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The Bugle: Issue CXVII, December 2015
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Holiday abroad
Hi Andy, not sure why you redirected Template:Holiday abroad when the TfD was closed as no consensus. Or was there another TfD I was not made aware of? I will assume you weren't deliberately implementing your proposed changes because they failed to reach consensus. A courtesy notice would also have been appreciated. No bad faith assumed, rest assured. I do thank you for your efforts to keep the template namespace tidy, but please do bring this one back to TfD if you still feel a redirect is necessary. Hope you are well, and happy holidays :) — MusikAnimal talk 05:57, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hello Andy
You took part in the TfD on this a while ago; I have opened a discussion here if you wish to comment. Regards, Xyl 54 (talk) 00:20, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Andy, I just started a discussion regarding the parameters for honorifics. Since you initially introduced them to the template I thought this would interest you. De728631 (talk) 20:27, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
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The News Quiz, Series 89, Episode 1 (26:00) Is this you? I just wanted to say how funny I found the clipping. Thanks for the laugh! BethNaught (talk) 19:59, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
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Help decide the future of Wikimania
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A bowl of strawberries for you!
For Must Farm Bronze Age settlement. It was deserving an article before the most recent news, thank you for creating the article. Martin451 23:49, 12 January 2016 (UTC) |
Redlinks on Bowie page
Hi. Are you going to create the two redlinked articles? I'd make a start but I know nothing about the subject.Chie one (talk) 16:59, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
ORCIDs in citations
Hi. Got your message. Let's continue here, as you are closer to the topic.
In the last discussion at CS1 on the use of ORCID you thought (09:38, 17 April 2014) there were five decisions to make. I think the last two ("4. How to display ORCIDs in citations
", and "5. How and to what to link those ORCIDs
", are key ("toughest") to the
implementation of ORCID in citations, and need consideration.
The natural place to display ORCIDs (or a link thereto) for individual authors is following the individual's name. However, citations are about the source, not the authors, and very crowded places with a lot of data; I think individual ORCIDs should not be displayed in the citation. Better to follow the way journals handle author affiliations with a link after each author's name on the title page. I think a special character (perhaps one that is intrinsically "superior") suffixed to the author's name and linking to that author's ORCID page would be ideal. However, a couple of problems. First, there does not seem to be any "ORCID" character (comparable to, say, the "©" symbol), and the image recommended by ORCID is rather overwhelming in text, and not easily accessible from WP. Second, their preferred "Proper use" (see https://orcid.org/trademark-and-id-display-guidelines) is to display the symbol with a URI containing the complete ORCID. This I find too intrusive for use in citations, and not acceptable.
So I think the issue here comes down to: is there any single character or symbol or mark (implemented in a standard character set, not as a graphic) that can be used to indicate a link to an ORCID page?
In the absence of any special character dedicated for ORCID (which might raise trademark issues), the question would be what ordinary character we might use for this purpose on Wikipedia? E.g., a raised ("superior") asterisk, such as is used in books to indicate a footnote, might be just the thing.
Example of an ORCID link: Carberry, Josiah S.*
The beauty of this approach is that other id systems (such as ResearcherID) can be implemented the same way, simply using a different character.
What do you think? ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 21:26, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
- The small ORCID icon would be more distinctive and less ambiguous. A reduction in size would make it less intrusive. I'll discuss this when I next talk to the folk at ORCID, but I doubt they would expect their preferred style guideline to be binding on Wikipedia. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:22, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
- The icon image (of any fixed size) is not going handle well, especially where the text is reduced (as common with citations); it is so intrusive that I consider that a bar to its use in citations. Also, some arrangement might be needed to accomodate their copyright with our copyleft. A distinctive character, or HTML entity, would work better (e.g., Carrberry©), but there doesn't seem to be any specfic character for ORCID.
- As to being distinctive: it could be an understood WP convention that, following an author's name, © is an ORCID link, ® a ResearcherID link, etc. Or even numbers: Carberry". (Ooops, that didn't work!) Alternately, we could have '*' as generic link to a footnote containing each of several specific links. But that gets too cumbersome; I much pefer individual symbols.
- The external link icon is intrusive, and I wonder if there is anyway to suppress it. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:14, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
- Regarding the ORCID icon, I disagree, but if we're going to move this forward, we shouldn't get hung up on a side issue. The external link icon can be suppressed by using {{Plainlinks}}; or locally in your suer CSS. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:39, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
- Like this: Carberry©®. Cool. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 23:06, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
- As a possible partial implementation I have been thinking of a generic "id link" template where we could do
{{idlink|orcid|0000-0002-1825-0097}}
or{{idlink|scopus|7007156898}}
to generate the proper links. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:50, 11 January 2016 (UTC)- Perhaps but alternatively, or also, that functionality could be included in the Cite... family of templates. If a new template is created, it should include the name:
{{idlink|name=Carberry|orcid=0000-0002-1825-0097}}
. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:39, 11 January 2016 (UTC)
- Perhaps but alternatively, or also, that functionality could be included in the Cite... family of templates. If a new template is created, it should include the name:
- Regarding the ORCID icon, I disagree, but if we're going to move this forward, we shouldn't get hung up on a side issue. The external link icon can be suppressed by using {{Plainlinks}}; or locally in your suer CSS. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:39, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
- For a single link it there is little difference between the "|orcid|000..." and "|orcid=000..." forms. But I can see a likely advantage in having a variable number of arguments in the form of "{{idlink |orcid=0000.. |scopus=1111.. |...}}": less typing overall, and more efficient implementation. But I don't see any point in havng a "|name=" parameter. What would it do?
