User talk:Happy-melon/Archive 14

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive228#RFC close review: Category:Anti-abortion violence

Thank you very much for assessing the consensus at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive228#RFC close review: Category:Anti-abortion violence.

By the way, would you be able to file the Bugzilla report I requested here? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 03:47, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Nice

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-Keegan (talk) 08:10, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

:P Happy‑melon 10:56, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

ACE2011 Secure poll id

I noticed you mentioned that the secure poll setup has at least started, do you know what the poll number is so that we can update scheduled announcements with it? Monty₈₄₅ 16:39, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

If anything, I mentioned that the setup had not started; I have emailed Tim, but have not yet had a response... :S Happy‑melon 18:07, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Oh, sorry if I misunderstood your comment. Monty₈₄₅ 18:22, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

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ArbCom election (number of seats)

In this comment you stated that the decision on the number of seats needs to be made by "Sunday night." But the voting begins at 00:01 UTC on Sunday, that is, one minute after midnight on Sunday. So Sunday night is after the voting starts. Right? (And actually where I am (U.S. Eastern time) the voting actually begins Saturday at 7 p.m.) So if you were assuming the decision needs to be made before the voting starts, it would actually need to be made Saturday (i.e. tomorrow) night UTC. My sense of orderly elections tells me that the decision needs to be made before the voting starts, but since an RfC has now been started, I am not sure that is realistic. In order to have a chance of being accepted as legitimate, it may be that the RfC needs to run for 4 or 5 days, and in the meantime, the main elections page does tell the voters that the issue of the number of seats is under discussion. Closing the RfC on, say, November 30 would still leave people who have already voted with 10 days to go back and change their votes. Hopefully this situation will provide impetus for all of us to get these details clarified once and for all so this never happens again. Neutron (talk) 20:04, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I did mean "the night before voting starts". Happy‑melon 00:16, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

Template:Db-t3

Please could you comment at Template talk:Db-meta#Not categorising transclusions?

By the way, long time no see - hope you are well! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:37, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Arb announcements

Hi. Noticed one of your edits, and there's a similar query over here. Maybe you can comment. Cheers,  Chzz  ►  12:11, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Stacie Monroe

An article that you have been involved in editing, Stacie Monroe, has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going here, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. SaveATreeEatAVegan 22:49, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Wicked (musical)

Ah, the truth one sometimes finds in an edit summary. Please do the same for the other three million plus articles. Cheers, Drmies (talk) 02:47, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Two things

First, thanks for fixing the MOTD CSD . Secondly, you might want to remove the {{User wikipedia/Oversighter}} UBX from your user page, since you don't seem to be one (any more). Cheers! It Is Me Here ^{t / c} 15:02, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview

Dear Happy-melon,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, were it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:

• Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
• Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
• All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
• All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
• The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 01:13, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Merge discussion for Stacie Monroe

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Template:Commons cat show2 listed at Redirects for discussion

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Template:Commonscat multi listed at Redirects for discussion

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Gadgets

Is it possible to block an editor from using one or more gadgets? Or is it necessary to just block the editor?

For example, in the cases of awb and the like, the privilege can be removed.

But can the usage of something like hotcat be removed from the editor?

(Noting that I realise that there are several ways to get access to hotcat, and not just through a checkbox in preferences.)

Thanks in advance for your help : ) - jc37 02:52, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

I don't think there is a way to refuse a gadget for specific people at the moment.
FWIW, while Twinkle used to have a "blacklist" to try and deny specific editors access to the script, the blacklist was removed following community discussion. In essence, the idea was that if someone is abusing Twinkle and refuses to stop using it, the problem goes deeper than mere usage of Twinkle. This discussion can probably be transferred to other gadgets as well.
Amalthea 10:37, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Documentation for gadget authors

I saw you had done some work on heavily-used gadgets. We're trying to start a library for gadget authors to use. Please check it out and post any questions or comments there. -- ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 02:29, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Dr. Steel page - vandalism again.

