User talk:TAnthony

Question of proper use of fine art images/* Hi */
In an earlier era, when I was a logging editor, I was take to task for presenting a piece of fine art on my User page. Has no one challenged the appearance of "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" on your User page, as being disallowed? I am asking not to challenge, but to understand if the rules have changed since I retired (and perhaps to understand if my being taken to task was a mattter of bias rather than fair application of generally applied rules). Cheers, and by the way, I love that art work (and your dedication as well). 98.46.104.237 (talk) 15:57, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Hey there, thanks for the question. The Great Wave image is a free, public domain image from Wikimedia Commons, which means there is no issue using it freely across Wikipedia, including on user pages. The only reason I can imagine artwork may have been challenged on your page was if it was non-free, or copyrighted.— TAnthonyTalk 16:32, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Episode tagging
I did a PetScan query and there are over 7900 pages still to do. Are you sure you don't want a normal bot to do this? Gonnym (talk) 19:55, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I chose a few and they all seem to have redirect templates and categories, what was your query?— TAnthonyTalk 19:58, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Pages that have Template:R from television episode but their talk page does not have WikiProject Television. Gonnym (talk) 20:00, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Ah OK. I have a lot less than that in my current run, but my initial AWB query was limited and ignores any talk pages that already exist. I'll finish that up and see where we are, you're probably right I should hand it over to a bot.— TAnthonyTalk 20:08, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Also a number of those will be talk pages which redirect to other talk pages, usually from one disambiguation to another. I'm not sure what should be done with those, so for now I've skipped them.— TAnthonyTalk 20:19, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Remove the talk page redirect and tag them. That's what I do. That also makes it so that page will end up in reports (say if the redirect is sent to RfD). Gonnym (talk) 20:20, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Copy that.— TAnthonyTalk 20:22, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Everything under Category:Radio episode redirects to lists (there are a lot of Doctor Who audio dramas) also use R from TV episode. They have WP Doctor Who and WP BBC banners.— TAnthonyTalk 23:32, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Ok, I've updated the query and it should now be without those pages. Gonnym (talk) 05:14, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Great job! Down from over 7900 to 627! --Gonnym (talk) 11:34, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * And since my watch list is full of character tagging, in case you are wondering, according to this query there are 6703 pages still to go :) Gonnym (talk) 09:56, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Haha, I was wondering if there were any other weirdos like me who have character redirects on their watchlists LOL. — TAnthonyTalk 14:11, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Well, most of the MCU and Arrowverse ones were created or later edited by me but it seems I have a lot of other ones on my watch list. Between your edits and some date related infobox fixes, that is basically my whole watchlist this week :) Gonnym (talk) 16:50, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

✅— TAnthonyTalk 17:40, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors
Note that your JWB edits earlier today caused some errors (example). Please can you check how many other pages were affected and make the necessary fixes? &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:28, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

WP Tagging
Hello. Recently you added WP Video Game banners to many redirect talk pages (e.g. at Talk:Team Rocket's Meowth and Talk:ワナイダー). I think you only meant to add the parameter Nintendo, but you erroneously also added eSports. This is not that big of a deal, but I figured I'd reach out and let you know. – Pbrks ( t·c ) 14:38, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Hey thanks, I did catch that and stopped adding task forces with the tool. I may go back and add those game-by-game so they're accurate. I made some fixes but may not have gotten them all, I'll jump on the ones you noticed now. Thanks again.— TAnthonyTalk 14:43, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

