Hello Bellezzasolo, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.
Project news
The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.
As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.
Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.
List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing
Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget.
In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions.
MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues.
User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page)
User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50).
User:Primefac/revdel.js(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you.
User:Evad37/rater.js(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).
I see some sort of reference to racist posts by "Korean Sentry," I think on his home page, but when I click-through here I can't seem to find the connection.
FWIW, the one thing of his that I have seen is simply witless, both sneering at gays and at Thais. I answered his post with a contemptuous contradiction on the Thai Culture talk page and a mocking post to him on his home page, and then I saw your post. I want to offer you congratulations, but I know so little about Wikipedia that I don't think I can offer anything more in the way of useful help.
Wikipedia s a huge and important resource and low-level pests of Korean Sentry's type are cumulatively a huge threat to it. I've watched the Internet with interest since before it started. I.e. I visited University of Waterloo, one of the first two packet-switched networks, in 1961, and read the original Carnegie Commission binders on the subject '61~65. I interviewed Vannevar Bush on the subject at his home in, I forget, Lawrence or Brookline or wherever it was in 1965, and when the second Internet, the present one, came into existence in 1970 I was user #300 on ARPAnet
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(The first "true" internet, ignored in most of the histories, was Usenet, not the later e-mail app of the same name but a packet-switched network written by Bolt Beranek and Newman for Digital Equipment, to connect all their customers. But I I digress...)
Wikipedia is one of those things that represents the best potential of the Internet -- and as you said someplace, it is maintained by the fact that anybody can edit, revert, and so on and so forth. You are doing valuable work, and I wish you well.
On the clod "Korean Sentry" I don't know what the answer is. Obviously if he feels he has an interest in making war, he can keep changing names forever. If he attacks me in response to my joshing I shall erase my traces of it from Wikipedia and try to answer him with reason.
Following a request for comment, the process for appointing interface administrators has been established. Currently only existing admins can request these rights, while a new RfC has begun on whether it should be available to non-admins.
There is an open request for comment on Meta regarding the creation a new user group for global edit filter management.
Technical news
Partial blocks should be available for testing in October on the Test Wikipedia and the Beta-Cluster. This new feature allows admins to block users from editing specific pages and in the near-future, namespaces and uploading files. You can expect more updates and an invitation to help with testing once it is available.
The Foundations' Anti-Harassment Tools team is currently looking for input on how to measure the effectiveness of blocks. This is in particular related to how they will measure the success of the aforementioned partial blocks.
Because of a data centre test, you will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia projects for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time.
Following a request for comment, the size of the Arbitration Committee will be decreased to 13 arbitrators, starting in 2019. Additionally, the minimum support percentage required to be appointed to a two-year term on ArbCom has been increased to 60%. ArbCom candidates who receive between 50% and 60% support will be appointed to one-year terms instead.
Nominations for the 2018 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission are being accepted until 12 October. These are the editors who help run the ArbCom election smoothly. If you are interested in volunteering for this role, please consider nominating yourself.
Hi. At [1] I agreed to get some mentoring from you to know more about the interesting technical side of templates. However, I have a quick question. How does the mentoring process work? Pkbwcgs (talk) 19:45, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
@Pkbwcgs:, Wikipedia:Mentorship has some information, although it's not exactly focused on technical mentorships. I would say that the key to it is that I review your template edits, and provide suggestions. Also, if you have a question, don't hesitate to ask me (or, indeed, anybody!). I would say that the first thing to do is look at sandboxing. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 20:41, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
I have a question, what is the best way of merging the function of two templates or modules together? I don't want to break any functions or get the merge incorrect. I don't want to merge anything templates or modules right now but it is just useful to know. Pkbwcgs (talk) 19:30, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
@Pkbwcgs: Oh my, template merges. I've never actually done one, but I'll answer in full shortly, since I'm currently on a mobile. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 20:42, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
@Pkbwcgs: I've written this rough guide. Wikipedia:Merging Templates. It's rough because the approaches to merging different templates can be very different. @Primefac and MSGJ: you guys are much more familiar with the process than I am, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could take a quick look and tell me what I've got wrong or ommitted. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 20:50, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
Pkbwcgs, here is my process for merging templates:
Find which parameters are exactly the same
Find which parameters are same function, different name
Find which parameters in the "to merge" template need to be added into the target.
