User talk:WOSlinker/Archive 9

My bad

Sorry I accidentally reverted you. I was looking at marathon-related things and somehow that happened. My bad! StringTheory11 (t • c) 02:22, 22 May 2017 (UTC)

Duplicate coordinates

Thanks for updating coordinates in infoboxes. While you are moving through pages, take a quick look for duplicate coord templates, like this one. If that is too much hassle, you could periodically check Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags to see if you missed any. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:29, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

I did notice them, but they weren't being used by the infobox as parameter 3 isn't used if the coordinates or even lattitude/longitude were specified. I think it might be worth another look at all those though to get rid of the numbered parameters as it seems a bit too error prone using them. -- WOSlinker (talk) 20:48, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Football manager history - nowrap

Hi there. Is it possible for you to add the nowrapitems = yes parameter to football manager history navboxes (i.e. to everything inside this category)? Thanks in advance! --BlameRuiner (talk) 14:21, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

This edit should do it. -- WOSlinker (talk) 17:18, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

"remove old coord params" edits

Thank you for cleaning up those old coord params in various infoboxes. Much appreciated. Could I make a request though? Could you mark those edits as "minor" edits when you make them? Otherwise when you do a long series of them like you recently did, it clutters up other people's watchlists. That makes it harder for those of us looking for vandalism. Since these edits have no effect on the visible form of the article, I think they clearly qualify as "minor". Thanks! --Krelnik (talk) 14:37, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Will do -- WOSlinker (talk) 17:49, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Volcanoes in Columbia

The change you made here has caused Template:Volcanoes in Colombia, along with the articles transcluding it, to pop up in Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags. I don't know enough about the intricacies of template syntax to spot what the problem is; could you look into the problem? Deor (talk) 15:39, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. One of the lat_sec params was 77, which as wrong as they can't be over 60. I've now fixed it. -- WOSlinker (talk) 15:57, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Thanks—that I should have caught myself. I need another cup of coffee. Deor (talk) 16:19, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Convert invalid options

That is amazing! There are 1,000 fewer articles in Category:Convert invalid options today! About 40 of those are mine. Thanks. Johnuniq (talk) 06:20, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

Changing Alt to alt

This has stopped the Alt working.REVUpminster (talk) 15:53, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

The description on the image on Duel with a Stranger is begin used as a title rather than an alt parmameter, so it would probably be better in that case to just remove the Alt= part. -- WOSlinker (talk) 16:11, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Images should have an alt for those who cannot see the image. The small alt works in infobox television but does not seem to work elsewhere. A syntax error??? Above my pay grade.REVUpminster (talk) 18:18, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Text added with the alt= option is still there but doesn't show up as a tooltip when you hover over the image. -- WOSlinker (talk) 20:18, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Normal image |alt=Alt Text|	Normal image |Title Text|	Normal image |Title Text|alt=Alt Text|	Thumb image |alt=Alt Text|	Thumb image |Title Text|	Thumb image |Title Text|alt=Alt Text|
				Title Text	Title Text

Thanks. I wondered if it always worked because I did those images a long time ago.REVUpminster (talk) 21:05, 8 August 2017 (UTC)

Help with mobile-friendly Current Events project?

Hi! I've proposed a few changes to Portal:Current events that will make the layout work well on narrow-width displays.

Portal talk:Current events#Mobile-Friendly Current Events project (Final step)

As you have previously had involvement with the Current events page, I would appreciate your participation in the discussion, if it is convenient for you. Thank you for your time. — RossO (talk) 17:04, 14 August 2017 (UTC)

Coordinates in the Infobox oil field

Hi :WOSlinker. Thank you for removing from the articles including the template:infobox oil field the obsolete coordinates parameters. However, I discovered that in same cases the new | coordinates = field was not added to the infobox. Could you please to check your edits on these infoboxes and add the missing parameter )even in the case when coordinates are not included yet). Thank you in advance. Beagel (talk) 20:11, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

There were 11, which I found with this query and have added the parameter. -- WOSlinker (talk) 03:43, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

The Uw-consensus series is nominated for deletion

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Use case?

