will be obvious, but . . . Nishidani ( talk) 13:59, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
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Hi NSH001, I would like to try this script. Where can I find it? Cheers · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 13:13, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
I see you are, understandably, busy at the moment, but eventually if you can look at the Mathews 1900 source (I have a downloaded copy) and the 'social organisation' ref. on the Jingili page, could you find a wiki table capable of reproducing the structure Mathews provided. No urgency in this, any solution up to 2020 would be most welcome. Best regards Nishidani ( talk) 14:48, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
See the removalism practice putting down roots at the 1946 page, I wondered what policy is regarding shifting such materials, if they eventually are removed on technical grounds as sources for the text, to a 'See also' section. All over wiki you have See also sections, whose reliability is rarely if ever challenged. I think Suarez's book should be put in one such section because it is undoubtedly a useful lead for future readers 'to consult, since wiki won't allow it to be actually cited. ? Nishidani ( talk) 12:32, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
With the Madley quote in para 2 of the Tasmanian article? Damn it and sorry. Nishidani ( talk) 16:53, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
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What did I do wrong with cite ^ [[#CITEREF|]]. at Eora (note 34 or thereabouts)? Nishidani ( talk) 20:29, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
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I don't think I've ever actually thanked you for all you've done on a number of projects I've been involved in with our mutual friend, so if you would forgive the lateness of this, thank you very much Neil, your contributions are greatly appreciated. nableezy - 23:32, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
I am trying to distinguish between organisations of conscientious objectors, - who object to conscription on principle - which this is, and those who objected to a particular conscription, which are in the anti-conscription category. Category:Peace organisations based in the United Kingdom is a subcategory of Category:Political advocacy groups in the United Kingdom. It should be in the most specific. And it is clearly an organisation, not a movement. Rathfelder ( talk) 19:45, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
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Hi NSH001. You've fixed up my citations in an article.
Thanks for that. But it's had me wondering - if I go in and make more edits, how much should I worry about keeping your citation style intact?
Does it take you a lot of effort? Or can I just add in citations with the visual editor, and then it's as simple as a click of a button for you to fix them?
Thanks -- Sanglorian ( talk) 07:19, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
{{sfn|Smith|1995}}
– or {{sfn|Smith|1995|p=25}}
if you want to cite a page number. No need to trouble yourself to provide a full citation!|ref=
and which will appear in the corresponding {{
sfn}}s once it's switched. My script is getting pretty good at this, but sometimes I might want to tweak what the script generates. Note that these cites are not mistakes, these details are missing because they really are not in the source. Once I'm satisfied, I re-run the script on the tweaked version, to give the version that I will post on Wikipedia.|language=en
. My script will delete it automatically.{{Swain|1993|pp=21–22}}
, causing me extra work in having to de-duplicate it. (BTW my script does eliminate duplicate templates, but in this case there were too many small differences for it to recognise the duplication; if the only difference were the page numbers, it would have recognised them as duplicate.)|date=n.d.
, and if there really are no authors or editors, you can put | author = <!-- not stated -->
. This is helpful, as it tells later editors they don't need to check those items again.{{Swain|1993|pp=21–22}}
is easier than using the citation tool, but is that still true if I'm using the visual editor? Should I prepare these in a separate notepad and paste them in?
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{{Swain|1993|pp=21–22}}
.It takes a little effort to learn how to use short-form referencing, but once you've done so, it's a lot easier to edit than any other citation style. I don't see why you would need to use Notepad, since if you want to insert a short citation, you should already know the author name(s), date, and page number(s) – and that's all you need. If the full cite isn't already in the biblio listing, you can allow VE to generate it, and my script will automatically fix it (generating both the short cite, and moving the full cite in ETVP format into the biblio listing), provided you've checked its work as I described above (I guess you'll probably need to "switch" into source text to do that). Good editors should always check their citations, and it's a pity that so many don't. --
NSH001 (
talk) 09:32, 14 January 2019 (UTC)Thank you for intervening in the request I opened. As you can tell I'm very new to the processes involved.
I too added the Kamm difflink but was told all my difflinks were meritless.