Hi Happy-Melon. Remember last year, there was a lot of vandalism going on to the Dr. Steel page, primarily someone insisting on posting who they believed the person's real name was, in violation of WP:BIO, and you had the page semi-protected? All has been mostly quiet since then, until now. Since Dr. Steel's retirement, someone's been coming onto the page vandalizing it, claiming Dr. Steel was really "abducted by aliens" and also claiming to be the son of the person previously claimed as Dr. Steel's real name.

I'm not sure at this point if the page should be semi-protected again, or if something can just be done about the individual user (who always posts anonymously, but always from the same IP address: 63.215.132.174). I wouldn't even bother you except that he is persistent in his vandalism, and started vandalizing and altering the talk page as well. Can you have a look over there at recent edits (both on the main page and the bottom of the talk page) and let me know how you think we should proceed? Thank you, I appreciate it. --Jonnybgoode44 (talk) 17:21, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Hi Jonny. The fringe theory the IP is espousing is certainly inappropriate, but they may just be sarcastically highlighting the lack of reliable verification of the more 'mainstream' explanation for his lack of activity. While I think Occam's razor certainly supports 'retirement' as the answer, that is not actually supported by reliable sources in the article: the link to the forum can't be viewed by non-subscribers, and a forum post is not a reliable source in any case.

If you can add reliable sources for the information that the IP is removing, then any subsequent repetitions of the replacement would certainly be disruptive and could be dealt with by protection or warning/blocking. Hope this helps. Happy‑melon 10:36, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

I have sent a request to the current leaders of Dr. Steel's fan club that the letter from Dr. Steel be moved from out of the forums to their "About Dr. Steel" page. Even though it was personal correspondence, it's really the only "proof" that exists, from what I understand. Hopefully that will be sufficient - it looks as if Mr. IP wants to engage in a full-on edit war here. --Jonnybgoode44 (talk) 03:38, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

It seems that the head of TSU wishes the correspondence to remain personal. Therefore, for lack of any other hard evidence I can link to, I have added a parenthetical note representing the minority viewpoint, while still keeping the official position intact. Hopefully this will be an end to the matter. --Jonnybgoode44 (talk) 17:48, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for Bugzilla help!

		MediaWiki Bug Squad Barnstar
		Thanks for your help on Bugzilla! I appreciate it! —☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 18:25, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Invitation to events in June and July: bot, script, template, and Gadget makers wanted

I invite you to the yearly Berlin hackathon, 1-3 June. Registration is now open. If you need financial assistance or help with visa or hotel, then please register by May 1st and mention it in the registration form.

This is the premier event for the MediaWiki and Wikimedia technical community. We'll be hacking, designing, teaching, and socialising, primarily talking about ResourceLoader and Gadgets (extending functionality with JavaScript), the switch to Lua for templates, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Labs.

We want to bring 100-150 people together, including lots of people who have not attended such events before. User scripts, gadgets, API use, Toolserver, Wikimedia Labs, mobile, structured data, templates -- if you are into any of these things, we want you to come!

I also thought you might want to know about other upcoming events where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes. We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing.

Check out the the developers' days preceding Wikimania in July in Washington, DC and our other events.

Best wishes! - Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation's Volunteer Development Coordinator. Please reply on my talk page, here or at mediawiki.org. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator 21:21, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Dispute resolution survey

Dispute Resolution – Survey Invite Hello Happy-melon. I am currently conducting a study on the dispute resolution processes on the English Wikipedia, in the hope that the results will help improve these processes in the future. Whether you have used dispute resolution a little or a lot, now we need to know about your experience. The survey takes around five minutes, and the information you provide will not be shared with third parties other than to assist in analyzing the results of the survey. No personally identifiable information will be released. Please click HERE to participate. Many thanks in advance for your comments and thoughts. You are receiving this invitation because you have had some activity in dispute resolution over the past year. For more information, please see the associated research page. Steven Zhang DR goes to Wikimania! 00:21, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

template help

Hi Happy-melon,

I was told you may be able to help with a wikiproject article talkpage template problem. If you have time, please look into why the Ballet template will not list the importance of an article for Wikiproject Ballet as different from the importance of the article for Wikiproject Dance, or let me know how I might be able to make a fix. A more detailed description of the problem is here. Dkreisst (talk) 07:44, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Never mind, it was fixed soon after I left this note. Dkreisst (talk) 00:43, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

