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Over the past few weeks I've been taking care of your requests; thanks all for bearing with the delays. The last two requests:

• DYKcheck on nom subpages, preps, and queues, requested by User:Mandarax. This would require a decent bit of code, which requires a decent bit of time. If more people request it I'd be more interested in writing it, but for now let's assume it's not going to happen.
• DYKcheck on Labs, requested by User:Spinningspark. This would require even more code and would create two copies of the DYKcheck codebase, which makes it tougher to maintain. I'd rather keep one copy.

I believe all outstanding requests are now resolved. If I missed/forgot something, let me know. Shubinator (talk) 17:33, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

My request was mostly to facilitate the checking of hook length. For example, lots of people don't know that (pictured) doesn't count, but that in (something else pictured), "something else " does, or that the ellipsis doesn't, but the question mark does. I erroneously thought that since it worked on T:DYK, it would be easy to extend it. Since that's not the case, it probably wouldn't be worth the effort just to make it a little easier to determine hook length. Thanks, as usual, for everything you do around here! MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 23:34, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Did you know/DYK hook count

Please see the edit I just made (overwritten by the bot now) and incorporate that into your bot script. This is necessary as otherwise anyone who clicks one of these links while viewing T:TDYK via redirect, old revision, diff, edit preview, etc. will be forced to reload the current version of the page. This fixes that to use a relative link on T:TDYK and an absolute links elsewhere. See also old discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know/Archive_91#New_code..._what.27s_with_making_it_so_complicated.3F and current discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Passed_DYKs. Thanks. jcgoble3 (talk) 16:47, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Done; replied at the current discussion. Shubinator (talk) 08:02, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

Position of dyktalk on talk pages

I've noticed that DYKUpdateBot puts {{dyktalk}} right under the project banners, but WP:TPL suggests it is put above them. – Editør (talk) 10:53, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Historically (even before DYKUpdateBot), the template was placed at the end of the banner section of the talk page. Placing the template above the project banners would be tricky and buggy, so I'll hold off on implementing this until there's consensus on making this change. Shubinator (talk) 15:36, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Template:Did you know/Queue/LocalUpdateTimes

Oh Technowizard, I added a column (per someone's request at Talk DYK) and now that AUGUST is here the column widths aren't working as well as they did in JULY. Can you fix? EEng (talk) 14:35, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

I have to run, but at a glance it looks like the simplest solution is to remove a column. You could also try tweaking the percentages (currently 80, 60, 16, 20) to change column and table size. Shubinator (talk) 15:40, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

The customshift thing scared me, but I gave it a try. If anything goes wrong I'm gonna blame you, of course. EEng (talk) 18:23, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

The table ended up too wide, so I tried a couple of different numbers. It is typical that in the longer months (such as September, but August through February, usually), the date/time goes to three lines; this is not the end of the earth by any means. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:34, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Looks good. Thanks BlueMoonset! Shubinator (talk) 05:26, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

The most important thing to remember is that, as promised above, this is all Shubinator's fault. EEng (talk) 05:28, 4 August 2014 (UTC)