Add the params from #3, and (if there aren't too many) add the params from #2 as alternate params
Redirect or wrap the "to merge" template. I do the former if there are few (if any) params from step #2. I do the latter if there are significant layout/format differences between the two templates.
The hardest step of this process is step #4, as you'll see if you check out my edits for the merger of {{infobox country}} and Template:infobox former country. You need to make sure that every old param is accounted for, and while some layout changes are inevitable, they also need to make sense.
My biggest piece of advice when doing a complex merger (i.e. more than just "add a couple of params and redirect") is to test the heck out of it. Test it with all of the old params, test it with all of the new params, etc. Primefac (talk) 14:37, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
@Primefac: When I was testing merging two templates at my merge sandbox, it took me around two hours and it is still not finished. Does it normally take a long time? Pkbwcgs (talk) 16:25, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
Yes. While I didn't work on it full-time, it took me almost four months to get in enough time and testing to merge the IB country/former country templates. When I merged the various IB cricket templates (there were 5? in total) it took me the better part of two weeks to make sure everything worked out properly. A job well done is not a job done quickly. Primefac (talk) 16:29, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
Well, I'm not sure what sort of issues you're experiencing, since I haven't looked at the templates or your merger in much detail, but "tweaks" like this are going to break the infobox every time. The label number must match the data value it is associated with. At this point I think it's best to move this off Bellezzasolo's page (unless they don't mind it being here) and discuss somewhere else, like the template talk or WT:WPT, because we're going to have to discuss how infoboxes work and how to properly implement a merger. Primefac (talk) 17:52, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
Thanks. Is there any improvements that could be done in terms of where the parameters are located? Pkbwcgs (talk) 07:31, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
┌──────────────────────────────┘Um... other than the fact that you've completely moved around what looks like all of the parameters... ideally the merger target largely stay the same. For example, you've moved the |disciples= into the "Personal" section instead of being in the "religious career" section where it was originally. Primefac (talk) 11:26, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
Yes, some minor tweaking needed. Of course, during mergers you can't get everything as before (maybe you could include a layout parameter, but nobody does that!) But in terms of the technical merger itself, it looks good. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 12:20, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
I think it is all done now. It is ready to be actually merged to the real template. I already done some tweaking and removal of duplicate parameters yesterday. Pkbwcgs (talk) 08:22, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
@Pkbwcgs: A few observations. Firstly, the born/died fields, and maybe some similar, probably should be under the "personal" details. Secondly, {{#switch:{{{religion|}}}|[[Hinduism]]|[[Jainism]]|[[Sikhism]]=|#default=Religious career}} is inconsistent with Template:Infobox religious biography's {{#switch:{{{religion|}}}|[[Hinduism]]|[[Jainism]]|[[Sikhism]]=Religious career|#default=Senior posting}}. Finally, I would suggest that the religion/sect fields are moved out of the career section to be above personal details, again in keeping with religious biography. Other than that though, it looks ready to go to me. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 12:33, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
I have made the amendments. Pkbwcgs (talk) 14:04, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
@Pkbwcgs: I made a minor fix, as the if statement for the Religious career section still included the religion parameter, which was causing an empty section to be displayed on my testcases. I'm having a good look through for any other minor issues. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 14:50, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
Since opening a thread at Template talk:Infobox Muslim leader, there has been nothing said or anything. Does that mean that I should just go forward with my merge? Pkbwcgs (talk) 09:17, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi, would you please refer to this conversation regarding an article that was speedily deleted on May 1 & then SALTed?
Since the SALTing admin is no more able to make edits on Wikipedia, a request for the title unprotection was made (which resulted positive). A new Draft on the subject is now ready & pending review since last 7 weeks. Also, Subject has apparantely gained more coverage now & new references are added too. Can yo do the needful? 122.170.63.181 (talk) 19:28, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
HI,
I am a nonmathematician trying to ask a mathematician a question - I found your talk address by searching from the edits of the Riemann zeta function page. May I ask a question about a picture that appears on the wikidpedia page ? If I'm not using this communication method properly please let me know. you may use the email chuckie.finster46@gmail.com to reach me otherwise. I don't know if I can get back to this page. Deglen (talk) 03:40, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.
