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Your draft article, Draft:List of Arrowverse locations

 

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. plicit 23:30, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

Template:Charles III task force

FYI, now that {{London Bridge task force}} has been merged, I am not sure if this one should be merged as well. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 16:08, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Question

Re: the top icon deletions. Was it all countries, states, cities, (locales etc.) that were to be deleted, or just the few put up for TfD that day? - wolf 08:10, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of King Shark (disambiguation)

 

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A few TFDs of interest

You might be interested in perusing Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2023 November 28. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:20, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Yeah I saw those. I usually tend to wait a few days to see if there are any keep arguments and see if they have any substance to them. I can't believe there are still templates from that editor that can be sent to TfD. I looked over their page and stopped counting after 200 template deletions. Gonnym (talk) 17:28, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
I stumbled across one today, and it led me to links to a giant pile of them. I suspect that some of them are newly unused after the hundreds of previous deletions eliminated some transclusions. I won't be surprised if there are 100 more. There were a few that I looked at today that are questionable, but I wanted to TFD only the slam dunks. P.S. There are 343 TFD notices on the editor's talk page. P.P.S. I love that we don't mention the editor's name, Voldemort-style. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:57, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
😂 Gonnym (talk) 18:17, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Survivor – A sziget Seasons Infobox

Hello,

You mentioned that there aren't any italics for the previous and next seasons in the infobox for seasons of Survivor - A sziget; that italic's aren't meant to be in the infobox. Can you show me where it states that as I haven't heard about that whatsoever and I don't want to revert your edit without there being any clarity and to avoid a potential edit war? Cheers. Nintenga (talk) 23:19, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

MOS:ITALICS - we don't use italics for random words. The word "Season 1" isn't one of the words we use italics for. Gonnym (talk) 04:53, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
Thank you, I appreciate it. Wasn't aware of that. Nintenga (talk) 15:14, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Surfing the Menu: The Next Generation moved to draftspace

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John Kilpatrick Turnpike

If it is "West End" and "East End", then why is it when I look at streetview going from State Route 152 onto John Kilpatrick Turnpike it says "West" John Kilpatrick Turnpike if it is the West end and or going to the East end? NintendoTTTEfan2005 (talk) 22:13, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

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Category:Georgia (country) television series by century has been nominated for merging

 

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ICC men's player rankings

I closed this discussion and noticed that there are four more similar tables in ICC men's player rankings that were not included in the discussion. So, you may want to nominate those for deletion as well? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:37, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Also, the same for the tables in ICC women's player rankings? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:40, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

Category:Crave (TV network) original programming has been nominated for deletion

 

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January 2024

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Infobox In Bigg Boss Malayalam Season 6

Slogan And Translation Are There in Every Bigg Boss Article And Is Necessary. As Of Now I am Not Re-Adding Those; Also I Am Not The One Who Added These First. But Note That Slogan And Translation Will Be Added After Bigg Boss Malayalam Season 6's New Theme And Slogan Has Released. Thereafter Don't Remove These From The Article.. Alen Hermen (talk) 06:22, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

So those 6 articles are doing these wrong. The reality infobox is used on 3500~ articles that don't misuse the infobox to add incorrect parameters into the caption or add trivial information altogether. If you feel that slogan should be added to the infobox, propose it at the template page and see if others agree. Gonnym (talk) 06:26, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
See-I was not The one who added these first. But These are essential. How is it a Problem. Adding these doesn't affect all the 3500 articles.. Alen Hermen (talk) 06:35, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
It does not matter who added the information. It also does not matter that it does not affect the other transclusions. The template is designed by community consensus on which parameters are available and which are not. If a parameter isn't there, it is either because no one has proposed it yet, or that it was proposed and deemed unimportant. If you think it should be added, propose it at Template talk:Infobox television season. Note that a similar request at Template talk:Infobox television#Theme didn't pass.
And finally, How is it a problem? Well, you are passing data to the image caption about the image, when that data is completely unrelated to that image. This causes a MOS:ACCESSABILITY issue for screen reader users who get unrelated information read to them. Gonnym (talk) 06:41, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
What Should I Propose at Template talk Alen Hermen (talk) 06:46, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
That you want to add |slogan= (or whichever else you want) as a parameter. Gonnym (talk) 11:37, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

It's a Sin (TV series

Hi there, did you mean to undo the action by a bot on It's a Sin (TV series)?

