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are you still around? kindly ping. —usernamekiran (talk) 18:37, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi.
I would like to create a template for a succession box similar to {{
S-gov}}, where can I find the related source code, and a few tips about that? (this time, you are the only one receiving the message
as you are one of the only three editors that I talk to, who I think can do this [others being Xaosflux, and JJMC].) —usernamekiran
(talk) 20:55, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
|-
! colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #bebebe;" | Government offices
which you can see from view source; creates one row of a table; colspan means the government offices text appears across 3 columns
Galobtter (
pingó mió) 05:11, 27 February 2018 (UTC) (
talk page watcher)Hi. Regarding this edit, per the WP:BRD, shouldn't the undiscussed move be reverted first, then a new RM initiated to determine whether it should be reinstated? -- Paul_012 ( talk) 13:31, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac. It seems you recently deleted an article entitled Brickbat. I would like to use its content to create a WP-acceptable article. Please could you restore it - maybe to a subpage for me - say User:Trafford09/Brickbat?
Thank you, Trafford09 ( talk) 13:24, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Point noted, and thank you for facilitating userfication. Would it be possible, please, for you also to restore the article's Talk page? I'd like to be reminded of - & perhaps make use of - its contents. Presumably User talk:Trafford09/Brickbat would be a sensible place? Thank you, Trafford09 ( talk) 13:58, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
@ Primefac: Sorry for pinging you, but I wasn't sure if you'd seen the last bit. Trafford09 ( talk) 15:02, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
My apologies - I wasn't sure if the system alerted somebody to any edit on their page. One learns new stuff! I do hope not to have offended you. Trafford09 ( talk) 20:45, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac. Do know how to resolve Talk:Shogi#Archives. I know that the talk page has been set up to archive and I know it is (or at least was) archiving, but I cannot find any links or search window for the archives. I'm wondering if they were accidentally removed as part of all the page moves that have recently taken place. I think this macron on/macron off thing about the name might have been previously discussed and that might be buried somewhere in the archives. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 13:45, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at WT:JAPAN#Date formats. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 05:22, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
I'm not married to using either the request dates or close dates; however, from what I've seen it seems customary to use request/nomination dates in the Old move and Old moves templates. Best of everything to you and yours! Paine Ellsworth put'r there 19:15, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
You recently relisted this tfd, and thank you for that. Could you go ahead and close the discussion as a merge? I just created the merged template and intend to place it in the relevant articles within the next 24 hours or so. Cheers. Jay eyem ( talk) 22:35, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
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that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.I have made a terrible mistake of starting the thread. I merely wanted to request a help. I didn't believe starting the thread like that is a topic-ban violation. Anyway, it was a bad idea. Could you close the thread? I'm just so terrified of the reactions there: as if my interest was to cause disruptions and apparently whatever I do is a mistake. -- Taku ( talk) 03:23, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Primefac, a couple of weeks back you deleted an article in draft space when I pointed out that it was the same as the original version of one that has been moved to mainspace and then deleted at AfD. I forget what the article was but there are a sock involved somewhere.
A similar situation now applies to another one. If you have time to go to the last two threads at User talk:Darrenmong, all should be made clear. Is this another CSD candidate? - Sitush ( talk) 20:17, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you've done a a lot of the editing to the AFC submission templates so hopefuly you can find this issue, or point me to where I should raise it. Some of the decline notices are coming out weird. See Draft:Curve Fever Pro and User:Ashokgajjala1/sandbox for example. Its not happening for all decline reasons just some. I've been looking for the error so I could raise an edit request but have failed to find it yet. Cheers KylieTastic ( talk) 18:37, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
I still feel like whatever I do keep creating more drama: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics#Draft:Level_structure. What is the correct reaction? Ignore the attack? Is there a response that will be a violation of the topic ban? I'm quite dismayed that even reverting the wrong redirect is not possible. I'm not trying to fire up things and I keep being blamed for the disruption like in the thread. (The dispute like that in the thread seems to be leading to the eventual indef-ban; in fact, happening. Sad. I should have just stick to the content development.) -- Taku ( talk) 01:05, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Considering that the module it calls is only semi-protected, it doesn't make much sense to template-protect {{ if preview}}. {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 21:33, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you increased the protection level on {{ Wikidata}} and {{ WikidataOI}}, but that you didn't do the same with Module:Wd, Module:Wd/i18n and Module:Wd/aliasesP while the templates use these modules as a basis. I would suggest to increase the protection level on the modules too. Thayts ••• 22:10, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac, do you know if there is a bot that can remove the unsupported parameters from pages using Infobox school? There's over 6,000 in Category:Pages using infobox school with unsupported parameters. I've been doing it manually bit by bit, very boring and time-consuming but decided to do it as no one else seems to be cleaning it up. Just looks a mess, please let me know - thank you :) Steven (Editor) ( talk) 20:25, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
|assistant_principal=
now that it's been deprecated? Sure. Would it involve (and should it involve) removing everything that isn't on the list? Dunno. I can see someone misspelling |etsablished=
- it shouldn't be removed, but fixed. Some of those "mistakes" could be fixed, such as Caption instead of caption, but I don't think one would be expected to fix every misspelling possibility.|assistant_principal=
) of the most commonly used improper names, I'd be happy to put in a BRFA.
Primefac (
talk) 16:07, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
|assistant_principal=
, |assistant_principals=
, |assistant principal=
, |Vice Principal=
, |vice principal=
, |asst principal=
, |campus_Bound=
, |viceprincipal=
, |viceprincipal_label=
, |viceprincipal1=
, |viceprincipal2=
, |viceprincipal3=
, |viceprincipal4=
, |vision=
. Please let me know, thank you
Steven (Editor) (
talk) 17:41, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
I see you have protected a template to which I contribute. How do I get template editor rights ? -- Robertiki ( talk) 03:35, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac,
Had I known about the whole attribution thing beforehand then I would've properly attributed it,
Anyway could the edit summary be un-revdelled providing I state state the diff as well as the article in that second comment ? .... My whole !vote is more or less centered around that comment and I feel like without it my entire !vote is pointless,
I can only ask but if "the damage has already been done" then you may want to revdel this too
[1],
Thanks, –
Davey2010
Talk 19:47, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Edit summary for revision XXXXXX was text copied from [[Foo]], see that article's history for attribution
TonyBallioni (
talk) 19:56, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello! The Wiki Education Foundation is developing a guide to help students write about all topics related to science communication, and I’m reaching out to a small number of experienced editors with interest in science topics on Wikipedia to see if they’d be interested in providing feedback. The handout is meant to supplement other resources that students consult, such as an interactive training and basic editing brochures. We’d appreciate any feedback on the draft by 3/12. Would you be interested in taking a look? — Cassidy (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 18:19, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi. Would you please take a look at special:diff/829223270, and share your thoughts which one is recommend by enwiki? Also pinging Cabayi. —usernamekiran (talk) 10:28, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
Is there a way for me to find the previous deletion discussion? I was unaware that an article on this company was posted previously. Slipandslide ( talk) 21:50, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac. Could you take a quick loko at the deleted version of Firnas Airways - does Draft:Firnas Airways qualify for G4? Deletion discussion here. Curb Safe Charmer ( talk) 16:25, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
You marked the logo I uploaded to this page for speedy deletion because I don't have proof that I have permission to use it. I could get the owner of the Breeze to email the permissions-en@wikimedia.org email but I was wondering if there is another way. Do bigger sports teams really have to get the owner of the team to email this person just to give them permission to use a logo? This seems like a little bit much in my opinion.
