User talk:Alaney2k/Archive 14

New York Times
I don't dispute the name of the publication, but your (automated?) changes have a negative impact on readability, particularly when they produce the phrase "a The." Nobody except the Times is responsible for policing the Times' trademark. Please reconsider. 73.71.251.64 (talk) 06:38, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Spot of a mistake that's all. Another user has thanked me for a similar edit (without error of course). Alaney2k (talk) 19:25, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Just an anecdote: I once had a habit of hitting random articles and adding an extra space above the stub tag per WP:STUBSPACING. But it annoyed people, so I let it go. Brycehughes (talk) 22:23, 11 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Let it go. Alaney2k (talk) 19:26, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools
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The Editing team has been working on the talk pages project. The goal of the talk pages project is to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. This project is the result of the Talk pages consultation 2019.



The team is building a new tool for replying to comments now. This early version can sign and indent comments automatically. Please test the new Reply tool.


 * On 31 March 2020, the new tool was offered as a Beta Feature editors at four Wikipedias:  Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian.  If your community also wants early access to the new tool, contact User:Whatamidoing (WMF).
 * The team is planning some upcoming changes. Please review the proposed design and share your thoughts on the talk page.  The team will test features such as:
 * an easy way to mention another editor ("pinging"),
 * a rich-text visual editing option, and
 * other features identified through user testing or recommended by editors.

To hear more about Editing Team updates, please add your name to the "Get involved"  section of the project page. You can also watch these pages: the main project page, Updates, Replying, and User testing.

– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Overlinking
I notice that you have been linking Canadian in the nationality field in numerous infoboxes, with the summary, "wlink to Canadians not Canada per consensus at Cdn project, replaced: nationality = Canadian → nationality = Canadian". However, MOS:OVERLINK is clear that we should NOT be linking to "names of subjects with which most readers will be at least somewhat familiar. This generally includes major examples of ... countries ... nationalities". Could you please consider reverting all of your changes - Canada should not be linked to either Canada or Canadian, regardless of any consensus at WikiProject Canada. And where is this consensus, as I am struggling to find it? Edwardx (talk) 22:09, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * It is Canadian that we agreed to link to Canadians. Back in the archives of wp:Canada. I have been removing links to Canada. I added a few in the nationality field or switched the wlink from the 1st sentence to the infobox. As discussed recently on wp:Canada, it is debatable whether Canadian people are a somewhat familiar subject to readers. For Canadians, or those nearby, yes, but still, a very small somewhat. Alaney2k (talk) 05:13, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
 * But I will stop adding. I think maybe that is still up for discussion. Alaney2k (talk) 05:28, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I tried to find the discussion in the (extensive) WP:Canada archives, but searching for Canadian was just turning up too many possibilities - do you have a link to the precise thread? Most of our readers will know that Canada is a country and roughly where it is, and that a Canadian is someone from Canada. Of course, they could be better informed, especially some Americans who appear to be proud of their ignorance of the world outside their borders. But the key test as MOS:OVERLINK makes clear is what likelihood there is of one clicking on the link. If you think this is still up for discussion, where is this discussion? OMG, I have just realised that there is this very discussion where it should be at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Linking, and you contributed to it on 28 April. The clear consensus is against linking Canada or Canadian. Will you now revert your changes please? Edwardx (talk) 10:58, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
 * That discussion is about the linking in the first sentence. You have now brought up the infobox. Alaney2k (talk) 14:20, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
 * My position is that we discussed linking Canadians versus to Canada in the wp:Canada discussion. We as a group thought that linking to Canadians is better. So, I think I am okay in continuing to change those. I would prefer to have the wlink in the infobox, but I think I should take that back to wp:Canada. I understand that many editors feel it is overlinking to wlink to Canada or Canadians. But, however, many editors specifically added those links, and I think they may not be represented in the discussions that are led by people who want to remove them. I estimate there are anywhere up to 100,000 articles with Canadian linking. Alaney2k (talk) 14:25, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
 * You have still not provided a link to this discussion at WP:Canada. In any event, MOS:OVERLINK is an agreed policy, and takes precedence over any discussion at WP:Canada. Canada should not be linked in either the lead, the infobox, or anywhere else in almost all articles. Edwardx (talk) 12:39, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Project rules are not easily over-ridden. Example, the hockey project does not allow diacritics on hockey articles. Secondly, we don't go back and modify original authors' styles, e.g. cites and date styles. We live with them. Alaney2k (talk) 16:24, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #2 – Quick updates
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This edition of the Editing newsletter includes information the Talk pages project, an effort to help contributors communicate on wiki more easily. The central project page is on MediaWiki.org.