AussieWikiDan (talk) 09:26, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Yes. The category was moved and was reverted but the bot cannot undo the actions as it wasn't a 1-1 move but a merge so it had to be done manually. Gonnym (talk) 09:26, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
Oh I see. Thanks for the explanation. AussieWikiDan (talk) 11:06, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Idle thought

It's interesting how no one cared about {{Malaysian party colour}}, yet a horde of Canucks showed up to defend {{Canadian party colour}} even though they serve exactly the same function. Suppose I shouldn't be surprised, given that it isn't the first time they've wanted their own special niche. Primefac (talk) 15:05, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Yeah I wasn't surprised at all. There are some topic areas that I know will attract editors which automatic oppose stuff. I usually try and get the easier stuff first and then if I'm brave enough, try and nominate things like this. Gonnym (talk) 15:33, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Do you have a plan for Template:Infobox television/styles.css?

Do you have a plan for {{Infobox television/styles.css}}? I poked through the talk page and the template's history, but I did not find any mention of it or implementation of it. If it is not needed, you could put {{Db-g7}} on it (I think this works on CSS pages, but I'm not sure), or I could take it to TFD. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:21, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

I'll speedy it. I can always recreate it if needed. Gonnym (talk) 00:00, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Substituting templates

When substituting a template (e.g. using TemplateSubster) is it possible to only add parameters which are being used? For example in [1] I would prefer the empty category parameter not to be added — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:46, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

@MSGJ not the prettiest of code and there probably is a better way, but this works Template:WikiProject Iowa/sandbox. Gonnym (talk) 12:18, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
Yeah that works. We could do similiar with other parameters like listas and living. I've just found Module:Template wrapper which seems useful. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:35, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
I've tried to get it to work but the substitution fails with the module and while checking the doc and talk page I saw that you already noticed that yourself. Gonnym (talk) 13:06, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
Here for something else, but done. Could probably do this with the other USA wrappers as well. Primefac (talk) 15:00, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

The method using Module:Unsubst seems to work really well, and you don't need conditionals on each parameter. See Template:WIR and Template:Normdaten for examples. Would it be possible to replace the other wrapper templates with something similiar to avoid unused parameters like this? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:38, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

I don't know that module but if it works for one wrapper it probably can work for others. Gonnym (talk) 00:06, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Deadpool

Firstly, no, Deadpool 3 being in the MCU does not make Deadpool and Deadpool 2 in the MCU. Alien is not part of the Predator series, and The Amazing Spider-Man is not part of the MCU. Secondly, they're not associated with the MCU if the films have nothing to do with the MCU. InfiniteNexus (talk) 09:48, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