Hello Bellezzasolo, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!
Backlog
As of 21 October 2018, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.
Community Wishlist Proposal
There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!
Project updates
ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.
Partial blocks is now available for testing on the Test Wikipedia. The new functionality allows you to block users from editing specific pages. Bugs may exist and can be reported on the local talk page or on Meta. A discussion regarding deployment to English Wikipedia will be started by community liaisons sometime in the near future.
A user script is now available to quickly review unblock requests.
The 2019 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting new proposals until November 11, 2018. The results of this survey will determine what software the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team will work on next year. Voting on the proposals will take place from November 16 to November 30, 2018. Specifically, there is a proposal category for admins and stewards that may be of interest.
Arbitration
Eligible editors will be invited to nominate themselves as candidates in the 2018 Arbitration Committee Elections starting on November 4 until November 13. Voting will begin on November 19 and last until December 2.
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Please let me know whether the members section in the NCT 127 article is referenced properly.
My contribution was previously taken down due to being unsourced, so hope this is now sourced well enough for it to be considered reliable information — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nctzen127 (talk • contribs) 11:57, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
@Pkbwcgs: There's a few things there, comes with merging. One that's going to be really fun to sort out is the default behavior in Template:Infobox Bishopric to display bishopric without a parameter. I've made it conditional in the sandbox, which means that any occurrences of {{Infobox Bishopric are going to have to be replaced with {{Infobox diocese|bishopric=|. No big issue, to be honest. More fun is the title, I'm still working on that. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 13:42, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Thanks. Pkbwcgs (talk) 15:44, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
The Original Barnstar
Thanks for your effort in helping me out in my merge in User:Pkbwcgs/merge sandbox/3. Your efforts will be recognised with this barnstar. Thanks for your support as well. Pkbwcgs (talk) 15:46, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
User_talk:yaniv
This seems to be a mistake - removing talk comments from other people, both Yaniv and TonyBallioni, particularly in the middle of an arbitration enforcement discussion. Tarl N. (discuss) 17:14, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
@Tarl N.: I was only ending the <big> tag. I see that Jytdog fixed it hours ago - I must have been following an old diff link and not realizing it. That probably explains why the edit conflict didn't get flagged. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 17:20, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi Bellezzasolo, I don't have time tonight - but before we mass update all the padlock images, the files need to be uploaded locally and protected. — xaosfluxTalk 04:01, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
@Xaosflux: Hi, I realized that this needed doing after I made the module update (I've reverted it for now). Hence I've uploaded local versions and asked at Requests for permissions/File mover for the right to move them over the Commons versions. Of course, there's still protection after that, but I've tried to cut down on the work a bit. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 04:07, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Although it looks like I wrongly assumed that file mover would allow overiding commons. It's one for RM then. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 04:11, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
I've protected them at Commons and Mz7 create protected them locally. If that is acceptable with you Xaosflux it is all set. --Majora (talk) 04:13, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Yeah, I'm not sure what the functional difference is between uploading locally and then protecting, or just create-protecting. For now, I've create-protected, but I'm happy to defer to whatever you all think is best. Mz7 (talk) 04:16, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Not quite sure whether I should be insulted or not...
