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TWA pages

I found a bunch of pages from WP:TWA that have Lint errors. They are Template editor protected, so your help will be appreciated. Watch out for some of the missing end/stripped tags that aren't actually errors because of being divided between two pages.

1. Misplaced Pages:TWA/2/End
2. Misplaced Pages:TWA/3/End
3. Misplaced Pages:TWA/Earth/History/1
4. Misplaced Pages:TWA/Earth/History/2
5. Misplaced Pages:TWA/Teahouse/Style
6. Misplaced Pages:TWA/Teahouse/1
7. Misplaced Pages:TWA/Teahouse/2
8. Misplaced Pages:TWA/Background/3
9. Misplaced Pages:TWA/Background/7
10. Misplaced Pages:TWA/Earth/4/Diff
11. Misplaced Pages:TWA/Earth/Talk/1
12. Misplaced Pages:TWA/MyTalk/1
13. Misplaced Pages:TWA/People

These pages get substed to the userspace of those who play TWA. So this has already spread a lot of errors that can't be easily fixed. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 04:55, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

 Done. I haven't tried substing the pages to see if some combination of the pages results in errors. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:57, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! BTW you will be interested to know I have filed a BRFA to replace certain signatures causing high priority Lint errors. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 09:17, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

I found three more Template protected pages with Lint error.

1. Misplaced Pages:Article wizard/HowToDiscloseCOI
2. Misplaced Pages:Article wizard/CommonMistakes
3. Misplaced Pages:Article wizard/version1/basics

ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 08:02, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

I think I've fixed those now. -- WOSlinker (talk) 10:21, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

Here's some more templates giving stripped and missing end tag errors that can be taken off Linter reports using includeonly/noinclude -

1. Template:This is a redirect/collapse bottom
2. Template:Col-end
3. Template:Rfd top
4. Template:Graphic novel list/footer
5. Template:DYK bottom
6. Template:Col-begin

ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 06:32, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

There's just over 3500 pages where the 3 closing divs at the top of the page need moving to the end of the page. Something for a Bot to do. -- WOSlinker (talk) 08:18, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Good find, this will fix 21k errors in userspace. I already have much to do for my bot and this would need a separate BRFA. You can file a BOTREQ or I can do this task after a few weeks. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 09:31, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

It looks like WOSlinker fixed a few of the pages in this most recent list. Others look like false positives or more complex cases to me. If they cause actual errors when they are transcluded, then they need to be fixed. Otherwise, we may be able to ignore them. 99.5+% of the template-space pages that cause actual Linter errors when they are transcluded or substed were fixed long ago, mostly in 2018. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:40, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

While doing new page patrol, I came across User:Mokretar mo/TWA/Earth. This was created yesterday and has the problem with div tags that WOSlinker identified above. I don't know the subst of which page is responsible for this. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 09:38, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

I've now updated Misplaced Pages:TWA/Background/3b and Misplaced Pages:TWA/Earth/1 which may help reduce this. -- WOSlinker (talk) 13:57, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

That appears to have worked. I walked through part 3 of TWA, and it created that same page in my user space with no Linter errors. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:36, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Help nominating DYK article

Hi Jonesy. I was wondering if you could help me nominate Fallout: Equestria for DYK. I noticed that you reverted my previous attempt to nominate but I don't know what I did wrong since this is a new process for me. The article was deleted 7 years so the original nom got rejected but I remade the page a couple days ago. How do I make a new nomination?BuySomeApples (talk) 01:59, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't know anything about DYKs. You can ask for help at Misplaced Pages talk:Did you know. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:56, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

Template errors after page move

Another Philippine article, Anilao, was moved and now has error I believe are related to WD again, in the demographic section and an EL. MB 03:14, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

Pinging HueMan1, who appears to have fixed the previous one. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:12, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

@Jonesey95 and MB:  Done! —hueman1 (talk • contributions) 14:31, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

