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As these are generated by a bot, and I occasionally check or patrol the status of these, I moved them to a special archive: /Disambiguation link notifications. Wbm1058 ( talk) 13:11, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
...so I moved them to the /Content to-do items subpage. Someday maybe I'll get to these... Wbm1058 ( talk) 03:00, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
There are a lot of tumbleweeds rolling over at Wikipedia:Proposed mergers... the last edit added a {{ backlog}} template. Now that I'm an administrator, I've decided to focus on clearing the Wikipedia:WikiProject History Merge and Category:Possible cut-and-paste moves backlogs first. If Proposed mergers were busier, I'd make this a higher priority.
Since you run MergeBot and RMCDBot, I was wondering, if it were possible to create an auto generated list like WP:RM has but for WP:PM, that links to the centralized discussion area, and lists the topics to be merged (from/to/with) ? As the current MergeBot already generates arrows indicated from/to/with, it would seem a modification of template:requested move/dated/multi would do to handle such an automated listing based on a standardized talk section header.
-- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 04:42, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Discussions are consolidated at /Adding permalinks to block log entries. – Wbm1058 ( talk) 14:44, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
A big thank you for your help to clear Category:Cross-namespace redirects into its subcats. Really can't thank you enough! Joys! – Paine Ellsworth CLIMAX! 03:17, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
SELECT concat( "*[[Talk:", p.page_title, "]] redirects to [[:", r.rd_title, "]]" )
FROM redirect r
INNER JOIN page p ON p.page_id = r.rd_from
WHERE p.page_namespace = 1
AND r.rd_namespace = 0
ORDER by page_title;
T22307: Consolidated discussions are at my subpage /Generate automatic summary /* blah */ when I manually add a section heading when editing. Hopefully solutions are on the way soon. – wbm1058 ( talk) 23:37, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
There's really no point to having test cases for data modules, since there's no code to test. Also, doc pages that contain a #invoke of the module itself exist so that TemplateSandbox can be used to preview changes of the module. It's fine to add "real" documentation, but the #invoke must not be disabled or removed when doing so. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 20:47, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Module:Syrian Civil War map/testcases has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the module's entry on the Templates for discussion page. * Pppery * it has begun... 01:33, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
Your comments about the state of accuracy in the world on Jimbo's talk page are very interesting. I would like to explore this topic further. I'm particularly fond of your statement, "Society as a whole perhaps doesn't value accuracy as much as it should, and indeed Wikipedia editors should strive for a higher level of accuracy." Heck, I think some kind of variation on this should be our guiding principle. You've really nailed something here, and I think it's worth pursuing. One counterargument to pursuing accuracy, however, might attempt to appeal to the blind men and an elephant analogy. How would you respond to this? Viriditas ( talk) 08:49, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
I remember that you once intended to take your Timeline of DOS operating systems article to featured status, but did not take time to familiarize yourself with the process. Looking at that article, the only thing that is not compliant with the featured list criteria is the lead section. Basically, the only thing required to promote it to FL status would be to expand the lead section by adding an introduction to DOS operating systems. After that, you are good to go and can nominate it according to the instructions on WP:FLC. (Since this article is a list, the Good Article process does not apply.) Good luck! sst ✈ 04:24, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi wbm, I see you mention this book on your user page. Does the main thesis have implications for how Wikipedia works, and if so, on what time scale? - Dank ( push to talk) 15:57, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
{{ Search deletion discussions}} and {{ Search prefixes}} and all that authors other stuff should probably be deleted after emailing him. His {{ Create parameter string}} is used but not well.
For now, I'd fix wp: Deletion process § Search all deletion discussions with a search link for each of the fullpagenames in wp:Deletion process § Step-by-step instructions (all discussion types).
I would. And I'd be glad for an invite to help you with any queries or discussions on this matter. — Cpiral§ Cpiral 05:57, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello. For notification, the
task to switch between new and old interface of
user contributions page was rejected.
Izno suggested personal gadget/script or something. I would prefer that the switch between old and new be proposed at
WP:village pump (proposals). Thoughts? --
George Ho (
talk) 16:12, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
The major bug is fixed. George Ho ( talk) 06:52, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
There is still an open task to consolidate the "date pickers".
