User:Sdkb/sandbox

Pending

 * redirecting new user welcome notification to Special:Homepage (pending non-beta deployment of Growth features)
 * Served as vs. was; follow-up to Talk:Donald Trump/Archive 134 (pending consensus shift)
 * Revive article topicon discussion (pending consensus shift/WP:URFA/2020 completion)
 * MediaWiki talk:Signupstart (depends on T282494)
 * Fix "Do you find this page confusing?" banner at WP:BLP (pending non-beta deployment of mentorship program)
 * Finish deprecating nickname alias at (category must be emptied first)
 * Get YouTube infoboxes to update subscriber count automatically (currently at wikidata:Wikidata:Project chat)
 * Automating date format tags (see initial idea, round 1, query request, Sheets list, buildings; pending consensus shift)
 * MediaWiki:Selfmove redesign (pending permission)
 * Improve project page linking at Template:Editnotices/Namespace/MediaWiki talk (pending permission)
 * Reconsider fair use images on the Main Page (pending permission)
 * Check TFA protection; see here for background (pending current efforts)
 * Follow up on syntax highlighting with new RfC if needed (pending Growth team response)

Available

 * Use AWB to add essaysort to pages with essay missing it
 * Propose adding Family name footnote to high-priority articles (already have hatnote, footnote); Petscan
 * Propose reform of WP:SELF to more strictly prohibit linking to projectspace from articles (currently here; notify WT:WikiProject Wikipedia)
 * Reform Title notice to make it less disruptive (stalled technically here, following here)
 * Carry forward reform of infobox parameter plurality (currently here and here for infobox person)
 * Redesign FA landing pages to be more reader-friendly (currently here)
 * Add Wikidata functionality to infobox university (currently here, with a few follow-ups)
 * Improve collage at the arts
 * Push to refine help panel links
 * Follow up to URL access tag automation discussion by compiling list of frequently used sources and their status (use WP:RSP or list from here)
 * Propose Wikidata patrol for saving data from non-defining category deletions (latest here)
 * Move yellow maintenance tags to talk page (latest here)
 * Add purge link, remove self link to User sandbox
 * Rewrite WP:AFD instructions
 * "Click here for more information." -> "Click to learn more" for GA/FA topicons
 * Change New user landing page intro page link (proposed)
 * Improve Draft article for readers (currently here)
 * MediaWiki_talk:Semiprotectedpagewarning
 * Finish Draft:White Pearl and DYK
 * Improve and DYK Girl Walk//All Day
 * Suggest BLP editnotice improvement to aide subjects
 * Improve Culdesac Tempe
 * Plain English tooltips for protection icons
 * Revise Template:AfD-notice-NPF (sync with main notice?)
 * Bot task for commas after year
 * Template_talk:Db-notice
 * Get Humor editnotice to display wherever Humor is (see here)
 * Template_talk:Historical
 * Redesign MediaWiki:Undo-success to incorporate WP:Reverting
 * Get WD module to use Cite news when appropriate (here)
 * Biography WP needs photo parameter bot task
 * Template_talk:Contentious_topics/talk_notice
 * Uw-bludgeon
 * Nudge about language switcher contextualizing that dif versions not just translations
 * Fix Vivian Yee entry page numbers
 * Make AWB for  country overlinks
 * Reform (possibly introducing U.S. News-specific one)
 * Add Educational institution visuals
 * Add audio samples to folk bands
 * Expand lead of bottled water
 * Add totals to university rankings
 * Conference Called nag
 * Refideas editnotice refinement, and investigate why not appearing
 * Try to create List of Wikipedians by featured article nomination pageviews
 * Retaining appropriate categories for AfDs closed as redirect
 * Template_talk:Editnotice
 * Template_talk:RfA
 * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_YouTube?markasread=306239383&markasreadwiki=enwiki#c-Bluerasberry-20240220163100-Mokadoshi-20240219204900
 * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Infobox_US_university_ranking?markasread=305343711&markasreadwiki=enwiki#c-Redraiderengineer-20240210230900-Kingapresa-20231014231000
 * Write "a bad source is better than no source" essay against removing unreliable sources and replacing with citation needed tags
 * Write help page for BLPs looking to donate photos of themselves (simplified version of A picture of you)
 * Create MOS:NICKNAME AWB task

Pomona professors
/professor template

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All with named chairs: https://catalog.pomona.edu/content.php?catoid=40&navoid=8149#professors_asoc_prof_asst_prof

More possibly notable: https://www.pomona.edu/info-for-media/faculty-experts

Subpages

 * /next April
 * /testpage
 * /testpage2
 * /early drafts

Sandbox
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https://wikinav.toolforge.org/?language=en

Regex query for adding en language: search:  replace:

Find odd ref ends:

The issue of hatnotes being a poor fit for name clarification has come up repeatedly. This section of the documentation links to the most recent big discussion in 2022, which itself links back to the 2011 discussion and others.

Fixing all-caps titles in CS1 references

Per the CS1 documentation, As with trademarks, Wikipedia does not attempt to emulate any stylistic flourishes used by the cited source's publisher, such as ALL-CAPS. However, there are still many references with all-caps titles, harming readability. I would like to see a bot that goes through these to change them to title case.

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Full.

Fiske Guide: https://www.amazon.com/Fiske-Guide-Colleges-2022-Bestselling-dp-1492664987/dp/1492664987/ref=dp_ob_title_bk?

Insider's Guide: https://www.scribd.com/read/229378378/The-Insider-s-Guide-to-the-Colleges-2015-Students-on-Campus-Tell-You-What-You-Really-Want-to-Know-41st-Edition

Hidden Ivies: https://www.scribd.com/read/320017877/Hidden-Ivies-3rd-Edition-The-EPUB-63-of-America-s-Top-Liberal-Arts-Colleges-and-Universities

Potential photographer?

PetScan for Sweep: https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=18704907