What's a legit use case of Template:Infobox person passing a blank parameter value?  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼  09:37, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

There isn't really a legit use case, but there are articles around using the template and passing over a blank name value. Without the #if statement in the template, those articles would not show a title for the infobox. I can't point you at an article right now as it's difficult to search to find them. But if you wanted to see them, a tracking category could be added to locate them. -- WOSlinker (talk) 11:59, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Found one. James Cameron -- WOSlinker (talk) 12:01, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

Edits to my sandbox

I don't think it's appropriate for you to have edited my page at User:D'Ranged 1/parameter naming sandbox2. It's not used in any article pages; the only things that link to it are testcase pages that are long obsolete. I'll be asking that they all be deleted. If a similar situation arises in the future, please leave a note on my Talk Page with your concerns. Thanks.—D'Ranged 1 | VT^alk :  10:38, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

I was tidying up some template pages and it was used on one of those, so it got editied as well. If you don't want people editing your userpages then don't include them on pages in other namespaces. -- WOSlinker (talk) 14:49, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

They were all template sandboxes and template testpages that I created years ago for my own use in testing new parameters for templates. No one else should be using the template sandboxes and template testpages that I created, as doing so would wreck my tests. That's why they were numbered and the bulk of the template sandbox was created in my user space. If they were linked to active template pages, that's incorrect and they have now all been deleted. —D'Ranged 1 | VT^alk :  20:44, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

Why HTML for italics?

MOS:ITALIC clearly states that two single quote marks are to be used for italic formatting. Why are you replacing that recommended format with HTML <i>...</i> formatting? In my experience, you are an excellent template editor, well above my level, but these edits are confusing me. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:49, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: If the lang templates are used within a sequence of text that is already inside italics then using the wiki style for italics in the template would switch off the italics for the lang section. However using the html style for setting italics would mean that it would not be switched off.

For example:

Template style	Code	Result
Wiki style	''text inside italics with {{User:WOSlinker/lang-wiki|lang part}} also included''	text inside italics with lang part also included
Html style	''text inside italics with {{User:WOSlinker/lang-html|lang part}} also included''	text inside italics with lang part also included
Wiki style	text without italics with {{User:WOSlinker/lang-wiki|lang part}} as well	text without italics with lang part as well
Html style	text without italics with {{User:WOSlinker/lang-html|lang part}} as well	text without italics with lang part as well

Hope this explains it. -- WOSlinker (talk) 15:32, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

When an italicized phrase is used inside of a longer italicized phrase, it should normally be reversed (i.e. plain text) to show that there is a change. See, for example, "double italics" in this style guide. I believe that the wiki style (above) was correct. Another example, from the widely-used CS1 citation templates:

Author (2017). A book about Another book. Publisher. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)

I think the original formatting was correct. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:17, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Agreeing with Jonesey95: italicising a word or phrase inside a longer stretch of italics text should make that word or phrase appear in roman style, otherwise its semantic content is lost (and italics are used primarily to indicate various forms of semantic contrast, unlike for example bolding, whose uses mostly have to do with visual appearance). – Uanfala 10:59, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Large linter edit runs

Hello WOSlinker, for large runs of repetitive edits why are you running these on your main account instead of using a bot account? This can be disruptive to watchlists, and you may wish to review a recent example of this to the extreme in Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Magioladitis 2. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:26, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Question that I started on a talk page of a template you have previously edited

I wondered if you could respond to this section that I started on a talk page related to a template that you have previously edited. If not, I was wondering if you knew someone that had an answer for it. ― C.Syde (talk | contribs) 04:08, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

I've added a parameter to the template. -- WOSlinker (talk) 10:05, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

Template:Lang-uz

Good day! Why do we use italics in this template, but not in others? Take a look: Uzbek: Oʻzbek gimnaziyasi/Ўзбек гимназияси; Russian: Узбекская гимназия; Kyrgyz: Өзбек гимназиясы. Only the uz template uses italics. Can you change it so that it does't? I think these templates should be uniform. Many thanks! Nataev ^talk 10:12, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

I can't do anything. The edit I made to {{Lang-uz}}, I undid. Since then others have been editing all the Language templates, so you should ask at Template talk:Lang. -- WOSlinker (talk) 10:53, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

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Help for artist biography

Please WOSlinker I need an expert user to insert in uk a biography of italian artist (painter and sculpture). Would you please contact me in private also by email if you prefer? Thank you in advance --MDePaola (talk) 14:38, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Seasons' Greetings

...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 03:13, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

1981 World Games

Hello. This edit seemed to mess up the subsequent page formatting but I'm not sure why. Any ideas? Thanks. --Jameboy (talk) 17:48, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

thanks. I've redone the edit, when changing the {{div-col}} to a {{divcol}}, I should have also included a close table in the particular case. -- WOSlinker (talk) 20:57, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