Wrong timestamp for Elo rating

Hi – the wrong timestamp is being shown for Mamikon Gharibyan's FIDE rating. The rating shown, 2464, is the current one for July 2021 (according to FIDE), but the timestamp says "March 2020". (The player's rating in March 2020 was 2433.) This seems to be related to the fact that the article was last edited in March 2020. If I "edit source" and "show preview" without making changes, the correct current timestamp is displayed. I'm writing to you because you recently made some changes to Template:Elo rating, in particular this one that removed the {{purge}} instruction, and I was wondering whether that may be related. (I don't know enough about this template myself to fix it.) Joriki (talk) 13:25, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

You are correct; it works properly, but differently from the way that I had hoped. I have asked at WP:VPT. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:23, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

 Fixed. I failed to find how to do it in the documentation, but helpful VPT readers were helpful. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:56, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

meaning of "country" in chess player infobox

Hi – it's me again – I thought you might perhaps have something to say on this issue. Joriki (talk) 11:36, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

No, I do not. I am primarily a technical editor and mostly avoid weighing in on content or template documentation discussions. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:22, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Help on this template on a local Wiki

Hi, I have noticed your contributions for Template:Infobox settlement template. I am tryin to create this template on my local wiki and it gives me errors. I would appreciate if you could help me on it. you can check this local wiki pages for ref. If you are unable to, i would appreciate if u could direct me to someone who could help.

Here are the links

Glacious (talk) 14:51, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Those pages look good to me. Maybe someone fixed the errors for you. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:28, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages Wars and the Israel-Palestine Conflict...please fill out my survey?

Hello :) I am writing my MA dissertation on Misplaced Pages Wars and the Israel-Palestine conflict, and I noticed that you have contributed to those pages. My dissertation will look at the process of collaborative knowledge production on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the effect it has on bias in the articles. This will involve understanding the profiles and motivations of editors, contention/controversy and dispute resolution in the talk pages, and bias in the final article.

For more information, you can check out my meta-wiki research page or my user page, where I will be posting my findings when I am done.

I would greatly appreciate if you could take 5 minutes to fill out this quick survey before 8 August 2021.

Participation in this survey is entirely voluntary and anonymous. There are no foreseeable risks nor benefits to you associated with this project.

Thanks so much,

Sarah Sanbar

Sarabnas _Questions? 16:07, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages Wars and the Israel-Palestine Conflict...please fill out my survey?

Hello :) I am writing my MA dissertation on Misplaced Pages Wars and the Israel-Palestine conflict, and I noticed that you have contributed to those pages. My dissertation will look at the process of collaborative knowledge production on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the effect it has on bias in the articles. This will involve understanding the profiles and motivations of editors, contention/controversy and dispute resolution in the talk pages, and bias in the final article.

For more information, you can check out my meta-wiki research page or my user page, where I will be posting my findings when I am done.

I would greatly appreciate if you could take 5 minutes to fill out this quick survey before 8 August 2021.

Participation in this survey is entirely voluntary and anonymous. There are no foreseeable risks nor benefits to you associated with this project.

Thanks so much,

Sarah Sanbar

Sarabnas _Questions? 16:07, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

Manganese, Minnesota

Hello, Jonesey! Requesting your keen skills in giving Manganese, Minnesota the once-over, once again. I'm at the point where the article is sourced as best as possible; I will be submitting it for FAC. As always, many, many thanks! DrGregMN (talk) 20:45, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

I inspected the changes since my most recent edit and was able to find just two opportunities for minor improvements. It looks great. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:49, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-31

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• If your wiki uses markup like <div class="mw-content-ltr"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl"> without the required dir attribute, then these will no longer work in 2 weeks. There is a short-term fix that can be added to your local wiki's Common.css page, which is explained at T287701. From now on, all usages should include the full attributes, for example: <div class="mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr" lang="en"> or <div class="mw-content-rtl" dir="rtl" lang="he">. This also applies to some other HTML tags, such as span or code. You can find existing examples on your wiki that need to be updated, using the instructions at T287701.
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20:45, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Lorem ipsum

Trying to hail you at the lorem talk page. The "fix" may not be needed anymore. I think I may have caught every case causing the linter error, and removed it, using new template {{lorem ipsum span}} which works in inline context. So there may be nothing to fix, now. Check out latest messages there, and lmk. Template rev 1037154209‎ works for all test cases, I believe; and if there's no more linter errors, can we just declare victory and go home? Mathglot (talk) 23:49, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Also, it would be great if Template:Lorem ipsum/testcases did not include test cases guaranteed to cause lint errors, viz:

