User talk:MSGJ - Wikipedia

It looks like your changes to Fix broke stuff, for example Yellowcake should be categorised in "Articles needing references from April 2010". Rich Farmbrough, 16:15, 20 June 2010 (UTC).Reply

  Checking... — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:57, 20 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

I don't see any error. Yellowcake belongs to Category:Articles with unsourced statements from April 2010 which seems to be correct? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:11, 20 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

Or maybe it was this that fixed it. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:14, 20 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

Yes seems likely. Thanks. Rich Farmbrough, 00:17, 9 July 2010 (UTC).Reply

Hello, I am currently trying to revive WikiProject Bedfordshire, and would like to make some changes to the the project's assesment template. I would like it to include the following categories: Book, Category,Disambig,Project,File,Redirect and Template.Also, I would be gratefull if you could add the facility to use the importance scale. I saw your name in the history and was wondering if you could help. If you can, that would be great and I would happily give you the template barnstar for your efforts. If not, please accept my apologies for wasting your time! Thanks,Acather96 (talk) 10:23, 26 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

Happy to help; no barnstar required! I've created Template:WikiProject Bedfordshire/class - you might like to check that page to make sure the options are set as desired. Don't forget to update the documentation for the template, and also create all the necessary categories. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:41, 26 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

Napoleon was once quoted as saying something to the effect "You can accomplish many great things, so long as you have enough ribbon". I fully appreciate the acknowledgment of my efforts, even more, respecting the source of the accolade. Perhaps what's best, is I enjoy contributing at WP:AFC. Having said that, Please feel free, even know that I request, helpful intervention towards Best or better practices, of which I may be less aware. Again thanks, and I will now re-double my efforts. An almost logical outcome. Bravo when it works. My76Strat (talk) 19:36, 27 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hi MSGJ, thanks for the message (on my talk page and at the RfA). Didn't realise my mistake really! I've removed it from the main RfA page, so hopefully the comments won't continue until (at least) the candidate wants them to. What would the correct thing be to do with the existing comments? I wouldn't want that to jeopardise the nomination – even though there's a clear tilt it would only be fair to treat this nom as others. Cheers, matt (talk) 11:30, 29 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hmm, not sure what's best. You can't just remove people's comments. I would suggest apologising to the candidate and asking them how they want to proceed. Seeing the direction the RfA was going, they would likely decide not to retransclude it. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:24, 29 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

I see that you have added the Pending Changes trial on Adoor Pankajam article. This looks like a useful tool. Can you please let me know how to suggest or add articles for Pending Changes? I wish to nominate the article List of top grossing Malayalam films which is being frequented by IP edits now. --Sreejith K (talk) 12:33, 29 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

Adding the pending changes is at adminstator's discretion, just like normal page protection. You can add suggestions to WP:PCQ/P, or in more urgent cases you can request it at WP:RFPP. I have added it to the article you requested. There seems to be occasional vandalism but mainly contructive edits from unregistered users, so PC-protection might be useful. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:18, 29 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

FYI, I believe this was a valid edit request due to the cascading full protection from the lockbox. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 05:33, 1 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Yes indeed. Not sure how I missed that. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:42, 1 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

I was going move {{Eurohist}} to {{WikiProject European history}} but the move wouldn't let me. Just wondering if you could do it. Thanks. -- WOSlinker (talk) 12:33, 1 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

  Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:36, 1 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hi! I noticed that you moved {{WikiProject Hello!Project}} template to {{WikiProject Hello! Project}}. I've been tagging Hello! Project-related articles with the former. So, by moving it to the latter, does that mean that I have to re-tag these articles? Thanks. Eugh jei ♥ Kaorin 13:08, 1 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

No, not at all. The former is now a redirect to the latter, so you'll notice they work just as well. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:09, 1 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for uploading File:AfC submissions in 2010.gif. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have created in your upload log.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. —fetch·comms 17:43, 1 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

