User talk:WOSlinker Archive 8

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To deprotect Convert/LoffAoffDbSoff

I need cascade access to fix Template:Convert/LoffAoffDbSoff (303,000 transclusions) to show singular fraction "1⁄2 unit" which Jimp had started 2 years ago (in September 2011), with Template:Convert/plural. I want to fix {Convert/LoffAoffDbSoff} at the same time as {Convert/numdisp}, which reformats 510,000 pages. Although Jimp's {convert/plural} works correctly, it will be faster to check for plural amounts, directly, without using subtemplate {/plural} in the heavily-used {Convert/LoffAoffDbSoff}. The sandbox version is Template:Convert/LtestAoffDbSoff, and I want to change all major subtemplates at the same time, to reformat all 554,000 pages together. Singular fraction:

Expected: {{convert|1/2|mi|km}} → 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km)^*
Currently: {{convert|1/2|mi|km}} → 1⁄2 mile (0.80 km)

Numbers with &minus prefix in Template:Convert/numdisp:

Expected: {{convert/numdisp |−7.00}} → −7.00
Currently: {{convert/numdisp |−7.00}} → −7.00

Other display subtemplates are used for only a few hundred or 2,700 transclusions, so {Convert/LoffAoffDbSoff} is the main format used in 303,000 pages. -Wikid77 (talk) 05:24, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

There is currently a convert on the main page, in the DYK section. If you can wait a little while longer then it will be moved off when the content is next updated. I can't remove the cascade protection from the main page. -- WOSlinker (talk) 07:49, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

On Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items, it is not directly include in the page, but is included through some other template, so I'm having trouble finding what I need to remove. If you can identify what needs removing then that would be good. -- WOSlinker (talk) 07:52, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

It's actually the DYK stuff again. -- WOSlinker (talk) 07:57, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Template:Did you know has been updated by the bot and no longer includes convert. -- WOSlinker (talk) 08:05, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for explanation: I had wondered why the cascade protection seemed to change from day-to-day, and now template-editors can update {Convert/LoffAoffDbSoff}. -Wikid77 (talk) 16:55, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Bad fix for area unit

Hi, re this edit, did you really mean cubic metres? --Redrose64 (talk) 16:01, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

No, should have been m2. -- WOSlinker (talk) 16:35, 1 December 2013 (UTC)

Userbox format request

Hello, WOSlinker. I remember you used to rewrite many usertemplates to userboxes. Could you please do that again for the following templates, which I have created or edited recently:

By the way, Template:User SJ and Template:User Christian Chaplain (mentioned above), should probably be userfied. Is there any process for that? Debresser (talk) 14:52, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

I've done that. -- WOSlinker (talk) 15:27, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Is there reason you kept the <includeonly>...</includeonly> tags in the usercategory parameter? Debresser (talk) 15:46, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Just because they were included in the previous version. -- WOSlinker (talk) 16:51, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Right. I forgot that these templates are most of them in User namespace. Debresser (talk) 17:20, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Template:Convert/sandboxlua

Things are a bit hectic at Template talk:Convert so I hope you don't mind if I ask here. Is Template:Convert/sandboxlua ready to be copied to Template:Convert? I'm wondering about standard procedure for placing {{documentation}}—I've seen it on one line presumably to avoid any extra newline, but that doesn't seem to matter. I don't mind what happens, and am just wanting you to say it's ok, or to change it, before it goes live.

I want to keep Template:Convert/sandbox (with |sandbox=on|warnings=2) for running Module:Convert/sandbox. That means it is not a sandbox for {{convert}}. I guess that's ok as the main template should rarely need to be changed. Johnuniq (talk) 23:05, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Yes it's fine. It doesn't matter how things are placed within the noinclude tags. It's just that there shouldn't be any blank lines before the noinclude tag. -- WOSlinker (talk) 07:38, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

It's better to say that there should be no newlines before the <noinclude>. Even single spaces can cause trouble in that position. But if you take out too many newlines - as in

}}<noinclude>{{documentation}}

there may be problems in the display of the documentation (mainly when the template generates unclosed block-level elements). The {{documentation}} is best placed on its own line. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:36, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Module:ConvertTestcase

should we switch this to use convert/old? Frietjes (talk) 19:38, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

I've changed it for now. So it's currently testing convert/old vs convert/sandboxlua At some point it should be changed to test convert vs convert/sandbox -- WOSlinker (talk) 20:42, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

Just to let you know

You have been mentioned here. XOttawahitech (talk) 20:30, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Draft-Class

I have a favor to ask. I'd like to add a Draft-Class assessment to a set of WikiProject banners so that articles sitting in the Draft: namespace can be tracked. The banners would be {{USRD}}, {{CRWP}}, {{AURD}}, {{UKRD}} and {{HWY}}. Since this class doesn't yet exist, it wouldn't have a color or icon assigned to it, but I know that when I tried adding Future-Class to some of the templates, things didn't work. (I think Future-Class may still not actually work completely in all of the banners.) Any help is appreciated. (I'm also leaving a query at Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment#Draft-Class about this idea, so maybe someone will come up with an icon and color assignment before too long.) Imzadi 1979 → 21:11, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

@Imzadi1979: I've fixed the class mask in WikiProject UK Roads with this edit. There is currently a bit of a discussion over at Template talk:WPBannerMeta about the icon and colour for the Draft class. -- WOSlinker (talk) 21:38, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Well, it would seem I'm not the only one to have my good idea... :) Imzadi 1979 → 21:51, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Allmovie Change: Token of Appereciation

WOSlinker, I sincerely thank you for correcting my contribution on the page Allmovie, and I want to spread some Wikilove. I hope you have a great experience on Wikipedia, and I wish you happy editing. Also, please reply on my talk page or email me at [email protected].