• ''{{Lorem ipsum|2}}''
• <small>{{Lorem ipsum|2}}</small>

—Anomalocaris (talk) 23:38, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

We're actively developing that template. Those test cases will be removed soon. They are there because the new template code was causing Linter errors that didn't exist before. I need to make sure that the new template doesn't cause Linter errors, or that we eliminate that sort of now-deprecated usage in the wild. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:43, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Colored infobox header

Template:Colored infobox header has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. —Anomalocaris (talk) 23:25, 5 August 2021 (UTC)

lion

Hello, could you please format cite 20 for lion should it is consistent with the others? Thanks. LittleJerry (talk) 13:44, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

 Done. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:43, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks but all the other article give all the names. No et als. LittleJerry (talk) 00:48, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

I replicated essentially what was already there. If you want to add the other authors, they are readily available if you follow the link, and you can see the pattern of how the parameters work in the cite template. Be my guest. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:45, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

July drive bling

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling over 8,000 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2021 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Miniapolis 13:48, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

Adding citations to Fraser T Smith

I have a strong interest in singers, rappers and electronic music.

I am busy editing artists such as Mark Ronson, Paul Epworth, Ryan Tedder, Timbaland, Fred Again and Jimmy Napes.

I have turned my attention to Fraser T Smith but I cannot edit the article as it is protected.

I would like to add citations under Career.

FuBiuC (talk) 22:57, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you are talking about. If you want to request an edit to a protected article, a suitable form will appear when you attempt to edit the article. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:46, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Some information about Lumines

Thanks for your edits in Lumines: Puzzle Fusion. I addressed some of your concerns however I do have some information that I wanted to clarify

• I can understand the confusion with the gameplay for Lumines. Throughout the manual, the interviews, and reviews, the 2x2 group of blocks that make the shape of a Square are never referred to as "Squares". Initially in the article, the 2x2 grouped blocks that the player controls are known as "Blocks" and once they formed a 2x2 of the same color on the playing field, then they make a single shaped square and referred to as "Colored Squares". some reviewers simplified or shortened the term to just "Squares" so I attempted to use the verbiage given.

• The game received many ports as you can see and some of them were made concurrently with the earlier sequels, so that explains why they use some of the features of the sequels (but not being actual sequels themselves). The problem is that there is a section dedicated to the initial release/ports and another section for sequels/spinoffs. How do I address the features introduced in the sequels such as Lumines II and Lumines Live! earlier in the article if they are in their respected Sequels and Spin-off section below?

The rest, I hope I addressed in my current edits.Blue Pumpkin Pie (talk) 03:26, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

I added some text to address the second problem. The article's prose should be good enough for FA now, unless I missed something. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:51, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

FAC Manganese, Minnesota

Hello, Jonesey95! I don't know if its appropriate to request a copy edit check during FAC review, but I have added some additional text to the article as result of the comments by the general reviewers and would appreciate your once-over. Best regards, DrGregMN (talk) 23:28, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

I looked at the diff since my last edit, and there wasn't much modification of the prose. I found and tidied a few minor things. Let me know if the FAC reviewers have specific issues. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:13, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

No specific issues I am aware of, but I have added some addition text at the request of the reviewers (again); I'm sure you are watching the page. Hopefully that's all, please feel free to have a look at the additional text. Regards, DrGregMN (talk) 22:25, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Timeline of Francis Drake's circumnavigation

Hello and thanks for your addressing the errant dashes on the Timeline of Francis Drake's circumnavigation. As the instigator of the errant dashes, I'd appreciate knowing what I did wrong and what you did to correct it so that I may not make this mistake in the future. Thank you for your attention to the article. Kind regards,Hu Nhu (talk) 21:02, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

