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Latest comment: 5 years ago by Paine Ellsworth in topic Signature

R E D S edit

Commons cats speedied edit

Old reds edit

0 to go! edit

Mainspace shortcuts edit

MOS: pages + edit

Pirate booty edit


Change of plan:
First we tackle only the MOS:'s
Then we'll go back to the WP:MOS/(Subpages)
231 – 250 of 468 pairs edit

Remaining projects edit

Dab fixes edit
(no content at present)
Need ref. citation error work edit
Need ref. citation maint. work edit
Note: fix "explicit et al." errors with "display-authors=et al."
Others edit
  • Add the explanation of "unprintworthy" and "printworthy" to all Rcats that don't make redirects populate those categories. Use my sandbox and the index at {{R from}} to help:
  • {{R help}}, update Rcats where necessary!
  • User talk:Gadget850#Our recent edits, says that usage of semicolon-bolded lines is improper – need a cite before I go changing things in the MOS!
    • WP:NOTUSA, example of semicolon-bolded lines on the MOS page
    • Use H:DL to show why semicolons must be changed
      • MOS: semicolon to wikibold project
        • WP:SELF, MOS subpage –  Done
        • MOS:, the front page of the Manual of Style –  Done
      • NON-MOS: semicolon to wikibold project
        • WP:D, on disambiguation –  Done
  • {{Surrealists}}, check it out for possible improvements
  • H:US, bring Help article up to date
  • BMS, update and dabify
  • CAT:PAV ✓ – catted redirect is protected and needs Rcats so figure it out
  • Sufi – needs to be converted to a dab page (and all links to it disambiguated)

WARM edit

de:Achtsamkeit
es:Mindfulness (psicología) ✓
fr:Pleine conscience
is:Gjörhygli
it:Mindfulness
nl:Mindfulness
ja:サティ (仏教)
no:Oppmerksomt nærvær
pt:Atenção plena
fi:Tietoisuustaito
sv:Medveten närvaro
th:สติ
zh:正念
small green lizard on a pole climb
Farewell, Mr. G...
  • Jimbo, minor improvements
  • George Coe (Lincoln County War), check out these external links! – maint. tag to TOP
    • The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid, updated image in ibox – after an exhaustive search it appears that the Wikimedia Foundation is now the only source for this image, which needs to be preserved
    • Commons:User talk:Paine Ellsworth, check for msgs about image
  • T57977, to address software link considerations in .jpg metadata

COLD edit

Invitations to RfC:
  •  44% 08:25, 22 March 2013 (UTC) – not bad.
    Also responsive:

Rcats that automatically sort edit

Some rcats use template {{Replace}} to automatically sort redirects:

Tests and vandals edit

:''If this is a shared [[IP address]], and you didn't make the edit, please consider the [[Wikipedia:Why create an account?|creation of a free User account]] for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant notices.''

User rights edit

Verify

Static checklist edit

Latest comment: 9 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

To-do list edit

References edit

  • Jimbo Wales's take on the challenge toward providing a printed version of Wikipedia!
  • The "!" exclamation character is apparently the highest level sort when the {{DEFAULTSORT|!}} magic word is used!>)
  • {{hndis}} – for dab for person's name – watch for incorrect usage !
  • Remember to purge pages when necessary: add  ?action=purge  to the URL (https://. . .)
    • Help:Dummy edit and specifically...
    • WP:Null edit (When a category is changed via a template, then a null edit, rather than a purge, is required to update the category.)
  • Check citation links against this spam list
  • Altviewer
  • {{Large category TOC/a-z}} – BEWARE this template; it causes very long load times in cattocs in IE8 (on older computers with older OS's)
  • When you turn a redirect into a disambiguation page, be sure to check the "What links here". All of those links will need to be disambiguated.
    • As of this date, 03:23, 4 May 2013 (UTC), thanks to the folks at the disambiguation project this is no longer a problem. They are able to quickly deal with links that need dabifyin'. Ref.: Taxonomy, which was converted from a redirect to a dab page that left about 2600 pages with links that needed disambiguation. I will never again worry about redirects that are turned into dab pages.
  • User:RFC bot used to randomly invite people to RfC discussions
  • WP:AWB/TR for list of template redirects

List of Rcats – R printworthy default edit

Note: This list may not be complete.

List of Rcats – R unprintworthy default edit

Note: This list may not be complete.

Changeable to Printworthy edit

Note: This list may not be complete.