That was an epic fail XD. —fetch·comms 17:43, 1 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Ooh, have I done something wrong? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:17, 1 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Wow, I am surprised that no one was created a copyright editnotice yet. How is this Template:Copyright editnotice? 117Avenue (talk) 17:45, 2 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the help on List of minor Degrassi: The Next Generation characters. I don't mean to be too forward, but I did want your thoughts on the above template. 117Avenue (talk) 01:15, 11 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Sorry I forgot to reply to this one. The edit notice looks good. Can you remind me which page you wanted to add it to? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:00, 11 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Template:Editnotices/Page/Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 10) 117Avenue (talk) 22:28, 11 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

  Added — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:42, 11 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, 117Avenue (talk) 23:01, 11 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

These may be helpful: wp:standardize & wp:banner standardisation/data. –xeno^talk 04:23, 3 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thank you, may well be helpful. Nice work with this. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:34, 4 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

so much for setting up that assessment template.

Thank you. I hope it proves helpful to your project. And I hope it doesn't mean you spend all your time assessing the articles so that you have no time to improve them! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:22, 6 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hello. I have recreated T:APPLE, which you deleted under the R2 rationale. R2 applies to any redirect that "redirects from the article namespace, to any other namespace except the Category:, Template:, Wikipedia:, Help: and Portal: namespaces." The T:APPLE redirect redirected to the "Template:" namespace, so WP:R2 does not apply. Thank you. —mono 22:31, 6 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Regardless this CNR hardly strikes me as necessary. The more of these there are, the more of a chance a reader will slip through the cracks into Wikipedia's seedy underbelly. And we wouldn't want that, now, would we? –xeno^talk 22:38, 6 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

I was not saying it was "necessary." I simply said you deleted this incorrectly, as it doesn't fall under R2. If you'd like to discuss the redirect, bring it to RFD. —mono 23:16, 6 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Process for process sake then? (I didn't delete it: (talk page stalker)). –xeno^talk 23:19, 6 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for drawing my attention to this - I'd forgotten those exceptions. And thanks to Xeno for helping to sort it out :) What we need is a proper shortcut T -> Template. Until that time we should be discouraging these redirects. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:37, 7 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Per this, thanks for that. Actually, the article can probably be unprotected now, at least to let us clear out all the disruptive tags that a sock had added in his attempts to POV the article. We have three editors now who are patrolling the page, so we should be able to prevent further disruption without 3RR. Thanks! Eusebeus (talk) 08:41, 8 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

  Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:56, 8 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Ta! Eusebeus (talk) 12:08, 8 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hi; you seem to have experience with {{asbox}} and {{Asbox/templatepage}}. When I look at Category:Stub message boxes needing attention, I see lots of entries under "N", but when I look at the stub templates concerned, most don't actually show this category at the bottom, nor do they show the box

"One or more of the stub categories defined in this template do not seem to exist! Please double-check the parameters |category=, |category1= and |category2=."

Any idea what the problem is? --Redrose64 (talk) 11:31, 8 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

That's a good question. The reason is that when the template was created, the category did not exist. When the category is created at a later stage, although the warning disappears, the category does not automatically update. This is some kind of limitation with the job queue I suppose. However a null edit to the template will force the category to update. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:39, 8 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hi Martin,

Would you revisit your decision on altering the way that the citation template handles ISBN? There's been a link to the proposal on the Template_talk:Citation since May 15th, and there has been a fair amount of discussion Template_talk:Citation/identifier#ISBN_Links since your original post. Thanks. Lunchboxhero (talk) 16:48, 9 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

I have no memory of this, but I'll come over and take a look now. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:11, 10 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

I'm writing in response to an automated ms I got when creating a page: "16:26, 2 September 2009 MSGJ (talk | contribs) deleted "Category:Template-Class Stagecraft articles" ‎ (C1: Empty category)". Since September 2009 I've been going through adding tags, and now have several articles that would fill out this category... DJSparky ^huh? 23:26, 10 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

That's fine. Before you changed to |QUALITY_SCALE=extended this category wasn't needed. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 00:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the reviewer and rollback tools. Could be very useful. HiLo48 (talk) 23:45, 10 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