See MOS:DASH. When you have a range, like "pp. 50–60", Misplaced Pages's Manual of Style prescribes the use of an unspaced en dash instead of a simple hyphen (which looks like "pp. 50-60"). See Misplaced Pages:How to make dashes for information on how to create a dash when you are editing a page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:33, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Excellent! I will search for other errant dashes. It would have certainly been nice had I used the correct dash in the first place. Kind regards,Hu Nhu (talk) 00:02, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Linter

I remember when html was fun and easy. Cheers, --Deepfriedokra (talk) 21:08, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Message to Jonesey95

Thank you for fixing the error on the page chaos and the calm, at first I thought no one even cared about disc 2 all missing tracks so i fixed them. but anyway thank you! How're you doing? HimuEdits (talk) 16:43, 16 August 2021 (UTC)HimuEdits

You're welcome. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:03, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Edit conflict

You conflicted me! 2600:100A:B127:4F1B:7C9A:B100:7BE4:5B88 (talk) 00:32, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Sorry if I caused you any trouble. When you save a template with errors in it, it's like leaving tasty cookies out for gnomes. Please use Preview and the syntax highlighter gadget to help avoid saving pages with errors in them. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:55, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

infobox spacing

{{Template:Antiproton Decelerator}} is used in about ten articles. Articles that use it at the top seem to have a blank line. See ACE experiment for example. I don't what is causing this white space. I'm sure you will find it quickly. Thanks. MB 04:26, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

MB: is it better now? – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:50, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Yup. MB 12:27, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

I removed multiple lines of white space and a comment from after the noinclude tag at the end of the template. Another option would have been to move the noinclude closing tag to the very end of the template. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:56, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Feature requests/protocol suggestions

@Jonesey95 and WOSlinker: I decided to post here instead of y'alls talks to inform and/or get input from the delinting community.

To me, perhaps I'm wrong, lint is something that can be removed innocuously, without changing the rendered page, unless something is broken to begin with. However, delinting these colon-indents changes the page output, and nothing was "broken" prior, just undesired. So I would suggest the following improvements:

1. replacing page-changing-lint with the appropriate syntax, if possible,
2. inform the lint-producing editor more carefully/obviously of the alternatives (it's not obvious to me which error @ Special:LintErrors I've created),
3. since the WP:Linter software already knows which rules are broken, in order to categorize them, it should be relatively easy to list them in the edit summary.

Re #1: how do I properly indent these templates?   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  16:57, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I often fix Linter errors by replacing invalid code with valid code, or by closing unclosed tags, but using colons for indenting has been discouraged for a long time, and it is not clear to me what the colons are intended to achieve. See MOS:INDENT for guidance, and MOS:INDENTGAP for recommended alternatives. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:05, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

The ability to edit Fraser T Smith

I placed an Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on Fraser T Smith's Talk page on 12 August 2021. There has been no response to this request. I have a strong interest in the song-writing writing genre and have edited artists such as Mark Ronson, Paul Epworth, Ryan Tedder, Timbaland, Fred Again and others. I am unable to edit Fraser T Smith as his article is currently protected and has been protected since July 2020. I am not an extended confirmed user nor an administrator but I believe I can contribute to the betterment of the article much like I have done with the artists I have listed above. Please give me edit rights. You can be assured that my contributions will only be for the benefit of Misplaced Pages. Thank you FuBiuC (talk) 04:33, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

To be able to edit that article, you need to get to at least 30 days and at least 500 edits while logged in as User:FuBiuC. That is a pretty low bar. Keep finding useful edits to make, and you'll be there soon. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:58, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

August 2021 GOCE blitz award

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling between 1 and 1,999 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE August 2021 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 01:15, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-35

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Recent changes

• Some musical score syntax no longer works and may needed to be updated, you can check Category:Pages with score rendering errors on your wiki for a list of pages with errors.

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• Musical scores were unable to render lyrics in some languages because of missing fonts. This has been fixed now. If your language would prefer a different font, please file a request in Phabricator.

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• The parameters for how you obtain tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more about this.
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• You will be able to read but not edit Commons for a few minutes on 6 September. This will happen around 05:00 UTC. This is for database maintenance.
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15:59, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Template:Expand section/doc

Hello Jonesey.