A certain user has now gone after me just for opening the request. Your talk page is really interesting I'll be reading more soon.
Thank you for stepping in, I really appreciate it. Alex Tiffin ( talk) 23:00, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi. You made an edit for a 'consistent citation style' here. [3] Problem is, that wasn't even a year ago and already it was a dead link. I changed it to the AIATSIS citation template so that all such citations can be updated together, but I have no idea how to put in in one of your footnotes. Currently the citation fn is still there but doesn't link to the source. Anyway, thought you might know how to fix it. — kwami ( talk) 01:54, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
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N. Could you fix by restoring the Kokomini page, removing the redirects and in restoring it, title it Gugumini? See the discusson on Kwamikagami's talk page? Sorry for the bother.Best Nishidani ( talk) 09:55, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
For the record: on reflection, the phrase above "has saved my life" is an exaggeration made under the influence of pain and medication, although it is true that if left untreated indefinitely (many months at least) the result would eventually be a long and very painful death. I am very grateful to have had the benefit of the NHS. Nishidani - sending you lots of good wishes for your wife's recovery. -- NSH001 ( talk) 07:38, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
A slight editing hiatus has me a touch worried, N. I hope you are recovering well from the operation. Best wishes. Nishidani ( talk) 19:56, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
Incidentally, this experience has given me an even deeper appreciation of Chrissie's achievement in winning her 2011 World Championship. Like me, she had an infected, swollen leg, and the medics' first concern was to check for DVT/ PE (negative, thankfully, for both of us), then treatment with heavy antibiotics. She had it a bit easier than me, as her leg infection was superficial, not cellulitic, and the road rash disfigurement you can see in the video linked from her article was nowhere near as repulsive as what I had (now much better, though, but still very obvious). But antibiotics really take it out of you, the last thing you want before any race, let alone a full Ironman. Then add all the other injuries she had. I had an instinctive feeling before that race that she was going to produce something really special, such as lowering the record by 30 mins, or finishing among the first 10 men, and was disappointed on the day when she didn't. But my instinct was right – I think her performance must be a strong candidate for the best athletic performance of all time, by any gender and in any sport, in the whole of history; it's not obvious, as you need to know all the circumstances to fully appreciate it (the sources in her article will help). Records always get lowered (eventually), but I can't see anyone else equalling that performance any time soon in any sport under similar conditions. And that's what makes her the greatest ever. -- NSH001 ( talk) 08:29, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
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Can it handle stripping the urls from the page numbers in
Al-Azhar Mosque? It makes it so most of the point of the shortened footnotes, that theyre shortened, is lost the way it is now. And try as I might I cant come up with a regular expression that does what i need it to do in there. Also converting the <ref>{{harvnb|blah|blah}}</ref> to {{
sfn}}
s would be nice too if at all possible.
nableezy - 02:10, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
Note: More info on linking to page numbers is available at WP:PAGELINKS. -- NSH001 ( talk) 11:00, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
Re:
this edit, sorry if I did something wrong. I actually have no idea how to use the sfn
syntax, I've pretty much just been counting on you to go through and format the refs properly.
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On that note, do you think that you might be able to go through and change all the references that point to a web URL to instead point to the archived versions of those URLs (in case the live URLs ever change or die)? I did some just now but would greatly appreciate if you would do the rest. Vrrajkum ( talk) 00:19, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
[Great Depression]
for depression
in the one quote, is there any reason you prefer the latter? I initially had it as [Great Depression]
(no wikilink) when I added the ref, but someone modified it to be
Great Depression
(wikilink without brackets indicating a modification to the original quote). I adjusted it to be [
Great Depression
, which kept both the wikilink and the brackets that indicate that the enclosed text is not a part of the original quote. (The other quote about Chomsky's father working in a sweatshop also has bracketed modifications.)
