User talk:Adavidb/Archive 11

Thank you
Thank you for your recent helpful edits to the new article I've created, One Hundred Years of Evil, much appreciated, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 17:41, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Merman
Hi Adavidb, I see you undid my removal of the uncited sentence about "merboys" in Merman. I don't like to disagree, but am not convinced the entry is justified, for the following reasons.

Firstly, the entry in the article's lead is, I suspect, WP:UNDUE; it certainly was when I removed it, as the topic was not discussed, nor cited, in the body of the article. I see you have found it in Wiktionary, which is perhaps better than nothing, but that does not prove it isn't a neologism (indeed, the recent date there rather suggests it is such).

Secondly, since anyone can edit Wiktionary, a link there is not proof of notability.

I'd suggest that if the term is to be kept, that it be moved from the lead to the body of the article, and supported by a citation from a reliable source. It could be argued that since it is a different term (like Mermaid) it does not in any case belong in this particular article, but that can perhaps be overlooked if it's adequately sourced.

all the best Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:29, 20 November 2012 (UTC)


 * My initial thought was, "Why such a concern over the word 'merboy'?" Wiktionary was a n ready dictionary, and I considered the link useful, so added it per WP:SIS.  On further checking, I see that "merboy" is not so formally used or justified after all; I have no remaining qualms with its removal from the Merman article. —ADavidB 10:59, 20 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Glad that's sorted. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:19, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Touché (quartet)
You seem pretty knowledgable about Touché (quartet), what is your relationship to the group? --RadioFan (talk) 05:30, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I have no relationship with the quartet. I've neither met them nor seen or heard them perform.  The information I put in their article is from the sources identified. —ADavidB 05:40, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 2012
If that's the case, the MA Senate articles going back to 2000 would need to be fixed as well, along with an arbitrary number of other similar articles (e.g. United States Senate election in Ohio). Rostz (talk) 02:35, 24 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, other articles do need to be fixed. Changes in party vote between elections are the purpose of the template's "swing" value. —ADavidB 08:17, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of SALT (quartet) for deletion
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 * (Dab link corrected.) —ADavidB 18:26, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

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 * This link is now further disambiguated to Modernist poetry. —ADavidB 17:01, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Rudy Guliani
You reverted an edit by me on the grounds that it has not been explained. I thought it was obvious (I wrote it but maybe I wasn't clear enough) I meant that the sentence was basically a rehash AND more importantly: offtopic (that segment is literally about public reaction to 9/11 - not a blogger's opinion in 2009) Loginnigol (talk) 12:35, 7 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Your "years later" edit summary was not clear to me by itself, and Politico is not a blog, nor were the quoted statements made by bloggers. The source article in question, quite critical of Giuliani in 2009, acknowledged that he "became known across the world simply by his first name ... a global icon known as 'America's Mayor'" in public reaction to 9/11.  As explained in my subsequent edit, I agreed to leave it out after your undo and explanation, though still don't agree with your stated reasoning. —ADavidB 17:04, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Proposal at Wikipedia talk:Department of Fun/Word Association/Word before last
There is a proposal to discontinue play and mark as historical the "Word before last" word association game. As one of the contributors in the last year, please feel free to stop in and comment. Hasteur (talk) 21:23, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Freedom Riders
Good thing you checked. I usually rollback automatically but for some reason didn't do it there. &mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 16:52, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

May 2013
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 * This one is fixed, too. —ADavidB 17:08, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Reverts to Warren G. Harding
Hi, under the following rationale:
 * 1) that the term apoplexy in Warren G. Harding is very important to understand the sentence (I think not a lot of people is familiar with the term),
 * 2) the term it's not mentioned anywhere else in the whole article, and
 * 3) that the recommendation is "as much as possible, avoid linking from within quotes"

Couldn't this be one of those exceptional cases where is not possible avoid linking from within quotes? Regards, EOZyo (мѕğ) 16:50, 4 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Hello. I don't think it's impossible to avoid linking "apoplexy" within the quotation. While as you wrote, the word was not included elsewhere in the article, nothing prevented its addition (as a link) via a reliable source, which I've done. —ADavidB 17:45, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks
It was amazing how you managed to clean the secretary of state column in political party strength in maine. Cou ld you help me with these structures because I have some problems still eith these things. I hope you can help me also correct part ystrength in arkansas. Thank you.--Ιων (talk) 14:35, 11 June 2013 (UTC)


 * You're welcome. It took a while for me to figure out these large wiki tables, and it still requires a lot of concentration.  The main thing is that a blank value needs to be specified for all rows that don't have a name, which can be repeated with a "rowspan" to make it easier.  I may be able to look at the Arkansas article this evening. —ADavidB 16:37, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor and Templates
Hey Adavidb

I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :).

So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere.

What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default.

The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:10, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Do you find many of them get deleted?


 * Thanks for the barnstar. I haven't watched too closely, but it wouldn't surprise me if others remove the commas. —ADavidB 23:37, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Zero commas would be best. My BrE habit is to close a parenthesis: Month Day, Year, but no commas needed with Day Month Year, and that's the logical order too. Rothorpe (talk) 10:49, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Building my sandbox
Hey there! I'm attempting my very first sandbox and keep running into trouble on adding references. Can you provide me some assistance on this process? k fatima. (talk) 19:27, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks.
 * Hi. I took at look at your /sandbox page and didn't notice a problem with the references.  I figure you received help elsewhere before I could get back to you. A minor improvement would be to use sentence case for section headings, so it would be 'External links', instead of 'External Links'. Good luck with your editing. —ADavidB 07:28, 6 August 2013 (UTC)