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Archive 1 | Archive 2 |
This is on my watchlist and I will try to help out but I am old and busy. Keep up the good work. -- Bduke ( talk) 07:38, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
I don't think I've really left that project, just haven't worked on anything related to it for a while. Daniel Case ( talk) 19:54, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the invitation! I'm happy to put my name down, however with everyone at home under lockdown, I am a little snowed under with technical support. I'll definitely try and squeeze some time in; outdoors-y topics will be all the more relevant in the coming months. TheFreeman193 ( talk) 16:07, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
Whether or not <center>
is deprecated, it functions. Running around blindly removing it, without doing anything to preserve the function it performs, makes things worse, not better. Please stop.
E
Eng 23:49, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
<div style="text-align: center;">
or one of the other non-obsolete centering methods listed at
mw:Help:Lint errors/obsolete-tag. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 17:40, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
center
on an specific page. My apologies if I removed one you believe should have rather been converted.
—¿philoserf? (
talk) 17:55, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Philoserf, I noticed from your description on your user page that you live in the territory of Cascadia Wikimedians User Group. You can find information regarding Seattle meetups at Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle. The current president of CWUG is User:Peaceray. I hope that you will be able to attend events online or in person. ↠Pine (✉) 07:04, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your edit at the WikiProject Desk hiding dead sources! They can probably just be deleted, but that was the right action to do. =) It seems you're interested in WikiProjects: if you would like to hop on as a co-writer of the WikiProject Report I would love some help! I'm working on revamping the Report and perhaps it might revive WikiProjects as a whole. Anyways, just wanted to drop by and say thanks! -- Puddleglum 2.0( How's my driving?) 01:58, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Philoserf, Your enthusiasm is highly contagious. I went a little berserk yesterday and worked on improving various hiking/backpacking related articles and ended-up starting the Greater Patagonia Trail article. You will have seen that I gave it a High importance rating. That is somewhat contentious, and is probably too high, especially as it is an unofficial trail, or really more a collection of existing tracks. This is a very subjective area, as I'm realize more and more. Thus, my initial reaction was that you were overly generous in giving the English Coast Path a B. But, on further thought, there is probably not that much more room for improvement, without duplicating material in regional articles. I've been pondering the way some short articles are rated. For example Gaitors is listed as start class (see also Spats). Well how much more can be said about these exciting topic? Perhaps sections on other religions, gaitors on Everest (though the invention and history need attention)? Shouldn't Gaitors, and Spats, be at least a C. I've a feeling that there are lots of similar start class articles that are under-rated: short articles where there's limited room for expansion. Best wishes, Rwood128 ( talk) 11:45, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Philoserf, this is Dan Cook. I am being paid by US PIRG to improve the Public Interest Research Group page. Thanks for your input on my last edits! Quick question: The page title and the infobox do not exactly agree. Do you think it would be better to have a separate page entitled US PIRG, with that infobox included there, rather than on the current page? Or is it best just to leave it as is? Thanks in advance for your thoughts. DanDavidCook ( talk) 15:39, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi User:Philoserf, seeking your assistance once again. The info box on the PIRG page does not match either the topic of the page or the correct details of US PIRG. My thinking is that the best way to solve it is to treat the info box as an aid to those who want to know about the organization US PIRG. To make it accurate, the formation date would need to be changed to 1984, and the Founder Ralph Nader would need to be deleted. (Nader had nothing to do with the creation of US PIRG.) All the other information is accurate. Would you be willing to make these updates, or would you prefer that I use the Simple COI edit form? Thanks! DanDavidCook ( talk) 21:45, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, I think we should go with 1984. My research suggests the idea for a national lobbying organization was formalized in 1983 but the organization was not incorporated until 1984. It's public filings--nonprofits must file an annual 990 form reporting to the IRS--list 1984 as the founding year.
In 2015, US PIRG filed form 990 with the federal government for its 2014 fiscal year. On that form its founding date is listed as 1984. I think we should cite that since it's an official form. You can find the 2014 form here: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/u-s-pirg-education-fund/ You can check the other forms on this page; they all list 1984 as "Year of formation."
Are you familiar with Guidestar? It's information comes from those same public documents filed by nonprofits. US PIRG is a nonprofit and its Guidestar page says 1984: https://www.guidestar.org/profile/04-2790740
Let me know what you think. Not a lot of coverage of its founding, but generally public documents are acceptable. DanDavidCook ( talk) 23:41, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi User:Philoserf, I have posted the proposed revisions for the PIRG info box on the article talk page in the Simple COI Request format, just to be as transparent as possible about what I am suggesting. If you have time, I would appreciate your review and any feedback. Thanks! DanDavidCook ( talk) 17:30, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi there! Thanks for going through all those RPG articles with a script. There were too many for me to go through and check personally, but as for the ones on my watchlist, I did notice several times involving the same reference where it edited the name field like so: [2] It should be "|last=Appelcline|first=Shannon" so I am going to correct the ones on my watchlist which came out like that, but I'm sure I will miss instances where the other articles are not on my watchlist. Just letting you know, since the script probably cannot tell a first name from a last name. BOZ ( talk) 12:45, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
This is a test. This is only a test.
