User talk:Bdijkstra

America is still the place
Hi Bdijkstra.....can you help us to learn how to change the title correctly? I’m so confused so apologies it was not done correctly the first time. We need the header/ Title of this page changed to “I’m Charlie Walker”. Any help would be great!!

Thanks 5patrickgilles5 (talk) 19:56, 24 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Sure I can help. Unfortunately there are some functions in the Visual Editor that should be turned off because they lead to confusion and wrong edits. At Help:How to move a page you'll find instructions on how to move a page. (Of course I could move it for you, but then I would be responsible for the change, so generally I prefer to avoid that) . --bdijkstra (talk) 20:10, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

User:Bitbotje
Hello, please note that in order to operate a bot on the English Wikipedia, you will need to request approval at WP:BRFA. Best regards, — xaosflux  Talk 19:54, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * As I understand the next section, your note applies to unsupervised edits. --bdijkstra (talk) 20:14, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * You should not be making any edits with an account that appears to be a bot (such as Bitbotje) outside of your own personal space, without getting bot approval. You should also not make any large-scale repetitive edits at all, as flooding watchlists or recent changes may be considered disruption. To avoid this situation, large-scale repetitive edits, if  even if supervised, should be made using a bot-flagged account. —  xaosflux  Talk 02:04, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Understood. --bdijkstra (talk) 07:39, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
 * This account has been blocked as an unauthorized bot. Despite you just saying you understood that You should not be making any edits with an account that appears to be a bot (such as Bitbotje) you started making the edits anyway (Special:Contributions/Bitbotje).  To get this account unblocked please file a WP:BRFA and have a task approved. —  xaosflux  Talk 16:37, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I guess I understood wrong then. --bdijkstra (talk) 16:41, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

AutoWikiBrowser access
Hi bdijkstra, I've granted you the ability to use AutoWikiBrowser on the English Wikipedia from this account or your role account. Use of AWB is subject to the policy at WP:AutoWikiBrowser. Happy editing! — Wug·a·po·des​ 19:56, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * An important point, your AWB edits must be supervised. If you intend to run AWB unsupervised you must make a request to the bot approval group detailing the specific task. Any administrator may revoke access if they believe your tasks are running unsupervised. — Wug·a·po·des​ 20:05, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I've never ran AWB unsupervised and I don't intend to. --bdijkstra (talk) 20:14, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

March 2020
Thank you for your edit to the disambiguation page TPU. However, please note that disambiguation pages are not articles; rather, they are meant to help readers find a specific article quickly and easily. From the disambiguation dos and don'ts, you should: Thank you. Widefox ; talk 16:04, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Only list articles that readers might reasonably be looking for
 * Use short sentence fragment descriptions, with no punctuation at the end
 * Use exactly one navigable link ("blue link") in each entry
 * Only add a " red link " if used in existing articles, and include a "blue link" to an appropriate article
 * Do not pipe links (unless style requires it) – keep the full title of the article visible
 * Do not insert external links or references

BRFA approval
Bots/Requests for approval/bitbotje has been approved! Happy editing. Let me know if you have any questions. -- The SandDoctor Talk 20:15, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Don't ping me in edit summaries
Your edit summary script is very annoying. You pinged me yet I wasn't the one who moved the category. Nor would I care about the move after it took 2 months for a simple speedy clean up. Please don't ping me again. --Gonnym (talk) 11:29, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
 * My apologies, I should have pinged MER-C, who triggered the bot. --bdijkstra (talk) 12:40, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Matadin Valmiki Not Bhangi
Matadin Valmiki Not Bhangi Okay Rana1414 (talk) 14:51, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Is Valmiki his common name? If so, according to which sources? --bdijkstra (talk) 14:59, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Ichnobox issue
It looks as if, which is little used compared to the other automated taxoboxes, has not been properly coded to display disambiguated genus titles correctly. You seem to have found a workaround at Chondrites (genus).