Helixsoft (talk) 23:34, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Helixsoft's Token of Appreciation

	Token of Appreciation
	This user thanks you for correcting a mistake he made. Helixsoft (talk) 14:34, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Texas Annexation

Dear Slinker - Can you find a way to wrap the Civil section you've restored to the top of the artlcle, so as to allow the opening Background section "close up", so to speak? I'd like to know the technique - if one exists - so I can employ it in the future. 36hourblock (talk) 18:02, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

It was just that blanking the template page removes it for all the articles. If you think that it would be better without it on that particular article then just remove the template from the article, which I've now done. -- WOSlinker (talk) 20:08, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Logo size: Frameless vs. 220px

Hi. Please see Template talk:Infobox company § Logo size: Frameless vs. 220px Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 23:14, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

edit protected on Module:InfoboxImage

Hello, WOSlinker. You have new messages at Module_talk:InfoboxImage#Make_the_module_working_with_all_Wikipedias.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

--Nullzero (talk) 04:22, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Austin Carlile

Template:Austin Carlile has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. SilentDan297 talk 00:01, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Great War campaign boxes

Why have they been deleted?Keith-264 (talk) 21:04, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Are you on about Template:Campaignbox Trench warfare on the British Western Front (December 1915 – June 1916) ? You blanked the page, so there was no point in keeping around a blank template. Do you want to work on it again? -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:50, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

Are they similar to ones which haven't been deleted? I remember that I changed the wording on a couple then found it wasn't as easy as that.Keith-264 (talk) 23:53, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

I've undeleted it and also Template:Campaignbox Military Operations: Flanders 1914 so that you can take a look. If you want to keep either then unblank them. -- WOSlinker (talk) 08:38, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

I think one ended up thus Template:Campaignbox The Actions of Spring 1916 and the other Template:Campaignbox Military Operations: Belgium and northern France 1914. Sorry for the confusion.Keith-264 (talk) 10:00, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_WikiProject_Georgia_(U.S._State)

da fuq? ♠|RP|♠ 21:21, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

I've undeleted it. If you want to keep it, don't leave it as a blank page. -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:54, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Oh. I thought I had something saved there. Never mind...My bad. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rlp17 (talk • contribs) 22:55, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Belgium at the Olympics

Hello, I'm a contributor to the Dutch Wikipedia, and I noticed that the flag template of Belgium at the Olympics had been changed: instead of the civil flag, which was displayed during the past ten years, all of the sudden this one has been changed into the state flag. Let me be clear, as a Belgian: the state flag is NEVER EVER used whatsoever. The civil flag is the one which is being used at every (national or international) occasion. I thus don't understand why this change has been made, and I hope (since I don't have the right to do so) you can change this back into the correct display.

Belgium at the 2014 Winter Olympics - Here you see the wrong flag, it should be the one as shown at the Dutch page: België op de Olympische Winterspelen 2014. Also in the small template for the competitors themself it's displayed with the wrong flag (e.g. here).

Thank you in advance!

Takk — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.52.24.5 (talk) 18:13, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

I've changed it back to the civil one on Template:Country_flag_IOC_alias_BEL -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:08, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! But apparently it has only been changed for the 2014 Winter Olympics. For all the other Olympics (including the Youth Olympics) the state flag is still in place. Isn't there an easy way to change them all at the same time? 157.193.2.102 (talk) 19:40, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

I think it's just that the pages have been cached, so they don't always update straight away. A null edit will refresh the page, if you can't wait. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:12, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

You're right, it has been changed. Thanks a lot, greetings from Belgium! 193.52.24.5 (talk) 07:28, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you again, but I saw Aight 2009 undid your modification. I talked to him on his user talk, is it possible to put some pressure on him as well? Thanks again! 87.64.133.171 (talk) 11:44, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Hello sir

Hello sir, I have copied your template (Template:Year in United Kingdom) and used it for a Philippine template (Template:Year in the Philippines). I hope it is okay with you. --AR E N Z O Y 1 6A•t a l k• 05:30, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Yes, that is fine. -- WOSlinker (talk) 12:05, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Very respectful! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:20, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

An RfC that you may be interested in...

As one of the previous contributors to {{Infobox film}} or as one of the commenters on it's talk page, I would like to inform you that there has been a RfC started on the talk page as to implementation of previously deprecated parameters. Your comments and thoughts on the matter would be welcomed. Happy editing!

This message was sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 18:27, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

ヰキプロジェクト琉球

はいさい, WOSlinker! I've noticed that you've contributed to the subject of Ryukyu. I invite you to join WikiProject Ryūkyū, AKA the Ryukyu task force, a collaborative effort to expand and deepen coverage of subjects pertaining to Ryukyuan geography, history, and culture. Here are a few links to pages to start you off:

See the main project page
Sign the participants page
See the To Do List
If you have any questions, feel free to ask at the talk page

I hope you'll take interest and decide to be a part of this project. めんそーれ! ミーラー強斗武 (talk) 00:00, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

New assessment class

I'm not sure how to do this, and either you will, or you will know who will. Based on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Highways/Assessment/A-Class Review, the Highways group of projects will start assessing lists through the ACR process, which means we need to add an AL-Class to the banners by the time the first candidate is reviewed. (Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment lists such a class, but they use a totally non-standard banner.) I assume we just need to get it into {{class mask}}, but I can't edit that template, and I'm not 100% how to add it anyway. Thoughts? Imzadi 1979 → 02:26, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

You'll see in the class mask documentation, the section called "The UPPERCASE parameter syntax". I've added it to Template:WikiProject Highways. So you should now be able to use it. Template:Class/colour and Template:Class/icon already contain al so no need to edit them. -- WOSlinker (talk) 06:21, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, I should be able to add it to the other templates then in short order. Imzadi 1979 → 07:49, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Of course, {{U.S. Roads WikiProject}} and {{U.S. Roads WikiProject/class}} proved to be more complicated. *sigh* The banners for the Australian, Canadian, Hong Kong, Indian (in development) and British templates have all been updated, but our American one is more complicated. Thoughts? Imzadi 1979 → 08:09, 10 April 2014 (UTC) Nevermind, it seems to have fixed itself. Imzadi 1979 → 08:12, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Template:WikiProject Russia

Please, You could change protection level of Template:WikiProject Russia, I want to change File:Religion in Russia.png for File:Religion in Russia SVG.svg.--Econt (talk) 11:19, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

I've updated the template. I'm not around much so the use of {{editprotected}} on Template talk:WikiProject Russia may have been quicker. -- WOSlinker (talk) 17:37, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Template: UN document

{{UN document}} needs to be deleted or updated—it utilizes links to a defunct website, undemocracy.org. (See the post where it went "on strike", which mentions that the parser lives at this directory; this post says that server was "put down". It would have been nice if the developer had notified Wikipedia of its demise; that was six months ago.) I'm not sure how to proceed; there are 274 transclusions of the template, so just deleting it wouldn't be helpful. It's preferable to use a direct link to the UN's own website: http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=[docid]; could the template be modified to do that? Is there a way to alter the existing template so that it uses the information currently entered to point to the proper place at un.org? Is this something I should bring to the Village Pump/Technical area? (I note you said you're not around much; but I saw a few recent edits; I'm hoping to catch you during a spurt of activity.) thanks for any help/advice.—D'Ranged 1 VT^alk 14:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

I've updated the template to use the un.org url. I did some testing and it seems to be working ok but you may want to do some checks yourself. -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:46, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks so much! That was quick! I was fooling around with a new version in the sandbox, but realized it wouldn't automatically update the existing transclusions, which your update does. The only thing I see that I don't understand is that apparently the template is designed to suppress |accessdate= if |title= is populated. My personal preference would be to have it always show if it's supplied; I know some editors hate ever seeing it. I leave it to your discretion.

