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Quick request

Aloha @Jonesey95:. When you have a moment, can you please review my edit request on Template_talk:Infobox_university? GeekInParadise (talk) 22:01, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

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March GOCE newsletter

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Emily Heller has been accepted

Emily Heller, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.
The article has been assessed as Start-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. If your account is more than four days old and you have made at least 10 edits you can create articles yourself without posting a request. However, you may continue submitting work to Articles for Creation if you prefer.

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Bkissin (talk) 17:25, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Bkissin! And thanks also to Piels for starting the draft. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:44, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Emily Heller

I won't userfy it in a normal fashion, since your creation of the page would make everything rather awkward: I'd have to move the existing page, delete the redirect, restore the deleted one, move the formerly-deleted one, delete the redirect, move the existing page back, and delete the redirect. So instead, here are the entire contents, written by User:Msahai94.

Emily Heller is an Actress, Stand-Up, Writer, Podcaster, and Voice-Actor from the San Francisco Bay area. She is related to Marielle Heller and Nate Heller. Emily has acted in the show Ground Floor on TBS and has provided voices for characters on Season 2 of Bojack Horseman. She is a stand-up comedian who has been featured twice on Conan O'Brien as well as on he third season of John Oliver’s New York Stand Up Show on Comedy Central. She has been named a comic to watch by both Variety and Comedy Central. Emily Heller has worked as a writer on the Fox show Surviving Jack. In 2015 she recorded her first comedy album, to be released in the near future.

Alongside Lisa Hanawalt, Emily Co-Hosts a podcast on the Maximum Fun podcast network called Baby Geniuses, which is dedicated to sharing niche knowledge and featuring improvisers who pose as experts on bizarre topics. Segments of the podcast include One on Fun (A.K.A. "Ask Me Ask You") in which Emily and Lisa ask one another a question about themselves often in 'would you rather' format, Wiki of the Week in which they feature an obscure wikipedia page sent in by a listener, Chunch Chat in which they discuss updates on Martha Stewart's horse Ben Chunch (debatably referred to as Ban Chunch on Martha's blog), and feature a guest and an "expert" (improviser posing as an expert in a bizarre field).

Emily has mentioned on her podcast that she has autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) and often enjoys watching ASMR videos on youtube to calm herself down.

Anything else? Let me know and I'll do my best to help. Nyttend (talk) 02:18, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Nyttend. That is helpful. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:27, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome. It was easier because it was all written by one person, so attribution compliance would be satisfied with written by User:Msahai94. I would have considered the complicated move-pages-around process if it had been useful content, but...clearly not :-) Nyttend (talk) 11:22, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Klang Valley area lines

Template:Klang Valley area lines has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Kb03 (talk) 13:27, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

BMI Awards

The source says the song was among the most performed r&b/hip-hop awards so it is not a false claim just needed editing on my part and I've added again. --Kyle Peake (talk) 21:14, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

GOCE requests

Thanks for correcting me. Somehow I read "one in time". Eurohunter (talk) 12:53, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

March 2019 GOCE drive bling!

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE March 2019 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 18:35, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

/Ruben Katsobashvili (businessman) listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect /Ruben Katsobashvili (businessman). Since you had some involvement with the /Ruben Katsobashvili (businessman) redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. UnitedStatesian (talk) 14:58, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

A year ago ...

copy-editing
... you were recipient no. 1901 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:21, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Template:Infobox music festival

The change you made to the template appears to have broken it for some pages, where the text "{{{organized}}}" is now appearing when no entry is specified. See Hardly Strictly Bluegrass for example.

-- AtomCrusher (talk) 14:45, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Fixed. -- WOSlinker (talk) 15:28, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Sloppy work by me. My apologies, and thanks to WOSlinker for fixing it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:18, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Ping

Sorry, I forgot to ping you here, if you care to add any comment. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 15:02, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

ISBN errors

Hi. I done a an update of the ISBN errors with PkbwcgsBot today. However, it deleted all the pages on the list. Is it true that every single ISBN error is fixed? It done the same with ISSN errors as well. Pkbwcgs (talk) 21:05, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

Pinging NicoV, who may know why this is happening. I tried running WPCleaner 2.0, and it said it ran fine and updated the page, but it did not update the page. Instead, it popped up a window called "Information", containing the contents that should have been put onto the page. I copied and pasted the contents manually, but that is a workaround, not a solution. Strange. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:57, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi. I didn't have much internet access lately, so I couldn't check. First, I thought it was due to the damages done to the configuration page by Metalwolf877, but apparently not... I will try to check what the problem is during the week. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 12:03, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