You should be able to turn off all automatic italicization in problem cases with no and then use DISPLAYTITLE to handle the italics. But doesn't obey this parameter. I'll put fixing it on my to-do list if no-one else does it first. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:27, 3 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Indeed Ichnobox should handle italic_title, but in this case it shouldn't be necessary to use this, since it shouldn't be a problem case. See e.g. Equus (genus) where no DISPLAYTITLE is used. Judging from the differences between Template:Taxonomy/Chondrites and Template:Taxonomy/Equus I'd guess that the problem is with the handling of rank but I saw no obvious mistakes with that in the Lua code. --bdijkstra (talk) 09:58, 3 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I meant that I'd try to fix both errors: not automatically handling a disambiguated genus title correctly and the lack of support for italic_title. But ichnotaxa have never been high priority! Peter coxhead (talk) 10:24, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Deleting My Entry
The sources do not disagree with me. I know you’re near-native, but the tilde (~) on top of the letter “n” is a materially different letter from n. This is an important part of his name as a Mexican-American.

I don’t know what board in Wikipedia I need to bring this in front of, but just know that I hope you change it back to my edit that reflected HIS REAL NAME.

Will be raising hell over this. Iamrobtrev (talk) 03:16, 12 June 2020 (UTC)


 * How can you say that the sources do not disagree with you, when literally all of the article's (still accesible) sources spell it as "Trevino"? His real name doesn't matter. On English Wikipedia we use the common name. --bdijkstra (talk) 06:51, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Please don't modify my Edit
Black European should link to Afro-European not African Immigration to Europe, the latter includes North African and Arab. Please stop editing this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tyrone10012 (talk • contribs)


 * I don't think I did what you think I did. Your "accurate entitling" had no effect as it was a disallowed DISPLAYTITLE modification. I simply fixed that. If you wish to change the article title, please discuss that on the article's talk page (and please sign your comments). --bdijkstra (talk) 12:36, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

C-Tractor page
Greetings User:Bdijkstra. I see you made an edit at the C-Tractor page. I don't need any lecture to "clean up after a move": I completely re-edited the page to conform with being a ship class rather than about an individual ship. And only later recognized I had lost a title above the Infobox, which I had made several efforts to restore - the last with a typo I did not catch until this AM, when I again went back to work on it. Only seeing your intervening edit and edit summary when going to the page History to try to determine the lost syntax. Think twice before you publicly censure someone for something they didn't do. Yours, Wikiuser100 (talk) 10:25, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Greetings Wikiuser100. Apparently you do need to be asked (again) to "clean up after a move", as you yourself indicated here that you apparently disregarded the message box and only later recognized a problem. It seems that you correctly identified Infobox ship begin to be the instrument to fix the problem, but didn't use the template's documentation to your advantage. Especially of a "master editor" one would expect to clean up after themselves. --bdijkstra (talk) 14:41, 17 July 2020 (UTC)

Rollback granted
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"Chondrites genus" article
Hi, I've been aware for some time that there's a bug in the way that Ichnobox automatically italicizes when the title is a disambiguated genus. I thought I had managed to implement a temporary workaround for this article – and indeed the displayed text was correct, but I missed the fact that it was in an error-tracking category. Sorry you had to try again. I'll make fixing the template a high priority. Peter coxhead (talk) 18:32, 29 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I've now overhauled Ichnobox completely. (If you're interested, see Wikipedia talk:Automated taxobox system/Archive 4.) There's shouldn't be problems in future. Peter coxhead (talk) 11:04, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that seems a lot better solution. --bdijkstra (talk) 09:07, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Spitballing an idea - edit filter for inexperienced users adding invalid DISPLAYTITLE
I wanted to run this by someone else who fixes up broken WP:DISPLAYTITLE issues before I formally proposed it:

Edit filter request: Warn/ask for confirmation if a non-autoconfirmed editor makes an edit that puts a page in the category Category:Pages with disallowed DISPLAYTITLE modifications. The warning would include a link to WP:DISPLAYTITLE.

This won't deter bad-faith editors but it will help out with good-faith editors.