—¿philoserf? (
talk) 22:11, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
I undid your changes to Raphaèle Herbin. First of all, the article is written using Citation Style 2 (the {{ citation}} template) and you changed it to use Citation Style 1 (the {{ cite book}} template); as WP:CITEVAR says, don't do that. Perhaps less significantly, the article is also written with its references at the end, and you changed that to put the reference text in the middle of the article text; that's also a violation of WP:CITEVAR. Second, the article deliberately used reviews of her books as references, because the reviews are reliable sources: something written by someone else and properly published that discusses Herbin or her works. You changed them to citations to the books themselves, which cannot be used as sources in an article about Herbin because they are works by her and not about her or her works. Again, don't do that, please. — David Eppstein ( talk) 05:32, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Articles are listed in this category when |zbl=
is assigned a temporary identifier; a temporary identifier has eight digits without punctuation. Temporary identifiers should be replaced with persistent identifiers as soon as they become known.
In this case, there is nothing to repair; the temporary id is correct for now, until zbl assigns it a more permanent one. —
David Eppstein (
talk) 06:23, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello Philoserf! I noticed you changed the footnote style for a reference on the Rabbit hemorrhagic disease article. It now no longer matches the footnote style used for all the other references on the page. Is there a reason you feel this is necessary? If not I will change it back to match the others. Thank you, Rabbit Vet ( talk) 17:41, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
I have seen you put some talk page goodness on some of the pages I follow, such as on this one, and appreciate these adds. Are you doing those adds manually or do you have a bot or something else to help with them? I have not seen the first two you added, and think they may be beneficial on other pages as well. Thanks. --- FULBERT ( talk) 20:00, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
redated
—¿philoserf? ( talk) 20:09, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, regarding recent edits to
Christos Papakyriakopoulos, reason I set |pmc=<!--none-->
is that there's an ongoing issue with bots wanting to add incorrect PMCs to certain citations, as happened in the edit following yours, so I set the PMC value like that to prevent it. I have reported the bot issue and hopefully there will be a resolution, as I agree it is not ideal to have to set dummy parameter values like that. Thanks
Rjwilmsi 11:04, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I notice you use reFill. Whilst it's a useful tool, it's not foolproof. It hasn't been updated since |deadurl= was dropped in favour of |url-status=. Additionally, it will sometimes convert a bare ref to cite journal but not add |journal=. Both of these cause errors on the page such as [3]. Citation bot will also sometimes change template types to cite journal without adding the journal. Could I ask you to check for these errors when using these tools. Regards -- John B123 ( talk) 20:17, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Hallo, Please check that when you use Refill you end up with an improved reference. I don't think this edit helped. I'm not sure where the info about MKH computer services and James Kirbie comes from, presumably it's where the LDWA data is hosted, but it's not a useful part of either reference. I got much the same when I put the URL of the Register into the reference box and clicked on the "autofill": it needed manual editing to get a decent reference. I've rejigged the sentence completely and I think it's better than it's been for years. But I hope that you do look at the changes which Refill is suggesting and make sure that they are sensible: it is obviously easily confused as in this case. Thanks. Pam D 17:20, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
Given this diff
{{
dead link}}
template added{{
fact}}
tag added.I would agree the citation is more informational than anything else, providing readers pictures of the tomb. But it is certainly not a dead citation. -- Green C 16:16, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Philoserf! Thank you for catching and fixing whatever it was that I did to garble the reference in the Abu Nuwas article!! - Jkgree ( talk) 15:38, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
P.S.-- My grandparents lived in Jamestown when I was very young. I remember we would take a l-o-n-g ride from Buffalo/Amherst to visit them, and I was amazed that I could travel that very long distance and go into a new house and there was a photo of me on the mantelpiece!!! That was strange, wonderful and unfathomable to me. - Jkgree ( talk) 15:52, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
I think completely emptying out article talk pages can lead to possibly duplicate discussions, which are discouraged per WP:TALK. Talk pages with less than 10 sections generally don't need archiving, in my opinion.
If you could kindly refrain from emptying out article talk pages, I would appreciate it. I'm going to undo your archiving at Talk:Hiking. — hike395 ( talk) 04:12, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
Greetings, Please see discussion at User talk:Community Tech bot/Popular pages config.json regarding why adding "No Includes" on a Title line breaks the Popular pages bot. JoeNMLC ( talk) 14:36, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
I noticed here and two prior deletions, that you deleted text from the Talk page instead of setting up an Archive. My understanding, and I am no expert on all the rules and common practices, that doing a one-time archive action or setting up a regular archive routine using a bot is preferred for dealing with old information on the Talk page for an article. See WP:ARCHIVE. I have set up archives just once or twice, and that was for pages with huge long lists of topics that were resolved over 10 years ago. -- Prairieplant ( talk) 09:18, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi Philoserf. hope you enjoy the welcome message above. again, welcome to Wikipedia!!! by the way, I was glad to see your message at the Teahouse about possibly reactivating a WikiProject. I'd be glad to help if I can. Please feel free to keep me posted. thanks!! -- Sm8900 ( talk) 13:35, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
There is a very definite need to take care of the similarity or crossover with hiking trails project - either scoping or ways of dong things - as there might be some question as to whether there is a need for two ... JarrahTree 22:55, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
I thought I'd bring to your attention that there is a very formal process to go through before an article can be rated "GA". Please have a read at Wikipedia:Good articles. Not sure how many pages you have rated GA, like this one, but you might want to go back and drop the rating to something that is appropriate. Any questions, please ask (here's good; please include a ping). Schwede 66 19:57, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
This is on my watchlist and I will try to help out but I am old and busy. Keep up the good work. -- Bduke ( talk) 07:38, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
I don't think I've really left that project, just haven't worked on anything related to it for a while. Daniel Case ( talk) 19:54, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the invitation! I'm happy to put my name down, however with everyone at home under lockdown, I am a little snowed under with technical support. I'll definitely try and squeeze some time in; outdoors-y topics will be all the more relevant in the coming months. TheFreeman193 ( talk) 16:07, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
Whether or not <center>
is deprecated, it functions. Running around blindly removing it, without doing anything to preserve the function it performs, makes things worse, not better. Please stop.