You're welcome. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 00:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hi Martin,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:M777 Light Towed Howitzer 1.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on July 12, 2010. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2010-07-12. howcheng {chat} 03:38, 11 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Great, thanks for letting me know. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:00, 11 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hi, your recent edits to the above template have broken it (see for example Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Battle of Yarmouk/archive2). Would you mind reverting them for now and testing your changes somewhere else? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 13:55, 11 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Apologies.   Fixed — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:01, 11 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. Dabomb87 (talk) 14:03, 11 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Just a friendly reminder about this. Cordially, SergeWoodzing (talk) 22:11, 11 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Yes, sorry I forgot. Now updated. Cheers — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:37, 12 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

If you're interested in reverting contested edits, then you should support my edit, which was reverting a contested edit. That wording was decided by consensus and has been stable for two years. — kwami (talk) 09:33, 12 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Consensus can change. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:35, 12 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Would you please fix this page? I'm not sure what it does, but I just hid the deletion tags to prevent the page from appearing in CAT:CSD. Nyttend (talk) 17:40, 13 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

  Fixed. Turns out that |nocat=yes is not accepted for |nocat=true. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:15, 13 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thank you so much for your help at the above. (Clearly) I haven't a clue what I'm doing. Anthony (talk) 20:45, 13 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

No problem; happy to help. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:31, 13 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

MSGJ,
Hello. I saw you recently edited Template:Infobox college coach. We need to make a little code change to reflect a redesign of the College Football Hall of Fame website. A pretty simple change is need. The root URL for the external link needs to be changed from http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php to http://www.collegefootball.org/famer_selected.php. I already made the analagous change at Template:Cfbhof, but I don't have edit rights for Template:Infobox college coach. Thanks. Jweiss11 (talk) 21:07, 13 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

The current version still seems to work. Is there reason to believe that it won't work in the future? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:42, 13 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Check out http://www.collegefootball.org/famersearch.php?id=80001 and http://www.collegefootball.org/famer_selected.php?id=80001 for Bo Schembechler. The old URL seems to just be a skeleton now. Also, the navigation bar doesn't seem to work on the old URL. Jweiss11 (talk) 21:56, 13 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Okay I see.   Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:44, 14 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thank you! Jweiss11 (talk) 17:04, 14 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hi Martin, here are a few easy banner moves that I can't do myself. Mainly just upper/lower case issues or an extra space in the name:

• Template:WikiProject Endangered Languages → Template:WikiProject Endangered languages
• Template:WikiProject FireService → Template:WikiProject Fire Service
• Template:WikiProject Former countries → Template:WikiProject Former Countries
• Template:WikiProject Ice hockey → Template:WikiProject Ice Hockey
• Template:WikiProject mythology → Template:WikiProject Mythology
• Template:WikiProject Scuba → Template:WikiProject SCUBA
• Template:WikiProject Shreveport Article → Template:WikiProject Shreveport

Thanks -- WOSlinker (talk) 21:27, 14 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

All done, I think except one where I moved the project. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:40, 15 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Here's another minor move:

• Template:WikiProject Home living → Template:WikiProject Home Living

Thanks -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:33, 23 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

  Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:31, 24 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

I think you should relist Talk:Israel – North Korea relations#Requested move for more input, three editors is not enough to judge anything imho, and Afd's and moves are routinely relisted for a further week when such little input occurs in my experience. MickMacNee (talk) 18:18, 15 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

But it had already been open for nearly 2 weeks, which is equivalent to being relisted. I doubt it will attract any more comments. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:20, 15 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

I've seen Afd's relisted multiple times. What's the benefit of closing it? If necessary, relist, and post requests for comment, if the problem is attracting more comments. MickMacNee (talk) 19:05, 15 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Well sorry, I don't see the benefit in keeping it open because only one person commented in the last 10 days and I doubt if anyone else will. It's obviously not a topic which many editors care about. We have a backlog at WP:RM you know and requests like this need to be closed. Feel free to file a new request in a couple of months but for now I think I will stick with my decision. Regards — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:14, 15 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

