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[[Category:Organizations based in Europe by dependent territory and subject|xxx]]
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all included manmade:
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all included natural:
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non-diffusing: this is to be paired with all included above
- {{Non-diffusing subcategory|higher category name|higher category content}}
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nothing in MOS says to use the following:
TOC without numbers
- {{Category TOC|numerals=no}}
Default sort
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Container category
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Maintenance note
I maintain this page by deleting items after a week or two or more. Hmains (talk) 16:09, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
work
[[Category:Landforms of xxx Province]]
[[Category:Rivers of Argentina by province|xxx]]
{{Non-diffusing subcategory|(name of cat)|(1st part of cat name)}}
Human rights abuses in ctry
[[Category:Human rights abuses by country|ctry]]
[[Category:Human rights in ctry| Abuses]]
crime in country by type
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violence in country
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[[Category:Social history of ctry]]
[[Category:Violence by country|ctry]]
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violent deaths in country
[[Category:Deaths in ctry]]
[[Category:Violence in ctry|Deaths]]
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[[Category:Violent deaths in cntnt by country|ctry]]
attacks in country
[[Category:Attacks by country|ctry]]
[[Category:Man-made disasters in ctry]]
[[Category:Attacks in cntnt by country|ctry]]
[[Category:Violence in ctry]]
Monobook
You may wish to make use of a 'Dates' tab in edit mode that will help with unlinking unnecessary date links. Simply copy the entire contents of User:Bobblewik/monobook.js to your own monobook. Then follow the instructions in your monobook to clear the cache (i.e. press Ctrl-Shift-R in Firefox, or Ctrl-F5 in IE) before it will work. It also provides a 'Units' tab. If you know what you are doing, you can copy and modify the subfiles as you wish. I just thought you might be interested. Regards. bobblewik 20:03, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
- The reason it fails is because you refer to User:Hmains/monobook.js/dates.js and User:Hmains/monobook.js/unitformatter.js and these articles do not exist. You have two options:
- Option 1. As described in the first 4 sentences above, make your monobook identical to mine. Then it will use the existing articles User:Bobblewik/monobook.js/dates.js and User:Bobblewik/monobook.js/unitformatter.js.
- Option 2. As described in the last 2 sentences, create your own subfiles User:Hmains/monobook.js/dates.js and User:Hmains/monobook.js/unitformatter.js by copying the details from User:Bobblewik/monobook.js/dates.js and User:Bobblewik/monobook.js/unitformatter.js.
- Try again. I am happy to walk you through the process. So feel free to ask me again. bobblewik 12:03, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
etc
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Categories
for list filter:
January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December|Year|MCD|MCC|List of state leaders in
to create a 2 up
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how to use wild card in 'skip text contains/doesn't contain box'
\[\[Category\:National Register of Historic Places in [^\]]+ County, Arkansas\]\]
\[\[Category\:National Register of Historic Places in [^\]]+, Arkansas\]\]
- 12 to 12 handled by find/replace table; not by module
- for latest AWB version, see: http://toolserver.org/~awb/snapshots/
to fix
to avoid disambiguation pages use: |{{.*dis}}
etc. Plantations
Plantation complexes in the Southern United States
sort
Autofill
- to auto fill edit summary: "I haven't found a way to get autocomplete in IE at https with the current setup on Wikipedia's side. If http is acceptable to you then you can disable "Always use a secure connection when logged in" at Special:Preferences, log out, close IE, start IE again and log in at http://en.wikipedia.org. PrimeHunter (talk) 16:50, 31 August 2013 (UTC)"
it may also be necessary to force the WP address to be http: instead of https:
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Autopatroller
Hi Hmains, just wanted to let you know that I have added the autopatrolled right to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature should have little to no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on
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- work to do: populate Category:Unincorporated communities in the United States by county
[[:MOS:BLOCKQUOTE]]
[[:MOS:CURLY]]
^ Typographical, or curly, quotation marks and apostrophes might be read more efficiently, and many think they look better. However, for practical reasons the straight versions are used on the English Wikipedia:
Consistency keeps searches predictable. Though most browsers do not distinguish between curly and straight marks, Internet Explorer still does (as of 2016), so that a search for Alzheimer's disease will fail to find Alzheimer’s disease and vice versa.
Straight quotation marks are easier to type reliably on most platforms.
MediaWiki's use of series of single quotes to create italics and boldface makes using these features complicated and error-prone for content that begins or ends with apostrophes.