- A stand-alone implementation could work in all cases. Implementation in cs1/2 needs more consideration. One straight-forward approach (likely requiring no or no modification of cs) is to use {idlink} directly. E.g. {{citation |last1= Carberry |first1= J.S.{{idlink|orcid=000..}} |...}}. Alternately, we could have a class of
|lastN-id=
parms, similar to the author-links. These could be either open, taking the idlink template as before (and perhaps other stuff to put in right after the author's name), or dedicated, taking just the arguments and generating the link the directly. In the latter case we might have something like|last1-id= orcid-000.. scopus-111..
. However, having separate classes of idlink parameters (|lastN-orcid=
,|lastN-scopus=
,|lastN-resid=
, etc.) seems way too heavy, excessively complicating the cs code. ~ J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:02, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
- A stand-alone implementation could work in all cases. Implementation in cs1/2 needs more consideration. One straight-forward approach (likely requiring no or no modification of cs) is to use {idlink} directly. E.g. {{citation |last1= Carberry |first1= J.S.{{idlink|orcid=000..}} |...}}. Alternately, we could have a class of
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...for the linked article you put up on the David Bowie talk page, Religion and spirituality section. You made my day! All the very best to you! Boscaswell (talk) 19:35, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
- I would very much appreciate any view you would like to add, Andy Mabbett, to the debate which is going on on the David Bowie talk page, Religion and spirituality section. I competely revamped the section yesterday, as previously it was truly awful, but mentioning Bowie and spirituality in the same breath has I believe got some people upset. I was able to use a few quotes from the interview which you highlighted - thanks again! Anyway, a few hatchets were taken to my revamp, almost immediately. Today I made some minor changes, but edit war has broken out. Thank you. Boscaswell (talk) 21:56, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
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The Bugle: Issue CXVIII, January 2016
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Good day, Andy. Hope you're doing well. While digging through some old stuff in the above template, I have noticed that you were interested in improving the above template. So I thought of letting you know that I'm currently working on a revamped version here. It's currently in the final stages (I have not yet notified the other editors), but I'd appreciate if you could have a peek and see if there are any bugs and/or any other areas that could be improved. I will be staring work on the compatibility side of the code over the next couple of days... Best wishes, Rehman 08:42, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Rehman: Thank you; I'll take a look shortly. My main concern is to merge in the relevant functionality from {{Geobox}}, in order that the use of Geobox for rivers can be deprecated, and instances replaced with the infobox. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:55, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
@Rehman:
- I've restored
|native_name_lang=
. - You've removed aliases like
|river_name=
; are you sure they're not in use, somewhere? - You've removed
|mouth=
; ditto - You replaced
|other_name=
with|name_other=
; the former may be in use, and is more standard elsewhere, It's also more in a natural voice.
-- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:18, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
P.S. I now see Depreciated parameters (to remove); I disagree with your reasoning, particularity with regard to |native_name_lang=
, |progression=
and |etymology=
. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:43, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Andy. Thanks for the input. I have no issue with retaining
native_name_langname_native_lang
andprogression
. But I disagree on adding|etymology=
as it doesn't belong in an infobox and against H:IB.
- Since there will be a bot sweep over articles using this template, it is a very good window for us to tidy-up and stylize the parameters simultaneously, even if the change is trivial. If you look closer at the template skeleton listed on the sandbox-doc page, changes like
native_name
→name_native
andleft_tribs
→tributaries_left
makes the overall skeleton look much neater thanks to the ordered prefix.
- Things like
|river_name=
,|mouth=
, and|other_name=
, are not removed as such, but instead will be replaced. This is pending a bot scan to see how exactly to go about with it.
- Similar cleanups were done at {{Infobox power station}} and {{Infobox dam}}, and the results are quite good. The number of articles using these infoboxes will only increase over time, to an extent where any neatness/cosmetic changes will only be instantly rejected due to the number of articles effected. Hence this is a great oppurtunity to neaten things up... If you compare the current doc page, and the doc at the sandbox, I am sure you would agree that we need to clean/simpify things there. And once this is done, we can then focus on making the Infobox River the primary infobox for river articles (as it should have been), and discontinue the geobox... Rehman 03:37, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Rehman: There is nothing against the use of
|etymology=
in either MoS or H:IB; it is there now, so I'm not asking for it to be "added"; please don't remove it unless there is consensus to do so. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:35, 25 January 2016 (UTC)- Fair enough. Just FYI, HIB states that an infobox should not contain "Long bodies of text, or very detailed statistics, belong in the article body". Since the content intended for that field cannot be entered in a couple of characters/words, it does not belong in an 'infobox'. Rehman 10:35, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
- Thank you, I know what H:IB says; but your assumption that "the content intended for that field cannot be entered in a couple of characters/words" is false. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:11, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
- Fair enough. Just FYI, HIB states that an infobox should not contain "Long bodies of text, or very detailed statistics, belong in the article body". Since the content intended for that field cannot be entered in a couple of characters/words, it does not belong in an 'infobox'. Rehman 10:35, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
- @Rehman: There is nothing against the use of
Hi Andy. Based on this test, native_name_lang
doesn't seems to do anything (probably since it was added). Am I missing something? The test is using the current (unaltered) infobox. Rehman 13:08, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
- It's doing exactly what it is supposed to. I suggest you examine the page's HTML source. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:33, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
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can you buy me a beer? NMcClboro (talk) 14:57, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
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Can I buy you a beer. Rainegold (talk) 14:57, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
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Andy, what a lovely beard you have! 23rdphilli (talk) 14:58, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
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I'm guessing that you are not a fan of Macs, either? Richard Li Ion Heart (talk) 14:57, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
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