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You commented on the lack of page numbers in book references (Thanks!). What can I do about book references made by other editors given that I do not have these books? Should I replace some of these by complete references from books in my possession?
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History of ethanol fuel in Brazil has been nominated for an individual 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. Chidgk1 (talk) 17:09, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
Thank you! -Hirooooooooo (talk) 02:10, 5 January 2022 (UTC) |
Could you please remove all the {{capital}}
s in Draft:List of sovereign states in 2008 and 2009, thx. ColorfulSmoke (talk) 01:25, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi there. Yes, I completely reset my page and started adding all the userboxes back. It was edited before and I wasn't used to the syntax having not formatted tables for several years! I was going to fix it eventually, thank you for getting there before me! Bobo. 12:22, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Is it impolite of me to edit (the original versions of) userboxes for spelling and grammar? Many of the userboxes here, for example, are missing apostrophes and such. Userboxes aren't usually my area so I don't know how precious they are to the individual. Bobo. 12:41, 30 January 2022 (UTC)
Ok technical errors like that should be fine to edit on. Whoops on my part! I was not completely done but I was also not working on it for the time being too. Jhenderson 777 07:51, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi Anomalocaris, my draft page Draft:2022 PDC Players Championship 1 has now been fixed from your recommendations. Do we know roughly when these pages will be created and moved? Thanks for your help, kind regards! GlenTheYid (talk) 12:08, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for attempting to help me on Draft:Ciarán Strange, but the decisions you viewed as errors, were intentional! As a result, I'm reverting it - and wanted to explain, at least in part - I use the archive bot to fill in the "archive-url" field at the end of my work on a draft so I don't need to run the bot multiple times. Intentionally including the 3 fields for archives, including url-status, when I paste in the source template I use, saves me from needing to go back to manually place them to direct the bot where I want them placed at the end.
"use dmy" was also intentionally left without brackets, for an elaborate reason that is best summed up to be my latest attempt to develop a more efficient "process" for myself while writing a draft.
Wasting editors' time is something I try to avoid, and I can seem like an odd duck of a Wikipedian - as this is the first time a Wikipedian I'm not directly collaborating with has chimed in, over a silly nuance to my editing... to prevent this misunderstanding from reoccurring, I could utilize my namespace for drafts going forward? Thanks, Canadianerk (talk) 23:10, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
}}
instead of |}
. I fixed that error, and as long as I was editing it, I fixed other things, including the issue you noted that puts the page in hidden Category:CS1 maint: url-status. (In preferences, on the Appearances tab, under Advanced options, check "Show hidden categories", and you'll see them too, which is helpful if you are editing.) Anything in the Draft namespace is fair game for anyone to edit, and if a draft or any other page is listed on a lint error page or any maintenance or tracking category, that will attract attention and someone may be motivated to fix the problem. Editors may be less likely to edit something in User space, but even there, lint errors and membership in maintenance categories will attract editors. There are 8 types of Lint errors that do not currently exist in User space, and that is because Wikipedia editors have eradicated these errors from User space. You are always free to develop drafts in your User space, but then you miss out on whatever help other editors may provide, and you'll have to move it to Draft space anyway when you're ready to submit. —Anomalocaris (talk) 04:46, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
Where did you get the idea that in English 'words starting with "th" are voiced and all other "th" are unvoiced'? The words "the", "that", "then", for example, do indeed start with voiced "th", but "thin", "think", "thistle", "theocracy", for example, don't. On the other hand "either", "brother", "bathe" etc have voiced "th", while "ether", "method", "bath", etc, don't. If you are a native speaker of English then just listen to the difference when you say "thin" and "think", for example, or "bath" and "bathe". Better still consider the pairs mouth/mouthe and thigh/thy, where the only difference is unvoiced versus voiced "th". Alternatively, look a few of them up in any dictionary which gives pronunciation. JBW (talk) 12:57, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
Having seen your subsequent edit summary, I have checked in a couple of dictionaries and confirmed that, very much to my surprise, the pronunciation /wɪθ/ for "with" is usual in American English. However, I suggest it is better to avoid using an example which depends on a particular variant of English. Would "both thick and thin" work for you? To me, both "both" and "thick" have unvoiced th. JBW (talk) 13:47, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
