User talk:Ahecht/Archive 9

Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox UK school
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Hackity hack hack
An IP proposed a very interesting solution at WP:VPT... Would you want to create such a module, perhaps using one of recommended & self-explanatory names in the phab ticket, and producing some of the desired functionality (i.e. returning "nil" instead of "invalid entity")? This would be great if it works... ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 12:57, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Hey, nice work!
 * Is there a way to add the 'invalid from parameter' category and show the large bold red warning to the editor if entering an invalid QID? Ideally both would happen, but if both can't, adding the cat would be better since we can track any user-errors in 1 place instead of hiding on an obscure page somewhere.  ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  15:05, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

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Taxonbar sandbox
Sorry, I was going to try out something in Module:Taxonbar/sandbox, but I see that you are already working on some changes to the template.

When the name of a botanical infraspecies is displayed in a taxonbar, as for example at Melaleuca fulgens subsp. steedmanii, it is not correctly formatted – connecting terms like "subsp.", "var.", "f.", should not be italicized. The function  can be used to correctly italicize (and standardize) a taxon name, with, in this case,   being   (the function is used by some of the Taxon list set of templates). Could you add and test this – then we won't be interfering with one another's work. Peter coxhead (talk) 19:18, 12 February 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 19:20, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm done with my edits for now, feel free to go ahead and sandbox your changes. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|TALK

PAGE ]]) 02:30, 13 February 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 15:45, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks. It's a simple change that I made and it appears to work fine – see the sandbox output at Template:Taxonbar/testcases and Template:Taxonbar/testcases. However, it doesn't go far enough:
 * Row titles for taxon ranks higher than genus should not be italicized. This requires finding the rank from the Wikidata item and choosing whether to italicize or not.
 * The function I used was written for a different purpose and doesn't deal with the few cases where the taxon name is disambiguated – the parenthesized disambiguator should never be italicized.
 * (2) is easy to fix. I assume (1) can be fixed, but I'm not familiar with the API to Wikidata. Peter coxhead (talk) 23:13, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I put in a few lines that grab the rank and store it in  at line 188. This is stored as the Wikidata ID for the rank (e.g. "species" is "Q7432"). If you want to recover the name of the rank, you would do  . This probably isn't the cleanest way to store this data, but it's there as an example. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|TALK
 * Thanks. I had hoped that Wikidata (being a database system) would have defined the sequence of allowed values of wikidata:Property:P105, since taxon ranks form an ordered sequence (albeit slightly differently ordered for each nomenclature code). It's done here in Module:Autotaxobox, but the input is the Latin term, not the English one, so it will be a bit tedious to decide whether the Wikidata rank is at or below the level of genus, which is where we start italicizing.
 * Tests suggest that the non-italicization of connecting terms works correctly, so I'll move this to the live version. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:42, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I put an english rank table in the sandbox module (generated by Module:Sandbox/Ahecht)). --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|TALK
 * It's both simpler and much more complex than that.
 * We only need to list the ranks from genus downwards; any rank not in this list isn't italicized.
 * However, it's necessary to distinguish botanical and zoological uses of the rank of section, as the automated taxobox system does by using sectio and zoosectio, because botanical sections are below genus and zoological ones above, so the italicization varies. As far as I can tell, Wikidata doesn't distinguish the rank names, so this information would have to be acquired from some other bit of data.
 * The virus code has quite different rules for the use of italics, which is supposed to be followed here (see WikiProject Viruses/Guidelines) although in practice it isn't always. All ranks, except the top level Groups, are italicized for viruses. So it's necessary to detect whether a genus or species is a virus or not.
 * Minor point, perhaps, but Wikidata doesn't seem to deal with the use of "Candidatus" in the bacteria code of nomenclature – see Candidatus Carsonella ruddii and.
 * At present I favour leaving it at the fixes I've made. Peter coxhead (talk) 15:29, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

R. Walker's blog
Please inform your self in Walker's history in Wikipedia and his background. He has been banned from several subjects for promoting fringe ideas and for promoting his blog. One example is his assertion that a mission to Mars will unleash an epidemic identical to that of the movie Andromeda strain; he swears there are live organisms on the surface of Mars right now but Wikipedia has a coverup silencing the fact. It goes on and on. Please pick your sources carefully. Thank you. BatteryIncluded (talk) 18:52, 15 February 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 18:55, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
 * That's fine, but I didn't link to Walker or his blog in my edit. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|TALK
 * Thank you. Peace. BatteryIncluded (talk) 18:56, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

tag
Hey can u pls label the references number 18,24,28 on this page. Thanks! (119.153.58.55 (talk) 15:40, 10 March 2018 (UTC))

Nomination of Margit Sebők for deletion
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Reply to Your Recent Message
Dear Ahecht,

I was not aware I had reached 830,000,000 edits. To me it doesn't seem possible I've made this many edits. Possibly, a mistake has been made as regards the number of edits made by me.

Respectfully,

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Alambre (talk • contribs) 03:01, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

PAGE ]]) 15:21, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Oops, I actually meant it was the 830,000,000 edit to Wikipedia overall. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|TALK

Your edit to Module:Taxonbar
Hi, after your edit to Module:Taxonbar earlier today, whenever you clicked on a Wikidata Q number in a taxonbar, it attempted to go to $1, so I undid it. I haven't looked at it to try to see what was wrong or what you were trying to fix. Peter coxhead (talk) 21:24, 20 March 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 22:06, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I somehow missed that in the testcases. Turned out I was missing a set of parentheses. Got it all fixed now. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|TALK
 * Ah, a parenthesis error – makes me nostalgic as I used to be a serious LISP programmer (if you know that language). Peter coxhead (talk) 07:59, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Qhm
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RE:SVG Images
Sorry about that, I used a converted from the internet and I thought it is fine. I'll just upload them in PNG from now.8Dodo8 (talk · contribs) 14:02, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Upcoming changes to wikitext parsing
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There will be some changes to the way wikitext is parsed during the next few weeks. It will affect all namespaces. You can see a list of pages that may display incorrectly at Special:LintErrors. Since most of the easy problems have already been solved at the English Wikipedia, I am specifically contacting tech-savvy editors such as yourself with this one-time message, in the hope that you will be able to investigate the remaining high-priority pages during the next month.

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Qhm performance problems
Your adding Qhm to a number of football related templates has made their performance worse, so much so that it’s pushed three articles into Category:Pages with script errors – Iraq national football team results, Costa Rica national football team results and 2017–18 UEFA Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round. A few more are in Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded. -- JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 21:21, 19 April 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 22:42, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I'll see what I can do to optimize the templates, but even without my changes, Iraq national football team results was using 2,003,857/2,097,152 of the post-expand include size. Based on tests of portions of that page, my template change only increased it by about 6%. Articles like that should've been split up long ago. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|TALK

Why be such a pain ?
Why be such a pain.

This is about Jacques who was a Resistance Fighter in the Second WW.

People like you are so boring and a real twit.

Go stuff yourself — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C5:5F83:8300:ADDA:265D:568A:A242 (talk) 19:39, 20 April 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 19:43, 20 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Nowhere in the article did it claim that the subject was anything other than a printer. Please also see WP:SOLDIER, as not all historical military figures should have their own article. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|TALK

