User talk:Steue

Welcome!
Hello, Steue, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:


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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Hydromania (talk) 09:30, 10 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you Hydromania. I 'm not completely new to WP, I have been editing in the de.WP. But some things are different here in the en.WP. So I 'm thankful to have a personal terminal here, as well. Steue (talk) 06:01, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

Junta
Ja echt Verrückt was da abgeht....

allein das hier "Kopilot" verfasst >90% des Artikels zur eigenen Partei (J. Ditfurths Ökolinx) ist doch schon unfassbar

alles was nicht der dort vorherrschenden Ideologie entspricht wird gebannt,gebasht und gelöscht.

Antideutsch, Ökolinks ... :( allein wenn man sich diese karte anguckt Bevölkerungsdichte WikiPsycho da wird einem ganz hinterhältig suggeriert das es zu viel Bevölkerung in Deutschland gibt. Dann wundert einen der Name des Autors auch nichtmals.

oder was auch ganz schlimm ist sind die Weiterleitungen die einfach garnicht zum Thema passen siehe :

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxin Dieser Artikel behandelt giftige Substanzen. Zur deutschen Metal-Band siehe Toxin (Band).

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti Der Titel dieses Artikels ist mehrdeutig. Weitere Bedeutungen sind unter Graffiti (Begriffsklärung) aufgeführt. Writing ist eine Weiterleitung auf diesen Artikel. Für das Lied von Elton John siehe Writing (Elton-John-Lied).

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droge Dieser Artikel behandelt Drogen in der Bedeutung von rauscherzeugenden Substanzen. Zu Drogen im ursprünglichen und pharmazeutischen Sinne siehe Droge (Pharmazie), zum Ort Drogen siehe Drogen (Schmölln), zur Indie-Pop-Band Die Drogen siehe dort, zur Person Otto Droge siehe dort.

Ich frage mich echt was soll das ?

"keine Wissensfrage" auch lustig ;D --WikiVerwelkt (talk) 08:59, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

June 2019
I noticed that you have posted comments in a language other than English. At the English-language Wikipedia, we try to use English for all comments. Posting all comments in English makes it easier for other editors to join the conversation and help you. If you cannot avoid using another language, then please provide a translation into English, if you can. If you cannot provide a translation, please go to the list of Wikipedias, look in the list for a Wikipedia that is in your language, and edit there instead of here. For more details, see Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. Thank you. --141.98.252.170 (talk) 11:41, 3 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Repeating this here: I'm not sure that guideline really applies to two editors who both are more comfortable in German using their own language on their own user talk pages in order to facilitate communication between the two of them. We need to use English everywhere else, but I would think a user talk page is where one German-speaker should be helping another German-speaker understand English WP. --valereee (talk) 12:19, 3 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much, valereee, for your support and understanding.
 * To: 141.98.252.170: Because I understand politeness very well, I explained the reasons in my first sentence, and I did this in English and only on MY talkpage. This conversation between WikiVerwelkt and me started in the teahouse under Teahouse. If you are interested you can look there for more explanations. Your demand is IN!!!-appropriate on MY talk page!!! Steue (talk) 12:50, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

If anybody else wants to see how crazy the german wikipedia is:

WikiVerwelkt (talk) 19:34, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Titles of disambiguation pages
On occasion of Cem

In most cases I want to express myself in the most unequivocal / least disambiguous way in which I can. I also have in mind, that some things which I have written might be read a couple of hundred or even thousand years from now. And I know that language is a developing thing, and original meanings and etymology can get forgotten / lost.

When I read that there is a "disambiguation page" I want to know which other meanings this topic can have. So I tend to, more or less, always have a look at this disambiguation page, because it broadens my awareness.

It may be that, statistically, there can be declared a "primary topic", but it does not "hurt" any reader to get introduced to all the other meanings a topic can have. And even if a reader does not read every word of the description of every other meaning, it does not hurt to find out that this topic can have a different meaning than what one had in mind. Rather to the contrary: If the topic would always redirect to the disambiguation page this would broaden the awareness of the readers.

An other reason is "neutrality": My oppinion: The redirect of a topic should not "prefer" one meaning.