Gopal Parsad Parajuli

• Gopal Parsad Parajuli (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. NepalMyMotherland 12:43, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Doesn't see that high. -- WOSlinker (talk) 12:46, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Fixing closing html

I see you are fixing a lot of tennis pages that have bad closing (''') for bold and italics. Thanks. You do it awfully fast, are you using some sort of bot to do it? I always have to do it manually one page at a time. Fyunck(click) (talk) 20:12, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Just a little javascript to do some search and replacing followed by by a quick check and adding in a few bits myself that the script doesn't do. -- WOSlinker (talk) 21:53, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

I need your help

Hello I want you to have a look at my request on a page Template talk:Portal please, thank you.

Egy writer (talk) 03:29, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedians who like Black Mirror

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Merger discussion for Chrysler Hall

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Neutral notice

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Proposed merging of red and green highlighter templates

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Fixing center tags

Hi, WOSlinker. I notice that recently you've been making a lot of edits with the summary "fix center tags". In these edits you are adding the closing </center> tags to articles where it is missing.

According to Help:HTML in wikitext, <center>...</center> is obsolete; the recommended replacement is the {{center}} template, which uses CSS. Can I suggest refocusing your efforts to replace the <center>...</center> tag with this template instead of just inserting the closing tag? —Bkell (talk) 01:20, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I'm aware of that. It's a job for another time though. It's easier to add the closing tag rather than having to add the css text-align:center or using the center template. That can be done by someone else. -- WOSlinker (talk) 09:34, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Module:ConvertTestcase

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Merge Templates - Christian leader and saint

• Template:Infobox Christian leader (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• {{Infobox saint}}

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Userboxes

Your change to User:UserboxMania/DayName appears to have broken the alignment of userboxes on my user page. They were all in a column to the right before your change. SpinningSpark 15:50, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Spinningspark, I've undone the changes to that userbox now, and as you can see on your page, the layout is still the same, so that change was not the issue. -- WOSlinker (talk) 15:54, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

It's definitely that userbox. I've removed it from my page and the formatting is back to normal. And I'm sure it happened very recently, so I don't know what's going on. SpinningSpark 16:02, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Spinningspark, it's not any changes I've done, as I undone them. It's probably due to the new Remex rendering engine that Wikipedia is now using, see Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Remex:_My_page_is_recently_broken_and_I_can't_figure_out_why -- WOSlinker (talk) 16:07, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Ok, put your changes back. That userbox was wrapped in a table to get the borders right. If I just take out that bit and put the userbox in straight there is no problem. But I still can't fix it with the border on. I'll report it on the VP page you linked. SpinningSpark 16:17, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Hypergnoming

Why are so many WOS link edits appearing on very old pages, eg https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_bureaucratship/Juliancolton_2&curid=25559243&diff=850442083&oldid=849677250

Is this fixing something that was broken? Are new browsers not backward compatible? If not fixing an actual problem, I think you should leave old pages alone. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 01:35, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I'm fixing an issue. In history, compare the current revision to the previous revision. Scroll down to the end of the page and you'll see the issue with the font. -- WOSlinker (talk) 06:28, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Maybe you should let a bot handle those edits? That way they could be hidden with the bot-flag and wouldn't pollute watchlists. Regards SoWhy 09:08, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

And yes, these are noticeable and concerning, because ne'er-do-wells would love to rewrite history (and old pages). My notice was attracted by this, where you were fixing <u>....<u> to be the more correct <u>....</u>. Looking at that makes me wonder if you are responding to or know about the Special:LintErrors project? If so, then a more explicit (and reassuring) edit summary than "u fix" would be nice. When touching sensitive pages a better edit summary is definitely needed. Shenme (talk) 06:27, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

• You are editing like a bot. Please get approval and use a bot account. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 13:35, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Human or bot?

