User talk:Numbermaniac/Archive 3

VE newsletter
Hey Numbermaniac; hope you had a decent weekend :). We've got a pile of patches, some of which went out on Monday, some yesterday:


 * If you insert wikitext such as links or section headers, you get a notice in the top right corner (over the save button). It doesn't go away until click, though once dismissed you don't get another one that edit. (49820)
 * If your edit token expires, VE fetches a new one for you so you can save. (50424)
 * If the page is empty of content but does have something non-content (like a category or an HTML comment), VE no longer crashes on load - (50289)
 * sub tags are no longer removed ((49873)
 * If you type at the end of links, they now extend
 * Templates now only take a single click to insert
 * Clear annotations clears links (50461)
 * The link inspector stays open when you click to another item (50895)
 * Typing after multi-byte characters no longer creats pawn icons (51140)
 * Resizing thumbnails that have a default size set now works (50645)
 * References made by tag:ref now display properly (50978)
 * The VE is integrated with the spam blacklist (50826)
 * Feedback link goes to the right language (47730)

There are a lot more improvements coming, but that's it for Monday and Tuesday. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 08:31, 17 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks :) -- t  numbermaniac c 08:50, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Hello!!
You have answer at Talk:EDUN...  Ms.Bono  (zootalk) ☆ 12:30, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
 * And. Can you help me to make one of these for me? User:Numbermaniac/edit_count

 Ms.Bono  (zootalk) ☆ 12:33, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Sure Miss Bono! The script I use to generate that table comes from here. You may want to read through that first. :) -- (T) Numbermaniac (C) 03:16, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Took a look, but didn't understand a thing. Can you help me setting up that page?  Miss Bono  [zootalk] ☆ 13:50, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
 * , Miss Bono just copy the code into your user.js file. Prabash.  Akmeemana   14:14, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Hey!!! You are back... I don't have a user.js file Miss Bono  [zootalk] ☆ 14:20, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah I will be on this week because of Snuggle... And I'm considering to not retire, I'm sorry for overreacting yesterday on you, I never meant to get you stressed out :(
 * Oh and about the commons.js subpage, check to see if you have it, if you don't then create on with the code pasted in to it.  Prabash.  Akmeemana   14:27, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I will look in a while. I am stucked in a wikitable and I can't get out of it... :(  Miss Bono  [zootalk] ☆ 15:07, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Just create it at User:Miss Bono/common.js :P -- t  numbermaniac c 00:26, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
 * What wikitable? -- t  numbermaniac c 00:27, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Trying to make a wikitable for this: pretty messy can you help?   Miss Bono  [zootalk] ☆ 12:10, 18 July 2013 (UTC)



Talkback
Lol, sorry, I accidentally did the welcome, because I'm used to it. Phoenix Fire  contribs 13:44, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

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Hello!
Hello Faizan, we need you to join this wiki it is new and we need administrators and possibly bureaucrats, care to join? thanks in advance --Prabash.Akmeemana  19:47, 22 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Faizan? -- t  numbermaniac c 02:34, 23 July 2013 (UTC)


 * He meant Numbermaniac, and will you? -- Phoenix Fire  contribs 03:02, 23 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Yeah why not? Have you? -- t  numbermaniac c 03:11, 23 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Yup, I'm an admin and crat there. -- Phoenix Fire  contribs 04:10, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Im an admin and a crat on both of the wikis, I'm going for steward on one and sheriff on the other, not to forget sysop on a WMF project, Hawkmist, honey you have a long way to go ;) --Prabash.Akmeemana  04:17, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Admincrat already?! Wowh. Sysop, sheriff... dot dot dot. Is it really that easy to become one? -- t  numbermaniac c 05:51, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm an admin, though I only just registered-- t  numbermaniac c 08:58, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Its a new test wiki, thats how Hawkmist got crat, they need more members so becoming a crat is very easy, on a different test wiki its harder to become a crat but easy to become an admin there, me and Hawkmist are admins there but I'm a crat, if you want requst for sysop I will gladly give you the rights. --Prabash.Akmeemana  12:37, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Gee, thanks :D -- t  numbermaniac c 02:51, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