In any case, whatever you all want to do. The padlocks are set so that you can modify the description page but you cannot move or upload over them on Commons. --Majora (talk) 04:22, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
I can't see any function difference between the local protection and the current situation either, it should be safe to reenable the new icons. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 04:27, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
@Bellezzasolo and Majora: yes its mostly to avoid any issues with 'those commons' people that have rarely occurred. The protection I was referring to is just "upload" protection - it could be very embarrassing for image vandalism. — xaosfluxTalk 12:42, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
┌─────────────────────────┘Is there a reason not to add them to the cascade-protected page? Pretty sure the old icons were/are. ~ Amory(u • t • c) 23:24, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
@Amorymeltzer: I don't see that as necessary - it's not a big deal if someone edits the description, and in most cases the "click" is bypassed so they won't just end up on the description page. — xaosfluxTalk 23:45, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
I'm not sure where better to write this, but thanks to everyone involved in changing the padlock symbols. The new versions are much more intuitive. Certes (talk) 23:48, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
File mover granted
Hello Bellezzasolo. Your account has been granted the "filemover" user right, either following a request for it or due to a clear need for the ability to move files. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:File mover for more information on this user right and under what circumstances it is okay to move files. When you move a file please remember to update any links to the new name as well! If you do not want the file mover right anymore, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Thank you, and happy editing! TheSandDoctorTalk 08:01, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
I'll just note, however, that wouldn't the task you wanted this right for be accomplished faster if the images were simply downloaded and reuploaded (or if we asked XYZtSpace to locally upload them)? I don't remember file movers (or anyone) being able to move files across wikis (without the use of some external tool (that might need this right)). Anarchyte (talk | work) 11:51, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
@Anarchyte: I've already uploaded to different names. I assumed initially that with file mover, I'd be able to move them over the commons versions (I'd already tried directly uploading over with no success). It unfortunately looks like that specific perm is still bundled up in the admin toolset, so I can't do what I wanted. However, I'm sure the perm will come in useful anyway in dealing with new uploads. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 11:55, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
If all that is preventing this change from going live is moving "shackle1" to "shackle", I can go ahead and do that and then protect them. I know very little about how the templates/modules work however, so someone else will have to make the final changes. Anarchyte (talk | work) 12:01, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
@Anarchyte: Brilliant, it's only the files that need doing, I can then do the module stuff. There's a list at WP:AN#Implementation of this RfC with handy move buttons. They'll probably need upload/move protection after the move as well. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 12:03, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
As the boilerplate automatically posted here states, if at any time you wish for this flag to be removed, just let me or another admin know. --TheSandDoctorTalk 16:06, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
@TheSandDoctor: I thought there'd be stuff to do, but it doesn't really look like there is. I don't think I'm likely to use the perm, so please can you remove it. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 20:12, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
Done If you ever want it back, feel free to ping me or re-request at WP:PERM. --TheSandDoctorTalk 20:19, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
A cup of coffee for you!
Thanks for handling that IP... GABgab 15:39, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
Does it require a lot of waiting time to actually merge the two templates or can I merge them immediately? Pkbwcgs (talk) 18:23, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
@Pkbwcgs: I generally leave 48 hours for template edits to allow for any objections. Given the scale of a merge, 72 hours might be more appropriate. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 19:55, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.
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It's a VIOLA.
The reliable source is my ear. Find a Viola player and ask them.
Jack Fallon played the Viola on this Beatles' recording. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beatle Curator (talk • contribs) 05:11, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
Please explain how JzG can revert my edits without explanation on the Gary Null article but if i do so it is considered disruptive. When i made the edits initially i explained the reason for them. He did not extend the same courtesy. if anything, he should be the one warned for disruptive editing. Or is he allowed to break the rules because he is an admin? Nonononocat (talk) 18:02, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
@Nonononocat: You've removed cited content, and the statement in question is attributed, rather than in Wikipedia's voice. When you're reverted, you should discuss the issue more, not less. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 18:17, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
Palace of Westminister
Oops, we reverted the vandal at the same time :) GoodDay (talk) 19:03, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
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Help with map!
Hello Belezzasolo! I saw your fine work on the AIEA locations map. I am trying to modify this page here which was clearly below acceptable levels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Federation_of_United_Nations_Associations
The thing is this organisation is membership-based. They got 100 or so members. I wanted to use your map to add all of them. The problems I am facing are: 1) I would like to use it outside of the sidebar 2) I would like to add a zoom effect on Asia/Oceania, South America and Africa too 3) it is quite "fragile" as it is because of the mutliple lines.
Regarding "3" I found this map here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Airlines the code of which is more condensed. But it doesnt have the "zoom".
Any help on any of the above would be very very much appreciated. Needles to say i'm not a pro.:)--APG1984 (talk) 20:36, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
@APG1984: Regarding the zoom function, you were missing that there's an outer {{Location map+}} that needs to know what the maps to be displayed are too! I've made an edit for now which should give you some ideas - [2].