 * Reply tool : This is available as a Beta Feature at the four partner wikis (Arabic, Dutch, French, and Hungarian Wikipedias). The Beta Feature will get new features soon.  The new features include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing  . You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster.  Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months.
 * New requirements for user signatures : Soon, users will not be able to save invalid custom signatures in Special:Preferences. This will reduce signature spoofing, prevent page corruption, and make new talk page tools more reliable.  Most editors will not be affected.
 * New discussion tool : The Editing team is beginning work on a simpler process for starting new discussions.   You can see the initial design on the project page.
 * Research on the use of talk pages : The Editing team worked with the Wikimedia research team to study how talk pages help editors improve articles.  We learned that new editors who use talk pages make more edits to the main namespace than new editors who don't use talk pages.

– Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:11, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

I was hoping one day to...
...see if the developers would consider (or have considered) creating an alert of some sort that would let editors know if one of their changes added an article to one of the subcategories of Category:CS1 errors. Over the last year or so I've been doing much more work on WP by volume (so my edit count has been skyrocketing) and with my experimentation and mistakes using AWB, my changes often show up in Category:Pages with citations having redundant parameters. It's been necessary to monitor that category (hence the daydream about some sort of alert) and I've begun noticing your username there as well. Take care, Dawnseeker2000  09:36, 12 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello again. Do you mind acknowledging what I was trying to say? Thanks, Dawnseeker2000  07:25, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm not perfect and it would help. Probably very low on the priority list, though. Alaney2k (talk) 20:55, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #3


Seven years ago this week, the Editing team made the visual editor available by default to all logged-in editors using the desktop site at the English Wikipedia. Here's what happened since its introduction:


 * The 50 millionth edit using the visual editor on desktop was made this year. More than 10 million edits have been made here at the English Wikipedia.
 * More than 2 million new articles have been created in the visual editor. More than 600,000 of these new articles were created during 2019.
 * Almost 5 million edits on the mobile site have been made with the visual editor. Most of these edits have been made since the Editing team started improving the mobile visual editor in 2018.
 * The proportion of all edits made using the visual editor has been increasing every year.
 * Editors have made more than 7 million edits in the 2017 wikitext editor, including starting 600,000 new articles in it. The 2017 wikitext editor is VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode.  You can enable it in your preferences.
 * On 17 November 2019, the first edit from outer space was made in the mobile visual editor.
 * In 2019, 35% of the edits by newcomers, and half of their first edits, were made using the visual editor. This percentage has been increasing every year since the tool became available.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:05, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

please fix your script
With, the script changed this:

to this:

In cs1|2, website and work are aliases of each other. When more than one alias is present, cs1|2 can't know which should be used so it emits an error message. Before blindly changing publisher to work (better would be to newpaper and rename the template to ) the script should ensure that aliases of work are not already present. Please don't make work for others to clean up.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 13:15, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

- Thanks for fixing it. Alaney2k (talk) 18:34, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Looks like your script is still broken.  broke this citation template.  Please fix your script so that others don't have to clean up after you.
 * —Trappist the monk (talk) 19:39, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Damn. I -will- get this right. Sorry about you having to do these fixes. I think I am probably going too fast and not double-checking enough. Alaney2k (talk) 20:52, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

please fix your script (2)
Continued from

at line 301. website is an equal alias of work; only one may exist in a cs1|2 template at any one time. In this case timesofisrael.com should have been deleted.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:59, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

List of slave owners
I've slowly been working on adding context and references for all the entries in this list. If you're adding new entries, can you please add a short sentence to each justifying their inclusion, and a reference to support it? Thanks! pburka (talk) 21:35, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Editing news 2020 #4
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Reply tool


The Reply tool  has been available as a Beta Feature at the Arabic, Dutch, French and Hungarian Wikipedias since 31 March 2020. The first analysis showed positive results.