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Re: this edit on the talk page, I didn't actually remove anything; I started adding a comment but needed to restart my browser, so I just copied everything in the editor into my clipboard. When I went back a little while later and finished adding my comment, I pasted, but forgot that I had the entire section in my clipboard. This meant that the section was printed twice; all I did was remove the duplicate material. Vrrajkum ( talk) 23:05, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
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on oz indig articles would be appreciated and thanks - my opibion of the current state of the range is unprintable, unfortunately, so thanks, appreciate any tinkering to help improve JarrahTree 13:47, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you for sending me the advice. I have done this page in paragraph form, putting lists of awards or publications under see also as you suggested. Would you take a look at it? Toandanel49 ( talk) 13:50, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
In trying to post my edit request at Talk:Jewish Israeli stone-throwing, which only manages to erase a lot of existing talk text? Nishidani ( talk) 14:33, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for this edit of yours at Gweagal, restoring long-standing citation style at that article. You may or may not be aware that the anonymous editor is an IP-hopping, block-evading troll, just blocked (again) minutes ago. See for example the discussion User talk:101.187.83.6#Disruptive pattern of edits, which also lists some of their many other IP aliases, some blocked, most not. (Just found another alias for this IP editor today due to the Gweagal article: 49.195.96.45. They were the one responsible for these edits that you cleaned up earlier the same day you reverted the other alias.)
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Why is is necessary, with a named author of an article like Humaid, to drop sfn and replace it with harvnb (as here). The sfn version, when clicked on, gave the ref in the citations and the bibliography without problems. (Of course, I'm as thick as a brick, and no doubt you will tutor me in the obvious:) Nishidani ( talk) 20:07, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
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Thanks, Czar. Still a long way to go on that article. -- NSH001 ( talk) 13:08, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
Could you kindly help me by explaining what the red link is doing at the bottom of the citations on the Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry page. I sourced a remark, using Falk 2017 pp.100-109 having read it, and the red text states there's some problem with the content and the source? Nishidani ( talk) 18:58, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
<ref refname=xxxx>....</ref>
tags (plus some other clever stuff) and the wiki software doesn't allow one set of ref tags nested within another set of ref tags, hence the error message. Ponder how {{
efn}} gets round that one, all good clean fun, as my excellent (Jewish) boss at work used to say, many years ago. Have a good rest and take care. --
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Just checking through all the links you gave for Nils Melzer's views, I couldn't see if you'd linked to this printed interview. Just in case, The Truth About Julian Assange 3 February. Given Melzer's standing, that gives us just a glimmer of hope (which won't erase the monstrous damage done). Nishidani ( talk) 10:35, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi NSH001, I have been editing the above article with respect to a number of articles I am writing about localities created by the NT Government in 2007. I noticed that some of the citations that you added do really not comply. If you did not know, publications listed on the National Library of Australia (NLA) Trove website do have pre-prepared citations. For example, the 1970 book about Pincher Numiari has a page on Trove, i.e. [5], where there is a heading called "Edition details". Under this heading, there is a button with the words "Cite this". Click this button and a box will appear that offers citations in APA, MLA, Harvard/Australian and Wikipedia format. You just need to copy and paste the Wikipedia citation in an article between a pair of 'ref' tags. The only disadvantage to the Wikipedia citation provided by Trove is that the NLA lists everyone as being an author, i.e. the publisher, the financier of the work etc, which is not helpful. Please reply here if you wish to comment. Regards Cowdy001 ( talk) 10:31, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
|author=
(or variants), and failing to use the last/first split. Corporate bodies almost never belong in |author=
; there are some exceptions, but they are rare. If it finds an |author=
or |authors=
parameter, my script will try very hard to parse it into last/first, or a series of last/first. My script exists to get rid of LHT citation clutter, not to switch to short-form, although it can do that, as you've seen. Switching to LDR is also an option, among others (see the examples link in the hatnotes at the top of the pinned citation thread). One of the nice things about short-form is that the full cites are neatly arranged (or should be) in alphabetical order - my script sorts them automatically. A contrast to the random order that you wind up with in other styles. Yes, as I mentioned before, I noticed the welcome work you did on three out of the four manual citations (which obviously included Toohey and Maurice). --
NSH001 (
talk) 21:54, 22 March 2020 (UTC)Keep out of harm's way there, Neil. With that moron in charge and the designed shambles organized for the NHS. If we can go by the 15,000 more deaths registered in just one year (2015) after Cameron's 2014 'reforms', this particular structural crisis will open every can of worms imaginable for civil life and limb. I hope your years of running have left you with a good bill of health. Best wishes Nishidani ( talk) 08:56, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