Are you a human or are you a bot? — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  22:03, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

I'm human. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:12, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

Mr. Guye (whose name cracks me up), thanks for asking the important question! WOSlinker, thanks for answering and for, intentionally or not, mimicking a bot so well that that question gets asked! Just a drive-by by me—bye! Geekdiva (talk) 22:25, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

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Hey WOSlinker! I'm sorry I didn't see that AN/I discussion (archived here) while it was still active so I could thank you there. I watch over all of the WP:Reference desk archives and saw scores of your edits coming up on my Recent Changes lists, and without exception every one was a proper, helpful edit. Thank you. I'm sorry the criticism of those few who were perturbed by their watchlist activity pressured you to shutdown, and hope that you are able to resume that editing soon. -- ToE 00:19, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

I see that Galobot, currently approved for a limited trial run, is taking on those unclosed-formatting-tag lint errors. -- ToE 12:59, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Antonine dynasty

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Request to change the parent of Tetrapoda to Stegocephalia

Hello, I've recently found out that you have the credentials for editing Template:Taxonomy/Tetrapoda based on an edit you made on October 19, 2013. May I request that you change the "parent" from Teleostomi to Stegocephalia? Many important taxonomical levels are skipped if Teleostomi is retained as a parent, but using Stegocephalia as a parent was not possible until recently. Changing the parent to Stegocephalia would normally have created a rank conflict due to forcing Superclass Tetrapoda to be a component of Superclass Osteichthyes. However, I recently edited Template:Taxonomy/Sarcopterygii in a way that would allow Tetrapoda to fall under the cladistic alternative to Osteichthys, namely Euteleostomi. The last step would be to edit the taxonomy template of Tetrapoda itself, but alas this is not possible for people apart from template editors or administrators. Which is why I am asking if you could fulfill this step, or even derank the protection so that other auto-confirmed editors are allowed to edit the template. Fanboyphilosopher (talk) 03:07, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

I've made that change. -- WOSlinker (talk) 07:36, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Category:Geobox usage tracking for beach type has been nominated for discussion

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OMG...

Mind deleting Category:Geobox usage tracking for beach type? I converted all the pages so it can be removed. I nominated it for deletion but some other admin reverted it because I'm not an admin. --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 00:26, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Done. -- WOSlinker (talk) 09:52, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Many thanks! --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 17:17, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Infobox for Briarcliff Manor, New York

I think the proposed infobox is ready to bring up for discussion at Talk:Briarcliff Manor, New York, but I wanted to check with you first. Should I copy it to that Talk page? —hike395 (talk) 17:35, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Hike395: thank you!!!! I would say yes, go ahead and put it on the talk page. --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 17:37, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Yes, that's fine with me. -- WOSlinker (talk) 20:15, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Why is one user getting to halt this entire process? I really don't get it... Consensus has long been that settlements use {{Infobox settlement}}. Everything this user has done demonstrates their desire to OWN that page... --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 05:01, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

It will go eventually. Maybe once all the river articles have moved over and the protected areas and it's the only use left. Then there will be no option but to move. -- WOSlinker (talk) 08:53, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

What I don't understand is why one user gets to hold this whole process up? --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 01:29, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

That's the way it goes sometimes. Some people are willing to die on their particular hill. Let it ride. When there is only one transclusion of Geobox left, it will be easy to deal with, one way or another. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:26, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

My point though is that this user seems to pride himself on his violations of WP:OWN... He is forcing changes to be made to the {{Infobox settlement}} by throwing a temper-tantrum and blocking any forward process on the page. --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 07:01, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

You're actually being a little OWN about this process, Zackmann. I was dealing with you removing content from an FA, and now some other constructive editors are actually helping me instead of still complaining. Jeez, grow up and learn to work toward bettering the encyclopedia and WP:DROPTHESTICK. ɱ (talk) · vbm · coi) 14:25, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

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Bot-like editing

Your “fix small tag” edits, being the recent examples, continue to flood my watchlist. Would you please do these edits done by a bit account so that I can ignore them, as I ignore all bot edits. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 12:54, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

I've got a request in for a bot account but it's progressing slowly. -- WOSlinker (talk) 12:55, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

OK, good, thanks. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 13:08, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Main space pages with lots of Linter errors

In case it interests you, there is a page listing the main space pages with the most Linter errors at User:Galobot/report/Articles by Lint Errors. It is refreshed once a day. I have found it quite satisfying to work on these pages, and many of the error fixes are scriptable. My replacement regular expressions (which do not work correctly 100% of the time and need to be manually checked) are at User:Jonesey95/AutoEd/doi.js. – Jonesey95 (talk) 09:41, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

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Non-free images in portals and templates

Hi WOSlinker. Perhaps you can help sort Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Portals#Non-free images in portals? -- Marchjuly (talk) 01:47, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for removing the Winnipeg file. Can you also please remove File:Mississauga coat arms.png from Module:Portal/images/m? -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:20, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for getting that file as well. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:16, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Infobox river/comparison sandbox vs geobox