The Publishers' Weekly
You seem to be on a tear taking the apostrophe out of "Publishers' Weekly" wherever it appears. The problem is that, as our article states, the original title of the publication is The Publishers' Weekly, with apostrophe. (You can see an example here) Reference to it with an apostrophe should be kept when era-appropriate.That is independent of whether the The is included as we frequently drop leading Thes, such as refering to a New York Times article rather than a The New York Times article. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 18:12, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
 * "Our article"? Anyway yes, there are other articles with the same appropriate reference to the original punctuation, I've linked it in Anti-Yellow Dog Club in such a way as to avoid future bots and queries singling it out.— TAnthonyTalk 18:33, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, I consider Wikipedia to be "ours", a creation of those who edit it.
 * There should be no automated or similar replacements in any case. The change you made is raising my WP:NOTBROKEN sensors hard. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 18:53, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I totally get that, and I frequently restore valid redirects per that policy. But from a technical standpoint, the redirect here looks like a mispunctuation along the lines of Publisher's Weekly, and a casual editor or a bot programmed in good faith would not know what we know, that it's correct in certain instances. It's not as obvious a violation of WP:NOTBROKEN as blindly changing every instance of William Jefferson Clinton to Bill Clinton would be.— TAnthonyTalk 19:11, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks! — TAnthonyTalk 03:08, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Line breaks
Hello. When using AWB, please be careful not to add double line breaks, such as here and here. Thank you. InfiniteNexus (talk) 18:49, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
 * One more thing: per MOS:TALKORDER, Talk header should be placed at the top of the page, before WikiProject banners (Special:Diff/1223690705). InfiniteNexus (talk) 18:54, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Removing WP:MILHIST class ratings
Hi. I noticed that with edits like Special:Diff/1223878909, you removed WP:MILHIST class ratings that differed from the Banner Shell. I'm not familiar with the issue, but last I checked, WP:MILHIST uses its own assessment system and doesn't follow the banner shell. Has something changed since then? --Paul_012 (talk) 08:52, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh my, you're right. I will fix my edits ASAP, I can do what I was trying to do without impacting MILHIST. Thanks for the message.— TAnthonyTalk 14:06, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Question on the Wikipedia policy
So the consensus with the lady Jessica image is taking quite a while. I've poked around on Wikipedia and was thinking we could maybe do an rfc to see others thoughts but it seems like that's only good if you start a new heading and section. Do you know of any alternatives where we could ask for neutral third party inputs? DuneEnjoyer333 (talk) 13:06, 23 May 2024 (UTC)


 * And not have to start a new discussion/heading ofc DuneEnjoyer333 (talk) 13:07, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
 * was thinking this one maybe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard DuneEnjoyer333 (talk) 13:13, 23 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Honestly this a really minor thing with no need to go wide. I mentioned previously the image issue we had at Paul Atreides, which almost resulted in having no infobox image at all. And I'm expecting another discussion there at some point because some editors weren't happy with the removal of the 1984 image and consensus on the change was kind of muddled. Anyway, there's no hurry on Jessica. Let's give it a little more time, and in the meantime I've been working on the article to find ways to incorporate images as we've been discussing. Thanks.— TAnthonyTalk 13:54, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

WPBS fixes
FYI here. A glitch in AWB or other tool? If just manual editing mishap, then please ignore my message. - Altenmann >talk 23:28, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
 * PS. I think I know what happened: your tool confused {WPUkraine} with {WPUK}. - Altenmann >talk 23:30, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
 * So sorry, I saw it was trying to do that and tweaked the settings, but didn't realize I'd actually made a bad edit already. Thanks for the message! — TAnthonyTalk 00:37, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

FYI
Following our discussion of fan wikis, I noticed this edit got made, charging that linking to them violates WP:COPYLINK. Wafflewombat (talk) 06:06, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Quick look
Hey again! Thanks for plugging away at the Leia article. When you have a moment, could you take a glance at the Chewbacca page? I removed the Fictional Biography and restored the Appearances sections. I then did a fair amount of trimming of the Appearances segments to make them more succinct. The only obvious thing that needs to happen now (that I can tell) is adding more citations for some of the appearances.