E
Eng 23:49, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
<div style="text-align: center;">
or one of the other non-obsolete centering methods listed at
mw:Help:Lint errors/obsolete-tag. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 17:40, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
center
on an specific page. My apologies if I removed one you believe should have rather been converted.
—¿philoserf? (
talk) 17:55, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Philoserf, I noticed from your description on your user page that you live in the territory of Cascadia Wikimedians User Group. You can find information regarding Seattle meetups at Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle. The current president of CWUG is User:Peaceray. I hope that you will be able to attend events online or in person. ↠Pine (✉) 07:04, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your edit at the WikiProject Desk hiding dead sources! They can probably just be deleted, but that was the right action to do. =) It seems you're interested in WikiProjects: if you would like to hop on as a co-writer of the WikiProject Report I would love some help! I'm working on revamping the Report and perhaps it might revive WikiProjects as a whole. Anyways, just wanted to drop by and say thanks! -- Puddleglum 2.0( How's my driving?) 01:58, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Philoserf, Your enthusiasm is highly contagious. I went a little berserk yesterday and worked on improving various hiking/backpacking related articles and ended-up starting the Greater Patagonia Trail article. You will have seen that I gave it a High importance rating. That is somewhat contentious, and is probably too high, especially as it is an unofficial trail, or really more a collection of existing tracks. This is a very subjective area, as I'm realize more and more. Thus, my initial reaction was that you were overly generous in giving the English Coast Path a B. But, on further thought, there is probably not that much more room for improvement, without duplicating material in regional articles. I've been pondering the way some short articles are rated. For example Gaitors is listed as start class (see also Spats). Well how much more can be said about these exciting topic? Perhaps sections on other religions, gaitors on Everest (though the invention and history need attention)? Shouldn't Gaitors, and Spats, be at least a C. I've a feeling that there are lots of similar start class articles that are under-rated: short articles where there's limited room for expansion. Best wishes, Rwood128 ( talk) 11:45, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Philoserf, this is Dan Cook. I am being paid by US PIRG to improve the Public Interest Research Group page. Thanks for your input on my last edits! Quick question: The page title and the infobox do not exactly agree. Do you think it would be better to have a separate page entitled US PIRG, with that infobox included there, rather than on the current page? Or is it best just to leave it as is? Thanks in advance for your thoughts. DanDavidCook ( talk) 15:39, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
{{ aye}}
Hi User:Philoserf, seeking your assistance once again. The info box on the PIRG page does not match either the topic of the page or the correct details of US PIRG. My thinking is that the best way to solve it is to treat the info box as an aid to those who want to know about the organization US PIRG. To make it accurate, the formation date would need to be changed to 1984, and the Founder Ralph Nader would need to be deleted. (Nader had nothing to do with the creation of US PIRG.) All the other information is accurate. Would you be willing to make these updates, or would you prefer that I use the Simple COI edit form? Thanks! DanDavidCook ( talk) 21:45, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
{{ aye}}
Hi there, I think we should go with 1984. My research suggests the idea for a national lobbying organization was formalized in 1983 but the organization was not incorporated until 1984. It's public filings--nonprofits must file an annual 990 form reporting to the IRS--list 1984 as the founding year.
In 2015, US PIRG filed form 990 with the federal government for its 2014 fiscal year. On that form its founding date is listed as 1984. I think we should cite that since it's an official form. You can find the 2014 form here: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/u-s-pirg-education-fund/ You can check the other forms on this page; they all list 1984 as "Year of formation."
Are you familiar with Guidestar? It's information comes from those same public documents filed by nonprofits. US PIRG is a nonprofit and its Guidestar page says 1984: https://www.guidestar.org/profile/04-2790740
Let me know what you think. Not a lot of coverage of its founding, but generally public documents are acceptable. DanDavidCook ( talk) 23:41, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
{{ aye}}
Hi User:Philoserf, I have posted the proposed revisions for the PIRG info box on the article talk page in the Simple COI Request format, just to be as transparent as possible about what I am suggesting. If you have time, I would appreciate your review and any feedback. Thanks! DanDavidCook ( talk) 17:30, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
{{ aye}}
For an article to be rated as A-class, it has to pass a specific A-class review, such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/A-Class review. In practice, this only really takes place in the Military History wikiproject. Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 01:34, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
Retained from the original user’s talk page, as they had deleted the conversation.