Pkbwcgs, Jonesey95. I've found that the update of the page was returning an error due to docdroid.net being forbidden: I modified Girl, Interrupted so that it wouldn't be reported as an ISBN error, and reran the update of the list and it worked. --NicoV ^{(Talk on frwiki)} 19:21, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Well done. I made a note on the talk page for the ISBN error page, in case it happens again. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:38, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Maintenance cats

Hey, I think I saw a edit summary once where you restricted articles in a maint category to article-space only. If that is non-controversial, can you do that for some templates that I am monitoring? My list is here and some (but not all) of the non-zero ones are due to errors in testcases, drafts, other misc stuff. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MB (talk • contribs)

MB, I posted a request on two Module Talk pages, since I don't know enough about Lua to make the change you seek. I didn't see any other templates that need changing. If you know of one that is still not limited to main (article) space, please list it here, and I'll see what I can do. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:44, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

I managed to adjust Module:Infobox body of water tracking. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:48, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Category:Pages using infobox body of water with a non-automatically converted dimension

Category:Pages using infobox school with deprecated parameters

Category:Pages using infobox school with multiple external links

Category:Wikipedia page with obscure country

Category:Pages using infobox shopping mall with unsupported parameters

all have non-article "clutter". MB 16:53, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia page with obscure country is done. I'll take a look at the others. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:55, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

I added another to the list above. MB 03:04, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

 Done. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:32, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

New one Category:Pages with malformed coordinate tags MB 00:02, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

May not be possible. It looks like the category is sometimes assigned by Mediawiki, not by the coord Template or Module. – Jonesey95 (talk) 07:44, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Also Category:Infobox military person image param needs updating MB 23:48, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

 Done. – Jonesey95 (talk) 07:44, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

April blitz bling

		The Modest Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling over 2,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE April 2019 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Tdslk (talk) 02:02, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

How did you create this maintenance category? I'm curious!

I'm astonished how quickly you pulled up a maintenance category. What tool did you use to create it? Category:Pages using ITN talk with unknown parameters How would you go through the members and fix all the errors, by hand one by one or is there a tool you recommend that can speed things up? I'd like to learn how to do maintenance in an efficient way with some coding, ideally. Any reference material appreciated! Micronor (talk) 21:26, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

I added parameter checking to the template in this edit. As for fixing these errors, I think one-by-one is the best method in this case, because editors have probably put all sorts of values in the wrong places, and resolving the problems will require a human brain. 162 errors is not that many. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:34, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Drive graph oddness

Hi Jonesey; I can't seem to get the progress graphs in the current Drive page to render properly. I did the midnight update and it's all gone a bit screwy, displaying '0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1' under the horizontal axes. What am I doing incorrectly? old version. Cheers, Baffle☿gab 01:29, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

I think I've fixed it; it seems necessary to define the min and max parameters for the axes. Odd. I'm clearly wearing the juice today! :) Cheers, Baffle☿gab 06:18, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

I had added xtype=string to the graph parameters to prevent this problem, but it was removed somewhere. I have re-added it, which appears to have fixed the problem, at least in my browser. Your addition of xaxismax parameters also does the trick, but it looks like my addition of the type=string parameter overrides the fixed maxima. The max parameter makes the blue line very short in the early part of the month; that may or may not be what we want, I don't really care either way. If you want to re-add the max parameters (and remove my string parameters), go for it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:22, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing the graphs, I couldn't find out what the problem was, even after looking at (and copying over) graphs from older drives. I'm happy as long as it works properly... now let's see if I mess it up again tonight! :D Cheers, Baffle☿gab 21:56, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Country data Lebanon

Hi, I've made a request at Template talk:Country data Lebanon regarding the addition of another flag variant. Could you please take a look at it? Thanks, Nehme₁₄₉₉ (talk) 14:38, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Userspace draft reference error

Hi Jonesey95. An article I'm developing in my userspace, User:Lord Bolingbroke/John Bunny, is currently placed in the hidden category User pages with reference errors. I can't figure out what is causing the cite error—would you be willing to look at the page to see if you can spot what's going on? I see you're currently on a wikibreak, but I'd like to leave you a note before it slips my mind. Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 21:26, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

