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Upcoming changes to wikitext parsing

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There will be some changes to the way wikitext is parsed during the next few weeks. It will affect all namespaces. You can see a list of pages that may display incorrectly at Special:LintErrors. Since most of the easy problems have already been solved at the English Misplaced Pages, I am specifically contacting tech-savvy editors such as yourself with this one-time message, in the hope that you will be able to investigate the remaining high-priority pages during the next month.

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Thank you for all the good things you do for the English Misplaced Pages. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:18, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Module:Ordinal

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Nomination of 2017 IQA European Games for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article 2017 IQA European Games is suitable for inclusion in Misplaced Pages according to Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/2017 IQA European Games until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. » Shadowowl | talk 11:29, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

EU superpower?

You have been around here for long enough to know about the WP:BRD cycle. Although the material has a source, it is substantial enough to require consensus. I'm not saying it is or isn't true but merely that like any article, the bar for material in the lead is very high. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 12:57, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

@John Maynard Friedman: I'm familiar with BRD, but in this case it is the deletion that is the bold act. The sentence itself seems to have been around for some time, so it was appropriate to revert the deletion. Your deletion removes the link to an article that discusses the topic of Europe as a superpower. I fail to see how simply deleting all mention of it qualifies as an improvement.

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_chi (talk) 14:06, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

In that case I withdraw. I must have missed its addition first time around because in major articles like this, every sentence in the lead has to justify its existence and this is one, had I seen it, I would have challenged at the time. Either way, revert challenges should be resolved at the talk page, not with revert wars. Which is what is happening now, after the event rather than before. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 16:54, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

Template issues

You recent changes to the Round XX templates seem to have introduced errors to dozens articles - see Category:Pages with script errors. I undid two which seems to have fixed most of the problems, but was unable to fix the third, {{ Round4-with third}} as it’s template protected. Please have a look at this, either fixing the problem or also restoring the template to its pre-Lua form until the problem is fixed.--JohnBlackburne_deeds 21:11, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

File:Logo of the Arab Maghreb Union.png

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Template modification

Hello,

Would you please modify Template:Infobox event to be able to contain the information from the official police report from the Shooting of McGlockton? We have waited 13 days from my discussion on the talk page. The time is now to modify the template.

Thank you,
--Wyn.junior (talk) 20:35, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Hi, what's missing on the template?

\color {blue}\chi

_chi (talk) 21:37, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

This list is missing. Please modify the template to say:
--Wyn.junior (talk) 19:50, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Law enforcement agency
Report number
Report Date:
Primary Information
Occurrence From:
Occurrence To:
Source Of Call:
Business Area Name:
Reporting LEO:
Response Information
Modus Operandi
Description
Weaponry
Weapon Type
Caliber
Addresses
Offenses
Offense Type
Offense
UCR Class
Subjects
Relationship
Name
Subjects - Continued
Relationship
Name
Redaction Date:
Total Number of Redactions:

As was mentioned here, you need consensus to make a change to a template-protected page. Since there is no consensus yet the changes you want cannot be made.

\color {blue}\chi

_chi (talk) 23:03, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

File:Logo of ANOC.svg

File:Logo of Québec solidaire.svg

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Chembox assistance

Howdy! Based on some of the templates you have recently edited, I'm hoping you might be interested in helping me out with a project. I'm working on building a {{Infobox}} based replacement for {{Chembox}}. I have a working proof of concept at {{Infobox chemical}}. Looking for some expert opinions and feedback. If you have any interest, please let me know. Feel free to disregard this message. :-) (P.S. Happy thanksgiving if you are in the USA!) --Zackmann (/_{What I been doing}) 19:14, 22 November 2018 (UTC)