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Template talk:.NET Framework version history

Hello, Mr. Stradivarius

How do you do?

There is a bit of problem in Template talk:.NET Framework version history that I think needs help from an administrator on a purely technical basis. Today, I noticed Revision #633387115 in which ClueBot III has moved every single thing in the talk page to Template talk:.NET Framework version history/Archives/, leaving no link behind, even though there is no archive reference template (e.g. {{auto archiving notice}} or {{archive box}}) on the talk page. (Of course the reason is obvious, but not relevant to my request.)

I don't know whether it is better to bring the content back or move the resulting page to, say, "Template talk:.NET Framework version history/Archive 1" but I can't do either: I can't move it myself. (Is it because of the / at the end?) And I'd rather not leave a redirect behind. (Can't do that either.) As for bringing them back, there is no way undoing it as if has never happened. Could you please assist?

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 23:44, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

@Codename Lisa: Hi. :) I've reverted to a version of the talk page before the erroneous archive templates were added, and I've deleted the two mistaken archive pages made by ClueBot. If you want to set up auto-archiving properly, feel free, but personally I don't think the talk page is really long enough yet. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 05:31, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

I've also left a report on User talk:ClueBot Commons/Archives/2014/November#Recursive archiving issue. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 05:50, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks a bunch. No, I don't think configuring archival is needed there. Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 17:09, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

(barnstar archived)

Thank you! And no, I've never tried that particular tool. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 12:23, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Okay. The above mentioned tool will help me fix those deadlinks. It is a useful tool. Jim Carter 12:29, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Template:Ctr

Hi.

{{Ctr}} is nominated for deletion. However, I noticed very late. I have a rather unexplored proposal that maybe too late at this stage. You see, this template has the potential to join the family of table template to help create simpler tables. So, I am here to ask you a favor: Remember how we occasionally discussed code changes and new methods? Well, I'd like you to do this again, only this time in Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2014 October 29 § Template:Ctr. You see the idea is to give the discussion more visibility. When this achieved, I am confident that Wikipedians will do the right thing, be it opposing or supporting it. Hopefully, doing this makes the closing admin give it one or two more days.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 18:10, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

I've commented there, but you might not like what I had to say. :) — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 03:33, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Oh, I expected as much. Liking it was never a factor. Your comment is borne of experience and carries conviction. I'll just reply with a counter-argument. Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 22:27, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Edit for Jack

I wish to articulate the specifc and first hand comments of Fort Lauderdale, Florida specific to his stance on antifeeding iniative in Fort Lauderdale Florida.

As an update... Here is the news report showing where I stand now that I have lawyers.. [1](http://miami.cbslocal.com/2014/11/13/attorneys-take-aim-at-ft-lauderdales-homeless-feeding-ordinance) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vegasthornton (talk • contribs) 04:36, 15 November 2014‎ (UTC)

@Vegasthornton: I take it that this is about the Jack Seiler article? I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "I wish to articulate the specifc and first hand comments of Fort Lauderdale, Florida". Are you talking about updating the article? Also, you should be careful about mentioning lawyers on Wikipedia - see Wikipedia:No legal threats. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 04:49, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

I've Reverted What You Reverted

Dear Sir, I've reverted your revert to its previous state, for that I don't think the content in that talk page is important and sensitive. For modifications on that template I've gotten troubles, and have experiences blocked twice. That is really unfair to me. So I just suggest that leave it a blank for someone else smarter enough to create new important and meaningful talks and modification on that stupid template. But this is only a suggestion, of course, you could revert it as you wish; also you could also report me like someone else had done to me too. All is up to you! Best of lucks!Janagewen (talk) 03:36, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

User limit of 20 with mass notification

Hi, I help coordinate over at WP:TAFI, and we frequently make use of the ping function to alert project members of our the weekly article selection vote, as well as thanking participants of the weekly collaborations. I noticed that the max number of participants was reduced from 100 to 20 with the mass noticiation module. Is there a particular reason for this, like abuses of the ping system or something? We often are pinging more than 20 participants, and it would be useful if the notification were returned to more than 20 users. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 03:14, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

@NickPenguin: Yes, the limit was changed in the Echo extension, so if you tried to use the module to ping more than 20 users it wouldn't ping anyone at all. This is a result of bug 50082. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 03:20, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Hmm, well if it's a technical problem as opposed to an arbitrary decision, then there's no avoiding it. Thanks for the info. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 04:26, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

@NickPenguin: It was an arbitrary decision. It just happened to be done in software instead of on-wiki. (talk page stalker) Jackmcbarn (talk) 04:30, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Well 20 was certainly preferable to 100 for some reason. Was there a specific reason or could it be returned to 100? Or just more than 20. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 07:24, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

@NickPenguin: The reason is in the bug summary. People were making posts like I've reported you on {{WP:ANI}}. ~~~~, which pinged every single editor who was mentioned on ANI or left a signature there. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 10:25, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

• (talk page stalker) I honestly don't think it should have a hard limit of number of pings set. If the problem was that is was pinging a bunch of people on accidental page transclusion, then make it not ping people by page transclusion unless the editor's name is passed as part of the transclusion call. Seems like that would be the proper solution to me. The current solution seems like a band-aid that doesn't resolve the problem, but I digress. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 12:53, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Arbcom?

Have you thought of it? You've got a few hours left :) Worm^TT(talk) 15:46, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Aha, one that I missed in my, umm, canvassing :) Yes, please stand Mr S!

(I also should've suggested it to Anna, which I forgot to do, but she's commented in recent hours that she's way too busy for anything new anyway, not to mention email troubles which would make arbcommery rather tricky for her at the moment.) --Demiurge1000 (talk) 22:05, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, both of you. I'm flattered to be asked, but I won't be running this year. I will admit to being slightly tempted after seeing the list of candidates, but I've decided that I want to focus on writing Lua modules and other technical editing this year, and ArbCom would eat up a big chunk of my time for that. This is also why I retired from active MedCom duty earlier this month, although that was also in recognition of the fact that I haven't done any actual mediating at MedCom in over a year. I may run for ArbCom in the future (and I haven't ruled out going back to MedCom at some point), but not just now, sorry. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 00:08, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Minetest Revival

I'm thinking about bringing back the old Minetest article based on the Spanish version. If you any objections, please go to my talk page. -user:Casey Rollins — Preceding unsigned comment added by AKA Casey Rollins (talk • contribs) 15:20, 14 November 2014‎ (UTC)

@AKA Casey Rollins: es:Minetest doesn't look like it has the necessary coverage in reliable sources to meet the general notability guideline (see also the simple guide to notability on Wikipedia). Are you aware of any other news/magazine/book sources about the game? — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 15:38, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

@Mr. Stradivarius: No, there are no books but there is plenty of documentation. I suppose it would be wise to wait until I have enough credible sources though...and I’m not sure how translating the Spanish page will go ;) You do have a point; the Spanish version only has three references. Were references the main objection to the page being removed?— Preceding unsigned comment added by AKA Casey Rollins (talk • contribs) 15:20, 14 November 2014‎ (UTC)

@AKA Casey Rollins: Yes, the reason that the page was deleted in the first place was that there weren't enough high-quality references. In the Spanish article, one reference is a dead link, and one is to the Minetest website (which doesn't count towards the notability guideline as it is not independent of Minetest). This leaves Linux Game News, which doesn't look like it has the "reputation for fact-checking and accuracy" required by our sourcing guidelines. So I'm afraid that those sources aren't very much help at all. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 16:17, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

minetest page in other languages

the reason the english page was deleted was cause that it does not satisfy Wikipedia's standards for inclusion.