 * More than 300 editors used the Reply tool at these four Wikipedias. They  posted more than 7,400 replies during the study period.
 * Of the people who posted a comment with the Reply tool, about 70% of them used the tool multiple times. About 60% of them used it on multiple days.
 * Comments from Wikipedia editors are positive. One said, أعتقد أن الأداة تقدم فائدة ملحوظة؛ فهي تختصر الوقت لتقديم رد بدلًا من التنقل بالفأرة إلى وصلة تعديل القسم أو الصفحة، التي تكون بعيدة عن التعليق الأخير في الغالب، ويصل المساهم لصندوق التعديل بسرعة باستخدام الأداة.  ("I think the tool has a significant impact; it saves time to reply while the classic way is to move with a mouse to the Edit link to edit the section or the page which is generally far away from the comment. And the user reaches to the edit box so quickly to use the Reply tool.")

The Editing team released the Reply tool as a Beta Feature at eight other Wikipedias in early August. Those Wikipedias are in the Chinese, Czech, Georgian, Serbian, Sorani Kurdish, Swedish, Catalan, and Korean languages. If you would like to use the Reply tool at your wiki, please tell User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF).

The Reply tool is still in active development. Per request from the Dutch Wikipedia and other editors, you will be able to customize the edit summary. (The default edit summary is "Reply".) A "ping" feature is available in the Reply tool's visual editing mode. This feature searches for usernames. Per request from the Arabic Wikipedia, each wiki will be able to set its own preferred symbol for pinging editors. Per request from editors at the Japanese and Hungarian Wikipedias, each wiki can define a preferred signature prefix in the page MediaWiki:Discussiontools-signature-prefix. For example, some languages omit spaces before signatures. Other communities want to add a dash or a non-breaking space.

New requirements for user signatures

 * The new requirements for custom user signatures began on 6 July 2020. If you try to create a custom signature that does not meet the requirements, you will get an error message.
 * Existing custom signatures that do not meet the new requirements will be unaffected temporarily . Eventually, all custom signatures will need to meet the new requirements. You can check your signature and see lists of active editors whose custom signatures need to be corrected.  Volunteers have been contacting editors who need to change their custom signatures.  If you need to change your custom signature, then please read the help page.

Next: New discussion tool
Next, the team will be working on a tool for quickly and easily starting a new discussion section to a talk page. To follow the development of this new tool, please put the New Discussion Tool project page on your watchlist.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:47, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Help me!
Please help me with... I am looking to engage editors on a topic on an article. Not a serious topic, really, but I have opened a topic at Talk:Godzilla (franchise) about the pronouns to use for Godzilla in the movie articles for the franchise. I am concerned that a silly edit war could break out about this, that is my real concern, I will go either way as long as we are consistent. So far, I have not seen any type of hatnote appropriate for this, and I don't know how to engage the related article editors. Thanks! Alaney2k (talk) 14:01, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Opening a talk page discussion is the way to engage editors, so you're on the right track. If you want more help, change the help me-helped back into a help me, stop by the Teahouse, or Wikipedia's live help channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. Primefac (talk) 16:32, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

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Question...
In this edit you converted a bunch of dates from yyyy-mm-dd format. I know some wikidocuments endorse doing this, but don't they explicitly exempt doing so for yyyy-mm-dd dates used in a context where brevity is desirable -- like tables and cite templates? Geo Swan (talk) 05:39, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Never heard of that. I use a script that sets the dates, so I believe it must follow policy or it would not be allowed. I have never had an admin correct me on the use of the script, either. The script used to have options for 'body only', but those don't exist anymore. There aren't options for y-m-d type dates, either. I think the idea is to be consistent within an article, following the first date format used in the article. Personally, I don't know why you would -want- to use an 'unfriendly' (less readable) format like that over everyday formats, though. As for the article, well that article was well over 90% month day year format, so it was obvious that a few recent edits were not following the date format standard established in the article. Alaney2k (talk) 06:15, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Women's Ice Hockey Task Force this month
– Spitzmauskc (talk) 03:19, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