@ George Ho: FYI. After letting this settle in for several months, I'm still not satisfied with its behavior. I've entered a new Phabricator task. wbm1058 ( talk) 19:37, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
...please don't give up on us, yet. 😞 I know you're busy, and I'm not expecting you to devote a whole lot of time to this project, but your input is highly beneficial and I was hoping you would keep helping us work through some of the kinks when you can, especially regarding admin factors we know little to nothing about. What we're hoping to accomplish will focus primarily on clarification and consistency in our WP:Blocking policy with the ultimate goal being editor retention. Atsme 📞 📧 02:02, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
Enter a username into this box to check if they have been sanctioned." e.g. Hmm. DUE, BALANCE, NPOV, RS talk. Followup. More followup. I'll try to help resolve this if I can. – wbm1058 ( talk) 22:50, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for your fixes on Scheduled monuments in Mendip. I don't quite understand the code of what you are doing but if it is about the number of reference templates breaking the maximum size, would your fix work on Grade II* listed buildings in South Somerset where the last few references don't display - possibly for the same reason?— Rod talk 08:19, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
In regards to the edit you made at
Special:Diff/974562485, the fact that the module output is transcluded by
Template:English Heritage listed building row not only means that invoking the module directly matters, it actually means that it matters twice as much! Per
Wikipedia:Template_limits#Nested_transclusions, any bytes produced by the module will be counted once if {{
#invoke:delink|delink}} is invoked directly, they will be counted twice if {{
delink}} is used to call {{
#invoke:delink|delink}}, and they will be counted four times if {{
English Heritage listed building row}} calls {{
delink}} which calls {{
#invoke:delink|delink}}. --
Ahecht (
TALK
PAGE) 00:25, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for the changes you made to the hatnote on the Bill of rights article. I think it looks perfect! Rockstone talk to me! 18:59, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello. I noticed that you recently removed a large number of {{cleanup}} tags dating back over 10 years. As you noted, these tags were indeed stale, and didn't have reasons listed, but I would say that in most of those cases, the need for cleanup was completely obvious from a cursory glance at the rest of the article. As the blurb for the "Articles needing cleanup" category states: "If you're sure the article has been cleaned up, addressing any obvious flaws as well as any specific problems mentioned on the talk page, feel free to remove the tag. There's not much harm in leaving it on if you aren't certain what to do; the tag will alert someone else to come by later and check up on the article." I spend most of my time on wiki working through these articles trying to sort them out, and without those tags, the article are now "on the loose" in the wikipedia with no warning for readers of their poor quality or way of editors finding them to address their problems. Please bear in mind before deleting any more that editors do actually use these tags and categories. Cheers. Jdcooper ( talk) 23:33, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
This backlog still seems to be growing faster than it's getting cleared. Category:Articles needing cleanup from December 2008, which is where I was working in July, was deleted in October 2019, and I just coincidentally found that Category:Articles needing cleanup from January 2009 was ready for deletion. So this has been getting cleared at a rate substantially slower than one per month. On to February 2009. wbm1058 ( talk) 05:20, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
Re your edits to remove the list of shipwrecks in April 1917 from the template limit exceeded category, probably the easiest way is by replacing {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}} with [[File:Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]. This produces the same result visually. The UK civil flag is likely to be the most used in any shipwreck list at least until the 1950s, so changing the flag removes a large number of templates and guards against the list subsequently falling into the category again. AFAIK, no other shipwreck lists fall into the template limit exceeded category, but if you do come across any others, give me a shout and I'll fix the issue. Mjroots ( talk) 07:41, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
{{coord|48|20|N|6|00|W}}
with {{#invoke:Coordinates|coord|48|20|N|6|00|W}}
. There is no difference in output:
48°20′N 6°00′W / 48.333°N 6.000°W vs.
48°20′N 6°00′W / 48.333°N 6.000°W –
wbm1058 (
talk) 14:46, 24 January 2020 (UTC)Note to myself. On my back burner is to followup on the purpose for Category:Redirects from incorrect disambiguation. See the edit history of Assassin (movie). Also User talk:Anomie/linkclassifier#Some suggestions. Hopefully will follow up on this a few moons from now, after working through several higher-priority tasks. wbm1058 ( talk) 21:28, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
I saw your complaints at User talk:IJBall#Please fix these links immediately, and I wanted to let you know that this should work for you:
mw.hook( 'LinkClassifier' ).add( function ( linkClassifier ) {
// Delete the "incorrect-title" code
delete linkClassifier.cats'incorrect-title'];
// Add the "linked-misspellings" and "linked-miscapitalisations" codes, with appropriate categories.