But since I've made mistakes with editing these character pages, I just wanted to get your feedback on whether there are any red flags or glaring faults with the Chewie article that I missed. It's a short article, but that's because not much has been written about Chewbacca. The major differences with the current page and the version that existed before I started editing are A) that I removed a bunch of original research in the Cultural Impact section and put it into a See Also section at the suggestion of another editor, and B) that I removed the Reception section because it consisted almost entirely of non-notable rankings and a long Roger Ebert complaint. Here is the version of the page that existed right before I made my first edit two months ago.

Hopfully I'm not putting too much on your plate. No rush on this! All I was hoping for was a quick glance so I can be sure I'm doing things correctly in terms of fixing my mistakes and getting these character articles back to a higher level of quality. Wafflewombat (talk) 09:13, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Leia
Hey, just a quick question. I noticed you put a bunch of reference ideas on the Leia talk page. Does that mean you're done editing the page? Wafflewombat (talk) 06:10, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

File:Medusa-ClashofTitans.jpg
Hey there. The file is used in two articles. I thought about taking the image to FFD as it was previously tagged for deletion. Indeed, I don't think the image adds much understanding to the whole film, and I'm uncertain whether it's needed in the other article about Medusa in pop culture. George Ho (talk) 20:15, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Now taken to FFD, unfortunately:. --George Ho (talk) 21:18, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

My mistake on the Dune (1984 film) article
I was under the impression the casting information was already in the production section when I removed it from the cast section. Sorry for not checking that. Bluerules (talk) 13:23, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

Yoda
If you don't feel like talking that's okay, but I just wanted to make a peace offering. I consolidated all the appearances of Yoda into one section, and I was wondering if you wanted to look at the page and tell me if this is what you were envisioning in terms of de-privileging canonicity. I removed any mention of Legends on the page because only a few of the appearances fall into that category, but I could easily add back in some reference or explanation of what Legends is.

If I don't hear from you, I hope you have a good day. Wafflewombat (talk) 16:07, 18 June 2024 (UTC)


 * No peace offering required, like I said, no hard feelings here. It's sounds like you've put some thought into the Yoda article and I'm sure it's fine. My point about canon was that while "official" material should definitely be prioritized and separated from Legends, like in Darth Vader and other articles, pushing the word "canon", and the concept itself, too hard can come off as amateurish/fanboyish. Anyway, I know you're working hard, and I appreciate that you accepted my initial criticisms and applied them in your article overhauls moving forward. That said, I have other things I'd rather focus on so I'm not going to get wrapped up in what's going on with the SW articles. Thanks for your dedication and best of luck.— TAnthonyTalk 18:50, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Category:Thai soap opera poster images
A lot of the files in the category are posters of shows not usually labelled as soap operas; they're just called TV series. I think it'd be better to use the broader term. --Paul_012 (talk) 01:30, 21 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the message! The shows were in the Thai television soap operas category so that's how I categorized the images on this pass. We can certainly refine it later but I'm mostly trying to sort down these giant image categories.— TAnthonyTalk 03:15, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Living parameters
When you run AWB on talk pages with a "blp=no" parameter in the banner shell, AWB will completely remove the living parameter from the page. These edits have contributed to the abnormal backlog at Category:Biography articles without living parameter. This is because AWB has it listed as an outdated general fix — living parameters are required on all biographical articles. We're still waiting on this to be changed; see Template talk:WikiProject banner shell, Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Archive 34 and this Phabricator issue. If you can, please make sure to disable this general fix before running AWB on talk pages again. Thanks! C F A  💬  23:36, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Regarding my suggested change to the no-chamber/no-ship subsection
You reverted my suggestion with the reason "trivial". I don't think most of the readers know about that special fact. Well, if there are facts in fiction at all.

Let me add that I don't have the english version of the Encyclopedia at hand. I only read the german one, so I'm currently unable to cite chapter and verse. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.181.203.117 (talk) 23:00, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Even if it were a notable fact that helps define the concept, it's from the Dune Encyclopedia, which is fan fiction.— TAnthonyTalk 23:25, 28 June 2024 (UTC)