ConfirmAccount extension

Hey :). You're being contacted because you are involved in the ACC process, or participated in the original discussion in '08 about the ConfirmAccount extension. This is a note to let you know that we are seeking opinions on switching this extension on, effectively making the ACC process via the Toolserver redundant. You can read all the details here; I would be very grateful if people would indicate how they feel about the idea :). Thanks! Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 13:22, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Strip markers

I have marked some of the issues listed at Help:Strip markers as might be fixed. The empty <math> was listed on the 1.20 bug fix— I confirmed it and removed it, but the others were not on the change list. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 20:20, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

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File:AmericanFootballIE7AHM.PNG listed for deletion

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File:AmericanFootballIE7HM.PNG listed for deletion

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Reg. Your deletion of ancestry chart of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge

Hi! I did not understand your rationale of undoing my contribution of the ancestry chart. The summary of this chart is already given in the preceding section titled "Ancestry" and you did not deign to remove it. My chart is based on research by others such as William Addams Reitwiesner and the data is available on the net. Removing an item without proper justification and only on the basis of not believing it amounts to vandalism, as I see it. You being an administrator should be more cautious and your behaviour should be exemplary. Regards. Hrishikes (talk) 10:36, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

I did not remove it because I disbelieve it, I have reasonable respect for the sources you used and have no reason to doubt the lineage. I removed it because it is utterly irrelevant to the article. She is, indubitably, related similarly distantly to a variety of famous figures, contemporary and historical, and none of those connections are even the slightest bit notable, save perhaps the relationship to William himself on the basis of the extremely faint level of incest. Distant lineages and relationships are interesting, undoubtedly. They are not encyclopedic. Happy‑melon 11:28, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

call a template once every 612 hours

Hello Mr happy melon! I hope you have a free time to help me find a solution, I created a template w:ar:template:Minmaxskipgen , which will generate a random number based on seconds of time function ("{{#time:U}}"), I need a method/function to call the minmaskipgen template, to substitute the generated value, once every 12 hours; like ("{{#ifexpr:{{#expr:{{#time:hi}} = 0101}} |<includeonly>{{subst:</includeonly>{{minmaxskipgen|max=180}}}}|otherwise the value remain unchanged}}"), the problem is that the generated value will not keep the value for a duration of 612 hours, instead it will generate a new value every time the template is being called, regards.--Antime •(Talk) 04:26, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi Antime. I'm afraid I don't entirely understand what you're trying to achieve here. Do you want the output of your template to change every six hours, and stay the same within each six-hour block? Happy‑melon 09:48, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick response, yes that what I want to achieve, I need the output to change once every 12/or 6 hours, regards--Antime •(Talk) 18:30, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Then what you really want to do is something like {{#expr: floor( {{#time:U}} / 21600 ) }}, which gives the number of 6-hour blocks that have passed since 1 Jan 1970 (you could subtract an offset if you wanted to neaten things up). Then just alter your output based on what number you get out. Or {{#expr: floor( {{#time:U}} / 21600 ) * 21600 }} would give you the unix timestamp which increments in six-hour blocks. Whichever works better for you. Happy‑melon 22:40, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, I appreciate your help, I will give it a try and let you know if all goes well. --Antime •(Talk) 22:56, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

 Done Well, your solution works great, you are a genius mathematician, thanks again --Antime •(Talk) 16:32, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

WT:WikiProject Harry Potter#Turning this Project into a task force?

I have proposed a conversion of this Project into a task force. Join in if you may. --George Ho (talk) 02:25, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

A beer for you!

For your solid discussion and thoughts on the Village Pump regarding how the editor community interacts with the developer community. Goodonye. Jorm (WMF) (talk) 01:01, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure

Hi Happy-melon. Thank you for closing some of the discussions at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure. When you close a discussion, would you leave a note that you've closed the discussion? The practice has been that a day or two after a close, the discussion request is archived to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Requests for closure/Archive 2.