I have no idea why you're mass-restoring your BOLD edits rather than discussing first... InfiniteNexus (talk) 09:49, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Are you really comparing the Alien and Predator franchises to the MCU? Even in that franchise itself the connection between the films is very loose. The MCU on the other hand is not. Deadpool 1 leads to Deadpool 2 which leads to Deadpool 3. Deadpool 3 is in the MCU. It does not matter if the connection will be that Deadpool was in a different universe, timeline, erased by Wanda, Kang or Thanos. Is it connected as Iron Man 1? No. But it's still connected. Gonnym (talk) 09:52, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Clearly not from a real-world perspective. The SSU films are also supposedly "connected" to the MCU, but this is all from a story perspective. The first two Deadpool films were produced by a different production company and set in a different franchise. That Disney has decided to keep the same actor for Deadpool (as they have done with several other characters for fan-service/$$$ reasons) is irrelevant from an out-of-universe perspective. Your BOLD edits are clearly not a straightforward situation, and I personally think it was in bad taste to simply restore the contested edits. At the very least, discuss first at WT:MCU. Consider that if it were obvious to everyone that Deadpool 1 and 2 are MCU, somebody would've added tags and mentions in the past weeks and months. InfiniteNexus (talk) 09:59, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
(I'm going offline now, so I won't be able to respond until tomorrow morning.) InfiniteNexus (talk) 10:01, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
SSU films are not connected because Sony has chosen not to connect them. That being said, I wouldn't be opposed to an editor marking them as |mcu=yes so the project can be notified when needed. Regarding Deadpool, since the trailer has just recently released I'm not surprised no one has done the tedious task of going over all related pages, just as I wasn't surprised no one added any of the Inhumans character posters (File:Mike Moh as Triton.jpg) to related categories or tagged them for 6 years until today or most MCU redirects (such as Talk:Iron man (2008 film), 16 years). So when you are asking about that somebody, I'm usually that somebody. Gonnym (talk) 10:26, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
I was not just talking about talk page tags. You'll notice that neither Deadpool (film) nor Deadpool 2 state that they are "part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe", or even "retroactively incorporated into the MCU". List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films does not treat those films as MCU, nor does List of Marvel Cinematic Universe film actors. It's clear the consensus is that they are not considered MCU, and for the reasons I outlined above (from a real-world perspective, nothing that was not originally part of the MCU can be part of the MCU unless it has been officially declared "canon" retroactively). I'll now take this to WT:MCU so more editors can weigh in. InfiniteNexus (talk) 18:36, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) I agree with Infinite that just because Deadpool & Wolverine is an MCU film does not mean that Deadpool and Deadpool 2 are connected to the MCU. Yes, it was frequently called "Deadpool 3" by trades, although this was never an official name and it was clear from the start of development to be an MCU film. We're not going to add the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man films as covered by the MCU taskforce just because Maguire appeared in No Way Home. The frequent use of MCU tags on non-MCU articles is a bit concerning, though I would suggest using {{WikiProject Comics}} with |marvel=yes as several MCU editors are also part of that. If notifying the MCU taskforce is a concern, you can always notify it of any discussions or alerts for these to gain insight, or just notify WP:FILM as several taskforce members are there also. If we need to better explain what is the scope of the MCU taskfoce, that can be discussed and arranged. Trailblazer101 (talk) 18:48, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
although this was never an official name who cares if the official name is "3" or not. It's the third film in the series. Do you want a citation that says it's a sequel? I'm not sure what your argument is. We're not going to add the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man films as covered by the MCU taskforce just because Maguire appeared in No Way Home as I said above for the SSU films, if someone feels they should, I won't oppose it, however, there really is no real confirmation that the Peter Parkers we saw in NWH are the actual versions from those films. Yes, the stories are the same, but they can just as much be from an slightly different universe. In Deadpool situation it's the same story. Gonnym (talk) 12:05, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
(This discussion is now moot, but ...) There really is no real confirmation that the Peter Parkers we saw in NWH are the actual versions from those films Bingo. In Deadpool situation it's the same story Nope, it's the same situation. Regardless of what is shown and said onscreen, the first two films still have nothing to do with the MCU unless someone from Marvel says otherwise. They're borrowing the same actors, but they're different continuities. And what's to say they won't make changes to the character that clearly contradict what was previously established? We already know there are going to be Deadpool variants, which never existed in the original X-Men films, and Wolverine never had a yellow-and-blue suit (except in the infamous deleted scene), did he? InfiniteNexus (talk) 20:33, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
Notice I didn't tag the X men films, did I? Gonnym (talk) 16:28, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:MARC Train station platform templates

 

A tag has been placed on Category:MARC Train station platform templates indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 01:06, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Slash

Thank you for your edits on List of kingdoms in Africa throughout history although I’m a little confused about the use of the slash (/). How am I supposed to show alternative names for the same entity? Former states in Africa often have multiple names that are used interchangeably in academia, most often not alluding to alternative names Alexanderkowal (talk) 10:08, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Also I see the dash I use (-) often get changed to one that looks identical and I’m not sure why Alexanderkowal (talk) 10:10, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
It’s a shame about the use of colour, is there anything I can do to make the classifications stand out more that won’t violate WP:MOS? Alexanderkowal (talk) 10:18, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
Regarding the slash, use your words instead, but in that case, you just sent the users to a different article so there isn't really a need for that as that article should explain both names. Regarding the colors, it depends what you want to achieve by that. Do you want to create a note? If so, use {{efn}}. If you just want to be make it colorful, then no, there is nothing to do and you'll have to trust our readers can read. Gonnym (talk) 10:29, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
The inclusion of alternative names is more for someone searching for a particular kingdom, otherwise duplicates would be added. Alexanderkowal (talk) 10:47, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Query