but the other language of the page didn't get deleted, is it cause they met the standards (which i highly doubt) or was there some other reason?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minetest ---> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Minetest

other languages:

• https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minetest
• https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minetest
• https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minetest
• https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minetest (very outdated)

Asl97 (talk) 11:34, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

@Asl97: The English Wikipedia doesn't have any control over those other projects. They may have completely different standards for inclusion, and we don't take the existence of Wikipedia articles in other languages as proof that a subject passes our inclusion guidelines. (If there are several articles in other languages, we might take it as a cue that we should look harder for reliable sources about it, but it doesn't mean anything more than that.) — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 12:22, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Change at Template:Barlabel/doc

I'm not sure why you and the previous editor thought that it was necessary to change the examples; at least your change leaves them working. However the text explaining how to use the template and the wikicode are now inconsistent. Please fix this! Peter coxhead (talk) 10:15, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

@Peter coxhead: The reason why Jonesey95 and I made the edits is that the page was showing up in Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls. The problem is that the first "style" parameter in each of the template invocations that I changed was being ignored and overwritten by the second one. These kinds of errors were silently ignored until recently, when the above tracking category was introduced. Looking back at my edits to Template:Barlabel/doc, I can see that they are wrong: the expanded wikitext they produce looks like style="line-height:100%;margin-left:0em;margin-right:0em;"text-align:right;font-size:85%"". The extra quotation marks are a syntax error, and MediaWiki tidies that up by leaving out the style attribute altogether. So, ironically, my edit didn't break the template's display because it added more broken syntax to the already-broken syntax. Fixing this properly will require actually understanding the template's purpose and working out the proper CSS, which might require a bit of effort. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 11:15, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

The example and the wikicode were inconsistent before I made my edit, at least in the "align=center" example. I made them consistent, but it looks like I changed the way that the examples were rendered. My apologies. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:41, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Ah, I understand. The documentation and wikicode were consistent, as far as I can see, in this version. The next edit replaced |align= with CSS styling. I've reverted to this version; if this produces the duplicate argument error then it can be fixed from there. Peter coxhead (talk) 19:33, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

That fixed the duplicated parameter error, as far as I can see. It looks like the editor who changed |align= in the template's documentation did not examine the template to see that |align= is converted into CSS by the template (AFAICT). I have seen rumblings on various Talk pages about replacing outdated HTML; it is possible that someone searched for the pattern |align=center and replaced it with CSS without checking to ensure that doing so was the right thing to do.

Unfortunately, I expect that the same thing will happen to this template's documentation again, or to instances of the template that exist in articles. Inserting a comment into the documentation may help, but it won't help prevent edits to instances of the template in articles. I don't know what to suggest.

Further discussion of this issue should probably take place at the template's talk page rather than here on Mr. S's talk page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:54, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

We should probably alert WOSlinker to this problem, though, as they are making the same kind of changes to a lot of different templates. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 23:23, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for picking up on, reviewing and closing the archived ANI on Spotter 1. It's greatly appreciated! --Iryna Harpy (talk) 04:29, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

No problems, you're welcome. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 10:57, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

Template:La, etc

• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:La&oldid=636018358&diff=prev

( ... this should use the same separator as the other lx templates)

Fair enough. Given this, do you think there'd be consensus to switch to the dot/interpunct separator – and/or, given the other the point made there, to use the default rather than monospaced font – ?
Regards, Sardanaphalus (talk) 12:22, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

@Sardanaphalus: I'd prefer to keep the pipe separator, but whichever we choose it should be consistent with the other link templates. To make a switch you'd need to have a discussion and find a consensus first, I think. Leaving a note at WP:VPT would probably be a good idea if you decide to do that. Also, note that the pipe separator is used in the MediaWiki in a lot of places, e.g. the talk/contribs links on history pages (although they switched from a pipe to U+007C VERTICAL LINE a while back, if I remember rightly). — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 12:36, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

• It sounds, then, that a consensus would be unlikely, so I'll move on. I'm intrigued, though, that – as a visual separator rather than programming syntax – the pipe/vertical-line isn't considered more potentially ambiguous or intrusive than the dot/interpunct (or something else). Thanks for your feedback/information, Sardanaphalus (talk) 19:29, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

Untitled thread

Stop this shit — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.231.19.51 (talk) 05:07, 7 December 2014‎ (UTC)

Hi there. What seems to be the problem? I'm afraid I don't have any idea what you want me to stop. Maybe you could send me an email if you would like to keep it private? Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 06:02, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

They may be referring to changes you have made to Template:Random portal component. whatever they are, they seem to have made the links at portals to the archives of randomly selected portal items not work any more. See Portal:San Francisco Bay Area: all the "full set of selected foofaws" comments at the bottom of each portal component are not links any more, and they were before. I have no idea what your edits may have done, as i am a complete imbecile with such code, but since you have been editing it, you might want to revert it to what it was before you started, then work forward with any changes you feel are needed. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 07:37, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

@Mercurywoodrose: Somehow I doubt that's what the IP was getting at. But thank you for letting me know about the bug - I've fixed it. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 09:08, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, and your probably right about the IP editor. You should check out this tiny violin: File:Silver violin - Miniature.JPG, may be used when people complain too much :) Mercurywoodrose (talk) 15:44, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Code review request

Hi, Mr. S. Can you make a quick check of Module:Requested move/sandbox? Thanks.

On another note, I've been concerned that anyone attempting to email me can't get through. I'm on Yahoo! mail, and I suspect mail attempts may be rejected per Error "554 5.7.9: Message not accepted for policy reasons". Can you try sending me an email to see whether that's the case, and if so, suggest a solution? Do I need to set up with a different email provider? Wbm1058 (talk) 22:32, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

@Wbm1058: I've just sent you an email through Special:EmailUser with the subject "Testing Wikipedia email". I'll have a look at the module now. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 23:18, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

@Wbm1058: And I've now looked over your code and tested it, and it looks fine. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 23:26, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Module:Testcase table

might as well delete it as well to erase any trace of my work? Frietjes (talk) 13:59, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

@Frietjes: It sounds pretty cold when you put it like that... Your idea to write it was an inspired one and I probably wouldn't have thought to write Module:Testcase rows or Module:Template test case if you hadn't. But I suppose now that the functionality has been integrated into the template test case module it's not actually doing anything. We could just as easily put a note at the top saying that it's deprecated rather than deleting it if you would prefer. — Mr. Stradivarius on tour ^{♪ talk ♪} 15:54, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

why not merge the history? Frietjes (talk) 15:57, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

I think that might look a little strange. If people weren't aware that it was a history merge it would look like I deleted the whole module just to make a comment about a possible new design. But looking at the history I can see that I failed to give you proper attribution for your work on Module:Testcase table. I'll have to fix that when I get back to my computer. — Mr. Stradivarius on tour ^{♪ talk ♪} 16:07, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) A history merge in this case would indeed be a bad idea. Jackmcbarn (talk) 03:40, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

not a surprising response. life is so much easier when you don't have to worry about attribution, isn't it. Frietjes (talk) 16:22, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

I agree that attribution should be provided, just that a histmerge isn't the right way to do it. There are many other ways to provide it. Jackmcbarn (talk) 16:47, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

@Frietjes: I've added a header to the module to provide the attribution. Sorry for neglecting to do that originally. We can put a note in the docs or on the talk page as well if you want. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 01:49, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Gap between testcases..?