Therefore my oppinion is: 1. A topic should always redirect to the disambiguation page and 2. A disambiguation page should always read " (disambiguation)" Steue (talk) 03:59, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

"Too many images/pictures, diagrams/charts or lists and tables"???
On occasion Geely The first box reads: ''This article contains too many pictures, charts or diagrams for its overall length. Please help to improve this article by converting charts or diagrams into prose text''

"Too many" images?? NO !!
I completely disagree. Three or four images per model would be quite acceptable. And I have nothing to do with this company. We outside of China don't get many images of modern chinese cars, and I become "geleous" when I read of the number of electric cars in China, compared to the west. In all websites of companies which I visited (especially big ones, even Tesla, which I respect very highly for what it has done) there was a lot of rubbish (like moving and/or interchanging images and bla-texts and irrelevant images) so it would have taken me a loooot of time to get to the informations which I wanted. So I appreciate all the images which I can get in the wikipedia, without !! all this "noise". Steue (talk) 05:57, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

"Too many charts or diagrams"?? NO !!
If a diagram or chart is good, it is allways much better than a table. And any table or list is better than prose. But I greatly appreciate explaining additional text to a list, table, diagram or image. Steue (talk) 05:57, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Pings
If you participate in a talk page and care about what's there, you should follow it. Expecting others to take additional trouble to ping you is not a good strategy. And moderately off-putting. -- Elphion (talk) 03:40, 30 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you Elphion, for your feed back. English is not my mother tongue. I looked up (in the World Book Dictionary) what "put off" means, but I still don't quite get it. Would you be so kind to explain it to me?
 * I do understand your viewpoint, but I allways ping the one, to whom I write, because I want the addressee to read it. I think every one should use the addressee's name as a link. I write this ""Please" ping me" because I encountered users who don't want to be pinged. If one does not get pinged one would have to visit all these disks, where one ever has written something, every session, only to, often, find out that there is nothing new in this disk. That is why I do ping and expect pinging as routine and appreciate pings.
 * The only location where I do not ping is on a user's disk, because I know that this user automaticly gets a ping.
 * Steue (talk) 05:05, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

I appreciate your reply, and I appreciate that there may be loss of meaning across language barriers. To be clear, I have nothing against pinging users. It is especially useful in situations where you have reason to believe the user may otherwise not see your message. It was entirely appropriate to ping Metaeducation at the start of that thread on the GIF talk page. But in the middle of a conversation on a talk page, there is a natural supposition that the participants are paying attention. To expect to be pinged in that situation comes across like asking for special consideration, since (as you may observe on most talk pages) participants are generally not pinged. It feels like you are not giving others the courtesy of paying attention to what they say. I am sure you don't mean to convey that impression, so I wanted to point out that that is how it might be perceived.

It is easy to add a page (and therefore its talk page) to your WP:Watchlist. (That's what the star icon at the top of the page is for.) That way you can periodically check your watchlist to see whether pages you are interested in have been updated. For example, I have put your user page on my watchlist, so I could easily tell when your talk page has been updated. Similarly, the GIF page is on my watchlist, so I saw the question you put to Metaeducation without being pinged. (There's nothing nefarious going on behind the scenes!) I apologize if you are already familiar with this, but I think it's a useful answer to your objection above.

-- Elphion (talk) 06:28, 30 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Dear Elphion,
 * thanks for the explanation.
 * I admit: I almost never visit a disk, once I have closed my browser, but I do not mean to be uncourteous.
 * But What I do: Before I write, I try to understand fully, and if I get an answer, I take the time to try to fully understand and try to answer each point or question. This is my courtesy.
 * I have seen quite some threads in which I had the impression that either one or even both participants did not take the time to fully read and really understand, what the other had written.
 * What I also do: I try to type and spell as correct as possible, something which not all do. I take into consideration all those, like me, whose mother tongue is not English and who would have a hard time to figure out what was meant.


 * I just, once, looked into my watchlist and understood what it is for.
 * But I admit too: I never took the time to really study WP:Watchlist; thanks for this link, I will study it. So there is nothing to apologize for.
 * And, as you say: I would still have to periodically check my watchlist.
 * But as I understood (already before this disk), one can only put a whole page on the watchlist, not a specific thread, although I read that someone wished it was possible, I wish this too.
 * And if I'm interested in something, I'm mostly interested in a specific thread. And within many threads there are several micro- threads going on, in which, often, I'm not intested in.
 * This is why I don't use the watchlist --- and hope that I do get pinged.
 * And this is, why I'm really thankful that pings are possible.


 * I never supposed anything nefarious to be going on.
 * Steue (talk) 08:00, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Link test
User talk:GreggHilferding

Where do I get an e-mail account without having to give personal data?
Dear Shantavira, thank you for answering at the Teahouse regarding Phabricator.

I checked several e-mail providers, this was more than a year ago, but they all made it mandatory to give them my: official life name, address, tel.no., birth date etc.. And they checked, whether they are real or invented.

Do you know of an e-mail provider who does not insist on these data?