Hello, Gonnym,

I'm coming to you because you understand a lot about templates. If you look at Category:Empty categories awaiting deletion, you'll see a lot of literature categories that suddenly went empty today. I use a tool that indicates who added or removed articles from a category and when this occurred but that came up blank. This sometimes happens when it's a template that automatically adds articles to categories. So, I was wondering if this was happening with these categories and if there was any vandalism or well-intentioned editing that screwed up the categorization. But I don't know what templates could be responsible. Any ideas? Thanks for any advice you can supply. Liz Read! Talk! 01:21, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

@Liz it seems edits like this by User:Smasongarrison removed them when adding the template. Gonnym (talk) 05:44, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
Fixed this now at Template:Writers by nationality and century category header. Gonnym (talk) 05:49, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing it! I guess I should have looked at the cases were there was no redirect, instead of just when there was a redirect. Mason (talk) 13:06, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks very much to you both! I came to the right person. Liz Read! Talk! 16:10, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Michael Douglas

Hi, Gonnym. Nice to meet you. I saw your active participation in WP:FILM and would be grateful for your involvement on actor Michael Douglas' page as well. I put up an edit request detailing the roles, awards, and information currently missing from his page. As I understand the Wiki policies about COI editing, I am not adding these myself, though I am happy to if you give me the green light. Grateful for your time and involvement, BenKalman2024 (talk) 20:05, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Error in Template:Infobox television

Hi Gonnym; This edit introduced duplicate parm errors. It's causing havoc on Category:Articles using duplicate arguments in template calls. Can you fix it? Thanks Davemck (talk) 18:57, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes, thanks for pointing that out. Should be fixed now. Gonnym (talk) 18:59, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
What have you done? Now all film infoboxes show "director" and "writer" in those fields. Kailash29792 (talk) 10:54, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Someone should reverse the edit, this is bad. Exteahans71 (talk) 11:10, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Infobox film

Are you sure about this? I think you need to add triple braces around each of those parameters for "director", "writer", "producer", etc.  — Archer1234 (t·c) 11:08, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

This is being discussed here. Kailash29792 (talk) 11:14, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
The user desprictated it Exteahans71 (talk) 11:16, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up! Stupid mistake and should be fixed now. Gonnym (talk) 11:21, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

AWB clean up post-move

Hey Gonnym, for clean up post-move edits such as this, what are you using for the find-and-replace settings? -- Alex_21 TALK 07:30, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

\(season (\d*)\) -> season $1 Gonnym (talk) 07:31, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
Just need to make sure to catch the instances where the infobox has "some camera guy (season 1)" and not accept those changes. Gonnym (talk) 07:32, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Moving redirects

Hello, Gonnym. You moved I Am Groot (season 2) to I Am Groot season 2, but these are both redirects. As such, I Am Groot (season 2) is now a double redirect to I Am Groot season 2. I have fixed these two pages, but I don't know if you have performed similar moves without correcting double redirects, so please check them and fix any errors. I know there are bots that go around fixing these, but as you can see, they don't catch everything. InfiniteNexus (talk) 05:51, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

The bots will eventually fix these, there are many pages that were moved. Gonnym (talk) 06:00, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Including redirects? InfiniteNexus (talk) 06:02, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
I'd be very surprised if the bot that fixes these things does not fix this. If they don't fix this, then that's a pretty big bug in its design. Gonnym (talk) 06:04, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Double redirects#Double redirects and bots one of these should fix these. Gonnym (talk) 06:45, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
@InfiniteNexus it seems User:EmausBot is cleaning these now. Gonnym (talk) 09:24, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Category redirects

If your premise is that category redirects should not exist at all, then propose a change of policy with respect to them. They are permissible, and for categories that existed at a particular title for a long time before being moved, positively useful. BD2412 T 15:06, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