Also I know they are technically primary sources but why can't I just use the official website for the AUDL and DC Breeze as sources. The only things I'm citing are facts such as where they played, who coached them, and their score. There really aren't any sources besides these that have this information. Tylermachanic ( talk) 20:00, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
Primfac,
First let me thank you for being helpful. My first interaction with an editor has not been the same and it's really turning me off to Wikipedia. "Conflict of Interest" Yes, this is obviously the first page I have worked on. I was asked to edit this page by my employer, the widow of Mr. R.P. Hanes. I did not know and never met Mr. Hanes. His widow assigned the basic construction to a young man (with better computer skills) who utilized reference material as well as the bibliography from Mr. Hanes's published book. Once complete, I using materials the gentleman did not have, began to edit the entry. At no time has Mrs. Hanes been involved or directed the page in any way with the exception of providing a personal photo of Mr. Hanes (which is also now being questioned for copyright)
I was initially pleased with the page. I had discovered during my research that Mr. Hanes had committed nearly his entire life to the Arts and Conservation issues. This had resulted in a dearth of awards and honors over a long lifetime. I edited this down while still attempting to show the span of this man's work. Even after editing I admit, it was lengthy but then I considered that this was a bio on Wikipedia and was meant to reflect the truth of the life being recorded so I edited the list in. It was immediately completely removed by a Wiki-editor (GMG Go Means Go) who stated that "this was not a resume service". I find this off-putting when we are talking about an individual who has been dead for nearly eight years and is in no need of employment. I sent a message to GMG explaining that, being a novice, I was having trouble entering the references needed for the Awards verification and could he assist. His response was nothing but rude and arrogant. He offered no assistance whatsoever but again insisted this was not a resume service. Primfac, I realize that you are concerned regarding content but as these Awards & Honors are verified and a part of the whole truth of a bio, what is too much? Who makes that decision? I want nothing but for the page to be complete and correct in recording this biography. However, my first interaction with an editor had soured me on the process and for the first time made me seriously look at the content of Wikipedia articles. Can you help? Thank you for your time Twilder43 ( talk) 22:22, 8 March 2018 (UTC)Twilder
Hey! Primefac, you recently did something on my talk page with summary 'that's gonna break things'. I am not sure about what you did there and thus, I want to know the same. And I wanted to ask this random question: Why aren't you or Kudpung in the ArbCom? *just asking* Thanks! Dial911 ( talk) 01:09, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Template:Connected contributor (paid) has been nominated for merging with Template:Connected contributor. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 11:17, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac, trust you're great! Can you kindly help me delete this draft. I started the articles some days ago, but couldn't complete it in a go, so I said to draftify it till I have time to continue. Unfortunately/fotunately someone else created the article and I dont think my incomplete version is worth keeping anymore. Please is there also any mechanism put in place to prevent this from happening again. Regards, Mahveotm ( talk) 11:32, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Primefac. I was going to accept Draft:Danielle Jonas but Danielle Jonas is a redirect. Can you wave your mop and either do it or delete the redirect so I can? Thanks! -- GRuban ( talk) 00:34, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
Can you merge discussions on Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2018 March 9 since same reason, same voter and same nominator, thanks! Hhhhhkohhhhh ( talk) 07:12, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Primefac. I've just noticed that you protected a page some weeks ago that I'd like to edit: "Template:Metropolitan City of Turin". I just wanted to fix a link, that is the name of the Italian comune of "Cirié" which is currently spelled "Ciriè". English, Italian and all the other wikis have the correct name, and since this error is inside a template lots of pages are involved. Would you fix the link in my place, please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.64.164.113 ( talk) 17:30, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.64.165.94 ( talk) 18:30, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
Eish - sorry about that. Normally I'm better with checking for copyvio. Thanks for fixing. -- Elmidae ( talk · contribs) 05:51, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac, please see Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Account_creator#User:Danidamiobi. — xaosflux Talk 19:21, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Not to criticize your ECP protection of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants, which I think will be helpful in the long run; I am under the impression that pre-emptive protections are generally not exactly the best practice. I have just a couple minor concerns: 1) Perhaps I am just unaware, but was the AfC criteria of "must" ever discussed before? Because the wording, although long-standing, seems contradictory to the consensus in WP:PERM, in which criteria are meant to serve as guidelines and granting of permissions are meant to be discretionary. I assume this is because mandatory requirements in principle is probably against the open nature of Wikipedia, so if the AfC project continues to grow at the current pace, there should probably be more minimal non-existent oversight like PERM currently enjoys. 2) If the precedent of ECP protection is going to be set for a page like AFCP, shouldn't a discussion take place somewhere, since this is a page that may concern all administrators? If consensus emerges, perhaps we can go ahead and protect pages like WP:PERM/NPR as well, although I think it is highly unlikely. Regards, Alex Shih ( talk) 21:32, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac, would you mind taking a look at User:Ericisunknown21, and delete/revdel as you see fit? Thanks, Nzd (talk) 01:43, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
You closed a TFD for this template as a convert to subst only. I'm pretty sure there is a template that usually goes on the template's main page to indicate that result. Do you know what that is? -- Izno ( talk) 14:40, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello Primefac, thank you for your efforts reviewing New Page and AfC submissions and your support for the ACTRIAL initiative.
The conclusion to the ACTRIAL report commissioned by the Wikimedia Foundation strongly reiterates our long-time on going requirements for the NPP and AfC processes to be improved. Within minutes of the trial being switched off, the feed was swamped with inappropriate creations and users are being blocked already.
This is now the moment to continue to collaborate with the WMF and their developers to bring the entire Curation system up to date by making a firm commitment to addressing the
list of requirements to the excellent suite of tools the WMF developed for Curation. Some of these are already listed at Phabricator but may need a boost.
The conclusions also make some recommendations for AfC.
A place to discuss these issues initially is
here where you are already a task force member.
