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Making one-size-fits-all templates 10x smaller
Since you seem to be open to making article formatting, 10x or 100x faster, then consider the following "murky" idea:
- Have small templates say use bigger one for author9: The gist of this idea is to use the "80/20 Rule" and reduce the "/core" templates to the 20% size which will handle 80% of all citations or infobox-cities, etc. Then, when someone uses a
bizarre, well, rare parameter, such as "gossip_editor=Smith" or "City_mascot_food= pineapple pizza" then have the small, reduced templates say to use the bigger template:
WARNING in Cite_web: Parameter "gossip_editor" not supported, use {CiteX web} instead.
For each {Cite book}, {Cite news}, have a {CiteX book}, {CiteX news} to handle the huge, gargantuan Xtra rare cases, with the huge {{Citation/coreX}} then processing all 563 cite parameters (as in the current "huge" /core today).
- Naturally, checking for all rare parameters would make each small template become huge like the current templates, so only the most likely rare options would be checked, and the template documentation would warn to use the eXtra-size template for rare parameters. People wouldn't have to beg to allow rare parameters, because most articles would be unaffected, while using the smaller form, and not drag rare "City_mascot_food" into the formatting of every city article. So far, that's the only way I think the "creeping-featurism parameters" can be kept out of most articles. A single template cannot support both mainstream and rare-fringe without carrying the "Rube Goldberg machine" baggage. Currently, we have these "Tuxedo templates" to allow wearing in a black-tie article or in "Peasant". The crisis has been proven because some of the other /core templates have tripled in size during 2010. We no longer have as many template architects watchlisting those major templates to deny bizarre (or rare) parameters. Other templates have kept expanding, although {Citation/core} seems stagnant, so far: Citation/core used 270 parameters in December 2007, 434 parameters in 2008, and now /core has used 563 parameters in 2009-2010. -Wikid77 (talk) 08:39, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
- Rewriting for 2x smaller results: I have found that combining Template:Cite_book with {Citation/core}, as a single template, can cut the resource usage by 56%, using less than half of the MediaWiki preprocessor resources, as when {Citation/core} is separate. At first, I tried omitting rare parameters, such as surname5 to surname8 or editor-surname3, but restored all the parameters, using only the technical change to combine templates. Even omitting the COinS metadata saved only 700 bytes, whereas combining templates saved 2,000 bytes per {Cite_book} usage. I have repeated this idea at Template_talk:Citation/core for reactions and further discussion. -talk 02:45, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
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Help needed
I am adding a reference with Template:Cite web, and the website's url is http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=20247&tx_ttnews[backPid]=211. This renders incorrectly, see Gennady Konyakhin. How could this be fixed? Debresser (talk) 13:48, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
You need to percent encode the brackets:
http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=20247&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=211
See Help:URL. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 14:03, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
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What was the issue about the non-free content with the Truman stamp? Something wrong with the fair use rationale? You didn't say. Gwillhickers (talk) 03:48, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
- You can't use a non-free stamp to simply illustrate the subject. There must be significant content about the stamp itself. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 04:10, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
Tangerine Tree
I was just trying to add a reference to a Dimeadozen page Lurulu (talk) 18:02, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for fixing that. Can't believe I did that. I guess if one looks at and repeats an error enough times it looks OK. North8000 (talk) 13:02, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
- Actually, an IP corrected it in the text. I double checked sources and concluded he was correct. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 16:17, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
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It's marked merge, but there's no merge discussion. What are your thoughts?--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 11:05, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
- Added discussion. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 16:47, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
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Single letter footnotes
I've been waiting for this change for a long time. Are you planning to complete the work so that the notes have letters as well instead of numbers? —UncleDouggie (talk) 16:48, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
