User talk:Rsjaffe/Archives/2021/August

Misleading edit summaries

 * 1) Please do not use misleading edit summaries as you did with this edit where you did not fix any link to disambiguation page.
 * 2) can you please advise where it is said that HTML code  is deprecated and should be replaced with  ? They are not interchangeable and are treated differently by template:Excerpt where you will see if you go to Electoral results for the district of Balmain South that instead of appearing as boldtext, it currently appears as a link.  It would appear that you have done this on at least 45 pages. --Find bruce (talk) 05:22, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
 * For the  see MOS:DEVIATIONS. It states:  In particular, do not use the HTML style elements   and   to format text; it is preferable to use Wiki-markup   or   for purely typographic italicization and boldfacing, respectively, and use semantic markup templates or elements for more meaningful differences. I was working in the source and had never heard of a template changing the meaning of , so I hadn't checked it in visual. Does the template have an error?
 * The edit summaries were a mistake carried over from another edit.  rsjaffe  talk  15:16, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Also, note that on some of the pages, the date is bolded, on others the date and person is bolded. I did not change that, as I did not know if there was a semantic meaning to the differences. The odd thing is that viewing visual editor on the edited page would show no errors, as I now understand you're talking about excerpts on yet another page. Odd. rsjaffe  talk  15:56, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Patent law in Hong Kong, partial revert
Rsjaffe, thanks for this edit. However, changing the date format in the title of a reference should be avoided in my opinion. Thus, I have partially reverted your edit. If you disagree, let me know. Cheers --Edcolins (talk) 12:02, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Thank you
I appreciate your contribution and corrections on the article Amaechi Robinson Mgbakogu. Keep up the good work! AdaObuezie (talk) 06:12, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the citation guidance
Rsjaffe, thanks for sharing about the citation template! --Connieatwork (talk) 12:06, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

Help publishing article "Oleksandra Matviichuk"
Thank you for the orphan tag it is now fixed. My question for you as an experienced editor: I am not sure if the article on Oleksandra Matviichuk has been published. It does not seem to appear in searches. It meets all Wiki requirements. I am autoconfirmed but new to Wikipedia. Matviichuk is nominated for the election (October 2021) to the United Nations committee against torture and is especially relevant at the moment and it is urgent the page is up.

Can you see if it is live or if it has to be approved in some way? If so, what do I need to do?

Thank you for guiding a lost soul

Best Egnaro.d (talk) 13:22, 24 August 2021 (UTC)Egnaro


 * When you see the article has an address like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandra_Matviichuk, where the page name comes directly after wiki/, then you know the article is in the main Wikipedia. It might take a while to show up in searches (like a day or so). Having links into it (like you did to remove the orphan tag), should help. Compare that to the other page you're working on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:The_Center_for_Civil_Liberties has wiki/Draft:, so it is in the Draft namespace so you can work on it some more before submitting it to the main wiki.  rsjaffe  talk  16:38, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

Zealousness
Would you mind waiting more than one minute before tagging new articles, as you just did on Maritime Court of Ontario? Unless redlinks already exist to the new article, it's reasonable to wait a little while before tagging. Thanks! AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 16:41, 25 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Also no point tagging articles from experienced editors that are marked as "Under construction" just a few minutes after creation, as you did here. Just wasting people's time, was always going to fix it soon after article creation. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:48, 25 August 2021 (UTC)