Wikipedia:The future of NPP and AfC. To opt-out of future mailings, go here. From MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 19:02, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
Hey! Primefac, DGG deleted the contents of my talkpage. I don't know why would he do that. Also, I can't undone his action. Though I am not very fond of the content my talk page has lost, yet I am concerned about this action of his. Would you know if this is permissible on Wikipedia? Can users deliberately alter the talk pages of another users? See this link and current version of my talk page. Thanks! Dial911 ( talk) 06:25, 16 March 2018 (UTC) https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Dial911&oldid=830398442#Speedy_deletion_declined:_Jamie_langton
Dear Primefac, you rejected my application for a reviewer status. Could you please kindly clarify which of these criteria I do not meet?
Thank you, Sergei Gutnikov ( talk) 13:36, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
Please advice on how to get Rasun back. I edited the page initially since the page should have been about Rasun (the band). Not Rasun Jahmal Dinoto (the person). But another user kept reverting my changes with the comment that it was not about Rasun Jahmal Dinoto (the person). So I created the page Rasun_Dinoto to reflect him as a person and copied the content of the (as from the other user believed) personal page over. And added my changes again. Which then again were reverted, and then shortly after the page was deleted. As well a the new page Rasun_Dinoto was deleted.
Not there is nothing about Rasun anymore. Please advice so I can propperly set up a page to reflect Rasun (the band). -- Badmonky ( talk) 16:20, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi - I wonder if these could be knocked back down to autoconfirmed/confirmed protection? They need updating pretty regularly and have no history of vandalism or misuse; they're also fairly easy to edit without breaking. Frickeg ( talk) 06:58, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
Hey Primefac. Certain parameters in infoboxes are high targets for vandalism, and I would like to reduce the number of times that occurs. For example, in Template:Infobox ice hockey player, the position parameters is vandalized often (see this diff). There is a small, finite number of possible, not-vandalism-related positions that exist. If we compile that list, probably by taking a bot and harvesting all combinations of that parameter (mostly to see if right wing/left wing, or other combinations exist), we could lock down the template to allow those positions only. Thoughts on work vs reward? Kees08 (Talk) 23:11, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
|parameter=
parameter is used on
over 15000 pages with 50+ unique values, so sussing out what those are will be problematic. If this were a brand-new template (or a parameter that didn't see much use or had a smaller value subset) I could see it being tweaked to have an {{
rlp}}-style switch statement, but it's just not worth it. Interesting question, though. Hope I satisfied you.
Primefac (
talk) 23:36, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Thank you for your review. I am confused about the notability comment on the company. Company seems just as notable if not more than many other similar medical device companies that have comparable published articles on Wikipedia such as LivaNova, Globus Medical, Abiomed. Many of these are also only well known because of their products. I have added a few more references and details regarding the company, but please advise how to better improve this in the future. Thank you.
18.111.1.124 ( talk) 18:51, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
Would you happen to know if there's a script somewhere that can convert cite web templates to a hand-built reference style? Purpose is to cut down on template inclusion limit on a large list, where Cite Web is the biggest culprit. I can manage to perform a subst, but that's not very clean compared to old-school hand built refs. -- ferret ( talk) 21:50, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
{{{last}}}
{{{first}}}
. ({{{year}}}
) etc), which could then be subst and would format properly.
Primefac (
talk) 11:41, 20 March 2018 (UTC)Do you think there can be some sort of shortcut, or workaround, to format the tables in Draft:Marguerite Chapman filmography? I think I should add asterisks, so that we can perform a find n replace later. —usernamekiran (talk) 10:09, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
Could you please change its protection back to semi? Among other reasons, it's a purely userspace template... Modernponderer ( talk) 19:07, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
Primefac,
I was told to get consent rights for the Hanes photo. I got this and the site submitted it's consent but I have yet to see the photo displayed. Is there a delay or additional process that need to do? Thank you for your assistance-- Twilder43 ( talk) 13:45, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
Primfac, The copyright holder DID email their permission to Wiki as well as emailed me back that they had completed the process. Still no photo. Confused-- Twilder43 ( talk) 14:04, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
Primfac, Thank you so much for your assistance. This is still very foreign to me and I am trying to do my best. Again, thanks and regards.-- Twilder43 ( talk) 15:12, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
I'm not sure how possible this is but can {{
Infobox rugby league biography}} be amended such that as an alternative to parameters like goalsN
and fieldgoalsN
there can be a parameter that can be used as the sum of those two and displays across the two columns in the infobox?
The output would look something like this (first row is current output)
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
year1start–year1end | club1 | appearances1 | tries1 | goals1 | fieldgoals1 | points1 |
year1start–year1end | club1 | appearances1 | tries1 | allgoals1 | points1 |
The rationale is this - for a long period of the game's history all kicks were worth two points regardless of whether they were conversions (place kicked goal), penalties (place kicked goal) or fieldgoals/dropgoals therefore many of the records don't differentiate between the two parameters that we use. This leads to articles showing just a total in one column with then long winded explanations in the text or as footnotes. If the combined total can be centred then that need goes away more or less. I'm just glad there are so few goal from mark to be dealt with in biographies! Nthep ( talk) 15:31, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
http://dailypost.ng/2018/03/26/mmm-founder-sergey-mavrodi-dead/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by A.Savin ( talk • contribs) 12:35, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I noted this on the relevant talk page but I wanted to notify you directly. Because the page is locked and I am not established, I cannot correct the phrase "as a last retort", which is not a good description of the movement's actions and is a highly awkward phrase in Modern English. If you agree, could you do something about it? I may be nitpicking but it was bothering me. Majordouglas ( talk) 14:14, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi there,
I have been trying to add this detail on the page Chipko movement - "as a last resort, to save the environment even at the cost of their own lives" - a few folks were hounding the edits, without any valid details or counter viz User:L293D and User:Gazal World with their disruptive edits.
I am adding a link which mentions that for record, 383 people from 84 villages sacrificed their lives in this event.
A simple definition is actually required to let people know at a single glance, as to what happened.
Requesting you to please let me know how this is wrong?
Regards. User:PIC16F ( talk) 15:18, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
I don't think I've ever seen someone send an OTRS verification to justify an external links, but that's where I keep ending up in my head at least. Not that that's necessarily a helpful comment on the discussion as a whole. GMG talk 15:22, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
'maker' usually refers to the person who owns the equipment the recording was made on, such as the production company, studio, or record label.
I request you to semi protect this page: October (2018 film). Harsh Rathod 10:28, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Mind making 118 Reunion, Mind Matters and Doppelganger Wikipedia page cause other dramas has it but I can't seem to make as I got blocked and need to add sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.65.33.39 ( talk) 03:20, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
To save me searching everywhere, do you happen to know what the average ratio of Accept:Decline is, pre ACTRIAL and during the trial? Cheers, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 17:26, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Hey there! Thanks for helping me out with the draft, Onel is not responding to the re-review request, also there wasn't any copyvio as pointed out by Drovethrughosts, so who else will review it if the original reviewer won't? The Optimistic One ( talk) 04:28, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
Your BRFA, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PrimeBOT 26, has been approved. Happy editing, — xaosflux Talk 15:51, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi.