linkClassifier.cats'linked-misspellings' =
'Category:Redirects from misspellings'
].sort();
linkClassifier.cats'linked-miscapitalisations' =
'Category:Redirects from miscapitalisations'
].sort();
} );
importScript('User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js'); // Linkback: [[User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js]]
Anomie ⚔ 00:14, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
Biked in 50 states! | |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqdkqABDETY
Hoping one day you make it to P.R. - Jose Valiente (radio MC) and bike shop owner's son- can hook you up- just need a translator. The Eloquent Peasant ( talk) 18:08, 18 September 2019 (UTC) |
Hi Wbm1058, I hope you are well. About this topic, did we get any further with this? I feel like it was a bit forgotten and archived, but I'd be very interested in continuing to find a full list of GANs by nominators. I'd love to help get something like this off the ground (I should be a little bit closer to the top 40 now, I've promoted another 30 or so since the discussion)! Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 21:00, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi Wbm1058, you did some great work in listing GAs per user a while back. I wondered if you'd consider doing it again and/or doing it periodically? The Rambling Man ( Hands! Face! Space!!!!) 22:08, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi! Remember our conversation at Wikipedia_talk:Good_article_nominations/Archive_24#List of Wikipedians by number of Good articles, as of 17 November 2020? I was wondering if any follow-up has happened after that? I see Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by good article nominations is still a red link. I recently wrote some code (using the Wikimedia Eventstreams API) to easily keep such lists up-to-date (by listening to additions/removals of {{ good article}} from articles, so that there is no need to regenerate the whole thing on every run). So if you don't mind should I file a bot request to turn that link blue? Just wanted to make sure I haven't missed any further developments on this. – SD0001 ( talk) 15:44, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi, in your opinion what's missing for the merge to go on? Is there anything that should be dealt with? Nehme 1499 23:59, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
I noticed your edit to
User:Bamyers99/TemplateParametersTool. Wanted to let you know that the March parameter report is ready. There is a new link for the pos
parameter called errors which takes you to the
error list. --
Bamyers99 (
talk) 01:32, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
|pos=DF,MF
isn't one of the four valid valures for {{{pos}}}
.
wbm1058 (
talk) 23:15, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
@ Johnuniq: re: " the ultimate problem appears to be flagicon" – there have been multiple attempts to address this issue:
{{Flagg}}
(flag general) is a
flag template with variable output format. Using
Lua instead of the
standard mechanism."My work on this is on hold pending teaching myself more Lua and maybe JavaScript as well. – wbm1058 ( talk) 14:53, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
Python, Flask, CSS developer here. Unemployed and would love to get my hands dirty and gain some more experience. Would like to improve on the above, and learn more about JS and SQL. I also have an art background, so maybe illustration too. Tamccullough ( talk) 14:42, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
...on potential improvements for
WikiProject Articles for creation: What is missed? That's probably better answered by more-experienced AfCers, but one thing as an outsider admin I'd very much like is improved data on how drafts flow around the system. A log of all AfC submissions & reviews (accepts & declines); a log of individual reviewers' records (similar to the CSD log of NPPers); more clarity on the project's stats. ETA: I've just found
Template:AFC statistics but it needs a proper historical log.
Espresso Addict (
talk) 04:08, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
As another "outsider admin", I'm interested in this too, and have the skills needed to create such a log. Adding this to my potential to-do list. – wbm1058 ( talk) 17:14, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
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thanks on this note. I wasn't sure if it was the script or my error. Let me know if I should revert my manual tag of the new page. Happy to, I just wasn't sure how to best record the AfD where future editors would look. Star Mississippi 15:20, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
Status update. Special:Contributions/Evad37. Most recent edit 22 January 2022. Just ten days after opening RFC: Priorities for XFDcloser development in 2022. Any interface editors willing to help maintain this gadget? Sigh. I'd need to get around to taking a crash course in JavaScript, something I've had on my back-back-back-burner for a long time. Doing that would mean dropping other balls I carry, at least for a while. – wbm1058 ( talk) 15:16, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
Staffordshire Bull Terrier has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 22:01, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi Wbm1058, have you completed task 2 and no longer require +sysop to be set on this bot? — xaosflux Talk 09:25, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
I'm leaving two links here so that when you get time, you can look at possibly developing a BOT or a program that can provide the tools we need. WMF's development team created our curation tool but it took a long time. We are justifiably concerned about the backlog of unreviewed articles, and will probably never catch-up without some form of automation: NPP Feed, and ability to filter reviewed/unreviewed totals by category, date, etc. Atsme 💬 📧 13:31, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your comment on Mammad Huseyn - it's an interesting quirk of the Page Curation Toolbar that it has a 'translate from other language tag' option but doesn't have a drop-down to specify the language. I'll go back and add it to pages in future. Best Alexandermcnabb ( talk) 06:04, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
This linked to the redirect. It should happen less often because of some changes ~two years ago, but my experience is that there is a chance of it linking to whatever the cursor is pointing at when I hit Return, rather than the first item in the list, which is usually what I want. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 01:34, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm using WP:JCW/TYPO to find those. I don't usually bother flagging the correct forms since the typo forms are so seldom used. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 09:23, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
Here's a list of WP AJ-tagged typos/incorrect names/mispellings. Some may be incorrectly tagged, like needing a {{ R from database entry}} or {{ R from miscaps}} instead. Many/most are from missing/stray dots, or wrong plurals, or missing/stray commas. Others from bad abbreviations. Some are ambiguous too, like J. Phys could be for either J Phys and J. Phys.
Didn't realize the talk page didn't move. The complexity of that one was a little higher than normal thanks to the user making preemptive moves that were not advisable. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 01:50, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
The destination page already exists. Do you want to delete it to make way for the move? (Check the edit history.)