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I finally got a chance to correct a template edit of yours after years of grievous waiting. Mind you, being me, I couldn't avoid the temptation of making a mess of something else as I did so!;) Cheers pal Nishidani ( talk) 21:32, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
but, by way of explanation, I linked as author, Aviv Tatarsky to Ir Amim because that NGO does great documentary work, and Aviv T is one of their chief researchers, and has mastered all the details of these things. I occasionally link people that way, to their employer organization, so that a reader can get an idea they are not merely opinionizing joe-or-jean blows, but seriously engaged in research, i.e. competent. Clicking now, I see that the Ir Amin page doesn't mention him, which is a pity. Cheers and thanks Nishidani ( talk) 15:21, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
|author-link=
is meant for, and its use should be restricted to articles on the author only. Misusing something in this way just stores up trouble for the future (I've seen too many IT disasters caused by taking similar shortcuts). The
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At Warakamai I've been fiddling for over an hour to get the right url, without success. The problem is, when I open up and downbload the book through Acrobat, it gives me a pdf that ain't functional, though it is a resumé of the one you get at google. Can you get one that works? Sorry for this endless bother. And the very best for a healthy and prosperous New Year by the way, N. Nishidani ( talk) 12:49, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
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Thank you very much, but I really don't deserve three barnstars – one possibly, but not three! Anyway, the thought is very much appreciated. -- NSH001 ( talk) 08:34, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
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At Maringar, I can see the words 'in Gallurese' on the page, after the citation from Rodney Needham. However I cannot find any trace of it in the edit version (in order to remove them). What the eff is going on? My unspectacled sight for my age is diagnosed as abnormally acute, but perhaps if I'm seeing things I need to check back with the optometrist, or ask around if he has a private drinking problem. Nishidani ( talk) 16:15, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
It may be influenza'd eyes, but I have a hard time finding Kuungkari and Bidia, to name but a few, in the Queensland aboriginal tribe category lists on those pages. I have put in the correct cats, I believe, but at least on the pages as I view them, they are missing from the list? Nishidani ( talk) 16:36, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
could you see this Nishidani ( talk) 18:06, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
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Could an admin please revdel the highly offensive edit summary in this diff, please? I've copied it to my "fan mail" (link at the top of this page), where it is available for reference if needed, but this stuff really doesn't need to be broadcast in an edit summary. There is no need to revdel the whole edit, just the edit summary. Thanks in advance. -- NSH001 ( talk) 15:15, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
I am sorry that you constantly have to fix the citations for my edits. Im not very good with html, but I do try and copy and paste your templates so I can reuse when I can, I just don't know how to add a source, sorry again. Very much appreciate your work. BlackfullaLinguist ( talk) 09:08, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
How did I screw up the note (efn etc) at Arrernte people? I know it will be obvious, but . . . Nishidani ( talk) 13:59, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
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Hi NSH001, I would like to try this script. Where can I find it? Cheers · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 13:13, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
I see you are, understandably, busy at the moment, but eventually if you can look at the Mathews 1900 source (I have a downloaded copy) and the 'social organisation' ref. on the Jingili page, could you find a wiki table capable of reproducing the structure Mathews provided. No urgency in this, any solution up to 2020 would be most welcome. Best regards Nishidani ( talk) 14:48, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
See the removalism practice putting down roots at the 1946 page, I wondered what policy is regarding shifting such materials, if they eventually are removed on technical grounds as sources for the text, to a 'See also' section. All over wiki you have See also sections, whose reliability is rarely if ever challenged. I think Suarez's book should be put in one such section because it is undoubtedly a useful lead for future readers 'to consult, since wiki won't allow it to be actually cited. ? Nishidani ( talk) 12:32, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
With the Madley quote in para 2 of the Tasmanian article? Damn it and sorry. Nishidani ( talk) 16:53, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
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I don't think I've ever actually thanked you for all you've done on a number of projects I've been involved in with our mutual friend, so if you would forgive the lateness of this, thank you very much Neil, your contributions are greatly appreciated. nableezy - 23:32, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
I am trying to distinguish between organisations of conscientious objectors, - who object to conscription on principle - which this is, and those who objected to a particular conscription, which are in the anti-conscription category. Category:Peace organisations based in the United Kingdom is a subcategory of Category:Political advocacy groups in the United Kingdom. It should be in the most specific. And it is clearly an organisation, not a movement. Rathfelder ( talk) 19:45, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
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Hi NSH001. You've fixed up my citations in an article.