Steue (talk) 03:29, 4 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi . Yes you would need to do this from an established email account. If you have a Gmail account you would just click on the Google account icon (just below the three dots), and click on "Add another account". I believe you can have up to ten Gmail accounts. It's a while since I used any Yahoo or Hotmail accounts but I imagine they would have a similar system. You can call the new account anything you like so there is no way anyone could link it with your day-to-day account. I hope this helps.--Shantavira|feed me 08:24, 4 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much, Shantavira.
 * Steue (talk) 07:10, 5 May 2022 (UTC)


 * tutanota.com Article: en.wp: Tutanota. tip from user:Cullen328.

To all: If you want to answer to this topic, please enter your contribution to this topic below this note, but ABOVE the link to "Access to "Phabricator"", thank you.


 * An email service which allows for full anonymous registration (which like on wikipedia means that if you forget your password, you can never access the account ever again), would be ProtonMail, now proton.me. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 12:30, 10 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Thank you, very much. Steue (talk) 12:45, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Back to the bottom of the first contribution in #Access to "Phabricator", in case you came from there.

Geographe Bay
Hi Savlonn,

Because you are Australian:   Do you know the answers to these questions in: Talk:Geographe Bay ?

Steue (talk) 08:59, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Minor Edits
Hi Steue! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor&#32;at Help:Link that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. CapnZapp (talk) 09:53, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you CapnZapp for your hint, it had three positiv results:
 * It brought to my attention a problem which I have, about which you can read, if you like, in the topic below, and it brought me to do something to handle it.
 * It brought to my attention a problem which I have, about which you can read, if you like, in the topic below, and it brought me to do something to handle it.


 * This reference, besides it's main purpose, also brought to my knowledge the technique of Dummy edit, which I was needing/missing since quite some time.


 * So, thanks thrice. Steue (talk) 07:33, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Check boxes are blank if overridden by user's own colours
{Note: I (still) have not gotten myself an access to "Phabricator", so I can't report this problem there.}

When I switch to "Edit (source)" mode, and scroll down, both, the "Minor change" and the "Watch this page", check boxes are blank/empty; they only show my background colour.

This is in-dependent of whether I actually edit or not.

And when I click into a "Minor change" check box, the frame of this check box becomes thicker. So far, so good.

Problem: But the space in this check box remains blank; there appears no (white) "chek" (on blue ground) in it.

And when I return, e.g. from a preview,: so I can't see whether I have already checked this box or not; I can only know from my memory - if this tells me :).
 * this check box is still blank, plus
 * the frame of this check box is thin (again), as it was at the opening of this editing page,

This phenomenon is only in the English WP, not in the German WP. In the German WP these check boxes are smaller than in the English, but show the check on blue ground.

I use: Windows 8.1 and Firefox (latest edition).

In Firefox / tab [General] / sub heading "Language and Appearance" / I have set:
 * "Colours" to my own colours and
 * "Override the colours specified by the page with your selections above" to "Always".

When I change my setting of "Override..." to "Never", then the content of the check box(es) is visible, but for this I would have to sacrifice my colours.

Steue (talk) 07:51, 8 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Meanwhile I have posted this at Village pump (technical)
 * Steue (talk) 13:49, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
 * "I (still) have not gotten myself an access to "Phabricator" FYI, everyone with a Wikimedia account has access to Phabricator.
 * ""Override the colours specified by the page with your selections above" to "Always". I've just tested these settings myself and this setting doesn't just override background colors, but ALL backgrounds, incl images. That is bound to break lots of things, incl the buttons in the editor toolbars for instance, but also dynamic maps, graphs, certain infobox maps etc etc.
 * "only in the English WP, not in the German WP." You are probably using different editors because of differing settings between these two or something. Wikipedia has over 15 different editors depending on which settings you configure and what kind of content you are editing. For the differences between them see Editor.
 * —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 11:54, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you [ TheDJ ] for your detailed answers.

(I know, you have read and answered my new topic below, so the first part of my answer here is a little obsolete.)

Re.: Access to "Phabricator": This is true only if one has an e-mail address and accepts certain conditions. My concerns are (a little below) in the topic:.

Re.: Override colours.: Yes, I have found out this by accident: moving my mouse pointer over an appearing blank space and wondering why it became a "pointing hand". And, yes, I have been missing some of these things you mentioned, but so far only very seldom, because I'm preferring source editing.

If, e.g., I want to check or change my Preferences, I can still resort to "Override: Never", temporarily, as I just did to check what type of editor I'm using.

If I understand the settings in my Preferences right, I have not selected a special editor; so it should be the default editor which I'm using.