(3) You check the "Yes, delete the page" box while keeping the "Move associated talk page" checked as well, then you clicked the "Move page" button a second time. This time the software reports back that the page was successfully moved. (4) The software does not report that the talk page was not deleted and moved, despite your having checked both boxes to "delete the page" and "Move associated talk page" (the software did not show you a "delete the associated talk page" box to check). You need to move the talk page separately now (or you could have
WP:G6 deleted the talk page before the move if you were an administrator). You didn't do that because you had assumed that the software would move both pages in a single move operation, as it implied that it would.Another developer tried to fix this several years ago. I've installed MediaWiki 1.40 and Visual Studio Code on my desktop PC and will work on fixing this in the coming month(s). – wbm1058 ( talk) 20:02, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
On Special:Diff/1197910664, I realised early on that Talk pages doesn't automatically get deleted. Although I do check for talk pages, I missed this somehow. One well-deserved trout slap for myself. – robertsky ( talk) 12:31, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
It sounds like you haven't appreciated, or perhaps not noticed, the huge amount of work I've been taking on from this report for the last year or so. When I had JWB rights, I handled entries with hundreds of incoming links, probably fixing more than a million over-capped places, and a fair number of under-capped ones as well. And I identified, reported, and asked for a fix to the Visual editor UI problem that causes so many of the pipings through under-capitalized redirects. Of course, seeing how useful this report is for tracking things that ought to be addressed, I also added a whole lot of R from miscapitalion label to redirects that came from consensus moves to lowercase, so sometimes the list grew more than it shrunk. Since losing JWB, I've concentrated on the entries with more than 1 but fewer than a dozen incoming links, which is why you see a bit of an odd distribution in that neighborhood, and an ever-growing list of ones with just 1 incoming link. There's just a bit of overhead on each line I take on, so it's not efficient to work on the singles. And the big multiples will be more efficiently worked with JWB, if/when I get that back or someone else wants to help. Sometimes it becomes clear that the best resolution is to change the tag back to R from other capitalization. Anyway, glad to hear you're not anti-me or anti-lowercase. Back to it... Dicklyon ( talk) 00:17, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
Fixed another raft of these today. Dicklyon ( talk) 03:48, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
By the way, if you see some where you think the R from miscapitalization tag is not quite right, feel free to change them. And if you let me know, I might work on trying to sort out which links really are wrongly capped and which are OK. Dicklyon ( talk) 04:01, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
Also, note that I had gotten the report down from 26 kB (or a peak of 34 kB in July) to about 6 kB in September, in the leadup to my Sept. 15 JWB restriction. Since then, it's been pretty flat, as I work more on lots of little items. I did about 134,000 edits in 2023, mostly working on items on this report. Dicklyon ( talk) 04:10, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
Was reading elsewhere and saw that you dislike my efforts at RfA improvement. I welcome any feedback you have about my efforts about how you could see to improve RfA as considering all points of view and thoughts is important to me. Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 05:06, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
— wbm1058 ( talk) 13:43, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
Why did you revert my edit? I just put an abbreviation and didn't claim that it's an improvement. There are many problematic edits here hope you also spend your time to correct or revert those edits which are "really" problematic. Egeymi ( talk) 16:51, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
{{WikiProject
of moves of interest. (version 5.00)
{{WP
.The redirect Finnster has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 March 13 § Finnster until a consensus is reached. -- Tamzin[ cetacean needed ( they|xe) 13:43, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:
To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron ( talk • she/her), via:
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 10:53, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for tidying up after me there, Wbm1058. Just to clarify, when I originally moved the article back to that name, did its talk page not come with it automatically? ——Serial Number 54129 14:37, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi wbm1058 :) I'm looking for experienced editors to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 11:10, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
I would prefer to avoid taking this to yet another move review. Instead, I was hoping you would be willing to strike the last sentence of your close, both because you are too involved in the discussion to make such an assessment, and because I don't see any basis in the discussion to say that there is a consensus for this "common ground", and your close doesn't explain why you see there to be such a consensus. BilledMammal ( talk) 07:01, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Just curious, but why did you undelete Multiple gender attraction? The deleted content is not the same as the redirect, so restoration doesn't really make sense. Primefac ( talk) 13:03, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Wbm1058,
This article was deleted via Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timeline of United States inventions (1946–1991). Why did you restore the article without any discussion? Liz Read! Talk! 07:11, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
The info about Kendal being part of the actors company can be found in Gibson 1986 as cited in the body of the article. See also Ruling the Roost and Tis Pity She's a Whore at McKellen's site. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose ( talk) 11:43, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
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As these are generated by a bot, and I occasionally check or patrol the status of these, I moved them to a special archive: /Disambiguation link notifications. Wbm1058 ( talk) 13:11, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
...so I moved them to the /Content to-do items subpage. Someday maybe I'll get to these... Wbm1058 ( talk) 03:00, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
There are a lot of tumbleweeds rolling over at Wikipedia:Proposed mergers... the last edit added a {{ backlog}} template. Now that I'm an administrator, I've decided to focus on clearing the Wikipedia:WikiProject History Merge and Category:Possible cut-and-paste moves backlogs first. If Proposed mergers were busier, I'd make this a higher priority.