My editing repsonse to remove the Canada link per guidelines
Hi Alaney2k, Last time when you are removing the Canada link in the past, I was emotional and worried by removing the the Canada and some edits later I have restore the Canada link for the moment and I run away from Wikipedia. After a long month of my debating with Canadian Wikipedians for removing the Canada link. It was confirmed that Canada link is to remove the Canada article pro WP:OVERLINKING. After a long wait between 6 months and a year I have finally remove as many articles links of the Canada article as hard as I can. I would like to make an apology. I am sorry for restoring the Canada link in the past 6 months. This is my apology. Also two-tothree months later, I have carefully read the proposal at WP:CANADA for overlinking. I have already started removing Canada links as many as I can. I did remove Canada links as many as I can from January 2020. I'm just giving you some editing assistance. I know you remove Canada links already in the past, but I am removing Canada links as many as I can per WP:OVERLINKING. This is to help your editing assistance when you are not editing with Wikipedia. So, I have already apologize for restoring the Canada link in the past to you. Will you accept my apology for restoring the Canada link problem? And finally, will you thank me by removing some Canada links by myself for the overlinking guidelines for its assistance? I am happy to help you. Anyways, before I go, will you thank me by removing the Canada links by myself for the editing assistance when I take over from you. And finally, will you accept my apology by restoring the Canada link in the past. Currently, I am still removing some Canada links as many as I can per overlinking guidelines by myself. I hope you will respond to me for a positive reply very soon. Anyways, I thank you and please stay healthy and stay in one place for this difficult pandemic. Take care of yourself! 2001:569:74D2:A800:CCDD:EC60:A7AC:7923 (talk) 01:01, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Of course, apology accepted. Thank you! Believe me, we have many disagreements on Wikipedia and I have learned to not be hurt by differences of opinion. Best wishes to you! Alaney2k (talk) 02:17, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Changing citation parameters
Hi Alaney2k! I see that we both use AWB to fix citation parameters, and you recently fixed the Chris Dier article. Part of your fix changed  to , which then caused the article to be included in Category:CS1 errors: redundant parameter. I've now fixed the article to removed it from the category. Could you please also check the maintenance category after you've made your AWB changes to see if any articles you've edited were accidentally added to the category? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 16:04, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

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SWLJ
Sometimes you just have to kill 'em with kindness! That wears them out faster! --GoneIn60 (talk) 16:32, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Bit of a thankless task the last two SW movie articles. Making the films themselves seems to have been also, what with all of the criticism from fans and critics and even the cast. Again, thanks for the smooth reply. Alaney2k (talk) 18:09, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Changing citation parameters
Hi Alaney2k! I see that we both use AWB to fix citation parameters, and you recently fixed the Chris Dier article. Part of your fix changed  to , which then caused the article to be included in Category:CS1 errors: redundant parameter. I've now fixed the article to removed it from the category. Could you please also check the maintenance category after you've made your AWB changes to see if any articles you've edited were accidentally added to the category? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 16:04, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for fixing that. Alaney2k (talk) 21:20, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi again! Found another instance in your edit to DaMarcus Beasley changing   to  .  I've fixed this too.  GoingBatty (talk) 17:51, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks again. I will be more careful. Alaney2k (talk) 19:04, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
 * If the people using reFill and Reflinks and other tools were more careful, then there'd be nothing for us to fix! Keep up the good work! GoingBatty (talk) 22:31, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:07, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to QAI ;) - I have a FAC open, your eyes are appreciated! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:34, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #1
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Reply tool
The Reply tool  is available at most other Wikipedias.


 * The Reply tool has been deployed as an opt-out preference to all editors at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.
 * It is also available as a Beta Feature at almost all Wikipedias except for the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias. If it is not available at your wiki, you can request it by following these simple instructions.

Research notes:


 * As of January 2021, more than 3,500 editors have used the Reply tool to post about 70,000 comments.
 * There is preliminary data from the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedia on the Reply tool. Junior Contributors who use the Reply tool are more likely to publish the comments that they start writing than those who use full-page wikitext editing.
 * The Editing and Parsing teams have significantly reduced the number of edits that affect other parts of the page. About 0.3% of edits did this during the last month. Some of the remaining changes are automatic corrections for Special:LintErrors.
 * Венов_дијаграм.svg A large A/B test will start soon. This is part of the process to offer the Reply tool to everyone.  During this test, half of all editors at 24 Wikipedias (not including the English Wikipedia) will have the Reply tool automatically enabled, and half will not. Editors at those Wikipeedias can still turn it on or off for their own accounts in Special:Preferences.

