User talk:YoursT

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question about which layout-option you prefer
Hello YoursT, welcome. :-)     It looks like you prefer the circle-shaped imagefiles, from your edit on the 6th, a few days ago.  You also put in a bangvote, over here on this page:


 * Talk:United_States_presidential_election,_2016/Remodeling_of_major_party_candidate_areas

Which of course you are quite welcome to do. ;-)    However, I didn't actually understand which layout you prefer.  Can you help clarify, so I can figure out which layouts you like best?  There are several proposed page-styles, each with a letter-identifier, click on the links below to see what each one looks like:


 * Option A
 * Option B
 * Option C, circle version
 * Option C, square version
 * Option D
 * Option E
 * Option F
 * Option G
 * Option H

Which of these letters would you support? (You can support more than one letter... if you have a first-choice-pick, however, please say which letter.) Which letters would you oppose? Are there any letters that you don't really mind, one way or the other, aka you are neutral about them?

I'll try and help you get your bangvote figured out, and then help you add it to the page, so that the graphic designers understand what you like best. p.s. The circle-pics-with-hover-captions were the brainchild of User:Spartan7W. 75.108.94.227 (talk) 15:05, 16 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello again. Thanks for your reply.  Do not worry, you are NOT causing any problems.  You are doing just fine.  The trouble is that we have too many options.  :-)      Please look at the list above.  Which option do you like the best?  Which option do you like the second-best?  That is my question.  Can you tell me which letter-option is the best looking, in your opinion?  Thanks 75.108.94.227 (talk) 01:11, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

Reference errors on 22 October
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Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 41 Parliament of Canada
Right. And hello and how are you. We have a situation, but it's nothing that can't be fixed. The article is currently at Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 41 Parliament of Canada. Is a numerical+parliament disambiguation needed? Sources? Sam Sailor Talk! 22:52, 31 October 2015 (UTC)


 * I was trying to move an article and I botched it. Please deleted it.YoursT (talk) 12:30, 1 November 2015 (UTC) — Preceding text originally posted&#32;on User talk:Sam Sailor&#32;([//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sam_Sailor&diff=prev&oldid=688514038 diff])&#32;by YoursT (talk&sdot;contribs)&#32;12:30, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

OK, you did not really answer my questions, but having looked more into it, there is a need for disambiguation and the final target should be Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 41st Parliament of Canada. That used to be a redirect to Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (Canada) and after your two page moves
 * 27 Oct: YoursT moved page Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (Canada) to Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 4st Parliament of Canada
 * 30 Oct: YoursT moved page Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 4st Parliament of Canada to Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 41 Parliament of Canada

you performed a cut-and-paste move from Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 41 Parliament of Canada to Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 41st Parliament of Canada.

Observations:
 * 1) Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 4st Parliament of Canada is a useless title, has no useful history, and has no incoming links.
 * 2) The current Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (Canada) has no useful history, but has lots of incoming links.
 * 3) The useful article history is currently found in Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 41 Parliament of Canada.
 * 4) Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 41st Parliament of Canada has a short history as it used to be the redirect Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (Canada).

Possible solution:
 * 1) R3 delete Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 4st Parliament of Canada.
 * 2) G6 delete Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (Canada) to make way for
 * 3) A move of Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 41st Parliament of Canada to Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (Canada) without leaving a redirect.
 * 4) Move Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 41 Parliament of Canada to Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 41st Parliament of Canada without leaving a redirect.
 * 5) Create a DAB in Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (Canada) pointing to
 * Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 39th Parliament of Canada
 * Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 40th Parliament of Canada
 * Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 41st Parliament of Canada

As you see, YoursT, I deliberately say "possible" because I could easily have missed something. With the Admin help template now in place, a patrolling admin will drop by, judge what to do or ask further questions.

The lesson to be learned here is: don't be afraid to e.g. post on the article talk page first and await reactions from other users. (You seem to have relied on your edit summaries.) If that does not generate reactions, it's maybe because few people are watching the page and a page move is maybe uncontroversial. Several options exist, but when I'm in doubt of something, I often take it to the WP:Helpdesk, and there's usually someone who remembers what best practise is in a given situation. Sam Sailor Talk! 16:05, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * thanks for all the research. Your plan looks good, and I will do the necessary. There is one point I don't understand, after a first pass through: what is the point of your step 3, moving a page to where we are going to make a DAB? JohnCD (talk) 18:50, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, it has a very short history, but I guess you're saying that it serves little purpose to keep, and I concur. Thanks for dealing with this. Sam Sailor Talk! 18:55, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * all ✅, I think, but better check I've got it right. YoursT, the reason why you shouldn't do cut-and-paste moves is that Wikipedia's CC-BY-SA license requires authors of content to be given attribution. That is done by the article history, but cut-and-paste moves the content away from its history. No worries, it's all sorted out. JohnCD (talk) 20:31, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * thanks for the help. It was my screwup and I should have added something to tell people who knew how to delete the bad titles. YoursT (talk) 20:37, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * @YoursT: I'll second John's mantra; Looks good to me, thanks for mopping; both: don't we deserve a cold one Beer mug.gif, cheers! Sam Sailor Talk! 20:50, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * alas, we actually aren't done yet: nothing is ever as simple as it looks. A helpful bot has pointed out a very large number of incoming links to the DAB page, which it asks us to fix to point to the appropriate target. This is less alarming than it looks, because (though I haven't time to check now) I'm sure that the majority of those are coming through templates like Portal:Canada; but they won't be looking for any of the specific articles, so we probably need a few words at the top of the DAB page to explain the general concept of the Shadow Cabinet. Maybe it should be a paragraph-length stub article with "See also" links to the individual ones. Ideas? In particular, ideas for a source to satisfy [WP:V]] for a general article? JohnCD (talk) 22:16, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

I'm willing to do the DAB solver chore, but you better double check my old brain on this: Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (Canada) used to be the target of Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 41st Parliament of Canada. I assume that was because it was the latest Shadow Cabinet. Now we have switches the roles. Meaning, I believe, that links to the DAB (Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (Canada)) should simply be changed to Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet of the 41st Parliament of Canada. I could very well be wrong. Sam Sailor Talk! 22:31, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Looking at Politics of Canada you are maybe right with the idea of turning Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (Canada) into a stub with a /See also/ section. YoursT, would that be something for you to do? Sam Sailor Talk! 22:39, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think incoming links like that are looking for something about the Shadow Cabinet in general. If we point them to the current one, it will in due course be out of date. JohnCD (talk) 23:08, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Talkback
Ham tech  person  00:18, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016
Hi, in this edit to Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016, you introduced a reference tag, but did not define it.

It continues to generate the error:


 *  Cite error: The named reference  was invoked but never defined (see the help page ). 

Can you correct this, please? I'd give it a shot, but I don't know what external reference you intended to cite. TJRC (talk) 01:27, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

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Blocked as a sockpuppet

 * Reviewing admin, please see Sockpuppet investigations/Ericl/Archive. This is not a checkuser block.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  21:35, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 * please remove the block. I did nothing. I am not a duck. What's wrong with the name I use it all the time and nobody seems to mind.

could you please tell me what I did that was wrong or offensive since I started here in august.YoursT (talk) 22:21, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

You have already been told how to request an unblock, on the talk page of your original account. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 20:24, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

I cannot do that: