User talk:Pdebee/Archive 9 (2022)

Remembering Brian Boulton
[Message text copied here from User talk:Brianboulton:] Dear colleagues, I wanted to create something by which those of us who have had the pleasure of working with him could commemorate our friend Brian Boulton, who died peacefully on 9 December 2019. Although userboxes are often used for frivolous purposes, it occurred to me that it would be meaningful simply to display the following userbox on our user pages:

To add this userbox to your page, just apply: With kind regards; Patrick. Pdebee.(talk)(become old-fashioned!)

Remembering Sarah (SlimVirgin)
[Message text copied here from User talk:SlimVirgin:] Dear colleagues, I created a generic userbox to commemorate our absent Wikifriends, and I keep a copy for Sarah at my user page:

To add this userbox to your user page, just copy/paste:

With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(become old-fashioned!)

in friendship
Happy new year, in friendship! - Thank you for still being around! - One of my pics is on the Main page, DYK? - In this young year, I enjoyed meetings with friends in real life, and wish you many of those. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:35, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

With kindest regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(become old-fashioned!) 02:41, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much, dear , and Happy New Year to you too, of course: in friendship, in good health and in good spirits: please keep well and joyful!
 * lovely wishes, thank you! - new pics --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:58, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
 * 30 January means 10 years of Precious. It's also the birthday of a friend, - I'm so happy I mentioned his DYK on his 90th birthday when he was still alive. I have a great singer on DYK whom I heard, Elena Guseva, and wait for a Recent death appearance of Georg Christoph Biller whom I saw in action. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:12, 30 January 2022 (UTC)


 * my joy - more on my talk --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:28, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Valentine's Day edition, with spring flowers and plenty of music --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:12, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
 * listen to Prayer for Ukraine, with a history from 1995 to 2022, - the article a work in progress, help wanted - translation of some of it would also help --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:33, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

A goat for you!
People don't send enough goats. Well, I am sending you a goat for thinking to add me to the counter list for the typo team.

Oopsemoops (talk) 20:00, 9 February 2022 (UTC) 

Precious anniversary
- look and listen on my talk --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:13, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you once again for being so thoughtful, generous and kind in support of our community of editors, dear ; you are a real Wikitreasure! Please keep well and safe. With kindest regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(become old-fashioned!) 11:56, 6 March 2022 (UTC) P.S.: No lilies of the valley yet, but an abundance of daffodils in our garden and all around our region, here in West Wales.

Help with 'rowspan=', please
Dear helpful fellow editors,

I am in the process of building the table below (section Table 1), in which the third row has 4 internal sub-rows (under a heading of Cite) and am experiencing a glitch: having coded 'rowspan=5' (since 5 table row marks - are needed to define that third row), the table formats properly, but when I sort on any column, a 5th sub-row appears, void of any content. Another table I created some time ago (section Table 2) also uses the 'rowspan=' parameter, but works perfectly, without displaying an extra row when sorted.

I have been checking and re-checking the wikicode for Table 1 and consulting Help:Table etc., but am now at a loss to understand what’s causing this glitch. It's probably something really simple, but I just can't see it. I would therefore appreciate any helpful pointers, and/or an explanation of what I am doing wrong.

Very many thanks in advance for your helpful assistance. With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(become old-fashioned!) 18:08, 18 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi @Pdebee; I'm fairly certain its because you have, but as far as I can see that specific row only has 4 (49 F.R.D. 184 (E.D. La. 1967, 1968), 310 F. Supp. 536 (E.D. La. 1970), 319 F. Supp. 314 (E.D. La. 1970), and 321 F. Supp. 1241 (E.D. La. 1971)). Setting it to 4 seems to fix the issue, at least for me (see User:Asartea/sandbox). --  Asartea   Talk  &#124;  Contribs  18:27, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(become old-fashioned!) 20:05, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Dear ,
 * Thank you for your prompt reply! As I hope you will be able to see, I have now changed the parameter to , and the table is not formatted correctly. By the way, I had already tried with that value before requesting help, and obtained the same result. I am intrigued by your comment, though: “Setting it to 4 seems to fix the issue, at least for me”, even though the parameter was still set to ‘5’ when I read your reply just now; did you actually copy the table into your Wiki environment, and got it to display correctly after changing it to  ? Or did you apply the fix here, got it to work, and then changed it back to ‘5’? Thank you for letting me know if I understood correctly that you tested the fix and got the table to display differently from the way the same table is displayed below, now that I changed it myself to.
 * With kind regards;

Dear ,

Please ignore my reply above, with my apologies; unfortunately, I missed the end of your sentence, where you added: "(see User:Asartea/sandbox)." You have clearly fixed it, which is wonderful! I will have a close look at your solution in order to learn from it, and then adopt the same code as a new version of the table. Thank you so much for your kind and helpful assistance!