Since you run MergeBot and RMCDBot, I was wondering, if it were possible to create an auto generated list like WP:RM has but for WP:PM, that links to the centralized discussion area, and lists the topics to be merged (from/to/with) ? As the current MergeBot already generates arrows indicated from/to/with, it would seem a modification of template:requested move/dated/multi would do to handle such an automated listing based on a standardized talk section header.
-- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 04:42, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Discussions are consolidated at /Adding permalinks to block log entries. – Wbm1058 ( talk) 14:44, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
A big thank you for your help to clear Category:Cross-namespace redirects into its subcats. Really can't thank you enough! Joys! – Paine Ellsworth CLIMAX! 03:17, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
SELECT concat( "*[[Talk:", p.page_title, "]] redirects to [[:", r.rd_title, "]]" )
FROM redirect r
INNER JOIN page p ON p.page_id = r.rd_from
WHERE p.page_namespace = 1
AND r.rd_namespace = 0
ORDER by page_title;
T22307: Consolidated discussions are at my subpage /Generate automatic summary /* blah */ when I manually add a section heading when editing. Hopefully solutions are on the way soon. – wbm1058 ( talk) 23:37, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
There's really no point to having test cases for data modules, since there's no code to test. Also, doc pages that contain a #invoke of the module itself exist so that TemplateSandbox can be used to preview changes of the module. It's fine to add "real" documentation, but the #invoke must not be disabled or removed when doing so. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 20:47, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Module:Syrian Civil War map/testcases has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the module's entry on the Templates for discussion page. * Pppery * it has begun... 01:33, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
Your comments about the state of accuracy in the world on Jimbo's talk page are very interesting. I would like to explore this topic further. I'm particularly fond of your statement, "Society as a whole perhaps doesn't value accuracy as much as it should, and indeed Wikipedia editors should strive for a higher level of accuracy." Heck, I think some kind of variation on this should be our guiding principle. You've really nailed something here, and I think it's worth pursuing. One counterargument to pursuing accuracy, however, might attempt to appeal to the blind men and an elephant analogy. How would you respond to this? Viriditas ( talk) 08:49, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
I remember that you once intended to take your Timeline of DOS operating systems article to featured status, but did not take time to familiarize yourself with the process. Looking at that article, the only thing that is not compliant with the featured list criteria is the lead section. Basically, the only thing required to promote it to FL status would be to expand the lead section by adding an introduction to DOS operating systems. After that, you are good to go and can nominate it according to the instructions on WP:FLC. (Since this article is a list, the Good Article process does not apply.) Good luck! sst ✈ 04:24, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi wbm, I see you mention this book on your user page. Does the main thesis have implications for how Wikipedia works, and if so, on what time scale? - Dank ( push to talk) 15:57, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
{{ Search deletion discussions}} and {{ Search prefixes}} and all that authors other stuff should probably be deleted after emailing him. His {{ Create parameter string}} is used but not well.
For now, I'd fix wp: Deletion process § Search all deletion discussions with a search link for each of the fullpagenames in wp:Deletion process § Step-by-step instructions (all discussion types).
I would. And I'd be glad for an invite to help you with any queries or discussions on this matter. — Cpiral§ Cpiral 05:57, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Hello. For notification, the
task to switch between new and old interface of
user contributions page was rejected.
Izno suggested personal gadget/script or something. I would prefer that the switch between old and new be proposed at
WP:village pump (proposals). Thoughts? --
George Ho (
talk) 16:12, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
The major bug is fixed. George Ho ( talk) 06:52, 5 August 2017 (UTC)
There is still an open task to consolidate the "date pickers".
