User talk:CrafterNova/Archive/November 2023

Stroke.
See talk section - clinically not all 'stroke events' have an underlying disease state. Trauma/Spont. Dissections - many are idiopathic.

Dr. BeingObjective (talk) 15:49, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Signature and accessibility
Hello Crafternova. Are you aware your signature is quite difficult to read? It has a 1.37 contrast with the white background. This should be around 4.5. A signature with #007700 #008800 would for instance comply with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Would you be willing to change this? —Femke 🐦 (talk) 13:04, 5 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Of course. What color code should I use in my signature instead of #00FF00? &mdash; CrafterNova  [ TALK ] [ CONT ] 13:39, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
 * "#008800" would work. You can try other colours at, which is set up to also check contrast with Wikipedia's standard black text colour. If you bold your name, you only need a 1:3 contrast if I recall correctly, rather than 1:4.5 with the white background. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 13:50, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm using #008A00 now. Thank you for bringing this accessibility issue to my attention. Have a great day :) &mdash; CrafterNova  [ TALK ] [ CONT ] 13:58, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
 * And thanks for changing it so promptly :). —Femke 🐦 (talk) 14:23, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Incorrect pluralization, and MEATBOT edits
Please stop making pluralization changes in our articles and other pages, at least until you have carefully reviewed a major English grammar guide and better learned the difference between a count noun (takes singular and plural forms) and a mass noun (takes singular form but generally serves a plural purpose), and how pluralization of phrases with multiple nouns (especially in "quantifier categorizers of class" form) works in this langauge. Every single pluralilzation edit I've seen you make so far was an error and had to be reverted, except one which was correct in half and either-way in the other half ("skeletal muscle" is a perfectly valid mass noun), and another which was not outright wrong but changed text that also was not wrong, so was just you imposing a personally preferred style over another acceptable style, which is against MOS:STYLEVAR. The worst was one that made half sense (the correct versions would have either "A naphthenic acid is a mixture of", or "Naphthenic acids are mixtures of", but your version wrongly changed the subject of the lead from "naphthenic acids" which are real things to a single thing called "naphthenic acid" which is not a real thing. I didn't look very hard and surely did not find all the errors, but you seem to especially have a bad habit of doing redundant double-pluralization, changing things like "types of computer" and "species of mammal" into "types of computers" and "species of mammals", and it needs to stop.

Also, doing things like this is absolutely not helpful. It is neither desirable to change direct templates calls into calls to redirects of them, nor to change plain-English template names readable in the code into geeky gibberish hardly anyone understands. The vast majority of our reader-facing templates (those used in article content rather than in project and talk pages) have been moved to understandable names, for good reasons. Also, there is a bot that goes around replacing template redirs with direct template calls anyway, so you are wasting your time with this WP:MEATBOT activity.

Third, you keep doing other MEATBOT behavior like this, and citing WP:NOTBROKEN, but NOTBROKEN specifically instructs to make that kind of edit. The very title of that guideline section is 'Do not "fix" links to redirects that are not broken'. There is no encyclopedic purpose in changing  to   when the one redirects to the other, especially not as a stand-alone edit that triggers people's watchlists. I'm not going to track them all down and diff them, but you've been doing exactly the same thing for a long time. (It tends to be tolerated when it's done as part of an actually substantive edit, but not when done by itself.) Citing NOTBROKEN while doing it is just completely backwards. As for why you'd go around robotically replacing redirects to articles with piped links, but then do the opposite with templates and swap clear titles for confusing shortcut redirs is anyone's guess. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  21:30, 4 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you for bringing these mistakes to my attention. I will do my best to not do these mistakes, and to improve the ways in which I do editing. &mdash; CrafterNova  [ TALK ] [ CONT ] 07:45, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
 * And thank you for reading and understanding. :-)  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  12:35, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

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