User talk:Legoktm/November 2012

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Angela LeFevre

I used the format and language contained in Gov. Jan Brewer's entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_brewer

Is the problem here that she has not been elected? If she is elected on Nov. 6, what would I have to change?

Thank you for your time and effort.

GregRuland (talk) 16:45, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

As I stated on in my review, the problem is that it was written in a promotional manner. Please read WP:NPOV and WP:ARTSPAM. Thanks, Legoktm (talk) 17:14, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #30

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Development
  • Launched wikidata.org \o/
  • Updated http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Change_propagation (We need feedback on the data flow from Wikidata to the Wikipedias http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064196.html)
  • Updated the demo system: http://wikidata-test.wikimedia.de
  • Tagged a 0.1 release https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase.git;a=tags
  • Added QUnit tests for DataValues
  • Worked on Api.js JS refactoring
  • Fix content handler and other related core bugs
  • Generalized Autocomment
  • Changed name of wbsetitem to wbeditentity
  • First implementation of wbsearchentities
  • More Puppet scripts and Vagrant exploration
  • All of the API should now handle prefixed IDs
  • Implemented templating system
  • Browser code and server code both starts to use templates
  • Jeroen and Daniel were added as primary authors of MediaWiki core for their work on the Content Handler
• Discussions/Press
  • “wikidata.org is live” got quite some responses in the press. Some examples: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/wikidata-oeffnet-als-zentrale-datenbank-fuer-wikipedia-a-864649.html and http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Wikidata-Daten-Fundus-fuer-Wikipedia-eroeffnet-1740780.html
• Events
  • SMWCon
  • WMF metrics and activities meeting
  • upcoming: office hours on IRC
  • upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie
  • upcoming: ISWC
  • upcoming: talk at Bergman Center
  • upcoming: Wikidata intro and Q&A in Vienna
  • We’re looking for partners for a mass collaboration assembly at 29C3
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • First 1000 items: http://pastebin.com/Gahpgekp (html: http://pastebin.com/5L6N2gZq)
  • http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:Task_force
  • http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_permissions
  • http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#SlurpInterwiki_script
  • Translate extension enabled on wikidata.org for easier translation of help and similar pages
• Open Tasks for You
  • Give feedback on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Change_propagation
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Precious

	support
	Thank you for quality support in the fields of advanced programming, bots, Articles for creation, debugging, and helping users, - you are an awesome Wikipedian! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:08, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you! Legoktm (talk) 09:29, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Tropical Cyclone Barnstar
		For your excellent contributions to Tropical cyclone-related articles. In particular, thank you for making the hurricane infobox bot! Anonymouse321 (talk • contribs) 08:14, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! I still have some work to do on the bot, should be done by the end of the week. Legoktm (talk) 09:30, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikiproject Watchlist for Canadianlaw

Sorry for disturbing yo again. Any idea why this s not working: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Canadian_law#Wikiproject_Watchlist Ottawahitech (talk) 01:19, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi, no worries. So the reason that doesn't work is because {{WikiProject Canadian law}} doesn't exist. The way to do it in this case, would be to use a category, however Category:WikiProject Canadian law doesn't contain all the articles in the project (like how Category:WikiProject Artemis Fowl does as an example). I could fix this by editing {{WikiProject Canada}} to have all "Canadian law" tagged pages fall into that category, however it would be best to check with the WikiProject if that is ok. Legoktm (talk) 02:30, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

why my references are not adequqte?

sir,

My references on Dr. jamil ahmad khan rejected by you,although the references are available on th ewbsites:(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/advanced/search/results?searchRowCriteria[0].queryString="A. K. JAMIL"&searchRowCriteria[0].fieldName=author&start=1&resultsPerPage=20) and (http://bja.oxfordjournals.org/content/46/8/628.2) also( whoswho.com) .youcan chech the references.If these refs are not enough then please tell me what can i do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reena hingis (talk • contribs) 08:19, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

I did not decline it because of references, but because of its notability. Please see WP:BIO. Legoktm (talk) 08:21, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

A page you started has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Superpipe skiing, XK8ER!