I was wondering if one can get copy of a deleted draft that was in userspace of another editor. I wanted to have copy of
this page, but I am not sure if it is possible. I also thought I coummunicated about this page with Location in the past; but i couldnt find anything in my talkpage, his talkpage, or on the talkpage of the deleted page (it is still there). The closest I could find, is the
discussion here.
Anyways, I was wondering if getting a copy would be possible. Also, I would have asked Location about it directly, but he hasnt edited since like 5 months now. So, is it possible? —usernamekiran (talk) 04:31, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
Quite stupid of me, to be honest. I should've known better. I think I thought (does that sound right?) that it was some form of interpretation or explanation of the Declaration. I blame lack of tea. :-P Jiten talk contribs 19:36, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
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Hello, @ Primefac:, can you see this right here Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants can you review my request to be a participant please? newroderick895 ( talk) 13:01, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Hey,
I noticed that you recently set Template:Infobox dam to indefinite template-protected status due to it being a "high-risk template with 2000+ transclusions". However, you set Template:Infobox power station to the same level of protection with the exact same reason on the same day (the edits were even both submitted at the exact same minute), then later reverted it to indefinite extended-protected status "by request". I'm wondering why you think that Template:Infobox dam warrants template-protected status rather than extended-protected status, and I would like to request that it be changed to extended-protected status like you did with Template:Infobox power station, as I can see no reason for it to be template-protected given that it only had ~3500 transclusions as of October 2017 (compared to Template:Infobox power station's ~2500 transclusions), that there had been no notable history of vandalism or other issues that would have warranted such a high protection level, and that Template:High-risk suggests that high-risk templates should have at least 100,000 transclusions (and says that templates with only 2000–100,000 transclusions should fall into the Template:High-use category instead). Would you be willing to fix this, or if not, explain why you believe that Template:Infobox dam warrants template-protected status rather than extended-protected status?
Thanks! Garzfoth ( talk) 23:44, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi there, could you weigh in on a discussion between myself and Neveselbert over some changes to templates? I understand you have only just granted the user template editor rights. Thanks Kiwichris ( talk) 05:46, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac, would you check on Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/File mover when you get a chance? Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 19:47, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
The following modules are used in several templates (see list at Module:Age) and they now have 545,000 transclusions. That is increasing because I have been changing more templates to use the modules:
Date requires template editor to edit or move, but Age requires autoconfirmed to edit and anyone can move. Please review. Johnuniq ( talk) 07:59, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for granting permissions and the reminder. I will remember. Best Regards, Barbara ✐ ✉ 19:32, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Why did you make the changes that you did to the Janet Boyman article? Eric Corbett 19:31, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
please revert your last edit because it bugged everything wumbolo ^^^ 12:59, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Link: Module:Navbar
At the very LEAST change (line 66):
div = mw.html.create():tag('div')
to
local div = mw.html.create():tag('div')
this will fix the problem. wumbolo ^^^ 13:03, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac! I am seeing an error at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates stating "Lua error in Module:Navbar at line 66: Tried to write global div." Since you were the last to edit Module:Navbar, I am not certain whether this message is related to your edit, or if it is something on my side and I just need to purge the page or something similar... Can you please take a look? Thank you! – FlyingAce ✈hello 13:02, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
if you can edit please change (line 66):
div = mw.html.create():tag('div')
to
local div = mw.html.create():tag('div')
this will fix the problem. wumbolo ^^^ 13:03, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
@ FlyingAce: pinging. wumbolo ^^^ 13:04, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
@ FlyingAce: the problem was fixed. wumbolo ^^^ 13:19, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
I saw the message "Lua error in Module:Navbar at line 66: Tried to write global div. Lua error in Module:Navbar at line 66: Tried to write global div." appear on varius pages. Since I lck any clue where the problem is, I think it's best toreport it here. Examples: WP:CIVIL and Jacobite Syrian Christian Church (navbars "Indian Christianity" and "Nasrani people" removed by yours truly in leu of a solution). Since you appear to be the last one editing it, I report it here. Please help. Thanks. Kleuske ( talk) 13:06, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
if you can edit please change (line 66):
div = mw.html.create():tag('div')
to
local div = mw.html.create():tag('div')
@ Kleuske: pinging. wumbolo ^^^ 13:08, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
You may want to see this post on ANI about E to the Pi times I. That and possibly rethink his AWB access. К Ф Ƽ Ħ 16:45, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
You template-protected Template:Lua, but it does nothing but call Module:Lua banner, which is semi-protected. For obvious reasons, the protection level of these two pages should be the same. {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 19:58, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
I recently talked with Bbb23, who told me to contact you about this. The user Cæsey posted a message trying to appeal their block on the Simple English Wikipedia's AN (where I saw it), as well as on the change username page on metawiki. I found it a bit odd, as the SPI had been closed as unrelated, and they were still blocked. Thanks, Vermont | reply here 00:34, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Specifically, edit
Special:Diff/836168059 is causing the table at
Talk:List of TCP and UDP port numbers to be distorted because there is now a newline after <noinclude>
. I think so at least. If not, this is probably an issue to talk about at
WP:VP/T.
84.250.17.211 (
talk) 02:43, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
?action=purge
on doc, template and talk pages in between, but I couldn't make it work with {{Tl2|Being deleted]]. I also couldn't also make it work from
WP:SANDBOX, so it is a little problematic to handle.
84.250.17.211 (
talk) 03:03, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
This person passes WP:GNG. But it is create protected. Dial911 ( talk) 04:20, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
thou wast kind.-- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 16:14, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
+::Amen, brother.-- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 16:36, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
I've been staring at this draft content for so long my eyes have started blurring together. If anyone happens to notice any major (i.e. neutral, "this is important content") differences between it and the article I plan to replace, please let me know below. I know I'm going a little heavy on the NPOV trimming, and at this point I'm not sure what's important and what's just aggrandizement from editors who might not be as neutral as one may think. Cheers, Primefac ( talk) 02:43, 15 April 2018 (UTC) And for what it's worth, anyone who helps out will get a mention when I copy it over to the main article, because I plan on just deleting the draft when I'm done since it's basically just a sandboxed version.
This is truly unbelievable. The Rambling Man ( talk) 01:29, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Does this not seem an awful lot like someone you recently blocked? Beeblebrox ( talk) 02:34, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Greetings. I'm an AfC reviewer. Recently, an editor asked me why some articles in mainspace have no sources at all. I am not quite certain on how to reply this question. Perhaps you can show me some guidance. Thank you in advance. Cheers. EROS message 02:52, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
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are you still around? kindly ping. —usernamekiran (talk) 18:37, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi.