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Megadrive and Mega CD
While Sega MegaDrive and Mega CD article names are in dispute (which they are) and while both articles feature a heavy North American bias (which they do) then I strongly feel they should not be awarded Good Article Status94.172.126.154 (talk) 21:07, 24 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I might still pass the article, but I want to get that sorted before it continues. -- t  numbermaniac c 22:27, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Hey, Numbermaniac. It looks as though the IP editor has been blocked, so the controversy should be ending and a fair review can take place for Sega CD. Because of this whole hassle, though, you might find the article is in even better shape; a couple more sources have been added, and remembering KieferSkunk's comments on Night Trap, I put together a subsection about the controversy it generated. It's all sourced and sourced well, of course, so I think you'll enjoy re-reading an even further improved article. Red Phoenix <font color="#FFA500">build the future...<font color="#FFDD22">remember the past... 04:54, 26 July 2013 (UTC)


 * If that's the case and the user has been blocked, then the review shallcontinue! :) -- <sup style="font-weight:normal">t  numbermaniac c 05:44, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

VE newsletter
Hey Numbermaniac. The newest updates: Along with some miscellaneous language support fixes. That's all for today; as always, let us know if you spot more bugs. Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:06, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Links now don't extend over space/punctuation/workbreaks when you type (51463)
 * Users with the "minoredit" preference set get working functionality (51515)
 * You can tab to buttons in dialogs, including the save dialog (50047)
 * We now show the (or ) message as an edit notice (51459)
 * You can scroll dialog panels like in transclusions' templates' parameter listings (51739)
 * Templates that only create meta-data and no display content at all (like Template:Use dmy dates) now can't be deleted accidentally or deliberately, but still don't show up (51322)
 * FlaggedRevisions integration (49699)
 * Edit summary will get the section title pre-added if you launched from a section edit link (50872)

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Talkback
+ talkback |here.  Silver stream  05:19, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

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Peer Review
I need a huge favor. Can you make a peer review for Bono, to see what it takes to take it into GA? Thanks. <span style="font-family:'Arial',cursive"> Miss Bono  [zootalk]  14:46, 2 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Sure! -- <sup style="font-weight:normal">t  numbermaniac c 03:22, 3 August 2013 (UTC)


 * ✅ -- <sup style="font-weight:normal">t  numbermaniac c 03:34, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Nothing yet? <span style="font-family:'Arial',cursive"> Miss Bono  [zootalk]  16:40, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I thought Prabash was doing it... -- <sup style="font-weight:normal">t  numbermaniac c 00:29, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

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VisualEditor newsletter for 06 August 2013
It's been almost two weeks since the last newsletter, and a lot of improvements have been made during that time. The main things that people have noticed are significant improvements to speed for typing into long pages, scrolling and deleting  on large pages. There have also been improvements to references, with the latest being support for list-defined references, which are s defined inside a ) (bug 53345).  Selecting both an image and some text, and then trying to add a link, previously deleted the selected image and the text.  This was fixed in bug 50127. There was another problem related to using arrow keys to move the cursor next to an inline image that was fixed (bug 53507).

Looking ahead: The next planned upgrade is scheduled for next Thursday, and you should expect to find a redesigned toolbar with drop-down menus that include room for references, templates, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, and code formatting. There will also be keyboard shortcuts for setting the format (paragraph vs section headings).

If you are active at other Wikipedias, the next group of Wikipedias to have VisualEditor offered to all users is being determined at this time. Generally speaking, languages that depend on the input method editor are not going to receive VisualEditor this month. The current target date is Tuesday, September 24 for logged-in users only. You can help with translating the documentation. In several cases, most of the translation is already done, and it only needs to be copied over to the relevant Wikipedia. If you are interested in finding out whether a particular Wikipedia is currently on the list, you can leave a message for me at my talk page.

For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:53, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Hello
I made a Wikipedia account, like you suggested a month or two ago. Meeples10 (talk) 20:21, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Yay! -- <sup style="font-weight:normal">t  numbermaniac c 02:24, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Is it possible to create a JavaScript/CSS line that will make the watchlist have the bolded words the Minecraft Wiki has? For example, instead of a green dot, the words would be bolded. Meeples10 (talk) 23:13, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, I was looking through my preferences and found it. Meeples10t ~ c 23:20, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

More STiKi help
Every time I use Stiki, nothing happens. I do edits on Stiki and they don't appear on my Contributions page. Every time I use it, I get a red error message at the bottom saying, "RB'ed 0 Edits conflict or error check page hist." Help! ///Euro Car GT  23:26, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Download the newest version of STiki and run that. -- <sup style="font-weight:normal">t  numbermaniac c 02:28, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

VisualEditor newsletter for September 19, 2013
VisualEditor has been updated twice in the last two weeks. As usual, what is now running on the English Wikipedia had a test run at Mediawiki during the previous week.