I updated the documentation to reflect current parameters and get rid of the portions that no longer apply; I used some fancy formatting copied from other citation templates that I think makes it easier for folks to copy and paste a working copy of the template into their document. Feel free to edit if you think I've misstated something. I truly appreciate your help; I know that this sort of stuff often goes unnoticed (unless it's broken) and unappreciated. Many, many thanks!—D'Ranged 1 VT^alk 21:41, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

I just found another error; give me a couple of hours to cobble together a fix that you can just copy and paste. I'll be working in Template:UN document/sandbox; I'll leave you a message here when I think I've got it right. The latest discovery is that if you populate |type= with "Meeting" and put a number in |meeting=, you get Meeting meeting 10. That's an easy fix; but I'd like to include some more shortcuts for people if you don't mind - in the #switch module for |source=; and add a #switch module for |type=. I'm almost done and it seems to be working. Thanks!—D'Ranged 1 VT^alk 22:15, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

I think I did it. See Template:UN document/sandbox and Template:UN document/testcases. I added comments to the code to explain what I did. Basically, I reduced the length of the link to just the docid unless there was a title present, de-linking the type and number parameters. I moved the Session number before the type and number; I italicized both the type and the number parameters; and added periods instead of commas between elements. The only thing bold now is the docid. De-linking the type and number makes for a nice break between the wikilinked article name and the link to the document itself. As in the present template, year is suppressed if date is present; I chose to always show the accessdate. I added more switches to the source parameter and added switches to the type parameter. The testcases has a side-by-side comparison between the current template and the sandbox template as the last section. If you approve, you can just copy and paste the sandbox code into the template and I'll make a few more changes to the documentation. Thanks again for all your help—and for your patience! I'm just getting my feet wet with templates; it's something I hope to get better at.—D'Ranged 1 VT^alk 00:01, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

I've made your changes live now. Thanks. -- WOSlinker (talk) 16:21, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! Enjoy your day.—D'Ranged 1 VT^alk 16:50, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

I hate to be a bother, but I've made some additional tweaks to the template; I've found in using it that it's handy to be able to use |meeting= to capture additional meeting details instead of just using it for a number and pairing it with |type=Meeting. Because of this, some minor adjustments to where blank spaces are added had to be made; also, I found that if a time is given with an a.m./p.m. indicator, the current template shows two periods at the end of that section of the citation because I added a period. I've fixed this as well. Lastly, I've removed the word "on" in front of |date=; since I added a period before this parameter it looks odd and it's not really needed. I've retained "at" preceding |meetingtime= as that does seem to be needed. I'd really appreciate it if you could transfer what's in the sandbox to the live template for me.

On a side note, I realize you're not around much, but do you know of anyone who would help me learn more about editing templates so that I could eventually get template editing rights? It's a goal, not an obsession. Just trying to be a more useful, well-rounded editor here. Thanks so much for your assistance!—D'Ranged 1 VT^alk 00:24, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

I've coped it over. For the template editing rights, I would say that you are on the borderline now between needed/not-needing it and that if you can find a couple of other protected templates that need work and make some changes to them then you would be good for getting the rights. Help:Magic words and the links off that page are a good place to go for learning more about template functions. -- WOSlinker (talk) 15:46, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

InfoboxImage

Hi! Could you please take a look at Module talk:InfoboxImage#Caption (I'm not a Lua coder). --Edgars2007 ^{(talk/contribs)} 17:43, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Promo links

Please see this page User:Seshagirirao has some promo links on user page.--Vin09 (talk) 12:43, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

The user hasn't edited for quite a while. If you think the links are too promotonal, just edit the page to remove them. -- WOSlinker (talk) 14:51, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for help.--Vin09 (talk) 15:05, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

Premakeerthi de Alwis

dear friend, please help me to improve this Premakeerthi de Alwis article using necessary footage. i want add "Alwis, who was 42, was dragged from his house and murdered on the night of July 31, 1989. The murder has been blamed on the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna,but nirmala de Alwis is complaining it was handled by Hudson Samarasinghe"--Academiava (talk) 14:50, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

The Days (band) nominated for deletion

I have nominated the article The Days (band) for deletion because the band lacks notability. You have edited this article in the past and so I thought you might be interested. You may discuss this nomination here: WP:Articles for deletion/The Days (band)

Bfpage |leave a message 02:55, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Unprot request

Please unprotect Template:Convert/lb (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). With Lua-{convert}, this one is unused. -DePiep (talk) 13:03, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Done -- WOSlinker (talk) 13:14, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

I found more of these, see the list. What do you think, should we unprot all those 2500 old {convert/xxx} subtemplates? Could we do that by mass? -DePiep (talk) 14:31, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

List of Template:Convert... (sub)templates used in mainspace
Template	Mainspace pages transcluding
{{Convert/And1}}	1
{{Convert/Dual/Loff}}	1
{{Convert/Dual/LoffAoffDbSoff}}	1
{{Convert/Dual/rnd}}	1
{{Convert/LoffAoffDbSoff}}	3
{{Convert/LoffAoffDbSon}}	1
{{Convert/LoffAonDbSoff}}	3
{{Convert/LoffAonDbSoff2}}	2
{{Convert/LoffAonSoff}}	5
{{Convert/LoffAonSon}}	1
{{Convert/LonAonDbSoff}}	1
{{Convert/LonAonSoffAnd}}	1
{{Convert/LonAonSoffMinp}}	1
{{Convert/and/fra2}}	2
{{Convert/and/in}}	2
{{Convert/ft}}	4
{{Convert/hp}}	1
{{Convert/in}}	1
{{Convert/kW}}	1
{{Convert/kg}}	2
{{Convert/kg_stlb}}	1
{{Convert/km}}	2
{{Convert/km/h}}	2
{{Convert/m}}	4
{{Convert/mi}}	2
{{Convert/mi/h}}	1
{{Convert/mm}}	1
{{Convert/mph}}	2
{{Convert/multi2LonAonSoff}}	1
{{Convert/numdisp}}	3
{{Convert/outAnd}}	1
{{Convert/outsep}}	3
{{Convert/pround}}	3
{{Convert/rand}}	1
{{Convert/round}}	4
{{Convert/rund}}	1
{{Convert/to}}	1
{{Convert/to/AoffSoff}}	1
{{Convert/to/AonSoff}}	1