I would like to create a template for a succession box similar to {{
S-gov}}, where can I find the related source code, and a few tips about that? (this time, you are the only one receiving the message
as you are one of the only three editors that I talk to, who I think can do this [others being Xaosflux, and JJMC].) —usernamekiran
(talk) 20:55, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
|-
! colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #bebebe;" | Government offices
which you can see from view source; creates one row of a table; colspan means the government offices text appears across 3 columns
Galobtter (
pingó mió) 05:11, 27 February 2018 (UTC) (
talk page watcher)Hi. Regarding this edit, per the WP:BRD, shouldn't the undiscussed move be reverted first, then a new RM initiated to determine whether it should be reinstated? -- Paul_012 ( talk) 13:31, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac. It seems you recently deleted an article entitled Brickbat. I would like to use its content to create a WP-acceptable article. Please could you restore it - maybe to a subpage for me - say User:Trafford09/Brickbat?
Thank you, Trafford09 ( talk) 13:24, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Point noted, and thank you for facilitating userfication. Would it be possible, please, for you also to restore the article's Talk page? I'd like to be reminded of - & perhaps make use of - its contents. Presumably User talk:Trafford09/Brickbat would be a sensible place? Thank you, Trafford09 ( talk) 13:58, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
@ Primefac: Sorry for pinging you, but I wasn't sure if you'd seen the last bit. Trafford09 ( talk) 15:02, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
My apologies - I wasn't sure if the system alerted somebody to any edit on their page. One learns new stuff! I do hope not to have offended you. Trafford09 ( talk) 20:45, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac. Do know how to resolve Talk:Shogi#Archives. I know that the talk page has been set up to archive and I know it is (or at least was) archiving, but I cannot find any links or search window for the archives. I'm wondering if they were accidentally removed as part of all the page moves that have recently taken place. I think this macron on/macron off thing about the name might have been previously discussed and that might be buried somewhere in the archives. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 13:45, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at WT:JAPAN#Date formats. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 05:22, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
I'm not married to using either the request dates or close dates; however, from what I've seen it seems customary to use request/nomination dates in the Old move and Old moves templates. Best of everything to you and yours! Paine Ellsworth put'r there 19:15, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
You recently relisted this tfd, and thank you for that. Could you go ahead and close the discussion as a merge? I just created the merged template and intend to place it in the relevant articles within the next 24 hours or so. Cheers. Jay eyem ( talk) 22:35, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Primefac, a couple of weeks back you deleted an article in draft space when I pointed out that it was the same as the original version of one that has been moved to mainspace and then deleted at AfD. I forget what the article was but there are a sock involved somewhere.
A similar situation now applies to another one. If you have time to go to the last two threads at User talk:Darrenmong, all should be made clear. Is this another CSD candidate? - Sitush ( talk) 20:17, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed you've done a a lot of the editing to the AFC submission templates so hopefuly you can find this issue, or point me to where I should raise it. Some of the decline notices are coming out weird. See Draft:Curve Fever Pro and User:Ashokgajjala1/sandbox for example. Its not happening for all decline reasons just some. I've been looking for the error so I could raise an edit request but have failed to find it yet. Cheers KylieTastic ( talk) 18:37, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
I still feel like whatever I do keep creating more drama: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics#Draft:Level_structure. What is the correct reaction? Ignore the attack? Is there a response that will be a violation of the topic ban? I'm quite dismayed that even reverting the wrong redirect is not possible. I'm not trying to fire up things and I keep being blamed for the disruption like in the thread. (The dispute like that in the thread seems to be leading to the eventual indef-ban; in fact, happening. Sad. I should have just stick to the content development.) -- Taku ( talk) 01:05, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Considering that the module it calls is only semi-protected, it doesn't make much sense to template-protect {{ if preview}}. {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 21:33, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed that you increased the protection level on {{ Wikidata}} and {{ WikidataOI}}, but that you didn't do the same with Module:Wd, Module:Wd/i18n and Module:Wd/aliasesP while the templates use these modules as a basis. I would suggest to increase the protection level on the modules too. Thayts ••• 22:10, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac, do you know if there is a bot that can remove the unsupported parameters from pages using Infobox school? There's over 6,000 in Category:Pages using infobox school with unsupported parameters. I've been doing it manually bit by bit, very boring and time-consuming but decided to do it as no one else seems to be cleaning it up. Just looks a mess, please let me know - thank you :) Steven (Editor) ( talk) 20:25, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
|assistant_principal=
now that it's been deprecated? Sure. Would it involve (and should it involve) removing everything that isn't on the list? Dunno. I can see someone misspelling |etsablished=
- it shouldn't be removed, but fixed. Some of those "mistakes" could be fixed, such as Caption instead of caption, but I don't think one would be expected to fix every misspelling possibility.|assistant_principal=
) of the most commonly used improper names, I'd be happy to put in a BRFA.
Primefac (
talk) 16:07, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
|assistant_principal=
, |assistant_principals=
, |assistant principal=
, |Vice Principal=
, |vice principal=
, |asst principal=
, |campus_Bound=
, |viceprincipal=
, |viceprincipal_label=
, |viceprincipal1=
, |viceprincipal2=
, |viceprincipal3=
, |viceprincipal4=
, |vision=
. Please let me know, thank you
Steven (Editor) (
talk) 17:41, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
I see you have protected a template to which I contribute. How do I get template editor rights ? -- Robertiki ( talk) 03:35, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac,
Had I known about the whole attribution thing beforehand then I would've properly attributed it,
Anyway could the edit summary be un-revdelled providing I state state the diff as well as the article in that second comment ? .... My whole !vote is more or less centered around that comment and I feel like without it my entire !vote is pointless,
I can only ask but if "the damage has already been done" then you may want to revdel this too
[1],
Thanks, –
Davey2010
Talk 19:47, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Edit summary for revision XXXXXX was text copied from [[Foo]], see that article's history for attribution
TonyBallioni (
talk) 19:56, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello! The Wiki Education Foundation is developing a guide to help students write about all topics related to science communication, and I’m reaching out to a small number of experienced editors with interest in science topics on Wikipedia to see if they’d be interested in providing feedback. The handout is meant to supplement other resources that students consult, such as an interactive training and basic editing brochures. We’d appreciate any feedback on the draft by 3/12. Would you be interested in taking a look? — Cassidy (Wiki Ed) ( talk) 18:19, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi. Would you please take a look at special:diff/829223270, and share your thoughts which one is recommend by enwiki? Also pinging Cabayi. —usernamekiran (talk) 10:28, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
Is there a way for me to find the previous deletion discussion? I was unaware that an article on this company was posted previously. Slipandslide ( talk) 21:50, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac. Could you take a quick loko at the deleted version of Firnas Airways - does Draft:Firnas Airways qualify for G4? Deletion discussion here. Curb Safe Charmer ( talk) 16:25, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
You marked the logo I uploaded to this page for speedy deletion because I don't have proof that I have permission to use it. I could get the owner of the Breeze to email the permissions-en@wikimedia.org email but I was wondering if there is another way. Do bigger sports teams really have to get the owner of the team to email this person just to give them permission to use a logo? This seems like a little bit much in my opinion.
