Martin Kealey

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Martin Kealey (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

Caught by a colocation web host block but this host or IP is not a web host. The blocked network is 2600:7000::/24. My subnet is 2600:70ff:c0b2::/48.

This subnet is a statically assigned to me personally. my appeal was inexplicably closed with "no known block" after ZERO human intervention.

That reason is clearly nonsense, as I still get this message:

Editing from 2600:7000:0:0:0:0:0:0/24 has been blocked (disabled) by ‪ST47‬ for the following reason(s):

This block is not due to expire until mid 2024.

Martin Kealey (talk) 08:35, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Accept reason:

I will grant you a month IPBE as you are a longtime user so you can resume editing. For something longer term you will need to request it by following the instructions at WP:IPEC. 331dot (talk) 09:12, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

"Unrolling" citations is controversial

Hi, Martin. I've noticed the massive changes you've made to An Inconvenient Truth, "unrolling" the citations. A better way to make the wikitext easier to read is make citations like those in 2020 in climate change (full citations in a separate section after the main narrative of the article). I am among those who think that "unrolling" citations makes the wikitext harder to read. —RCraig09 (talk) 04:05, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Personally I think both inline rolled up and inline unrolled are terrible, and I'd have been very happy to move the citations to a separate section if I'd known it was an option. I will look into the example you've provided.

I find that unrolled is marginally better because while reading the narrative I can skip over the lines starting with "|", whereas rolled up inline citations that are longer than their containing paragraph really do make it quite difficult to see which words are narrative and which are part of a citation, especially when there are multiple citations per paragraph. Martin Kealey (talk) 08:40, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

OK, I had a look at 2020 in climate change, and it seems like an apt comparison because in both cases over half of the article markup is citations. However what I will need help with is how to choose appropriate names for the ref's; is there any guidance on that or do I just use my own best judgement?Martin Kealey (talk) 01:25, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

Explanation given on my talk page: —RCraig09 (talk) 01:35, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

For anyone who comes looking, I recently made the change suggested above.[1] Martin Kealey (talk) 06:43, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Invitation to an in-person meetup in Mohua / Golden Bay

Golden Bay Air are holding some seats for us until 21 November

Thinking about your summer break? Think about joining other Wikipedians and Wikimedians in Golden Bay / Mohua! Details are on the meetup page. There's heaps of interesting stuff to work on e.g. the oldest extant waka or New Zealand's oldest ongoing legal case. Or you may spend your time taking photos and then upload them.

Golden Bay is hard to get to and the airline flying into Tākaka uses small planes, so we are holding some seats from and to Wellington and we are offering attendees a $200 travel subsidy to help with costs.

Be in touch with Schwede66 if this event interests you and you'd like to discuss logistics. Schwede66 09:14, 13 November 2023 (UTC)