- I don't quite follow you. Right now you get alpha characters if you use a group name of "footnote". ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 16:50, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
- Ah. Added to T24265. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 18:32, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
I kiss you! --Golbez (talk) 22:49, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
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I have reopened the discussion about two blank lines before stub templates here. Since I noticed you have taken an interest in this subject before, I cordially invite you to join there. Debresser (talk) 10:06, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
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Hi. Further to your earlier post on the thread I started at WP:citing sources [1] it would be useful if you could look at my latest comment as I want to try and take forward improved wording for the template. Thanks. Eldumpo (talk) 21:59, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
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Chzz makes a nice hot cup of tea
sigh :-) Chzz ► 14:12, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
- Got a nice cup of Earl Grey with vanilla in hand. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 14:54, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
- Apart from the rather...frustrating 'save' thing though... it is so hard for new editors. That's why I think we should guide all of them through a process like
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Question
Hello, Gadget850. You wrote on
Could you please tell me which script is this? I would want to clean all the white spaces made by the user who also edited the template itself. It takes a lot of article space and I do not think white spaces are necessary at all. Thank you. Shahid • Talk2me 16:50, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
- I use 17:00, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
- Not at all, but it will be a while before I get to it. What article? ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 17:28, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
- Preity Zinta. Shahid • Talk2me 23:21, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
Done
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FYI
You may want to look at this new page Admonition of the order of the arrow. I am sure you would know the best way for dealing with it. Marauder40 (talk) 23:34, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
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Calling XHTML "HTML"
Well, Gadget, what do you think of the question I raised here? (Please answer there rather than here.)
I ask you because you're the only person who both (i) has bothered to respond and (ii) clearly understands the question. If you agree, I'll make the necessary changes; if you disagree, I'll bow to the intrinsic timidity/conservatism of en:WP, whereby misinformation is preferable to change. -- Hoary (talk) 13:31, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
- I have been pondering on this, and it is almost a moot issue. We will eventually change to HTML5, probably fairly soon. It was changed a month or so ago, but so many scripts were broken that it was reverted. I think a note at the top of the page is sufficient for now. And HTML5 uses
<br>. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 13:48, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Wow ... changing to HTML5? But:
- en:WP will be viewed not by people using browsers created from 2012 to 2014, but by people using browsers created from 2009 to 2011; and the most popular even among the 2011 crop are pretty useless at HTML5;
- HTML5 and not XHTML5?
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Talkpage
Talkpage - "this template is intended only for talk pages with issues" - why?
There's nothing that says that.
Yes, I did check the documentation. Chzz ► 12:29, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
- From {{Talk header}}:
- "This template should be used only when needed. There is no need to add this template to every talk page. Do not create a talk page just to add this template."
- "Talk pages that attract frequent or perpetual debate, articles often subject to controversy, and/or recent-and-highly-visible topics are usually appropriate for this template. Calm talk pages do not need this template."
- ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 12:53, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
- Yes...but, the first part of that has no bearing on the appropriateness, in this specific case, of simply replacing the 'spam' with that template.
- We're not creating a page - it exists. I agree that if a talkpage does not exist, then we shouldn't just make one with that heading. However, I do usually make one for BLPs, adding {{blp}}- because I think it is so important to highlight BLP concerns to anyone coming across the talk page.
- As for the remainder...I think that info is somewhat wrong. It says, In accordance with Wikipedia:Talk page layout, this template should not be added to otherwise empty talk pages - yet the page it links to (the information page) makes no mention of that.