As announced, the toolbar was redesigned to be simpler, shorter, and to have the ability to have drop-down groups with descriptions. What you see now is the initial configuration and is expected to change in response to feedback from the English Wikipedia and other Wikipedias. The controls to add  (underline),   (subscript), and   (superscript),   (strikethrough) and   (computer code/monospace font) annotations to text are available to all users in the drop-down menu. At the moment, all but the most basic tools have been moved into a single drop-down menu, including the tools for inserting media, references, reference lists, and templates. The current location of all of the items in the toolbar is temporary, and your opinions about the best order are needed! Please offer suggestions at VisualEditor/Feedback/Toolbar.

In an eagerly anticipated upgrade to the reference dialog, newly added references or reference groups no longer need the page to be saved before they can be re-used (bugs 51689 and 52000). The 'Use existing reference' button is now disabled on pages which don't yet have any references (bug 51848). The template parameter filter in the transclusion dialog now searches both parameter name and label (bug 51670).

In response to several requests, there are some new keyboard shortcuts. You can now set the block/paragraph formatting from the keyboard: Ctrl sets a block as a regular paragraph; Ctrl up to Ctrl sets it as a Heading 1 ("Page title") to Heading 6 ("Sub-heading 4"); Ctrl sets it as pre-formatted (bug 33512). Ctrl, which creates level 2 section headings, may be the most useful.

Some improvements were made to capitalization for links, so typing in "iPhone" will offer a link to "iPhone" as well as "IPhone" (bug 50452).

Copying and pasting within the same document should work better as of today's update, as should copying from VisualEditor into a third-party application (bug 53364, bug 52271, bug 52460). Work on copying and pasting between VisualEditor instances (for example, between two articles) and retaining formatting when copying from an external source into VisualEditor is progressing.

Major improvements to editing with input method editors (IMEs; mostly used for Indic and East Asian languages) are being deployed today. This is a complex change, so it may produce unexpected errors. On a related point, the names of languages listed in the "languages" (langlinks) panel in the Page settings dialog now display as RTL when appropriate (bug 53503).

Looking ahead: The help/'beta' menu will soon expose the build number next to the "Leave feedback" link, so users can give more specific reports about issues they encounter (bug 53050). This change will make it easier for developers to identify any cacheing issues, once it starts reporting the build number (currently, it says "Version false"). Also, inserting a link, reference or media file will put the cursor after the new content again (bug 53560). Next week’s update will likely improve how dropdowns and other selection menus behave when they do not fit on the screen, with things scrolling so the selected item is always in view.

If you are active at other Wikipedias, the next group of Wikipedias to have VisualEditor offered to all users is being finalized. About two dozen Wikipedias are on the list for Tuesday, September 24 for logged-in users only, and on Monday, September 30 for unregistered editors. You can help with translating the documentation. In several cases, most of the translation is already done, and it only needs to be copied over to the relevant Wikipedia. If you are interested in finding out whether a particular Wikipedia is currently on the list, you can leave a message for me at my talk page.

For other questions or suggestions, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting problem reports at VisualEditor/Feedback and other ideas at Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:59, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

About the talk page note... that is for my use. It is a project for a local elementary school, and some of the teachers there aren't too good with computers. I'm trying to make the userpage the "hub" of all my stuff for that school. I doubt any of those teachers even know how to edit it, and I'm going to disable section editing and the "Edit" tab so they don't mess something up. Meeples10t ~ c 10:33, 24 September 2013 (UTC)


 * A question: do you know how to remove the edit tab? Meeples10t ~ c 10:44, 24 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Ok then, that's fine. Let me figure out the editing bit later. -- <sup style="font-weight:normal">t  numbermaniac c 01:34, 25 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Copy the bottom of what I have in my common.css, starting from the comment 'Meeples, copy here'. -- <sup style="font-weight:normal">t  numbermaniac c 02:09, 25 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Meeples10t ~ c 10:40, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Hang on a minute. Go into your preferences and then the editing tab and deselect "enable section edit via [edits]" if it isn't unticked already. -- <sup style="font-weight:normal">t  numbermaniac c 11:19, 25 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Done. Meeples10t ~ c 20:28, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for Nina Rosenwald article
Holy samoleons! I thought approval of Nina Rosenwald would take 3 weeks and it only took you 3 minutes! Thanks, Numbermaniac, I owe you one! Now all I have to do is fight off the deletionists, liberals, and anti-Zionists to get it through AfD (don't worry, AfD is a certainty) but I think I have some allies. Thanks again! --72.66.30.115 (talk) 00:57, 26 September 2013 (UTC)