I'm marking this article as reviewed, however I would appreciate it if you would fix up the references section to use inline references

yes sorry about that, just updated the page can you double check it XK8ER (talk) 18:36, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

I noticed that you moved the (superpipe skiing) page into (halfpipe skiing) both are different sports the halfpipe skiing is usually on a 16ft halfpipe and superpipe is usually on a 24ft halfpipe.. different tricks too since in the small one you cannot go as high.. its a bit like the Mega ramp and the mini mega ramp.. different heights and tricks.. the X Games page shows winter x games only for superpipe and not halfpipe.. XK8ER (talk) 20:51, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Right. After doing more research on it, I realized that there was more content out there on half-pipe skiing now that it is becoming an olympic sport, and that superpipe skiing is technically a subset of halfpipe skiing (based on the fact that superpipes are a subset of halfpipes). I was planning on splitting it into a "superpipe" section, but I had to go to class and didn't get to finish it. I'll try and work on it (among the 100 other things I have to do) tonight. Legoktm (talk) 22:17, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Ice Cream (Hyuna song)

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:02, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

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Ticker symbols in article leads and next steps

Hi. I'm contacting you as you participated in the policy village pump discussion regarding ticker symbols in article leads.

I've posted a section here about next steps to take, specifically examining whether an RFC is needed to reach a clear consensus on this issue. If you have the time and/or inclination to weigh in, please do! --MZMcBride (talk) 18:43, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Talk:War of 1812

The Archive index isn't showing up on this page as "Index", instead it is showing up as Wikilinked "Archive" in that side Archive-box. Is there any way to make it so the Index is the Index rather than appearing as Archive? Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 16:36, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

I think so. Does this do what you wanted? Legoktm (talk) 17:03, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Actually I just re-read what you wrote. How does this look? Legoktm (talk) 17:09, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Much better. It just struck me that naming it as 'Archive' won't necessarily point new users to the Index - I think the combined title works better. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 17:33, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks!

I'd just like to say Thanks for the heads up §h₳un 9∞76 20:49, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

quick question/Jon Cohen (entrepreneur)

Cklenfner (talk) 21:14, 8 November 2012 (UTC)Hi Legoktm, Not sure if you were the editing user on one of the tags on the page, but I'm trying to track down why the tag says: "The specific problem is: Copy and paste erros. (October 2012)" I can't find those errors -- and I've looked through it again and again. Any help/suggestions would be much appreciated. And if it wasn't you and I'm in the wrong place, then I apologize. Thank you for any help you can offer!

Cklenfner (talk) 21:14, 8 November 2012 (UTC)cklenfner

Doesn't look like it was me who added those tags, I believe it was Kurepalaku. I looked over the article, and I'm not specifically sure what they're referring to. Good luck, and let me know if you need any more help! Legoktm (talk) 21:16, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Cklenfner (talk) 21:31, 8 November 2012 (UTC)CKlenfner

Re: Bot request

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DYK for Cheek pouch

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:03, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Alex Prescott

I'm confused. If I'm writing about an author, and the only thing I can find on the author is the author's work in unrelated third party sources, does that not count? In my case, I've referenced both wildside press and paradox magazine, both have wikipedia pages, but an author published by said sources cannot have a wiki page? Please explain. What am I doing wrong? I've referenced the author's work. What more do I need? And yes, I've read the Wiki stuff for beginners. I believe I've followed this, and have yet to be shown how I'm not. I've referenced the author's work. References are verifiable.Alex Prescott (talk) 16:05, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #31

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Development
  • Tpt wrote an awesome SpecialPage (Special:EntitiesWithoutLabel) that lists all items without a label in a given language (merged; will be in next deployment)
  • Tpt changed the page to create new items to allow you to enter links as well
  • Created patch for review for next deployment on wikidata.org
  • Updated demo system
  • Worked on and discussed editing widgets for data values
  • Some cleanup and further refactoring in JS of EditableValue
  • Added a message on the client’s Special:MovePage to invite users to update the associated page on the repository
  • Reviewed a whole pile of changesets
  • Helped with testing of deployment branch
  • Fixed Selenium search test & sitelink tests
  • Added Selenium tests for checking for security issues (JS injections)
  • Worked on Api.js refactoring
  • Worked on and fixed bugs in wbsearchentities
  • Couple of minor fixes in the front end
  • Introduced siteselector jQuery widget untangling functionality of SiteIdInterface

• Discussions/Press
  • Flow of data between Wikidata repo and Wikipedias
  • Nice front page article in the latest edition of Linux User and Developer

• Events
  • office hours (logs here and here)
  • WMF metrics and activities meeting
  • right now: Wikimedia Conferentie + hackathon
  • upcoming: ISWC
  • upcoming: talk at Berkman Center
  • upcoming: intro and Q&A in Vienna

• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Stewards approved the first round of admins for Wikidata
  • wikidata.org has been added to the global interwiki map so you should soon be able to write [[d:Q2]] and link to item Q2 for example
  • Database dumps are available
  • New tools were added
  • Top 1000 articles task force has been completed
  • Denny did some language analysis on Wikipedia articles here and here
  • Great Wikidata artwork!