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A nested table should begin on a new row and the "||" placed on the previous line. Your edit also conformed to this, but it was formatting differently. Trigenibinion (talk) 13:26, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
<td>
element. If there is also style markup for the cell containing the nested table (both cases in this example), there is also a pipe at the end of the style line, basically corresponding to the >
of the <td>
tag. When a nested table isn't the first item in a table cell (3 of the 5 nested tables), the table starts right up without any pipes at the end of the previous line. The entire Help:Table page has 9 example lines where the table row line (|-
, corresponding to <td>
) continues with other markup; each of these 9 times, the additional markup is row style markup that doesn't end with a pipe. I don't think table row lines ever need two, or even one, pipe at the end, or that any such pipe or pipes on the |-
line can be used to set up for a nested table. Anyway, I don't accept your theory that two pipes are required on the line before a nested table (except at the beginning and end of a line with style or colspan or rowspan markup in between). Your markup generates 2 lint errors: a Table tag that should be deleted and a Stripped tag. My theory is that somehow, this bollixed markup causes a display effect that you are trying to achieve. But it's not OK to generate display effects through error behavior. Please find markup that generates your desired display without lint errors. Cheers! —Anomalocaris (talk) 06:16, 9 May 2022 (UTC)Trigenibinion: Can you find a reference that provides for nesting a table with the markup |- ||
? Refining my earlier point, I believe the only markup that goes on a line starting |-
is style markup that applies to the whole row. You're using a pipe to mean <td>
, but that can't go on the |-
line. Here's an experiment you can try:
{| class="wikitable" | row one cell one || row one cell two |- || row two cell one || row two cell two |}
generates:
row one cell one | row one cell two |
Notice that row two does not appear. If you insert a line break after |- ||
, this generates a Fostered content lint error, which I don't want here, but you can test that on your own. The fostered content, "row two cell one || row two cell two" isn't in a table cell, so it displays before the table. This confirms my position that you can't put any wiki markup on the line starting |-
except style markup for the table row, and definitely not a pipe for "table cell" or <td>
. —Anomalocaris (talk) 19:23, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
Years ago, I actually asked about this as an issue: Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 60#Cite_news - multiple_URLs. I am doing what was recommended to me at the time. I have actual thousands of citations that use this, so any solution is going to require bot intervention across hundreds, maybe even 1,000 or more pages. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 00:34, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101417914/|A6]
, which after my fix, you revised to [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101417914/ A6]
, in other words you changed the pipe (treated as part of the URL) to a space (treated as separating the URL from the link text). That is, you changed [1] to A6. Your solution is correct. The markup before my fix had four lint errors: 2 Misnested tag with different rendering in HTML5 and HTML4, 1 Links in links and 1 Stripped tag. HTML4/5 Misnested tags are under control in the Article namespace and I came to WHYY-TV to fix what was then the only such lint error in Article space. I did think it odd that page numbers couldn't be linked inside of {{cite}}
templates; in fact I knew I'd seen it all over, but I saw the misnested tag and a solution and I didn't analyze it further. So, thank you for fixing it correctly and thank you for notifying me. Just one favor, though: It would be helpful to mention the page in question (WHYY-TV), because I didn't remember and I had to look in my contribution history to find it. Cheers! —Anomalocaris (talk) 02:11, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for your edit on the drafted Amhara Genocide article. I merged multiple reference to improve the section and wondering if you check it out for me Petra0922 (talk) 17:14, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
|website=
, |work=
, and |newspaper=
display the name in italics; |publisher=
displays the name without italics. There are borderline cases that may be hard to decide, but mostly it's not hard to figure out. When a story appears on a bona fide news site, I use {{cite news}}
not {{cite web}}
. YouTube videos use {{cite AV media}}
. {{cite journal}}
is only for academic journals; {{cite magazine}}
can be used for magazines. When a news story title includes extraneous information, such as "News analysis" or the name of the publication or organization, it's best to use just the story title and not the extraneous parts. These are some of my editing habits. —Anomalocaris (talk) 07:20, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
{{cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://mywebsite/lost.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010401194058/http://mywebsite/lost.html |archivedate=2001-04-01}}
, where "Archived copy" is used in place of the real page title. Such pages are automatically placed in hidden Category:CS1 maint: archived copy as title, and if you set your preferences to display hidden categories, you will see such maintenance categories at the bottom of pages, and then you can fix whatever is causing the problem. I haven't seen any any hidden categories in Draft:Amhara genocide, but often do find and fix hidden category issues in other pages. —Anomalocaris (talk) 19:01, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
