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This and this refers. There is a chaotic situation at present with infoboxes for entities in the occupied West Bank (I can show you examples) which is what I was trying to remedy with my edits. How do you suggest I go about doing this? The most recent discussion is here. Thanks.Selfstudier (talk) 11:26, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
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Hi, one or both of this edit or this one have put Category:European portals inside itself, which should not happen. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:06, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi PrimeHunter, hope you're doing well. A user has added a {{copyvio-revdel}} template at the Teahouse (specifically for revisions 998936069 to 998938264 inclusive). Any chance you could do that so the template can be removed? —Tenryuu 🐲 ( 💬 • 📝 ) 20:34, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
That table size change you did on Lists of box office number-one films was too small for desktop users and it was an eyesore from it. I had to reverted back to the original size. BattleshipMan (talk) 16:51, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello PrimeHunter
Please weigh my remarks at Talk:South Australian Railways K class (narrow gauge)#Use of templates. To the best of my knowledge "ins" is not a legitimate abbreviation for inches. Peter Horn User talk 16:39, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi Jens,
I just emailed you, but I'll post this here also. I'm a writer for The Ringer, the American tech, culture, and sports site. We're running a package of Wikipedia-related articles this Friday for the 20th anniversary of Wikipedia, and I'm working on an article about the wonderfully entertaining "Lamest edit wars" page. According to the page stats, you're the all-time leader in text added to the page. Could you tell me a little bit about your involvement with the page? For example, what drew you to it, what you enjoy about it, how you've improved it, and what your favorite edit war is? I'd love to include a few thoughts from you in my story. My deadline is late Thursday, Eastern Time. Hope to hear back!
Thank you,
Ben Lindbergh
Staff Writer, The Ringer
@BenLindbergh — Preceding unsigned comment added by BenLindbergh (talk • contribs) 16:53, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Done THANKS! I just stopped reading in the Infobox OS documentation and completely missed it. I guess I have been spoiled with the bolding in other parts of the documentation.
On the positive side, I did find out how to and then I updated the Wikidata too. It did change my perception of what Wikidata is and how is is used.
Thank you for the input. It has been helpful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:React_(web_framework)#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:React_(web_framework)#React_is_a_library,_NOT_a_framework
Under your cited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:React_(web_framework)#Requested_move_9_August_2019 area The supporting consistency of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_(web_framework) has framework components such as a router, whereas react has a 3rd part library outside of react. This tends to be the case repeatedly through their comparisons. Similarly for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knockout_(web_framework)
This would seem to suggest that supporting consistency is lacking. I'm not autoconfirmed yet and such a request to change the page I am unable to make. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jsframeworkdev (talk • contribs) 10:33, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
The request I think it's saying needs more edits for that to be an option? Or is there something else I'm missing? From the talk logs? It seems sufficient that React being a library has been addressed with detailed and professional sources with expert professional comparisons since July 2019 all the way till present for Wikipedia documentation efforts.
Appreciate the assistance — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jsframeworkdev (talk • contribs) 10:46, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for your post at Wikipedia:Help desk#Hi. You helped to make Cory very happy. I hope this kitten does the same for you. Cheers
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Thank you for helping me with the ref tag. You helped me when I was having trouble with the ref category last time. Thank you as always. SilverMatsu (talk) 10:56, 5 February 2021 (UTC) |
Thanks for your excellent technical work on List of chess grandmasters. I couldn't figure out how to get both Notes and Obituaries in the compact toc in the correct order, but once I saw your solution it was a real Doh! moment. I couldn't let go of using seealso=yes|notesfirst=yes
and that made the section order incorrect in the TOC. Using customN= for all of them rather than only for Revoked Titles and Obituaries should have been obvious, but it wasn't to me until you demonstrated it.
Putting the sorting buttons in a separate row is a very neat trick I had not seen before. Also the soft hyphens are a great refinement. I assume you must have a good tool to do that as it would be a lot of work to find and insert all those hyphenation points by hand.
Anyway, thanks for those and other improvements you've made. Quale (talk) 05:55, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
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parameter to account for extra rows. I'd have to see if it significantly complicated some Python code I use to manipulate the raw wikitext of the table. I don't use that much, but it's helpful when trying things like reordering columns or separating the Federations list column into Federation and Notes. That code is already a bit messy so I don't think accounting for letter headings would be difficult. (Most likely they would just be extra rows to pass through unchanged. My code really only wants to change the table data rows.) Another bummer with letter headings is that they don't interact all that well with table import tools such as Google Sheets IMPORTHTML since the letter heading rows are imported into the spreadsheet. This isn't tragic, but it makes some things harder to do. For example, with extraneous data you can't look at the number of rows and easily equate that to the number of GMs. Finally and most seriously, I rely on being able to use Pandas to import the table to check for new GMs and to do other maintenance. Extraneous rows can mess that up pretty badly, but the very cool column sort buttons you added also adds a row that needs to be accounted for and that only requires a single line of Python. So probably that is easily manageable as well. Now that I've written out my litany of worries, I think they aren't too serious. Quale (talk) 17:04, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
This may not be the right way for me to talk to you about this, but I couldn’t figure out another way.