Splitting List of ... standings articles
Some of the List artictles are failing to render the final/newest standings templates, due to the large quantity of templates -as you noted. The solution is not to inline the content (cause forking where updates from the standings template to no longer automatically reflected in the List articles). We can instead split the List articles by year ranges as is already done for some of the conferences, see Category:NCAA Division I FBS football standings. I am reverting and splitting per this existing convention. Cheers, UW Dawgs (talk) 20:22, 23 April 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 20:24, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Sure, that sounds like a fine solution. I was only inlining the older years, as I assumed they wouldn't change, but a cleaner solution would be to just split the articles. We'd need to make sure to update all the infoboxes that point to the list articles to point to both halves. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|TALK
 * Done. UW Dawgs (talk) 21:06, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Vinny Pazienza-Dana Rosenblatt.
YOU say I didn't give a reliable source so you had the damned cheek to remove my additions, In the slot for the purpose I SPECIFICALLY SAID that I saw the damned fight myself years ago, I saw both fights, and I followed Pazienza. I was thinking about Paz and was watching a few of his fights on Youtube. Eventually the Rosenblatt fight turned up. I remember every bit of it. But before I made the blasted additions I saw both fights over again on Youtube just before I made the corrections.

So what the blazes more reliable a source can I find than my own acute vision and active brain. If you can think of one you are indeed a miracle man. I have made several corrections in Wiki over time and every single one is something I saw myself and absolutely know about it.

As well as seeing your so welcome message, I saw that several of my past corrections had been removed. Every correction was true and valid. You editors or censors or whatever the hell you call yourselves, have a damned nerve.

So I bid you and your Wiki a fond farewell. I am not accustomed to be insulted in such a manner, my word doubted, and my corrections deleted. Find someone else. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.69.100.66 (talk) 09:27, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

PAGE ]]) 14:10, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Hello, 24.69.100.66. I replied on your talk page. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|TALK

Hey guy i need your help
Please email me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Superdupercool123 (talk • contribs) 06:29, 8 May 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 14:23, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I'd rather not expose my email address. If you need help, you can post a question here, ask at the WP:TEAHOUSE or WP:HELPDESK, post a question on your talk page and add the code, or, if it's a private matter, contact the Voluteer Response Team via the email addresses listed at Contact us - Readers. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|TALK

Hello Ahecht Re Euphemism
Hello Ahecht,

I Completely understand. Whilst reading I noticed at least one error in translation. The word durchgeschleust means 'pushed through' NOT guided through

Jews would be "guided" (to their deaths) through the slave-labor and extermination camps[13]https://web.archive.org/web/20130528142643/http://www.holocaust-history.org/quick-facts/special-treatment.shtml

Es wurden durchgeschleust durch die Lager im Generalgouvernement... durch die Lager im Warthegau

Translation

It was passed through through the camps in the Generalgouvernement through the camps in the Warthegau

I will practice using the sandbox with the goal adding meaningful well-sourced contributions in the future.

Very respectfully, Neil — Preceding unsigned comment added by Neil OHanlon (talk • contribs) 02:38, 7 May 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 13:40, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I see that Google Translate translates the term as "pushed through", but every other source, including every German-to-English dictionary I could find, says it's "guided through" (or something similar such as "funneled" or "channeled" through). The word may have acquired a colloquial meaning of "pushed" because of its use during the holocaust, but there are no sources that indicate that it had that meaning at the time. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|TALK
 * . The nearest and most appropriate translation in this context would be 'chaneled through'. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 20:07, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Lua variable table key question
I'm working on something and am a bit stuck, can't find anything online except basic table tutorials/guides/etc., maybe you can help?

Given this nested table, I want to use a variable in place of the hard-coded "Fish" in  , since   will contain other Fish-level entries that I don't want to explicitly search for/iterate over. is effectively pseudo-code, but it's what I'm trying to achieve.