Note that editors NOT using the WP:VisualEditor are already seeing a warning.

What do you think? Is it worth adding an edit filter to get the attention of new editors who are using VisualEditor? davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  16:58, 19 November 2020 (UTC)


 * A significant portion of disallowed DISPLAYTITLE modifications seems to come from VE users who don't know what they are doing but do it anyway. The VE is largely to blame here, as it currently provides no feedback whatsoever about DISPLAYTITLE changes, so I think an edit filter would help to point out the problem. Perhaps the warning should also include a link to WP:MOVE. --bdijkstra (talk) 17:26, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, do we really want to encourage people to move pages if they are inexperienced? Non-autoconfirmed editors can't move pages anyway. Way more than half of the invalid DISPLAYTITLE uses would also be invalid MOVEs. Maybe point to WP:Requested move and having the filter move-protect the page for 1 hour in case the editor racks up that 10th edit and tries to move it.
 * Anyhow, I'll go ahead and propose this later today. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)  17:59, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Synopsis not visible
Hello. I want to ask something. Sorry, I don't know who to ask, so I decided to ask someone that I think knows more about wikipedia. You see, there're articles about list of episodes of anime. The episode titles are there, but there's no synopsis of the episode. However, when I tried to edit article to add the synopsis, the synopsis of the episodes are already there. But when I finished editing it, the synopsis is still not visible in the article, only when I edit it all the synopsis appear. Do you know why this is happening? --Arami-re (talk) 17:27, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Articles are sometimes constructed from pieces of other articles. If you give me an example of a specific page where you saw this behaviour, then I may be able to provide a more detailed answer. --bdijkstra (talk) 18:39, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
 * If the first parameter or 1 parameter of Episode list/sublist is anything other than the title of the page you are currently viewing, ShortSummary will not be displayed. This is so "Season of..." pages can display the full details but a main article about a show will show a more concise listing, without the ShortSummary.  I think it is the problem in Reborn! (season 8).  I did NOT make any changes to that page.  Did this help?  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs) 🎄  20:24, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Self-reply: Ping  since he did some updates on seasons 1-5.  See also the move logs of .  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs) 🎄  20:37, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I've noticed this in some of the episode lists, and have fixed it where I see it. You're right - seems like I had fixed it only until Season 5. The issue is that for some reason those pages are not using the "Episode List" macro. Example fix: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reborn!_(season_5)&diff=prev&oldid=986810304&diffmode=source AbdealiJK (talk) 03:33, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, Reborn! episodes list from Season 6 to Season 9 are some of the ones the synopsis not available. Thank you. I'll try to check it again later. --Arami-re (talk) 04:17, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Fixed AbdealiJK (talk) 04:36, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

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Géraldine "Gaulier"
Hello Bdijkstra, I am a specialist of French background singers from the 60s (writer of the blog "Dans l'ombre des studios"). Geraldine's name is not Gaulier but Gogly (I have interviewed her some years ago). The first mistake appeared on the web after someone posted on Youtube her Eurovision song and misunderstood her name (pronounced with a foreign accent by the emcee). Please correct her name. The title of the page should be Géraldine (her alias for her solo career) or Géraldine Gogly (real name, used for background vocals). But not Géraldine Gaulier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9raldine_Gaulier Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danslombredesstudios (talk • contribs) 23:47, 1 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello Danslombredesstudios, At Wikipedia, we make statements based on (ideally) reliable and verifiable sources. Hence my edit summary [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Géraldine_Gaulier&diff=1040736698&oldid=1037652131 "no source for Gogly, sources disagree about birth date and place"]. We cannot use the name Gogly if none of the sources use that name. On the other hand, we cannot use the name Gaulier if the source(s) using that name are unreliable. The title of the page cannot be Géraldine, but perhaps Géraldine (French singer) is adequate (Géraldine (singer) would cause confusion with Geraldine Brannigan) . Was your interview published somewhere? --bdijkstra (talk) 09:34, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

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