@ George Ho: FYI. After letting this settle in for several months, I'm still not satisfied with its behavior. I've entered a new Phabricator task. wbm1058 ( talk) 19:37, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
...please don't give up on us, yet. 😞 I know you're busy, and I'm not expecting you to devote a whole lot of time to this project, but your input is highly beneficial and I was hoping you would keep helping us work through some of the kinks when you can, especially regarding admin factors we know little to nothing about. What we're hoping to accomplish will focus primarily on clarification and consistency in our WP:Blocking policy with the ultimate goal being editor retention. Atsme 📞 📧 02:02, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
Enter a username into this box to check if they have been sanctioned." e.g. Hmm. DUE, BALANCE, NPOV, RS talk. Followup. More followup. I'll try to help resolve this if I can. – wbm1058 ( talk) 22:50, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for your fixes on Scheduled monuments in Mendip. I don't quite understand the code of what you are doing but if it is about the number of reference templates breaking the maximum size, would your fix work on Grade II* listed buildings in South Somerset where the last few references don't display - possibly for the same reason?— Rod talk 08:19, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
In regards to the edit you made at
Special:Diff/974562485, the fact that the module output is transcluded by
Template:English Heritage listed building row not only means that invoking the module directly matters, it actually means that it matters twice as much! Per
Wikipedia:Template_limits#Nested_transclusions, any bytes produced by the module will be counted once if {{
#invoke:delink|delink}} is invoked directly, they will be counted twice if {{
delink}} is used to call {{
#invoke:delink|delink}}, and they will be counted four times if {{
English Heritage listed building row}} calls {{
delink}} which calls {{
#invoke:delink|delink}}. --
Ahecht (
TALK
PAGE) 00:25, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for the changes you made to the hatnote on the Bill of rights article. I think it looks perfect! Rockstone talk to me! 18:59, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello. I noticed that you recently removed a large number of {{cleanup}} tags dating back over 10 years. As you noted, these tags were indeed stale, and didn't have reasons listed, but I would say that in most of those cases, the need for cleanup was completely obvious from a cursory glance at the rest of the article. As the blurb for the "Articles needing cleanup" category states: "If you're sure the article has been cleaned up, addressing any obvious flaws as well as any specific problems mentioned on the talk page, feel free to remove the tag. There's not much harm in leaving it on if you aren't certain what to do; the tag will alert someone else to come by later and check up on the article." I spend most of my time on wiki working through these articles trying to sort them out, and without those tags, the article are now "on the loose" in the wikipedia with no warning for readers of their poor quality or way of editors finding them to address their problems. Please bear in mind before deleting any more that editors do actually use these tags and categories. Cheers. Jdcooper ( talk) 23:33, 24 July 2019 (UTC)
This backlog still seems to be growing faster than it's getting cleared. Category:Articles needing cleanup from December 2008, which is where I was working in July, was deleted in October 2019, and I just coincidentally found that Category:Articles needing cleanup from January 2009 was ready for deletion. So this has been getting cleared at a rate substantially slower than one per month. On to February 2009. wbm1058 ( talk) 05:20, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
Re your edits to remove the list of shipwrecks in April 1917 from the template limit exceeded category, probably the easiest way is by replacing {{flagcountry|UKGBI|civil}} with [[File:Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]] [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]. This produces the same result visually. The UK civil flag is likely to be the most used in any shipwreck list at least until the 1950s, so changing the flag removes a large number of templates and guards against the list subsequently falling into the category again. AFAIK, no other shipwreck lists fall into the template limit exceeded category, but if you do come across any others, give me a shout and I'll fix the issue. Mjroots ( talk) 07:41, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
{{coord|48|20|N|6|00|W}}
with {{#invoke:Coordinates|coord|48|20|N|6|00|W}}
. There is no difference in output:
48°20′N 6°00′W / 48.333°N 6.000°W vs.
48°20′N 6°00′W / 48.333°N 6.000°W –
wbm1058 (
talk) 14:46, 24 January 2020 (UTC)Note to myself. On my back burner is to followup on the purpose for Category:Redirects from incorrect disambiguation. See the edit history of Assassin (movie). Also User talk:Anomie/linkclassifier#Some suggestions. Hopefully will follow up on this a few moons from now, after working through several higher-priority tasks. wbm1058 ( talk) 21:28, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
I saw your complaints at User talk:IJBall#Please fix these links immediately, and I wanted to let you know that this should work for you:
mw.hook( 'LinkClassifier' ).add( function ( linkClassifier ) {
// Delete the "incorrect-title" code
delete linkClassifier.cats'incorrect-title'];
// Add the "linked-misspellings" and "linked-miscapitalisations" codes, with appropriate categories.
linkClassifier.cats'linked-misspellings' =
'Category:Redirects from misspellings'
].sort();
linkClassifier.cats'linked-miscapitalisations' =
'Category:Redirects from miscapitalisations'
].sort();
} );
importScript('User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js'); // Linkback: [[User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js]]
Anomie ⚔ 00:14, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
Biked in 50 states! | |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqdkqABDETY
Hoping one day you make it to P.R. - Jose Valiente (radio MC) and bike shop owner's son- can hook you up- just need a translator. The Eloquent Peasant ( talk) 18:08, 18 September 2019 (UTC) |
Hi Wbm1058, I hope you are well. About this topic, did we get any further with this? I feel like it was a bit forgotten and archived, but I'd be very interested in continuing to find a full list of GANs by nominators. I'd love to help get something like this off the ground (I should be a little bit closer to the top 40 now, I've promoted another 30 or so since the discussion)! Best Wishes, Lee Vilenski ( talk • contribs) 21:00, 25 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi Wbm1058, you did some great work in listing GAs per user a while back. I wondered if you'd consider doing it again and/or doing it periodically? The Rambling Man ( Hands! Face! Space!!!!) 22:08, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
Hi! Remember our conversation at Wikipedia_talk:Good_article_nominations/Archive_24#List of Wikipedians by number of Good articles, as of 17 November 2020? I was wondering if any follow-up has happened after that? I see Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by good article nominations is still a red link. I recently wrote some code (using the Wikimedia Eventstreams API) to easily keep such lists up-to-date (by listening to additions/removals of {{ good article}} from articles, so that there is no need to regenerate the whole thing on every run). So if you don't mind should I file a bot request to turn that link blue? Just wanted to make sure I haven't missed any further developments on this. – SD0001 ( talk) 15:44, 31 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi, in your opinion what's missing for the merge to go on? Is there anything that should be dealt with? Nehme 1499 23:59, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
I noticed your edit to
User:Bamyers99/TemplateParametersTool. Wanted to let you know that the March parameter report is ready. There is a new link for the pos
parameter called errors which takes you to the
error list. --
Bamyers99 (
talk) 01:32, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
|pos=DF,MF
isn't one of the four valid valures for {{{pos}}}
.