Thank you so much for fixing the titles in Draft:Thich Dieu Thien. I appreciate it! ZenSunflower (talk) 00:17, 8 June 2022 (UTC) |
Hello, I would like to know if the article is okay now? Thanks a lot. 186.5.212.161 (talk) 06:59, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
Did you even look at the how the page looks with your changes? It looks ridiculous, the userbox section is all down at the bottom for some idiotic reason. If you're going to fuck about with other peoples' user pages without asking (and why do you need to?), at least take the time to make sure it looks the same in the end. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 07:27, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
To all participants in this discussion: Wikipedia:Linter#How you can help specifically approves editing user pages and user talk pages for the purpose of eliminating lint errors. Wikipedia editors routinely do this, without asking first, usually without complaint, and often with thanks after the fact. However, in the case of Premeditated Chaos, I acknowledge that I didn't follow the instruction "Especially on User and User talk pages, try to minimize disruption by getting your fix right on the first try." Worse than that, after my edit, I still didn't notice that I had messed up the page.
Premeditated Chaos: I am sorry I messed up your page in the first place, and I am sorry I didn't notice that I messed it up. I didn't reply right away because I wanted to do some further research about what happened and offer some additional thoughts, but I haven't had the chance to do that. But again, I am sorry, and I'm glad you were able to quickly revert.
Doug Weller: Thank you for your thoughts. I have edited thousands of talk pages, fixing lint errors, usually preserving the appearance exactly or very closely. I have received very few complaints and numerous kudos. In the past 4 months, I've received 5 notifications from users thanking me for editing their user page or user talk page. That's aside from older thanks, thanks in other ways, and thanks regarding edits of user comments on pages other than user and user talk. I do not agree that editors need to ask first, but editors should get their changes right on the first try, and if they mess up, they should fix it right away.
Blanchey: I stand by my edit on User talk:LordBossMaster100. It looks fine to me. The display of {{User alternative account name}}
is no longer indented; I don't think that should be an issue and I'm sorry if it bothers you, but in my edit summary I offered the suggestion (perhaps you meant {{Tl|User alternative account name}} ...?"
, because sometimes editors intend to mention rather than display templates. I don't know what you intended, so I offerered that as a possibility.
Premeditated Chaos: Again, I'm sorry I messed up your page. Aside from that, I believe that I have consistently followed the instructions at Wikipedia:Refactor. In particular, when fixing lint errors involving user comments, I am scrupulous to preserve their actual words, except in rare cases where the obvious intent was to name a template rather than display it. I do not think it is fair to suggest, as you did, that I was "mucking about" User talk:LordBossMaster100. That was a clean edit, even if it turns out that Blanchey is unhappy that a formerly indented template is no longer indented. In any event, I don't think my edit of User talk:LordBossMaster100 was disrespectful.
To all participants in this discussion: Lint errors are a big deal. They can result in bizarre appearances, for example, content nested inside tables, or inside the wrong table, rather than where it is supposed to be, and many lint errors can affect the display all the way to the end of a page. It is good to fix lint errors and one doesn't need to get permission first. However, if an editor has said, "please don't fix lint errors on my page," such requests should not be ignored. —Anomalocaris (talk) 21:22, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me with SS Lusitania (1871) because i was having a lot of trouble (i’m also planning of retiring) so thanks for that. Fourostrich8696 (talk) 19:49, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
Hello Anomalocaris, please use the correct syntax for non-breaking spaces. It is "&" immediately followed by "nbsp;" and not "nbsp;" only. In https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uranium-233&type=revision&diff=1108945796&oldid=1103648717 i just corrected it. Himbeerbläuling (talk) 14:00, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
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Linter fixes like this one are not required for TFD-related errors, since they are temporary. You can just let the TFD run its course after a week, or if the TFD'd template is not really used, you can wrap the notice in noincludes. One other method to get rid of some errors is to add an inline tag in the TFD notice. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:00, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
|type=inline
into both XFD'd pages that were transcluded there, and that seems to have solved the problem, even with the original syntax in place. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:16, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
I mean, look at this excerpt from my cut-and-paste cheat sheet. And this is just for centering.