You mentioned my discussion about section header font size, the only problems I have seen have been in the website views using Safari and the Brave browser. Mobile versions work fine.
Thank you for your consideration. BiliousBob (talk) 10:29, 17 February 2021 (UTC) BiliousBob (talk) 10:29, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
I couldn't figure out how to edit that page. Here is the point I want to make, and did make, perhaps in the wrong place, ie at the style manual talk page: "I think photos, videos, animations, drawings, paintings, or virtual reality or other images in 3D or 2D, that, like most maps, face due north and are labelled accordingly are best. This way, the orientation of things in the picture is made known to the reader.I think photos should by default face due north. Astronomy images, photos or whatever, likewise should come with indication of orientation, so right ascension and declination of a single point are not enough, there needs to be some indication of which way up the image is, which is best provided by indicating which way it is to the celestial north pole. This is especially urgent with images of galaxies and planets which are frequently upside down (not necessarily in Wikipedia) if I can say that (because of how telescopes work, I think). I think astromony images by default should have celestial north up." Arctic Gazelle (talk) 18:51, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
Isn't it obvious that I am a complete beginner at editing Wikipedia? I would appreciate it if you would refrain from using four letter words when you are expressing your frustration with me. Having said that, your point would seem to be valid. I didn't know about the rule, "Avoid starting the same discussion on multiple pages, which fragments discussion", though I suppose if I were smarter I would have figured it out. My bad. I have gotten used to Twitter norms, I guess. Since I haven't had any replies yet, how about I delete one or both of them? Arctic Gazelle (talk) 20:39, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
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May you mind adding an SSL certificate on your website? It gives me a Not Secure warning when adding HTTPS. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LightningComplexFire (talk • contribs)
Hi--do you mind revdeleting this as a copyvio? See this here. For "lala" in the URL, please substitute "lulu". Thanks! Dr Aaij (talk) 15:16, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi PrimeHunter. Maybe you could help answer Talk:Dhadakebaaz#Why this article in in irrelevant category ? since I think the OP is indirectly referring to some changes you made to the article as part of some routine cleanup. You might also want to have a look at this since it basically reverts all of the improvements you made. This editor appealed for others to help clean up the article at the Teahouse; so, it seems quite odd for them to simply revert those that did as asked; I'll leave it up to you as to how hard you want to point that out. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:49, 15 March 2021 (UTC)
Hello. I see you've added {{String quartet numbers}} to several dabs. Although it's very unusual to have navboxes on dabs and MOS:DABIMG advises against them, I can see the point. I wonder whether it's worth a wider consultation as there are plenty of similar series: Piano Concerto No. 1, Symphony No. 1, etc. Unfortunately we don't have a list of such series (though the navboxes could form a useful category) but most series appear in my contributions here and earlier. Certes (talk) 11:56, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
There has been no response at Wikipedia talk:Redirect#Redirect hatnote issue. Could you take a look. I'm not sure if this can be fixed in the template or it is caused by something else. Thanks. MB 16:06, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you very much for your help at the WP:HELPDESK the other day. I appreciate it. –Novem Linguae (talk) 07:35, 2 April 2021 (UTC) |
Hi, Primehunter, I don't get how Fade went from "I am still not understand about you.Please do yourself once" at Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2021 March 10#How to edit category ? to "your instruction has been easy for understanding" at Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2021 March 14#How to edit category?. Thanks for handling his second post, which I didn’t notice at the time. I honestly almost lost my shi... composure the first time around! Pelagic ( messages ) – (16:12 Tue 06, AEDT) 05:12, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
This one...yeah I suspect they knew that as well, especially looking at their edit history. There's been some discussion about this very issue here. Someone suggested some of these meme'ing trolls' edits could be from an LTA, and at first I was like naaaahhh... but now I am thinking Yep, at least one LTA using proxies etc. Shearonink (talk) 15:31, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
Hey, that's public, can we discuss over the email? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidsmeltzer07 (talk • contribs) 23:37, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for added the years to the new page, do you know if it is possible to bring it upto until the most recent weekend Fan Of Lion King 🦁 (talk) 10:50, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
Could we use List of 2019 box office number-one films in the United States, List of 2020 box office number-one films in the United States and List of 2021 box office number-one films in the United States for films that arr effect by by the Pandemic? Fan Of Lion King 🦁 (talk) 11:41, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