Your hint to "Editors" is very interesting; maybe I'll try one or two for special tasks.

This also brought me to check all my settings (under standard ! colours); and I found some usefull ones, e.g. re. differences of versions.

Steue (talk) 13:36, 10 June 2022 (UTC)


 * In the top right corner of/on (almost) every page there is a button/link [Log in]. When one clicks on this button there opens a page titled "Log in".
 * This "Log in" page bears the same ! name as the (general) article page Log in, but is the real/actual "Log in" (to Wikipedia) page.
 * (Inbetween note: To create clarity (remove ambiguity):
 * The actual "Log in" (to Wikipedia) page would, better, be re-named to "Log in to Wikipedia" (I would prefer this "to Wikipedia" with-out parenthesis around "to Wikipedia"),
 * and there would, better, be created a help page especially for the log in procedure to Wikipedia;
 * and this help page would, better, be named "Help:Log in to Wikipedia"
 * and the word "log in" in the text on the actual "Log in to Wikipedia" page would, better, link to this help page, not to the article page Log in.
 * However, on this help page there could still be a link to the article page Log in.
 * (End of the inbetween note)
 * On the real "Log in" (to Wikipedia) page there is a check box for: "Keep me logged in for up to 365 days".
 * I just found out:
 * When I clicked into this check box, the check became visible !! -- although I had my colours ON !.
 * The check was in my text colour and the (back)ground of this check box bore my background colour.
 * This proves: It IS possible to have check boxes although the user has his browser set to override the website's colours by his colours.
 * Steue (talk) 12:25, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
 * The check was in my text colour and the (back)ground of this check box bore my background colour.
 * This proves: It IS possible to have check boxes although the user has his browser set to override the website's colours by his colours.
 * Steue (talk) 12:25, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Blank lines between contributions in Talk
Thank you for your advice Redrose64.

When I insert blank lines in a talk, then only to make it easier for myself to find a specific contribution of another because, e.g. I want to copy something of this contrib.

I could as well remove these lines when I don't need them anymore, but I thought, a few blank lines would not harm any one. How wrong was I!

Your hint to WP:INDENTGAP brought to my knowledge the possibility to add colon(s) in front of blank lines.

Would it be OK with you, if I also placed colons on such lines, so I don't have to remove them? I mean: I don't insert blank lines in all talks which I read.

Steue (talk) 06:35, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Access to "Phabricator"
{And I'm not even complaining:
 * neither about the long "voyage" to the page of "Phabricator" (If I actually did have access, I - probably - would make myself a link to "Phabricator" on my user page (two clicks, and I'm there)),
 * nor do I complain about the additional log in.}

If you desire a shortcut, the interesting issue starts at my point no. 13 below.

The "voyage" to "Phabricator": 1. en.wp "Main page" 2. (left pane) 3. (heading) "Contribute" 4. (link) [Community portal] 5. (heading) "Interact more" 6. (sub heading) "Village pump sections" 7. (box and link) "Technical" Village pump (technical) or (short) WP:VPT 8. (in the text: the mention of "Phabricator" as link to) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator 9. (A little bit below, in the little frame) "Go to Wikimedia Phabricator", which is a link to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ 10. (in the middle pane) (the link) "Report a software bug" (which actually is a link to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/43/ ) 11. I'm required !! to "Log In or Register" again !! (left green button).

{I once tried to get an answer on why "Phabricator" needs it's own ! registration, but from the answer(s) to this, all I understood, was, basically: "It is as it is.}

12. And when I click on [Log In or Register], there opens a new tab (in my browser) titled: "OAuth - MediaWiki" which has the URL (e.g.): https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AOAuth%2Fauthorize&oauth_token=b7a7f223de8101bd6653381defbb3c14&oauth_consumer_key=515956f268dcf5738beabe21154df11f

13. There, a scroll box (in the middle) informs me of: "In order to complete your request, phabricator-production needs permission to access information about you, including your email address, on all projects of this site. No changes will be made with your account. Leaving two buttons: [Allow] or [Cancel].

Up in this sentence, there are two things which reject me: i) Why does "Phabricator" need to know: just to let me report a bug! ?.
 * the titles of all articles in which I have ever edited and
 * the titles of all Talks in which I have ever written something, and not enough the titles, but down to the exact wording of my contributions in talks!
 * the dates and times when I edited, etc.?

I mean: I don't even request the right to create a task. I'm perfectly willing to let somebody else decide, whether my report should be made into a task, and to let this somebody else make it into a task.

