User:History DMZ/sandbox



Welcome everyone to my sandbox :) My user name is History DMZ ("DMZ" stands for Demilitarized Zone). Thank you for visiting and I'm looking forward to talking to all of you.

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Requests for permissions
Hello Wikipedia administrator, I wish to request permission to use the AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) tool. I'm an editor with 1,000+ edits and 3+ months of service. I also made 500+ mainspace edits, including 250+ non-automated edits. My prior work has been with categories, which gave me experience with other semi-automated tools (250+ edits with HotCat). My current focus is WikiProject Islands and the Islands portal where much help is needed with countless of islands, islets and atolls articles and stubs that require a variety of fixes, updates, tags, links and templates. I believe that AWB can greatly assist me in making these repetitive editing tasks faster and easier. Please note that I am familiar with both Wikipedia's policies and AWB's rules of use. You can trust me with this important tool. Thank you for your consideration,

Hello Wikipedia administrator, I wish to request the Rollback user right in order to expand my toolset for quickly and effectively dealing with vandals and restoring articles to their clean versions. This tool would be especially useful for when EnterpriseyBot reports "severe level" of vandalism across Wikipedia (WikiDefcon 1) as well as when doing my main work with WikiProject Islands. I'm an editor with 2,000+ global edits and 6+ months of service, including 1,000+ mainspace edits on en.Wikipedia. I also made 100+ good counter-vandalism actions (this includes: 50+ with Undo, 25+ with Twinkle, plus several manual reverts and clean-up edits). I'm a CVU member and have gained most of my counter-vandalism skill and experience as a Recent Changes patroller, including learning how ORES, ClueBot NG and Materialscientist operate so efficiently. I always AGF and I always conduct follow-ups on vandals by issuing appropriate-level warnings and scanning their contributions for additional unconstructive edits. Please note that I am familiar with both Wikipedia's policies and Rollback's rules of use. I've already been trusted with AWB permissions and I know that you can trust me with this important tool also. Thank you for your consideration,

Hello Wikipedia administrator, I wish to request the Pending changes reviewer user right in order to help good editors get their changes OK'd (and OK'd them faster), modify/ensure that pending changes are acceptable for public view, and filter out unconstructive edits from vandals and people not here to build an encyclopedia. This tool would be especially useful for when DatBot reports a "very high" pending changes backlog (Level 1) as well as for helping out with WikiProject Days of the year's work with its eponymous 366 PC-protected pages. I'm an editor with 2,700+ global edits and 9+ months of service, including almost 1,400 mainspace edits on en.Wikipedia. Please note that I am familiar with the relevant Wikipedia policies (BLP, vandalism, and copyright) and WP:RPC's reviewing guidelines. I'm also a Recent changes patroller who's already been trusted with the Rollback user right and AWB permissions. I know that you can trust me with this important tool also. Thank you for your consideration,

Help desk
Optimal way to edit an article so that it looks very similar on all web browsers? Q: Hello fellow editors, do you know of any guidelines or have any tips on how to best edit/format an article so that it can be displayed very similarly across all (or most) web browsers, including desktop and mobile views? Otherwise, should I just focus on one browser (Chrome-desktop view for example) and not worry about the rest? My hope is to keep the articles I edit as tidy as possible for all of our technologically diverse readers. Thank you. A: In general, if you stick to Wiki markup language for your formatting, the Wikimedia software will handle any browser differences (to the extent possible). Adding HTML and CSS tweaks is where things start to make a difference. Stick to guidelines and policies like the WP:MOS, WP:ACCESSIBILITY, and the Help pages, and use established templates for things (e.g.,, , , , , etc.) and the results should be good and consistent. WP:BROWSER and its talk page appear to have (possibly dated) info about problems with various things on different browsers.

Dreamy Jazz talk page
Request for advice on Jazz draft Q: Hello Dreamy Jazz, since you are both a Jazz fan and an AfC reviewer, I wanted to kindly ask for your advice in regards to my The Jazz Groove draft. I basically want to ask what your preliminary/informal thoughts about it are?, and particularly if you have any suggestions as to where I can find better sources? I already went through the possible sources list found at WikiProject Jazz, but found very little of use so far. A: Hello. My source collection methods are usually a mixture of google, google scholar (for more academically pointed subjects) and my university online library. Most of the sources I find come from google in some way. I find using double quotes (to get google filter out pages without this exact phrase) and different variations of keywords gets me the sources. Also going through the first 3 or so pages is usually as far as I travel. Google scholar may not be helpful here, as I can't see this station being subject to a peer reviewed paper. If you've tried these places I can't think of other places to search. Hopefully you find other places to find better sources if I've not been able to help. In regards to the draft itself it looks good. A few suggestions are its probably best to have good sources for the last sentence of the history section, as words like "hand-selected" and "spanning eight decades" are best sourced. I would also say that there are probably not enough sources.