There are a lot of protected convert subpages. I'll have a look at some point but I don't think it's urgent. If you can find someone with a bot that can do it then great. Otherwise I might get to them eventually. -- WOSlinker (talk) 16:44, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Nyth83/Don Gehrmann

This is a user space draft/work in progress. I reverted your edit and then commented out the categories. I will update the categories later when I move the article to the main space. I wanted those to stay in as reminders to search for applicable categories. In the future, please do to remove info from my drafts. If you think it is so important for something not to be there, just comment it out and leave me a message on my talk page with a DETAILED reason why. Nyth83 (talk) 12:30, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

HIDE PARAMETER

Please see Template talk:Cite EB1922 -- PBS (talk) 17:55, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Edit protection

with this edit as you have carried out an administrative edit on a page which is locked for a content dispute. As an uninvolved administrator either change the permission of the page or revert your edit as I do not approve of the edit and we are discussing this elsewhere. -- PBS (talk) 15:50, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

I've unprotected it, and made the template visible by moving the noinclude as you wanted to. I'm guessing here but I think why Debresser wanted it hidden was because of the title error message that was shown, so I've added some extra bits to stop that error appearing on the template page. -- WOSlinker (talk) 16:09, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

I second your guess at Debresser's intent. That editor and I have spent considerable time removing citation errors, and other types of errors, from templates. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:56, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

Yep. Thanks, WOSlinker. Debresser (talk) 19:10, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

Transcription errors

I think that these changes are a mistake. However mistake or not you need to check all your changes.

I have not checked your edits, because I assumed that you have been doing that, however this template change shows up in my Library so please go back over you edits and check them for errors (you really should have tested each template you have changed in the appropriate sandbox before changing the live template). -- PBS (talk) 20:25, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I do check my edits as I go, but somehow missed that one. -- WOSlinker (talk) 20:28, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Finding duplicate parameters

I wasn't sure if there was a script for finding these, so I created this one. it only works in articles, and doesn't actually change the article text. what it does is attempts to find the duplicate parameters then issues an alert popup telling you where to look for the duplicate parameters and changes the edit summary. once installed, you activate it by clicking on the 'find dups' button in the 'Tools' section on the left, while you are in edit mode. I have tested it on the first dozen articles in the cleanup category, and it seems to work okay. I had a much less complicated version that also marked the place in the article, but it was causing my browser to hang due to the complexity of searching for the regexp match. if there is a better tool, let me know, as I would be happy to try something else. perhaps Jonesey95 or Redrose64 know of alternative tools? Frietjes (talk) 18:10, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

Just tried this and it looks good. -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:21, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

@Frietjes: It didn't pick up this duplicate - maybe it's because the pipe is on the previous line? --Redrose64 (talk) 12:57, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

@Redrose64: that was an oversight, fixed here. thank you. Frietjes (talk) 15:45, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Any ideas why this one wasn't picked up? --Redrose64 (talk) 17:16, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

@Redrose64: it was failing due to the multiple nested pipe-templates, but should work now. Frietjes (talk) 19:34, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Didn't spot those - they're totally unnecessary of course, since a pipe inside a link is hidden from the template parser. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:53, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Here's another that wasn't detected. Could it have been the double hash (bad CSS)? --Redrose64 (talk) 20:35, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

@Redrose64: it's going to be much harder to make it work on template pages, but I have added some initial logic to make this work by handling some triple brace constructs. by the way, WOSlinker should feel free to tell us to move elsewhere if the 'new messages' light is getting annoying :) Frietjes (talk) 20:54, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Not relevant to the above - see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 131#Coordinates display appears to be broken

Has your change to Infobox Settlement broken it? When I try to change a pushpin map parameter, the map winds up looking like this. The only change I made was specifying "pushpin_label = Richburg". Any ideas? --Ken Gallager (talk) 14:04, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

@Ken Gallager:, No, it's not {{Infobox Settlement}} - this is the same problem as described at Template talk:Infobox station#Width. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:25, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

(Moving discussion to User talk:Redrose64) --Ken Gallager (talk) 14:32, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Just a quick note to say that this script is working for me. Thanks for making it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:14, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

The script finds a couple of false positives in Interstate 69 in Michigan.

Jonesey95, fixed. Frietjes (talk) 19:02, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:AMA

Template:AMA has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:12, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Bgr

Template:Bgr has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:38, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks much

Thank you for your formatting help at Template:The Freedom of speech Barnstar, much appreciated, — Cirt (talk) 11:59, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

Template bgcolor

Hi, I saw you changing Template:Sulfates. There is also Template:Perchlorates, and Template:Nitrates which are the same sort of thing. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 23:10, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I've done those now. -- WOSlinker (talk) 07:45, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

When changing bgcolor="..." to style="background-color: ..." check whether there is an existing style attribute already and add to it if there is. If a second style attribute is added, one of the style attributes will be ignored. Specifically with Template:Election box ranked choice bar, the background-color was ignored and the bars visually vanished on lots of pages. It is fixed now. That serves as a reminder about the importance of sandbox testing and checking final results of template changes. Are there ways the sandbox and testcases for that and related templates could be improved to make that easier to do? More generally, thanks for your maintenance efforts. DCary (talk) 21:33, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

More on this matter at Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 61#Request to fix "bgcolor" markup. I was under the impression that Mdann52 (talk · contribs) had taken on the task. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:30, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Project page

Hi you have made certain changes in the outlook of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Turkey page. But please note that "Turkey articles by quality and importance table " has been shifted out of the page margin. Maybe you'll like to fix it . Thanks. Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 18:00, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