The benefit in keeping it open is to actualy reach a decision either way. If you are clearing backlogs by just closing little participated in discussions as 'meh', instead of advertising them or relisting them, then you are not doing anything for the pedia except being a pointless beaurocrat. I will ask you one last time to relist, or come up with another solution that actually gets to a decision. There is not enough input here to even call this a 'no consensus', that actually implies there has been enough comments to actually judge the consensus, or lack of. 'no consensus' <> 'no input' or 'no interest'. I am not going to wait a couple of months when there is absolutely no need to do so, that is just perverse. MickMacNee (talk) 14:09, 16 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Why not attack the editors when there is a huge bias by the americans who are determined their view is correct when the issue is clearly disputed yet they have gone ahead and edited and merged the pages to suit their views amid huge controversy on the subject. i take it your also american which is why you have sided with them.

it's supposed to be an encyclopedia not which country has the most editors view goes, also denying us to express our selves on the talk page goes againsts the yanks 1st ammendment and the european convention on fundamental rights article 10 the right to freedom of expression.

any rules you create cannot override law.............Jse1986 (talk) 10:08, 16 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Woah.. He OK? - 4twenty42o (talk) 11:23, 16 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

He seems to have some rather strong views on the topic of fried potato. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:32, 16 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Not everything on Wikipedia is done the American way. For example see American football which American's just call Football but the article is not at Football. -- WOSlinker (talk) 11:41, 16 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, also the spelling of Yoghurt caused a huge ruckus I believe! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:23, 16 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Mmmm ... potatoes fried in oil to the point of crunchiness ... Redrose64 (talk) 21:09, 16 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

It should be Yog-hurt :) Ouch. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:20, 16 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for granting me Rollback permission. It's already proving to be a very useful tool. katherine_a (talk) 16:13, 16 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

You're welcome, glad to hear it. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:22, 16 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

FYI, your latest edit breaks the whitespace stripping feature. For example, Template:Px has no space, but Template:Px, currently has a space between the number and the px. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 17:01, 16 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

I'm a bit confused. Per Template:Px/testcases that seemed to happen with the previous version as well. But I thought I spaces were stripped from the ends of parameters. Please explain! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:24, 16 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Nevermind. I did some more testing, and it's not actually a problem. Mediawiki doesn't care if there is a space between the number and the px, so no problems. You are probably correct at the previous version. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 19:31, 16 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

But I would still be interested to hear an explanation of the space trimming. Is it only leading spaces that are trimmed? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:10, 21 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

—fetch·comms 19:06, 16 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hi there, thanks for the work you've done on the project template moves (I wish you'd done it before I started helping out with the UBLP issue!), but can I ask you to hold off for a while. For some reason (job queue?) the lists we are using to track Unreferenced BLP's fail for a day or two (or longer) after the template is moved. See Bodybuilding and Volleyball and even Football (back in early June) for examples. If you really want to keep going, can I ask you to maybe do them mid week, as I often use a Sunday to Sunday weekly change number, and not around the end of month (for the monthly checks). Finally, if you could update any redirect links on User:DASHBot/Wikiprojects/Templates, it would save me checking over 600 links or only discovering the change when the numbers of UBLPs drop off. Thanks, The-Pope (talk) 00:18, 18 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Okay I will bear this in mind. Perhaps the bot needs to be a bit cleverer because a redirect should operate just like the template does. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:49, 21 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hi ! I saw you're the creator of Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Grading scheme. I noticed a funny thing - the category example, Category:Coastal settlements in New York was deleted in a CfD discussion. Quite a coincidence :) Maashatra11 (talk) 15:50, 20 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Ah well spotted. I've changed it to Category:Extragalactic stars now. Hopefully that one will survive! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:44, 21 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hi Martin,

I'm genuinely confused and saddened by your opposition to my current RFA on the grounds that "a surprising number" of my editprotected requests have to be declined, especially given your support of my previous RFA. I've compiled what I believe to be a complete list of the editprotected requests I've raised this calendar year at User:Thumperward/EP. Of the 34 in total, only 5 have been declined (two for the same page), and of those I believe two were simply through being raised early even though neither appears to be controversial (I was about to re-request sync for the {{infobox film}} change). Could you perhaps take a look and share your thoughts? Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) - talk 14:17, 22 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

I've glad you've taken the time to compile that list as I was hoping you would respond to this. Some thoughts/questions:

