User talk:Afernand74/Archives/2023

"reduced Lint errors"
FYI, this edit unnecessarily introduced spaces into  and similar tags, and more seriously breaking the tag's effect when inside  templates (a phylogenetic tree diagram) and making the text of the tag visible to Wikipedia readers. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:10, 4 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you for pointing this out. I was trying to remove an obsolote tags and used a script to speed up the tedious process. My apologies for the inconvenience.
 * I was about to report a bug on the talk page of the template but found that one of the limitation of this template is precisely the use of line breaks (i.e.   ). It is recommended not used them but it works :-).  Afernand74 (talk) 18:51, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

WP:OABOT updates
Hello! Thanks for your past edits using the OAbot tool. I just wanted to let you know that I updated the queue of suggestions, so you should now be able to find more interesting and easy edits to make with it. Best, Nemo 17:38, 27 January 2023 (UTC)


 * thanks Afernand74 (talk) 19:41, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red in February 2023
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A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks @PetSematary182 Afernand74 (talk) 18:28, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

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Always precious
Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:24, 1 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you! Afernand74 (talk) 14:58, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

Lint errors
Why and not  ?

These seem pointless edits, just edits for the sake of editing, to me. As do most of these "lint errors" on Orbicular batfish

Please explain what the puropse of these edits is? Quetzal1964 (talk) 18:18, 6 April 2023 (UTC)


 * I reverted my edit and made two separated edits:
 * - one to correct a lint error
 * - one to format code using scripts. Using straight quotation marks   to enclose the reference name is recommended per Citing sources.

Using a script made things easy to correct this type of typos. Hope this helps. Afernand74 (talk) 18:32, 6 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your response. I don’t agree with your interpretation, I interpret the link as saying that the inverted commas are only required where there is a space in the name of the ref. So If the ref was Carter et al, 1987 it should be written as  but a single word does not require inverted commas. My own view is that if it isn’t broken then it doesn’t need fixing but each to their own (within reason!) Quetzal1964 (talk) 09:01, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Lint
Hello!

It is not necessary to change b style to span style, as b style is essentially  in shorter terms. And changing from b style to span style without adding b removes the bolding, which changes how the signature displays (maybe not in this case, since it was background coloring for a nbsp, but would change any non whitespace displaying characters. B style is also not lint error, so shouldn't need any adjustments.

For all lint issues that are specifically talked about within the conversation of the error, we are leaving them as they are, so if doing other delinting, keep an eye out for that.

I've been through all of the Template talks and have cleared all possible Template talk errors that are not discussed, so they shouldn't need any further addressing.

Thank you for your efforts however, and feel free to ask any delinting questions at WP:LINT (guidelines for delinting are also here) Cheers, Zinnober9 (talk) 21:22, 11 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your explanation. Afernand74 (talk) 07:28, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red May 2023
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Women in Red - June 2023
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Women in Red July 2023
--Lajmmoore (talk) 07:42, 27 June 2023 (UTC) via MassMessaging

span tags that apply color to links need to be inside the link
In this edit, you changed  to  That fix is not valid, as you can see if you look at the resulting color: Shapiros10. The span tags need to go inside the wikilink like this:

That results in Shapiros10.