Is it possible to set the width of the gap between the testcases – or is that meant to be handled by _style, _format..? Regards, Sardanaphalus (talk) 08:30, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

@Sardanaphalus: Not at the moment. Assuming you mean Template:Testcase table, right now the templates are put in table cells, each with a width of 100 % divided by the number of templates. So if there were two templates, each would be in a cell with a width of 50%, if there were three, each would be in a cell with a width of 33%, and so on. There's no width set on the table tag, though, so setting a width with |_style= might help if things are looking bunched up. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 09:09, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

• Trying |_style hadn't occurred to me: thank you. (Yes, it was while using {{Testcase table}}.) I've also noticed that setting |_caption= (i.e. as nothing) no longer seems to remove {{Testcase table}}'s default "Side by side comparison" header. Have I been missing something or do you know if this is as intended..? Sardanaphalus (talk) 12:15, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

@Sardanaphalus: That was sort of intended. I decided to trim whitespace and remove blank arguments for all the options, so as to make the whitespace behaviour uniform across all the templates. But if many people were using blank _caption arguments to purposefully suppress the caption, then breaking those templates is not ideal. How about using |_caption=no to achieve the same effect? — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 13:44, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

• If it's no great trouble to implement, |_caption=(any of these) would be fine. (Perhaps an array somewhere could store these values for shared access?) Sardanaphalus (talk) 16:39, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Please comment on Template talk:Primary sources

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NAMESPACEID

Couldn't help but ask.... what was the downside with using magic-word {{NAMESPACENUMBER}} instead for the Edit notice core thing. -- George Orwell III (talk) 05:11, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

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@George Orwell III: Hmm, I didn't know about that one. Probably there is no downside. I wonder if that parser function existed when Template:NAMESPACEID was first written? — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 05:46, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

Well, I found out - it was first added in MediaWiki 1.20, so the answer to my previous question is a "no". It also wasn't listed on Help:Magic words (I just added it). NAMESPACEID is a little different, though, in that it returns an error message rather than the blank string when passed an invalid title. A simple parser function implementation might be slightly faster than the Lua implementation because of the overhead in switching to Lua from PHP, although I don't think that's very important considering the template is only used in edit notices. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 05:57, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

• (talk page stalker) Added to 08:33, April 9, 2012. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(e • t • c)} 06:04, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

thank you for your welcome message

thanks - that sort of thing is helpful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ChemicalG (talk • contribs) 00:49, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

ResellerRatings

Discussion moved to Talk:ResellerRatings#Protected edit request on 18 December 2014. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 04:31, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Enjoy!

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Thank you Paine! — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 15:31, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

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Harrasment from a user

Hi, I hope you could help me as I really need to sort it out ASAP; I created my account today and I've done a few edits to Jagged Edge (group), various Rihanna articles etc etc and the user Binksternet has accused not only me but another user called Stanlyfe of being a sock puppet of a user called MariaJaydHicky; they have not only reverted all my edits he has accused me of being that user and when I wrote back why are they doing that they reverted my edits and have got the pages I've edited protected under sock puppetry can you please get them blocked as I find their behaviour harrasing and downright out of order and I am afraid no matter what I'll edit they'll revert it can you please help me? Muicfantasy (talk) 21:22, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica on Wiki

For your information, Justlettersandnumber user mentioned you have been decived https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Universidad_Empresarial_de_Costa_Rica because he mentioned similar IP address, as for Montevideo Uruguay. Montevideo have 1,5 million citizens!! Also there is a local office for UNEM and a national website www.unem.edu.uy Over 300 students got their education at UNEM branch in Uruguay, so its unfair to mention IP address, since ALL citizens in Uruguay, over 3million people in all 19 states called DEPARTAMENTOS in spanish use the same IP address. Also Justlettersandnumbers user mention an old newspaper publication dated 2008 and for his information we are heading year 2015. I must underline, there are national branches in several countries, so as a student mentioned earlier, www.unem.cr is national based, mentime, www.unem.international is intended for worldwide users, and www.unem.edu.pl is where the first educational website was published and it reflects UNESCO whed listing.Furthermore Uruguay has its local website www.unem.edu.uy and also for your information in URUGUAY Universidad de la Republica UDELAR is the one that handles all dot EDU dot UY domains. I want o belive Justlettersandnumber user has no bad intentions, but only missinformation PolandMEC (talk) 03:43, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Merry Merry

To you and yours

FWiW Bzuk (talk) 14:39, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

@Bzuk: Thank you! Merry Christmas to you as well. :) — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 14:57, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Page protection on Battle of Chawinda

Who had requested it? OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 02:20, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

@OccultZone: Smsarmad. (talk page stalker) Jackmcbarn (talk) 02:25, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

But there was only one offending user who was removing the maintenance templates only for making the statement look real. I am contacting you because even if I am going to make a edit request on the page, you or someone else will tell me to "find consensus" and this user is clearly trying to bludgeoning the process, he believes that removing {{failed verification}} is justified if URL exists in the given citation. Can you restore the pre-edit war version or simply unprotect because it is only one user, in last 48 hours who is edit warring. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 02:29, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

@OccultZone: I think this is a case of WP:WRONGVERSION. Whichever the right version is, it is probably better found through discussion among the editors involved than through any unilateral decision by me. I would wait for the RfC to conclude before changing anything there - if you want your edits there to stick around, you will need a consensus for them. That said, if you think any other users are bludgeoning the process, I would be happy to look at evidence in the form of diffs and links. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 03:05, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

So I can open a edit request and inform other editors about it? Before reporting about the bludgeoning, I would probably give another chance. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 03:17, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

@OccultZone: You can start a discussion about it, but an edit request would need to have consensus first - see WP:Edit requests. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 03:23, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

You had told that if the user is bludgeoning the process, I can report here. Here it is:- [2] [3]

Both diffs are at least 90% same(copy-paste) to each other, previous once include the false allegations of personal attacks when I have made none. In second diff he is actually saying that he "will repeat it" the same analysis that has been already debunked. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 09:03, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

You had viewed the above evidence? OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 15:20, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

@OccultZone: Sorry, I was busy doing this. I think I should read through the talk page properly before commenting, so give me a little time. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 15:28, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

@OccultZone: Well, I didn't read the whole thing, but I read enough of it to see that people on all sides of the debate are getting frayed tempers. I'm seeing friction between you and TopGun as well as between you and Nawabmalhi, and a few others as well. I think the best thing to do now would be to take a break from the article while the RfC is playing out. Once it's finished and there's a consensus about the infobox question, that will be a much better time to get back into editing the article. At the moment, arguing about details isn't really helping with the main issue, and it's getting everyone on edge as well. The alternative to sitting out the RfC would be to take this to ANI, and that probably won't end well. You'd do much better trying to make peace with everyone. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 16:13, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Sorry to hop in, I just wanted to clarify: the only reason I copied and pasted into the other section because OccultZone was repeating the same argument and just created another section to do it. I specifically wrote that I was doing this as a formality and this was already discussed in detail above and did not want to indicate that I was ignoring him or that I felt that his maintenance template sugestions, in my view, were correct. It is just that I always thought it Wiki ettiquete to reply even though the points raised are repetitive assuming Good Faith but he seems to like to assume Bad Faith to anything or any user he is disagrees with. --Thank You Nawabmalhi (talk) 19:13, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Stradivarius, have you also looked at their background? TopGun has been topic banned, TheSawtooth was indefinitely blocked for a while because he was pretending to be an admin, justice was blocked for edit warring. It tells that they are not enough capable to contribute along with other editors. This time it is Nawabmalhi who is fighting to misrepresent references(also policies), alleging of personal attacks and making a very unnecessary repetitive argument which do nothing except discourage editors from contributing. Also the edit warring he has done only for removing the issue tags. He already describes his disruptive actions as 'good faith' actions, how can he be tolerated? VandVictory (talk) 00:41, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

I have not made a single personal attack in any shape or form and this this clear on the Chawinda Talk Page. On the otherhand VandVictory has on anyone who supports the Pakistani Victory stance whether it is me or anyone else. He put Colapse Tag on what I had written on the Maintenance Tag effectively pretending to be an administrator by tampering with what I had written and constantly engaging in editwaring on the page. --Nawabmalhi (talk) 01:30, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Anyone can collapse unnecessary discussion. Where did I said that you have made personal attack? Accusing others of personal attacks is as disruptive. VandVictory (talk) 01:36, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Merry Christmas & a big THANK YOU, too!

