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|text = On [[Wikipedia:Recent_additions/2023/April#26 April 2023|26 April 2023]], '''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know]]''' was updated with a fact from the article '''''[[Magic Slate]]''''', which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ''... that US embassy staff in Moscow during the Cold War used '''[[Magic Slate]]s''' to stop the KGB from intercepting their communications?'' The nomination discussion and review may be seen at [[Template:Did you know nominations/Magic Slate]]. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page <small>([[User:Rjanag/Pageview stats|here's how]], [//pageviews.toolforge.org/?start=2023-04-16&end=2023-05-06&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Magic_Slate Magic Slate])</small>, and the hook may be added to [[Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics/Monthly DYK pageview leaders|the statistics page]] after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the [[:Template talk:Did you know|Did you know talk page]]. |
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— Moops ⋠T⋡ 02:08, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
- @Moops: Thank you, and all the best for the new year for you too! —Bruce1ee 07:13, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
January 2023
Hello, I'm StarryNightSky11. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. StarryNightSky11 ☎ 05:13, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
- @StarryNightSky11: Which edits are you referring to? —Bruce1ee 07:04, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
- I'd seen an edit of yours be reverted by another user so left you a message about it, however I cannot remember the exact edit, or find it amongst your contributions feel free to disregard the warning above as I may have made a mistake. StarryNightSky11 ☎ 22:33, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for your help fixing my messy editing! I am learning, slowly, ... Richard Gill (talk) 16:05, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
- My pleasure. —Bruce1ee 16:55, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
Easy corrections
In future I suggest correcting my small mistakes such as[1]. It only required one more s. Invasive Spices (talk) 22 January 2023 (UTC)
- The problem was not the missing "s" in "frameles". The problem was that picture captions won't display with "frameless". That was why I replaced "frameles" with "thumb" and removed the duplicate "right" parameter. —Bruce1ee 17:37, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
- I understand that but that was the intended effect. The caption is so obvious that I meant it only for those who don't see images. Invasive Spices (talk) 22 January 2023 (UTC)
- However that was not obvious because I forgot
|alt=
. I see. Invasive Spices (talk) 22 January 2023 (UTC)
- However that was not obvious because I forgot
- I understand that but that was the intended effect. The caption is so obvious that I meant it only for those who don't see images. Invasive Spices (talk) 22 January 2023 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 54
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 54, November – December 2022
- New collections:
- British Newspaper Archive
- Findmypast
- University of Michigan Press
- ACLS
- Duke University Press
- 1Lib1Ref 2023
- Spotlight: EDS Refine Results
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --14:15, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
Though I know you're not a bot, it would be nice if you'd take a look at WP:COSMETICBOT: Cosmetic changes to the wikitext are sometimes the most controversial, either in themselves or because they clutter page histories, watchlists, and/or the recent changes feed with edits that are not worth the time spent reviewing them. Such changes should not usually be done on their own, but may be allowed in an edit that also includes a substantive change.
Just so that you don't clog people's watchlists for edits that make no visual difference whatsoever. Synotia (moan) 12:35, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
- I'm not sure which edits of mine you're referring to, but it could be these ones in articles you have recently worked on: here and here. As my edit summaries explain, I am fixing lint errors, in these cases, replacing obsolete
<center>...</center>
tags. These are tags that are no longer valid in HTML5 and need to be replaced. Have a look at Wikipedia:Linter and Help:Extension:Linter. The goal of fixing lint errors is not to make a visible change to the article. So while the changes may appear to be "cosmetic", they are necessary. —Bruce1ee 14:34, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet
I see that the images have now been put into a gallery here Sir Charles Asgill, 1st Baronet, so I tried to add the image of the Golden Coach. I've managed to make a mess of it, so wondered whether you would be kind enough to get me out of the mess, please? TIA. Anne (talk) 22:49, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
- I've added File:The Lord Mayor's Golden Coach commissioned by Sir Charles Asgill in 1757 at the Museum of London 11.01.12.jpg to the gallery here, using your original caption. You may want to reword the alt text (alt2). —Bruce1ee 23:29, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
Thank you
Thank you for finding the resources I have been looking for in the TWL collections. I did search around for both the things I have requested but with no success - TWL doesn't appear to search very well for journal titles. Buckshot06 (talk) 00:48, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
- My pleasure. Are you using the Search bar at the top of TWL page? Searching each collection one by one can be tedious. —Bruce1ee 00:58, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 55
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 55, January – February 2023
- New bundle partners:
- Newspapers.com
- Fold3
- 1Lib1Ref January report
- Spotlight: EDS SmartText Searching
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More help
Hi Bruce. I appreciate that you fix lint errors and would like you to do that to the Steele dossier article. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 18:29, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
- Hi Valjean, Steele dossier currently does not have any lint errors. —Bruce1ee 22:03, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 20 March 2023
- News and notes: Wikimania submissions deadline looms, Russian government after our lucky charms, AI woes nix CNET from RS slate
- Eyewitness: Three more stories from Ukrainian Wikimedians
- In the media: Paid editing, plagiarism payouts, proponents of a ploy, and people peeved at perceived preferences
- Featured content: Way too many featured articles
- Interview: 228/2/1: the inside scoop on Aoidh's RfA
- Traffic report: Who died? Who won? Who lost?
