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I confirm that I have requested an account on the UTRS tool. ディノ千?!? · ☎ Dinoguy1000

Nomination for deletion of Template:Related interface messages

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Wikiarchaeologist ubx

Dear Dinoguy. I thought I'd let you know that, inspired by your wikiarchaeologist userbox, I've created my own version of it. Here it is: User:Manifestation/Wikiarchaeologist. On that page, I also wrote an explanation on why I made it. Cheers, Manifestation (talk) 21:19, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Cool! In response to your statement/question there, though, the sentence is somewhat of a personal statement, I suppose; I often delve into page histories for no other reason than simple curiosity. =) ディノ千?!? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 15:25, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Hi, I peeked at your edits at Module:Navbox/sandbox, and wanted to let you know about a related edit request I'm making at MediaWiki talk:Common.css. If approved, it will allow the container element to be, for example, a <div class="navbox" role="navigation"> instead of a single-cell <table class="navbox" role="navigation">, and maybe make your change easier. Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 23:55, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Oh, also, a few WAI-ARIA attributes including role were whitelisted back in January/February (T26659), so that part should be working if it wasn't before. Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 00:15, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Oh, that would probably explain why I had no luck getting the attribute to actually display in the rendered markup on the testcases page (and indeed, looking now, the attribute outputs just fine)...
Obviously I would support any effort to improve the semantics of widely-used templates such as Navbox, though in its particular case, it is years overdue for a ground-up overhaul anyways. ディノ千?!? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 01:45, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers

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13:36, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Good to see ya

Wish you would come out of retirement but I hope life is going well for ya. I have been an anime/manga fan ever since I was little in the 1990s (which seems so long ago...) so I want to be sure that others can enjoy the articles. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 13:20, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Hey, good to see you again too! I still have no immediate plans to up my activity here again, but it's always been a possibility I've left for myself. Though if I ever do return to regular editing, there's a real possibility it won't actually focus much on anime and manga; I've all but stopped watching/reading it by this point. ディノ千?!? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 21:59, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

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Nagraj

Hi, DG1000 - I reverted here but the redirect (annoyingly) shows up in the NPP queue (adds to the backlog of unreviewed pages) whenever anyone attempts to make a change to it. I figured that since it is highly unlikely anyone will search for Nagraj (comics), I went ahead and nominated it for SD in order to remove it from the queue permanently. Atsme📞📧 16:32, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

Hi Atsme, I admit I don't know much about the NPP stuff, but it seems reasonable to me that someone changing a redirect to a non-redirect would qualify it as a new page, and that's exactly what happened with this title. So absent a solid reason to believe otherwise, I don't think this is an issue with this title specifically. That said, it's a decade-old redirect left from a pagemove, so it's not like I'm attached to it or anything; if you feel pursuing deletion is for the best, then don't let me stop you. =) ディノ千?!? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 17:16, 27 August 2018 (UTC)

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Yugi Mutou

I noticed what you said about yours like in your main account. Some time ago, I created Yugi Mutou. Feel free to edit it because I think it lacks content. Happy editing.Tintor2 (talk) 23:23, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

After reading through most of it, it looks pretty good to me other than needing some grammar cleanup, though admittedly I've never focused on biographies and don't know a whole lot about what makes a good one. ディノ千?!☎ Dinoguy1000 03:18, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

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There

is a documentation over here. The tool is pretty limited and is only meant to be used for the easiest cases, like the one about Alabama, described very-below and the common cases of newbies copy-pasting their drafts onto mainspace. In these cases, it is far rapid and easier to wield than the usual means of delete-move-undelete-revert sequence and essentially does a very good job. Tried out at test.wiki and it's a matter of a few seconds, at most to employ a hist-merge in this manner.WBGconverse 15:11, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Ping @Anthony Appleyard:, (since I expected his name in the logs).WBGconverse 15:17, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

I've successfully used the tool a few times myself, yes. The problem is, there's no centralized documentation I'm aware of that walks the reader through actually using the tool, and I don't have the experience with it to be comfortable writing that documentation myself, even having the Wikipedia page to work from. ディノ千?!☎ Dinoguy1000 19:42, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
I understand it. I might try writing one:-) WBGconverse 20:24, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Japanese episode list/sublist

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Hi Dinoguy1000

Hope all is still well with you!

I've been trying to get some of the WP:ANIME B-class checklists completed, and realized I needed a new template parameter for it [1], which I've since tested in the sandbox[2]. However, I've not received any reply on my request above. I then remembered you helped quite a bit with the project and template at the time.

Can I perhaps ask for your thoughts on this at the above talk page?

Regards G.A.Stalk 09:40, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Hey G.A.S, long time no talk!
It's been quite a while since I last looked at any of this code, but I can see if anything jumps out at me, yeah. =) ディノ千?!☎ Dinoguy1000 10:25, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
Hi, indeed :)
The template itself has since been updated to make use of a new meta template, so most of the original code has since been replaced.; however, I believe that the sandbox edit I made works as intended. So I think that only further testing might be required.
Then we can go ahead with the change in a week or so if no-one makes further comments in this regard, or reply positively?
I put a notice on WT:ANIME as well so the intended change should get the necessary exposure. G.A.Stalk 12:15, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
Sounds good to me. =) ディノ千?!☎ Dinoguy1000 12:16, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
So it turns out there are more than I thought 😅 G.A.Stalk 09:04, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
Heh, at least you've got plenty to keep you busy for a while! 😛 ディノ千?!☎ Dinoguy1000 14:19, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

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