I couldn't figure it out. I posted a note at Help talk:Cite errors. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:49, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Found and fixed (worked around, really) with some help. Apparently, the error message would have appeared in red once the page was moved to article space. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:54, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! Do you know what exactly was causing the error? Placing a quotation in the |ps= parameter of {{sfn}} is described as a valid usage in the template documentation. Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 22:23, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

In User:Lord Bolingbroke/John Bunny you had this:

{{sfn|Gehring|1995|p=122|ps=: "At the beginning of the movies, comedy was dominated by the French, particularly performer/director Max Linder and director George Méliès. It was only in the second decade of the century that American film comedy began to take over the world market."}}

and this:

{{sfn|Gehring|1995|p=122}}

The former renders this html:

<ref name="FOOTNOTEGehring1995122">[[#CITEREFGehring1995|Gehring 1995]], p. 122: "At the beginning of the movies, comedy was dominated by the French, particularly performer/director Max Linder and director George Méliès. It was only in the second decade of the century that American film comedy began to take over the world market."</ref>

the latter renders this html:

<ref name="FOOTNOTEGehring1995122">[[#CITEREFGehring1995|Gehring 1995]], p. 122.</ref>

In article space these will result in the glaring red error message (reduced here to be less glaring):

Reference that share the same name must have the same content.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 23:38, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the detailed explanation Trappist the monk. On taking a second look at the {{sfn}} documentation, I see that this error is described in a note beneath the examples of the |ps= parameter. I'm not sure how I missed this note the first time; sorry to trouble you! Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 00:46, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

It wasn't there until I added it as I wrote my reply to you.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 00:56, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Ah, I could have sworn it wasn't there! I was confused because I was looking for your diff in the revision history of Template:Sfn/doc; I see now that the note is transcluded from Template:Harvard citation documentation. Thanks again! Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 01:12, 7 May 2019 (UTC)

Dylan O'Brien

On the talk page for Dylan O'Brien's webpage, you claim that the Daily Mail is not a reliable. While the Daily Mail is not peer-reviewed, no peer-reviewed source would have information on Dylan's personal life. I did not make the original edit, or use the Daily Mail as a source, but for pop-culture references the Daily Mail is a reliable source, it's error rate is no greater than any other major western paper.

See this discussion. – Jonesey95 (talk) 10:08, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

May 2019

A kitten of thanks!

Thank you for your edits on Miss Panamá 2015. I just wanted to take a moment to deliver a more personalized extension of my gratitude for your work on the article than just the push of a button. I had started into it thanks to Typo Team's MOSS project, but just didn't have the time to go through it all and pull out all that extra bold formatting. Answering the call of the Copy/edit tag is always a great kindness. Your patience and thoroughness is appreciated. Cheers! Elfabet (talk) 16:15, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

You're welcome. I didn't have the energy to give it a full copy-edit, as I did with Miss Panamá 2016, but I got it started so that the eventual copy-edit would not be as daunting. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:50, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Template:DE metadata Wikidata

Hi Jonesy95, the tracking cat you setup has caught a lot of errors with this template. I didn't make it and don't fully understand the interactions with Template:Infobox German location where it is embedded. Everything seems ok, for example in this test diff I added the template directly into the article and it returned empty strings ie. nothing available on Wikidata. But the Infobox thinks there is data available and when it gets none generates a red error on the |area= field. Do you have any ideas what might be happening? -- GreenC 14:20, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Fixed. -- GreenC 15:21, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

It looks like this edit stopped those area errors from putting articles in the category. Now they just need to be purged out. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:33, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Book talk:Crag martins

In Book talk:Crag martins, your edit "Hack to work around Linter error and keep the genus name reverse-italicized" is successful in not having linter errors, but it un-italicizes the genus name. The rules of nomenclature require genus and species names to be in italics whether or not the surrounding text is in italics. My markup is:

{{book report start|Crag martins|<small>The genus Ptyonoprogne</small>}}

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or in short, '''<small>''The genus Ptyonoprogne''</small>''': The genus Ptyonoprogne

Your markup is:

{{book report start|Crag martins|<nowiki/>''<small>''The genus'' Ptyonoprogne</small>''<nowiki/>}}

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or in short, '''<small>''The genus'' Ptyonoprogne</small>''': The genus Ptyonoprogne