My premise is that either you've been given misleading information by Tom or you just don't understand the rational behind category redirects. We keep category redirects for only a limited amount of reasons. None of which apply here. What you are creating in mass without consensus (and I should say, WP:MEATBOT applies here) are pointless category redirects that not only will never have any usage but will actually hinder any editor that is trying to find real categories with this style that should be renamed as you are clogging up the search results. Gonnym (talk) 07:46, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
We literally just moved over 6,000 articles with the exact same title update and left a redirect for every single one of them. I have been working with categories for decades, have have never encountered any hindrance from the existence of category redirects. To the contrary, I find them extremely helpful in finding the correct category title when the name of the category is not obvious. Is it not the case that the current title will always appear ahead of a redirect in the search box? BD2412 T 13:24, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
Article redirects and category redirects serve two different functions. While I don't like to link to essays, this basically sums my points Wikipedia:Category_redirects_that_should_be_kept#Category_redirects_that_might_be_useful. The old page name is not useful as no one is going to manually search for it and most likely not use the old names in article creations. Even if they do use the old name, I'd rather it be a red link and them learning about the new name instead of them continuing to incorrectly use the old style.
Regarding the search, I'm not sure how category redirects and the primary name appear in search results but that wasn't what I was referring to anyways. I tend to check once in awhile various maintenance sections and fix issues. If I'd do now intitle:"/\(season in the category namespace I'd get all the pages you created instead of only new pages that need to be sent to CFDS to rename name. That was what I meant by saying these are not only unhelpful but hinder actual work. Gonnym (talk) 10:02, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
Isn't the CFDS task already done and gone? I tend to doubt that editors using Hotcat or the like will remember that the title scheme has been changed, and if they type in, e.g., "The Simpsons (season 10) episodes", the tool will automatically follow the redirect and populate "The Simpsons season 10 episodes". BD2412 T 16:23, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

Move discussion

Hello, I was wondering, what do you think about this move discussion? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_Beyblade:_Shogun_Steel_episodes --2A01:5A8:30D:955E:3C27:B37D:3CB:9DE (talk) 07:31, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

My Next Life

Hi, could you please explain how is a double redirect from My Next Life to My Next Life (Grey's Anatomy) to Grey's Anatomy season 12#ep257 better than the disambiguation page I had created? Thanks Broc (talk) 11:34, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

It isn't. But you should never take over a page without doing cleanup work. The page was created for a reason and you're changed deleted that reason. Gonnym (talk) 08:14, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:List of emojis (faces)

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The Template Barnstar

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Huge thanks for fixing the template for Hawaii Five-0 articles. My three years of computer science programming lessons clearly went down the drain, because I wouldn't have had an idea where to start for something like that  . I appreciate the assistance. TheDoctorWho (talk) 16:44, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
Thanks :) But its easier when its code you wrote and also recently fixed for the disambiguation change (which was a real headache). Gonnym (talk) 17:20, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Fallout (American TV series) episode redirects to lists

 

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Baakghost

This redirect is listed for deletion. I think it is better titled Baak ghost and target to Baak (Assamese folklore). Once the RfD ends you can do this? Kailash29792 (talk) 10:17, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you're asking here. If the redirect gets deleted you want me to create Baak ghost with the target of Baak (Assamese folklore)? Gonnym (talk) 10:46, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
Sorry, slightly misspoke. Thought you could move it on your own after the RfD ends with no consensus or keep. Kailash29792 (talk) 10:48, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
Ah, well if the RfD ends in a keep then it seems out of place to ignore it and do something else. Gonnym (talk) 10:50, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Women in Red

This project was founded nine years ago. It has been the one of the largest projects on Wikipedia. It has 30 sister projects in different languages. It has and has had hundreds of members. It has run over 300 editathons. Thats a lot of people volunteering for hours on end. Are you sure that you have a consensus from that project before you decide to "tidy up". You are removing other peoples work. Please stop, reverse your actions, please .... or can you point to the consensus from that project's members? You are destroying morale IMO for no real benefit. There are other ways of actually adding to Wikipedia and we'd be pleased to discuss how this might happen. Victuallers (talk) 14:52, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Stop with all the drama please. Everything that was before is still there, just compact, like literally every other single project. There is nothing special about WiR that needs duplicate templates on pages. Gonnym (talk) 15:58, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

TFD

Looks like you missed one? Not sure if it's an outlier or overlooked, but your opinion would be useful given the similar nature to other discussions on the page. Primefac (talk) 13:39, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping. Yeah I probably missed while commenting on the rest. Gonnym (talk) 14:22, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Michael Douglas- new request

Hi again, Gonnym. I appreciate all your help so far. I put up another edit request expanding and rearranging the Activism section of Michael Douglas' article. I know you've said I can make these changes on my own after posting on the Talk page; it would be great to have your "sign off" on the post for full transparency to the broader Wiki community. Thank you, BenKalman2024 (talk) 15:23, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

inquisition page

hello Gonnym, thank you for your correction!