New discussion tool
The new tool for starting new discussions (new sections) will join the Discussion tools in Special:Preferences at the end of January. You can try the tool for yourself. You can leave feedback in this thread or on the talk page.

Next: Notifications
During Talk pages consultation 2019, editors said that it should be easier to know about new activity in conversations they are interested in. The Notifications project is just beginning. What would help you become aware of new comments? What's working with the current system? Which pages at your wiki should the team look at? Please post your advice at mw:Talk:Talk pages project/Notifications.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 01:02, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

Newspaper names
Why do you think that it is important to add "The" to a bunch of newspaper names? How does that improve the encyclopedia? Cullen328  Let's discuss it  02:15, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I have found in my 10+ years of editing that many of the citations are rather poorly done. My main purpose is to check on minor things, like italics, proper cite params (e.g. properly use work or newspaper instead of publisher). My search focuses on articles with misspellings of newspaper names, e.g. LA Times, NY Times, NYT as well as the missing The from many newspapers. I usually find that the citations have mistakes too. Such as inconsistent date formats, missing titles, etc. etc. When I update the article to use the 'The' it works partly as a checkmark that I have reviewed that article. There are articles with just missing 'The' strings but almost all have some minor thing I correct too. Are my edit summaries not clear? I am getting thanks from other editors for lots of these edits. Alaney2k (talk) 15:13, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Senators
Would you mind helping out with a stubborn mobile editor, who keeps adding diacritics to the Senators pages. GoodDay (talk) 15:50, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * No. The team uses the diacritics on the player's sweater, so I am fine with it. I'm tired of and don't care about wp:hockey policy and won't police it. Alaney2k (talk) 15:59, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * That's not the compromise agreement. But anyways, thanks for turning me down. GoodDay (talk) 16:01, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * It's one thing to turn down obscure diacritics from foreign language references on place names, but when a single diacritic is used on a single player and is accepted by its organization, I find the policy to not be a feasible compromise. Lots of references in English sources for Stützle. Flexibility = compromise, rigidity = authoritarianism. Alaney2k (talk) 16:14, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I disagree with you. The compromise was put in place to halt a long-term dispute between pro- & anti- diacritics editors, on hockey related articles. GoodDay (talk) 16:18, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I said no and explained why. There is nothing further to say. Alaney2k (talk) 16:27, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * If WP:HOCKEY agrees with you? I may have to change my position on birthplaces concerning Baltic players in the NHL, born between 1940 & 1991. GoodDay (talk) 16:29, 1 February 2021 (UTC)

Italics
Why did you italicize the title of Canadian federal legislation, like the Canadian Bill of Rights? Srnec (talk) 00:40, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
 * That is the standard bibliographic form in Canada. Like the title of a book or a lawsuit, court case, etc. I know it is not consistently used in the media, etc. If you think I am wrong, we could bring it up at wp:Canada I suppose. I don't have my reference on this handy, but I was taught that back in school. Alaney2k (talk) 03:31, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
 * At this web site: here, section 9.28, under statutes. Alaney2k (talk) 03:55, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
 * It strikes me as the kind of thing you would see in a law article or court decision rather than enyclopaedic prose. It does not seem to me that "Canadian Bill of Rights" is usually italicized, neither in Google Scholar results nor Google Books results. Srnec (talk) 18:19, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
 * The Canadian Encyclopedia does it: Canadian Bill of Rights. Alaney2k (talk) 18:26, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for February 17
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Thank you ...
... for improving articles in February! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:04, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Conventions?
WP:CANPLACE is not about infoboxes. Follow it yourself. If you don't self-revert, I will do so shortly. Walter Görlitz (talk) 23:51, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
 * If you look at all of the other actors from Canada, their birthplace includes the province. If you 3RR me, I will report it. Alaney2k (talk) 23:55, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Would you like me to fix them because they're wrong or are you really going to argue that they're right and CANPLACE is wrong? Walter Görlitz (talk) 23:58, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
 * You must be joking. 99% of all Canadian biographies have the province in the infobox. Like I said, if you 3RR me, I will report it. I will abide by independent admins if you want to go that route. Alaney2k (talk) 00:02, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you ...
... for improving articles in March! On Bach's birthday --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:14, 21 March 2021 (UTC)