wbm1058 (
talk) 23:15, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
@ Johnuniq: re: " the ultimate problem appears to be flagicon" – there have been multiple attempts to address this issue:
{{Flagg}}
(flag general) is a
flag template with variable output format. Using
Lua instead of the
standard mechanism."My work on this is on hold pending teaching myself more Lua and maybe JavaScript as well. – wbm1058 ( talk) 14:53, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
Python, Flask, CSS developer here. Unemployed and would love to get my hands dirty and gain some more experience. Would like to improve on the above, and learn more about JS and SQL. I also have an art background, so maybe illustration too. Tamccullough ( talk) 14:42, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
...on potential improvements for
WikiProject Articles for creation: What is missed? That's probably better answered by more-experienced AfCers, but one thing as an outsider admin I'd very much like is improved data on how drafts flow around the system. A log of all AfC submissions & reviews (accepts & declines); a log of individual reviewers' records (similar to the CSD log of NPPers); more clarity on the project's stats. ETA: I've just found
Template:AFC statistics but it needs a proper historical log.
Espresso Addict (
talk) 04:08, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
As another "outsider admin", I'm interested in this too, and have the skills needed to create such a log. Adding this to my potential to-do list. – wbm1058 ( talk) 17:14, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
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thanks on this note. I wasn't sure if it was the script or my error. Let me know if I should revert my manual tag of the new page. Happy to, I just wasn't sure how to best record the AfD where future editors would look. Star Mississippi 15:20, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
Status update. Special:Contributions/Evad37. Most recent edit 22 January 2022. Just ten days after opening RFC: Priorities for XFDcloser development in 2022. Any interface editors willing to help maintain this gadget? Sigh. I'd need to get around to taking a crash course in JavaScript, something I've had on my back-back-back-burner for a long time. Doing that would mean dropping other balls I carry, at least for a while. – wbm1058 ( talk) 15:16, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
Staffordshire Bull Terrier has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 22:01, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
Hi Wbm1058, have you completed task 2 and no longer require +sysop to be set on this bot? — xaosflux Talk 09:25, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
I'm leaving two links here so that when you get time, you can look at possibly developing a BOT or a program that can provide the tools we need. WMF's development team created our curation tool but it took a long time. We are justifiably concerned about the backlog of unreviewed articles, and will probably never catch-up without some form of automation: NPP Feed, and ability to filter reviewed/unreviewed totals by category, date, etc. Atsme 💬 📧 13:31, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your comment on Mammad Huseyn - it's an interesting quirk of the Page Curation Toolbar that it has a 'translate from other language tag' option but doesn't have a drop-down to specify the language. I'll go back and add it to pages in future. Best Alexandermcnabb ( talk) 06:04, 24 June 2022 (UTC)
This linked to the redirect. It should happen less often because of some changes ~two years ago, but my experience is that there is a chance of it linking to whatever the cursor is pointing at when I hit Return, rather than the first item in the list, which is usually what I want. Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 01:34, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
I'm using WP:JCW/TYPO to find those. I don't usually bother flagging the correct forms since the typo forms are so seldom used. Headbomb { t · c · p · b} 09:23, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
Here's a list of WP AJ-tagged typos/incorrect names/mispellings. Some may be incorrectly tagged, like needing a {{ R from database entry}} or {{ R from miscaps}} instead. Many/most are from missing/stray dots, or wrong plurals, or missing/stray commas. Others from bad abbreviations. Some are ambiguous too, like J. Phys could be for either J Phys and J. Phys.
Didn't realize the talk page didn't move. The complexity of that one was a little higher than normal thanks to the user making preemptive moves that were not advisable. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 01:50, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
The destination page already exists. Do you want to delete it to make way for the move? (Check the edit history.)