Sorry, but this reminds me too much of Orwell's "1984". I'm from Europe and there -- we are quite sensitive as regards personal data, as you might know.

To my ! sense, this blatantly violates the right for anonymity, which is said to be granted/guaranteed in the Wikipedia.

Maybe with "Phabricator" I can create an account in-dependent of my username in wikipedias; I havn't tried yet (due to the e-mail problem, described below).

ii) But this sentence alrady announces the need ! of an e-mail address.

14. And if I really click on [Allow] and

15. try to register, without ! giving an e-mail address, the procedure doesn't continue; it INSISTS on an e-mail address.

My concerns with an e-mail address you can read a little bit up in a previous topic, here on my talk page:, if you like.

Steue (talk) 10:29, 10 June 2022 (UTC)


 * "Why does "Phabricator" need to know:" That's the same information that is publicly available for your account If you are not aware that Wikipedia traces all edits that you make to it and were in under the impression they were not public, then you should probably stop editing Wikipedia.
 * "I'm from Europe " So am I.
 * "This blatantly violates the right for anonymity" Both sites are by the same organization, the Wikimedia Foundation, which already has this access, the data is just being accessed by a different system of that organization (which goes through that dialog for technical reasons). This point thus makes no sense.
 * "But this sentence alrady announces the need ! of an e-mail address." This is a valid point. Unfortunately most systems in the world UNLIKE Wikipedia require registration with an identifier in order to use them. The same goes for phabricator. If you are unwilling to provide any sort of email address, then unfortunately it is not possible to use Phabricator, much like it will be impossible to use lots of systems on the Internet. It is unlikely there is a solution for this.
 * —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 12:22, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you [ TheDJ ], for your affirmation that "Phabricator" is part of WMF. I was doubting this due to their completely different domain and own registration and authenication; this vaporizes my aversion.

I did be aware that even IP addresses could see what ever I have edited -- if they know how to.

Meanwhile I've had a look on your user page.

Maybe, with the help of Proton, I'll come to get an e-mail address. :)

As for other systems: I don't miss these, in general. I only once in a while come across an answer from a search engine, which then I'm not allowed to even read, like by Twitter, or Facebook - so be it.

Steue (talk) 13:59, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Plough
Hello Steue. I have undone three of your recent edits to Plough; i did give explanations in each of the edit summaries, but thought i'd just pop in here to be sure you understand and expand on one of them. In mine opinion, the image i move back to Etymology doesn't really fit there, either, but it is not such a good image as the one currently at the top of the article ~ it's not nearly as clear, nor is the plough as visible; i'd probably remove the thing altogether, TBH. Happy days ~ LindsayHello 12:18, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

Defect MS WordPad file
I have a laptop with Windows 8.1. As kind of every 30 minutes (or so) this dam'd stupid Windows 8.1 was starting to rattle with my hard disc, which got at my nerves. So I aborted it by holding down the main ON/OFF key for several seconds.

Later - after restart - one of my WordPad files was not showing any content anymore.

But the cursor could move and rest every where where words had been visible before, which indicated that these words are still there, but just not shown.

However the properties say it has over 100 kB.

When I tried to save it, I got the message, that I was about to save it in a different format. It seemed that I was about to save it as '.txt', although I had always had it as '.rtf'.

It had also reset the font to what I suppose was/is the default font.

Because I understood this with the 'txt' too late, I changed something in it and saved it.

Now it shows only five blank lines, although the properties say, it still has got over 100 kB.

Can this be repaired?

Steue (talk) 21:23, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

This is NOT OK
Dear Stavros

In your edit of the article Tolomeo desk lamp you only wrote (in the "Edit summary"): "Better organization".

But you did not only just re-arrange the content, you also DELETED ALL my edits.

Plus: you did NOT deliver any reason at all for your deletions, which you kow (best - after 17 years) you are supposed to, by our rules.

And this, although I did, before I edited, explain my argument in the talk of this page.

To me (and very likely to others too) -- this looks like you tried to cover up/hide your deletions.

This may be a way to prevent automatic "revert notations" to the other editor, but I consider your behaviour ... - to word it (very) mildly - bad style.

If you do have arguments then put them into the talk !!

You deleted information which would have been valuable to all readers of this article.

And with this you did behave AGAINST the purpose of the Wikipedia.

Think about it !!

On your user page you are mentioning Neutral point of view, but in this edit you did not abide by this rule. You lifted this lamp up into the sky of arts as if you had a personal interest in this lamp.

Steue (talk) 08:57, 11 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Sorry, Stavros,


 * I did you wrong.