WHOCKEY News – April 2021
– Spitzmauskc (talk) 20:16, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Thank you ...
... for improving articles in April! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:51, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

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NHL game logs
I saw that on some teams' pages you changed the links of recaps in game logs from external links to references. Which part of MOS justifies your changes? – Sabbatino (talk) 18:59, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * WP:EL. pretty basic stuff. Alaney2k (talk) 23:26, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
 * I figure we don't need to update the current seasons until they are over. Then process each season's table with Refill. Because who wants to go to the trouble after every game? So I am working on 19-20 and will progressively go back in time for each team season article. It will take a while and be a bit tedious, but the articles should conform to the MOS. I did all of Ottawa because I pay special attention to Sens' articles. Alaney2k (talk) 19:18, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Editing news 2021 #2
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Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:


 * Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
 * The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "Discussion Tools" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)

00:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

June thanks
Thank you for improving articles in June, with some impressions of places, flowers and music for you. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:23, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

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July corner
On DYK today, two songs, a morning song that a cousin gave to me, about the many meanings of rising, and the other praying for the courage to take the necessary steps. The morning song is a GA, - I should write more given my initials, but I also want to care for articles of those who recently died (now Esther Béjarano). - Thank you for improving articles in July, - I come a few days earlier than normally because the bloom is fading already ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:04, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

please fix your script
Re: broke this citation. website and work are exact aliases so may not both be in a single cs1|2 template at the same time.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 21:40, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Dang. Missed it. Alaney2k (talk) 21:44, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

Typo in Royal Ontario Museum
From the first paragraph in the History section (with refs removed):

"The Royal Ontario Museum was formally established on 16 April 1912 and was jointly governed by the Government of Ontario and the University of Toronto. Its first assets were transferred from the University and the Ontario Department of Education, coming from its predecessor the Museum of Natural History and Fine Arts at the Toronto Normal School. On 19 March 1914, the Duke of Connaught, also the Governor General of Canada, officially opened the Royal Ontario Museum to the public. The museum's location at the edge of Toronto's built-up area, far from the city's central business district, was selected mainly for its proximity to the University of Toronto. The original building was constructed on the western edge of the property along the university's Philosopher's Walk, with its main entrance facing out onto Bloor Street housing five separate museums of the following fields: Archaeology, Palaeontology, Mineralogy, Zoology, and Geology. It cost CA$400,00 to construct. This was the first phase of a two-part construction plan that intended to expand the museum towards Queen's Park Crescent, ultimately creating an H-shaped structure."

Did it cost $40,000 or $400,000 to construct? I have bolded the pertinent sentence as I don't have the Dickson ref myself. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 01:02, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. It was 400,000. Alaney2k (talk) 15:57, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. Johnny Au  (talk/contributions) 00:23, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

NHL rosters
Howdy. Would you please stop changing back to hyphens in the NHL team rosters? GoodDay (talk) 22:24, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
 * just messin with you guys. I don't know why you care so much about one size or the other ... Alaney2k (talk) 15:57, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Optics. Not everyone has perfect eyesight. GoodDay (talk) 16:00, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I had my fun. I will return to my mature mode now. Alaney2k (talk) 16:11, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

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Today: memories in friendship --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:30, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Joseph Cattarinich
Re: Joseph Cattarinich

This Hall of Fame link you created doesn't work. I don't know how to fix it. I'll leave it in your hands. Thanks.Stretchrunner II (talk) 09:24, 7 November 2021 (UTC) 19:53, 4 April 2008‎ Alaney2k talk contribs‎ 3,592 bytes +113‎ added hall of fame link undothank https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Cattarinich&diff=203358872&oldid=203357441


 * Looks like you fixed it? I was away for a few days. Alaney2k (talk) 21:47, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

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ref=harv
You know, this hasn't been needed since nearly two years now. &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:17, 1 January 2022 (UTC) - thanks, will keep that in mind~ Alaney2k (talk) 19:23, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Summit series 1972
Hi! My name is Mikhail. I don’t know how to edit texts in Wikipedia. And I see you can do it. I have found a mistake in the article about the 1972 Summit series (USSR - Canada, hockey).