Is this possible/easy in Lua? ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 22:54, 8 May 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 23:14, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * The short answer is
 * The long answer is that Lua has two ways of addressing table elements. The standard way is using brackets (e.g. ), but if your address is a simple string, Lua provides the   syntax as syntactic sugar. If the address of the table element is an integer or a variable, not a string, you must use the bracket format. For more information, see https://www.lua.org/pil/2.5.html. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|TALK

Brett Kimberlin
(cur | prev) 01:55, 1 May 2018‎ Ahecht (talk | contribs)‎. . (16,558 bytes) (+6,798)‎. . (Reverted good faith edits by BrettKimberlin (talk): Unexplained removal of content. (TW)) (undo | thank) (Tag: Undo) (cur | prev) 01:47, 1 May 2018‎ BrettKimberlin (talk | contribs)‎. . (9,760 bytes) (-5)‎. . (undo) (cur | prev) 01:45, 1 May 2018‎ BrettKimberlin (talk | contribs)‎. . (9,765 bytes) (-1)‎. . (undo) (cur | prev) 01:44, 1 May 2018‎ BrettKimberlin (talk | contribs)‎. . (9,766 bytes) (-6,761)‎. . (undo) (cur | prev) 00:52, 1 May 2018‎ BrettKimberlin (talk | contribs)‎. . (16,527 bytes) (-31)‎. . (undo)

Brett Kimberlin here. I have been dealing with the WP legal department about my page for the past two months because footnotes 8, 9 and 13 are dead links, and footnotes 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 25, 26 and 32 are bogus. I sent Mr. Jacob Rogers all the pages from the book that are cited for information referenced in the article to show that none of them matched. So he suggested that I go into the page and remove them all and correct the page to make it more objective and current. Here is a copy of his email and the email I sent to him so you can see where I am coming from. And below that is the list of the bogus cites. I am a living person and this WP page was started by alt-right nuts who hate my progressive activities. I have asked that the page be removed but was overruled by volunteers who did nothing about the dead links or the bogus cites. Mr. Rogers noted that my request was treated cursorily. Why is it that WP publishes the most scandalous and highly charged information?

Please remove the page or at least, make the changes I made.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by BrettKimberlin (talk • contribs) 02:20, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

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 * Hi Brett. I'm sorry to hear that you're having trouble with inaccuracies on a page about you. From what you posted from Jacob Rogers' email, he didn't suggest that you edit the page directly (since Wikipedia has policies about editing pages where you have a conflict of interest), but instead said that he would send your complaint to the community team for suggestions on how to pass you complaint on to volunteer editors. I don't have the ability to receive documents through this page, but I can suggest that you email the Wikipedia Volunteer Response Team at . They will be more able to deal with your issue than a Wikimedia Foundation lawyer, and have the ability to deal with personal information. I know it much be frustrating to keep getting answers that just tell you to contact someone else, but they are the ones best equipped to help you with this issue. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00F;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK

Hey Ahecht, I sent that info on May 1st to the email you suggested but have not heard a peep back from them and none of the dead links or the bad Singer book cites have resulted in any removals from the page. Can you please follow up on that asap. Thanks, Brett — Preceding unsigned comment added by BrettKimberlin (talk • contribs) 03:34, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

PAGE ]]) 14:15, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
 * The email system might have a bit of a backlog at the moment. You might also try emailing <tt></tt> (with a "q" instead of an "o"), which specializes in biographical issues, so they may have a better response time. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00F;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK

Hey Achecht, /* Brett Kimberlin */  I sent to that second email on May 9th but have not heard from either one. How about if you remove the dead links and text, and the footnotes that do not correspond to the pages in the book? There is really nothing you have to investigate to remove the dead links/text. Just click on them and you will confirm they are dead--footnotes 8, 9 and 13. If you send me your email contact info at my email address, I will send you photos of the book pages to show that not a one says what the article says. Thanks, Brett

ok
dear bot, whatever, it's your game — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.114.45.204 (talk) 18:13, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Edit
Why did you put a tone template on Corona Mexico 200 (NASCAR race)? And how can I fix the issue ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kpgjhpjm (talk • contribs) 05:07, 23 May 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 14:21, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
 * From what I can tell (and remember, I added the tag 5 years ago), it was over the race summary sections, which were written from a fans point of view, not a neutral encyclopedic point of view, and contained lots of uncited opinion and presumption (calling a performance or a drive "impressive", calling a win "bittersweet" and a loss "heartbreaking", claiming that the home crowd was "angered", calling drivers "ringers", etc.). --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00F;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK

Thanks for helping. Regards, Kpgjhpjm (talk) 14:25, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

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Edit to Seymour, Indiana
Hello, I'm Bedfordres. You recently reverted my edit to Seymour Indiana because my removal of content was not explained. My purpose for the edit was to remove most of the notable people from the lead and put them in the notable people section. I removed them because there were too many notable people mentioned in the lead, when they should be in the notable people section. In hindsight, I should've added more information to my edit summary, and I plan to do so in later edits. Thank you for alerting me to that problem. As for the Seymour Indiana page, I am unsure about what I do. Should I add back that information, or should I just leave the lead alone? Should I not have removed the notable people in the first place? My apologies if there is something I don't understand here. Thank you! Bedfordres (talk) 22:37, 24 May 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 22:43, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the message. I hadn't noticed that the notable people had their own section. I'll restore your edit. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00F;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK

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Brahms' Lullaby
Please stop disrupting my edits. I am in the middle of working on it and you keep reverting. This is very disruptive and does not allow me to finish my work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hushoney (talk • contribs) 02:07, 29 May 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 02:14, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Several editors have objected to your removal of notable (if not classical) artists from the list. Please discuss at Talk:Brahms' Lullaby before further changing the list. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00F;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK

Can you help me create the reference links? Those look complicated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hushoney (talk • contribs) 02:10, 29 May 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 02:14, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
 * See Help:Referencing_for_beginners, or the video at File:RefTools_rework.ogv --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00F;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK

Anticaucasus mountain system
Hello, why are you not answering my questions over your actions whith my maps? I asked you few times, this is at list very in polite. And then you trying to tell me, you people are not gang up against my maps and article! You guys acting like you are some kind of "wiki-mafia".Эльбрус Казбекович PAGE ]]) 17:48, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Deletion discussions typically run for a week, although there are certain circumstances where they can end early (such as the original nominator withdrawing the decision). Under normal circumstances, an administrator will review the arguments for and against deletion at the end of the week and make the decision as to whether or not to detele the files. For the files where a valid source is listed and where that source clearly indicates that the image is freely licensed, the administrator will close the discussion without deleting the file. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00F;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK

Following up
Hello Ahecht, Thank you for evaluating my recent edit request on Template talk:Given name. I am curious about your having stated that the request was accomplished while the page history for the template does not reflect any subsequent changes to show its actual implementation. Is there something further that needs to occur or a reason that I am failing to see that rationalizes this apparent contradiction? Thank you for considering this follow-up of my earlier request.--John Cline (talk) 22:12, 4 June 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 23:00, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Very strange. I remember saving the changes to the template, and the edit summary showed up in my browser's auto-complete. In any case, I've submitted it again, so the change should be live now. −−Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00F;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK
 * Thanks Ahecht, I appreciate you. If you are around, and don't mind, please consider another request at Template talk:Given name as well. Thank you.--John Cline (talk) 12:38, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Top 25
Thanks for after writing most of one report, creating the table for the next one. Willing to write some of the comments? igordebraga ≠ 14:52, 24 April 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 14:53, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I started the table thinking I'd have time, but this week has turned out to be too busy for me to dedicate the time to it. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00F;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK
 * I understand. If nobody does anything by tomorrow, maybe I'll write it (but give you a shout out). igordebraga ≠ 14:58, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Since this week's table is ready, only the writing is left to do, you're welcome to do so if you can. igordebraga ≠ 05:19, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Michael G Porter
The Michael G Porter entry mainly exists to differentiate it from another famous economist, Michael E Porter of Harvard University.

Both Porters worked at various times for the tobacco industry, and both are regularly being confused.