Happy Holidays!

Atsme☯^Consult 02:56, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

@Atsme: You're welcome. :) Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too! — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 04:30, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Seasonal Greets!

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015!!!

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Thank you AmaryllisGardener! Hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year too. :) — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 08:38, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you! Hope you are having a great Christmas too. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 04:58, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Mele Kalikimaka

Have a bright Hawaiian Christmas!--Mark Miller (talk) 16:46, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! We have snow here in Hokkaido so I don't think I could call it Hawaiian, but it certainly is bright. Merī Kurisumasu from Japan. :) — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 05:06, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Template:Section link

Hi.

I've been meaning to simplify the Template:Section link myself but always overwhelmingly higher priorities (external mostly) distracted me; and now, you've converted it to a Lua module and it is out of my reach. I've recently written my first Lua script AND put into production after extensive testing but I'm still too new for this. That's why I thought perhaps you might be willing to help in your free time, if you have any.

Currently, the syntax to create a sole section link within the same page is {{section link| |Section title |np=y}}. But I think it can be safely made to do same when {{section link|Section title}} is supplied. There are 21293 transclusions of this template but I bet none of them is using this syntax to refer to Notes section. Still, there are ways to ascertain and mitigate the issue before the deployment of the change, right?

What do you think?

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 21:27, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

@Codename Lisa: Sounds like a good idea to me. Could you propose it on the template talk page, in case anyone else wants to comment? Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 04:14, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

I was in favor of bold action but alright. Discussion started. Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 17:06, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Hmm... No replies yet. I think we must proceed per WP:SILENCE. Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 05:35, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

NotTechimo / ResellerRatings

Hi @Mr. Stradivarius: It looks like the guy (or one of his friends, as 166.171.187.18) is back and edited my comments on the ResellerRatings talk page. Can you please revert his edit there and is there a way to semi protect the talk page so IP's can't edit? Thanks. Techimo (talk) 18:12, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

@Mr. Stradivarius: As you can see from the ResellerRatings talk history today, the single-purpose IP vandalism continues. One IP was blocked, but the same edit warring vandal is back (and reverted more edits on the talk page) under a dynamic ATT wireless IP, which is a single-purpose sock puppet account. Is it possible to indefinitely semi-protect this talk page? Thanks.

@Techimo: It looks like the page has already been protected. By the way, I want to echo Callanec's warning about posting personal information - Wikipedia's outing policy doesn't leave much room for interpretation, and if you keep breaking it you will end up being blocked, regardless of any merit your complaints might have. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 05:15, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

@Mr. Stradivarius: Thanks. Yes, I wasn't aware of the policy. After the warning I have not reposted the info (though some was reposted by an admin who reverted an edit). I will respect the policy. Techimo (talk) 05:36, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Seasonal Greets!

Merry Christmas everybody!!!

"And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold,

I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."

Luke 2:10-11 (King James Version)

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This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove.

Spread the cheer by adding {{Subst:Xmas4}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Thank you! Merry Christmas to you too. :) — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 11:34, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

admin candidate

I think you are looking for admin candidates. Titodutta would make an excellent candidate. I've known him since he got started and have worked with him off wiki. He does work in spurts depending on real-life work and internet connection. An admin from India would be a definite plus. Bgwhite (talk) 08:22, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

@Bgwhite: I could certainly look over his edits. But first, Titodutta, are you willing to run? Doing a proper review takes time, and it's no fun to do it only to find that the editor you're reviewing isn't interested in adminship. That goes doubly so when they have 70,000 edits. :) — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 08:36, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Tito just returned from Swatantra 2014 on Wikipedia's dime. I can't remember the name of the Wikipedia conference in India he recently attended. If he is "fleecing" money from Wikipedia, you know he can talk bull with the best admins :) Bgwhite (talk) 08:59, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

Actually it is not my decision. I'll leave it on @Moonriddengirl:, coach User:Moonriddengirl/Coaching. Note, MRG asked me to participate in DRN discussions, I have not got much time after that. --Tito☸Dutta 10:22, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

@Titodutta: That's very modest of you, but actually I need to hear it from you yourself. Are you interested in running for adminship in the near future? If so, I'll review your edits and let you know what I think (I usually do this privately by email). If not, then I'll wait until you're ready to run. All I want to know is that I won't waste my time looking through your edits if you're not willing to run - it doesn't have anything to do with whether I think you're ready. (In fact, everything that I've seen so far makes me think that you would be a very good candidate.) So, please let me know what you think, one way or the other. You can contact me by email if you prefer. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 14:55, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

It's certainly not my decision. :) When you asked me for coaching, Titodutta, I did mention that I was delighted to help you prepare but might not be able to nominate you myself given my time constraints. Particularly because our work areas do not overlap, I don't have any special insight into what you're doing beyond what you've disclosed on that coaching page. I have no objection whatsoever to your accepting nomination from someone else and am quite certain that User:Mr. Stradivarius is an excellent person to evaluate you and determine if it's a good time. :) He's far more experience in WP:RFA than I am. If you choose to accept, I will wish you great luck! --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 13:51, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

• User:Moonriddengirl, thank you for your reply. I was not asking you to nom/co-nom. You made the point clear.
  Okay, Mr. Stradivarius I think I am ready now. Please evaluate my contribution to Wikipedia and determine if it's a good time. Regards. --Tito☸Dutta 10:10, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

ebola/west africa

sorry to bother you about this , but we requested semi protection very early on Saturday for ebola virus epidemic in west Africa and have gotten no response?--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 22:49, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

@Ozzie10aaaa: Sorry, I was in bed. Looks like Mr.Z-man has already dealt with this. In the future, if WP:RFPP is backlogged then WP:AN is probably the best place to ask people to deal with it. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 06:46, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 10:46, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

The Interview (2014 film)

This article needs time extension on protection. There have been reverts on good-faith additions lately. Can you trust IPs on editing it? --George Ho (talk) 02:13, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

@George Ho: This is probably better filed at WP:RFPP. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 06:03, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Mass disruption at the e-cig articles

The edit request protection did not involve removing "mist" from the lede.

1. Remove (mist) from lede The proposal to remove "mist" from the lede was stricken. The closing of the RFC was to reduce mist not eliminate it. There was no discussion of a possible alternative wording in the lede for the word "mist". Some editors were disagreeing with using mist in the lede. I and others disagree with removing "mist" from the lede. There is no consensus to remove from the lede. Having the synonym mist in the lede only benefits the reader. See this diff.