I can't see any difference between the two versions, but since you do, I've undone my edit. -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:05, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

File:Sea Scout Flag (Scouting Ireland).png

Hi. What was the point of this revert? You've put the page back into the problem category that I had carefully removed it from. --Redrose64 (talk) 00:23, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

That was a mistake, sorry. -- WOSlinker (talk) 00:24, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

PAGENAMEBASE

Thanks for bringing Template:PAGENAMEBASE to my attention. Is there any reason this shouldn't be merged with Template:Title without disambig? SFB 01:50, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

No reason not to if you can manage it. I think that something similar to {{#Invoke:String|replace|{{{1|{{PAGENAME}}}}}|%s%(.*%)||plain=false}} could work. I've posted a message at Template talk:PAGENAMEBASE about it. -- WOSlinker (talk) 07:30, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Bug

I reverted this change [1]/

|bgcolor=#e7dcc3|4-faces||{{{{{{1}}}-f4}}}||{{{{{{1}}}-ff4}}}

| style="background-color:#e7dcc3" |4-faces||{{{{{{1}}}-f4}}}|" |{{{{{{1}}}-ff4}}}

I assume this is automated, and is falsely matching for last || for unknown reasons. Tom Ruen (talk) 23:42, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for spotting. -- WOSlinker (talk) 07:36, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Dup args

Hi, some edits you made introduce double arguments in templates (like [2]). These show up in CAT:DUPARG. -DePiep (talk) 10:35, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia genealogy project

Just wondering if you have any thoughts re: the idea of WMF hosting a genealogy project. If so, feel free to contribute to this discussion. And apologies if I have made this request before. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 18:17, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Party color changes

I noticed that you've recently changed several party color template implementations, as here. These changes are moving the background styling into the body of articles instead of pulling it through templates, resulting in unnecessary programming clutter in the page. Why are these changes being made? Also, if you are deprecating a series of templates, shouldn't they be taken to TfD first? – Philosopher ^{Let us reason together.} 01:19, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

I'm trying to reduce the usage of bgcolor=xxxx and change it to style="backgrounnd-color:xxxx". bgcolor is the old method of setting the background color and doesn't work that well with some mobile browsers. I couldn't just change it in the templates since if the place where it was used also had it's own style attribute then one of the two would be ignored as there can't be two style attributes against one table cell. -- WOSlinker (talk) 07:14, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Got it. I'd missed that the two style attributes would conflict with each other. – Philosopher ^{Let us reason together.} 00:24, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Could change Template:American politics/party colors/Democratic from

bgcolor={{Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color}}

to

style="background-color:{{Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color}};{{{1|}}}"

which would allow additional style statements to be passed through? of course, this would still require checking all of them, but most would not need to be replaced? Frietjes (talk) 16:49, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

or, create a {{party style}} which is invoked as {{party style|Democratic Party (United States)|text-align:center}} and returns

style="background-color:{{Democratic Party (United States)/meta/color}};text-align:center;"

? Frietjes (talk) 16:53, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

(talkpage stalking): Instead of requiring one page per color, it could be a #switch, as in {{element color}}. Allows more catches (uc/lc, variant names, plurals) and central control. -DePiep (talk) 10:55, 6 December 2014 (UTC)

I do like the idea of a single switched color template - perhaps {{party style|US|Democratic|center}} and {{party style|US|Republican|noformat}} (with {{party color}} as a redirect). – Philosopher ^{Let us reason together.} 00:24, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

"Tidy style"

Hello WOSlinker. I'm a bit bemused by edits (and summaries) like this, where you claim you're tidying the style. I don't see how adding unnecessarily complex code is tidying, and also why it needs to be done. Why do you do it? Cheers, Number 5 7 22:55, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

It's to make it more HTML5 compatible. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:56, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Yes, see http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/obsolete.html#attr-tdth-align --Redrose64 (talk) 18:36, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Unprotect

Please unprotect Template:Chembox header2. It is not in mainspace use. -DePiep (talk) 18:05, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

And Template:Chembox new. -DePiep (talk) 18:11, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Done. Can you check your last edit on Template:Chembox header2 as you made it redirect to itself. -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:38, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

About your (non)participation in the January 2012 SOPA vote

Hi. I am Piotr Konieczny (User:Piotrus), you may know me as an active content creator (see my userpage), but I am also a professional researcher of Wikipedia. Recently I published a paper (downloadable here) on reasons editors participated in Wikipedia's biggest vote to date (January 2012 WP:SOPA). I am now developing a supplementary paper, which analyzes why many editors did not take part in that vote. Which is where you come in :) You are a highly active Wikipedian, and you were active back during the January 2012 discussion/voting for the SOPA, yet you did not chose to participate in said vote. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me why was that so? For your convenience, I prepared a short survey at meta, which should not take more than a minute of your time. I would dearly appreciate you taking this minute; not only as a Wikipedia researcher but as a fellow content creator and concerned member of the community (I believe your answers may help us eventually improve our policies and thus, the project's governance). PS. If you chose to reply here (on your userpage), please WP:ECHO me. Thank you! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 15:03, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Template talk:Information#Category:Files with no machine-readable license

Hi WOSlinker. Have you got my echo notification? It would be great if you could help. --Leyo 13:56, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Yes, I'll have a look at the PD licenses within the next day or two. -- WOSlinker (talk) 14:00, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi. I note that you made some corrections on this template recently - thank you. Perhaps you can assist me in addressing another problem which I have been unable to diagnose and correct. At one time, the template used to render an essentially square diagram with the holdings in each suit being on a single line. This was done by selecting the column widths and line spacing parameters to result in a square checker-board like appearance for the diagram. Now, the diagram is no longer square and there are soft carriage returns causing the somewhat longer holdings is a suit to render on two lines. This destroys the conventional display of a hand diagram as is common in contract bridge literature. I am unable to find why the column width specifications totaling 276px (12+80+12+80+12+80) are not adhered to as they used to be. Looking in the edit history, I see no obvious previous edit which is causing this and can only think that some global change to the rendering of templates is causing this annoying change in appearance (or I simply missed the offending edit). Any thoughts or suggestions? I will look for your response here on your talk page. Thank you much. Newwhist (talk) 14:20, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

