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WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - April 2020

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13:15, 1 April 2020 (UTC)

Edith Maud Ellis moved to draftspace

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An article you recently created, Edith Maud Ellis, does not have enough sources and citations as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please follow the prompts on the Articles for Creation template atop the page. ... discospinster talk 21:15, 4 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

Nomination of Wrea Head Hall for deletion

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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Wrea Head Hall is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wrea Head Hall until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. MrClog (talk) 17:54, 13 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - May 2020

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14:05, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Teahouse question

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Just letting you know that I responded to your question at the Teahouse. If you think the closing admin has not closed the AFD according to consensus, you'll want to open up a discussion at WP:DRV. bibliomaniac15 21:00, 6 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Your thread has been archived

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Hi GhostInTheMachine! The thread you created at the Wikipedia:Teahouse, AFD -- Wrea Head Hall, has been archived because there was no discussion for a few days. You can still find the archived discussion here. If you have any additional questions that weren't answered then, please feel free to create a new thread.


The archival was done by Lowercase sigmabot III, and this notification was delivered by Muninnbot, both automated accounts. You can opt out of future notifications by placing {{bots|deny=Muninnbot}} here on your user talk page. Muninnbot (talk) 19:04, 9 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Short description

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Thanks for the link to your script which lists short descriptions. I'll give it a try. Andrew🐉(talk) 18:40, 16 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

I tried it but am not sure how it works. Please outline the process, if it's not too complex. Andrew🐉(talk) 18:50, 16 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

I will add some documentation ASAP GhostInTheMachine (talk) 19:18, 16 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
Added some documentation at User:GhostInTheMachine/SDlinkBuilder.
I also renamed the script from makeSDlinks to SDlinkBuilder. Suspect that was not wise, I now have a redirect that I cannot delete. — GhostInTheMachine (talk) 18:00, 18 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
The redirect is now deleted. I like to be tidy, but you now need to install the new script. — GhostInTheMachine (talk) 10:04, 21 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

A barnstar for you!

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  The Special Barnstar
For the brilliant observation of the difference between 'notable' and 'noted' with ref to Wikipedia's fundamental critieria of notability, which opens doors to major change for underrepresented groups on Wikipedia. BessieMaelstrom (talk) 11:59, 17 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

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Hi GhostInTheMachine! We're so happy you wanted to play to learn, as a friendly and fun way to get into our community and mission. I think these links might be helpful to you as you get started.

-- 09:28, Thursday, May 21, 2020 (UTC)


'Request an article' wizard

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This is me inviting you to this discussion / whiteboard for sketching out a 'Request an article' wizard. -- BessieMaelstrom (talk) 11:12, 26 May 2020 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Yorkshire Newsletter - June 2020

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21:22, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

TalkHelper user script

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Hi GhostInTheMachine,

I stumbled upon your recently created TalkHelper user script, but noticed that the {{tlg}} template you used didn't play nicely with the substitution prefix. With a couple edit attempts, as you'll see, I managed to find the correct template ({{tlxs}}, if you're interested) from Enterprisey's reply-link script, that did. So, in addition to fixing that, I also marked your userspace subpage as 'reviewed' in the New Pages Patrol Page Curation toolbar. Incidentally, I meant to send you a note directly from that toolbar, but after I marked it as 'reviewed', that option wasn't available to me.

If you'd like, feel free to create a shortcut to the script (WP:TALKHELPER is available) using {{shortcut}}, so that other users can easily link to and promote your script. Looks like a very useful script, and I'm contemplating giving it a try.

Cheers,
Dmehus (talk) 21:26, 26 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

I see that you have reverted my good-faith correction with good-faith this edit. It really doesn't matter about using {{lusc}} or {{Iusc}}, so no problems with that, but hoping you can use {{tlxs}} so that the template link isn't redlinked. It seems to be common practice. Dmehus (talk) 21:31, 26 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
LUSC should be used instead of IUSC. I have altered the {{tlg}} calls to display the subst: correctly. I am currently working on TalkHelper2. More soon ... — GhostInTheMachine talk to me 07:44, 27 June 2020 (UTC)Reply

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 17

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Precious

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water preservation

Thank you for beginning quality articles around natural water, such as Eccup Reservoir and American Whitewater, for gnomish work with short descriptions, for wishing a kind recovery, and for "It can also become a challenge to keep AGF in mind." - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2451 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:14, 12 October 2020 (UTC)Reply


 

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:57, 30 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 18

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A userscript question: javascript, talkpages and wikidata

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Hi GitM, I've been looking at your TalkHelper2 script. I've been wanting to adapt it toa a specific use case but I've zero js skills. Here's the usecase: On a mediawiki page like this one, the corresponding wikidata item will list some people as having specific roles (author, editor, peer reviewer), and some of those people will have their wikimedia username listed on their wikidata item.

Ideally, I'd love to colour comments on the talkpages based on on who they were left by. Bascially, where the script uses:

$('.talkHelper' + when + ':contains(' + wgUserName + ')').addClass('talkHelperMe');

would it be possible to identify usernames from the relevant wikidata item and colour comments accordingly? Any help or ideas appreciated! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 08:37, 15 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

Evolution and evolvability Thanks for contacting me — it is always gratifying to know that others do notice my user scripts.
The TalkHelper script identifies Wikipedia Talk page posts by finding the timestamp that is always added at the end of a talk post in Wikipedia. In the case of the Wikiversity Talk page, there are no timestamps and also no user signatures in the Wikipedia sense, so TalkHelper, as it currently exists, has nothing to work with. This makes it a rather different process to identify the users involved and "brand" the various page components accordingly.
The author (Mario Rizzetto) is referenced only once and is identified in the Article info template on the main page. The display of the author name could easily be changed by altering the template itself – by adding suitable styling if everybody should see the highlighting or by adding a class so that a user script can add the styling for only you.
How do we connect a review to a specific user or class of user? Looking at the article history — the first review was added by you on 5 December 2019 and the template does not reference a specific user. The second was added by you as well, but is attributed to William L Irving, which matches the second "reviewed by" entry in Wikidata. The "Third peer review" also has an "anonymous peer reviewer", but the history shows that you added the review. One way forward might be for you to create some form of mock-up of how you think the pages could look (and which components take the additional colours) and what connects the post to a user. Another route might be to enhance the review template so that extra parameters can indicate the role of the reviewing user or perhaps more directly the class of "branding" to use when displaying the review. — GhostInTheMachine talk to me 20:27, 15 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the detailed info! You're right that currently all the edits are bgin made by hand (via people submitting to this form that we then copy across). This is because most of the contributors (especially reviewers) have zero editing experience so kept messing up posting talkpage comments. The main problem with the v:template:review and v:template:response templates is that the syntax is easy to break when they get highly nested. Now that the [reply] fuction is running, we're hoping to transition back to normal talkpage comments, so would go back to standard signatures! Here's a crude mockup with blue white and grey indicating the three roles.
I've also been experimenting with this css templatestyle. (sandbox) but that has a couple of glaring limiations:
  • It can only alternate colours, rather than spotting different posting users.
  • I can't seem to colour the non-indented comments.
  • For some reason it seems to only show the formatting for me when I'm logged out, but I can't find any script I have installed over there that'd be over-riding it!
Any thoughts? T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 05:37, 16 December 2020 (UTC)Reply