You should be aware of this. There has been mass disruption. See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#E-cig editors. QuackGuru (talk) 03:24, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

@QuackGuru: Hi QuackGuru. I am aware that the lead alteration was struck from the edit request, but that does not mean that it was not discussed. I took the entirety of the discussion into account in my decision. And yes, I was aware of the ANI thread. I considered closing the section on the proposed topic ban on TheNorlo myself, but in the end I thought it would be better if another admin did it. Plus, there is a concerning shortage of experienced, uninvolved editors commenting there. As to the edit request, my reasoning went like this:

• There was no consensus evident in the edit request discussion as to whether "mist" should appear in the lead.
• Normally, WP:NOCONSENSUS directs us to stick with the status quo in discussions about article content.
• However, in the RfC there was a consensus that "aerosol" and "vapour" should generally be preferred over "mist".
• When discussing whether to use "mist" in e-cigarette articles, the more specific guidance in the RfC should be preferred over the advice in WP:NOCONSENSUS, as it represents a consensus as to what to do, whereas WP:NOCONSENSUS merely directs editors on what to when there is no consensus.
• Therefore, the "no consensus" position on using "mist" in e-cigarette articles is to not use the word unless there is a consensus for it.

I hope this makes my position clearer. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 07:22, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

I don't see a consensus to remove it from the lede and there was a previous consensus and compromise to include mist in the lede. Before mist was added to the lede there was a discussion. The latest discussion was for supporting mist in the lede. SPACKlick,[4] Doc James,[5] QuackGuru,[6] Tsavage,[7] and Formerly 98.[8] That is at least five editors supported keeping mist in the lede. See Talk:Electronic cigarette#Removal of Mist. I hope you realise that ""The word "mist" was present, and there needs to be a consensus to change it. In the absence of consensus policy is that the status quo prevails.". If you think there was no consensus please explain which editors specifically did not want mist in the lede. I also did not find any good reason for removing mist from the lede. Consensus is determined by the strength of the arguments. We are talking about including information in a page that may be of interest to the general reader. That is our primary mission as an encyclopedia. For example, there are synonyms for the word e-cigs in the lede. See "An electronic cigarette (e-cig or e-cigarette), personal vaporizer (PV) or electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS)...". The top three synonyms are "aerosol" and "vapour" and "mist" for the exhaled smoke-like mist. The agreement was that "aerosol" and "vapour" should generally be preferred over "mist". But the RFC also said Editors wish to reduce the use of "mist". Being generally preferred over "mist" does not mean eliminating mist entirely from the article. And the RFC was not specifically about removing the synonym mist from the lede. Editors made much stronger arguments for keeping mist in the lede.[9] QuackGuru (talk) 08:24, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

@QuackGuru: Sorry for the delay in responding. I'd say that the fact that there was a previous consensus doesn't override the lack of consensus this time around (per WP:CCC). So I'm afraid that I won't be changing my mind about my decision just now. However, if you want to appeal it, you are welcome to do so at WP:AN. (And don't be put off by the "administrators'" in "administrators' noticeboard" - it is the normal place for admin decisions to be reviewed, and people there usually take those kinds of reviews seriously.) — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 15:27, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Hi MS, Just wanted to drop you a note to thank you for your efforts on the article and calming the edit warring over there. Seems like a lot of work, and fairly tedious work at that. Formerly 98 (talk) 14:15, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

You're welcome. :) I wasn't trying to mediate or anything, though - all I did was answer a couple of edit requests. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 06:23, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Humble request for help

Hi. In search of anyone not drunk yet :)

I'm clueless when it comes to refining, etc. .js and I was wondering if you could take the following and make it "less clumsy". Its for use on Wikisource btw and ultimately would like to make it a Gadget that users can select. TIA. -- George Orwell III (talk) 08:18, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

/**
 * Force certain div containers to render outside of main content wrapper.
 * See ___
 */
jQuery( document ).ready( function ( $ ) {
	$( 'body.ns-0 div#headertemplate' )
			.insertBefore( $ ( 'div#mw-content-text' ) );
	$( 'body.ns-0 div#heedertemplate' )
			.insertBefore( $ ( 'div#mw-content-text' ) );
	$( 'body.ns-114 div#headertemplate' )
			.insertBefore( $ ( 'div#mw-content-text' ) );
	$( 'body.ns-114 div#heedertemplate' )
			.insertBefore( $ ( 'div#mw-content-text' ) );
} );

@George Orwell III: Well, I'm not really a JavaScript person, but doing the same thing four times doesn't look ideal. Perhaps you could use an if statement to check the namespace rather than doing it in the selector? Also, I wonder if there is a way to combine the "heedertemplate" and "headertemplate" IDs. I'd say put them in a class, but I don't know if that would mean changing a lot of pages. If you have to use more than one selector, you could abstract the .insertBefore code out into a function so that you're not duplicating code. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 08:26, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

I'm afraid going the class route would not only complicate the existing settings defined under each but some rocket scientist used it for footers, ToCs and similar variants on top of plain old headers long before I signed up there so it's go with all ids or nothing. I can live without hEEdertemplate since thats basically just for development/testing at this point.

It works as is - but like you said: 4x seems like overkill. -- George Orwell III (talk) 08:47, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Fair enough. In that case, if you're willing to do without "heedertemplate" then I would write the code like this:

jQuery( document ).ready( function () {
	var nsid = mw.config.get( 'wgNamespaceNumber' );
	if ( nsid === 0 || nsid === 114 ) {
		$( 'div#headertemplate' ).insertBefore( $ ( 'div#mw-content-text' ) );
	}
} );

And if you want "heedertemplate" as well, I would write it like this:

jQuery( document ).ready( function () {
	var nsid = mw.config.get( 'wgNamespaceNumber' );
	if ( nsid === 0 || nsid === 114 ) {
		function forceRender ( selector ) {
			$( selector ).insertBefore( $ ( 'div#mw-content-text' ) );
		}
		forceRender( 'div#headertemplate' );
		forceRender( 'div#heedertemplate' );
	}
} );

I haven't tested that, though, and you should probably get someone else to look over it in case I've done something stupid. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 10:26, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Reliable sources that support the requested change on Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica Article

Greetings, sir Regarding your request for reliable sources to edit Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica Article on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Universidad_Empresarial_de_Costa_Rica#Protected_edit_request_on_21_December_2014 This used to be the accurate information https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universidad_Empresarial_de_Costa_Rica&oldid=638183616

Regarding Valid Sources 1) The listing of the Ministry Of Education in Costa Rica (CONESUP) up to December 2014 (Number 38 in the listing) http://www.mep.go.cr/sites/default/files/pregunta_frecuente/documentos/lista_universidades_aprobadas_CONESUP.pdf 2) UNESCO WHED (World higher Education Database) up to December 2014 where www.unem.edu.pl is the official website http://www.whed.net/detail_institution.php?id=17738 3) DMOZ Listing where www.unem.edu.pl is the official website http://www.dmoz.org/search?q=unem 4) http://www.unem.edu/ its a dead site changed for the local domain www.unem.cr 5) Copyright certificate where POLAND is depicted as first country for the published website for UNIVERSIDAD EMPRESARIAL DE COSTA RICA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Copyright_Universidad_Empresarial_de_Costa_Rica.jpg 6) Unesco Centre www.unesco.vg listing Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica in good standing under Costa Rica list http://unesco.vg/Unesco_2011_List.pdf

So, a sensacionalist newspaper with information published on 2008 with no solid ground, cannot be used to damage University and students reputation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by PolandMEC (talk • contribs) 13:41, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

@PolandMEC: This needs to go on the article's talk page. I don't want to get involved in content discussions, as then I would no longer be able to enact edit requests there. If there's a consensus to make an edit on the article's talk page, then you can make an edit request for it. But any such requests needs to be backed up by reliable sources - that's what I was getting at with my decline reason earlier. By the way, none of the sources you've listed above count as reliable sources for Wikipedia's purposes - we use things like books, papers published in academic journals, and news articles from news sources with a reputation for fact-checking. See WP:RS for the details. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 14:26, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Please take a look to Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica Talk Page Based on WikiDan61 comment "I can support accepting http://www.unem.edu.pl as the official website of this organization based on its publication in the sources listed." I request that you make the edition in the infobox. Thanks for your time

PolandMEC (talk) 21:42, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Happy New Year Mr. Stradivarius!