the things we do for fun...
|
---|
<div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="margin:1em auto;"> (For non-text things. Sometimes doesn't work.) or this: <div style="margin:1em auto;text-align: center;"> <div class="center"> If none of the div tags work, you can hack it with a table: {| style="margin: auto" | To center an hr tag: <hr style="width:80%;margin: auto;" /> How to center a table on the page: {| style="margin: auto;" <table style="margin: auto;"> To center a table cell's contents: |style="text-align: center;" | Content |colspan="5" style="text-align: center;" | Content <td style="text-align:center"> To center text in a Tmbox or Editnotice: |textstyle = text-align: center; To center a tree chart: {{tree chart/start|align=center}} Other centering: <gallery class="center">...</gallery> (doesn't always work!)<br> {{Gallery|align=center}} Centering the content of a userbox, if the content is in |info = | info-op = text-align: center {{location map|float=center}} |
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I am part of the working group Draft: Venus and Cupid with a Honeycomb and I did not understand why the pictures were removed apart from the correction of grammatical errors. If you can give me a reason I would be happy, thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LIUC7Pietro03 (talk • contribs) 16:04, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I added LintHint to my Common.js page to give it a try, but I'm not seeing anything new when looking at pages. I've logged out, cleared my cache of this site, tried another browser, etc. Nothing so far. Is there a step I am missing, or is it not working due to the Wikipedia Lint problem not updating? Do I need the Extension Linter added/enabled to use this, or is this an independent gadget? Thanks, Zinnober9 (talk) 19:01, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
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There's a blocked user using various blocked, but not TPA blocked, IPs to write the same "slanderous manafesto" (my words for that mess) against Bbb23, so I'd skip fixing these specific selfclosing span errors for right now (the pages get deleted anyway). They've been popping up every few hours or so this evening. I've been letting Bbb23 know about them so far. Zinnober9 (talk) 05:55, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello Anomalocaris. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Draft:45 rolls toilet paper, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A11 is for mainspace only. Thank you. BangJan1999 20:57, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
I've mostly finished off the fixable stripped issues in Template Talk pages, but I'm stuck on the remaining fixable ones. I have it down to 35 fixable, 4 questionable, and 19 to skip. If you want to take a look at my list and see if you can clear any, that would be great. You've cleared multiple lints I'd gotten stuck on in the past and thought you might be able to nab these. Completely at your leisure. Cheers, Zinnober9 (talk) 01:08, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
<span>
tags to <div>
, but I didn't succeed immediately and I don't want to spend any more time on it, at least right now. By the way, I noticed that somewhere you fixed obsolete <tt>
tags with <code>
tags. That's totally correct in article space, but on talk pages, I usually preserve the appearance with {{mono|...}}
or {{mono|1=...}}
if there are equals signs in the markup. —Anomalocaris (talk) 08:43, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
Created Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Pronalee. TonyBallioni (talk) 00:05, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for the assistance. I'm still new n trying to learn how to give out info for article pages Wikipeda doesn't have.
Cocorocco (talk) 20:57, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
Hi there. First off, confused why you changed something from my sandbox, even though it was helpful, that's a given. Second off, what's the actual difference between adding a slash or not ( <small> to </small> )? NewDealChief (talk) 10:20, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
<small>
and a corresponding closing tag (</small>
). The slash is at the beginning of a closing tag. A slash at the end of a tag is a self-closed tag. A self-closed tag is a tag that opens and closes in one operation. This is usually an error, but it is allowed for tags such as <nowiki/>
and <ref name="..." />
. It is not proper to close a tag with the same tag. In the case of the small tag, the second tag means "even smaller", like this:
Here is some <small>small text and this is <small>even smaller</small></small>. Hah!