Also I know they are technically primary sources but why can't I just use the official website for the AUDL and DC Breeze as sources. The only things I'm citing are facts such as where they played, who coached them, and their score. There really aren't any sources besides these that have this information. Tylermachanic ( talk) 20:00, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
Primfac,
First let me thank you for being helpful. My first interaction with an editor has not been the same and it's really turning me off to Wikipedia. "Conflict of Interest" Yes, this is obviously the first page I have worked on. I was asked to edit this page by my employer, the widow of Mr. R.P. Hanes. I did not know and never met Mr. Hanes. His widow assigned the basic construction to a young man (with better computer skills) who utilized reference material as well as the bibliography from Mr. Hanes's published book. Once complete, I using materials the gentleman did not have, began to edit the entry. At no time has Mrs. Hanes been involved or directed the page in any way with the exception of providing a personal photo of Mr. Hanes (which is also now being questioned for copyright)
I was initially pleased with the page. I had discovered during my research that Mr. Hanes had committed nearly his entire life to the Arts and Conservation issues. This had resulted in a dearth of awards and honors over a long lifetime. I edited this down while still attempting to show the span of this man's work. Even after editing I admit, it was lengthy but then I considered that this was a bio on Wikipedia and was meant to reflect the truth of the life being recorded so I edited the list in. It was immediately completely removed by a Wiki-editor (GMG Go Means Go) who stated that "this was not a resume service". I find this off-putting when we are talking about an individual who has been dead for nearly eight years and is in no need of employment. I sent a message to GMG explaining that, being a novice, I was having trouble entering the references needed for the Awards verification and could he assist. His response was nothing but rude and arrogant. He offered no assistance whatsoever but again insisted this was not a resume service. Primfac, I realize that you are concerned regarding content but as these Awards & Honors are verified and a part of the whole truth of a bio, what is too much? Who makes that decision? I want nothing but for the page to be complete and correct in recording this biography. However, my first interaction with an editor had soured me on the process and for the first time made me seriously look at the content of Wikipedia articles. Can you help? Thank you for your time Twilder43 ( talk) 22:22, 8 March 2018 (UTC)Twilder
Hey! Primefac, you recently did something on my talk page with summary 'that's gonna break things'. I am not sure about what you did there and thus, I want to know the same. And I wanted to ask this random question: Why aren't you or Kudpung in the ArbCom? *just asking* Thanks! Dial911 ( talk) 01:09, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Template:Connected contributor (paid) has been nominated for merging with Template:Connected contributor. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 11:17, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac, trust you're great! Can you kindly help me delete this draft. I started the articles some days ago, but couldn't complete it in a go, so I said to draftify it till I have time to continue. Unfortunately/fotunately someone else created the article and I dont think my incomplete version is worth keeping anymore. Please is there also any mechanism put in place to prevent this from happening again. Regards, Mahveotm ( talk) 11:32, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Primefac. I was going to accept Draft:Danielle Jonas but Danielle Jonas is a redirect. Can you wave your mop and either do it or delete the redirect so I can? Thanks! -- GRuban ( talk) 00:34, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
Can you merge discussions on Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2018 March 9 since same reason, same voter and same nominator, thanks! Hhhhhkohhhhh ( talk) 07:12, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Primefac. I've just noticed that you protected a page some weeks ago that I'd like to edit: "Template:Metropolitan City of Turin". I just wanted to fix a link, that is the name of the Italian comune of "Cirié" which is currently spelled "Ciriè". English, Italian and all the other wikis have the correct name, and since this error is inside a template lots of pages are involved. Would you fix the link in my place, please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.64.164.113 ( talk) 17:30, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.64.165.94 ( talk) 18:30, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
Eish - sorry about that. Normally I'm better with checking for copyvio. Thanks for fixing. -- Elmidae ( talk · contribs) 05:51, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac, please see Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Account_creator#User:Danidamiobi. — xaosflux Talk 19:21, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Not to criticize your ECP protection of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants, which I think will be helpful in the long run; I am under the impression that pre-emptive protections are generally not exactly the best practice. I have just a couple minor concerns: 1) Perhaps I am just unaware, but was the AfC criteria of "must" ever discussed before? Because the wording, although long-standing, seems contradictory to the consensus in WP:PERM, in which criteria are meant to serve as guidelines and granting of permissions are meant to be discretionary. I assume this is because mandatory requirements in principle is probably against the open nature of Wikipedia, so if the AfC project continues to grow at the current pace, there should probably be more minimal non-existent oversight like PERM currently enjoys. 2) If the precedent of ECP protection is going to be set for a page like AFCP, shouldn't a discussion take place somewhere, since this is a page that may concern all administrators? If consensus emerges, perhaps we can go ahead and protect pages like WP:PERM/NPR as well, although I think it is highly unlikely. Regards, Alex Shih ( talk) 21:32, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac, would you mind taking a look at User:Ericisunknown21, and delete/revdel as you see fit? Thanks, Nzd (talk) 01:43, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
You closed a TFD for this template as a convert to subst only. I'm pretty sure there is a template that usually goes on the template's main page to indicate that result. Do you know what that is? -- Izno ( talk) 14:40, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello Primefac, thank you for your efforts reviewing New Page and AfC submissions and your support for the ACTRIAL initiative.
The conclusion to the ACTRIAL report commissioned by the Wikimedia Foundation strongly reiterates our long-time on going requirements for the NPP and AfC processes to be improved. Within minutes of the trial being switched off, the feed was swamped with inappropriate creations and users are being blocked already.
This is now the moment to continue to collaborate with the WMF and their developers to bring the entire Curation system up to date by making a firm commitment to addressing the
list of requirements to the excellent suite of tools the WMF developed for Curation. Some of these are already listed at Phabricator but may need a boost.
The conclusions also make some recommendations for AfC.
A place to discuss these issues initially is
here where you are already a task force member.