Also, please do not apply article-space fixes like changing - to – in people's talk page comments, per WP:TPO. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:39, 27 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you. The edit you are suggesting doesn't lead to the expected result on modern web browsers. Both edits are equivalent. You need to replace the "color: amaranth" with "color:#F19CBB" to get the expected result. That results in Shapiros10  and not  Shapiros10 . 193.191.210.100 (talk) 11:47, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red 8th Anniversary
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Women in Red August 2023
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CS1 error on Sevilla FC (women)
Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Sevilla FC (women), may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows: Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=User:Qwerfjkl/sandbox/43&editintro=User:Qwerfjkl/boteditintro&minor=&title=User_talk:Qwerfjkl&preloadtitle=Qwerfjkl%20(bot)%20–%20Afernand74&section=new&preloadparams%5b%5d=&preloadparams%5b%5d=1169359566 report it to my operator]. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 16:54, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * A "bare URL and missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. ([//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sevilla_FC_(women)&action=edit&minor=minor&summary=Fixing+reference+error+raised+by+%5B%5BUser%3AQwerfjkl%20(bot)%7CQwerfjkl%20(bot)%5D%5D Fix] | [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Help_desk&action=edit&section=new&preload=User:Qwerfjkl%20(bot)/helpform&preloadtitle=Referencing%20errors%20on%20%5B%5BSpecial%3ADiff%2F1169359566%7CSevilla%20FC%20(women)%5D%5D Ask for help])

September 2023 at Women In Red
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bugs in OABot
Hi @Afernand74. Can you please stop running OABot to remove "doi-access=free" until OABot bugs have been worked out? Some of your recent edits such as special:diff/1172389319 were incorrect (could you manually check any similar edits you have made to make sure they weren't similarly buggy?). See discussion at. –jacobolus (t) 19:51, 26 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks @Jacobolus for bringing this'to me attention. I only made two trials with this bot. I will not use it until further notice. Afernand74 (talk) 20:14, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
 * No worries. Have a nice day! –jacobolus (t) 20:15, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

East Asia Summitck
We were editing East Asia Summit simultaneously. Someone had reverted me, I saw the problem with my edit, so I went back to my version and fixed the problem. If your edit is still needed, please make it again. Sorry for the inconvenience. —Anomalocaris (talk) 07:33, 14 September 2023 (UTC)


 * @Anomalocaris No problem. I improved/simplified the coding of the infobox. Afernand74 (talk) 17:06, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red October 2023
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Lint fixes are good, but editing talk pages to change other editors' punctuation isn't
I found User talk:RHaworth/2014 Aug 09 in Lint errors: Links in links (User talk), and determined the error was added in, so I reverted. Then I fixed the lint errors, which were one Tidy font link bug and a bunch of obsolete tags. Then I took a look at the differences between your lint fix and mine, and I saw you made a whole bunch of changes that you should not have made. Most or all of these would be fine in article space, but in general, "mistakes" on a talk page, such as spelling and punctuation errors, should be left alone. Yes, do fix lint errors. But don't make these corrections: For more advice, see Linter. If you are still editing talk pages making changes like you did in User talk:RHaworth/2014 Aug 09, please stop! And consider reverting such changes you have already made. —Anomalocaris (talk) 08:24, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
 * change hyphen (-) to en dash (–)
 * remove multiple blanks
 * change capitalization of template names that work properly either way
 * use HTML names of characters, such as changing the em dash (—) to &amp;mdash;
 * Edits like the ones above were still happening as of 22 October 2023; note change of hyphen to dash, underscore to space, and other changes that are either unnecessary or unwelcome. Please change as little as possible, just enough to fix the Linter errors. Spelling and punctuation errors in other editors' talk page contributions are not appropriate, per the guideline at WP:TALKO. There is also no need to add or remove slash "/" characters from br tags. They work the same, and the syntax highlighter has been adjusted to allow either format. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:31, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
 * @Anomalocaris @Jonesey95 Thank you. I will stop correcting Linter errors in the future and let more qualified experts do it. Apologize for any trouble. I will look for a tool to undo all my previous edits in a batch mode. In the meantime, free to revert any of my previous edits. Afernand74 (talk) 07:42, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
 * You are welcome to improve Wikipedia in any useful way, including fixing lint errors, or whatever else you find worthwhile. If you have trouble knowing which fixes to avoid on talk pages (even though it's rather straightforward), you could work on articles and drafts, and stay away from talk pages. Cheers! —Anomalocaris (talk) 07:53, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

Women in Red - November 2023
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Women in Red December 2023
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