You edit, I revert, you revert that revert? I would expect you to seek consensus rather than just exclaim, “nonsense”. ref: diff of second revert —¿philoserf? ( talk) 19:23, 3 April 2020 (UTC) (reply)
Hi there! Thanks for going through all those RPG articles with a script. There were too many for me to go through and check personally, but as for the ones on my watchlist, I did notice several times involving the same reference where it edited the name field like so: [5] It should be "|last=Appelcline|first=Shannon" so I am going to correct the ones on my watchlist which came out like that, but I'm sure I will miss instances where the other articles are not on my watchlist. Just letting you know, since the script probably cannot tell a first name from a last name. BOZ ( talk) 12:45, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
I undid your changes to Raphaèle Herbin. First of all, the article is written using Citation Style 2 (the {{ citation}} template) and you changed it to use Citation Style 1 (the {{ cite book}} template); as WP:CITEVAR says, don't do that. Perhaps less significantly, the article is also written with its references at the end, and you changed that to put the reference text in the middle of the article text; that's also a violation of WP:CITEVAR. Second, the article deliberately used reviews of her books as references, because the reviews are reliable sources: something written by someone else and properly published that discusses Herbin or her works. You changed them to citations to the books themselves, which cannot be used as sources in an article about Herbin because they are works by her and not about her or her works. Again, don't do that, please. — David Eppstein ( talk) 05:32, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Articles are listed in this category when |zbl=
is assigned a temporary identifier; a temporary identifier has eight digits without punctuation. Temporary identifiers should be replaced with persistent identifiers as soon as they become known.
In this case, there is nothing to repair; the temporary id is correct for now, until zbl assigns it a more permanent one. —
David Eppstein (
talk) 06:23, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello Philoserf! I noticed you changed the footnote style for a reference on the Rabbit hemorrhagic disease article. It now no longer matches the footnote style used for all the other references on the page. Is there a reason you feel this is necessary? If not I will change it back to match the others. Thank you, Rabbit Vet ( talk) 17:41, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
I have seen you put some talk page goodness on some of the pages I follow, such as on this one, and appreciate these adds. Are you doing those adds manually or do you have a bot or something else to help with them? I have not seen the first two you added, and think they may be beneficial on other pages as well. Thanks. --- FULBERT ( talk) 20:00, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
redated
—¿philoserf? ( talk) 20:09, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, regarding recent edits to
Christos Papakyriakopoulos, reason I set |pmc=<!--none-->
is that there's an ongoing issue with bots wanting to add incorrect PMCs to certain citations, as happened in the edit following yours, so I set the PMC value like that to prevent it. I have reported the bot issue and hopefully there will be a resolution, as I agree it is not ideal to have to set dummy parameter values like that. Thanks
Rjwilmsi 11:04, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I notice you use reFill. Whilst it's a useful tool, it's not foolproof. It hasn't been updated since |deadurl= was dropped in favour of |url-status=. Additionally, it will sometimes convert a bare ref to cite journal but not add |journal=. Both of these cause errors on the page such as [6]. Citation bot will also sometimes change template types to cite journal without adding the journal. Could I ask you to check for these errors when using these tools. Regards -- John B123 ( talk) 20:17, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Hallo, Please check that when you use Refill you end up with an improved reference. I don't think this edit helped. I'm not sure where the info about MKH computer services and James Kirbie comes from, presumably it's where the LDWA data is hosted, but it's not a useful part of either reference. I got much the same when I put the URL of the Register into the reference box and clicked on the "autofill": it needed manual editing to get a decent reference. I've rejigged the sentence completely and I think it's better than it's been for years. But I hope that you do look at the changes which Refill is suggesting and make sure that they are sensible: it is obviously easily confused as in this case. Thanks. Pam D 17:20, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
Given this diff
{{
dead link}}
template added{{
fact}}
tag added.I would agree the citation is more informational than anything else, providing readers pictures of the tomb. But it is certainly not a dead citation. -- Green C 16:16, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Philoserf! Thank you for catching and fixing whatever it was that I did to garble the reference in the Abu Nuwas article!! - Jkgree ( talk) 15:38, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
P.S.-- My grandparents lived in Jamestown when I was very young. I remember we would take a l-o-n-g ride from Buffalo/Amherst to visit them, and I was amazed that I could travel that very long distance and go into a new house and there was a photo of me on the mantelpiece!!! That was strange, wonderful and unfathomable to me. - Jkgree ( talk) 15:52, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
I think completely emptying out article talk pages can lead to possibly duplicate discussions, which are discouraged per WP:TALK. Talk pages with less than 10 sections generally don't need archiving, in my opinion.
If you could kindly refrain from emptying out article talk pages, I would appreciate it. I'm going to undo your archiving at Talk:Hiking. — hike395 ( talk) 04:12, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
Greetings, Please see discussion at User talk:Community Tech bot/Popular pages config.json regarding why adding "No Includes" on a Title line breaks the Popular pages bot. JoeNMLC ( talk) 14:36, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
I noticed here and two prior deletions, that you deleted text from the Talk page instead of setting up an Archive. My understanding, and I am no expert on all the rules and common practices, that doing a one-time archive action or setting up a regular archive routine using a bot is preferred for dealing with old information on the Talk page for an article. See WP:ARCHIVE. I have set up archives just once or twice, and that was for pages with huge long lists of topics that were resolved over 10 years ago. -- Prairieplant ( talk) 09:18, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Philoserf! I saw you recently edited a page related to the Green party and green politics. There is a WikiProject that has been formed - WikiProject Green Politics and I thought this might be something you'd be interested in joining! So please head on over to the project page and take a look! Thanks for your time. Me-123567-Me ( talk) 21:48, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Yep, you win the award for best userpage I've seen this month... thanks for making Wikipedia "less un-funny" :) Aza24 ( talk) 03:17, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
See here. I assume it's an error, and have reverted it. I'm not good at writing short descriptions, so I haven't replaced it. Thanks. BilCat ( talk) 23:02, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 |
This is on my watchlist and I will try to help out but I am old and busy. Keep up the good work. -- Bduke ( talk) 07:38, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
I don't think I've really left that project, just haven't worked on anything related to it for a while. Daniel Case ( talk) 19:54, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the invitation! I'm happy to put my name down, however with everyone at home under lockdown, I am a little snowed under with technical support. I'll definitely try and squeeze some time in; outdoors-y topics will be all the more relevant in the coming months. TheFreeman193 ( talk) 16:07, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
Whether or not <center>
is deprecated, it functions. Running around blindly removing it, without doing anything to preserve the function it performs, makes things worse, not better. Please stop.