Could you please take a look at this revert again? I noticed that edit and checked it out earlier and did not find anything wrong. Can you please explain what template is "broken" in this revision? --DB1729 (talk) 21:33, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

The change introduced a Linter (i.e. syntax) error. <span>...</span> tags can't wrap multiple lines. It is better to place the clarify template outside of any text, with a |reason= parameter. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:35, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Oh ok. Thanks for the explanation. --DB1729 (talk) 00:30, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Wolk v. Kodak Imaging Network, Inc.

Your edit of 13:24, 27 July 2020 of Wolk v. Kodak Imaging Network, Inc. installed a bunch of {{asterisk}} templates in {{rp}}. These {{Rp}} calls are now generating four lint errors each. {{rp}} was recently edited; I set the sandbox version to the old revision of production page, as edited by Matthiaspaul at 14:52, 31 August 2021, but this didn't seem to solve the problem. You are probably better at sorting this out than I am. Cheers! —Anomalocaris (talk) 23:55, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

I put a note on the template's talk page. Putting asterisks anywhere is bound to break eventually, so the markup in that page should probably be changed to something that does not include wikicode or equivalents inside templates. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:44, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for merger of Template:Infobox former subdivision

Template:Infobox former subdivision has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox settlement. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. PK2 (talk) 20:49, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-36

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• The wikis that have Growth features deployed have been part of A/B testing since deployment, in which some newcomers did not receive the new features. Now, all of the newcomers on 21 of the smallest of those wikis will be receiving the features.

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• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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• Last year, the Portuguese Misplaced Pages community embarked on an experiment to make log-in compulsory for editing.  The impact report of this trial is ready. Moving forward, the Anti-Harassment Tools team is looking for projects that are willing to experiment with restricting IP editing on their wiki for a short-term experiment. Learn more.

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15:19, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!

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		Thanks for joining the collaboration to add short descriptions to all good articles; through both your automated and non-automated additions, you've helped them live up to their moniker! Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}}  19:14, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Tech News: 2021-37

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• 45 new Wikipedias now have access to the Growth features.
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• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 14 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC.

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 September. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 September. It will be on all wikis from 16 September (calendar).
• Starting this week, Misplaced Pages in Italian will receive weekly software updates on Wednesdays. It used to receive the updates on Thursdays. Due to this change, bugs will be noticed and fixed sooner.
• You can add language links in the sidebar in the new Vector skin again. You do this by connecting the page to a Wikidata item. The new Vector skin has moved the language links but the new language selector cannot add language links yet.
• The syntax highlight tool marks up code with different colours. It now can highlight 23 new code languages. Additionally, golang can now be used as an alias for the Go programming language, and a special output mode has been added to show a program's output.

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15:31, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Template talk:Infobox royalty

What do you think about this?👇

must use this parameter 👇

_Parsbod (talk) 17:53, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

Your message makes no sense to me. I have explained how to accomplish what you want. Please do not start the same conversation in two different places. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:54, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

Bot request

Thanks for placing it; hopefully someone will be able to delete the newsletters, but if not it's not the end of the world. Long ago, I screwed up (copy-pasted without the closing tag; that doesn't count the times I forgot the four tildes ); some kind soul fixed it, but I don't remember who (or how). All the best, Miniapolis 22:11, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

No worries. This is hardly even a problem, in the grand scheme of things. Just a little goof-up. As I said, I do feel partially responsible. I had the tab open for many days in my many-tabbed WP editing window, and I've been procrastinating. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:46, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

Question you may not have the answer to

Hello J. I'm coming to you because I see that you were the last person to edit the {{Infobox Pirate}}. I am clearing out fields in the infobox person that have been deprecated over the years like residence. Tonight when I went to edit articles using the infobox pirate and hit the show preview button to find out what field needs to be removed I get the red warning message that the field that needs to be removed is "denomination" but, try as I might, I can find no such field empty or populated. Calico Jack (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) This is the first article that I found this problem at but it happens at other articles for pirates as well. I am wondering if you can find out what is going on. If not no worries I can always ask at the infobox person talk page but I thought I'd check with you first. Best regards. MarnetteD|Talk 04:00, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