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Error in linting

Your bot stripped the opening <b> in this edit that should have remained. --Izno (talk) 20:19, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll get it fixed. Only one other page with that issue as well, [1]/ -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:50, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Request for removal of protection of Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check

Hi, WOSlinker. In 2013, you protected Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check for persistent vandalism. This page has recently been merged into Wikipedia:WikiProject Reliability, which is currently unprotected and not experiencing vandalism issues. Could you please unprotect Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check, as it is not necessary anymore? Thanks. — Newslinger talk 23:51, 12 January 2019 (UTC)

Done. -- WOSlinker (talk) 00:17, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Your BRFA

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Great Canadian Railroad Journeys moved to draftspace

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Orphaned non-free image File:Great Canadian Railroad Journeys title.jpg

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Bot at my talk page archive

Could you please make WOSlinker Bot leave User talk:Tryptofish/Archive 34 alone? Thanks. --Tryptofish (talk) 19:15, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

I fixed the archive again. Please accept that correcting broken HTML is a useful service and no one owns any page. Johnuniq (talk) 00:21, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

You have got to be kidding. Don't do that again. --Tryptofish (talk) 00:23, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

What possible objection would you have for someone fixing broken HTML on a page at Wikipedia? It happens frequently. There should be no reason to regard it as an affront. Johnuniq (talk) 00:30, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Because, among other things, you were fixing it the wrong way – that is, changing the intended font size of the editors who were commenting. I just fixed it for real. WP:TPO --Tryptofish (talk) 00:38, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Tryptofish: This is a good news / bad news situation. The good news is that you fixed the problem (small tags can't wrap multiple lines in the new Linter era). The bad news is that there are still 71 lint errors on that page. Let me know if you would like me to try to fix all of them at once so that you can be done with bot visits for a while. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:47, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Your page may not have looked excatly like it does now as it did a year ago since some of the software that processed the pages and automatically fixed some of the html errors has changed. Hence why there are these lint error reports now. For example look at the small tags at User_talk:Duja/Archive_4. Before and After the bot fixes (scroll to the bottom of the page and see the font size). -- WOSlinker (talk) 09:27, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Jonesy95 and WOSlinker, thank you for these comments. I just looked at the archive page, and it seems to me to look OK in terms of font sizes, although I realize that there are underlying problems (with some user signatures, I assume, or maybe with some "small" tags that went over multiple lines). If anyone wants to fix it manually, please feel free to do so, with my sincere thanks, but please also make sure that you preserve where editors deliberately put their comments in smaller (and smaller) font. It's not like anything on a user talk page archive was breaking Wikipedia, after all. And when I first asked here, I sure wish someone had simply discussed it with me, instead of "fixing" it in the same way that I had already said was of concern to me. By the way, I see that the bot does not recognize the "nobots" template, and maybe it should. --Tryptofish (talk) 00:04, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

I have fixed all of the high and medium priority Linter errors on that page, and some of the low-priority errors. I tend to leave most obsolete tags (font and center tags) unprocessed since they do not have any visual problems now and replacing them is not a simple one-for-one swap with new code. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:40, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks very much for that. It was quite an edit, must have been a lot of work, so thanks indeed! --Tryptofish (talk) 22:26, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Signature to fix (6,000 pages)

This search shows almost 6,000 pages with the same signature containing misnested tags, if that is something that interests you. I fixed about 250 of them in template (DYK) space, but 6,000, even with AutoEd, is too much for me. Also pinging Ahecht. There are two patterns and fixes that I know of. I'm using this replacement with AutoEd:

  str = str.replace(/<font color="207004"><big>\'\'\'S<\/big>ven <big>M<\/big>anguard\'\'\'<\/font>/gi, '<span style="color:#207004;">\'\'\'<big>S<\/big>ven <big>M<\/big>anguard\'\'\'<\/span>');

  str = str.replace(/<font color="207004"><big>\'\'\'S<\/big>ven <big>M<\/big>anguard\'\'\'<\/font>/gi, '<span style="color:#207004;">\'\'\'<big>S<\/big>ven <big>M<\/big>anguard\'\'\'<\/span>');

I have more individual signatures listed near the top of User:Jonesey95/AutoEd/doi.js, and some other font tag replacements (for tidy font link errors and general font tag replacement) listed in the "font wrapping" section and subsequent sections. I have never seen a false positive from any of these patterns; I tend to run my regexes conservatively, because I don't like cleaning up my own messes. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:52, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