E
Eng 23:49, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
<div style="text-align: center;">
or one of the other non-obsolete centering methods listed at
mw:Help:Lint errors/obsolete-tag. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 17:40, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
center
on an specific page. My apologies if I removed one you believe should have rather been converted.
—¿philoserf? (
talk) 17:55, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Philoserf, I noticed from your description on your user page that you live in the territory of Cascadia Wikimedians User Group. You can find information regarding Seattle meetups at Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle. The current president of CWUG is User:Peaceray. I hope that you will be able to attend events online or in person. ↠Pine (✉) 07:04, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your edit at the WikiProject Desk hiding dead sources! They can probably just be deleted, but that was the right action to do. =) It seems you're interested in WikiProjects: if you would like to hop on as a co-writer of the WikiProject Report I would love some help! I'm working on revamping the Report and perhaps it might revive WikiProjects as a whole. Anyways, just wanted to drop by and say thanks! -- Puddleglum 2.0( How's my driving?) 01:58, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Philoserf, Your enthusiasm is highly contagious. I went a little berserk yesterday and worked on improving various hiking/backpacking related articles and ended-up starting the Greater Patagonia Trail article. You will have seen that I gave it a High importance rating. That is somewhat contentious, and is probably too high, especially as it is an unofficial trail, or really more a collection of existing tracks. This is a very subjective area, as I'm realize more and more. Thus, my initial reaction was that you were overly generous in giving the English Coast Path a B. But, on further thought, there is probably not that much more room for improvement, without duplicating material in regional articles. I've been pondering the way some short articles are rated. For example Gaitors is listed as start class (see also Spats). Well how much more can be said about these exciting topic? Perhaps sections on other religions, gaitors on Everest (though the invention and history need attention)? Shouldn't Gaitors, and Spats, be at least a C. I've a feeling that there are lots of similar start class articles that are under-rated: short articles where there's limited room for expansion. Best wishes, Rwood128 ( talk) 11:45, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Philoserf, this is Dan Cook. I am being paid by US PIRG to improve the Public Interest Research Group page. Thanks for your input on my last edits! Quick question: The page title and the infobox do not exactly agree. Do you think it would be better to have a separate page entitled US PIRG, with that infobox included there, rather than on the current page? Or is it best just to leave it as is? Thanks in advance for your thoughts. DanDavidCook ( talk) 15:39, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi User:Philoserf, seeking your assistance once again. The info box on the PIRG page does not match either the topic of the page or the correct details of US PIRG. My thinking is that the best way to solve it is to treat the info box as an aid to those who want to know about the organization US PIRG. To make it accurate, the formation date would need to be changed to 1984, and the Founder Ralph Nader would need to be deleted. (Nader had nothing to do with the creation of US PIRG.) All the other information is accurate. Would you be willing to make these updates, or would you prefer that I use the Simple COI edit form? Thanks! DanDavidCook ( talk) 21:45, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, I think we should go with 1984. My research suggests the idea for a national lobbying organization was formalized in 1983 but the organization was not incorporated until 1984. It's public filings--nonprofits must file an annual 990 form reporting to the IRS--list 1984 as the founding year.
In 2015, US PIRG filed form 990 with the federal government for its 2014 fiscal year. On that form its founding date is listed as 1984. I think we should cite that since it's an official form. You can find the 2014 form here: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/u-s-pirg-education-fund/ You can check the other forms on this page; they all list 1984 as "Year of formation."
Are you familiar with Guidestar? It's information comes from those same public documents filed by nonprofits. US PIRG is a nonprofit and its Guidestar page says 1984: https://www.guidestar.org/profile/04-2790740
Let me know what you think. Not a lot of coverage of its founding, but generally public documents are acceptable. DanDavidCook ( talk) 23:41, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi User:Philoserf, I have posted the proposed revisions for the PIRG info box on the article talk page in the Simple COI Request format, just to be as transparent as possible about what I am suggesting. If you have time, I would appreciate your review and any feedback. Thanks! DanDavidCook ( talk) 17:30, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi there! Thanks for going through all those RPG articles with a script. There were too many for me to go through and check personally, but as for the ones on my watchlist, I did notice several times involving the same reference where it edited the name field like so: [2] It should be "|last=Appelcline|first=Shannon" so I am going to correct the ones on my watchlist which came out like that, but I'm sure I will miss instances where the other articles are not on my watchlist. Just letting you know, since the script probably cannot tell a first name from a last name. BOZ ( talk) 12:45, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
This is a test. This is only a test.