I am sorry about the italics, I don't know how it happened, of course it was an accident, but I don't know how to explain it!!! Mcorrlo (talk) 11:24, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

No problem, not a hard fix to do. Gonnym (talk) 11:38, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Category:The Legend of Zelda (TV series) has been nominated for deletion

 

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Das Plakat

High there Gonnym, good morning ! Maybe have a short look at my message. How i positioned the image was on purpose. Talking layout is talking aesthetics, I no it's a know-go, ah, I know it's ...

  • Just noticed you already answered my post. It does look kind of shabby this way, because the two images are not in line (can't be, first one 's positioned in a frame). That's why I used the intermediade text space to separate the two. We -eell, thatsexactlywhatImean: no talking aesthetics Have a Nice Day !
~) MistaPPPP (talk) 11
03, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
'cuse my cryptic message. Just noticed I sent it to the wrong letterbox. It was @Egeymi who repositioned the image. Good day anyways !MistaPPPP (talk) 11:18, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Ah, ok! But just to add, you can't align as one is in an infobox. To be fair, with such a short article, two images there seems a bit excessive. There is already a link there to the commons image gallery. Gonnym (talk) 12:38, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Deletion nomination of T20 World Cup squads templates

Hey Gonnym, hope you're doing well! I see that you've nominated a few of the T20 World Cup squad templates for deletion. I understand they were left unused, but now I've started linking these templates to the players' articles. So I hope that removes any doubt of templates being unused, if I am wrong about this please correct me, thank you :) Cric editor (talk) 14:08, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

If they are used, then I'll comment on the nomination that I withdraw my deletion. If you have other templates like these (and I think there are more), please also transclude them. Gonnym (talk) 15:16, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
Yes sure, I have started working on it. I'll finish transcluding all twenty of such templates. Cric editor (talk) 17:37, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
Hey @Gonnym I have also started to add the templates I made on mainspaces. Please withdraw your nominations on the champions trophy ones. Pharaoh496 (talk) 08:50, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Sure, once they are added I'll comment on the nomination. Gonnym (talk) 08:54, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
If you can please remove them before I can get started - as the deletion notice on the template will prompt other editors to remove the template from the said pages. I can add them myself as soon as you can withdraw. As the creator - they are ready to be added and can be added by anyone Pharaoh496 (talk) 08:56, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
I know they can be added by anyone, but they should be added by the person who created the template. I won't withdraw my nomination before they are correctly used, as there could be a situation where at the end of the day, even with the best intentions, they are still left unused. Also, a deletion notice is not an invite for other editors to remove a template. That's what the discussion is for. Gonnym (talk) 09:33, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Have added. Thanks Pharaoh496 (talk) 11:55, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
Withdrawn two of the nominations. Good work! Gonnym (talk) 12:39, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
You can withdraw the other 2 as well now. Pharaoh496 (talk) 12:53, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

A Ghost Story for Christmas

Hi Gonnym, noticed you changing the titles of the Ghost Story for Christmas episodes and tidying up my recent edits, much appreciated. Have already gone through and edited the episode list on the main page and in the individual infoboxes to reflect this.

As you can see I've already added some extra citations, including for the critical reception of the individual films, but that has been slow-going as a lot of the recent commentary is from those on the recent blu-ray releases, which due to copy protection bs won't play on my PC. For this reason I'm having to film then off my TV w/my tablet, then play those back and write the quotes down. Very annoying, and drags out the process of getting them added. Considering the state of some of these articles before I started on them I figure a few extra days of missing citations isn't the worst thing. FreeBard42 (talk) 15:44, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Any updates to old articles is always welcomed. Good work! Gonnym (talk) 15:55, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Thanks! Regarding the infoboxes, I know the date isn't normally given in the Previous/Next Episode section, but I thought it appropriate given that this is a unique case of an annual anthology show, with gaps between episodes of as much as 27 years. The issue I had was that it says to use rprev and rnext to stop the automatic quotations from appearing, but I couldn't find any documentation on how to use them, hence how we ended up w/"Stigma (1977)" instead of Stigma (1977). If you happened to know how that tag works I would put it to a question of whether the years should be included or not. FreeBard42 (talk) 16:21, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
Just don't add the dates. The next episode has an article so that information is there. Gonnym (talk) 16:46, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Metrorail (Miami-Dade County) station platform templates