• I am applying the assumption that each time you use {{editprotected}} to attract an admin's attention then you feel the edit is appropriate at that time and so would make the edit yourself, if you were able. Is this correct?
• Do you really feel that 5 out of 34 is reasonable? (This is about 15% of your requests this year.)
• In addition there were others from 2009. In particular Template talk:Expand list#Undiscussed change seemed to show quite an astonishing lack of awareness of WP:BRD and WP:WAR.
• I think that most of requests are good ideas and on several occasions I personally supported them (e.g. on Template talk:Oldafdfull) but was not able to make the edit because I felt that it did not have sufficient consensus or had not been discussed thoroughly enough. Do you understand that an edit not only has to be beneficial but has to be "seen to be beneficial" and this requirement is not needless bureaucracy but a core part of how Wikipedia works and how being an administrator does not affect an editor's authority?

— Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:40, 22 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

1. I think this is a reasonable assumption. One thing I would say is that to a certain extent I've allowed myself to be slightly reckless with my editprot template usage precisely because I know there's a check in place in the form of whoever looks at it. I would like to think that if the responsibility for the correctness of my actions were entirely in my own hands, I'd think twice even in situations I consider uncontroversial because of the added responsibility to get things right first time.
2. Yes, I think so, considering that of those five two were really part of the same incident (a moment of ill judgement on my behalf admittedly) and two of the others were either carried out in the end with no opposition or should be once re-requested. In the end, it's a handful of potential banana skins in seven months' work. Conversely, 85% of those requests were carried out without hitch, and I could be helping to ensure that future edits of that type are processed more quickly.
3. The editprotected request there was ill-judged, I'll admit to it; however, I think that's an exceptional case, and it's from fourteen months ago. Once the editprotected request was declined, I argued my case and then dropped it when I didn't have consensus. I certainly didn't edit war over it, nor did I have any inclination to, and I wouldn't consider doing so for a minute with the tools.
4. Yes: the oldafdmulti discussion showed a failing on my part. I'd like to think that I coped much better at template talk:archive box collapsible the other day when I specifically pinged Amalthea for his comments rather than just sticking an editprotected request up.

Thanks for the response. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) - talk 15:06, 22 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Today, someone moved several wikiproject banners, e.g. [1]. The resulting projects lost a huge number of articles (the categoriers disappeared from the talk pages). But, the articles seem to be coming back into the categories through the job queue. Do you have any idea how this could have happened? Do you think the edit that removed BANNER_NAME could related? The affected projects seem to have lost nearly all of their articles, so I'd like to figure out if there's a way to avoid this. Here's a particularly bad one [2] — Carl (CBM · talk) 01:35, 23 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

It is likely because of sloppiness by the editor that moved the templates. In the case of astronomy and sexuality, the /class and /importance subpages were moved 2-3 hours later than the template itself during which time the articles would have fallen out of the categories. (I raised this with him yesterday). Failure to update the BANNER_NAME is unlikely to cause these problems. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:16, 23 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

I see. Thanks for the explanation. I'm hoping these will all repopulate through the job queue over the next few days. — Carl (CBM · talk) 12:30, 23 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Category:Politics of the United Kingdom articles by quality has emptied out for the same reason. Now fixed by myself and should be refilling. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:21, 23 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

I posted a new (but still rather rough) version of the AfC barnstar at WT:WPAFC but seeing as you were the main commenter, I thought I'd seek your opinion. What do you think?

sonia^♫♪ 10:19, 23 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

It looks pretty good. I quite like the words in the background. It would be even better if it could be a bit shinier :) — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:23, 23 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

After the various banner moves, there are a few occurences of BANNER_NAME (mainly for hooks) that haven't been updated. Below is a list of those for protected pages that need fixing. Just wondering if you could take a look. Thanks -- WOSlinker (talk) 09:16, 24 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