<small>
tags without a closing tag, two things happen. First, the linter detects a Multiple unclosed formatting tags lint error, and second, the page displays with a leak that may go all the way to the end of the page, unless the two tags are contained within a table or div tags or perhaps some other markup that limits the scope of the leak. On your page, the leak was contained within the table cell that displayed "(Replacing Ezra Taft Benson)", so, effectively there was no leak, but there would have been if there had been anything in the table cell after the second <small>
tag, or if the <small>
tags weren't so contained. I hope this explains everything. Cheers! —Anomalocaris (talk) 22:29, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
Hi @Anomalocaris,
Thanks again for your work tidying up the Kant page. I am wondering, it looks like you maybe used a tool to automate the work on the Reference list, removing all the weird spaces and stuff?
If it's an easy thing to do, could you possibly run it on Georg_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Hegel#References? Or else, if it doesn't require too much tech savvy, could you refer me to the app/tool/add-on/whatever and its documentation? Everything looks fine in the article (I think), but the underlying markup language is a mess, which sometimes makes it a pain to edit.
(Aside: the article currently uses what Wikipedia calls "American style" quote syntax consistently throughout. I am guessing this is much harder to fix by automation, so I'd prefer you left this be unless you can fix it across the whole article—in which case, of course, go for it!)
Regards, Patrick J. Welsh (talk) 16:23, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
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@Anomalocaris Hi Anomalocaris, in April you made a comment on this article, leaving a flag there: "Comment: links with "publishing date" are messed up. I fixed a few of them. —Anomalocaris (talk) 01:22, 10 April 2023 (UTC)". The article is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Vera_Felicidade_de_Almeida_Campos
Since that week I made the changes correcting what you pointed out - I was helped by Editors who collaborate with Women in Red Project discussions, both in what you pointed and in other issues of the article, and the errors were all corrected, we made style revisions in the narrative, references etc. I believe it's been ok since then. Some experienced editors have agreed it's fine, but they can't move the article, as far as I understand. I would like to ask you to look at it now and if you agree, remove your comment and especially, if it is possible for you, move this article to the main space. I ask this because it has been some time that the article is in Draft, I had numerous discussions and help with about 8 Senior Editors who contributed much to the final result (talks on the page of Women in Red and other pages Usertalk), but no one with prerogatives to move the article to the main space has manifested with me. I don't understand this Wikipedia process, but I sincerely ask for your help in this. Thank you in advance. Lidia Pita (talk) 10:13, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
I am learning from your corrections on Killing of Jordan Neely, thanks! Xan747 (talk) 04:39, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
In this diff, you somehow ended up with b style+"color:Red"
. If that was caused by a script error, please adjust your script. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:08, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
Anomalocaris, Thank you very much for your Copy edits to my draft article, Chimanabai Clock Tower. I express my gratitude for your kind help. Snehrashmi (talk) 02:37, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
I have meanwhile noticed the difference between straight & curved quotes; As I use a word processor, it took a long time... Bold headlines would look much better , also in the table of contents where smaller headlines clearly differ non-bold --- and above all, the table of contents is automatically shown and arrested on the whole left side, no matter where you are on the page! (apparently prepared for future), but Wikipedia rules here...
Similarly, the usual English headline capitalisation looks also better; Could Wiki not be a bit more tolerant, as long as the presentation is improved in a reasonable way? Let me know why this stiff wiki policy... Greetings — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.48.190.71 (talk) 02:39, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
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Only a minor point, but wanted to bring it to your notice that at Draft:Don Peake for Love Tracks, you changed my style of having italics within the wikilink, to outside of the wikilink. Anyone should be able to format it as per their preference when they create the piped wikilink, but changing from one format to another is not really productive. In this particular case, since you made a lot more format changes in the same edit, I can understand it was a bulk change. Again, not a concern, but something to keep in mind.
I see you are a veteran editor. Keep up the good work and take care. Jay 💬 13:49, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
''[[Link|Link'' text]]
is invalid, but ''[[Link|Link text]]''
or [[Link|''Link'' text]]
is fine. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:29, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
[[Love Tracks (Gloria Gaynor album)|''Love Tracks'']]
to ''[[Love Tracks (Gloria Gaynor album)|Love Tracks]]''
, which I would not have done if italics in wikilinks had been marked up correctly and consistently throughout the page. But since italics with wikilinks were bollixed elsewhere, I standardized on italics outside the link. This is also consistent with quotation marks outside the link, which also appears on this page. Cheers! —Anomalocaris (talk) 19:14, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
{{cite news |author=Journalist |title=story |publisher=newsgatherer |date=July 3, 2023 |url=http://newsgatherer.com/story}}
: Journalist (July 3, 2023). "story". newsgatherer.They sang [[The Star-Spangled Banner|"The Star-Spangled Banner"]] over and over until they had it right.