In the table with statistic of the players Starshinov has the number 18, but he had the number 8. Vikulov in that table has the number 8, but he had the number 18. Please, edit that table if you can.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_Series

English is not my native language. So I’m sorry for my mistakes. 174.203.128.176 (talk) 01:34, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

I need a source to cite for this change. I got the jersey numbers from The Globe and Mail newspaper. We need another source to change this. Alaney2k (talk) 14:08, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary
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June songs
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Look at the church where I heard VOCES8. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:57, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

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At this edit you replaced:
 * with
 * with

Please don't do that. The cs1|2 templates, in this case, are responsible for proper formatting of newspaper names. Adding italic markup in an attempt to undo that formatting causes cs1|2 to ignore the markup and to emit an error message:

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September music
Thank you for improving articles in September! Yesterday, we sang old music for two choirs at church, pictured, scroll to the image of the organ of the month of the Diocese of Limburg (my perspective), and if you have time, watch the video about it. And today I wrote an article about music premiered today, Like as the hart. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:08, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

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It's gonna be brutal, but...
Feeling up for DVP version 2.0? - Floydian τ ¢ 01:35, 4 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Just now looked at the article. That's a lot of citations needed. Alaney2k (talk) 02:48, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

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I really like the articles you create, publish or edit on Wikipedia. I’m not a Wikipedia specialist, so I would like to collaborate with a professional who has experience in this field. I would like to publish an article about Oskar Hartmann, entrepreneur, business angel and international investor, on the German or English version of Wikipedia.

I see it as a text about his professional career, investments and philosophy of life. Not PR or advertising articles. My name is Emma Rogers

Let me know if you are interested in describing Hartmann's biography as an author, please. I can give you more information RogEmma (talk) 08:16, 12 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi Emma,
 * At this time, and through the holiday period, I won't be doing very much editing, so I won't be of any help. But don't let that discourage you, there are lots of resources here on Wikipedia. It's not that hard to write up an article. Here are my suggestions.
 * As a start, I suggest reading the WP:HELP page. There are people who have volunteered to help new editors. Also, read the Help:Your first article page.
 * Start your article as Draft:Oskar Hartmann or as User:RogEmma/Oskar Hartmann. You can work freely in either of these two locations, so go ahead and start it. It is preferred to start your article in either of those locations, then when it's ready for what we call "main space", you can move the article to Oskar Hartmann. That is when you feel comfortable about its content. (has references, infobox, sections, etc.)
 * Since it is a biographical article, you could read the WP:Biography project page also. That project can help with peer review of your article. Biographical articles can get more scrutiny, so it's important to be objective when writing about a person. If there are any controversies, of course include them, but back them up with references. Read up on the Template:Citation references template. Also, avoid using information from Hartmann himself that does not have a reference elsewhere in a book, online media, etc.
 * If you would like me to review your article, I could take a look next month.
 * Cheers, Alaney2k (talk) 13:54, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

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Hamilton Tigers (CPHL)
Hello. Good job ! Supertoff (talk) 14:12, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I translated it from english to french : Tigers de Hamilton (1926-1930). Supertoff (talk) 16:12, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary
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and January thanks --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:36, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

back from vacation, see songs - Melitta Muszely died, RIP --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:02, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

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February stories
Thank you for improving articles in February! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:28, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

My story on 24 February is about Artemy Vedel (TFA by Amitchell235), and I made a suggestion for more peace, - what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:42, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

today: two women whose birthday we celebrate today, 99 and 90! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:25, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

March flowers
Thank you for improving articles in March! - Today we remember the 150th birthday of Max Reger, who saw the horrors of a world war right when it began in 1914, while others were still in high patriotic moods -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:52, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

sharing impressions from vacation on Madeira 20-30 March, pics now at 24 Mar from the peaks --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:25, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

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April songs
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May thanks
Thank you for improving articles in May. - I had a good story on coronation day: the Te Deum we sang that day. And the following day we sang it for the composer ;)

I nominated Soňa Červená for GA just to give her a bit more exposure, and I took some pics of bright scenery - click on songs. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:32, 20 May 2023 (UTC)