Cool stuff edit

  • |label5=­bd2412 – finally figured out how to lowercase a username in the {{To}} template! In the string at the beginning of this entry, there is an invisible soft hyphen between the equal sign and the "b" in bd2412. That makes the "b" the second character in the |label5= string, so it may be lowercase. Awesome!
  • Duplicate section names: In section links, an underscore and number are appended to the end of duplicate section names. E.g. for three sections named "Example", the names (for section linking) will be "Example", "Example_2" and "Example_3". See Help:Section#Section linking.
  • 🌎 🌐 🌔 🌃🌇🌅🌄 🌗 🌌 🌕 🌙 🌚 🌝
  • T16373 – Wouldn't it be cool if text and such would render on REDIRECTs? It's January, 2014, and text now does appear on redirects!
  • {{Icon produces e.g.   (Category icon)— see {{Icon}}
  • Did you see my "geeraffe" at the bottom-left? Just put {{User:Paine Ellsworth/Geeeraffe}} on your page(s)! Click on this link for details!
  • While the keyboard pound or sharp symbol, #, cannot be used in article titles (for technical reasons), there is an alternative pound/sharp symbol, ♯ (see {{music}}, spec. {{music|sharp}}), that can be used. Check out C♯ (musical note).
See also: Template:Italic title and Template:Italic title prefixed
  • to change to a different skin, type ?useskin=(skin you want to change to) after any URL— see also {{Selectskin}} !
  • to yield <references/>, use {{tag|references|single}} instead of <code><nowiki><references/></nowiki></code> !
  • to yield Cite error, use Cite error instead of {{nbsp}}'''<font color="red"><big>C{{nbsp}}i{{nbsp}}t{{nbsp}}e{{nbsp}}{{nbsp}}{{nbsp}}e{{nbsp}}r{{nbsp}}r{{nbsp}}o{{nbsp}}r</big></font>'''{{nbsp}} (which yields  C i t e   e r r o r ) !
  • Change the color in the middle part of a sentence by use of the {{Color}} template ({{Color|red|the middle part of}}). And now we also have the {{Red}} template shortcut!
  • You can strike out deleted material (<del> & </del>) and underline new material (<ins> & </ins>). Double underlining is also possible ({{Du|Double underlining}} . . .).
  • ♥ ♥ ♥ – you can embed the color template! – ☆ ☆ ☆
  • Found a workaround for Navbox problem of "listclass = hlist" when Navbar is overwidened. This was found in the {{Earth's location}} template. Just use listnstyle = line-height:1.3em; in the appropriate group. An example can be found in the {{Milky Way}} navbar.
  • When an image-file redirect is categorized, the image will appear in the category. To turn the image into a link without the picture, use the behavior switch __NOGALLERY__ near the TOP of the edit screen. Note: the photo will still appear on preview, i.e., it will not disappear into a link-only until the cat page is Save page'd.
  • <pre style="font-size:95%;overflow:auto;"></pre> produces a window that will scroll to the right so that the entire page does not need to be scrolled to the right!
  • Use {{diff|FULLPAGENAME|prev|DIFF NUMBER|(your label here)}} instead of FULLURL for diff links.

Diffs and oldids edit

btw Sardanaphalus, how did you come up with the above URL that takes us directly to my edit, when the normal bare URL and the {{diff}} template take us to your previous edit, which has the same oldid number? I have raised this at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 131#Diff number. – Paine 
Okay, I see how one gets that URL – just by using the diff from the history page; however, it still does not explain why the two edits, yours and mine, have the same oldid number of 625450950. If "next" is used in the Diff template rather than "prev", then it takes us to my most recent edit, but use of "prev" take us to your previous edit. That seems to be the only difference – the oldid number is the same for both edits. Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice might quip. – Paine 
Either one or both of the &diff= and &oldid= parameters may be specified. Both can take numeric values, but when both are used together, &diff= also recognises certain keywords.
If &diff= is used alone, a specific revision is displayed, with a diff at the top which compares that revision with the previous revision.
If &oldid= is used alone, a specific revision is displayed, without a diff at the top.
If &diff= and &oldid= are used together (they may be given in either order), there are four ways of doing it.
When both are numeric, those two revisions are compared and the revision displayed below the diff is that specified by the &diff= parameter. The two revisions need not be consecutive, but the later revision number needs to be in the &diff= with the earlier one in &oldid= - if they are exchanged, a backwards comparison is made.
When both parameters are used together, the &diff= parameter doesn't need to be a revision number: there are three permitted keywords - prev, next and cur.
&diff=prev displays the revision specified by &oldid=, and the diff shown at the top is a comparison of that revision with the previous revision.
&diff=next displays the revision after the one specified by &oldid=, and the diff shown at the top is a comparison of those two consecutive revisions.
&diff=cur displays the current version; the diff shown at the top is a comparison of the current version with that specified by &oldid= - it can be any revision from the page history.
Since
and
are consecutive revisions of the same page, and 629082496 is the current version, this means that the following are all equivalent:
As soon as another edit is made to the page, that last one will become different from the others. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:46, 11 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Once again, Redrose64, you make a complicated subject understandable; thank you very much for that! It appears that the bottom line is that in the future, I just have to be more careful with the terms in the Diff template. Joys! – Paine  03:53, 12 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
If you're using the {{diff}} template, this takes four parameters. The first one is the page name; the second and third correspond with the &diff= and &oldid= parameters as described above, except that they need to appear in that order; and the fourth is the link text. So the last four examples given above become
  • {{diff|Template:Testcases page header|629082496|625450950|Example 2}} → Example 2
  • {{diff|Template:Testcases page header|prev|629082496|Example 3}} → Example 3
  • {{diff|Template:Testcases page header|next|625450950|Example 4}} → Example 4
  • {{diff|Template:Testcases page header|cur|625450950|Example 5}} → Example 5
--Redrose64 (talk) 11:15, 12 October 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thank you very much! – Paine  10:20, 13 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

