User talk:Hydrargyrum/archive07

Wish
Hello. Help add caption for image article Maureen Wroblewitz. Thank you. Pv sindhu (talk) 01:48, 29 December 2018 (UTC)


 * — Done. — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 01:58, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

File:Bell Laboratories logo.svg - License Change
A discussion was recently held over if the various Bell System logos, including File:Bell Laboratories logo.svg were Non-free logo or pd-textlogo. It was determined that they fail to meet the Threshold of originality (c:COM:TOO United States) and could be transferred to a pd-textlogo license. However, with SVGs that do not originate from an original source/were created by the uploader or a third party, like File:Bell Laboratories logo.svg, some feel that it has an additional layer of copyright for the creation of the SVG. (c:Help:SVG) As a precaution due to this, I am asking if you consent to it being changed to a public domain license (pd-textlogo, specifically). If you have questions, feel free to refer to/join the discussion for more details.--The Navigators --The Navigators (talk)-May British Rail Rest in Peace. 22:50, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

GOCE 2018 Annual Report
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March GOCE newsletter
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Redirects
I largely reverted your changes to Gordon Gould. Do not "fix" links to redirects. Links to redirects are not broken, and do not need to be "fixed". Most of the rest of the edit was nonproductive: changes that only affect the appearance of the text in the edit window. I also reverted edits that made the visible text in the article match titles of linked pages for no good reason.--Srleffler (talk) 16:53, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

Why did you waste your time reverting the links? The corrected links weren't "broken" either. Redirects are ugly and cause problems for people such as I who make use of tooltip previews while reading articles. I wish editors like you would find more productive things to do, notwithstanding bureaucratic nonsense like not broken, which is usually written in a vacuum with no knowledge of how Internet resources are most effectively used. — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 19:40, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I reverted your edit, because it did more harm than good. Redirects are beneficial. They should not be arbitrarily bypassed. The guideline I linked to explains why in some detail. I'm asking you to stop this counterproductive pattern of editing.


 * Much of your edit was either nonproductive or slightly harmful. Capitalalizing template names and changing "accessdate" to "access-date" is at least nonproductive. Removing spaces before the template parameter separators is slightly harmful, since it causes word wraps in the edit window to occur at less convenient places in the text. Reformatting a reference template that has been laid out with one parameter per line so that it all jumbles together inline is slightly harmful. If you're adding material to an article, feel free to format the text in the edit window as you prefer. Going through articles reformatting the text other people have written to fit your preferences is not a positive way to contribute to the encyclopedia. --Srleffler (talk) 22:54, 18 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Since it is possible to use external scripts to make routine edits, thereby bringing uniformity to the wiki syntax with little effort, it is neither productive nor "nonproductive" to do the things to which you object, especially when I'm editing an article primarily for bad punctuation grammar, etc. Further, "... nonproductive or slightly harmful. ... did more harm than good ..." are your personal opinions, not borne out in fact.  If you're not currently using Navigation popups and the Syntax highlighter features, I suggest you turn them on in your Preferences (under "Gadgets") and learn to use them, instead of complaining. — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 21:39, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * It quickly becomes nonproductive if everyone does it. If more users were doing what you are doing, you would find many people would be running scripts that undo the changes yours makes. Running a script that automates imposing personal preferences for cosmetic appearance of wikitext is a bad idea.--Srleffler (talk) 03:11, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

GOCE June newsletter
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BLP allegations
Hi, with this edit you added unsourced allegations to the talk page of a living person – I've removed them as required by WP:BLPREMOVE and WP:BLPTALK. If you want to discuss these allegations, please provide a reliable source for them, taking care to avoid questionable or unsuitable sources such as blogs. Climate change is a contentious area, and it's important to comply fully with Wikipedia policies, as I expect you'd know. Cheers,. . dave souza, talk 08:19, 17 September 2019 (UTC)


 * — Exactly how did I disparage Michael E. Mann by recounting some actual events — not allegations — of recent history? You're using Wikipedia to promote your extremely biased point of view, which, as you well know, is against the rules.  Don't pee on our shoes and then tell us it's raining. — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 18:21, 17 September 2019 (UTC)


 * You must produce reliable sources to support your edits. It's straightforward. — Niche-gamer 21:51, 17 September 2019 (UTC)


 * — Not for talk page discussions, I don't. Why are you rushing to dave souza's aid, anyway? — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 22:56, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

September 2019 GOCE Newsletter
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Help
Hello. Help copy edit and improve the article Akane Yamaguchi. Thanks you very much. 14.162.146.38 (talk) 02:49, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

wikitidy
Hi- I see that some of your edit summaries mention a tool called "wikitidy". I am not familiar with this tool and I searched the wikipedia and user name spaces and found no reference to it. Is this something that is available for other users to use? Thanks. --rogerd (talk) 22:44, 25 November 2019 (UTC)


 * — It's still an experimental bit of external code, meant to help with tedious, repetitive edits. If it were an airplane, it would be equivalent to the Wright Flyer, definitely not yet ready for prime-time. I often need to manually fix what the code "fixed". — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 00:27, 26 November 2019 (UTC)


 * I appreciate that wikitidy is something that you are developing but please make sure that what it does is correct and not just making cosmetic edits for the sake of it; e.g. this edit to D. C. Fontana apart from the obvious error of removing the space after every occurrence of the word 'but' made cosmetic changes like file -> File and cite -> Cite when the syntax works regardless of case and/or many gadgets like Citoid and RefToolbar insert citations with a lower case 'c' anyway. Nthep (talk) 13:13, 5 December 2019 (UTC)


 * — if the space after instances of "but" disappeared, that was due to a messed-up manual edit; conjunctions should be preceded by a comma in most instances, and that's what I was trying to fix. Maybe I was doing it too late in the evening, when I should have been sleeping. Thanks for catching that. As for capitalising templates, that's not a "cosmetic change" as you call it, but just a side effect of how the script works. I have not seen any instance in Wikipedia where template names expressly use a lowercase initial letter: by uniformly capitalising the first letter of templates, it makes find-and-replace operations algorithmically simpler and roughly twice as fast. Moreover, the result does no harm, doesn't increase the byte count, and is invisible to the reader. — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 16:46, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
 * It wasn't me caught the "but" errors. There probably aren't any templates that expressly use a lowercase initial letter but that's not the point, most templates are happily rendered with either a lower or uppercase initial letter and changing it for the sake of it can be considered controversial because (per WP:COSMETICBOT) "they clutter page histories, watchlists, and/or the recent changes feed with edits that are not worth the time spent reviewing them".  The same applies to changing "|accessdate"  to "|access-date", the two are aliases for each other and either is perfectly acceptable, so why waste time making changes like that when there are more worthwhile things that the script could do? Nthep (talk) 17:13, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Re indirect links
With your recent edit to Template:M in mind, is there any particular reason why indirect links in templates should be avoided? &diams; J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 21:42, 30 November 2019 (UTC)


 * — Because many of the indirect links (redirects) "cascade through" into the list of transcluded templates when editing articles, with the resultant clutter making it considerably more difficult to tell which templates are the real link and which are aliases of templates. On occasion I've spent hours trying to find offending templates containing errors to correct them.  The problem can be minimised for editors if a bit of care is taken while creating and editing templates to use direct links instead of redirects. — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 21:52, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the explanation. &diams; J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:49, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

GOCE December 2019 Newsletter
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