Wikipedia Library
Hey, asking you because you seem a frequent user of the Wikipedia Library Platform. The platform seems down for me but I'm not sure if you're still accessing it normally? Ippantekina (talk) 06:13, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
- @Ippantekina: It's working for me at the moment, and I've used it several times earlier today. Have you used it before, or is this your first attempt? —Bruce1ee 10:05, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
- I used it several times to retrieve articles from ProQuest, OUP and Taylor&Francis. Not sure why today none of them are working... By the way I see that OUP or other Oxford sources have been deprecated. Is it just me or is it a universal thing? Ippantekina (talk) 10:12, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
- @Ippantekina: ProQuest, T&F and some of the OUP's I tried are all working fine for me. I'm not sure what the problem for you may be, but I think the best place to raise this would be at Talk:Library Card platform/Search on Meta. —Bruce1ee 10:25, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
- I used it several times to retrieve articles from ProQuest, OUP and Taylor&Francis. Not sure why today none of them are working... By the way I see that OUP or other Oxford sources have been deprecated. Is it just me or is it a universal thing? Ippantekina (talk) 10:12, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
Iain Reid
About two years ago I read I'm Thinking of Ending Things and thoroughly enjoyed it, then I read Foe a little while later and loved it too. I was excited to learn just now that he has a third book out (I didn't notice when it was released last year) and I can't wait to get into it. Anyways, I noticed that you created the articles for all three books, so bravo! DanCherek (talk) 01:35, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
- @DanCherek: Thank you for the compliment. I also enjoyed I'm Thinking ... and Foe, but We Spread not quite as much. All three of Reid's novels have endings that are open to interpretation, which I feel work well in the first two, but not quite so well in the third. But that's just my opinion. We Spread is still a good read, and you may get more out of it than I did. —Bruce1ee 06:59, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 03 April 2023
- From the editor: Some long-overdue retractions
- News and notes: Sounding out, a universal code of conduct, and dealing with AI
- Arbitration report: "World War II and the history of Jews in Poland" case is ongoing
- Featured content: Hail, poetry! Thou heav'n-born maid
- Recent research: Language bias: Wikipedia captures at least the "silhouette of the elephant", unlike ChatGPT
- From the archives: April Fools' through the ages
- Disinformation report: Sus socks support suits, seems systemic
Tech News: 2023-15
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Frisch's
I stomped on your edit of Frisch's. Feel free if you want to do it again. —Anomalocaris (talk) 09:21, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
- @Anomalocaris: No problem! I see you fixed the small tags in the infobox. I took the easy route and removed all small tags from the infobox, citing MOS:SMALL:
Avoid using smaller font sizes within page elements that already use a smaller font size, such as most text within infoboxes, navboxes, and references sections...
—Bruce1ee 09:49, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
Need help
Hi! Thanks for sending me that Proquest aticle. I do need more articles for Bethesda Softworks to expand that page. Was wondering can you send these to me as well? These are the only ones I need
https://www.proquest.com/docview/1144108065/CB36B8E4AF034513PQ/8
https://www.proquest.com/docview/212296113/CB36B8E4AF034513PQ/10
https://www.proquest.com/docview/436571058/CB36B8E4AF034513PQ/20
https://www.proquest.com/docview/306641969/CB36B8E4AF034513PQ/38
https://www.proquest.com/docview/1542931613/CB36B8E4AF034513PQ/39
https://www.proquest.com/docview/306709544/CB36B8E4AF034513PQ/58
https://www.proquest.com/docview/228250226/CB36B8E4AF034513PQ/96 Timur9008 (talk) 10:25, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
- @Timur9008: I don't have access to the fifth article. I've sent you all the others. —Bruce1ee 11:40, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-16
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Thanks
Jules Le Cœur is live. Thanks for your help with resource exchange. Viriditas (talk) 02:16, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
New red link on Paul Robeson template
Thank you for fixing my errors on the Robeson template. However, I wondered why you restored a red link that I had removed (along with all the other red links that I changed to black non-links), at the Paul Robeson Speaks entry. I hope you are not planning to put in more red links. I discussed my intention to remove the red links at Template talk:Paul Robeson over a week ago, and no one responded to it. "You can always propose the change on a template's talk page, and make the change if there are no objections after a few days. Use your discretion in determining how potentially controversial your change might be" (from Wikipedia:Template editor).
Wikipedia has this mandate: "Because they are useless in navigation aids, do not create red links in: Templates such as Main, Details, Further, and Seealso, which are intended to direct readers to existing articles" (from Wikipedia:Red link). I take this as applying to the the Robeson template .. Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 17:01, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
- @Larrykoen: It was not my intention to introduce redlinks, but I see now that I inadvertently did, and for that I'm sorry. I was fixing mismatched italic markups when I noticed this entry
* ''Paul Robeson Speaks (book)|Paul Robeson Speaks''
- which I took to be a piped link without open and close square-brackets. So I added the missing square-brackets to fix the link, no realizing that you had removed them because it is a redlink. I've removed the square-brackets, and the pipe, in the template to remove the redlink. —Bruce1ee 17:26, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
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DYK for Magic Slate
On 26 April 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Magic Slate, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that US embassy staff in Moscow during the Cold War used Magic Slates to stop the KGB from intercepting their communications? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Magic Slate. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Magic Slate), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.