To follow the rules of nomenclature while still having the italics stand out, I'd recommend

{{book report start|Crag martins|<nowiki/>''<small>The genus ''Ptyonoprogne''</small>''<nowiki/>}}

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or in short, '''<small>The genus ''Ptyonoprogne''</small>''': The genus Ptyonoprogne

—Anomalocaris (talk) 18:52, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

I have always seen straight text used within italics to indicate that the straight text would have been italicized normally, as in this WP page's explanation. I don't see it mentioned at all in MOS, which seems like an omission, but I might be missing it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:48, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

I thought I saw somewhere on Wikipedia that the rule is that genus and species stay in italics even where embedded in italics. However, the two sources referenced from the page you linked to, as well as other sources outside Wikipedia, support flipping genus and species out of italics where embedded in italics. So at this point, I support any version that (1) has the genus and species in the opposite italic state from the surrounding phrase and (2) is lint-free. Your version satisfies both, so I'm OK with it. —Anomalocaris (talk) 05:39, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

add TFD notice

Could you add the TFD notice to Template:Infobox_Ukrainian_raion, see Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2019_May_22#Template:Infobox_Ukrainian_raion. 89.12.75.224 (talk) 19:01, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

 Done. Please consider registering for an account so that you can use the Twinkle gadget to easily perform these edits yourself, create and follow a Watchlist, and more. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:25, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Not a nationality

I agree, but clearly people aren't getting that memo, like the editor doing this:[1][2][3][4][5][6] Jayjg ^(talk) 13:33, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

That disruptive editor has been reverted and told to stop making those invalid edits. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:23, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

Talk:Chaim_Rumkowski#Current_dispute

Your second response to edit-protected is confusing. It says "already done". You wee probably thinking "already answered", but the edit was not done. I think you must make the second answer the same as the first one in this page. Staszek Lem (talk) 18:28, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

Koya

I saw your reversion over at Kingdom of Koya; Moribu Kindo was created today which may be related. Just an F.Y.I. MB 21:20, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

May 2019 GOCE drive bling

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Discussion of link language wrapper templates (June 2019)

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Guild of Copy Editors June 2019 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the June newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since March 2019. You can unsubscribe from our mailings at any time; see below. Election time: Nomination of candidates in our mid-year Election of Coordinators opened on 1 June, and voting will take place from 16 June. Coordinators normally serve a six-month term and are elected on an approval basis. Self-nominations are welcome. If you've thought of helping out at the Guild, or know of another editor who would make a good coordinator, please consider standing for election or nominating them here. June Blitz: Our June blitz will soon be upon us; it will begin at 00:01 on 16 June (UTC) and will close at 23:59 on 22 June (UTC). The themes are "nature and the environment" and all requests. March Drive: Thanks to everyone for their work in March's Backlog Elimination Drive. We removed copyedit tags from 182 of the articles tagged in our original target months October and November 2018, and the month finished with 64 target articles remaining from November and 811 in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 22 requests for copyedit in March; the month ended with 34 requests pending. Of the 32 people who signed up for this drive, 24 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. April Blitz: Thanks to everyone who participated in the April Blitz; the blitz ran from 14 to 20 April (UTC) inclusive and the themes were Sports and Entertainment. Of the 15 people who signed up, 13 copyedited at least one article. Participants claimed 60 copyedits. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Progress report: As of 04:36, 3 June 2019 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 267 requests since 1 January. The backlog of tagged articles stands at 605 articles. May Drive: During the May Backlog Elimination Drive, Guild copy-editors removed copyedit tags from 191 of the 192 articles tagged in our original target months of November and December 2018, and January 2019 was added on 22 May. We finished the month with 81 target articles remaining and a record low of 598 articles in the backlog. GOCE copyeditors also completed 24 requests for copyedit during the May drive, and the month ended with 35 requests pending. Of the 26 people who signed up for this drive, 21 copyedited at least one article. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Miniapolis, Baffle gab1978, Jonesey95, Reidgreg and Tdslk. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar).

Meetings

• You can watch or join the next Wikimedia Language showcase. It will be about the usage of Machine Translation in Wikimedia projects. The showcase will be on 26 June at 13:00 (UTC). A recording will be kept for later viewing
• You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 26 June at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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17:29, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

June 2019 blitz bling!

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling between 1 and 1,999 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE June 2019 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 00:01, 25 June 2019 (UTC)