You can use the template outside of the infobox - like so:
New York
Geneva
Brussels
Seoul
Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat
Show map of Earth
New York
Geneva
Brussels
Seoul
Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat in Europe
Show map of Europe
New York
Geneva
Brussels
Seoul
Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat in north America
Show map of North America
Notice that it's a bit yucky, because it's centered and the buttons go to the left. That's easily sorted.
Wrapped in an infobox
New York
Geneva
Brussels
Seoul
Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat
Show map of Earth
New York
Geneva
Brussels
Seoul
Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat in Europe
Show map of Europe
New York
Geneva
Brussels
Seoul
Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat in north America
Show map of North America
Using a table
New York
Geneva
Brussels
Seoul
Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat
Show map of Earth
New York
Geneva
Brussels
Seoul
Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat in Europe
Show map of Europe
New York
Geneva
Brussels
Seoul
Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat in north America
Show map of North America
if you want to see a large template I did like this, there's {{University of Oxford Map}}. That takes it out of the article and lets you reuse the map.
Thank you and apologies in advance for flooding you page with my maps!
I've made an attempt below and got the following problems :)))
How can I:
- chose the color of the pins and size ? (there is no line in the code that allows that or that mentions the svg file of the button)
- avoid the problems that seem to appear with some locations which are correct (coordinates-wise) but wrong on the general map (everything is a bit lower). like cape town. see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:APG1984
- Also, on some other maps, pins apear correctly placed but outside of map
Thanks a million. no rush, I imagine you got much more to do:)
--APG1984 (talk) 17:42, 24 November 2018 (UTC)
@APG1984: with the world map thing, it looks like an issue in the underlying template, so nothing to do with your code. That's a good spot. Regarding color of pins, you can change the image like so:
| mark = St-Anne's College Oxford Coat Of Arms.svg
@APG1984: I sorted out the issue with the map. It turns out, that was happening becuase of spaces between the locations. Newlines are fine, spaces aren't. Frankly, that sort of sensitivity is ridiculous! ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 14:54, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
hehehe thanks a million!!!--APG1984 (talk) 15:05, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
Map of the 92 current United Nations Associations
New York
Geneva
Brussels
Seoul
Offices of the WFUNA Secretariat
Show map of Earth
New York
Geneva
Brussels
Seoul
Map of the 92 current United Nations Associations in Europe
Show map of Europe
New York
Geneva
Brussels
Seoul
Map of the 92 current United Nations Associations in North America
Show map of North America
New York
Geneva
Brussels
Seoul
Map of the 92 current United Nations Associations in South America
Show map of South America
New York
Geneva
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It is about an anti-Semitic user who denies the existence of the Hebrew people at Talk:Hebrew language. This user is reported[3]
for 3RR violations and saved his ass unblocked. The result of the report is "page protected". So I please ask you for intervention. Because I saw you are the only one who noted that this user did an Obvious 3RR violation. The user denied any responsibility and claimed to have "misunderstood" the three revert rule. It is interesting that a year ago the user was reported again for a 3RR violation at the same article and pretended AGAIN to have misunderstood the rule, and in the report[4] from Iyyar, 5777 the 3RR was explained to the linguist: "Actually, the 3RR states: An editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page-whether involving the same or different material." It is even more interesting what this "misunderstanding" linguist said after being asked why couldn't learn the rule for so much time. This user then acknowledged understanding and held another lie switching from "misunderstanding" to "forgetting" the 3RR. Very arrogant and obvious lies. The violation of reverts plus the contradicting lying to the admins and personal attacks justify a long or idefenite block. Could you please ask the admins to review the result of the report "Page protected"? I am just curious what the review of these lies would be. Good week! 77.138.178.112 (talk) 05:55, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
^That's a legendary tool, thanks so much for creating it. Flooded with them hundreds 16:50, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
I have enabled it for myself. It looks very good. Pkbwcgs (talk) 13:04, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
I don't understand how to use your "meganuke" tool. Pkbwcgs (talk) 14:27, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
@Pkbwcgs: Once started from the "more" dropdown, you need to leave it running in a browser tab. If you open a new tab and start editing from that, it should run along happily. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss<
Reverted edit in the article about Copenhagen metropolitan area
Hi Bellezzasolo!