- Maybe the template doc needs updating. But... in this specific case - what do you think we should do, instead? I don't think that the page should be deleted, because there is no necessity - and history of contribs - even 'bad' ones - is useful information. Do you think we should just leave a totally blank page? I think that'd be more confusing. Chzz ► 17:38, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
- It really isn't a big deal. I have seen editors mass add this template to talk pages without reading the documentation and that is what I wanted to emphasize. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 17:56, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, agreed; it's no big deal - and I'm quite happy to forget about it; it's just that when you wrote "this template is intended only for talk pages with issues" it sounded like you were disagreeing with the advice given - which, in that specific case, I think was valid. No worries, Chzz ► 21:30, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
- It really isn't a big deal. I have seen editors mass add this template to talk pages without reading the documentation and that is what I wanted to emphasize. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 17:56, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
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1. Would this link be a good souce about Alyson Hanngian being of Jewish descent: http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/23122/celebrity-jews/ 2. It says in this article that Josh Keaton has a Caucasian parent and a Peruvian parent and he both the Jewish and Catholic holidays http://nomoreheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Josh_Keaton. SO I think it would be far to say that of one his parents is white and the other is Peruvian. Neptunekh2 (talk) 13:22, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
- The first is a news article and considered reliable. The second is a wiki, thus not reliable. See 13:27, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
It says in the article that was born in Hacienda Heights, California to Peruvian and Jewish parents. DOes that mean he's half Peruvian, half Jewish? And where a so called you say "reliable source" for this statement in the article? Neptunekh2 (talk) 13:56, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
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I don't see any replies at the help desk. Neptunekh2 (talk) 12:39, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
- "will be". Look now. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 12:48, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
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Bots routinely tag the "Scouting and Guiding in x country" disambigs as unreferenced, should we create a "Scout disambig" stub tag?--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 06:30, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
- What articles? ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 10:17, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
For instance Scouting and Guiding in Greece, Scouting in Mongolia, Scouting in Iran and Scouting and Guiding in South Africa, which I recently detagged.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 10:53, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
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Hello! Does the page Help:Cite errors/Ref name tests need to exist in mainspace? It is not linked-to from the help page, in fact is only linked to by another user -- not even you -- and because it's effectively appearing as a page full of ref errors, appears in Category:Pages with broken reference names when it really doesn't need to. It's just a test page, right? Should it not be in a sandbox somewhere instead? - Salamurai (talk) 23:06, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
- There are four help pages in that category and a bunch in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting and Category:Pages with missing references list. What do you want to do with those? ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 23:12, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
- On Category:Pages with broken reference names, two of the Help pages have broken refs because they are showing examples. I have yet to figure out how Help:Cite errors is appearing on the list. I have not attacked the pages in the other two categories; "Missing ref list" is usually handled by one of the bots (SmackBot, I think). If there's anything there that you can fix, please do! Thanks! - Salamurai (talk) 16:46, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
- Just delete the pages if they are so egregious. I am going on break, so do as you will. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 16:50, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
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I disagree with and undid your removal of all the images from Uniform and insignia of the Boy Scouts of America. You don't have to remove every single image from this article, use some discretion, but images are needed. The sleeve and pocket stuff especially. I'd like to discuss this with you.
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Is there a reason for this change? I'm loading the script in User:Ucucha/common.js and it works fine. Thanks for the compliment, by the way. Ucucha 21:29, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
- That's new to me. What is Special:MyPage/common.js? Most folks use Special:MyPage/skin.js. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 21:50, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
- It is code that loads whatever skin you are using; I think it was added in MediaWiki 1.17 a few months back. I think it's preferable because you don't need to change your js files when you change skins, and you don't need to use the skin.js hack. Ucucha 21:56, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) It's the one which is always loaded regardless of which skin you have as your default. Was introduced with MediaWiki 1.17, according to mw:Manual:Interface/JavaScript. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:01, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
- That's new to me. What is Special:MyPage/common.js? Most folks use Special:MyPage/skin.js. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 21:50, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
- Have to do some testing later as that documentation is skimpy. Looks to me like skin.js applies only to the currently selected skin and common.js applies to all skins. Feel free to revert on that. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 22:08, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
- Yes; it's the same as with MediaWiki:Common.js and MediaWiki:Vector.js etcetera. Ucucha 22:13, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
- Have to do some testing later as that documentation is skimpy. Looks to me like skin.js applies only to the currently selected skin and common.js applies to all skins. Feel free to revert on that. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 22:08, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
- OK— common.css and common.js are shared across all skins, while the others are specific. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 13:12, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
- Please note that the user-specific ones are spelled with a small c, as in User:Redrose64/common.js - User:Redrose64/Common.js does not exist (and wouldn't do anything if it did). --Redrose64 (talk) 14:39, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