I think it might be related to a site-wide change to the wikitable class as mentioned at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 138#Tables_just_changed_(using_monobook). -- WOSlinker (talk) 15:17, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Seems like the wikitable class has been amended again to correct this problem. Thanks for the heads-up. Newwhist (talk) 11:30, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Help:IPA for Sanskrit

WOSlinker, can you retry your HTML clean-up at the Help:IPA for Sanskrit page? Your earlier clean-up was "lost" as a side-effect of my reverting to an older version of the article to undo some content errors/vandalism. I am assuming that you are using some automated tool for your edit and therefore it will be easier for you, than me, to make the desired HTML changes. Let me know if that is not the case, and I will attempt the edit manually myself. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 19:27, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

User:Erutuon has made the needed changes. So consider this resolved. Abecedare (talk) 20:08, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

gedit is a great tool for search-and-replace. — Eru·tuon 20:20, 9 March 2015 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox comedian awards

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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Lua/Modules

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Request for help with template documentation

I am hoping that you can help me with a very small template documentation change. The {{Cite XXX}} family of Citation Style 1 templates share a common set of documentation subtemplates, with variables in some of them to show and hide particular sentences or sections in the documentation of specific templates. I have tried to change the documentation to hide one particular sentence in the {{Cite arXiv}} documentation, but I have been unsuccessful. I think it would be just a few minutes of work for you.

The relevant discussion and links are here. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:10, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

I think this edit should fix it. -- WOSlinker (talk) 06:14, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Perfect. That worked. Thanks for your help. – Jonesey95 (talk) 12:39, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Template:AE sanction

Is there any way of fixing {{AE sanction}} so it works sanely? It is only used once (here) at the moment, but it is important and probably worth fixing. There are two problems: clicking the section edit link edits the template, and the four tildes are not replaced with the signature. My guess is that the signature problem is because the edit adding the text did not use subst, so one of those tricky procedures to generate an error would be good. The heading is due to the most recent edit at the template which added the heading (and failed to update the docs which say "because no header is provided by this template, when you use it you will have to enter a subject man"—that last word should be "manually"). Perhaps the heading would work if substituted? Using NOEDITSECTION would remove all edit links from the target page, and using h2 tags would give no way to edit that section (I think). What should happen? I'll ping the admin to let them know. Johnuniq (talk) 02:08, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

{{Subst check top}} and {{Subst check bottom}} could be added to make it display an error message if not substituted or it could be tagged with {{substituted|auto=yes}} and then User:AnomieBOT will come along and do any substitution (but the signature may be wrong then). -- WOSlinker (talk) 06:12, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

Sinematurk.com

Hi, any chance you could create an imdb title like link for the leading Turkish film website Sinematurk.com? Link in The Wound of Separation.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:42, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Yes, created at {{sinematurk film}} and updated the article with this edit. -- WOSlinker (talk) 17:49, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Cheers!♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:57, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Val/unitsfromconvert

You might be happy to learn we'll soon repurpose Template:Val/unitsfromconvert. — Cpiral Cpiral 17:09, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

Please don't forget to update the documentation when changing the template. Thanks! Useddenim (talk) 11:56, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Sorry, now done. -- WOSlinker (talk) 12:01, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! Useddenim (talk) 14:32, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Poke

		A Barnstar Point
		For being rapidly helpful with Lua skillz. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 17:31, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Query about an edit notice change

As a matter of interest, why did you make this edit? Presumably you see some advantage in the change, but for the life of me I can't think what that advantage could be. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 19:34, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

I'm trying to reduce the usage of <center>...</center> and replace it with the CSS style text-align:center; which is the newer way of doing things, so while doing that I also just switched it to use the edit notice template. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:32, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

Task Force

Hello WOSlinker,

I'd like to know if the WP Africa can carry task forces for country subdivisions in Africa. Stanleytux (talk) 14:38, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Are you asking about the banner? Yes, it is possible to add extra task forces for country subdivisions if the project so wishes. -- WOSlinker (talk) 21:38, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the response, I'm looking to start a task force, and I know I can't edit the banner myself since the template is permanently protected for only template editors and administrators to access. Stanleytux (talk) 01:50, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Template:Football squad start

I wander if you would consider altering Template:Football squad start so that the small formatting is removed. When it appears in an article it may be a little difficult to read. Jodosma (talk) 21:07, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

I would be ok with that. Could you post a message to Template talk:Football squad start first about the change to see if anyone else has any comments and if there are no objections I'll do it after a few days. -- WOSlinker (talk) 12:00, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:The Tripods (BBC series) titlecard.jpg

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class=Future added to WikiProject Brazil?

How do I get class=Future added to WikiProject Brazil? Articles for the 2016 Olympics include Talk:Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's cross-country and others. I added |future=yes and category for it to WikiProject Brazil, but so far nothing happens. Can you help?--DThomsen8 (talk) 14:38, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

You've already changed Template:WikiProject Brazil/class, so now all you need to do is add {{WikiProject Brazil|class=future}} to any talk pages that you want the banner on. -- WOSlinker (talk) 21:12, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

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Death Template

Hi. Some time ago you place Template:WikiProject Death on a protected status to prevent non-admin from editing it. One editor has recently modified the template without discussion or notification on the main project page, and project members are unable to revert the change. Would you please either revert the editor's change, pending discussion and consensus; or lift the protected status? Thank you for your time. - Boneyard90 (talk) 03:08, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I have reverted the edit in question. Discussion is at Template talk:WikiProject Death#Images. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:16, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your assistance. - Boneyard90 (talk) 04:56, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

File:Xmas Ornament.jpg

To You and Yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 14:03, 20 December 2015 (UTC) {{clear}}

London Borough templates: tube and rail stations discussion open

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Template talk:Short pages monitor

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Reduce protection on Template:National football squad start ?

Hi! This template currently has Template Protection, but all other templates in the family have the Semi-protection level (Template:National football squad player etc: see See also in its docs). I would therefore like to suggest to lower the protection for this template to "semi protection" as well, to make it consistent across that template family. I am placing this request here because you made the most recent change to this template's protection level. –Sygmoral (talk) 13:15, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Ok. Done. -- WOSlinker (talk) 20:15, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Regarding changes made to Udaipur related articles

Hello WOSlinker. This is regarding your recent updates made in the Udaipur related articles, where you had removed the manually added categories like 'Category:Top-importance Udaipur articles', 'Category:WikiProject Udaipur articles' and so on. Actually since long time, i am facing some issues in getting these categories added automatically to the articles, and have also raised this concern at multiple discussions here and here. I know that we need to update the article's talk page to include the term 'udaipur=yes' in the project template. But even after doing so, the articles are not shown in the statistics table. When i manually add some relevant category to the talk page, it starts showing in the table. For instance, i added the category 'Category-Class Udaipur articles' to the talk page, it started showing in the table. What should be done to get this task automated ??