(3) You check the "Yes, delete the page" box while keeping the "Move associated talk page" checked as well, then you clicked the "Move page" button a second time. This time the software reports back that the page was successfully moved. (4) The software does not report that the talk page was not deleted and moved, despite your having checked both boxes to "delete the page" and "Move associated talk page" (the software did not show you a "delete the associated talk page" box to check). You need to move the talk page separately now (or you could have
WP:G6 deleted the talk page before the move if you were an administrator). You didn't do that because you had assumed that the software would move both pages in a single move operation, as it implied that it would.Another developer tried to fix this several years ago. I've installed MediaWiki 1.40 and Visual Studio Code on my desktop PC and will work on fixing this in the coming month(s). – wbm1058 ( talk) 20:02, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
On Special:Diff/1197910664, I realised early on that Talk pages doesn't automatically get deleted. Although I do check for talk pages, I missed this somehow. One well-deserved trout slap for myself. – robertsky ( talk) 12:31, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
It sounds like you haven't appreciated, or perhaps not noticed, the huge amount of work I've been taking on from this report for the last year or so. When I had JWB rights, I handled entries with hundreds of incoming links, probably fixing more than a million over-capped places, and a fair number of under-capped ones as well. And I identified, reported, and asked for a fix to the Visual editor UI problem that causes so many of the pipings through under-capitalized redirects. Of course, seeing how useful this report is for tracking things that ought to be addressed, I also added a whole lot of R from miscapitalion label to redirects that came from consensus moves to lowercase, so sometimes the list grew more than it shrunk. Since losing JWB, I've concentrated on the entries with more than 1 but fewer than a dozen incoming links, which is why you see a bit of an odd distribution in that neighborhood, and an ever-growing list of ones with just 1 incoming link. There's just a bit of overhead on each line I take on, so it's not efficient to work on the singles. And the big multiples will be more efficiently worked with JWB, if/when I get that back or someone else wants to help. Sometimes it becomes clear that the best resolution is to change the tag back to R from other capitalization. Anyway, glad to hear you're not anti-me or anti-lowercase. Back to it... Dicklyon ( talk) 00:17, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
Fixed another raft of these today. Dicklyon ( talk) 03:48, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
By the way, if you see some where you think the R from miscapitalization tag is not quite right, feel free to change them. And if you let me know, I might work on trying to sort out which links really are wrongly capped and which are OK. Dicklyon ( talk) 04:01, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
Also, note that I had gotten the report down from 26 kB (or a peak of 34 kB in July) to about 6 kB in September, in the leadup to my Sept. 15 JWB restriction. Since then, it's been pretty flat, as I work more on lots of little items. I did about 134,000 edits in 2023, mostly working on items on this report. Dicklyon ( talk) 04:10, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
Was reading elsewhere and saw that you dislike my efforts at RfA improvement. I welcome any feedback you have about my efforts about how you could see to improve RfA as considering all points of view and thoughts is important to me. Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 05:06, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
— wbm1058 ( talk) 13:43, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
Why did you revert my edit? I just put an abbreviation and didn't claim that it's an improvement. There are many problematic edits here hope you also spend your time to correct or revert those edits which are "really" problematic. Egeymi ( talk) 16:51, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
{{WikiProject
of moves of interest. (version 5.00)
{{WP
.The redirect Finnster has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 March 13 § Finnster until a consensus is reached. -- Tamzin[ cetacean needed ( they|xe) 13:43, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:
To read proposals that were closed as unsuccessful, please see Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase I/Closed proposals. You are cordially invited once again to participate in the open discussions; when phase I ends, phase II will review the outcomes of trial proposals and refine the implementation details of other proposals. Another notification will be sent out when this phase begins, likely with the first successful close of a major proposal. Happy editing! theleekycauldron ( talk • she/her), via:
MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 10:53, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for tidying up after me there, Wbm1058. Just to clarify, when I originally moved the article back to that name, did its talk page not come with it automatically? ——Serial Number 54129 14:37, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi wbm1058 :) I'm looking for experienced editors to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 11:10, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
I would prefer to avoid taking this to yet another move review. Instead, I was hoping you would be willing to strike the last sentence of your close, both because you are too involved in the discussion to make such an assessment, and because I don't see any basis in the discussion to say that there is a consensus for this "common ground", and your close doesn't explain why you see there to be such a consensus. BilledMammal ( talk) 07:01, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Just curious, but why did you undelete Multiple gender attraction? The deleted content is not the same as the redirect, so restoration doesn't really make sense. Primefac ( talk) 13:03, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
Hello, Wbm1058,
This article was deleted via Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timeline of United States inventions (1946–1991). Why did you restore the article without any discussion? Liz Read! Talk! 07:11, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
The info about Kendal being part of the actors company can be found in Gibson 1986 as cited in the body of the article. See also Ruling the Roost and Tis Pity She's a Whore at McKellen's site. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose ( talk) 11:43, 25 April 2024 (UTC)