—¿philoserf? (
talk) 22:11, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
I undid your changes to Raphaèle Herbin. First of all, the article is written using Citation Style 2 (the {{ citation}} template) and you changed it to use Citation Style 1 (the {{ cite book}} template); as WP:CITEVAR says, don't do that. Perhaps less significantly, the article is also written with its references at the end, and you changed that to put the reference text in the middle of the article text; that's also a violation of WP:CITEVAR. Second, the article deliberately used reviews of her books as references, because the reviews are reliable sources: something written by someone else and properly published that discusses Herbin or her works. You changed them to citations to the books themselves, which cannot be used as sources in an article about Herbin because they are works by her and not about her or her works. Again, don't do that, please. — David Eppstein ( talk) 05:32, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Articles are listed in this category when |zbl=
is assigned a temporary identifier; a temporary identifier has eight digits without punctuation. Temporary identifiers should be replaced with persistent identifiers as soon as they become known.
In this case, there is nothing to repair; the temporary id is correct for now, until zbl assigns it a more permanent one. —
David Eppstein (
talk) 06:23, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello Philoserf! I noticed you changed the footnote style for a reference on the Rabbit hemorrhagic disease article. It now no longer matches the footnote style used for all the other references on the page. Is there a reason you feel this is necessary? If not I will change it back to match the others. Thank you, Rabbit Vet ( talk) 17:41, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
I have seen you put some talk page goodness on some of the pages I follow, such as on this one, and appreciate these adds. Are you doing those adds manually or do you have a bot or something else to help with them? I have not seen the first two you added, and think they may be beneficial on other pages as well. Thanks. --- FULBERT ( talk) 20:00, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
redated
—¿philoserf? ( talk) 20:09, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, regarding recent edits to
Christos Papakyriakopoulos, reason I set |pmc=<!--none-->
is that there's an ongoing issue with bots wanting to add incorrect PMCs to certain citations, as happened in the edit following yours, so I set the PMC value like that to prevent it. I have reported the bot issue and hopefully there will be a resolution, as I agree it is not ideal to have to set dummy parameter values like that. Thanks
Rjwilmsi 11:04, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I notice you use reFill. Whilst it's a useful tool, it's not foolproof. It hasn't been updated since |deadurl= was dropped in favour of |url-status=. Additionally, it will sometimes convert a bare ref to cite journal but not add |journal=. Both of these cause errors on the page such as [3]. Citation bot will also sometimes change template types to cite journal without adding the journal. Could I ask you to check for these errors when using these tools. Regards -- John B123 ( talk) 20:17, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Hallo, Please check that when you use Refill you end up with an improved reference. I don't think this edit helped. I'm not sure where the info about MKH computer services and James Kirbie comes from, presumably it's where the LDWA data is hosted, but it's not a useful part of either reference. I got much the same when I put the URL of the Register into the reference box and clicked on the "autofill": it needed manual editing to get a decent reference. I've rejigged the sentence completely and I think it's better than it's been for years. But I hope that you do look at the changes which Refill is suggesting and make sure that they are sensible: it is obviously easily confused as in this case. Thanks. Pam D 17:20, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
Given this diff
{{
dead link}}
template added{{
fact}}
tag added.I would agree the citation is more informational than anything else, providing readers pictures of the tomb. But it is certainly not a dead citation. -- Green C 16:16, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Philoserf! Thank you for catching and fixing whatever it was that I did to garble the reference in the Abu Nuwas article!! - Jkgree ( talk) 15:38, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
P.S.-- My grandparents lived in Jamestown when I was very young. I remember we would take a l-o-n-g ride from Buffalo/Amherst to visit them, and I was amazed that I could travel that very long distance and go into a new house and there was a photo of me on the mantelpiece!!! That was strange, wonderful and unfathomable to me. - Jkgree ( talk) 15:52, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
I think completely emptying out article talk pages can lead to possibly duplicate discussions, which are discouraged per WP:TALK. Talk pages with less than 10 sections generally don't need archiving, in my opinion.
If you could kindly refrain from emptying out article talk pages, I would appreciate it. I'm going to undo your archiving at Talk:Hiking. — hike395 ( talk) 04:12, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
Greetings, Please see discussion at User talk:Community Tech bot/Popular pages config.json regarding why adding "No Includes" on a Title line breaks the Popular pages bot. JoeNMLC ( talk) 14:36, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
I noticed here and two prior deletions, that you deleted text from the Talk page instead of setting up an Archive. My understanding, and I am no expert on all the rules and common practices, that doing a one-time archive action or setting up a regular archive routine using a bot is preferred for dealing with old information on the Talk page for an article. See WP:ARCHIVE. I have set up archives just once or twice, and that was for pages with huge long lists of topics that were resolved over 10 years ago. -- Prairieplant ( talk) 09:18, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Hi Philoserf. hope you enjoy the welcome message above. again, welcome to Wikipedia!!! by the way, I was glad to see your message at the Teahouse about possibly reactivating a WikiProject. I'd be glad to help if I can. Please feel free to keep me posted. thanks!! -- Sm8900 ( talk) 13:35, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
There is a very definite need to take care of the similarity or crossover with hiking trails project - either scoping or ways of dong things - as there might be some question as to whether there is a need for two ... JarrahTree 22:55, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
I thought I'd bring to your attention that there is a very formal process to go through before an article can be rated "GA". Please have a read at Wikipedia:Good articles. Not sure how many pages you have rated GA, like this one, but you might want to go back and drop the rating to something that is appropriate. Any questions, please ask (here's good; please include a ping). Schwede 66 19:57, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
This is on my watchlist and I will try to help out but I am old and busy. Keep up the good work. -- Bduke ( talk) 07:38, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
I don't think I've really left that project, just haven't worked on anything related to it for a while. Daniel Case ( talk) 19:54, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the invitation! I'm happy to put my name down, however with everyone at home under lockdown, I am a little snowed under with technical support. I'll definitely try and squeeze some time in; outdoors-y topics will be all the more relevant in the coming months. TheFreeman193 ( talk) 16:07, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
Whether or not <center>
is deprecated, it functions. Running around blindly removing it, without doing anything to preserve the function it performs, makes things worse, not better. Please stop.