@Vishal0soni: The template at Template:WikiProject India needs editing so that it will work with the Udaipur=yes parameter. -- WOSlinker (talk) 21:41, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

@WOSlinker:. Thanks for information. But how do i get it done. I do not have permission for that. How and to whom should i raise a request? Vishal0soni (talk) 05:13, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

@Vishal0soni: You would need to make the changes in Template:WikiProject India/sandbox and then put a {{editprotected}} template on the talk page asking an admin to copy it over from the sandbox to live. -- WOSlinker (talk) 13:43, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

@Vishal0soni: I've done it for you. Please see Template:WikiProject India/sandbox and tell me if it looks okay — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:41, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

@WOSlinker:. This is really great. Thanks a million. I made a minor update, and now this is really looking good. :) Vishal0soni (talk) 05:10, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

I am not WOSlinker, But

Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:02, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

@MSGJ:. Hey Martin, Thanks for your kind support. This is really helpful. :) Vishal0soni (talk) 09:19, 10 May 2016 (UTC)

Infobox UK place

Hi,

Could you have a look at Template talk:Infobox UK place#Northern Ireland maps please? You are probably person most able to do the necessary tweaks to the back end. Only the County Down map is live at the moment, but I'll get the others up soon--Nilf anion (talk) 19:29, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

@Nilfanion: All done. See Ballela for example. -- WOSlinker (talk) 20:21, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

Convert and Wikidata

There are two new modules to access Wikidata for {{convert}}. The idea is that an infobox could be designed to use a parameter supplied in an article, or to look up a Wikidata property otherwise. In both cases the result could be passed to convert using the new input= parameter. More at Template talk:Convert#Module version 14.

It's not clear if the new feature will get any use, but it might gain acceptance in time. Do you think it's worth template-editor protecting the two new modules? If so, they are:

Johnuniq (talk) 01:18, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Hmmm, probably not yet but once it is used then yes. -- WOSlinker (talk) 07:48, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

On reflection, you're right of course—no point protecting it unless it's used. It was my tidy mind thinking it should be the same as the others. By the way, there is just one tracking category now (Category:Convert errors). Johnuniq (talk) 10:27, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Motorola microcontrollers

Template:Motorola microcontrollers has been nominated for merging with Template:Motorola processors. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. DavidCary (talk) 03:23, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)

Hello, what do you think about this license Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) is it possible to use it in Wikipedia? If not why? Thanks in forward. --g. balaxaZe★ 16:21, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

It's probably ok but you may want to ask at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) to get a wider response. -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:01, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Category:Pages using infoboxes with thumbnail images

Totally copying my idea!!! :-p (100% kidding). Glad to see someone else working on that! Do you want to divide it up somehow just so we aren't hitting the same spot at the same time? Looks like you are working on the Cs and Ds. Is that correct? If so I'll jump down to the Rs or something. Thanks!!! --Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 20:35, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

I just do a few occasionally. I think it might be a never ending job though. -- WOSlinker (talk) 08:22, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

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Request: Update of the Template:Baku Metro color

Greetings.

Could you update the Template:Baku Metro color which was created far back in 2012, by adding the purple color in this template alongside the red and green colors, because Baku Metro has opened a third metro line in April 2016, whose official color is purple.

I tried to link Template:S-line in the Avtovağzal (Baku Metro) and Memar Əcəmi-2 (Baku Metro) articles of the new Line 3 and in the Memar Əcəmi (Baku Metro) article of Line 2, but failed as they appear green.

I ignorantly thought I could just add a color bar in the template, but I messed it up and reverted my mess up in the template, because I discovered that I know nothing about modules and other such technical aspects. Can you fix this please, if you know how to do this?

Thank you.

Artoxx (talk) 12:39, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

@Artoxx: I've update the template. -- WOSlinker (talk) 08:12, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much! Artoxx (talk) 18:30, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Why two self-closed categories?

Why did you split the self-closed HTML tag category into two categories, making Category:User pages using invalid self-closed HTML tags? Was there a discussion? I don't see a difference between User pages and other pages. They all need to be fixed, AFAIK. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:16, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Yes, all need fixed, but I was thinking that fixing the non-userspace ones was more important, so easier to see when separated. -- WOSlinker (talk) 16:19, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

OK. Seems like a brief note on the Category's talk page would have been helpful. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:24, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Semicolons in html tags

Your recent span fix at Module:Football manager history reminded me of something. Someone edited Module:Val to add semicolons at the end of some tags (diff). I don't care about that and am happy with whatever style is normal. However, consistency is good and there are several cases in other modules I maintain such as Module:Convert where there is no terminating semicolon. I supposed a C programmer would feel it was unfinished without a trailing ";", but is there any reason to keep it? I have to keep the semicolon and fix the testcases (see results) and worry about the fact that other modules have no terminating semicolon, or remove the addition. I'm asking your opinion because my html knowledge is very weak. Johnuniq (talk) 04:21, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

It works both ways and is just really personal preference as far as I know. -- WOSlinker (talk) 06:39, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

OK thanks, I think I'll remove it for consistency. Johnuniq (talk) 06:51, 12 October 2016 (UTC)

Revert

Care to explain your recent revert? TylerDurden8823 (talk) 18:20, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Yes, generally, categories should not members of themselves. -- WOSlinker (talk) 09:49, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

WOS, I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Can you clarify your rationale please? You do understand that osteopathic physicians and osteopaths are not the same type of practitioner, right? TylerDurden8823 (talk) 19:55, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Ok, I've remove that category. It was the adding of Category:Osteopathic physicians as a category to Category:Osteopathic physicians didn't make any sense. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:19, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Great, thank you. TylerDurden8823 (talk) 05:48, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins

Hello,

Please note that TOTP based two-factor authentication is now available for all administrators. In light of the recent compromised accounts, you are encouraged to add this additional layer of security to your account. It may be enabled on your preferences page in the "User profile" tab under the "Basic information" section. For basic instructions on how to enable two-factor authentication, please see the developing help page for additional information. Important: Be sure to record the two-factor authentication key and the single use keys. If you lose your two factor authentication and do not have the keys, it's possible that your account will not be recoverable. Furthermore, you are encouraged to utilize a unique password and two-factor authentication for the email account associated with your Wikimedia account. This measure will assist in safeguarding your account from malicious password resets. Comments, questions, and concerns may be directed to the thread on the administrators' noticeboard. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:34, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

A new user right for New Page Patrollers

Hi WOSlinker.