 * I did not see that the sentence about the springs indeed [ was left / is ] in, because:
 * in the history view which I use (side by side) the paragraphs were vertically dis-associated,
 * I expected it to be (at least) as a seperate paragraph and
 * in a location before the design award para.


 * Steue (talk) 18:25, 12 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi Stavros,


 * I just found (and this is NO accusation): You changed the wording of my sentence to such a degree and placed it in a different location, that the wiki software did understand/represent your wording as something completely new, and thus did represent it in thin letters (not in bold, for which I {only} was looking for).


 * Steue (talk) 18:41, 12 October 2022 (UTC)


 * You can't expect the comparison tool to cover every case. --Macrakis (talk) 19:38, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

@ Stavros, Of course not, I don't - any more. It's software and man-made. And it takes an awfull lot of time to make software real good. And there are many other tasks waiting to be programmed. But it is good to know what we can not expect - currently -. Next time I'm missing something, I know I have to look at the new thins too. Steue (talk) 20:15, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Edit with the history in mind
I edit with the purpose/intention in mind that my changes can most easily be understood / followed up (in the "side by side" view of the history) even without a written explanation (in the "Edit summary").

I tend to make it in such a way, that in the side-by-side-view the two versions are exactly side by side, that is: (more or less) at the same level, respectively that the two boxes at least begin at the same level.
 * When I want to change the wording,

In case of a long paragraph containing many sentences and references, and escpecially if it is a long sentence, I would even advise/recommend to:
 * 1) split off the sentence which one wants to change as a separate paragraph,
 * 2) save this,
 * 3) change the wording
 * 4) save this and then
 * 5) re-unite them and
 * 6) save this.

And this does not mean much more work because, when I edit, I first (in the source code) insert three to four blank lines each before and behind the thing to be changed (normally without saving). This makes it much easier for me, to keep my orientation and my focus. Of course, afterwards, I remove the blank lines before I save.

but these to be sorted things are not yet paragraphs, I first make them into paragraphs, and save them, so that their change of sequence can be followed up easier and that it can also easier be checked, that in this step there were no changes of the wording.
 * When I want to change the sequence,

This way: If someone else wants to check the altered sequence, he/she only needs to look for boxes/frames with exactly equal content.

I do this in two steps and save each one separately.
 * When I want to change the sequence AND the wording,

Which one first is not important.


 * Advantages
 * This way the checker has much less to compare.


 * The time which I invest in this method is much much less than the time the checker needs, to figure out and understand exactly all that I did.

Steue (talk) 17:47, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Talk page without an article page
Hi Explicit

Before you deleted Talk:Bag pudding did you check whether any links do link to this page?

Now there are four (now red) links to this page name.

Steue (talk) 13:16, 16 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi, Explicit


 * I repeat my question.


 * Steue (talk) 18:03, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

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Where can I read WHY you blocked user:Vectorskin2010fan?
Hi Materialscientist,

I could only find THAT you blocked him.

Steue (talk) 18:01, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

What happened to my reply re. mediawiki?
@Patafisik (WMF)

In (what is now in the archive 1): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Vector_2022&oldid=1134767180#Better_Feedback_link I made the following reply to your question about "article tools". I replyed that I was very disappointed about mediawiki.

{Cite:} Sorry Patafisik (WMF), I wanted to comment regarding "article tools" on the mediawiki page, but: * mediawiki does not accept, that I am already logged in in en.wp. * Mediawiki also does not accept my user name from en.wp in creating a new account in mediawiki. * I tryed to register Steue, it sayd: "already in use". * But when I searched on mediawiki for "user:Steue" there was none such listed. * So: mediawiki CAN check the user names of en.wp, * but does not accept them for login. * Mediawiki also does not accept a username "Steue (MWF)" (is blacklisted). * Mediawiki insists on at least 8 characters for the password (This is: putting users under tutelage!). On "article tools" page I edited a probable misspelling (was: "revisit", should probably be "revise"); I inserted a (careful) "[revise ?]". The user:Clump reverted it, but gave NO explanation. I checked the history. His/her user talk page is blocked, he/she writes: "because of 'excessive vandalism' ". No wonder if he/she behaves like this. Is it not mandatory, at mediawiki, to EXPLAIN a revert? As long as mediawiki behaves like this and makes it difficult for users to contribute, I am THROUGH with mediawiki. To hell with them! Signed Steue {End of cite.}

Now my reply is neither on the current page, nor in the archive.

And in the history I can't find any clue of: that my reply has ever existed, nor where it was moved or by whom and for which reason.

And this allthough I do rember having seen my reply on the page.

If I move something, I leave a note at the original location, and in the summary.