 Fixed. Happy to help. Any articles still in the category can be null-edited to remove the category. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:04, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

That was quick - and painless :-) Thanks for your time! MarnetteD|Talk 04:06, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of 2020–21 Russian Women's Volleyball Super League

A tag has been placed on 2020–21 Russian Women's Volleyball Super League requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under section R2 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a redirect from the article namespace to a different namespace except the Category, Template, Misplaced Pages, Help, or Portal namespaces.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines. Stefan2 (talk) 11:34, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for your efforts

		The Citation Barnstar
		For your formatting and addition of references across a multitude of articles. Awarded by Cdjp1 (talk) 08:51, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

September 2021 Guild of Copy Editors newsletter

Guild of Copy Editors September 2021 Newsletter Hello and welcome to the September GOCE newsletter, a brief update of Guild activities since June 2021.                  Current and upcoming events September Drive: Our current backlog-elimination drive is open until 23:59 on 30 September (UTC) and is open to all copy editors. Sign up today! Drive and Blitz reports June Blitz: From 20 to 26 June, 6 participating editors claimed 16 copy edits, focusing on requests and articles tagged in March and April. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. July Drive: Almost 575,000 words of articles were copy edited for this event. Of the 24 people who signed up, 18 copyedited at least one article. Final results and awards are listed here. August Blitz: From 15 to 21 August, we copy edited articles tagged in April and May 2021 and requests. 9 participating editors completed 17 copy edits on the blitz. Final results, including barnstars awarded, are available here. Other news June election: Jonesey95 was chosen to continue as lead coordinator, assisted by Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. New maintenance template added to our project scope: After a short discussion in June, we added {{cleanup tense}} to the list of maintenance templates that adds articles to the Guild's copy editing backlog categories. This change added 198 articles, spread over 97 months of backlog, to our queue. We processed all of those articles except for those from the three or four most recent months during the July backlog elimination drive (Here's a link to a "tense" discussion during the drive). Progress report: As of 18:26, 24 September 2021 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 468 requests since 1 January and there were 60 requests awaiting completion on the Requests page. The backlog of articles tagged for copy-editing stood at 433 (see monthly progress graph above). Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators Jonesey95, Dhtwiki, Tenryuu, and Miniapolis. To discontinue receiving GOCE newsletters, please remove your name from our mailing list.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:44, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

GOCE September drive barnstars

I see that you've begun the barnstar page for the September drive. You'll be able to calculate the awards faster, since you can run the script. Something I would take into account, if I were to do it by my laborious by-hand method, is that I finished my last article ~1.5 hours past the finish time and that my completing three oldest articles pushed two editors off the leaderboard, who each had completed two (they are preserved in a hidden comment). I would consider giving them 5th place leaderboard barnstars, since that strictly was their placement at the finish. What do you think? Dhtwiki (talk) 02:17, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

I can't run the script anymore. I do not have access to a Windows computer. As for the circumstance you describe, if I were applying that circumstance to myself, I would either forgo drive credit for that article, since the drive was over, or give myself partial credit for the work I did before the drive ended (and not put myself in the "oldest artices" count, since I wasn't done with the article). I had a month to edit three whole articles, after all. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:50, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Dhtwiki, I've got good news and bad news. The bad news is that another editor edited four old articles, pushing you off the leaderboard. The good news is that your thorny moral and ethical quandary is moot, so you can finally sleep peacefully again. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:10, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Where does WP:UNDO prohibit modifying the revision that is being reverted to?

 You are invited to join the discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:Reverting § Using undo for an edit that isn't a revert. CapnZapp (talk) 17:46, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Specific to this instance, sending a notification to a vandal is fine. Their edits should be "dinged". But when we aren't actually reverting someone, we should not use undo. Getting a "you have been reverted" message in these circumstances comes across as antagonistic. (Just clarifying that your reply over at Primefac wasn't precise - no vandal or actual revert was involved; let's discuss at the linked discussion.) CapnZapp (talk) 17:46, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Horror film page talk

I know I should be talking to horror film's page talk but it's protected. Grapple wyz (talk) 21:24, 3 October 2021 (UTC)