Wikipedia:The future of NPP and AfC. To opt-out of future mailings, go here. From MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 19:02, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
Hey! Primefac, DGG deleted the contents of my talkpage. I don't know why would he do that. Also, I can't undone his action. Though I am not very fond of the content my talk page has lost, yet I am concerned about this action of his. Would you know if this is permissible on Wikipedia? Can users deliberately alter the talk pages of another users? See this link and current version of my talk page. Thanks! Dial911 ( talk) 06:25, 16 March 2018 (UTC) https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:Dial911&oldid=830398442#Speedy_deletion_declined:_Jamie_langton
Dear Primefac, you rejected my application for a reviewer status. Could you please kindly clarify which of these criteria I do not meet?
Thank you, Sergei Gutnikov ( talk) 13:36, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
Please advice on how to get Rasun back. I edited the page initially since the page should have been about Rasun (the band). Not Rasun Jahmal Dinoto (the person). But another user kept reverting my changes with the comment that it was not about Rasun Jahmal Dinoto (the person). So I created the page Rasun_Dinoto to reflect him as a person and copied the content of the (as from the other user believed) personal page over. And added my changes again. Which then again were reverted, and then shortly after the page was deleted. As well a the new page Rasun_Dinoto was deleted.
Not there is nothing about Rasun anymore. Please advice so I can propperly set up a page to reflect Rasun (the band). -- Badmonky ( talk) 16:20, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi - I wonder if these could be knocked back down to autoconfirmed/confirmed protection? They need updating pretty regularly and have no history of vandalism or misuse; they're also fairly easy to edit without breaking. Frickeg ( talk) 06:58, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
Hey Primefac. Certain parameters in infoboxes are high targets for vandalism, and I would like to reduce the number of times that occurs. For example, in Template:Infobox ice hockey player, the position parameters is vandalized often (see this diff). There is a small, finite number of possible, not-vandalism-related positions that exist. If we compile that list, probably by taking a bot and harvesting all combinations of that parameter (mostly to see if right wing/left wing, or other combinations exist), we could lock down the template to allow those positions only. Thoughts on work vs reward? Kees08 (Talk) 23:11, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
|parameter=
parameter is used on
over 15000 pages with 50+ unique values, so sussing out what those are will be problematic. If this were a brand-new template (or a parameter that didn't see much use or had a smaller value subset) I could see it being tweaked to have an {{
rlp}}-style switch statement, but it's just not worth it. Interesting question, though. Hope I satisfied you.
Primefac (
talk) 23:36, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Thank you for your review. I am confused about the notability comment on the company. Company seems just as notable if not more than many other similar medical device companies that have comparable published articles on Wikipedia such as LivaNova, Globus Medical, Abiomed. Many of these are also only well known because of their products. I have added a few more references and details regarding the company, but please advise how to better improve this in the future. Thank you.
18.111.1.124 ( talk) 18:51, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
Would you happen to know if there's a script somewhere that can convert cite web templates to a hand-built reference style? Purpose is to cut down on template inclusion limit on a large list, where Cite Web is the biggest culprit. I can manage to perform a subst, but that's not very clean compared to old-school hand built refs. -- ferret ( talk) 21:50, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
{{{last}}}
{{{first}}}
. ({{{year}}}
) etc), which could then be subst and would format properly.
Primefac (
talk) 11:41, 20 March 2018 (UTC)Do you think there can be some sort of shortcut, or workaround, to format the tables in Draft:Marguerite Chapman filmography? I think I should add asterisks, so that we can perform a find n replace later. —usernamekiran (talk) 10:09, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
Could you please change its protection back to semi? Among other reasons, it's a purely userspace template... Modernponderer ( talk) 19:07, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
Primefac,
I was told to get consent rights for the Hanes photo. I got this and the site submitted it's consent but I have yet to see the photo displayed. Is there a delay or additional process that need to do? Thank you for your assistance-- Twilder43 ( talk) 13:45, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
Primfac, The copyright holder DID email their permission to Wiki as well as emailed me back that they had completed the process. Still no photo. Confused-- Twilder43 ( talk) 14:04, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
Primfac, Thank you so much for your assistance. This is still very foreign to me and I am trying to do my best. Again, thanks and regards.-- Twilder43 ( talk) 15:12, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
I'm not sure how possible this is but can {{
Infobox rugby league biography}} be amended such that as an alternative to parameters like goalsN
and fieldgoalsN
there can be a parameter that can be used as the sum of those two and displays across the two columns in the infobox?
The output would look something like this (first row is current output)
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
year1start–year1end | club1 | appearances1 | tries1 | goals1 | fieldgoals1 | points1 |
year1start–year1end | club1 | appearances1 | tries1 | allgoals1 | points1 |
The rationale is this - for a long period of the game's history all kicks were worth two points regardless of whether they were conversions (place kicked goal), penalties (place kicked goal) or fieldgoals/dropgoals therefore many of the records don't differentiate between the two parameters that we use. This leads to articles showing just a total in one column with then long winded explanations in the text or as footnotes. If the combined total can be centred then that need goes away more or less. I'm just glad there are so few goal from mark to be dealt with in biographies! Nthep ( talk) 15:31, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
http://dailypost.ng/2018/03/26/mmm-founder-sergey-mavrodi-dead/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by A.Savin ( talk • contribs) 12:35, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
Hello, I noted this on the relevant talk page but I wanted to notify you directly. Because the page is locked and I am not established, I cannot correct the phrase "as a last retort", which is not a good description of the movement's actions and is a highly awkward phrase in Modern English. If you agree, could you do something about it? I may be nitpicking but it was bothering me. Majordouglas ( talk) 14:14, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi there,
I have been trying to add this detail on the page Chipko movement - "as a last resort, to save the environment even at the cost of their own lives" - a few folks were hounding the edits, without any valid details or counter viz User:L293D and User:Gazal World with their disruptive edits.
I am adding a link which mentions that for record, 383 people from 84 villages sacrificed their lives in this event.
A simple definition is actually required to let people know at a single glance, as to what happened.
Requesting you to please let me know how this is wrong?
Regards. User:PIC16F ( talk) 15:18, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
I don't think I've ever seen someone send an OTRS verification to justify an external links, but that's where I keep ending up in my head at least. Not that that's necessarily a helpful comment on the discussion as a whole. GMG talk 15:22, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
'maker' usually refers to the person who owns the equipment the recording was made on, such as the production company, studio, or record label.
I request you to semi protect this page: October (2018 film). Harsh Rathod 10:28, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Mind making 118 Reunion, Mind Matters and Doppelganger Wikipedia page cause other dramas has it but I can't seem to make as I got blocked and need to add sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.65.33.39 ( talk) 03:20, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
To save me searching everywhere, do you happen to know what the average ratio of Accept:Decline is, pre ACTRIAL and during the trial? Cheers, Kudpung กุดผึ้ง ( talk) 17:26, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
Hey there! Thanks for helping me out with the draft, Onel is not responding to the re-review request, also there wasn't any copyvio as pointed out by Drovethrughosts, so who else will review it if the original reviewer won't? The Optimistic One ( talk) 04:28, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
Your BRFA, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PrimeBOT 26, has been approved. Happy editing, — xaosflux Talk 15:51, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi.