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Thanks

Many thanks, Legoktm, for keeping an eye out for vandalism on my personal pages. Regards, Pinethicket (talk) 23:27, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

NHH

let me finish..then u can delete it...okay. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.220.146.151 (talk) 16:13, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

that's enough for today...:) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.220.146.151 (talk) 16:24, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Legobot dead link tagging, BT Internet typo

User:Legobot/Requests#Dead link tagging mentions .bitinternet.co.uk* and .bitinternet.com*. Were these intended to say "btinternet"? --SoledadKabocha (talk) 18:07, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Apparently so. Thanks for pointing that out! Legoktm (talk) 18:09, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

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I implemented your code changes on HostBot

Hi Legoktm. I finally managed to implement the HostBot code changes you made Git push requests for a month ago. I ran the invite script with these changes enabled and everything seems to be working. Thanks again! And sorry to took me so long. - J-Mo ^{Talk to Me} _{Email Me} 03:24, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Awesome! Glad I could help. Legoktm (talk) 11:45, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

/* Possible meanings */ Back in my day, privates would say Hooah while mentally saying "fuck you" to a superior.

What's the deal. I added a commonly known meaning to the word Hooah, that of "Fuck you, Sergeant/Sir" This was not a joke, nor was this vandalism. Privates in the US Army do this when they dislike a superior but do not want to get busted for disrespect.

76.87.41.103 (talk) 02:24, 11 November 2012 (UTC).

Back in my day too (which was further back I might think). Even so, we haven't resolved when did Hooah start, much less the various meanings. More importantly, where is the WP:RS that verifies these various ideas? Adding thoughts, which are purely personal/WP:POV, is not helpful to building this encyclopedia. --S. Rich (talk) 06:26, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Apologies if your edit was not vandalism. I think Srich32977 is right in that it should be backed up by a reliable source (it's not a good thing that the others aren't), especially when it has a different meaning than the other current suggestions. Thanks, Legoktm (talk) 11:44, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Pakistan/Famous

I have been apparently the only user who actually bothers going through the list you have made inorder to clean up the articles. But it would be much more easier if you could just put a few more constraints on that

1. I would also wish to do the same on articles on india - They are nearly as bad as the ones on Pakistan
2. The worst articles are the ones on places. It might make quite a it of sense to have the articles restricted to only places [and possibly another for only People]
3. It also includes well-written articles, which are tiring to look at when trying to revert bad editing. It would make some sense to have an upper limit on the number of references. [Rule of thumb says most bad articles have no more than 7-8 refs]
4. The keyword 'famous' is not enough to cover all articles. It might make a bit more sense [Now I realise how many times I repeated this phrase!] to just put a lower limit on article size [Most bad articles are long, or not as bad as the others] and/or put more keywords.1

Thanks!! Hopefully you can help me around with generating a better list on which I can work!! TheOriginalSoni (talk) 07:51, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestions, I'll try to generate a new list this weekend/next week. Thanks for your help in cleaning these articles up! Legoktm (talk) 11:41, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Your review of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/David Jay Reed

The author of Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/David Jay Reed asked about your review; you declined the draft as an advertisement. It doesn't seem unduly promotional to me, though some of the sources are dubious. Could you please answer his question at the AfC help desk? Huon (talk) 15:29, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Taking a look now, thanks for the heads up. Legoktm (talk) 11:23, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Inquiry about User:Legobot

Hi, i have one inquiry about your Bot:User:Legobot, I have uploaded non-free cover art for few movies using File Upload Wizard. Now when i upload images; User:Legobot is updating license tag: "Non-free movie poster" with "Non-free poster|image has rationale=yes", then other working bots like User:Hazard-Bot or any user, tag these images as orphaned non-free image with Wikipedia:CSD#F5 or Wikipedia:Non-free_content/orphans. As a result these images are nominated for deletion despite their usage in articles. Please refer images "File:Himmatwala(2013).jpeg" & "File:Chakravyuh.jpg" for reference. Please suggest what should be done here.(  Abu Torsam  15:30, 13 November 2012 (UTC))