A new user group, New Page Reviewer, has been created in a move to greatly improve the standard of new page patrolling. The user right can be granted by any admin at PERM. It is highly recommended that admins look beyond the simple numerical threshold and satisfy themselves that the candidates have the required skills of communication and an advanced knowledge of notability and deletion. Admins are automatically included in this user right.

It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent when discovering wrongly applied deletion tags or inappropriate pages that escape the attention of less experienced reviewers, and above all, hasty and bitey tagging for maintenance. User warnings are available here but very often a friendly custom message works best.

If you have any questions about this user right, don't hesitate to join us at WT:NPR. (Sent to all admins).MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:48, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		My recent changes patrol for the Portal namespace shows you've been especially busy today! -- John of Reading (talk) 19:41, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:51, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, WOSlinker. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2016 election, please review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:The Lily Bard Mysteries

Template:The Lily Bard Mysteries has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Frietjes (talk) 15:19, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Template:WikiProject University of California

Hello. It is template-protected, but it is transcluded by 2,000 pages. Also, WP:UAL#Template editor says there are 143 template editors, while WP:UAL#Extended confirmed users says there are almost 30,000. Recently, a template with almost 2,000 transclusions was upgraded from semi-protected to EC-protected. Can you downgrade the template to ECP? I am trustworthy enough to edit this image. --George Ho (talk) 06:03, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Done -- WOSlinker (talk) 13:11, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 18:52, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

FAG!

Are you also checking to see if the Findagrave reference number has been added to Wikidata too? Another editor is deleting FAG numbers if they are being used as a reference and has refused to migrate them to external links or migrate them to Wikidata. They will be safe at Wikidata since she has no authority there. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 01:42, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

I haven't really being doing much at Wikidata. Once I've finished editing the articles I can find that need doing, I could see if anyone over at Wikidata has a bot that could do it. -- WOSlinker (talk) 11:06, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Request to help me rename

Can you help me to rename the title of the templates?:

User:Weneedwikipedia/UBX/User interest Math to User:Weneedwikipedia/Userboxes/User interest Math

User:Weneedwikipedia/UBX/Stop pollution to User:Weneedwikipedia/Userboxes/Stop pollution

User:Weneedwikipedia/UBX/No Vandalism → User:Weneedwikipedia/Userboxes/No Vandalism

User:Weneedwikipedia/UBX/User Motor yacht to User:Weneedwikipedia/Userboxes/User Motor yacht

User:Weneedwikipedia/Userbox/MLP brony1 andUser:Weneedwikipedia/Userbox/MLP brony2 to User:Weneedwikipedia/Userboxes/MLP brony1 and User:Weneedwikipedia/Userboxes/MLP brony2

User:Weneedwikipedia/Userbox/European Food to User:Weneedwikipedia/Userboxes/European Food

Weneedwikipedia (talk) 13:03, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Done -- WOSlinker (talk) 14:00, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Find a Grave

I was not aware of the Find a Grave template; thanks for alerting me to it by adding it to a few of my pages.Alafarge (talk) 18:11, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes

NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67

Briangotts • JeremyA • BU Rob13

Guideline and policy news

A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news

When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration

The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries

JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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13:38, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you

	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	Thank you for jumping into the cleanup after the move of Category:Unassessed-Class articles to Category:Unassessed articles. You help keep Wikipedia running smoothly, and this deserves recognition. {{Nihiltres \|talk \|edits}} 15:37, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Mobile phone companies in Ukraine

Template:Mobile phone companies in Ukraine has been nominated for merging with Template:Ukraine mobile phone companies. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Islamomt (talk) 19:14, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

navbox

Hi, i work on a navbox for ways of obtaining science in two related field, scientific method from philosophy of science and dikw pyramid from information science. i need help of some people like you to finsh this,

you can see a prototype of navbox in my sand box: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:KPU0/sandbox Plutonium 16:48, 21 February 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by KPU0 (talk • contribs)

Help with Template:Birdsong

Hey WOSlinker. You did some code tidying at {{Birdsong}} back in 2014. I imported that template from fr:Modèle:Chants d'oiseaux and I finally got around to cleaning up its documentation and testing it today. It's displaying fine when its basic output is used, but the alignment goes all out of wack when you include a link to a Commons audio file. You can see this by looking at the current documentation, where the example use of a link to a Commons file (for the Canada Goose) results in a very ugly alignment. Here's the thing though: the same example use at the documentation at the French version of the template, of the same file, displays fine. I checked whether your edits might have caused the alignment issue (just chasing down the possibilities) and they did not. Since you edited it though, and in a manner way over my head, indicating your technical know how, I thought I might ask you to take a look and see what I did wrong/how it can be fixed. Thanks--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 19:01, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

I've had a look but haven't worked it out yet. I'll keep looking though. You may also want to ask on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) as well. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:18, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) I didn't see a display difference between the French and English versions, but I did see the sound player overlapping the text above it. I have tried to fix this by giving the text more space. Does it look better to you, Fuhghettaboutit? – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:21, 25 February 2017 (UTC)

Thank you both for looking. @Jonesey95: Hmm, maybe it depends on browser. In Firefox, on a mac, the display of the example use of the same commons file in the template looks (still) like this: File:Broken birdsong display.png.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:29, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Strange. I use Firefox 48.0.2 for Mac and everything stays inside the box for me. I do notice that the sound player starts loading as a dark gray box and then is replaced with a light gray box. There is some screwiness in how that thing works, I think. You might ask at VPT. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:04, 28 February 2017 (UTC)

Hi, as you are removing some of the old coordinate parameters from the template may be you could also remove the associated |iso_region=. Thanks. Keith D (talk) 13:57, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Big/TemplateData

Template:Big/TemplateData has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pppery (talk • contribs) 21:48, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

abrr

Hmmm, looks like I'm leaving typos all over the place lately. Thanks for sorting them out. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 21:04, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

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