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Template:Account status You are free to leave any messages on my talk. When it is full I will move some of them to my archives. :)

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Unsouced restoration to Jason Cundy

Please don't manually revert and restore unsourced statements on BLPs as you did with this edit. Thanks FozzieHey (talk) 15:39, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

sorry I didn't know that was unsourced, I'll try better later :) Sheep (talk) 17:47, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

No problem, it was reverted fairly quickly. For future reference, if an unsourced statement is removed and you can't find a valid source to back it up or a reason to include it at all, then don't re-add it. FozzieHey (talk) 18:16, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

Note

Hi, thanks for adding some signatures to User:MalnadachBot/Signature submissions, I will process them. Regarding this edit you made, if font tags with color attribute is outside a link, it should be moved inside the link when it is converted to span tag. Otherwise the color will not render. You had also inadvertently added extra < > brackets. I have fixed it in this edit. You can compare the before and after versions to see the effect on link colors. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 19:34, 7 May 2022 (UTC)

Link to English on List of Wiktionaries

I noticed you reverted my edit on List of Wiktionaries. The link to "English" in the first column goes to English language however the link in the second column (Language (local)) does not.— Rod 18:24, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

I've created Template:Wiktionary stats/disambig to fix this issue. Use parameter 3 to set the second link's target. Sheep (talk) 18:54, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

OMG

I CANNOT belive THEYRE undoing my edit for no reason when I was FIXING lint errors. I already made two reverts, but for no reason they keep undoing it to its original. I don't know the reason why. Sheep (talk) 07:53, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

@Sheep8144402 I would suggest ignoring users like them. 99.9% of users have changed they signature when requested, most of them are helpful and collaborative. Per Misplaced Pages:Editing restrictions (do ctrl + F Lugnuts), they are under an editing restriction prohibiting edits that do not make a change in page rendering. These reverts seems to be a violation of this, so you can report to the enacting admin Spartaz or WP:ANI if you want to take this further. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 17:16, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Mass editing

You seem to be fixing a lot of lint errors, which is great! You might want to try WP:AWB or similar, and maybe have a look at WP:BOTREQ. ― Qwerfjkltalk 20:47, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

Lint fixing

Thank you for your work fixing lint errors. I found Portal talk:Tennis in Missing end tag in Portal namespace, and I looked into the page history so I could understand what went wrong in your edit just before mine. We all make mistakes, and hopefully you didn't make many of this type, which is actually two types, because you removed some of the display text and left a tag without a closing tag. When I edit, I always run lintHint to make sure I haven't introduced any new lint errors. Also, I noticed in your edit of 03:41, 5 July 2022 (UTC) of Portal talk:Linguistics/Archive 1 you changed <tt>n</tt> to <samp>n</samp>, but this is not correct. See mw:Help:Lint errors/obsolete-tag, where it explains the various replacedments for <tt>...</tt>. <samp>...</samp> is only for computer output, and this isn't computer output. The replacement for <tt>...</tt> in the general case is {{mono}}. Also, the purpose of an edit summary is to inform other users about that specific edit. For this reason, my edit summaries usually detail every change I made. Take a look at my contributions for how expressive my edit summaries are. It may amuse you to keep a tally of your lint fixes, but I don't think the edit summary is the place for that tally. Instead of the tally, put in the details, so other editors will learn from your correction what not to do. Cheers! ―Anomalocaris (talk) 06:06, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Idk why I like to keep a tally of my fixes but it's so I can keep track of how many Linter errors I've fixed, sorry if you don't appreciate it but if it becomes a problem eventually I may have to stop :(

Maybe I can show others the types of linter errors I fixed, and put the total at the end of the summary as (x); although if I use AWB then since I'm not gonna include (x), I may have to count them myself and put it in the record Sheep (talk) 10:21, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Be more careful?

Probably not what you meant to do. Perhaps try to be more careful? --Muhandes (talk) 22:28, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Didn't even realize I was editing the wrong version...

I'll try to be more careful next time Sheep (talk) 22:34, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Re: signature

Hi, thanks for the heads up. The reason I have it that way is because with span tags, the underline isn't the custom color, unlike with font tags. I've used this signature on other wikis in the past without issue, so unless there's an easy workaround to change the underline color (when the link is clicked), I don't see a huge need to change it. JediMasterMacaroni 20:54, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

You can use text-decoration: inherit; to change the link color, but in cases where you have <sup> tags, unfortunately there will be two lines when hovering over the link. I don't know why :( Sheep (talk) 23:57, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Okay, so that's not ideal then - is it against policy to use outdated html tags or is it just a recommendation? JediMasterMacaroni 00:54, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

It's not against policy, but it's better if you switch to span tags. Sheep (talk) 01:11, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Since it's not against policy I think I'll keep it as is. I know it's not most people's preference but I don't see the harm in it. JediMasterMacaroni 01:15, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Fixing lint errors

Thank you for fixing lint errors, but your fix of Daibutsuyō made matters worse, because in replacing obsolete <center>...</center> tags, you created high-priority div-span-flip lint errors, which I fixed. Cheers! —Anomalocaris (talk) 21:06, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

{{center}} in <span> tags unfortunately doesn't work as it makes the text invisible. A better replacement is to use <style="text-align:center;">. (see here for more info) Sheep (talk) 21:28, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Attempting to fix Linter errors in Template space

I think you will find that except for newly created errors, there are no Linter errors shown on the Template space lists that affect other pages. Our efforts are best spent on actual errors that are straightforward to fix. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:40, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thank you for your efforts in fixing Lint errors. The work is much appreciated. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 11:26, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

THANKS :D 45k lint in 5 months looks like a lot to me, because I sometimes use AWB to clear Linter errors faster. Appreciate it. Sheep (talk) 12:18, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. 2409:4071:201C:5419:0:0:7B2:50A5 (talk) 09:27, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

If these edits really are causing notifications (which I question), you might want to limit your edits to other namespaces, like Misplaced Pages or Misplaced Pages Talk, where there are plenty of errors available. User:MalnadachBot/Signature submissions also lists AWB-ready patterns that need fixing. Thanks for doing these Linter error fixes. – Jonesey95 (talk) 12:40, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Its true, making any edits to a base User talk page sends a new message notification. Of course, it is not that annoying for IPs compared to registered user talk pages. That's why User talk Lint fixing should be done by bots, since bot + minor edit will not send a notification. You had submitted a BRFA, I don't know why you withdrew. BRFAs are slow moving by nature, but someone will process it eventually. Or as Jonesey as said above, you can concentrate on WP and WT pages (2 million errors there) and leave User talk for MalnadachBot. I haven't done any in weeks since the bot is busy with the bottomless pit which is Task 13. I will clear a few this weekend. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 15:24, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

I kinda withdrew bc I thought it was unlikely gonna ever get a comment (no response in ~10-14d) so I had to withdraw it, but at any time I may send another one any time soon when I feel like it.

It was withdrawn as slate bc of this reason, although some time later I may send another BRFA and hopefully get things done :(

Also note that I've now filed a BRFA to try to clear all font tags using regex expressions involving font tags and it can take a while to process as a replacement for MalnadachBot 12. 1201-1250 is a good start, then I may find other regex expressions to include so I may try to clear them all at once per page.

Sheep (talk) 15:44, 21 October 2022 (UTC)