User:Paine Ellsworth/Status – My Status edit

My present status = (no longer used)

My routine look-afters edit

  • Jackdaw, Ardrey addition dropped, the Lorenz parts were kept and compacted
  • Doppler, much improved Dab page with a Wikisearch link in Misc. section

Interesting bugs edit

  • T9304, until this was fixed there could be no links on rcats unless prefixed by "w:", an interwiki prefix and one nasty, though effective, bandaid.
  • T13700, cascaded protected pages – resolved WONTFIX
  • T16281, Bad Image list – This one's a no-go.
  • T16323, Text on Redirects— left a note about where this is presently headed
  • T33001 (closed as INVALID), "Why can't the templates in {{United States Template Group}} be grouped using {{Template group}} and work in the United States article?" Ans.: The US article is very long. When attempting to add the group template to a long article, be sure to check the PREVIEW page for a notice printed in RED near the top of the preview page.
  • T43792, systemic challenge to test for IE Compatibility View (My preferences tabs won't work)
  • T44642, reported the removal of text from redirect Diff pages

English map edit

Latest comment: 14 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Ref.: Template talk:Anglophone states and Template talk:English official language clickable map
Ref.: User talk:Paine Ellsworth/Workpage#English map needs more work below
Left off at Swaziland · Sierra Leone · Rwanda · Nigeria

English map needs more work edit

The above needs to be digested and any needed changes made. – Paine Ellsworth CLIMAX! 07:56, 5 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

World's most populous urban areas edit

Latest comment: 14 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Ref.: Template:World's most populous urban areas
This is my most recent project to defeat Redirects that plague the template. See above. Left off at Hyderabad Hong Kong Bangalore Bogotá São Paulo Istanbul. (Mumbai has no coords!) (It's taking awhile, because I'm making other improvements to the articles as I see them needed, e.g. hatnotes to TOP, and converting dec coordinates to dms, and so on.) – Paine Ellsworth CLIMAX! 02:00, 19 November 2009 (UTC) –   DoneReply

WIP it good! edit

  • Archive 6 has some items that still need work.

Misc. edit

Needs work very soon edit

Singapore · Bali · Sabah · East Timor · Malaysia · Batu Caves · Murugan (use image from Batu Caves) · Indonesian language · Hinduism · Vietnam · Laos · Thailand · Myanmar · Melanesia · Southeast Asia · Indies · Indonesia-Malaysia border · National personification · The Silence of the Lambs (film)#Critical (find & add ref. citation for "16 mins.") · Casablanca (double check coords.) · Maharashtra & Ghodbunder Road (convert ibox coords & add coords in Ext. links section) · Delhi & New Delhi (improve temp. charts in Climate sections) · Aramaic of Hatra (you'll see when you get there) ·

Wikipedia rocks! edit

I now use my dynamic and static checklists, as well as this WIP section to edit Wikipedia. I still love to improve many and varied articles on subjects of interest to me. – Paine Ellsworth CLIMAX!

Astronomy edit

The plan is to aid astronomers in their quest to improve the definitions and descriptions of astronomical objects in our Solar System and the Universe. – Paine Ellsworth CLIMAX!

Signature edit

Latest comment: 5 years ago3 comments1 person in discussion
@present
Paine Ellsworth, ed.  put'r there 15:42, 14 November 2018 (UTC)Reply
Template {{subst:pell}}...
Pleasure! Paine  19:08, 17 October 2015 (UTC)Reply
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Pleasure! Paine  
|1=nt
 Paine  04:23, 25 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
|npl=1
 Paine  
|1=nt and |npl=1


 
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