Also, would you add a closing rationale to Talk:Super Tuesday, 2012#Merge? I think the debate is divided enough that a rationale is warranted. Thanks, Cunard (talk) 21:19, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Sure, no problem. The Super Tuesday debate doesn't seem particularly divided to me; the Oppose group argue almost exclusively on a dubious interpretation of WP:LENGTH, while the Support group are both more numerous and have a wider range of arguments. Ticks for both vote count and !vote count. Happy‑melon 21:27, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

The requests are usually kept on the board for one or two days, but when there's a backlog, I think it's okay just to archive them immediately. Would you add your closing rationale to the talk page of the article so future users can see your reasoning? Thanks, Cunard (talk) 21:32, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Nice to see you around again, and I've noticed that CAT:EP has been clearing out ;) — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:12, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Basically my real life has temporarily increased in tedium to the point where stuff like TfD and CAT:EP is more interesting than what I'm supposed to be doing... :D Happy‑melon 18:22, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Well I hope your real life is still tedious because I have a question for you! How feasible would it be to alter the appearance of the {{ambox}} template when it is placed inside another template (e.g. {{multiple issues}})? Basically I would like it to take up one row and just output the raw text of the message in these cases. The idea is that we could automatically collapse them when there are multiple issues, in much the same way that {{WPBM}} collapses when inside {{WPBS}}. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:14, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Help with sortable script

Hello, Happy-melon. I posted what I think is a bug at VPT having to do with either the JS or the CSS. I don't think I should need to file a bug report for it, as it could be a simple local edit, but I don't know. I haven't gotten any real responses to it, and I don't know how to solicit them without directly asking at this point. As you have the knowledge and access to deal with this problem, or at least confirm that it is a valid problem, and not just some glaring error I made, would you please take a look at it? Thank you. ▫ JohnnyMrNinja 18:41, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you

For this. I knew it probably needed tidying. Also, I was dumb and didn't see the class value was already present. Killiondude (talk) 16:51, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Something seems wrong. I dismissed it earlier in FF, but someone on IRC complained about a lack of a "dismiss" button. I checked in Chrome and it appears the complainer is correct. Would you happen to know how to fix this? Killiondude (talk) 17:15, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

AWB

Sooo, since you note that you're back (at least for awhile) any chance I could entreat you to help me with AWB? I'm approved to use it, but I'll freely admit that I'm not sure how it works/how it interacts with the wiki (and as such am somewhat nervous of playing with it until I'm more sure about not breaking anything : )

I created a secondary account (User:Jc377) for use with it. Though it's been long enough that I think I'm not sure I remember the password : )

Anyway, if you would be willing to help mentor this awb newbie, please let me know. Maybe some time when we're both online at the same time. - jc37 18:12, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Sure, no problem! It's worth remembering that unless you have the bot flag on the account you use with AWB (which I guess you don't) each edit requires manual confirmation; so there's not too much damage you can do! Feel free to grab me any time, although I might be around a bit erratically for a couple of weeks; essentially I'm back because my Real Life has become so mindlessly tedious that dealing with CAT:EP is more interesting! :D Happy‑melon 22:17, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

great! : )

I'm here now if you are.

So (I'm a step-by-step kinda person when learning new tasks) - So what should I do first? : ) - jc37 22:27, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the clarification at Template:ArbitrationCommitteeChart. It makes much more sense now why it was the way it was. StringTheory¹¹ 02:05, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_British_Royalty#New_project_banner

Hi Happy-melon! The Project Banner for the British Royalty Project was created waaaaaaayyy back when upper & lower case in the Banner name and Assessment pages didn't matter. Now it's a little irksome. I wondered if you knew of any "cleanup bot" to fix this common issue? If I don't hear from you, I'll just do the redirects. Just thought I'd ask. Thanks!Prapsnot 2.0 (talk) 06:59, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Jepha Howard

The article Jepha Howard has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this newly created biography of a living person will be deleted unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Andrew Kurish (talk) 22:02, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

Ship class list

Hola. I'm wondering if you have a preference for how to handle the unused template {{Ship class list}} ?

