User talk:Swpb/Archive/2021

Orphaned non-free image File:Skillsoft logo.png
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Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of train stations has been nominated for merging
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of rail transport


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ANI notice where you have been mentioned
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Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of television programs has been nominated for merging
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Category:Wikipedia requested images of Nickelodeon has been nominated for deletion
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Orphaned non-free image File:Choco taco.jpg
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:WikiProject Shirley Jackson


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Category:Tag Team (group) has been nominated for deletion
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"Cleanup per WP:DDD"
You recently added a TOC to Bated breath using the above edit summary. However WP:DDD does not even mention TOCes, let alone mandate them. Please review your usage of edit summaries; perhaps you used a prefilled edit summary useful for other tasks? Cheers CapnZapp (talk) 04:10, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
 * MOS:DAB, the full guide that WP:DDD points to, discusses TOCs, but point taken. — swpb T&#8201;•&#8201;go beyond&#8201;•&#8201;bad idea 13:33, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
 * At the risk of overexplaining things: I had two points, not just one. The first point we already appear to agree on. The second is that MOS:DAB does not stipulate disambiguation pages should have tables of content. It only states On longer lists, may be used to move the table of contents to the right hand side of the page. I believe you when you say your intended your edit summary "Cleanup per WP:DDD" to also refer to MOS:DAB. However, your edit was to Bated breath, a page so short I would argue it is uncontroversial to characterize it as not in need of a table of content. Meaning that yes, if you find moving a TOC to the right improves readability, go for it - you have MOS:DAB's blessing. But that presumes the TOC is already there, which brings me to the second aspect of my courteous request for you to review your usage of edit summaries: neither WP:DDD nor MOS:DAB mandates TOCs on every disambiguation page. Regards, CapnZapp (talk) 11:49, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I understood you the first time. I know they aren't mandated, and I don't put them on every page - I put them on pages with three or more headings, which generally are long enough to benefit from a TOC. In any case I don't see a TOC doing harm. If you think the guideline should specify when not to use a TOC, you should start that discussion on the guideline talk page, not here. — swpb T&#8201;•&#8201;go beyond&#8201;•&#8201;bad idea 15:05, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Your reply is not precise enough for me to abstain from the following specification:

I am not complaining about your actual edit, so there is zero benefit of getting defensive or bringing "harm" into the discussion. Please don't. I am laser-focused on your edit summary. What I am specifically asking you is to not justify edits with an edit summary that gives the impression there is policy behind it... unless of course there is. Instead I encourage you to assume full responsibility for your improvements in your edit summaries. Yes, even though this increases the risk of others opposing your edits.

I sincerely hope this settles the issue once and for all. Regards CapnZapp (talk) 22:13, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:04, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Those pesky pings
Hi! I had been meaning to comment in the thread at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Disambiguation pages for some time (and didn't notice your pings until I finally posted there). But those pings didn't work, probably because the signature wasn't added in the same edit that had the mentions. You can have a look at WP:MENTION, some of the necessary conditions are a bit unexpected. – Uanfala (talk) 01:00, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the alert! I don't know how I screwed that up. — swpb T&#8201;•&#8201;go beyond&#8201;•&#8201;bad idea 14:56, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

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Banganga (disambiguation)
Hi Swpb, on Banganga (disambiguation) I edited/removed several entries where you had added an  comment. I know that it can be extremely annoying when editors do this, so I thought I'd give you a chance to disagree/discuss/rant. On the 'policy' side, MOS:DABRED does state that red links can be used, but only if there is an existing article that uses the red link. On the more important side of what helps the reader - if a reader clicks on Rajgir (for example) looking for information on a river named Banganga, they will be disappointed because it is never mentioned. I couldn't find any articles that mention Banganga (waterfall) or Banganga River (Bihar), much less include a link to them, so I removed them. (note: I see that I neglected to include Banganga River (Bihar) in my edit summary). Banganga River (Vaishno) is discussed, but not wikilinked, in Vaishno Devi, so I unlinked the DAB entry to match. Leschnei (talk) 15:00, 12 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Fair enough. I added those comments through auto wiki browser - the intent was more about not having multiple blue links: I have a script that unlinks the second and subsequent links in an entry, if the first link is blue. If the first link is red, the script leaves that comment on the latter links, so that if the first link becomes blue in the future, someone will know to unlink the subsequent ones. It wasn't meant to imply that the latter links are necessarily appropriate targets for the entry, and I can see how it can be read that way. The message of the comment is meant to be something like "a blue link here is only ok if it's the only blue link in the entry". I'll change the comment to make that clearer. — swpb T&#8201;•&#8201;go beyond&#8201;•&#8201;bad idea 15:08, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Wrong-namespace
Template:Wrong-namespace has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. User:GKFXtalk 11:16, 27 December 2021 (UTC)