With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(become old-fashioned!) 20:39, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

Category:User harpsichord-1 has been nominated for discussion
Category:User harpsichord-1 has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:56, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

Your Places in Finland list
Hello, I am not sure if you are updating your list "Places in Finland", but I have created articles on Konginkangas and Äänekosken maalaiskunta. Kapulakone (talk) 14:23, 20 August 2022 (UTC) Thank you so much for making contact, and belated welcome to Wikipedia! (I’ve just added a Welcome template to your talk page, so it’s no longer showing in red ). Thank you also for enquiring about my Finnish locations project, which I have left dormant for quite some time now, I am ashamed to admit! Would you like to participate in this project? If so, please feel free to use its structure if you wish; as you probably gathered, my main goal was to create articles which are currently missing here at the anglophone Wiki, simply by translating the equivalent articles at the Finnish Wiki. By the way, I can’t speak Suomen Kieli, but I discovered that Google translator does a fairly good job. I had asked a Finnish Wikipedian to assist me, but then discovered that she had left the project. In any case, please go ahead and take over this project if you wish, and I send you my very best wishes of success! With kind regards for now; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(become old-fashioned!) 15:08, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Dear colleague ,

Thank you for your welcome
Thank you =

I was so pleased to hear from you as it is a bit daunting starting out. I am grateful for all the useful information you have provided and I look forward to being part of this communityVivalaFrancais (talk) 11:27, 15 November 2022 (UTC) -->

Dear colleague, Thank you so much for taking the time to post the above message! It's always a pleasure to welcome new editors, especially those who, like you, apply good quality improvements from the beginning; well done! I also commend you for taking the time to provide useful edit summaries, which is really good practice and helpful to other editors. Therefore, when you have the time, please consider looking at my subpage of sample edit summaries, which I developed partly to remind myself of the myriad of editorial guidelines from our Manual of Style. This approach saves me a lot of time and might therefore be helpful to you also, although I hasten to add that it's only a suggestion: you are under no obligation to go to such lengths in your own edit summaries! In any case, I hope you will enjoy being part of our project and that you will find it interesting and rewarding. All very best wishes, and thank you for contributing to our encyclopaedia. With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(become old-fashioned!) 16:34, 15 November 2022 (UTC) PS: As a fluent French speaker, I was quite intrigued by your choice of user name!
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Typo Team member count
Sorry for not updating the number!Eugene-elgato (talk) 19:17, 29 November 2022 (UTC) That’s OK! Thanks for your message, and welcome to the team! With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(become old-fashioned!) 20:03, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Dear ,

Help with reviewing new navbox
I have just created a navbox for Template:Films by Charles Saunders by moving its final draft from user space into main space, but I am not sure I have completed the task correctly, because the 'v' and 't' are still shown in red font. Please would one of the helpful editors manning the Help Desk kindly double-check this and let me know what I might have done wrong, if anything, and what I should do to correct it? Very many thanks in advance! With kind regards;

Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(become old-fashioned!) 15:28, 18 December 2022 (UTC) Thank you so much for your prompt review and most helpful correction! It is the simplest things that we overlook, sometimes: I first intended the navbox's name to be the simpler 'Charles Saunders', then changed my mind later on, and forgot to check the obvious... In any case, I am most grateful to you! With kind regards Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(become old-fashioned!) 17:14, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I had a go at fixing the template; see my edit here. Have a look and see if you are happy with the result. PhilKnight (talk) 17:04, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Dear

Happy holidays!
Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, Patrick!

The other day, I was having a conversation with someone about holiday cards and social media. It occurred to me that, in the years since I left Facebook, the site I use most to communicate with people I like isn't actually a social media site at all. If you're receiving this, it's pretty likely I've talked with you more recently than I have my distant relatives and college friends on FB, at very least, and we may have even collaborated on something useful. So here's a holiday "card", Wikipedia friend. :) Hope the next couple weeks bring some fun and/or rest. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 18:49, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your friendly post, and my very best seasonal wishes to you too! I know exactly what you mean and I certainly feel the same way: I am often amazed at how editors just focus on the task at hand instead of just chatting about non-encyclopaedic matters. And it is clear that when we collaborate on a given topic, this shared focus helps to develop a sense of trust in each other's abilities and willingness to help and learn, which I find truly heartening. So, thank you for your part in this, and for being a Wikifriend to me and&mdash;most likely&mdash;many others! I send you my best wishes for a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year, in good health, joyful spirits, and a sense of achievement here at the Wiki. With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(become old-fashioned!) 08:46, 23 December 2022 (UTC) PS: I so love that image you added!!!
 * Dear

December music
We sang Charpentier's delightful Messe de minuit pour Noël today, which was on DYK yesterday, - a first for me, pictured, - thank you for good wishes, and enjoy the season! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:12, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Pdebee!


Happy New Year! Pdebee, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

Abishe (talk) 18:11, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(become old-fashioned!) 18:19, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much, and the same to you and yours!

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

Abishe (talk) 18:11, 31 December 2022 (UTC)