E
Eng 23:49, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
<div style="text-align: center;">
or one of the other non-obsolete centering methods listed at
mw:Help:Lint errors/obsolete-tag. –
Jonesey95 (
talk) 17:40, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
center
on an specific page. My apologies if I removed one you believe should have rather been converted.
—¿philoserf? (
talk) 17:55, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Philoserf, I noticed from your description on your user page that you live in the territory of Cascadia Wikimedians User Group. You can find information regarding Seattle meetups at Wikipedia:Meetup/Seattle. The current president of CWUG is User:Peaceray. I hope that you will be able to attend events online or in person. ↠Pine (✉) 07:04, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your edit at the WikiProject Desk hiding dead sources! They can probably just be deleted, but that was the right action to do. =) It seems you're interested in WikiProjects: if you would like to hop on as a co-writer of the WikiProject Report I would love some help! I'm working on revamping the Report and perhaps it might revive WikiProjects as a whole. Anyways, just wanted to drop by and say thanks! -- Puddleglum 2.0( How's my driving?) 01:58, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Philoserf, Your enthusiasm is highly contagious. I went a little berserk yesterday and worked on improving various hiking/backpacking related articles and ended-up starting the Greater Patagonia Trail article. You will have seen that I gave it a High importance rating. That is somewhat contentious, and is probably too high, especially as it is an unofficial trail, or really more a collection of existing tracks. This is a very subjective area, as I'm realize more and more. Thus, my initial reaction was that you were overly generous in giving the English Coast Path a B. But, on further thought, there is probably not that much more room for improvement, without duplicating material in regional articles. I've been pondering the way some short articles are rated. For example Gaitors is listed as start class (see also Spats). Well how much more can be said about these exciting topic? Perhaps sections on other religions, gaitors on Everest (though the invention and history need attention)? Shouldn't Gaitors, and Spats, be at least a C. I've a feeling that there are lots of similar start class articles that are under-rated: short articles where there's limited room for expansion. Best wishes, Rwood128 ( talk) 11:45, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
Hi Philoserf, this is Dan Cook. I am being paid by US PIRG to improve the Public Interest Research Group page. Thanks for your input on my last edits! Quick question: The page title and the infobox do not exactly agree. Do you think it would be better to have a separate page entitled US PIRG, with that infobox included there, rather than on the current page? Or is it best just to leave it as is? Thanks in advance for your thoughts. DanDavidCook ( talk) 15:39, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
{{ aye}}
Hi User:Philoserf, seeking your assistance once again. The info box on the PIRG page does not match either the topic of the page or the correct details of US PIRG. My thinking is that the best way to solve it is to treat the info box as an aid to those who want to know about the organization US PIRG. To make it accurate, the formation date would need to be changed to 1984, and the Founder Ralph Nader would need to be deleted. (Nader had nothing to do with the creation of US PIRG.) All the other information is accurate. Would you be willing to make these updates, or would you prefer that I use the Simple COI edit form? Thanks! DanDavidCook ( talk) 21:45, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
{{ aye}}
Hi there, I think we should go with 1984. My research suggests the idea for a national lobbying organization was formalized in 1983 but the organization was not incorporated until 1984. It's public filings--nonprofits must file an annual 990 form reporting to the IRS--list 1984 as the founding year.
In 2015, US PIRG filed form 990 with the federal government for its 2014 fiscal year. On that form its founding date is listed as 1984. I think we should cite that since it's an official form. You can find the 2014 form here: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/u-s-pirg-education-fund/ You can check the other forms on this page; they all list 1984 as "Year of formation."
Are you familiar with Guidestar? It's information comes from those same public documents filed by nonprofits. US PIRG is a nonprofit and its Guidestar page says 1984: https://www.guidestar.org/profile/04-2790740
Let me know what you think. Not a lot of coverage of its founding, but generally public documents are acceptable. DanDavidCook ( talk) 23:41, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
{{ aye}}
Hi User:Philoserf, I have posted the proposed revisions for the PIRG info box on the article talk page in the Simple COI Request format, just to be as transparent as possible about what I am suggesting. If you have time, I would appreciate your review and any feedback. Thanks! DanDavidCook ( talk) 17:30, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
{{ aye}}
For an article to be rated as A-class, it has to pass a specific A-class review, such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/A-Class review. In practice, this only really takes place in the Military History wikiproject. Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 01:34, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
Retained from the original user’s talk page, as they had deleted the conversation.