(talk page stalker) Those taggings have nothing to do with Legobot's edit. For File:Himmatwala(2013).jpeg, it was removed from the article in this edit; the tagging came about 24 hours later, and the vandalism was finally reverted after another two days. The situation for File:Chakravyuh.jpg is similar: it was removed in this edit, the tagging came about 25 hours later, and the vandalism was reverted about 16 hours after that. Anomie⚔ 03:27, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

issue with vert skating page

hello, why did you remove the page that I created for vert skating I was editing and fixing it when, you guys decided to remove it.. I can make changes accordingly or remove whatever you guys want but do not delete it.. its like if I remove soccer from wikipedia that's not nice.. XK8ER (talk) 18:31, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Remove inline HTML from Infobox officeholder

I came by just to ask if you could do Wikipedia:BOTREQ#IRemove inline HTML from Infobox officeholder for us. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:15, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Probably, I just won't be able to get to it until next week so I didn't want to claim it in case someone could do it before me. If no one picks it up in that time, I'll do it. Thanks, Legoktm (talk) 11:21, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

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What you said at the AFC Backlog Elimination Drive's talk page

I don't think that clearing out AFC's that could not (at least in their present state) become articles is "incredibly BITE-y". I've only been a user for about a month, and I don't have enough experience to review other types of AFC's. B. Jakob T. (talk) 00:13, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

What's "incredibly BITE-y" about it is that you purge the list every few minutes and decline as soon it's submitted for something like not having refs. No offense intended, if you've only been here for a month its probably not a good idea that you're reviewing AfC's. I recommend you start work on creating articles first. If you take a look at WP:RA, there are tons of subjects that need articles. I recommend that once you've started writing some quality articles, you can come back to AfC and help others create articles.

It's important to remember that AfC is Articles for Creation, not Articles for Rejection. Legoktm (talk) 00:22, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Alright, I understand now. Thanks for giving me some tips. I really only reviewing AFC's because of the Backlog Elimination Drive. I've reached my goal of reviews, so I'll go back to creating articles. B. Jakob T. (talk) 17:14, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #32

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Development
  • Implemented patching and automatic resolution of edit conflicts so you wont get as many edit conflicts anymore
  • Worked on $.valueview system for DataValues editing in the user interface
  • Started implementing DataType constructor in JavaScript
  • Added ValueValidator and ValueFormatter factory
  • Improvements to Diff extension
  • Construct PropertyValueSnak objects in the create claim API when needed
  • Improved Entity serialization (is now more concise and better encapsulated)
  • Added newFromArray to all DataValue objects and created DataValue factory using this
  • Worked on development environment distribution with Vagrant
  • Improved code that handles changes from the repository and reporting them in the client’s RecentChanges
  • Fought with broken selenium tests & refactored/fixed them
  • Reviewed tons of JS code
  • Set up QUnit test coverage report (will be online soon)
  • Updated demo system
• Discussions/Press
  • Translate Wikidata’s user interface and open it to the world
  • Licenses and importing data
• Events
  • Wikimedia Conferentie and hackathon
  • ISWC
  • Wikidata intro and Q&A in Cambridge, MA
  • Wikidata intro and Q&A in Vienna
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • We had to turn off language switching for anonymous users because of caching issues for now
  • Vagrant setup for Wikidata so you can start testing and hacking easily
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Admin

Can be an admin?

--Geo 03:43, 17 November 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geosworld2011 (talk • contribs)

See Wikipedia:Administrators. Though based on your recent conduct, I would doubt it. Legoktm (talk) 03:53, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

DYK for ITM Power

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Look what someone wanted to give you :)

Someone thought that you deserved something a bit extra for all of the amazing work you've done for the project. They nominated you for a gift from the Wikimedia Foundation!

and regarding that ;)

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Non-free image rationale

Hi there,

There's about to be a change that might affect Legobot 22 (or require a minor change to it) - please see Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 50#Replacement of a redirect to free up a name.