What happened?

Steue (talk) 00:17, 23 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi @Steue, I opened this topic on MediaWiki linking this discussion, I hope someone will give you answers concerning your MediaWiki account. About your change in the project page: I've reported your suggestion to the Web Team, but consider giving it in the talk page of the project a next time instead of changing the project page directly. Thank you, Patafisik (WMF) (talk) 08:20, 23 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, did you try logging in at mw:Special:UserLogin. From your description it sounds like you tried to create an account, which didn't work because you already have one, but you never tried just logging in. Searching for your account won't reveal anything on mediawiki.org until you actually log in and do something on that wiki. MediaWiki.org and Wikipedia (and all other Wikimedia websites) use the same account database. Bawolff (talk) 14:12, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Thank you Patafisik (WMF) for putting my question to mw.

Re. the "revisit/revise" thanks. I was stressed. You are right: If I was uncertain, I should have put it on the talk page, as I usually would.

Thank you Bawolff for your answer.

On the mw page I can/did not see the button [ More options ].

Reason: I use my own colours i.e. I have my browser (FF) restricted to "always use my colours".

I had the same problem on the new skin (not seeing the new menue button, left from (or should it be "of"?) the page header).

After reading your answer I searched for the button at the top right corner and found it.

So: "Sorry" to mediawiki.


 * Please, could this problem with "own colours" be solved?

Images (gif, jpg, png) are visible despite my colours.

So, one solution would be to always use such images as icons.

I can see this:.

Maybe this info helps in finding a simple solution.

But from what I understand now from the article SVG it IS, in it's nature, comparable to jpg.


 * How could I know that "Log in" can be accessed via mw:Special:UserLogin?

Steue (talk) 10:03, 24 January 2023 (UTC)


 * You're not the first person i have heard make this complaint. In particular i heard one of the stewards express worry that the new skin will result in people making multiple accounts resulting in extra work to clean up. Bawolff (talk) 12:32, 24 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Bawolff


 * I don't see the relation to what is above your last post.
 * I'm not aware of having complained of such.
 * Could it be, that yor post went to the wrong target?
 * Steue (talk) 12:49, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Reorganisation of votes to Question#2 of WP:V22RFC2
Hello Steue,

I see you started a reorganisation by category of comments to the Question#2 of WP:V22RFC2. However, it seems you are experiencing some difficulty and instead of giving a better organisation you are creating further confusion. If you think that it is too difficult a task, I suggest you restore the list to how it was before, and ask for help from who rearranged the main RfC's comments. Æo (talk) 20:01, 24 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks Æo for caring so much.  This is appreciated.  And you are doing it very kindly.
 * In the beginning, I encountered a few contribs which neither were one or the other. So then I did feel like needing help.  But meanwhile I feel sure what I'm doing.  I'm almost through with the preparations.  I had to study the discussions, which went on under a "Support" or "Oppose", and I had to find out how to indent them, so that they get the right indentation.  I'm almost done, and can start now sorting into 4 groups.  Then I only have to move 4 groups into the main groups. I'm even keeping the original sequence.  It's not my 1st sorting of this size.  That's why I dared to undertake it on such an important page.
 * Steue (talk) 20:20, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Good, if you are sure of what you are doing go ahead. Æo (talk) 20:28, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

RfC V2022/Talk/removal
Hi Serial Number 54129

Re. your restoring of my removal ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Rollback_of_Vector_2022&oldid=prev&diff=1135710691 )


 * 1) I was the author of this post, so I'm allowed to remove all or part of my post.
 * 2) There is the wp rule that the talk pages are there only for discussions of improvements of the concerned article. So even if I would not be the author of this post, this rule would give any one the right to remove such personal informations.
 * 3) The lack of what I removed does not render the following posts un-understandable.

So I'm going to remove this again. (I don't want to use "undo" because there are so many new posts, that undo might undo them too.)

P.S.: If you undo something you are supposed to give the reason (in the edit summary field at the bottom).

Steue (talk) 11:26, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
 * That's not correct, Steue, plrase read WP:REDACT. Serial Number 54129 was correct. I've restored the comment. InfiniteNexus (talk) 18:55, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * If you would like to redact that portion of your comment, you may use . InfiniteNexus (talk) 18:56, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

January 2023
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, discussion pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Rollback of Vector 2022, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. ''Additionally, please read WP:INDENT and WP:TALKGAP. Thank you.'' InfiniteNexus (talk) 18:51, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Closed arb discussion
Closed arb discussion @Barkeep49

Re. my edit on Arbitration/Requests/Case, which you undid.