I'll try to add some relevant references. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.106.209.175 (talk) 02:33, 11 June 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 02:42, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi, I flagged the article because it didn't have any citations to reliable sources. Please see Citing sources and Identifying reliable sources for more information. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00F;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK

File:WormsLogo.png
On the file information page, you inserted the wikicode  However, this is not a vector image, so the wikicode seems to be misplaced. Also note that you need to add a colon to the wikicode per WP:NFCC. --Stefan2 (talk) 20:35, 11 June 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 21:31, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
 * The history of that image is that the original uploader took the file at File:WormsLogo.gif, converted it to PNG, embedded the PNG within an SVG wrapper, and uploaded it as File:WormsLogo.svg. I then took the fake SVG, popped out the raster bits, and reuploaded them with the same description at File:WormsLogo.png. I should've removed that text, but I must've missed it. It's gone now. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00F;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK

Template:NFLPrimaryColor
No problem, I've downgraded it to template editor. It was actually set as fully protected by the previous admin and I just didn't change the move protection setting when I altered the edit protection setting.  Hut 8.5  19:26, 14 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Just saw at the RM that you were waiting for Template:NFLSecondaryColor to be downgraded as well, so I've done that one.  Hut 8.5  20:33, 14 June 2018 (UTC)

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 * Thanks ! --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00F;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive! Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  06:57, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
 * As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
 * Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: NPPbarnstar SE.png. Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: RR3217-0014 100 rubles USSR 1989 Gold avers.png, Swiss-Commemorative-Coin-1991-CHF-250-reverse.png, Coin of Kazakhstan 500Thinker averse.png, US-$1000-SC-1878-FR-346a-PROOF.jpg.
 * Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

Many thanks
Many thanks for drawing to my attention WP:User survey at Village pump (proposals). That looks like just the type of thing in mind, but I had not come across it before, so many thanks for your help - it is appreciated. Vorbee (talk) 16:46, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Tech News: 2018-26
<section begin="technews-2018-W26"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg PAWS, our JupyterHub system, got an upgrade and a logo. Several bugs should be fixed.

Problems
 * When a link text was in italics or had other formatting you could sometimes not edit it in the visual editor. This has now been fixed.

Changes later this week
 * Content translation users who translate between any two of Arabic, English, French, Japanese and Russian will be asked to be part of a research project. This is to create better tools for translating articles.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 June. It will be on all wikis from 28 June (calendar).

Meetings
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Module:Cite DNV/sandbox
I've moved this module to Module:Sandbox/Ahecht/Cite DNV as a more proper name for that kind of test that doesn't go with any existing module. The Module:Cite DNV stub that you created no longer served any purpose, and thus I've nominated it for an WP:RfD. &#123;&#123;3x&#124;p&#125;&#125;ery (talk) 18:50, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Stupid autocorrect
Re the stupid autocorrect mentioned here: I thougt you might enjoy (and spell-checking!) the following:

The Spell-Checker Song: Owed to a Spell Czech Her (Ode to a spellchecker)

Eye halve a spelling chequer.

It came with my pea sea.

It plane lee marks four my Rhea view,

Miss steaks aye Ken knot see.

Iran this Poe Em threw it.

Your shore lee glad two no.

It is core wrecked in every weigh,

My chequer tolled me sew.

A Czech her is a bless sing.

It freeze yew lodes of thyme.

It helps me right stiles ewe can reed,

And aides me when aye rime.

Eye strike a key and type a word.

And weight four it two say.

Weather eye am wrong oar write.

It shows me strait aweigh.

Each frays come posed up on my screen,

Is trussed two bee a Joule.

The check Ur pours o'er every word,

To Czech sum spelling rule.

As soon as a mist ache is maid.

It nose bee fore two long.

And eye can put the error rite.

Its rare lea ever wrong.

Bee fore a veiling cheque curs,

hour spelling mite decline.

If wee R. lacks oar have a laps,

We wood bee maid two wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling,

Is checked with such grate flare,

There are know faults with in my cite,

Of nun eye am a wear.