Thanks, — Hex (❝?!❞) 18:36, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Responded there. Thanks, Legoktm (talk) 00:50, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Protection of WP:Article creation

Good idea on your part; I've duly added indefinite semi-protection to the page. Should you want to change the edit notice, as you suggested, the current version is here. Cheers, Yunshui 雲‍水 11:26, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Half-pipe skiing

The DYK project (nominate) 16:03, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #33

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Development
  • Updated demo system
  • Refactored and improved change propagation code
  • Add option for client and change propagations to work with job queue
  • Added filter and preference for recent changes on the client, to show/hide Wikidata edits
  • Pruning of changes table
  • Fixed some issues in the Wikidata Vagrant
  • Added puppet recipe for Wikidata on WMF labs
  • Worked on making statements editable in the frontend
  • JSON of entities is sent to the frontend now
  • Finalized DataTypes extension’s $.valueview system
  • Improved entity selector widget
  • Added Selenium tests for special pages
  • Tracking separate revision ids in Javascript to fix the edit conflict handling
  • Fixed fatal PHP error in Special:SetLabel
  • Entities with just whitespaces as label/description are not allowed anymore
• Discussions/Press
  • http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/wikidata-wikipedias-game-changer
• Events
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  • upcoming: SWIB
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Template for WikiProject Watchlist

Hi Legoktm, I like your tool WikiProject Watchlist, but missed a related template. I have created one here: Template:WikiProject watchlist‎ based on Template:WikiProject cleanup listing from User:Svick. And I have used it in WP:WikiProject Electrical engineering. Feel free to extend/update the template (I have added only one parameter and reused the icon for now). SchreyP ^(messages) 22:54, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Civility Barnstar

		Civility Award
		For nicely agreeing to participate in my small experiment, and for helping in #wikipedia-en-help. Pine✉ 04:53, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! And sorry once again for all the trouble I caused >.> Legoktm (talk) 08:14, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

LaTeX

Hi!

You seem knowledgeable about the Wikimedia system.

Wikimedia's software allows the use of LaTeX.

Ubuntu delivers LaTeX standard. We should be able to able to use any of the packages shipped with Ubuntu, especially the AMS packages (symbols, equation, etc.) and gchord (guitar chords).

I don't see any security risk.

(I would also like the ability to use lilypond..., but that's a longer term issue.)

Thanks! Best regards, Kiefer.Wolfowitz 14:28, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi!

Yes, I believe that you can use other LaTeX software to generate code for WMF sites.

Is that your question, or am I missing it?

HTH, Legoktm (talk) 20:24, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

At the mathematics WikiProject, I ran the LaTeX code suggested by the WMF (which uses a package) and it failed to parse.

MediaWiki's example of a LaTeX package fails to compile on English Wikipedia:

Failed to parse (unknown function "\setlength"): {\displaystyle \setlength{\unitlength}{1cm} \begin{picture}(4,2) \put(1,1){\circle{3}} \put(3,1){\circle*{5}} \end{picture} }

The MediaWiki examples suggests that Wikipedia could easily enable (perhaps selected) packages.

I believe that English Wikipedia could just flip a switch and allow us to use the Ubuntu packages to compile e.g. chord diagrams. (I've spent hours converting LaTeX2PDF and then taking snapshots and then converting to PNG, which looks crappy on Windows 7's Firefox---but better on a Mac or on Ubuntu. I would like to just write Tex code.)

Kiefer.Wolfowitz 20:36, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Hm. Well I just switched my user prefs to have MediaWiki render it as png and got a huge red error message "Failed to parse (unknown function\setlength): <latex code>". I'll do a bit more research and see if I can poke someone in #wikimedia-tech to see what the problem might be.

As far as switching render-ers goes, the default is to use texvc, which based on reading texvc I think was specifically written for MediaWiki. Though I was under the impression that the MathJax system was supposed to replace it? Legoktm (talk) 20:52, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Alright, so I talked with Reedy on IRC, who said that section was for "LatexRender", not the texvc system the WMF uses, which means it probably shouldnt work on WMF wiki's. I think the main problem is that the MediaWiki help page for using TeX is horribly out of date, and needs to be improved. Legoktm (talk) 21:34, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

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Yup!  Doing.... Legoktm (talk) 04:28, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

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What was the policy based argument for removal of the image in cute? Cesiumfrog (talk) 16:04, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Aye, please elaborate on the policy involved. The lack of consensus is only going to persist so long as the discussion remains a back-and-forth between the two sides, but more voices on the issue itself should help to actually resolve it and you are in a position to contribute. -— Isarra ༆ 20:14, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Sure, it probably would have been better had I given an extended rationale at that time. I'm a bit busy right now, but I will try and leave a note there today evening. Legoktm (talk) 13:53, 28 October 2012 (UTC)

Argh. I never got back to this. Sorry about that. I'll go and do that today evening. Thanks for the reminder. Legoktm (talk) 00:29, 7 November 2012 (UTC)