Happy New Year!

Mr. Stradivarius,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Atsme☯^Consult 13:22, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year 2015}} to user talk pages.

Thank you! I wish you a very happy 2015 as well. :) — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 05:00, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Battle of Chawinda

• Battle of Chawinda (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Revision after protection expired

Hello you were right to block [10] Vand. He did 17 revisions. Now he revised again after protection expired [11] he says see talk but talk page is still dispute discussion RFC is still open and he is starting same editwar. ---TheSawTooth (talk) 09:54, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

@TheSawTooth: This would be best left as a message at the ANI discussion, so that others can also take a look at it. And if protection is needed again, you can as at WP:RFPP. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 11:45, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

New page protection on Battle of Chawinda

Further comments here are unlikely to lead to any further action by me. This would be best continued at WP:ANI. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 05:15, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
Hi, The user VandVictory has started his bipartisan editing again on the Battle of Chawinda can you reinstate a page protection for the page as we still donnot have an RFC closure on the Talkpage. Although I wholeheartedly disagree with this version, I think the best thing to do is put page protection again before an editwar ensues. Also as a side note do you know if a user who is not an administrator unarchive a thread which they are involved in. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:CEEC:D370:8C0B:6926:1959:5DB2 (talk) 15:02, 30 December 2014 (UTC) Sorry, not right now - see my reply in the section immediately above. Also, if no-one else edit wars, there will be no need for page protection. This is best resolved by discussion. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 15:05, 30 December 2014 (UTC) Also as a side note do you know if a user who is not an administrator unarchive a thread which they are involved in?--Nawabmalhi (talk) 15:11, 30 December 2014 (UTC) @Nawabmalhi: No-one should be unarchiving threads that they are involved in, even if they are an administrator. On the other hand, from time to time experienced users who are not administrators may unarchive threads that they are not involved in. Which thread are we talking about, exactly? — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 15:30, 30 December 2014 (UTC) Occult Zone unarchived message he is starter of dispute. He was one who reported one other user for AE topic ban. After banning him some users who agreed with him in this dispute support this ban on AN/I debate only 1 neutral user commented. Admins have let it go it was archived because admin did not take any action occult pulled it back [12] then resigned it. It is clear he want to topic ban users when he is disagreed. Vand has accused my message to wilfone and you as spam you protected page and wilfone said he is watching [13]. How is it spam it does not have my website links! He is thinking he has right to define result of RFC himself. On his talkpage he is discussing to close RFC from 5 days of start. If they close RFC and ban user then where will consensus go. ---TheSawTooth (talk) 16:00, 30 December 2014 (UTC) Hello Mr. Strad. Messages have been left on my talk page about this dispute. People seem to be exercised about the phrase 'major Pakistani victory' which got added partly due to the efforts of User:TopGun. The latter editor is now topic banned for three months from wars between India and Pakistan per an AE decision in which I participated. Without looking into the matter deeply, it seems possible that the Chawinda dispute could be a struggle between supporters of the two countries to portray the result of the battle in the best light for their own side. Now it happens that a person familiar with military articles, User:Bromley86, has stopped by Talk:Battle of Chawinda to give his opinion. To me, the phrase 'major Pakistani victory' sounds to me like patriotic boosterism but as an admin it's not up to me to decide content issues. I wish that editors could agree to defer to the judgment of User:Bromley86 as to the infobox wording about the result of the battle. But I don't have the patience to do much more on this, and would like to know if you have any suggestions. A continuation of the full protection could be one option if we can't think of anything else. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 16:18, 30 December 2014 (UTC) You can bring out any "yet to be closed" discussion from archives that has some consensus. I believe that the page was recently hogged up with a lot of primary source commentaries, they had to be removed on sight but they weren't carefully watched by the editors who were active before. I had retrieved a non-controversial and policy based version[14] I had also excluded a lot of unsourced and unfounded commentaries of WP:PRIMARY sources. However, it was soon reverted and I had to open a report against TopGun due his continuous source misrepresentation. But we still got the idea about a version that had consensus and remained for long. There was probably no need of these long and tall discussions when we had to finally agree that we have got no reliable sources for claiming any sort of Pakistan's victory. We can state "Pakistan halts Indian invasion", like we did before. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 16:40, 30 December 2014 (UTC) @EdJohnston at the ANI I have specifically begged for some sort of Administrator interference as two sides on the RFC are heavily entrenched and I am completely willing to abide by any decision Bromley86 makes, if he is a neutral editor @OccultZone you cannot unarchive a thread you are involved in, and after 3 days if it is archived you can only reapeal the issue by making new thread as that case is closed. Can you even support claim based on Wikipolicy? Also it is not consensus if pretty much all the users who support the Topic Ban are on the opposite side of RFC. @EdJohnston ,Stradivarius can one of you re-archive the thread at the ANI, which OccultZone unarchived, as its been open for over 7 days now, I would have undone his edit but there would probably be a conflicting edit notification. And it has been over 3 days now since he had unarchived it anyway also.--Nawabmalhi (talk) 22:56, 30 December 2014 (UTC) Actually, undoing automatic archiving is not a big deal. It's when things have been manually archived by another user that you need to be careful. While lowercase sigmabot III has always been a very good bot, it's not so good at picking up the fine nuances of conversation. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 05:40, 31 December 2014 (UTC) @EdJohnston: I don't think there's an easy solution here. It's probably going to come down to monitoring the article and using discretionary sanctions where appropriate. What "appropriate" means in this situation is going to be a tricky judgement call, but if neutral editors like Bromley86 want to edit the article, then letting them get on with it without undue distraction would be a good start. — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 06:01, 31 December 2014 (UTC) It would be great if OZ can stop continuing his accusations (esp. at a discussion I've been pinged at) that I had refuted since discussing them inherently involves the topic which I can't. --lTopGunl (talk) 12:28, 31 December 2014 (UTC) Accusation is not same as stating the fact. You haven't refuted this source misrepresentation,[15] otherwise it wasn't tagged with a maintenance template. Furthermore it was also agreed by 3/3 admins who had reviewed the case on AE. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 05:10, 1 January 2015 (UTC) While I had no intention to make any comment on the topic rather to ask to stop involving me, this is what I meant and now I see that this was clear cut baiting. --lTopGunl (talk) 12:41, 31 December 2014 (UTC) For addressing the record of the ongoing dispute on the same page, anyone can talk about the related events and highlight the reasons behind it. OccultZone (Talk • Contributions • Log) 05:11, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Dear Mr. Stradivarius,
HAPPY NEW YEAR Hoping 2015 will be a great year for you! Thank you for your contributions!
From a fellow editor,
FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:18, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

This message promotes WikiLove. Originally created by Nahnah4 (see "invisible note").

Thank you! I hope you have a wonderful year as well. :) — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 05:03, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Happy New Year Mr. Stradivarius!

Happy New Year!

Mr. Stradivarius,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:19, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year 2015}} to user talk pages.