Now spelling does knot phase me,

It does knot bring a tier.

My pay purrs awl due glad den,

With words sew fare too here.

2 rite with care is quite a fete,

Of witch won should bee proud;

and wee mussed dew the best week Anne,

Sew flaws argh knot aloud.

Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays.

Such soft wear four pea seize.

And why eye brake in 2 averse

With righting sure too please.

Attribution: I composed the above as a modification of various versions found on the web labeled "author unknown" or some such. Later I discovered this page, which appears to document the original sources, and my version is clearly a heavily modified derivative version of what is listed on that page. To whatever extent the above is my own work, I release it under the Creative Commons CC0 license. --Guy Macon --Guy Macon (talk) 22:14, 28 June 2018 (UTC) [ Citation Needed ] PAGE ]]) 22:26, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Wonderful! Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00F;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK

Template:Gridiron tertiary color raw
I'm not really versed in module/template stuff, so I'm not sure how to fix this, but there's a problem with the modulized version (is that a word? it is now.) of this template that's breaking other templates that it's used in. Basically, what this template is supposed to do (as I'm sure you know) is return a raw hex code (i.e. "#FFFFFF"). However, the "#", since it's at the beginning of a line, is being read as a numbered list. For example, would return as
 * 1) A71930

even in the middle of a line. Of course, this completely messed up Template:NFL final roster and Template:NFL final staff, both of which use it for coloring. I've temporarily reverted to the pre-module version pending a fix. Thanks, ansh 666 22:43, 28 June 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 23:34, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up. This module is used in so many different templates, and each seems to have its own tolerance for various ways of escaping the hash sign (some work with HTML character codes, some don't, some work with <nowiki ></nowiki>, some don't, some work without escaping it at all, some don't). I've found a solution that seems to work for the testcases at Template:Gridiron primary color/testcases, but let me know if you find anything else that it breaks. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00F;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK

Ahecht can you help me please
Ahecht Could you please help me find a source LGBT rights in Botswana article? I can't do it on my own because I'm not computer savy and I'm not good at adding references. Sphinxmystery (talk) 01:36, 29 June 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 01:49, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
 * See this edit. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00F;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK

Article Wizard
Hi. I'm not sure if I understand the reason for your recent edit to the Wizard edit template. I see it as a change but not necessarily as an improvement. Are you offering to rewrite the Wizard for us? Because that's what needs to be done. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:27, 7 July 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 15:51, 7 July 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 18:53, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I was bringing it in line with the editnotices for other talk pages that are frequently mistaken for help pages by new users (so instead of just saying "don't edit here", it now says "here is where you can ask for help"). --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00F;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK
 * I don't think  we have an 'in line' standard format  for  such  edit notices; who is to say what the 'official' format is? I've seen (and written) many  such warning-style edit notices and they  were all  different.  In any case, my 'in-your-face' version which you chose to tame down didn't do the trick for this customer whose edit brought the template to your attention. I have it from very long experience that most people just don't read edit notices whatever is put on them. Never mind. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 17:46, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I restored your text above the links section. However, no matter what we put there, there's always going to be editors that don't read it before posting. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00F;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:55, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

"Page notice" template
Thank you! for creating and adding the "Page notice" template in List of LGBT characters in television and radio. Having it is going to be tremendously helpful to all diligent editors who strive to maintain the quality of the list. Pyxis Solitary 02:04, 15 June 2018 (UTC) Hi. I just noticed that the closing bracket is missing from 2018 ( [Citation needed:July 2018 ). Txs again! Pyxis Solitary 13:02, 10 July 2018 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 13:35, 10 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks, it should be fixed now. --Ahecht ([[User_talk:Ahecht|<span style="color:#FFF;background:#00F;display:inline-block;padding:1px 1px 0;vertical-align:-.3em;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center">TALK
 * You're da bomb! :-)  Pyxis Solitary  03:13, 11 July 2018 (UTC)