 * I will say, it was one of the best AFCs I had ever seen. I was really impressed by it. An article of this standard shouldn't have to go through AFD, it's of a good quality. Anyway, well done! -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t  numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  01:31, 26 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Gosh! Now I'm embarrassed. You can probably tell I'm not a newbie (I hope). I've been editing from my IP address for a while now and Verizon, my internet provider, changed my IP address a couple weeks ago so my contributions history is pretty short. I appreciate your nice compliment.  Thank you.  I came back here to tell you that I just looked at the revision history of the article for the first time and I owe you another big thank you for cleaning up after me!  I had never used that method of creating an article before and it shows!  Thanks again! (Now I owe you 2!)  --72.66.30.115 (talk) 05:34, 26 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Why should you be embarrassed? That article clearly shows you're not a newbie. You're welcome, it's just what I do on Wikipedia. -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t  numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  05:42, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Reason for not accepting article for creation
Hello colleagues,

Why do you not provide a reason for not accepting article submission? This is very confusing for authors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pamir_miren#Your_submission_at_Articles_for_creation:_SeekFast

Best regatds, Dimitar Stamenov — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pamir miren (talk • contribs) 07:03, 30 September 2013 (UTC)


 * The reason for declining is at the submission itself. -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t  numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  07:06, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Congratulations from STiki!
At last you are getting a STiki barnstar. Go on like this.-- Pr at yya  (Hello!) 08:13, 30 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks. :) -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t  numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  09:29, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

The Twilite Tone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mullins5287#Your_submission_at_Articles_for_creation:_The_Twilite_Tone_.28October_2.29

Good day,

Hope is all well.

How you would suggest editing so the article will be approved?

I included as many sources as possible including trade magazines and in-depth interviews from reputable sources.

The Twilite Tone wrote and produced Kanye West "Mercy," one of the biggest songs of the past few years. Aside from that, his name can be found throughout Wikipedia, however no page has ever been established.

Thanks, your assistance is greatly appreciated!

Cheers, Dan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mullins5287 (talk • contribs) 13:51, 2 October 2013 (UTC)


 * The problem was that you haven't sourced your information. Because Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, we need proof that what you wrote is true. I don't see any links to independent articles or websites that are about this person. If you add a few references for your information, feel free to submit the article again and I will check it. -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t  numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  01:09, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Your submission at AfC Pocket Trains was accepted
<div style=" border:solid 1px #57DB1E; background:#E6FFE6; padding:1em; padding-top:0.5em; padding-bottom:0.5em; width:20em; color:black; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.5em; width: 90%; "> Pocket Trains, which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia!  Pr at yya  (Hello!) 13:22, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
 * If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk.
 * If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider.


 * Thank you Pratyya! -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t  numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  01:08, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

New Article on 'Lancet Study on Insite Debate'
Not sure why the previous content blanked however I have put the same content back into the empty article page and have saved it but with no indication from the Wikipedia server as to where it has gone. I cannot find my way back to the resubmit link which previously appeared. Appreciate your advice on how to progress this new article.Minphie (talk) 03:59, 4 October 2013 (UTC)


 * I think I see what the problem is. The page you are editing begins with the Wikipedia prefix. From that page, click the "talk" tab. The page you see there is blank. However, I'm not sure whether that article is indeed the kind of thing that can be on Wikipedia. If you're done, add to the top  of the page and an editor will review it shortly. Thanks, -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t   numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  05:38, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Bulldozer archaeology
Bulldozer archaeology is a concept that has been around for many decades. I see you did some editing work on it. I removed the inaccurate claim that it was a recently coined term and the Israeli archaeology business, as it seems to have been created solely to push that. After reverting a new editor, probably the same account as the creator, reverted me. I've reverted again but we should not have an article making inaccurate claims and being used to push some sort of position or highlight a recent argument in this way. Any help you can give would be nice, but if you can't, I quite understand. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 13:39, 6 October 2013 (UTC)


 * The editor seems to be attempting to add info that, as one of the tags you added state, doesn't give a global perspective. The info being added by the editor seems to be only about Israel, and they are also messing up the references formatting section. Sorry I have to go, I'll say more later. -- <sup style="font-weight:normal; color:#00E">t  numbermaniac  <sup style="color:#00E">c  02:11, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 11:07, 7 October 2013 (UTC)