How many entries should the list have Fan Of Lion King 🦁 (talk) 12:13, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
I say four it is the same as a month btw has the link go down I seam not to be able to access it this afternoon Fan Of Lion King 🦁 (talk) 16:56, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
Creed II is a 2018 American sports drama film Directed by Sylvester Stallone Produced by Irwin Winkler Robert Chartoff Written by Sylvester Stallone Starring Sylvester Stallone Talia Shire Burt Young Carl Weathers Brigitte Nielsen Dolph Lundgren Music by Vince DiCola Cinematography Bill Butler Edited by Don Zimmerman John W. Wheeler Production companies United Artists Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Chartoff-Winkler Productions Distributed by MGM/UA Entertainment Company — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:5500:8D01:2828:6725:D945:9AF1 (talk) 16:35, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for your (incredibly fast and) helpful response. Harry 82.17.189.85 (talk) 10:41, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
Template:Largest cities of Israel has been nominated for deletion. I noticed you are the only active user who participated in previous similar nomination. The current discussion is at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. --Triggerhippie4 (talk) 06:44, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
I noticed a redlink in Colorado Springs, Colorado to Colorado Springs in popular culture, a redirect to Colorado Springs, Colorado, in popular culture, which was recently deleted. Before deleting the link (which comes from {{Main}}
), I went to check if there were any more links (, ) and found none, not even the one I was expecting. That may explain why this link was not deleted when the article was deleted. Can you explain? Is this perhaps a bug with the hatnote template or am I missing something? Thanks. MB 05:10, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
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Happy first day of summer, PrimeHunter!! Interstellarity (talk) 20:09, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for reverting my edit to Template:User edits to Wikipedia. I had copied the information from another template, so I thought it was fine. Upon review of your revert, whatever template coding I had copied over, was backwards. The purpose of my edit was to provide a link to Template:User edits to Wikipedia/sandbox, which I had used to test edits that I proposed on its Talk page here. Due to my unfamiliarity with coding templates and the change in template function, I felt asking for approval would be prudent, but the changes that you reverted, I could perform without discussion.
I will try again. I am using the template in my own sandbox (currently hidden with Template:Userbox standing in) per proposed change, and so will check to make sure I haven't broken the template again. — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 19:07, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect 163.com. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 July 27#163.com until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. ~~~~
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Hello there, I got declined once for this new page. Referencing issues but I'm not sure what else can be done to make it more reliable, what to add or remove. Will be constantly editing this page further as the company grows. Created this page for official purposes. Will appreciate any help to change the published draft so that it can be resubmitted again and get approved. Thanks in advance.
Hi, in Special:Diff/1037745495 you said you tweaked MediaWiki:Spamprotectionmatch to display the offending URL. I'm not sure if this is related, but I recently tried to restore the 8 Oct 2020 version of Synergy Aircraft Synergy and got an error message starting with Your edit was not saved because it contains a new external link to a site registered on Wikipedia's blacklist or Wikimedia's global blacklist.
In the body of the message it says "The following link has triggered a protection filter: {{{1}}}". That is, the triple brackets appear literally in the message. It seems like something was trying to display a template parameter but did so incorrectly. Apologies if this is unrelated to the change you made. CodeTalker (talk) 19:20, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
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Thanks for fixing the category problem for Category:American film directors of Persian descent. I appreciate it!--FeanorStar7 (talk) 09:03, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
I wrote about it here and was wondering about your opinion. Avengingbandit 23:51, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
I left another message on the same talk page. Avengingbandit 20:25, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for your help; it's much appreciated. Somehow I found my way the other day from Percent-encoding through I think three other articles to find a long table of % codes, including the "%E2%80%93", but now I seem unable to retrace those steps. The table showed an image of the character - which in this case looked more to me like a truncated hyphen than a standard hyphen - but did not have a column with the character names: hyphen, en dash, etc. This would probably be a useful column to add to that table. Do you know the pagename I'm looking for? (Or maybe the table does have such a column, but my tunnel vision didn't notice it.)