: They sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" over and over until they had it right."If I Were a Carpenter" is produced by "[[If I Were a Carpenter (song)|If I Were a Carpenter]]".
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I see in this obsolete center tag fix of yours in Template:Kolkata Metro route diagram, replacing <center><table>
with <table style="margin: auto">
resulted in a different rendering of the bottom table. In the original the six lines of text are left justified, whereas after your edit, the text is right justified. I tried various options last night, including <table style="float:center">
, but I couldn't get the bottom table to display correctly. Is there a way to fix this? —Bruce1eetalk 10:04, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
<center>...</center>
tags it's not necessary to explicitly left-justify the text in each table cell. It seems that in this instance, there is no simple replacement for the center tags. —Bruce1eetalk 12:25, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hey mate, instead of using multiple <code>
spans to format source code, use <syntaxhighlight> instead. I'm writing w.r.t this edit here (which I've already amended with the recommended markup). Aside from looking nicer, <syntaxhighlight>
tags automatically escape any embedded wiki markup, which obviates the need for <nowiki>
when the code in question happens to be Wikitext. Just an FYI in case it helps you in future. :)
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Hi. I notice that on September 27, you made quite a few edits to user talk pages and the like, to fix a duplicate thumb in images (example). (Including on to my user talk page, which is how I noticed.)
Those edits are cosmetic edits and as such should not be done on their own because they clutter page histories. See WP:COSMETICBOT. Given your rate of editing, I am convinced you are doing those fixes by hand (rather than running an unapproved bot) but still: While this policy applies only to bots, human editors should also follow this guidance if making such changes in a bot-like manner.
I would be especially wary of doing this on user talk pages, which gives the users in question a big red notification that "Anomalocaris has left a message on your talk page" (but there is no such "message" to be found without looking at the page history). TigraanClick here for my talk page ("private" contact) 09:47, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
As I was editing Wikipedia:Categorizing articles about people, I thought of fixing the unnatural "That an article may occupy grey areas for inclusion, is not a valid reason" with the exact same wording you came up with, "Even if an article may occupy the grey areas of a category's inclusion criteria, that is not a valid reason". But then I went with "An article may occupy grey areas for inclusion, but this is not a valid reason". Now that you've changed it, I think my first instinct was better, so thank you for the long distance Vulcan Mind Meld and getting it back to that. <grin> —Anomalocaris (talk) 04:47, 29 September 2023 (UTC) [Originally posted at User talk:Jc37 and moved here by jc37]
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Hi. Just seeking some clarification for future reference about an edit you made at Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion.
I'm aware {{tq}}
can't span multiple paragraphs and I accommodated for that, as can be seen in this diff, but it seemed to handle the bulleted list section just fine. Unless I'm missing something, your edit did not change the display of my post at all. Am I missing something? --DB1729talk 02:41, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
{{tq}}
can't span multiple paragraphs—techically, it can's span a block or more than a block. Anything indented is a block, so it can't wrap lines that begin with colon, asterisk or number sign. It may look OK, but it still generates misnested tags for <q>...</q>
. The documentation at Template:Talk quote inline says
{{talk quote block}}
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"rm all <small>, <br>, and alignment markup and avoid all caps."