- OK— common.css and common.js are shared across all skins, while the others are specific. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 13:12, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
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On your Citation templates subpage you have the statement "CS1 and CS2 both use as a meta-template and are variants of APA style." In the past I have had experienced editors tell me this, but none of them could point to any documentation or contemporaneous discussion to verify this statement. Can you point me to any confirmation of this statement? Jc3s5h (talk) 13:43, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
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Fixed ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 15:42, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
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hi there, this edit you did yesterday seems to be creating ref error messages e.g. here, please may you have a look Tom B (talk) 18:58, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
- The message was Error: If you specify
|archiveurl=, you must first specify|url=. This is how the URL fields are supposed to work. I see this was quickly fixed by updating the article ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 19:12, 3 September 2011 (UTC) - no the error message is displaying even though they have a url field. I 'fixed' a few of them by doing a workaround: making the archiveurl entry into the url entry. see John Cleese ref 38 for an example, it has a url but it still shows as an error: John Cleese (host) (1998). In the Wild: Operation Lemur with John Cleese (DVD). Tigress Productions Ltd for BBC. Archived from the original on 28 December 2010. Retrieved 28 December 2010. Tom B (talk) 19:26, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
- I fixed the problem. The implementation was a bit odd and I only fixed it in one place. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 19:34, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
"Cite court" template
Hi. Just checking to see if you feel there are more things that need to be done to {{Cite court}} before the sandbox copy can be copied to production and I can take the temporary "/sandbox" things out of the cites in the Wong Kim Ark article. I'm not trying to be pushy here — I just want to make sure I don't lose track of where we are, or end up in a situation where everyone else is waiting for me to do something. Richwales (talk · contribs) 21:10, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
- Abandoned. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 21:56, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
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Am I right that listref allows a manually set name (rather than automatically assigned a, b, ... labels), just as scref used to? In some cases where you've replaced scref by listref, you've replaced a manually assigned label with automatic assignation, which seems to me less clear where the list is long and there are several multiply-used references. Do you have any strong objections to restoring the manual labels within listref? Dsp13 (talk) 09:04, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
- Scref does not automatically assign labels. Listref uses manual labels in-text and
list-style-typeto format the reference list with six supported styles. What article is this referring to? ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 11:59, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
- The articles I'd noticed were List of African writers by country & List of 19th-century British periodicals. Other ones on my watchlist which had used scref were List of African-American visual artists and List of philosophers born in the 1st through 10th centuries. Dsp13 (talk) 16:30, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
- Made a sandboxed update. If you set
|liststyle=squarethen the label for the reference list entries will be the id. See Template:Listref/reflist/testcases. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 13:43, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
- If you are OK with the labels in the reference list then I will update the template. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 16:32, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
Done ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 16:48, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
I updated List of African writers by country— is this what you want? ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 16:54, 15 September 2011 (UTC)List of African writers by country
- yes, that looks fine to me. Thanks again for taking the trouble. Dsp13 (talk) 18:02, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
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TfD of Template:Cquote
I cannot believe you are seriously pulling a
- This belongs on the TfD page. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 01:15, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
- Only if you are counting snouts. Consensus is not built by "I like it" and "I agree with him". I suggest reading Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions and Wikipedia:Arguments to make in deletion discussions. If is a snowball keep, one of the TfD admins will close it as such in a timely manner. You may have noted my appeals for examples of proper uses of a pull quote in an encyclopedia article. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 02:12, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
- You may also note that this is not used only in article name space, an important consideration. However, none of the "snouts" counted are using "illegal" arguments, and your implication that they are is telling me you do not understand TfD, which is different from other XfDs. This was better raised as an RfC at the village pump before TfD.--Cerejota If you reply, please place a {{talkback}} in my talk page if I do not reply soon. 02:26, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
- Weak or irrelevant perhaps, but I certainly never stated illegal. Please provide a significant use outside article space that could not be replaced by
<blockquote>or {{ 02:40, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
- Weak or irrelevant perhaps, but I certainly never stated illegal. Please provide a significant use outside article space that could not be replaced by
- You may also note that this is not used only in article name space, an important consideration. However, none of the "snouts" counted are using "illegal" arguments, and your implication that they are is telling me you do not understand TfD, which is different from other XfDs. This was better raised as an RfC at the village pump before TfD.--Cerejota If you reply, please place a {{talkback}} in my talk page if I do not reply soon. 02:26, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
- Only if you are counting snouts. Consensus is not built by "I like it" and "I agree with him". I suggest reading Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions and Wikipedia:Arguments to make in deletion discussions. If is a snowball keep, one of the TfD admins will close it as such in a timely manner. You may have noted my appeals for examples of proper uses of a pull quote in an encyclopedia article. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 02:12, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
TfD of Template:Cquote
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Hi. There seems to be a problem with
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I want to apologise for my "pissed off" remarks during the TFD. I can only hope that people forget what was said or else didn't take opinion about a dinky template seriously (they shouldn't).