Linking Dates (centuries, decades, years, months, days, etc)
Delink dates per
As always, the content of the linked-to article must provide substantive content to the linked-from article. The MOS decided most dates do not do this. Hmains (talk) 03:36, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
what links here
- filter by name: (used where?)
calendar|day|week|month|year|decade|century|millennium|Showa|Shōwa|Meiji|Taisho|Taishō| in |Other events|(number)|(disambiguation)|Aught-|SO 8601|Timeline|acronyms|initialisms
- skip: used in bot
{{Decadebox|{{Year dab|{{Year nav|{{Month header}}|{{Day}}|Category:Days of the year|{{Portal:Current events/Events by month}}|{{Portal:Current events/Month Inclusion|{{Months in the|Eastern Orthodox liturgical days|#REDIRECT|{{disambig}}|{{disambiguation}}|to disambiguation page|{{events by month links}}|month category|Month of the|The following events occurred in|{{Millenniumbox|{{Centurybox|This page indexes the individual|February 30|January 0|Calendars|title=September 11 attacks|numberdis|{{00sbox|{{.*dis}}-|{{GOCEinuse}}|{{In use}}|{{Under construction}}
- filter: to skip article names with these words
s in |9 in |8 in |7 in |6 in |5 in |4 in |3 in |2 in |1 in |0 in |in Wales|calendar|day|week|month|year|decade|century|millennium|Showa|Shōwa|Meiji|Taisho|Taishō|Other events|(number)|(disambiguation)|Aught-|SO 8601|Timeline|acronyms|initialisms|September 11 attacks|Fons memorabilium universi|List of millennia
avoiding delinks
21 April 2024 can be used to avoid future delinking of dates. For example, 2012 → 2012 2010s → 2010s 21st century → 21st century Friday → Friday June → June (l, ldmy or lmdy also work)
Web page has expired
I follow the directions in the message shown on the screen.
"Click on the Refresh button on the toolbar to reload the page. After refreshing, you might need to navigate to the specific webpage again, or re-enter information."
On my computer I have to remember that "refresh" looks like a circle with an arrow at the top, and it's the fourth of five icons to the right of the URL. I don't even know what the others are. Then a box pops up and I have to click on "retry".— Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:04, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
Adminship
Since you are very active in the project, would you like to be an administrator? Do you need tools to move/delete pages for example? Are you active in WP space, involved in xFDs or something similar? -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:03, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
- I'll second Magioladitis here. I think you'd do fantastic as an administrator. The choice is entirely yours, but just know that should you ever submit an RfA, you'll have my support. Kurtis (talk) 03:53, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks to you both, but I think I would lose interest in WP doing admin things. Hmains (talk) 03:56, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
Delinking
- The delinking of dates was exhaustively discussed by WP prior to the current wording of MOS:UNLINKDATESbeing agreed upon. Days, months, years, decades, centuries, etc were all included in the long discussion.
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Template:Eluru district
I have fixed the problem with {{Eluru district}} that was causing editing problems for you. You should be able to edit it now. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:31, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for the fix. It is now working fine. Is this something something I should have noticed/fixed myself? Hmains (talk) 18:47, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
Happy New Year, Hmains!
Hmains,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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concrete bridges categorization
Hi Hmains, you still do categorization of articles using Hotcat or other tools, right? Perhaps you could help with Category:Concrete bridges in the United States. It was striking to me today that this category has many individual members, and few state-level subcategories in Category:Concrete bridges in the United States by state (there were just 5 or 6). I just created a few more state-level subcategories and started doing some sorting of the individual members into them. With your tools, I wonder if you could please continue this out? Probably all or most of the 50 U.S. states should have categories, and I know there are some Puerto Rico examples in there too. (Maybe also splitting out Category:Girder bridges in the United States, too? But it is smaller.) Either way, doing this or not, i'm glad you're contributing in Wikipedia. cheers, --Doncram (talk,contribs) 14:50, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
- Oh, i see it is more complicated if one makes connections over to Commons categories, too, as pre-existing state-level ones did. There are 17 state-level categories there in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Concrete_bridges_in_the_United_States_by_state. I dunno if more should be created there. This is getting beyond what i can do.... --Doncram (talk,contribs) 15:05, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
"allincluded" on US shootings cat
Hi, I was wondering if there is any reason why you added
- Hi. The reason was and is that this aids in navigation for reader and allows them to rapidly see the whole situation here. Having all the mass shooting in the US in one location means that readers can come here and find/see every article on the subject. Otherwise, they have to wade through multiple levels of subcats to look at the articles in each location or other subcat. No benefit accrues in forcing readers to have to do that. And there is no list what includes all such shootings; having such a list would be difficult to keep up to date, especially since such mass shooting have become something of a cottage industry in the US: is it now multiple times per day? Thanks. Hmains (talk) 00:01, 17 April 2023 (UTC)