You edit, I revert, you revert that revert? I would expect you to seek consensus rather than just exclaim, “nonsense”. ref: diff of second revert —¿philoserf? ( talk) 19:23, 3 April 2020 (UTC) (reply)
Hi there! Thanks for going through all those RPG articles with a script. There were too many for me to go through and check personally, but as for the ones on my watchlist, I did notice several times involving the same reference where it edited the name field like so: [5] It should be "|last=Appelcline|first=Shannon" so I am going to correct the ones on my watchlist which came out like that, but I'm sure I will miss instances where the other articles are not on my watchlist. Just letting you know, since the script probably cannot tell a first name from a last name. BOZ ( talk) 12:45, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
I undid your changes to Raphaèle Herbin. First of all, the article is written using Citation Style 2 (the {{ citation}} template) and you changed it to use Citation Style 1 (the {{ cite book}} template); as WP:CITEVAR says, don't do that. Perhaps less significantly, the article is also written with its references at the end, and you changed that to put the reference text in the middle of the article text; that's also a violation of WP:CITEVAR. Second, the article deliberately used reviews of her books as references, because the reviews are reliable sources: something written by someone else and properly published that discusses Herbin or her works. You changed them to citations to the books themselves, which cannot be used as sources in an article about Herbin because they are works by her and not about her or her works. Again, don't do that, please. — David Eppstein ( talk) 05:32, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Articles are listed in this category when |zbl=
is assigned a temporary identifier; a temporary identifier has eight digits without punctuation. Temporary identifiers should be replaced with persistent identifiers as soon as they become known.
In this case, there is nothing to repair; the temporary id is correct for now, until zbl assigns it a more permanent one. —
David Eppstein (
talk) 06:23, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello Philoserf! I noticed you changed the footnote style for a reference on the Rabbit hemorrhagic disease article. It now no longer matches the footnote style used for all the other references on the page. Is there a reason you feel this is necessary? If not I will change it back to match the others. Thank you, Rabbit Vet ( talk) 17:41, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
I have seen you put some talk page goodness on some of the pages I follow, such as on this one, and appreciate these adds. Are you doing those adds manually or do you have a bot or something else to help with them? I have not seen the first two you added, and think they may be beneficial on other pages as well. Thanks. --- FULBERT ( talk) 20:00, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
redated
—¿philoserf? ( talk) 20:09, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, regarding recent edits to
Christos Papakyriakopoulos, reason I set |pmc=<!--none-->
is that there's an ongoing issue with bots wanting to add incorrect PMCs to certain citations, as happened in the edit following yours, so I set the PMC value like that to prevent it. I have reported the bot issue and hopefully there will be a resolution, as I agree it is not ideal to have to set dummy parameter values like that. Thanks
Rjwilmsi 11:04, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi. I notice you use reFill. Whilst it's a useful tool, it's not foolproof. It hasn't been updated since |deadurl= was dropped in favour of |url-status=. Additionally, it will sometimes convert a bare ref to cite journal but not add |journal=. Both of these cause errors on the page such as [6]. Citation bot will also sometimes change template types to cite journal without adding the journal. Could I ask you to check for these errors when using these tools. Regards -- John B123 ( talk) 20:17, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
Hallo, Please check that when you use Refill you end up with an improved reference. I don't think this edit helped. I'm not sure where the info about MKH computer services and James Kirbie comes from, presumably it's where the LDWA data is hosted, but it's not a useful part of either reference. I got much the same when I put the URL of the Register into the reference box and clicked on the "autofill": it needed manual editing to get a decent reference. I've rejigged the sentence completely and I think it's better than it's been for years. But I hope that you do look at the changes which Refill is suggesting and make sure that they are sensible: it is obviously easily confused as in this case. Thanks. Pam D 17:20, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
Given this diff
{{
dead link}}
template added{{
fact}}
tag added.I would agree the citation is more informational than anything else, providing readers pictures of the tomb. But it is certainly not a dead citation. -- Green C 16:16, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Philoserf! Thank you for catching and fixing whatever it was that I did to garble the reference in the Abu Nuwas article!! - Jkgree ( talk) 15:38, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
P.S.-- My grandparents lived in Jamestown when I was very young. I remember we would take a l-o-n-g ride from Buffalo/Amherst to visit them, and I was amazed that I could travel that very long distance and go into a new house and there was a photo of me on the mantelpiece!!! That was strange, wonderful and unfathomable to me. - Jkgree ( talk) 15:52, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
I think completely emptying out article talk pages can lead to possibly duplicate discussions, which are discouraged per WP:TALK. Talk pages with less than 10 sections generally don't need archiving, in my opinion.
If you could kindly refrain from emptying out article talk pages, I would appreciate it. I'm going to undo your archiving at Talk:Hiking. — hike395 ( talk) 04:12, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
Greetings, Please see discussion at User talk:Community Tech bot/Popular pages config.json regarding why adding "No Includes" on a Title line breaks the Popular pages bot. JoeNMLC ( talk) 14:36, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
I noticed here and two prior deletions, that you deleted text from the Talk page instead of setting up an Archive. My understanding, and I am no expert on all the rules and common practices, that doing a one-time archive action or setting up a regular archive routine using a bot is preferred for dealing with old information on the Talk page for an article. See WP:ARCHIVE. I have set up archives just once or twice, and that was for pages with huge long lists of topics that were resolved over 10 years ago. -- Prairieplant ( talk) 09:18, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
Hello, Philoserf! I saw you recently edited a page related to the Green party and green politics. There is a WikiProject that has been formed - WikiProject Green Politics and I thought this might be something you'd be interested in joining! So please head on over to the project page and take a look! Thanks for your time. Me-123567-Me ( talk) 21:48, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
Yep, you win the award for best userpage I've seen this month... thanks for making Wikipedia "less un-funny" :) Aza24 ( talk) 03:17, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
See here. I assume it's an error, and have reverted it. I'm not good at writing short descriptions, so I haven't replaced it. Thanks. BilCat ( talk) 23:02, 28 July 2021 (UTC)