I saw that you build much of the core templates on WP. Do you have time to reply to this request at Talk:India and fix the underlying issue? As I said there, I don't know how to fix it. We'd really appreciate it. If you see other things that can be fixed up at India, that would be wonderful as well. Thanks. Saravask 04:08, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
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I closed this, could you take care of switching these to a more widely used citation method? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 22:16, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
- Finished the articles yesterday. Will work other uses. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 23:08, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
sfn/sfnRef and square brackets
Hi. I see you're deeply into the cite templates and their doc; you're linked from them, have subpages about them. So, I hope you can help with a problem I've encountered.
Some sites use square-brackets in what we should be using as the proper page title; NavWeaps.com, in this case. See the recent edits to
The ship had guns.{{sfn|NavWeaps 6-pdr (2.72 kg) [2.244" (57 mm)] Marks 1 through 13}}
* {{cite web
| title = United States of America 6-pdr (2.72 kg) [2.244" (57 mm)] Marks 1 through 13
| publisher = NavWeaps.com
| url = http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_6pounder_m1.htm
| ref = {{sfnRef|NavWeaps 6-pdr (2.72 kg) [2.244" (57 mm)] Marks 1 through 13}}
}}
—Portuguese Man o' War 23:34, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
You are making this complicated. Normally you would use author-date, but there if there is no author, use work-date. Since we have multiple uses of the same year, add an alpha suffix:
"United States of America 12"/35 (30.5 cm) Mark 1 and Mark 2". NavWeaps.com. 19 September 2008. Retrieved 2011-10-02.
However, there is an author: Tony DiGiulian is listed on the home page. So we would have:
DiGiulian, Tony (19 September 2008a). "United States of America 12"/35 (30.5 cm) Mark 1 and Mark 2". NavWeaps. Retrieved 2011-10-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
If you look at the markup, you will see that I used |work=, since the website is like a book, and pages are chapters. I also dropped the .com, as the home page title isn't using it. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 01:09, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks. Sturmvogel 66 did not want NavWeaps.com as the work due to it getting italicised; it's on my talk, and I reverted that back. I follow the a,b,c... approach but don't believe a year is always available or know if DiGiulian is the author of everything on that site. I've left Sturmvogel a note asking for input. I still hope the square brackets can be made to work, but don't want to be making the wiki-text ugly. If one of the a,b,c approaches is acceptable, Bob's your uncle... —Portuguese Man o' War 01:49, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- You can use ASCII for the brackets: see Wikipedia:ASCII. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 01:58, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- [encoded, I assume.] I'd not thought of that; off to give it a try. Thanks you. —Portuguese Man o' War 02:06, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- and it worked. These same two are used in the USS Maine and I can drop them right in. The encoding is a bit ugly, but I was more concerned about a long encoded #CITEREFlink. I'll do other stuff until Sturmvogel comments. Thanks, again. —Portuguese Man o' War 02:22, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
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Would you be OK with changing the "type=" parameter on the Tfd template in Cref2 to "type=tiny" or maybe even "type=disabled" pending the outcome of WP:Templates for discussion/Log/2011 October 4#Template:Cref2? It makes any infoboxes that are using Cref2s look really bad. Thanks. Mojoworker (talk) 21:29, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- Looks like you're offline, and I'm about to head out the door, so I went ahead and changed it to type=tiny. I hope I didn't step on your toes with that edit — if so, feel free to revert it. Thanks. Mojoworker (talk) 22:00, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