• You created it, as part of Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 May 28#Template:Class box Albatros corvette way back in 2008.
• I came across it whilst in this tfd: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 September 17#Template:Class box Oliver Hazard Perry frigate which just closed and resulted in 112 templates being deleted. See that thread, for my explanation of the cleanup work that was completed.

I'm not sure if the template should remain for any purpose, or be TFD'd, or just be db-author'd, or other? Thanks :) —Quiddity (talk) 17:01, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Hunger Games

Dude, you got pwned when users gave you a bunch of sources listing hunger games as adventure film against your mediocre definition of adventure through that unreliable source filmsite.org. lol 201.68.113.171 (talk) 17:00, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your insightful and erudite comment. Happy‑melon 18:22, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Template:Language

Somebody has done something that is causing "Unrecognised language code" to be displayed in red at the top of the page. LittleBen (talk) 09:15, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Arbcom elections

Soooo, is it really no chance that you won't run this time? (nudge nudge : ) - jc37 00:01, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

There is no chance that I will run (and every chance that I won't! :p), this time. Happy‑melon 00:10, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

rofl ok. I had to ask : ) - jc37 00:19, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Electoral Commission appointment

Hi Happy-melon. Please be aware that Jimbo has appointed you as a member of the Electoral Commission for this election. Good luck, and thank you for volunteering. AGK [•] 10:12, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Election coordination

Please see Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2012/Coordination#Suggested_agenda_for_the_Electoral_Commission and also my set up on the project page.--Tznkai (talk) 17:45, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Dark Knight Rises

Hey there, I notice that you reverted one of my edits citing that it is Original Research. Can you explain why that is? Only because in the film it is said that is the reason for his promotion. That and explaining that he couldn't trust anyone in the department. If you could clear it up that would be great. MisterShiney ✉ 16:37, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Howdy. I undid mainly because the wording seemed an overly-simplistic rationale that had the hallmarks of being just a detail rather than the whole story; as you've just demonstrated above, the full explanation for why he did it is more complicated than just one reason. The most likely conclusion was that it's not explored in detail in the film and what you put was just your own analysis. If it is explained explicitly in the film then it's not OR, for sure; but to explain it correctly requires going into rather too much detail in what is already quite a long plot summary. The reasons why he was promoted are not important for the rest of the plot, so spelling them out to that degree is probably unnecessarily bloating the plot. Happy‑melon 16:46, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Fair enough. I only added it because it seemed a bit "tacked on" and felt it needed a bit of clarification. But it's cool. It was all Good Faith :) Happy Editing MisterShiney ✉ 16:52, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Assignment

• [2]

Ok, so why did it fail? : )

Also, is there a simpler way to do it? Like merely define a variable (INT Q; for example), and assign it a value (Q = 16;)? - jc37 02:18, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

>poke< - any ideas? : ) - jc37 23:42, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

TFD Infobox settlement

You have been involved with Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 January 24. Would like your feedback at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 December 18#Template:USA City infobox NVanMinh (talk) 14:50, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Can you help? WPBannerMeta

I am wondering if you can help me. I am trying to implement a Taskforce system on the Template:WikiProject_Ethiopia. I got everything working the way I want. I just have to create the categories used. Only problem is that one of the warnings for People and culture department is missing and I can't be sure if the categories are big used properly with out the warning. Is this just because Template:WPBannerMeta/hooks/taskforces simply does not return warnings for missing categories or have I made a mistake somewhere? ---አቤል ዳዊት (Janweh) (talk) 01:53, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

The way to check is to move the "tf 1" set of parameters in the hook section (People and culture) over and replace the other "tf 1" set of parameters (Climate and environment) and the just use the Show preview button to then see the messages. Don't save this version of the template, just use it to see the warning messages. -- WOSlinker (talk) 08:34, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Precious

backstage
Thank you for quality contributions to articles such as Emma Watson and Saxophone, but mainly for acting backstage, in coding conditional templates, operating a bot, ..., never resisting the urge to edit any page you "happen to visit which looks like it needs it", adding the touch of a seasonal signature, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (16 June 2009)!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:12, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Aww, thanks! :D Happy‑melon 11:23, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Proposal to get contributors involved (and more)