I'll have a look at some point but have got these to do first. -- WOSlinker (talk) 07:43, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

@Jonesey95 and WOSlinker: I was planning on finishing my next BRFA this weekend, so I can add those in. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 15:29, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Template:Convert/testcases

Are you still using the /parametercombinations and /bytype pages? All 10 parametercombinations pages and 2 of the bytype are just full of errors. If these are used, could you fix the errors? If they are not, could you speedy delete them? Thanks --Gonnym (talk) 13:35, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

I've sorted it. -- WOSlinker (talk) 13:43, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks! --Gonnym (talk) 13:44, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!!

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Duplicate parm

Hi Linker. User:UBX/Deism has duplicate "info-s" parms. Davemck (talk) 15:48, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. -- WOSlinker (talk) 17:14, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

User:UBX/CanLearnALot breaking transclusion

Hi, not sure if your recent update with User:UBX/CanLearnALot broke the userbox transclusion. Can you assist in checking it out? If the userbox is placed last in the transclusion, it will result in improper formatting on the user page itself. You can check it out in an old revision of my user page. Thanks robertsky (talk) 00:39, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

When editing that userbox, I removed a blank line at the end of it. On your page you had {{Userboxbottom}} straight after the userboxes. It should be on a separate line. This fixes the issue. -- WOSlinker (talk) 08:29, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Lovely.Thanks for the clarification and edit. robertsky (talk) 10:02, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Trying to institute automatic-archiving on an article talkpage....help?

I noticed you've done some archiving help on this page in the past and was wondering if you could take a look and tell me how to fix it. (Yeah, I know you could probably do it quicker but I'd like to learn the *how*...) Anyway, the page is Talk:Mountain Meadows Massacre which every so often seems to get quite a few posts & threads. I have now set up auto-archiving but am puzzled about how to make the Archive #s appear in the talkpage header, like at Talk: George Washington. Any coding-help/info greatly appreciated. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 00:17, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

All the archive pages had a lower case M for the massacre, for example: Talk:Mountain_Meadows_massacre/Archive_4. I've now move them to match the casing as per the main talk page and the links are showing up now. -- WOSlinker (talk) 13:04, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Oh. Well DUH on me. Heh I would have been happy to have fixed it myself but thanks for the explanation & the fix. Cheers, Shearonink (talk) 13:49, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

pp templates

Wouldn't be best to have a bot tackle cases like this? I'd encourage you to make a WP:BOTREQ if that's the case. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 16:26, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

There wasn't that many (<100) so didn't feel a bot would be worth it. -- WOSlinker (talk) 17:55, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Today yeah. But how many will pop up again in the next month? It just seems something tedious to do, and something annoying to re-verify every week/month/year/whatever. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:39, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:MBTA infobox header

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How do make the user things with pics

The one like this {User WP Anime} Kenkei (talk) 19:59, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks...

... for working to remove Portal links. I can't keep up with what the heck's going on with portals, but I've been trying to remove red links to deleted portals when I see them. Much appreciated! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 19:50, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

I think it might need a bot to remove a lot of them. I'm just doing the easier ones in the project banners mainly. -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:52, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

WOSlinker, Yeah, I wish bot fixes were part of this recent discussion/mass deletion. Oh well, every bit of manual work helps! Thanks again. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 20:02, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

Template:Country data Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Why is this template protected indefinitely? This is a problem because it isn't working. As you can see from the main template. Charles Essie (talk) 20:43, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

I think it was protected due to its high usage. I didn't do the original protection, that was User:East718. I only reduced it down to requiring template editor rights. If something needs changing then you could make a copy in a sandbox, Template:Country data North Korea/sandbox and then place an edit request on the talk page. -- WOSlinker (talk) 21:14, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Reviewing a page of mine

Hello there! My name is Nick mick, and I've heavily edited a page called Channel 9. Do you want to take a look at it and rate it, as a means of feedback? Thanks! NickBlamp (talk) 09:41, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Hi Nick mick, Greek TV is not an area I have much expertise in but I can say that the article is a lot more informative now than it was a month ago. It's also nice to see some references have beeen added too. -- WOSlinker (talk) 09:16, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Talk page not archiving