Sorry. I had been reading from the top. How could I have known that this discussion is closed? I remember having seen other pages where a box explicitly said that this discussion is closed.

Steue (talk) 22:33, 2 March 2023 (UTC)


 * We were hoping that the yellow box with the message up top would let editors know. Barkeep49 (talk) 23:23, 2 March 2023 (UTC)


 * @Barkeep49
 * Thank you very much for mentioning it in such a patient and friendly way. :)
 * Now that you mentioned it, and I checked the page, I remember having read it.
 * I guess I did not grasp the full meaning of 'paused'. Although the
 * Please do not modify it. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * should be clear enough.
 * But I was used to formal and separate boxes.
 * So, may I suggest, that this restriction, at least, be placed in a separate box. Although I think a formal box would even be better.
 * As for the 'yellow': here goes the old problem of me having my browser set to using my own colours, which prevents such yellow background.
 * I'm very thankful that the programmers finally have implemented a solution to this, so that I, at least, can see such icons like [Notifications] and [Messages] and the [little triple horizontal lines].
 * Steue (talk) 00:03, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm very thankful that the programmers finally have implemented a solution to this, so that I, at least, can see such icons like [Notifications] and [Messages] and the [little triple horizontal lines].
 * Steue (talk) 00:03, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

File:Anijoy.gif
Well, yes and no. Such case makes people to think: "Resistance is rising... because path between blue and red wire elongates.". Otherwise people could just think: "OK, handle is going right and the needle goes right..." not trying to understand why needle goes right while handle goes right. - piom 10:46, 26 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi piom
 * I do understand your intention: to make the watchers think about the cause and effect of what they see.
 * How about putting the explanation which you just gave here, as a sub text under this gif, like: "When the path between the left end and the wiper increases, so increases the resistance." -- or, if you want, use the 'right' end.
 * For me it still is easier to think, if things go synchrounous.
 * It's the same with negations and -- even worse -- double negations.
 * But I will respect your viewpoint.
 * Besides: Thank you for this example of a smarter way of how to link to a user page in a different wiki: it's done with a ": :" before the "user".
 * Steue (talk) 23:19, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Steue (talk) 23:19, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Steue (talk) 23:19, 29 April 2023 (UTC)


 * You are welcome! Well, description seems to be a good idea. - - piom 15:12, 9 May 2023 (UTC)


 * @ piom
 * I have now also a page on meta, which should solve all signing problems on all wiki projects: meta:user:Steue.
 * As for your gif:
 * I got the idea of two meters: one for the resistance ( labeled "ohm" ) and another for the current ( labeled "ampere" ). The potentiometer in sequence to a battery and an ampere meter; plus an ohm meter parallel to the potentiometer. This would tell the whole "story". Then the counter relation between the current and the resistance might be understand even easier.
 * Steue (talk) 07:51, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Steue (talk) 07:51, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

MOS DAB edits
Hallo, I don't think that sentence belongs in a new subsection there, as the section is about entries which should exist - but perhaps it ought to be in "Individual entries" above, possibly under "Examples of individual entries that should not be created"? Pam D  07:58, 17 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello PamD
 * Thanks for your comment.
 * 1: Is this a German "Hallo" because you know that I'm writing from Germany?
 * 2: But why on my talk page and not on the talk page of MOS DAB? Is this a hint that you consider my edit completely in-appropriate and you want to save me the embarrasment of telling me this on the other talk page?
 * Steue (talk) 09:46, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
 * 2: But why on my talk page and not on the talk page of MOS DAB? Is this a hint that you consider my edit completely in-appropriate and you want to save me the embarrasment of telling me this on the other talk page?
 * Steue (talk) 09:46, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Steue (talk) 09:46, 17 May 2023 (UTC)


 * 1: No, I spell it that way anyway!
 * 2: It was a snap decision after we had an edit conflict when I tried reverting your first 3 edits - I then saw you were still editing, so left you a quick message to see while you were still editing. Yes, talk page would have been as good a venue. Pam  D  10:43, 17 May 2023 (UTC)


 * I've implemented my suggestion as above, as you didn't comment on the content of my post. Pam  D  10:54, 17 May 2023 (UTC)


 * User:PamD
 * It's OK. I didn't comment because I'm still studying this topic. I'll collect my comments, questions and edit suggestions off line until I have a full grasp of this topic.
 * Steue (talk) 11:29, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

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Cleaning up a Talk page
Hi Remsense

Is there anything wrong with cleaning up the talk page of "Ping"?

--Steue (talk) 04:10, 30 June 2024 (UTC)