Hi, I'm working on a proposal to attract contributors to MediaWiki / Wikimedia tech. It contains some deep technical and social changes. I would really appreciate your feedback before going deeper into details. Thank you!--Qgil (talk) 21:47, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

I actually quite like some of these ideas; it's basically the 'gamification' of code development, trying to make it fun, instantly-rewarding and also slightly (positively) competitive. I think most of the development community will hate it, however, especially the more established members. Which is arguably the whole point, but still a big obstacle nonetheless. Happy‑melon 09:29, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick and positive feedback. Yes, some more like it more than others but we could argüe that the current "model" also fails to engage people, with the difference that we don't even get to know because they simply don't arrive / walk away. One good thing is that development workflows are untouched: Bugzilla, Gerrit, docs, IRC and wikitech-l will work as usual. If someone doesn't want to add data to their profile, join groups etc nothing wrong will happen. Certain skepticism and opposition is good! This plan will only be objectively convincing when we can prove e.g. that your patches get more reviews from contributors you hadn't seen before.--Qgil (talk) 14:49, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Duchess of Cambridge

Thanks for spotting and correcting my error. Martinvl (talk) 11:08, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

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I need some help

Hello Happy, been a while but I need your help.

I created two templates:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink/page header
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink/PageTabs2

When I put them both on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Food and drink, I get some weird results. Could you take a look in and see if I have made some mistake in their coding that is causing this, or if there is another template on the page that might be causing this issue?

You can see the results at this diff --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 08:28, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Weird how? What happens that you weren't expecting? Happy‑melon 11:27, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

When I add the two templates to the page, the page gets rendered so that they end up in the middle of the page and the text of the page is half a head of them and half after them. This happened on two separate computers, both in windows (7 & 8) on firefox and chrome. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 14:56, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

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Template:Listen and the metadata class

Hi, regarding Template:Listen and the metadata class - please see WP:VPT#'Listen' template not rendering in mobile view. Thanks. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:36, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

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Clarification

Could you please clarify the following statements you made in the closure of the RfD for CSD: pages?

• one editor cannot have the ability to unilaterally create a new pseudo-namespace which immediately becomes magically exempt from scrutiny.
  • This looks a whole lot like a "policy supervote", where you're giving your opinion on something that, frankly, is not in policy.
• the argument that cross-namespace redirects are inherently deletable is strong
  • The policy explicitly provides exemptions for any CNR that is a "pseudonamespace", so this argument does not apply, unless you are supervoting the opinion above into the discussion.

Please note that I'm totally fine with the close, but I'd ask you to amend your close statement to not include such statements that could be seen as "meta policy decisions" or "supervotes" instead of summarizing the consensus in the discussion. Sorry for the trouble, I just don't want this to look bad on you in the future (if it were to go to DRV or anything, I see it's already attempted to go to AN). ~Charmlet ^-talk- 20:18, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi Charmlet, and thanks for getting in touch.

I wouldn't say this was a "policy supervote" so much as needing to use judgement to establish the community consensus as to the spirit of a policy fragment which is easily game-able in letter. As I understand the history of the pseudo-namespace and cross-namespace-redirect issue, the consensus that that policy fragment is trying to express is that cross-namespace redirects are, in general, bad and should be deleted, but that there is a need to tolerate the existence of a few historical redirects mainly for the purpose of avoiding link rot ("cool urls don't break", etc).

That sentiment is adequately conveyed by the letter of the policy at the time it was written: "all XNRs are deletable, except the PSRs which currently exist". The policy letter doesn't say anything about new PSRs, but more general policies (WP:CONSENSUS, WP:NOT#BURO, etc) provide the 'correct' intrepretation: it would not be compatible with our ethos for a policy to be read in such a way as to give unilateral powers to a single editor. I don't have any right to create the pseudo-namespace "HM:" (HM:U → User:Happy-melon, HM:S → User:Happy-melon/sandbox1, etc), for instance, regardless of whether I think it would be useful (for me or for others). That sentiment was clear from the comments in both the RfD, and in previous discussions I looked at.