I think you reverted my edit (i.e erasing a section in the article) by mistake. The article was about several definitions of the metropolitan area of Copenhagen. The definition presented in the section I was about to erase was a complete speculation by a wikipedian. The population and areal figures were indeed correctly sourced (as you pointed out). However, the areal division/definition (i.e which municipalities to be included in the definition) has never been mentioned elsewhere and were arbitrarily chosen by the wikipedian (since it lacked any source what so ever).
Regards --NiccoUrban (talk) 00:40, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi again!
I erased the section giving a more comprehensive explanation. Since I am quite new att wikipedia I would like to know if I did this correctly. Or should I have left the wrong section in order to discuss it?
Regards --NiccoUrban (talk) 08:12, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
@NiccoUrban: My mistake, closer inspection quite clearly shows that only statistics are cited. The relavant policy to mention is SYNTH, sometimes looking at just a diff and edit summary can lead to wrong conclusions! ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 09:02, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
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I have a bit of a problem. The "canton" parameter in Template:Infobox university will not show up properly in articles and I have currently halted my bot from changing Infobox academic subdivision to Infobox university as this needs fixing. I have tried a range of things but it still won't show up and is causing problems. The article that this is a problem to is Mandarin Training Center. Can you please help out. Thanks. Pkbwcgs (talk) 20:21, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Believer's Eastern Church
Hello Bellezzasolo - I'm not sure why you said I didn't quote a reliable source when I edited the Believer's Eastern Church page[1]. The source I cited (and I cite a source) is the church's own website[2]. Can you please explain to me how that is not a reliable source? Thank you!--Elfgirl13 (talk) 23:13, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
@Elfgirl13: I believe that I was looking at this change. A lot of vandalism can look like that, which is why I reverted, although further research shows several sources supporting this. Also worth consideration is WP:BLP, which means that ideally sources would be independent (the church website most certainly is not an independent source), but it seems to indeed be the case. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 23:20, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
Hello Bellezzasolo! I lerned about your script a few days ago when Kb03 mentoned he had instlled it after I told him about the plain old MassRevert script. So I decied to install it. I have not used your script yet, but I can see it could be VERY useful when working with LTAs. So thank you for making it.
Now that I have that out of the way, on to what I came to your talkpage to do. As the MegaNuke button has been moved to the Twinkle Menu, I have updated the docs to relfect that. Hope you don't mind! LakesideMinersMy Talk Page 12:32, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
MegaNuke not working
Hi Bellezzasolo. When I clicked in the "Nuke user" button, the script does not work. Could you fix that? Thanks ―Abelmoschus Esculentustalk / contribs 13:56, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
P.S. I will make a copy of the previous version and use that for now. ―Abelmoschus Esculentustalk / contribs 13:58, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
@Abelmoschus Esculentus: it seems to work for me, the dialog just doesn't close, I think that's the source of the confusion. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 14:08, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Oh. I tried it on test wiki and it seemed to be working. There are a few problems:
Administrators need to have the "rollback" flag to use the script (line 229 "if (Morebits.userIsInGroup('rollbacker'))" should include "sysop" group as well)
The box doesn't close after clicking the nuke user button (as mentioned)
I tried the script on Special:Contributions/213.233.132.168c but didn't work, but it worked in test wiki where I am a sysop. ―Abelmoschus Esculentustalk / contribs 14:22, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
@Abelmoschus Esculentus: I've reproduced a bug in the future reversion code. It looks like it's lookingn for contributions before the current time, not after. Thanks for spottinng that! ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 15:45, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
@Abelmoschus Esculentus: Well, it might not have been that at all. I think it probably was related to ratelimits. I've updated the code now, it should avoid that. It would also explain why it works on sysop accounts. ∰Bellezzasolo✡Discuss 16:37, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
Administrators' Noticeboard thread
Hello. I have raised the issue of Meganuke and whether it should have been implemented in a thread at AN. Please participate there. Carrite (talk) 17:59, 7 December 2018 (UTC)