Thanks for that. But it's had me wondering - if I go in and make more edits, how much should I worry about keeping your citation style intact?
Does it take you a lot of effort? Or can I just add in citations with the visual editor, and then it's as simple as a click of a button for you to fix them?
Thanks -- Sanglorian ( talk) 07:19, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
{{sfn|Smith|1995}}
– or {{sfn|Smith|1995|p=25}}
if you want to cite a page number. No need to trouble yourself to provide a full citation!|ref=
and which will appear in the corresponding {{
sfn}}s once it's switched. My script is getting pretty good at this, but sometimes I might want to tweak what the script generates. Note that these cites are not mistakes, these details are missing because they really are not in the source. Once I'm satisfied, I re-run the script on the tweaked version, to give the version that I will post on Wikipedia.|language=en
. My script will delete it automatically.{{Swain|1993|pp=21–22}}
, causing me extra work in having to de-duplicate it. (BTW my script does eliminate duplicate templates, but in this case there were too many small differences for it to recognise the duplication; if the only difference were the page numbers, it would have recognised them as duplicate.)|date=n.d.
, and if there really are no authors or editors, you can put | author = <!-- not stated -->
. This is helpful, as it tells later editors they don't need to check those items again.{{Swain|1993|pp=21–22}}
is easier than using the citation tool, but is that still true if I'm using the visual editor? Should I prepare these in a separate notepad and paste them in?
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talk) 08:46, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
{{Swain|1993|pp=21–22}}
.It takes a little effort to learn how to use short-form referencing, but once you've done so, it's a lot easier to edit than any other citation style. I don't see why you would need to use Notepad, since if you want to insert a short citation, you should already know the author name(s), date, and page number(s) – and that's all you need. If the full cite isn't already in the biblio listing, you can allow VE to generate it, and my script will automatically fix it (generating both the short cite, and moving the full cite in ETVP format into the biblio listing), provided you've checked its work as I described above (I guess you'll probably need to "switch" into source text to do that). Good editors should always check their citations, and it's a pity that so many don't. --
NSH001 (
talk) 09:32, 14 January 2019 (UTC)Thank you for intervening in the request I opened. As you can tell I'm very new to the processes involved.
I too added the Kamm difflink but was told all my difflinks were meritless.
A certain user has now gone after me just for opening the request. Your talk page is really interesting I'll be reading more soon.