 

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Cleaning up

I noticed you made an edit comment suggesting I could have made a "cleaner" edit to Claudia Llosa. If you look at the previous edit which made the EL of the type I wikignome on, you'll see that I didn't alter the way previous editors had done the italics. I have enough work to do to fix the IMDb issues without also fixing other editors' foibles. Mike Turnbull (talk) 20:08, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of June (The Handmaid's Tale)

 

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Nomination of Alex (Supergirl) for deletion

 
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Please Revert Yourself

Please self revert the pages you blanked today that had fostered content errors that you justified on the basis of LINT. WP:LINT gives absolutely NO justification for blanking any page for any reason, and they were pages that did not meet the criteria of WP:STALE or of {{userpage blanked}}, as they were in the userspace of still active users (edited in last 12 months). These pages also were not in conflict with WP:UPNOT or WP:NOT.

Great leeway is given for pages in Userspace for the allowance of various creations and tests. Blanking old pages of active users WILL piss people off and be a detriment to the LINT project. If you are blanking a page, use the proper justification and do NOT blank any old page within an active user's userspace. If you can't fix the error, and STALE/UPB doesn't apply, leave the page alone for someone else to fix.

While I do blank sandbox and draft pages in userspace that I come across, it's been with pages where the user has not edited anything in over 4 years (far exceeding Stale's or Userpage Blanked's criteria) since I still come across users who pop back in after 4 years absence due to my edits who are not always happy of my changes, and I like to minimize these sorts of discussions.

Thank you. Zinnober9 (talk) 20:03, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

No. Gonnym (talk) 20:19, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
"No" is not a valid justification for blanking active users' old pages, nor is Lint (zero blanking permissions), Stale (which requires 12+ months inactivity from any user edits), or Userpage Blanked (which requires 12+ months inactivity from any user edits). Try again. What valid justification are you claiming for the blanking of these pages? Zinnober9 (talk) 20:52, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Nomination of June (The Handmaid's Tale) for deletion

 
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My userspace template

Oops, Gonnym, I misread this diff and inadvertently posted on Jonesey95's talk about it. Moving the conversation here (I will delete from his talk in 24hrs), but can you explain your edit, please? jhawkinson (talk) 16:26, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Re this edit ("Fix Linter errors. I hope you don't mind this minor cleanup edit in your user space") — I do mind. Please look at the edit you just made and explain to me why you think it was appropriate. It appears to be reverting debugging messaging that I have added to my own personal version of a template, on the basis of…well, if a linter was complaining, you have not evidenced the complaint or why it should be heeded. Please revert it (and explain it). jhawkinson (talk) 15:07, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
Jhawkinson, that edit you referenced was not done by Jonesey95. This edit was done by Jonesey95 (and fixed a lint error). This other edit as done by Gonnym (and did not fix any lint errors). I've undone Gonnym's edit and left Jonesey95's edit active. You should see the "jhawk-test" text on User:Jhawkinson/Jed S. Rakofff now. -- WOSlinker (talk) 15:39, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
OOPS, MY BAD! I misread the diff! I will move this conversation to @Gonnym's talk in 24hrs. Thanks, WOSlinker, but obviously I could have reverted it myself, I wanted to know why the editor who made the change did so! jhawkinson (talk) 16:23, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
Jhawkinson, no worries! I make mistakes sometimes and welcome good-faith talk page dialogue. In this case, the "jhawk-test" text was inside a table but not inside a table cell, which causes a Linter "fostered content" error in which the interior text is rendered outside the table. My edit fixed the fostered content error, causing the interior text to render inside the table. If you want the text outside the table, the proper fix is to move it before or after the table code. If you want it to show up only with the "includeonly" text above it, you can move the closing includeonly tag to encompass it. I hope that helps. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:45, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Well, I'm even more confused now, I think I confused Jonesey95 above, since it wasn't his edit that removed the "jhawk-test" text, that was Gonnym who we're still waiting to hear from? Sigh, sorry for messing up the attribution! jhawkinson (talk) 06:03, 24 June 2024 (UTC)