I didn't change any references except minor details like fixing all caps. So don't blame me for any bare URLs or missing titles, they were already there and I had nothing to to with them. —Anomalocaris (talk) 22:54, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
|Title=("Charcot’s Influence on Freud")
and |Title="Author's Preface"
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A bunch of your edits are just masking a cewbot bug. In some specfic (but not yet identified) situation, the talkpage banners get relocated partway down the page, which obviously makes a mess of lots of things. Please don't compound/hide that by making a subsequent edit that merely masks one symptom of it. See for example:
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No response is needed, just a thanks for helping me on my page Draft:Josei Tennō, all help is welcome :) Camillz (talk) 21:56, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedians! I have a dream to create an article about the Silesian School of Iconography because I started it 11 years ago, and now I have some time since my children are on vacation, allowing me to devote myself to my passion. I once encountered this community and can't believe they aren't present on Wikipedia. I'm not very skilled with all the tools, so please: help me. I have a few more days to create great articles, but I also want to include them in Wikimedia Commons, where I'll upload all available works of the Silesian School of Iconography. I created the category "Silesian School of Iconography," but it seems something is not quite right. Help me make such a category. I'm also writing articles about some members of this school, but I can't gather all the materials. Perhaps I'll create basic drafts for further development, which I believe is also valuable. Please, take a look at the links (note! some are drafts and I'll be modifying them), but most importantly, I care about the Silesian School of Iconography. If you can, please improve these texts. 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Silesian_School_of_Iconography 2) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Monika_Jerominek 3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Like_the_dewfall/Jolanta_%C5%9Awi%C4%85tkiewicz 4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Like_the_dewfall/Dariusz_Klejnowski-R%C3%B3%C5%BCycki I also have issues regarding licenses and copyrights, as some images have been blocked. In the meantime, I'm sending images available on the website of the Silesian School of Iconography here under the "WORKS" section at the bottom of the page, and I don't know how to manage this. Please help me with that as well. Like the dewfall (talk) 00:08, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for whatever you did on catalytic reforming. What is the motivation for adding quotation marks for <ref name=abc> <ref name="abc">? Thanks, --Smokefoot (talk) 21:02, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
A–Z
, a–z
, digits 0–9
, and the symbols !$%&()*,-.:;<@[]^_`{|}~
.<ref name=Jones/>
. Now let's say in addition to citing the 2020 Jones study, we want to cite a 2022 Jones study. So the editor inserting the reference to the 2022 study first wants to rename the existing Jones reference to "Jones 2020", before inserting a new reference to "Jones 2022". Since the new name is going to need quotes, it's easiest if the existing names already have quotes. —Anomalocaris (talk) 21:45, 4 September 2024 (UTC)Hi there,
You made a recent edit on my sandbox. Firstly, thanks for making the tables compliant with correct formatting. I guess I got lazy with closing bold quotation symbols as I was making lots of tables to see which actually looked best - they potentially will never see an actual published article.
Just wondering why and how you came across a sandbox of all places to edit? Especially considering they may never be published. Do you run scripts or something to alert. Genuinely interested as to how this all came about.
Again, thanks for the edit - it will be useful in case I bring those tables across to published articles so that they are in a complete state. Also, you don't happen to have any experience with creating templates do you? Eccy89 (talk) 14:22, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
Eccy89: For the past several years, I have edited a lot of Wikipedia articles to fix Lint errors. Before I worked on it, your page User:Eccy89/sandbox2 showed up with at least one fostered content error. In a table, everything has to be in a cell, so, if there is something in the markup between the table start and the table end that is displayable but isn't in a table cell, it is considered fostered content, and it displays above the table. Fostered content is sometimes caused by careless markup like this:
{| This one-celled table is missing a pipe character in column one that would turn the rest of this line into a table cell |}
And sometimes it's caused by forgetting to close an otherwise valid table:
{| |Here's a table that has only one cell |- This is supposed to be after the table but somebody forgot the closing |}, so we're still in the table and this is fostered content
Once I started editing your page, I saw the problem with the <small>...</small>
tags, and I kept going from there. I consider it worth spending time fixing lint errors in sandboxes because it helps create awareness about good and bad markup. Sorry, I don't know much about creating templates. I can create a template that's just a block to include in an article, but I don't know how to write templates that take parameters. —Anomalocaris (talk) 19:28, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, I noticed you just took away some wikilinks that I had included in a web link. I assume that you meant well, and were enforcing some kind of policy.
In any event, I really would like our readers to be able to find out, by visiting our articles, who Peter Schreier and Walter Olbertz are. Can you advise what would be a format by which I could do this? Thank you for your help.
Sincerely, Opus33 (talk) 05:46, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
I have corrected the citation problems as requested by you. Can you please verify and let me know what else to improve ? Fuzayl1 (talk) 06:33, 16 October 2024 (UTC)