Could you take a look at Talk:Mountain Meadows Massacre and tell me why it isn't archiving? I've looked at it and looked at it and am just not seeing what isn't working. You can post your reply here. If you don't mind I'd prefer to go off of your instructions and fix it myself, that way I have more of a chance to remember the Why of WikiThings for next time... Cheers, Shearonink (talk) 19:42, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Nevermind, I figured it out. Finally. The archives had been Talk:Mountain Meadow Massacre/Archive %(counter)d but should have been Talk:Mountain Meadows Massacre/Archive %(counter)d ... the title was missin an s within the coding. Shearonink (talk) 20:20, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Profession user templates

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Please reduce protection level of Template:User nola

The userbox for New Orleans has been vandalized once in 2008. I believe that extended confirmed protection would be more then enough for a userbox with less than 50 usages. —⁠andrybak (talk) 08:12, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

@Andrybak:, I've removed it altogether. I don't think it needs it. -- WOSlinker (talk) 11:05, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

Today's Wikipedian 10 years ago

Awesome

Ten years!

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Change protection level for Template:Cat topic in year

It's been orphaned per consensus at TfD so I would like the protection removed so I can complete the merger by redirecting it. Thanks! -- Trialpears (talk) 22:34, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

 Done -- WOSlinker (talk) 06:36, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

So I have the same problem again with {{BillboardURL}} it displays as 400 transclusions but all or almost all are gone after an edit to {{Single chart}} that just haven't updated yet. Could you help me reduce the protection? --Trialpears (talk) 18:11, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

 Done -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:39, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

Draft: John Arthur Getreu

can you help me submit this draft for review please? College railman (talk) 21:16, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

You can add {{subst:submit}} to the draft to submit it for review. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:47, 7 August 2019 (UTC)

Ketaki Kadam name misspelled at Ketki Kadam

Hi , There is a wikipage of an actress name Ketaki Kadam which is misspelled as Ketki Kadam without an "a" which is causing alot of problems for the actress to verify her account on her social media platform. Please look on to this issue and fix it . Anu1999 (talk) 10:55, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

There are both spellings on a number of external links, and as I'm not aware of the correct name to use, I don't want to move the page myself. You should ask at Wikipedia:Requested moves. -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:20, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

Her correct name is Ketaki with a in her name ! Anu1999 (talk) 11:05, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

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Template:WPBannerMeta

Hello WLer, I understand from the response to my post over at WP:VPT that you are one of the experts in all things {{WPBannerMeta}}. My question is this: I know by adding the /inactive suffix, one can reflect that a stand-alone WikiProject is inactive, such as {{WikiProject The Supremes}}. But is there similar code that will show a WikiProject (or task force) as inactive when it is part of a larger, still active project? For example, how can we show the Transport in Scotland project as inactive in {{WikiProject Trains}}? (seems would be better than just deleting the subproject code completely). Can we just add a TF_x_Status = inactive parameter to the {{WPBannerMeta}} code? Thanks in advance for your help! UnitedStatesian (talk) 16:13, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

It might be worth adding a status param for taskforces at some point, but for now you could do it by using the TF_x_TEXT param, as I have done in the sandbox. -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:14, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, that will work great. Best, UnitedStatesian (talk) 19:52, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Small and big

I've seen more than one user or article talk page corrupted by an unterminated, or incorrectly terminated, <small> tag. Does your bot handle that? Maybe it simply hadn't visited, yet. I suppose it could check for <big> a the same time, but I've never seen a corrupted page due to that; perhaps because it's used a lot less. P.S., If it already does so, my apologies; I searched the archives, but the search function apparently skips the angle brackets, and returned tons of pages with small on them. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 00:59, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) There are millions of unclosed tags. Some of them cause trouble; most do not. They are pretty tricky for bots to fix, unfortunately. You can see a list of affected pages at Special:LintErrors/missing-end-tag. And here's how to search for tags. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:32, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

I've mainly done tags in signatures and automated postings to talk pages where it's easier to find a pattern and then fix all pages with a similar pattern. If you've got any examples, I can have a look if the fixing can be automated in those cases. -- WOSlinker (talk) 08:40, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

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Rio Rancho

My apologies. That wasn't vandalism. Just hit the wrong button. I do not see any reason to complicate editing by adding tables in places where bullet lists would do just as well, and guidelines support my position. John from Idegon (talk) 19:13, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

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Template:User-multi/

I'm wondering why you permanently fully protected this redirect. Is or was it used indirectly or is it actually unused? ‑‑Trialpears (talk) 10:40, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