• Template:WikiProject Astronomy
• Template:WikiProject Catholicism
• Template:WikiProject Iowa
• Template:WikiProject Novels
• Template:WikiProject Physics
• Template:WikiProject Trains

  all done I think. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:26, 24 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hi Martin,
todays changes to {{db-notice}} broke the behavior if it's placed on a red-linked page, see this fix that had to be made: The new line in front of the heading was missing.
I didn't look into how this can be fixed while retaining the changes, if you figure it out feel of course free to re-apply the change, cleaning this template up is certainly overdue.
Cheers, Amalthea 18:08, 24 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for letting me know. I've been caught with this before I think. I'll take another look. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:28, 25 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Okay I've got a working version on Template:Db-notice/sandbox. It's strange that </br> doesn't behave the same as a new line. Do you know if this is intentional? Unofrtunately this means there is no way to conditionally add a line break, and that version is still somewhat unsatisfactory because it leaves an extra line space when no welome message is displayed. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:54, 25 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

When will the underline feature be restored? The same feature has long been available on other language versions of Wikipedia. Thanks. 112.118.148.29 (talk) 21:07, 24 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

As soon as the deprecated uses have been fixed up I think. The best place to discuss this is Template talk:Citation needed because I am not really involved with this project (just responding to requests). I believe the underlining functionality is still possible with Template:Reference necessary though. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:32, 25 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

I've put a page together at User:WOSlinker/Sandbox5 which may help in automating the creation of the categories if you can't get a bot to do it all. Would only take about 700 mouse clicks to do it all. -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:28, 25 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Wow thanks, you've spent quite a lot of time on that! I'll post it on the WP:RIF page; may well turn out useful. (But it's still 700 clicks ... I'm worried about repetitive strain injury!) — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:24, 25 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Didn't take too long to do the list, just used Excel to generate each line. The bit that took slightly longer was getting the javascript bit to work. -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:36, 25 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Only 358? I thought it was more than that. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:37, 25 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Regarding this, I explained what I was doing on my talk page. I doubt I'll have any further involvement with this effort, as I really don't mess with templates much, and it looks like a template job from here on out. Courcelles (talk) 16:56, 26 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Okay thanks for your help with this! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:12, 26 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Hi. Could you look at Wikipedia_talk:Reference_desk#Interwiki_links Thanks.87.102.43.171 (talk) 14:34, 26 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for your swift response.87.102.43.171 (talk) 16:35, 26 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

You would probably be interested to take a look at [3] and [4]. The Macau government spells Macau with an 'o' in English (but a 'u' in Portuguese). And it spells habour with a 'u'. Meanwhile the link to Wanzai requires disambiguation. It's apparent who was vandalising around. I got no opinion with your page protection, but please freeze it with the right version. Thanks. 112.118.163.141 (talk) 19:03, 26 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

And it was User:SchmuckyTheCat who first brought up the controversial changes [5]. He changed harbour to harbor, which was obviously contravening the Wikipedia rule on spelling differences, even if Inner Harbour wasn't a proper noun. 112.118.162.55 (talk) 19:12, 26 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

The correct place to bring this up is Template talk:China–Macau border crossings. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:14, 26 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Y...es. But as the administrator who decided to freeze the page with one of the two versions, you might want to figure out which would be the correct one. I therefore provide the information that you may need. 119.237.153.112 (talk) 02:55, 27 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

This edit [6] only removed a "dead link" on the actual template page as far as I can see (admittedly I haven't reverted it to check). The reason is that the template page itself is not an article on the schools wikipedia, obviously. I think in every live use of the template it removed a live link, was that intended? The only reason I ask is editors following the talkpage links provide a useful stream of checking volunteers on the CD project and it is a pity to break the flow. --BozMo talk 19:45, 26 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Oh yes! Silly me. I've re-added it now. And are you happy with the change in the pipe to Wikipedia:Wikipedia CD Selection? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:12, 26 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Sure and the rename. Thanks. --BozMo talk 20:22, 26 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

112.118.162.55 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) appears to be related to the 112.118.130.28 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) block that you made not too long ago. Active Banana (talk) 22:32, 26 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

And more 112.118.162.156 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) Active Banana (talk) 22:47, 26 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Blocked. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:51, 26 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

In order to put a decent pause on this, the range to soft block is 112.118.128.0/17; please hit it for a week. Also, could someone create a new Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Instantnood, so I can record the results in a place it can be found in future. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 23:25, 26 July 2010 (UTC)Reply