Thank you for stepping in, I really appreciate it. Alex Tiffin ( talk) 23:00, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi. You made an edit for a 'consistent citation style' here. [3] Problem is, that wasn't even a year ago and already it was a dead link. I changed it to the AIATSIS citation template so that all such citations can be updated together, but I have no idea how to put in in one of your footnotes. Currently the citation fn is still there but doesn't link to the source. Anyway, thought you might know how to fix it. — kwami ( talk) 01:54, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
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N. Could you fix by restoring the Kokomini page, removing the redirects and in restoring it, title it Gugumini? See the discusson on Kwamikagami's talk page? Sorry for the bother.Best Nishidani ( talk) 09:55, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
For the record: on reflection, the phrase above "has saved my life" is an exaggeration made under the influence of pain and medication, although it is true that if left untreated indefinitely (many months at least) the result would eventually be a long and very painful death. I am very grateful to have had the benefit of the NHS. Nishidani - sending you lots of good wishes for your wife's recovery. -- NSH001 ( talk) 07:38, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
A slight editing hiatus has me a touch worried, N. I hope you are recovering well from the operation. Best wishes. Nishidani ( talk) 19:56, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
Incidentally, this experience has given me an even deeper appreciation of Chrissie's achievement in winning her 2011 World Championship. Like me, she had an infected, swollen leg, and the medics' first concern was to check for DVT/ PE (negative, thankfully, for both of us), then treatment with heavy antibiotics. She had it a bit easier than me, as her leg infection was superficial, not cellulitic, and the road rash disfigurement you can see in the video linked from her article was nowhere near as repulsive as what I had (now much better, though, but still very obvious). But antibiotics really take it out of you, the last thing you want before any race, let alone a full Ironman. Then add all the other injuries she had. I had an instinctive feeling before that race that she was going to produce something really special, such as lowering the record by 30 mins, or finishing among the first 10 men, and was disappointed on the day when she didn't. But my instinct was right – I think her performance must be a strong candidate for the best athletic performance of all time, by any gender and in any sport, in the whole of history; it's not obvious, as you need to know all the circumstances to fully appreciate it (the sources in her article will help). Records always get lowered (eventually), but I can't see anyone else equalling that performance any time soon in any sport under similar conditions. And that's what makes her the greatest ever. -- NSH001 ( talk) 08:29, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
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Can it handle stripping the urls from the page numbers in
Al-Azhar Mosque? It makes it so most of the point of the shortened footnotes, that theyre shortened, is lost the way it is now. And try as I might I cant come up with a regular expression that does what i need it to do in there. Also converting the <ref>{{harvnb|blah|blah}}</ref> to {{
sfn}}
s would be nice too if at all possible.
nableezy - 02:10, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
Note: More info on linking to page numbers is available at WP:PAGELINKS. -- NSH001 ( talk) 11:00, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
Re:
this edit, sorry if I did something wrong. I actually have no idea how to use the sfn
syntax, I've pretty much just been counting on you to go through and format the refs properly.
Vrrajkum (
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On that note, do you think that you might be able to go through and change all the references that point to a web URL to instead point to the archived versions of those URLs (in case the live URLs ever change or die)? I did some just now but would greatly appreciate if you would do the rest. Vrrajkum ( talk) 00:19, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
[Great Depression]
for depression
in the one quote, is there any reason you prefer the latter? I initially had it as [Great Depression]
(no wikilink) when I added the ref, but someone modified it to be
Great Depression
(wikilink without brackets indicating a modification to the original quote). I adjusted it to be [
Great Depression
, which kept both the wikilink and the brackets that indicate that the enclosed text is not a part of the original quote. (The other quote about Chomsky's father working in a sweatshop also has bracketed modifications.)
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Re: this edit on the talk page, I didn't actually remove anything; I started adding a comment but needed to restart my browser, so I just copied everything in the editor into my clipboard. When I went back a little while later and finished adding my comment, I pasted, but forgot that I had the entire section in my clipboard. This meant that the section was printed twice; all I did was remove the duplicate material. Vrrajkum ( talk) 23:05, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
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on oz indig articles would be appreciated and thanks - my opibion of the current state of the range is unprintable, unfortunately, so thanks, appreciate any tinkering to help improve JarrahTree 13:47, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
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Thank you for sending me the advice. I have done this page in paragraph form, putting lists of awards or publications under see also as you suggested. Would you take a look at it? Toandanel49 ( talk) 13:50, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
In trying to post my edit request at Talk:Jewish Israeli stone-throwing, which only manages to erase a lot of existing talk text? Nishidani ( talk) 14:33, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Thanks for this edit of yours at Gweagal, restoring long-standing citation style at that article. You may or may not be aware that the anonymous editor is an IP-hopping, block-evading troll, just blocked (again) minutes ago. See for example the discussion User talk:101.187.83.6#Disruptive pattern of edits, which also lists some of their many other IP aliases, some blocked, most not. (Just found another alias for this IP editor today due to the Gweagal article: 49.195.96.45. They were the one responsible for these edits that you cleaned up earlier the same day you reverted the other alias.)