I was wondering if one can get copy of a deleted draft that was in userspace of another editor. I wanted to have copy of
this page, but I am not sure if it is possible. I also thought I coummunicated about this page with Location in the past; but i couldnt find anything in my talkpage, his talkpage, or on the talkpage of the deleted page (it is still there). The closest I could find, is the
discussion here.
Anyways, I was wondering if getting a copy would be possible. Also, I would have asked Location about it directly, but he hasnt edited since like 5 months now. So, is it possible? —usernamekiran (talk) 04:31, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
Quite stupid of me, to be honest. I should've known better. I think I thought (does that sound right?) that it was some form of interpretation or explanation of the Declaration. I blame lack of tea. :-P Jiten talk contribs 19:36, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2018).
Hello, @ Primefac:, can you see this right here Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation/Participants can you review my request to be a participant please? newroderick895 ( talk) 13:01, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
Hey,
I noticed that you recently set Template:Infobox dam to indefinite template-protected status due to it being a "high-risk template with 2000+ transclusions". However, you set Template:Infobox power station to the same level of protection with the exact same reason on the same day (the edits were even both submitted at the exact same minute), then later reverted it to indefinite extended-protected status "by request". I'm wondering why you think that Template:Infobox dam warrants template-protected status rather than extended-protected status, and I would like to request that it be changed to extended-protected status like you did with Template:Infobox power station, as I can see no reason for it to be template-protected given that it only had ~3500 transclusions as of October 2017 (compared to Template:Infobox power station's ~2500 transclusions), that there had been no notable history of vandalism or other issues that would have warranted such a high protection level, and that Template:High-risk suggests that high-risk templates should have at least 100,000 transclusions (and says that templates with only 2000–100,000 transclusions should fall into the Template:High-use category instead). Would you be willing to fix this, or if not, explain why you believe that Template:Infobox dam warrants template-protected status rather than extended-protected status?
Thanks! Garzfoth ( talk) 23:44, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi there, could you weigh in on a discussion between myself and Neveselbert over some changes to templates? I understand you have only just granted the user template editor rights. Thanks Kiwichris ( talk) 05:46, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac, would you check on Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/File mover when you get a chance? Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 19:47, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
The following modules are used in several templates (see list at Module:Age) and they now have 545,000 transclusions. That is increasing because I have been changing more templates to use the modules:
Date requires template editor to edit or move, but Age requires autoconfirmed to edit and anyone can move. Please review. Johnuniq ( talk) 07:59, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Thank you for granting permissions and the reminder. I will remember. Best Regards, Barbara ✐ ✉ 19:32, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
Why did you make the changes that you did to the Janet Boyman article? Eric Corbett 19:31, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
please revert your last edit because it bugged everything wumbolo ^^^ 12:59, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Link: Module:Navbar
At the very LEAST change (line 66):
div = mw.html.create():tag('div')
to
local div = mw.html.create():tag('div')
this will fix the problem. wumbolo ^^^ 13:03, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
Hi Primefac! I am seeing an error at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates stating "Lua error in Module:Navbar at line 66: Tried to write global div." Since you were the last to edit Module:Navbar, I am not certain whether this message is related to your edit, or if it is something on my side and I just need to purge the page or something similar... Can you please take a look? Thank you! – FlyingAce ✈hello 13:02, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
if you can edit please change (line 66):
div = mw.html.create():tag('div')
to
local div = mw.html.create():tag('div')
this will fix the problem. wumbolo ^^^ 13:03, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
@ FlyingAce: pinging. wumbolo ^^^ 13:04, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
@ FlyingAce: the problem was fixed. wumbolo ^^^ 13:19, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
I saw the message "Lua error in Module:Navbar at line 66: Tried to write global div. Lua error in Module:Navbar at line 66: Tried to write global div." appear on varius pages. Since I lck any clue where the problem is, I think it's best toreport it here. Examples: WP:CIVIL and Jacobite Syrian Christian Church (navbars "Indian Christianity" and "Nasrani people" removed by yours truly in leu of a solution). Since you appear to be the last one editing it, I report it here. Please help. Thanks. Kleuske ( talk) 13:06, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
if you can edit please change (line 66):
div = mw.html.create():tag('div')
to
local div = mw.html.create():tag('div')
@ Kleuske: pinging. wumbolo ^^^ 13:08, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
You may want to see this post on ANI about E to the Pi times I. That and possibly rethink his AWB access. К Ф Ƽ Ħ 16:45, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
You template-protected Template:Lua, but it does nothing but call Module:Lua banner, which is semi-protected. For obvious reasons, the protection level of these two pages should be the same. {{3x|p}}ery ( talk) 19:58, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
I recently talked with Bbb23, who told me to contact you about this. The user Cæsey posted a message trying to appeal their block on the Simple English Wikipedia's AN (where I saw it), as well as on the change username page on metawiki. I found it a bit odd, as the SPI had been closed as unrelated, and they were still blocked. Thanks, Vermont | reply here 00:34, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
Specifically, edit
Special:Diff/836168059 is causing the table at
Talk:List of TCP and UDP port numbers to be distorted because there is now a newline after <noinclude>
. I think so at least. If not, this is probably an issue to talk about at
WP:VP/T.
84.250.17.211 (
talk) 02:43, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
?action=purge
on doc, template and talk pages in between, but I couldn't make it work with {{Tl2|Being deleted]]. I also couldn't also make it work from
WP:SANDBOX, so it is a little problematic to handle.
84.250.17.211 (
talk) 03:03, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
This person passes WP:GNG. But it is create protected. Dial911 ( talk) 04:20, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
thou wast kind.-- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 16:14, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
+::Amen, brother.-- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 16:36, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
I've been staring at this draft content for so long my eyes have started blurring together. If anyone happens to notice any major (i.e. neutral, "this is important content") differences between it and the article I plan to replace, please let me know below. I know I'm going a little heavy on the NPOV trimming, and at this point I'm not sure what's important and what's just aggrandizement from editors who might not be as neutral as one may think. Cheers, Primefac ( talk) 02:43, 15 April 2018 (UTC) And for what it's worth, anyone who helps out will get a mention when I copy it over to the main article, because I plan on just deleting the draft when I'm done since it's basically just a sandboxed version.
This is truly unbelievable. The Rambling Man ( talk) 01:29, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Does this not seem an awful lot like someone you recently blocked? Beeblebrox ( talk) 02:34, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
Greetings. I'm an AfC reviewer. Recently, an editor asked me why some articles in mainspace have no sources at all. I am not quite certain on how to reply this question. Perhaps you can show me some guidance. Thank you in advance. Cheers. EROS message 02:52, 16 April 2018 (UTC)