In short, then, the two quotes you make are both comments on the discussion I was closing, as required by the role of closer, but they are indeed comments about the strength of certain arguments in relation to other policy. That's precisely the nuanced analysis we require admins to make on XfD closures, and why we have admin closures. If simple vote counting was all that was required, there would be no need to limit who could close such discussions. Happy‑melon 22:08, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Ah, I understand more fully now. It would help people with tiny brains like me if you'd word it as "the consensus seems to be that... (CNRs that are PNs need consensus before implementation, aside from those available at the time of writing)" or similar. Terribly sorry for the trouble. ~Charmlet ^-talk- 22:17, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

I've "volunteered" you for something

Hi HM,

I "volunteered" you for choosing a new EC here. If you don't want to, you don't have to, obviously. If you not only don't want to, but also think it's a bad idea, feel free to comment there. --Floquenbeam (talk) 15:52, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Favor?

Hey there Melon! Way back in 2008 you closed an TfD for Template:SchoolRoles. Any chance you could send me the contents of that? I would reallllllllllllly appreciate it. • Freechildtalk 03:45, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

What would you want it for? Happy‑melon 14:49, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Online source

Template:Online source has been nominated for merging with Template:Press. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Steel1943 (talk) 22:24, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

Electoral Commission appointment

Hi Happy-melon. Please be aware that Jimbo has appointed you as a member of the Electoral Commission for this election. Good luck, and thank you for volunteering. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:07, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Noted, thanks! :D Happy‑melon 19:09, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Talk about an image you uploaded

I started this talk section. You may want to take a look since it's about an image you uploaded. Martinkunev (talk) 20:04, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

ACE Candidates

Hi, Happy‑melon,
Since you've been on the Election Committee for five years now, I'm hoping you have a good perspective for this process. I have a couple of questions.

1. Did the nomination period use to be longer (closer to two weeks)? A week doesn't seem long enough for potential cadidates to make up their minds or be persuaded to run. I understand that these decisions are made before the election and are not under the committees' control, I was just wondering if you remembered if this had changed.
2. After four days, it seems like there is a low number of candidates (I believe there were 4 when I last checked). Is this typical, I mean, do a lot of candidates throw their hat into the ring on the last day to sign up?

Thanks, in advance, for any illumination you can provide. There isn't a lot of data that was ever collected on the ACE process so we're left with a few old pages and hundreds of Editors/Admins collective memories. :-) Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:26, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

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I've also e-mailed you - your urgent input would be appreciated, if not then I will have to make the decision as this needs sorting ASAP. GiantSnowman 20:18, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Questions

Where are the questions for the arbcom candidates? This link: WP:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2013/Questions has no questions. Jd2718 (talk) 23:33, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Template:Db-t4

Just as a heads-up, I have created Template:Db-t4 which you appear to have deleted a previous revision of. I have boldly proposed a new CSD criterion - WP:CSD#T4. Your comments are welcome.--Launchballer 18:40, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Thanks for all your help with ACE this year. GiantSnowman 13:20, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Out with the old...

For 2014: Wishing you a Healthy, Happy and Fulfilling NEW YEAR! Shir-El too 19:35, 23 December 2013 (UTC) (image: NASA Mars Rover, sunset)

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Precious again

backstage
Thank you for quality contributions to articles such as Emma Watson and Saxophone, but mainly for acting backstage, in coding conditional templates, operating a bot, ..., never resisting the urge to edit any page you "happen to visit which looks like it needs it", adding the touch of a seasonal signature, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (16 June 2009!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:12, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

A year ago, you were the 351st recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:57, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

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Can you help me?