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Why is is necessary, with a named author of an article like Humaid, to drop sfn and replace it with harvnb (as here). The sfn version, when clicked on, gave the ref in the citations and the bibliography without problems. (Of course, I'm as thick as a brick, and no doubt you will tutor me in the obvious:) Nishidani ( talk) 20:07, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
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Could you kindly help me by explaining what the red link is doing at the bottom of the citations on the Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry page. I sourced a remark, using Falk 2017 pp.100-109 having read it, and the red text states there's some problem with the content and the source? Nishidani ( talk) 18:58, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
<ref refname=xxxx>....</ref>
tags (plus some other clever stuff) and the wiki software doesn't allow one set of ref tags nested within another set of ref tags, hence the error message. Ponder how {{
efn}} gets round that one, all good clean fun, as my excellent (Jewish) boss at work used to say, many years ago. Have a good rest and take care. --
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Just checking through all the links you gave for Nils Melzer's views, I couldn't see if you'd linked to this printed interview. Just in case, The Truth About Julian Assange 3 February. Given Melzer's standing, that gives us just a glimmer of hope (which won't erase the monstrous damage done). Nishidani ( talk) 10:35, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
Hi NSH001, I have been editing the above article with respect to a number of articles I am writing about localities created by the NT Government in 2007. I noticed that some of the citations that you added do really not comply. If you did not know, publications listed on the National Library of Australia (NLA) Trove website do have pre-prepared citations. For example, the 1970 book about Pincher Numiari has a page on Trove, i.e. [5], where there is a heading called "Edition details". Under this heading, there is a button with the words "Cite this". Click this button and a box will appear that offers citations in APA, MLA, Harvard/Australian and Wikipedia format. You just need to copy and paste the Wikipedia citation in an article between a pair of 'ref' tags. The only disadvantage to the Wikipedia citation provided by Trove is that the NLA lists everyone as being an author, i.e. the publisher, the financier of the work etc, which is not helpful. Please reply here if you wish to comment. Regards Cowdy001 ( talk) 10:31, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
|author=
(or variants), and failing to use the last/first split. Corporate bodies almost never belong in |author=
; there are some exceptions, but they are rare. If it finds an |author=
or |authors=
parameter, my script will try very hard to parse it into last/first, or a series of last/first. My script exists to get rid of LHT citation clutter, not to switch to short-form, although it can do that, as you've seen. Switching to LDR is also an option, among others (see the examples link in the hatnotes at the top of the pinned citation thread). One of the nice things about short-form is that the full cites are neatly arranged (or should be) in alphabetical order - my script sorts them automatically. A contrast to the random order that you wind up with in other styles. Yes, as I mentioned before, I noticed the welcome work you did on three out of the four manual citations (which obviously included Toohey and Maurice). --
NSH001 (
talk) 21:54, 22 March 2020 (UTC)Keep out of harm's way there, Neil. With that moron in charge and the designed shambles organized for the NHS. If we can go by the 15,000 more deaths registered in just one year (2015) after Cameron's 2014 'reforms', this particular structural crisis will open every can of worms imaginable for civil life and limb. I hope your years of running have left you with a good bill of health. Best wishes Nishidani ( talk) 08:56, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
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I finally got a chance to correct a template edit of yours after years of grievous waiting. Mind you, being me, I couldn't avoid the temptation of making a mess of something else as I did so!;) Cheers pal Nishidani ( talk) 21:32, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
but, by way of explanation, I linked as author, Aviv Tatarsky to Ir Amim because that NGO does great documentary work, and Aviv T is one of their chief researchers, and has mastered all the details of these things. I occasionally link people that way, to their employer organization, so that a reader can get an idea they are not merely opinionizing joe-or-jean blows, but seriously engaged in research, i.e. competent. Clicking now, I see that the Ir Amin page doesn't mention him, which is a pity. Cheers and thanks Nishidani ( talk) 15:21, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
|author-link=
is meant for, and its use should be restricted to articles on the author only. Misusing something in this way just stores up trouble for the future (I've seen too many IT disasters caused by taking similar shortcuts). The
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