- No worries. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 23:45, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Gadget850. I just wanted to let you know that I have reverted your recent change to Template:Cite journal because it appears to be causing the references to be displayed incorrectly. The text "PS=" was appearing in multiple locations within the reference. You might want to also check the other templates that you recently edited to make sure the problem doesn't occur there also. Thanks. -- Ed (Edgar181) 18:25, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Your recent edit to Template:Cite_journal
Hi, just wanted to let you know that your recent edit to this template had an error. You seem to have accidentally removed the | symbol before the PS on the line you edited, which breaks the markup. I would fix this myself, but the template's fully protected and I'm not an admin. I'm about to go mention this on the template talk page, but thought I'd give you a heads-up first in case you were still online. Scog (talk) 18:26, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- Two Eds are better than one. Thanks to both of you for catching my goof. And yes, I checked my other edit and it was OK. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 18:30, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
Cite video
Hey, Gadget850. Although this is probably not news to you, you have, after a month or so, received some feedback on
- I was going to work it last week, but the 1.18 update got me tied up working some issues. I'm back on track now and will work it in a day or two. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 20:45, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
- Looks like you're not getting much more feedback on it. Perhaps you should ask for some? (I've notified talk)
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Help:Citation Style 1
Hi, re Help:Citation Style 1#Editions
- series: When the source is part of a series.
The documentation for {{cite journal}} implies that some journals have more than one sequence for volume or issue numbers, and that the |series= is used to distinguish. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:56, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks! Updated with a Chicago 16 ref. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 12:35, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks for the reference to the language stats. I suggest making it more clear that this page states the opinion of one user. "FAQ" sounds authoritative and new users may not know the significance of userspace. As an editor I sometimes have to navigate a Wikipedia in a language I don't know, for example to investigate cross-language issues or help desk posts. In such cases it can be very helpful to select English interface in that language. Happy‑melon made a similar point at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 93#Language Select.
As discussed at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#“Templates used on this page” list, I think the important difference between en and en-gb at the English Wikipedia is that en-gb messages are rarely created or edited (the MediaWiki default may be used in all but a handful [3] of cases), so they can become obsolete when en messages are modified.
Regarding Template:Myprefs, the anchor names for the tabs were changed in MediaWiki 1.18. The numbers no longer work but the template should probably continue to allow them. Maybe it should also allow the displayed tab name as parameter so template users can copy-paste the tab from their preferences. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:28, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
- A suggestion for this page: the language setting also affects other aspects of the display. Consider the tab found on discussion pages which starts a new thread. The title of this tab varies by skin (as seen with other tabs like "watch") but also varies by language setting:
| Vector | Monobook | |
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| en | New section | new section |
| en-GB | Add topic | + |
Mixing Template:citation with those others
Hi Gadget; other than the doc page for {{cite xxx}}, where is it laid down that {{citation}} can't be mixed with {{cite book}}/{{cite journal}}/{{cite web}}/etc.? See User talk:Citation bot#An edit by this bot on Causality. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:01, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
- I have simply codified a practice that has been ongoing. You will find that this comes up in FAC fairly often— I would have to dig around a bit. Here are examples of a citation using {{citation}} and {{cite book}}:
- Harwood, William B (1993), Raise Heaven and Earth, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-67-174998-6
- Harwood, William B (1993). Raise Heaven and Earth. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-67-174998-6.