Hi, Happy-melon. :) I'm trying to figure out the origin of some of the text (specifically the copyright section) that appeared here when you substituted two cross-wiki templates that had been deleted at MFD. It looks like the whole section was added by substituting {{h:f|langs=|enname=Page history}}, but I can't find the history of that text at Meta, and I'm not sure if I'm looking in the right place - meta:Template:H:f seems to be simply the footer for the help system, and when I trace it to their Help page for page histories, looking at the most recent to substitution, here, there is no copyright section there. I'm not up to parsing the code, I'm afraid, and finding if there is or was another location. Can you help me figure out where that material originated? I asked for help in the admin channel at IRC, but they weren't able to figure it out there, either. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:51, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

User:Closedmouth heroically tracked it back to Template:Ph:Page history. :) Now I just have to work through the convoluted history to see how it got there. :D (Thanks, User:Closedmouth.) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:50, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

That was a particularly godawful pile of templates, to be sure. Glad you managed to track it through the several layers of transclusion and transwikiing!! Happy‑melon 16:15, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

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Request for comment

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WPBannerMeta

Hi Happy-melon! I was wondering how easy it would be to translate Template:WPBannerMeta to my wiki language? Is it just a case of find and replace or are there things to look out for? You can reply here or on my da-wiki talk page, thanks! 87.60.145.167 (talk) 15:13, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

School Roles

Could you please set me up a sandbox page with Template:SchoolRoles on it? Thanks! • Freechildtalk 20:00, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi @Freechild:. There are administrators around who will provide copies of deleted pages. As a general rule, I do not, sorry. Happy‑melon 09:01, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply @Happy-melon:. I thought closing administrators were responsible for this. My apologies for asking you to do something you do not want to do. I hope in the future you might reconsider hardline responses. • Freechildtalk 15:44, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Common.js/shuffle.js

I'm doing a little cleanup and came across MediaWiki:Common.js/shuffle.js, and you seem to be the only one (still) using it. Is there any point in keeping this at its current location, or can we safely userfy/delete it? -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 10:04, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Not as far as I'm aware, kill it if you like. Happy‑melon 16:17, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Consider it killed. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 19:30, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

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Precious again

backstage
Thank you for quality contributions to articles such as Emma Watson and Saxophone, but mainly for acting backstage, in coding conditional templates, operating a bot, ..., never resisting the urge to edit any page you "happen to visit which looks like it needs it", adding the touch of a seasonal signature, - repeating: you are an awesome Wikipedian (16 June 2009!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:12, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Two years ago, you were the 351st recipient of my PumpkinSky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:11, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

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Need some Help

How do I 'tag' some1 or an admin into a 'post' ...I'm familiar w/ FB's format, but not WIKI's THanx. Peace is contagious (talk) 17:30, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

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I removed the image from Quidditch#Quidditch_pitch, as it is wholly unnecessary to the prose. The image isn't discussed in the prose, nor is it significant in its own right. It's just a stadium. Given that, I've removed the image per WP:NFCC #8, making it orphaned and subject to deletion. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:41, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

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A new user right for New Page Patrollers

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A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

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Precious anniversary

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{{Link language}} class

Hi Happy-melon,

I notice that, a long time ago, you introduced a class="languageicon" for {{Link language}}. However, I could not find any discussions about this change, or a reason that would warrant it.

Also, is that class defined anywhere? I couldn't see it in Vector or Monobook...

Could you please explain what the intention was? Thanks. 2A02:C7D:DA0A:DB00:AC05:18F4:540C:87DF (talk) 20:18, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

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Precious five years!

Precious

Five years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:52, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Protection policy/new

Hey Happy-melon,

Not sure if you're around anymore. I was about to list this 10 year old draft rewrite of WP:PP at MfD, but thought I'd check if you wanted to move it to your userspace first (or if you think there's a strong reason to keep it as a subpage to the policy page). Goodnightmush^Talk 04:33, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Protection policy/new

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That's sad to hear. I still have faint hope of returning to activity here at some point. It would be good to still feel like I have all the tools I had when I was last mopping the floors... Happy‑melon 17:57, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi H-m, good to see you! Your edit here has reset the year clock on that action. — xaosflux ^Talk 01:22, 3 April 2018 (UTC)