It must have been in use at the time, but no longer is, so I've unprotected it. -- WOSlinker (talk) 12:52, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

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Cheers

Damon Runyon's short story "Dancing Dan's Christmas" is a fun read if you have the time. Right from the start it extols the virtues of the hot Tom and Jerry This hot Tom and Jerry is an old-time drink that is once used by one and all in this country to celebrate Christmas with, and in fact it is once so popular that many people think Christmas is invented only to furnish an excuse for hot Tom and Jerry, although of course this is by no means true. No matter what concoction is your favorite to imbibe during this festive season I would like to toast you with it and to thank you for all your work here at the 'pedia this past year. Best wishes for your 2020 as well WOS. MarnetteD|Talk 17:26, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

A search for center tags in Template space, in case you're interested

I've been playing with options for insource searches, and I just finished clearing out font tags from Template space (pretty much). Here's a search for center tags in Template space. Currently 839 hits, but it includes sandboxes, testcases, and doc pages, which can be ignored for now. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:10, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Now down to 757 hits. I fixed almost every template with 20+ transclusions. I mostly ignored sandboxes, testcases, and doc pages. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:42, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

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Infobox improvements

I noticed at Template:Infobox skating event that you followed up my edit with Special:Diff/856666140. I think this approach solves the problem of infobox3col instances that I have repeatedly been running into, as I've been looking at the issues raised at Category talk:Articles which use infobox templates with no data rows#Categorisation. I'm waiting to see if your changes remove these skating articles from the big "no data rows" list, but I'd like to apply your approach whenever I run into infobox3cols (assuming you haven't already done them). — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)}

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Your draft article, Draft:Great Canadian Railroad Journeys

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 19:00, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Module:HTMLDecode

Module:HTMLDecode has been nominated for merging with Module:String. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the module's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 23:11, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Importance templates

Please stop adding these without checking the categories first. They are populating many category redirects and so have to be removed. Timrollpickering (talk) 09:44, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox operas

Template:Infobox operas has been nominated for merging with Template:Sidebar. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. PPEMES (talk) 12:56, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Links to Dispenser tools

Hello. I see that you have removed external links to several useful tools made available by Dispenser. I am hoping that the tools will reappear shortly, either at info.tm or elsewhere. Meanwhile, the tools can be accessed via their IP address. Are you planning to reinstate the links? Certes (talk) 15:53, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Let me know when it's back and I can undo the changes. -- WOSlinker (talk) 16:29, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga#Revisiting the category schemes

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Anime and manga#Revisiting the category schemes. I am currently pinging template experts about converting {{WikiProject Anime and manga}} to {{WPBannerMeta}}, perhaps you could be of help? — Goszei (talk) 08:54, 29 June 2020 (UTC)

Query - Template:Party name with colour

Hey WOSlinker. Just a quick question if you can help! I am *terrible* at tables with anything more complicated than a few rows so I'm trying to teach myself a few things. I just wondered if you knew if the template "Party name with colour" could span over rowspan="2" or greater? I have my first column as 2 rows, which is great, but would love the final column to do the same, only it's using {{Party colour with...}} and seems to break on every attempt. Would you know, or have any person I could ask if not, whether this is possible?

This is what I'm doing at the moment:

Date	By-election	Winning party		Losing party
7 November 1991	1991 Kincardine and Deeside by-election		Liberal Democrats		Conservative
	1991 Langbaurgh by-election		Labour		Conservative

Many thanks for any help or direction :) doktorb _words^deeds 18:42, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) The template has no documentation, but it takes a |rowspan= parameter:

Date	By-election	Winning party		Losing party
7 November 1991	1991 Kincardine and Deeside by-election		Liberal Democrats		Conservative
	1991 Langbaurgh by-election		Labour

Doktorbuk, is that what you wanted? – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:44, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Jonesey95, that is exactly what I wanted! You are a star, thanks for the help. doktorb _words^deeds 20:56, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Western Canadian Championship

Template:Western Canadian Championship has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. TimeEngineer (talk) 04:54, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

Category:Convert dimension mismatch has been nominated for deletion

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Remove center tag

Hello, unsure if you are doing this manually or by script but there appears to be a problem with this edit in that it left </center><center> which should have been removed along with the tags removed. Keith D (talk) 11:01, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Just doing it manually. Thanks for fixing. -- WOSlinker (talk) 11:22, 24 August 2020 (UTC)