Whether I can get to a wanted article or section within the article is not the issue; I need to have a workable URL that I can distribute to other people, regardless of how they individually access Wikipedia. I've sent out your suggested fix, and am waiting to hear back about whether it works for them. As I said, it's only in Wikipedia that this problem ever arises. Thanks again. Milkunderwood (talk) 05:30, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
Yes, I email in HTML. The first report I've got back from changing the "#" to "%23", as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance_theater_companies%23Lafayette_Players_(1916%E2%80%931932), for this person goes to neither the top of page Harlem Renaissance, nor to the Lafayette Players section, but instead to the listing of Lafayette Players in the article's table of contents. I'm not sure what to make of that - never seen it happen before - but I guess it's good enough. At least in this particular instance the wanted section is very near the top, and easily findable. Thanks again for your help. Milkunderwood (talk) 21:16, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
A belated "thank you" for correctly identifying that I had inadvertently activated the "syntax highlighter" button on the wikitext toolbar, which clearly disagrees with my browser (Google Chrome). Your help is much appreciated. Doug butler (talk) 23:20, 25 August 2021 (UTC)
There are these three articles: Balloon (2017 film), Balloon (2018 film), and Balloon (2019 film). I started typing the name into the search box and after typing "Balloon (2", the matching article list updates to show the 2017 and the 2019 films first. However, the 2018 film is missing and does not appear until entering the complete title with end ending ")" in the search box. This doesn't seem right. Do you know why? Thanks. MB 15:02, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
I found that Sarwar Danish was in Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template today. It was tagged with both {{BLP unsourced}}
and {{Prod blp/dated}}
. Both had different dates - the article was in Category:Unreferenced BLPs from September 2021 and Category:Unreferenced BLPs from October 2014. The list of categories in the article did not include "invalid date", but it you went to the category it was there (this persisted for hours, so didn't seem to be from some update lag).
As an experiment, I re-ordered the tags in the article and then the article was no longer in "invalid date". This seems to be a very minor bug in something. Any thoughts? MB 21:11, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
{{BLP unsourced|date=October 2014}}
produced the error category when Category:Unreferenced BLPs from October 2014 didn't exist. The category was created four hours ago. If an article changes categories without being edited then it's common that the category list on the article is updated long before the category page. This is deliberate for efficiency reasons in MediaWiki. A purge of the article will not update the category page but a null edit (or any edit like yours) will. So there is no bug but just a confusing feature. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:08, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
Template:Month links by quarter has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Izno (talk) 15:02, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
If I understand Trackinfo's big objection, the software has some capability limitations when ultra-large articles (like List of world records in masters athletics) are necessarily created and tended. I take as AGF there's an actual concern, but I haven't seen it play out like that editor reports they've witnessed. I was wondering: Is there some way that Template:Excerpt or Labeled section transclusion could help us build a smarter overall page? FTR, as I looked through this masters stuff, it seems almost all these articles need to be sub-categorized (by age group and discipline) from Category:Masters athletics world record progressions. I'm not a subject matter expert in any way but it seems to me that all masters wr progressions ARE wr progressions and as such should all be on one page, by discipline. By section transcluding a fully complete table, fully editable at the appropriate wr progressions page, we could make the ultra-large page merely a repository of the relevant excerpts. Ultra large page now quite compact. Best of all, only one page needs updating when the record is broken. Am I missing something obvious? BusterD (talk) 19:25, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
I moved the question here:
Feel free to answer there. --Timeshifter (talk) 21:39, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
I just noticed your script but it doesn't works? Eurohunter (talk) 18:33, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
importScript('User:PrimeHunter/Base title.js');
in your Web Console (Ctrl+Shift+K) on Example (musician)? PrimeHunter (talk) 20:54, 3 November 2021 (UTC)Hi. See:
When I update the whole table the regions and subregions are no longer linked.
Others have shown me a couple ways (in Excel and LibreOffice Calc) to pull only the latest year for each country in the source spreadsheet.
But the table ends up without links. I use your method to add flags and links quickly to the first column:
But I need a quick method to add links to other columns. I will add the how-to info to Help:Table. --Timeshifter (talk) 21:43, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
^(\|(.*?\|\|){m} *)(.*?)( *\|\|| *\n)
$1[[$3]]$4
\n
means newline in regex (part of making it work if the last column should be linked). I didn't realize that n was a confusing variable name for the column number. It's a coincidence that n=2 worked. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:29, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
I created a section in Help:Table currently titled: "Add link brackets to text in each cell in a column". --Timeshifter (talk) 20:15, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
I would like to suggest that the Gather 'Round page be merged with the Paul M. Lally page. Mr. Lally hosted the short lived Gather 'Round PBS series and also served as the series' narrator. Again, I suggest that these be merged together.
How can this be done? Who do I talk to? Thanks in advance for any answers. Frschoonover (talk) 19:44, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
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Hey thanks for the clarification, the only list I was able to find when looking was the top 20 list on the forbes website. Where did you get the entire list if you don't mind me asking? I'd be curious to see it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Orthozilla (talk • contribs) 16:12, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
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PrimeHunter,
I sincerely hope your holiday season goes well this year especially with what we went through last year. I'm optimistic that 2022 will be a better year for all of us: both in real life and on Wikipedia. Wishing you the best from, Interstellarity (talk) 18:54, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
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