Thank you, and have a very happy 2015 yourself. :) — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 01:30, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

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Best regards, TransporterMan 15:52, 8 January 2015 (UTC) (current DRN coordinator)

Thanks, one small request still

Thanks for your quick help here! But, I think I forgot one part... Can you change return list.join ( ', ' ) + ' en ' + last ; to return list.join ' en ' + last ;? This will be needed to remove a unneeded comma. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 20:48, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

@Sjoerddebruin: Isn't list.join ' en ' a syntax error in JavaScript? Actually, the code return list.join ( ', ' ) + ' en ' + last ; looks fine to me. Perhaps the extra comma is being introduced somewhere else? — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 09:56, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Hm, it seems like the logical place for it. As you can see here, there is still ", and" instead of "en". Maybe the Resonator doesn't use this script for that part of the code... Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 09:59, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

@Sjoerddebruin: The first thing to find out would be which version of the script is the actual live one, yes. :) If it is MediaWiki:Wdsearch-autodesc.js, then it looks like wd_auto_desc.lang is set to "en" for some reason. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 10:33, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

The reason why I haven't fully used the talk page for changing Arudou Debito.

You aren't allowing me to edit Debito's Wikipedia page just because I haven't discussed it in the talk page, but i'm trying to talk about changing the article, but you simply won't respond. Not one is responding to my messages. The talk page is basically dead. Besides, how is the criticism section a violation of Wikipedia policy. How are the sources that are included not relevant. It's not designed to cause defamation of character. It's just ment to express the criticism that Debito has received. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Graylandertagger (talk • contribs) 01:07, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

@Graylandertagger: I'm not getting involved in content discussions at Debito's page as I'm acting as an administrator there, not as a regular editor. There have been enough other editors removing the "Criticism" section heading that it's obvious that there isn't a consensus for it, however. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 10:35, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Assyrian propaganda on Wikipedia

Is this the way how you handle problems on Wikipedia by simply closing the case without finding a compromise? What happens, if I put Aramean continuity related topics to the "Assyrian people" article and everything will be deleted or distorted by Assyrian fascists again, because they think they are the owner of this article? They even have a WikiProject called Assyria and don't care about neutrality and support Assyrianism. We are fed up that all our contributions on Wikpedia even with references are getting removed without a valid reason. Are you there to check it and undo it? This is why I was in favour for a neutral common page called Assyrian/Syriac people, Syriac people or whatever focused only on our Christian heritage, where we all agree on. What's wrong with the idea to create articles within a common page to express each groups views? The current Assyrian people article mixed up with Assyrian plus Aramean topics would led to edit wars again.

Read this Link and see how Assyrian fascists from all over the world try to Assyrianize everything on Wikipedia: http://www.assyrianvoice.net/forum/index.php?topic=16628.95;wap2 --Suryoyo124 (talk) 17:53, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

@Suryoyo124: The basic reason why we don't have separate pages is outlined at WP:POVFORK. I'm not saying that the Assyrian people page is perfect - by all means, it could use a lot of work - but now that the deletion review has closed as "endorse", it is going to be where the Syriac people redirect points. If you want to improve the Assyrian people page, please go ahead, by all means. And if you get in a content dispute about what the page should contain, you should use dispute resolution. (Also, the forum that you linked to is from January 2008 - a lot can change in almost 7 years.) — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 06:20, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Syriac people should not be removed from Assyrian people, its the same people we cant have different articles about the same people --129.16.211.112 (talk) 17:14, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Dispute resolution reward

		The Mediation Award
		Now that you've moved on to other endeavors this is in recognition to your outstanding career service in dispute resolution at English Wikipedia, both in planning and administration and in the excellent mediation of particularly difficult and vexing cases. We couldn't have done it without you, Strad, and your talents are sorely missed. Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 14:53, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! This means a lot coming from you. As I've said elsewhere, I may come back to dispute resolution when the mood takes me, so we may end up working together again sooner than you think. :) — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 18:13, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Your message

• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ASardanaphalus&diff=641223417&oldid=641220364

Naturally, I'm disappointed – more, though, by your interpretation than the removal of rights.

I'm not sure I understand, however, how the Incidents thread relates to your action. You realize that it wasn't prompted by Edokter's tendency to revert..?

Sincerely, Sardanaphalus (talk) 11:26, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

• @Mr. Stradivarius: Respond via email, if you prefer. Sardanaphalus (talk) 05:29, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

RFA

Hi, have you assessed my RFA candidature? Regards. --Tito☸Dutta 09:20, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

No, not yet, sorry. I've been distracted with all the New Year's festivities. Let me have a look for you now. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 12:40, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

• Hello, if you find me fit to become an admin, PLEASE get it started RIGHT on tomorrow with co-nom of Bgwhite. I am a bit superstitious here, if you start the RFA on 5 Jan, it should end on 12 Jan, Swami Vivekananda's birthday, my luckiest day. So, I am asking for a favor and requesting you to start the process right on 5 Jan. (typed using virtual keyboard ) --Tito☸Dutta 21:54, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
• Please let me know if it is done. --Tito☸Dutta 14:29, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

  Sorry, I was busy over the last couple of days, so I didn't have a chance to finish it before 5 Jan. If we try and aim for 12 Jan instead, would that be suitably auspicious? — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 08:31, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

• Hello and thank you for your reply, we can not target 12 January (ohh nooo, I want to cry die, or at least cry, 12 January is the holiest day for me in the year). Thank you for your co-operation and let's get things started. If you think I am fit for this position, please consider starting Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Titodutta. Bgwhite should be a co-nom (co-ordinator). I'll ask Drmies or someone else to co-nom my RFA. I'll send an email to you shortly with some confidential information. --Tito☸Dutta 08:42, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
• Yes, I am ready. --Tito☸Dutta 19:12, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

@Titodutta: Ok, it's been a long time in coming, but it's finally done - take a look at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Titodutta. Once you've answered the three questions, just sign to accept the nomination, and you'll be ready to go. Also, now would be a good time to find co-nominators if you want any. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 09:29, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Your advice is welcome

Hi User:Mr. Stradivarius. I am coming to your talk page as I note you signed the The Autie Pact back in 2012. I am a non-neurotypical who lives with Autism in the form of Asperger Syndrome. If you know much about those of us on the Spectrum as well as Wikipedia editors on the Spectrum, you probably understand that editing and communication can be difficult enough for neurotypicals, excruciatingly difficult at times for editors like me with Autism. I am here on your talk page not because I am asking you to intervene, I am not canvassing for support, I am not here because you are an administrator. I am here because you signed the Autie Pact that is meant to be a way to move toward bridging the gap between neurotypical editors and editors with Autism Spectrum Disorder(s). Currently, there has been a discussion for a few days at AN/I regarding my ability to edit. I have been open there about being a person with Asperger's. When that information was brought forth, the reactions have been -- shall we say -- less than complimentary to those expressing their views about editors with Autism. This discussion and the comments from long-time and not-so-long-time editors is, in my opinion, an example of how far we still have to go in Wikipedia toward understanding that we are made up of editors with different editing styles and different ways of seeing the world. Of course, the difference in editors with Autism is more obvious and can be, at times, more maddening to neurotypicals. That said, with the rate of autism being somewhere between 1:55 - 1:110 and Wikipedia being a magnet for those with ASDs, I think it's fair to say that awareness is extremely important. Also important to remember is that discrimination against editors because they have ASDs is just not appropriate nor does it echo WP:AGF. If you are interested in seeing the thread at AN/I I am referring to, the link is here [16]. I have no expectation that you will look at it, my purpose here is really just awareness that Wikipedia still has a long way to go in the way of interactions and understanding between autism-spectrum editors and neurotypical editors. And, as the title of this section says, your advice would be welcome. Thanks for your time. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 16:26, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

@Winkelvi: Hi! I agree that Wikipedia would be a nicer place to be if neurotypical editors had more awareness of what it's like to be on the Autism spectrum. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll have time to comment at ANI today. I'm just putting some finishing touches to Module:Article history before I go to bed, and I will be busy tomorrow. If I have time tomorrow evening, then I will look at the thread and maybe comment there. Best regards — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 16:46, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Allow me to make it clear, however, that coming here was not about asking you to comment at AN/I. I'm not canvassing, just trying to let those with a positive interest in Wikipedia and its ASD editors know that there is still a less than AGF attitude toward us. Which is pretty disheartening. And, like I also said above, any advice you'd have would be welcome. Thanks! -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 16:52, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

EW at Template:Hegelianism

Hello Mr. Strad. Do you have any suggestion how to handle WP:AN3#User:Sardanaphalus reported by User:Edokter (Result: )? Recently you lifted one of this editor's permissions after an ANI discussion. Should this AN3 be forwarded to ANI for wider review or should a 3RR admin handle it as a normal edit warring case, even though just two reverts are listed? Thanks for any opinion, EdJohnston (talk) 03:14, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

@EdJohnston: The AN3 discussion has now been closed by Slakr as no violation, but the underlying problem, of course, hasn't gone away. In my opinion Edokter is entirely correct about the technical merits of Sardanaphalus's template edits. Without getting too much into the technical details, Sardanaphalus's edits tend to introduce more templates and unnecessary markup, which slows page rendering down, and he has a habit of introducing unnecessary redirects and wrapper templates. (This edit, from the current edit war, is a good example.) Edokter's edits, on the other hand, tend to simplify the code without reducing the functionality. If this was a new template coder we were talking about, it wouldn't be a problem, as we clean things like this up all the time. The problem is that Sardanaphalus has been making these kinds of edits to templates consistently and often, for several months or maybe years. Essentially other editors have to go round cleaning up after him. Having said this, Edokter has obviously lost patience with Sardanaphalus - it shows in his reverts and reports, and it's not helping his case. I think this may need to go to ANI, but it would be best to try dialogue first. The ideal result would be for Sardanaphalus to learn to write template code more efficiently. It would be a shame to have to resort to sanctions. I'll have a word with him on his talk page. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 06:54, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

You're right, I have lost my patience. But I try to be professional. It is not only his edits, it is the way he responds to my reverts. In the past months, I have given many pointers, usually on my talk page, on how to write code. At first he appears to improve, but always regresses to his old habits. At some point, he simply undoes my reverts with some bogus argument and refuses any dialogue.[17] Meanwhile, the quality of his edits remains worrysome. What am I supposed to do? If no one else is repairing the damage, I have to do it myself. But it has come to a point where my reverts, however valid, have lost their message. Then I have no choice but to simply rollback and report. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 11:18, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

• 6 January · 10 January
  Sardanaphalus (talk) 10:53, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Nepali and Maithili Wikipedia issues

Mr. Strad and Jackmcbarn,
From 8–10 Jan (this year), I participated in Bengali Wikipedia's 10 years celebration event.
There a few guys (admins) from Nepali Wikipedia came to me and told that Twinkle is not working properly on their Wikipedia. Mr, Strad, as I told you I have experience of working with MediaWiki set-up, admin and bureaucrat tools, I gave them few basic suggestion like a) "make sure you have all 4-5 Twinkle js, css files", b) "make sure to import related templates/modules too" etc. But those did not really work (we did not have computer there at that time).
Today one of them (a Maithili Wikipedia admin) has sent me a message on Facebook and asked me about setting up "autopatrolled" right. I am not sure, but it may be related to LocalSetttings.php, but I have zero idea, who can access these pages.
I gave him a very short an unclear answer on Facebook, as I am restricting my off-Wiki communication because of my ongoing RFA discussion.
Now, from my MediaWiki-related works experience, I have seen, Mr. Strad and Jackmcbarn, you are two of the most active editors who work on module updating etc on En WP. So would you mind, if I send these Nepali Wikipedia or Maithili Wikipedia guys to you?
Plus, I am feeling a bit curious now, who can access and who actually manages our En WP's sensitive pages like LocalSettings.php or Robots.txt? Regards. --Tito☸Dutta 13:46, 16 January 2015 (UTC) 13:48, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

@Titodutta: That kind of thing is done by the sysadmins. You need to make a request on Phabricator to get the configuration changed. Even if you direct the Nepali and Maithili Wikipedia editors to me, I won't be able to change any settings for them. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 14:23, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Also, I don't have any experience in setting Twinkle up, although that can be done by regular administrators. It would probably be best to ask on WT:TW about that, or failing that, WP:VPT. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 14:29, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

• Thank you very much. I'll tell them these things the next time they'll contact me. Regards. --Tito☸Dutta 23:35, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Ibn Taymiyyah‎

Hi Mr. Stradivarius, i need your help to semi protecting Ibn Taymiyyah‎ article from anonymous users edits. Its kind of start heated argument and edit war there. Sorry for bad english. Thank you. ibensis (What’s the Story?) 07:24, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

@Ibensis: These kinds of requests usually go at WP:RFPP - could you start a new section there? I'm not sure if I'll have the time to look at this today. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 07:57, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

Alright, i made request there. Thank you again. ibensis (What’s the Story?) 00:27, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Have you heard of Gengo?

I saw your translation work and just wanted to see if you have heard of Gengo where you can pick up paid translation work (JA>EN) covering a variety of topics.
If you are interested in registering, please sign up here: http://gengo.com/translators/
Thanks, --Mtstaffa (talk) 06:51, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

@Mtstaffa: Hmm, this is the first time I've been headhunted through Wikipedia! You probably shouldn't be advertising jobs on user talk pages, though, as it is in violation of WP:UP#PROMO. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 07:00, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Mtstaffa

He has just done the same on my talk page. KägeTorä - (^影_虎) (Chin Wag) 10:20, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

@KageTora: That was before my warning, and he has since removed the message from all the affected talk pages, so there's no admin action required here. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 12:16, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Saleen

As someone who altered the protection of the main page in the past, I thought I would draw it to your attention that two separate IPs have attempted to blank the talk page discussion; [18][19]. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 09:52, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi Luke. I'm not sure you helped things by calling the IP an "agenda-pushing troll"... Even if it's true, I've found that things usually go smoother if you just recite policy at users who do things like that. Anyway, I've protected the page for 24 hours - let me know if problems resume after the protection expires, or just post at WP:RFPP if you don't feel like waiting. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 12:15, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

• Probably not, although the discussion was a while ago now. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 13:31, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Help with a template?

Hi

WikiProject Medicine has a template for Talk pages that launches a search of the biomedical literature to help editors find sources compliant with WP:MEDRS. It is here: Template:Reliable_sources_for_medical_articles. The template takes the article name and inserts it in the search field of pubmed, for example, with other delimiters. But it doesn't treat the article name as a string. I've been trying to figure out how to do that, and couldn't. Then I noticed what you had done with Template:Find_sources_AFD. Could you please apply Lua to our template so that it will search using the string? I mentioned that I was going to ask you this, on WikiProject Medicine's talk page, here. If you are too busy, I understand, but I hope you have time. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 13:53, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

@Jytdog: I don't think this needs Lua - it's probably just a matter of using %22 in the URL instead of " (see percent-encoding). Although I think maybe the parentheses might already group different words together? Anyway, I can take a look at this tomorrow if you don't figure it out first. — Mr. Stradivarius ^{♪ talk ♪} 14:09, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

a ha!! That did it. thank you very very much! Jytdog (talk) 14:29, 22 January 2015 (UTC)