The only difference is in punctuation. Yes, you can change the punctuation, but in practice no one does. Other than the ref anchor, there is no difference in output. Since both sets of templates exist and do the same thing there is no reason to choose one over the other except for consistency within an article, per
16:29, 17 October 2011 (UTC)- Sorry, you misunderstand - I'm aware of the diffs, also that it's a convention that we don't mix. The thing is, when I explain to others why it shouldn't be done, I wish to be able to point to an explicit policy or guideline; otherwise it may be perceived as me pushing my own personal preference. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:24, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
- A consistent style should be used within any given article..." — Wikipedia:Citing sources. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 17:31, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
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I wonder if you could weigh in at Talk:India#Rotation_vs._slide_show, where there is a discussion in progress about the possibility of having a slide show (a la the newspaper web sites) without a purge. You were mentioned as an expert. Thanks. Fowler&fowler«Talk» 15:40, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
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Moved to originating talk page. Please centralize discussions there. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 20:14, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
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This group was summarily removed, and I've restored it. Now there's:
I found these, one of which was just redirected (and restored):
- History of Serranilla Bank
- History of Palmyra Atoll
Do you know how to find just what articles are actually being navigated to via this group in the template? And see: User talk:Dr. Blofeld#need some stubs, and a comment.
Alarbus (talk) 13:21, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
- History of Serranilla Bank is half-way to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of Serranilla Bank (still red). Alarbus (talk) 13:25, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
- Using WP:AWB: {{United States topic}} is used directly or through another template in 1859 articles. 93 articles directly use {{United States topic}} with14:42, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
|exclude-isl=. 177 templates use {{United States topic}}, and 44 include|exclude-isl=. There are probably a lot of templates that should exclude these islands, such as {{CrimeUS}}. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk
- Thanks. I'll post this there. I see little issue with pages excluding this group for currently being full of redlinks. There is the probability such exclusions will mask links to article the later get created; a better implementation would entail detecting all-red and suppressing in that case. Alarbus (talk) 04:01, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
- That could be done with #ifexist. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 11:56, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
- I expect so. I'm picturing a rats-nest of nested conditionals, in both the group and list, for each of the dozen or so item. Meanwhile, the guy pissed about the flatlist discussion, is intent on deleting the extant stubs that would be involved in order to cut the group4. What a conflict-rich place. Alarbus (talk) 12:35, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
- That could be done with #ifexist. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 11:56, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'll post this there. I see little issue with pages excluding this group for currently being full of redlinks. There is the probability such exclusions will mask links to article the later get created; a better implementation would entail detecting all-red and suppressing in that case. Alarbus (talk) 04:01, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Hi, again. Could you please review this discussion between User:Night w and myself, and these diffs that I gave there?
The discussions re {{flatlist}} are at Template_talk:Navbox (several section), and there's more at User talk:Chipmunkdavis#Europe topic.
Thank you. Alarbus (talk) 14:02, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
{{cite video game}}
Thanks for the attempt even if it ultimately failed. At least, if we try this again in the future we won't have to start so far back.∞陣内Jinnai 17:44, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
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Sfn and SfnRef
Hi, Gadget850. I like Sfn and SfnRef. But (? a recent changes to the template) the template now shows red error message which hide the article's content. The SfnRef template also fails to understand the {{refbegin}} + {{refend}} combination. Please give this quickly. You see an example at User:Philcha/Sandbox/MOO 2 - 3. --Philcha (talk) 23:02, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
- No problems with the templates, but in the markup you are using. Two templates were closed with a single }. You really need to read the {{SfnRef}} documentation— I don't understand what you are trying to do with it. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 23:27, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
- This is a duplicate of a thread raised at ) 00:04, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
- Gadget850, thanks for fixingg some of my error. I think I can fix the other, is more appear to inconsistencies in naming citation. --Philcha (talk) 04:44, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
File:All-Ukrainian organization Sich (Січ).gif
Can you make a clear-background png of this one? Thanks!--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 12:55, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
HD/shout template
I took your advice and wrote a draft at template:HD/shout of a stock message for please not in all caps. Thanks for the advice... how does the draft look? RJFJR (talk) 16:20, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
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Thanks very much for your help with {{Millennium Park Map}}! Ruhrfisch ><>°° 20:51, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Had to undo your sandboxing for an active editprotected request; the editor stuff you were working on is of course still there in the history. Your last changes were 2 days ago, so I didn't think you'd mind, but wanted to let you know in case you didn't noticed and started editing it again. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ Contribs. 21:09, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
- No problem, still trying to work through some coding. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 21:24, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
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