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MfD nomination of Template:User WikiProject Userboxes/doc
Template:User WikiProject Userboxes/doc, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Deprecated docs and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Template:User WikiProject Userboxes/doc during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Est. 2021 (talk · contribs) 02:25, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:POTD/2005-12-31
Template:POTD/2005-12-31 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 22:11, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
Courtesy notice
I mentioned you at WP:ANI#Disruptive template edits by Dawn PScLim. Schazjmd (talk) 23:22, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
Category
Hi! Please can you see what's wrong with the categories in Template:Culture of Kazakhstan? This template doesn't show up in the categories, but it's in the code of it. Thanks! --Porto Neto (talk) 01:57, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
- Porto Neto, fixed: Special:Diff/1092562729. —andrybak (talk) 02:00, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
Sorry for clicking 'undo' so quickly after your edit, I should have thought through the changes before doing it, especially the new specific navigation box category (good idea by the way, it was a long time coming). Choosing that centred layout of the navigation box, instead of grouping the links to the left, is not unique, is completely within the guidelines and has advantages. Years ago, I found a layout for a diocese navigation box, created by someone else, that did not have groups. By not moving everything to the left, each list heading could be longer, and there was less dead space. For ecclesiastical organisations, with their terminology, it makes perfect sense. I hope that you don't mind these navboxes looking a bit different, of course consistency has its advantages, but in this case, a non-grouped layout is more helpful. Cardofk (talk) 21:01, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
Empy categories
Hello, Andrybak,
I hope you are doing well. I'm trying to get to the bottom of something unusual that happened today. In tonight's Empty Category list, there are 23 categories about college football conferences that are suddenly empty. Typically categories become empty when an article is deleted and the category only contained that one article or, occasionally, an editor will recategorize some subject matter and they will bypass Categories for Discussion and just do it on their own. With a script I use, I can see the last edit to these now empty categories were edits made by you involving templates.
So, I'm just hoping you can offer me an explanation on what's going on because there is one primary editor who created all of these categories and I think they might have questions on why these categories are all of a sudden empty. I can see the activity in your Contributions that led to these category changes but I'm hoping you can tell me in a few words what brought this on. Of course, I assume it's an improvement to the organization of the subject but I'd like to know in case I encounter this again. Thanks, in advance, for your help and patience! Liz Read! Talk! 01:22, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
- Indeed, I've removed some content (i.e. article) categories from template categories. I believe that templates and template categories shouldn't be placed in article categories and that article and administration category trees should be separate. Using Category:Badger-Illini Conference football templates as example (from Special:Permalink/1104626003): it has 11 templates, but none of them are transcluded in pages about football of Badger-Illini Conference exactly. There are no articles about football in Badger-Illini Conference itself – only articles about college football seasons that this conference was a part of. If there are no articles to place in Category:Badger-Illini Conference football, then the category shouldn't exist. And even its parent Category:Badger-Illini Conference has only a single, eponymous, article, which for some reason doesn't mention/wikilink the seasons. —andrybak (talk) 08:45, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/
Hello, Andrybak,
When you tag a page for deletion, you really need to inform the page creator so that they are aware there is a problem, partially so that they don't repeat it. I see that you used Twinkle to tag this page which should have posted a notice to the talk page of the page creator but it didn't. Please make sure that your Twinkle Preferences have "Notify Page creator" box is checked off so that Twinkle posts a talk page notice to the page creator to inform them of the tagging. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 00:50, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Liz: weird, I don't remember touching the "Notify page creator if possible" checkbox. Thanks for letting me know. Tested editing the preferences, judging by the diff of the automated edit, I've had default settings for this feature. —andrybak (talk) 01:21, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
Feedback on Vector (2022) conversation
Hello! As a member of WikiProject Usability, I wanted to draw your attention to a conversation currently underway on WP:VPR (see the beginning of the discussion) around adopting Vector 2022 as the new default skin.
The Web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been working on Vector 2022 for the past three years, collaborating with the English Wikipedia community as well as other wikis to ensure that the skin performs better qualitatively and quantitatively for readers and communities than the previous Vector skin. The goal of the new skin is to create a more welcoming and easier to use experience for readers and editors across the wiki. For more details, see our new FAQ.
For the past couple of months, we have collected thoughts from the English Wikipedia community on what changes need to be made to the skin prior to it being considered ready for deployment. Our next step would be to start an RfC to assess whether the community considers Vedtor 2022 ready.
Prior to the beginning of the RfC, we wanted to draw your attention to the current conversation and encourage your feedback on the skin.
- The sticky header makes it easier to access tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%
- The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jumped between sections 50% more than with the old table of contents
- The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the wikis we tested on
- The collapsible sidebar allows readers and editors to choose whether they want to see the main menu or not. Our testing shows that this allows people to better focus on their current task - reading with a collapsed menu, or editing with an open menu
- The language switching menu makes it possible to switch languages without scrolling
- The user menu collects all user links in a single place, making it easier to understand what each link does. In testing, 71% of surveyed editors reported positive experiences with the new menu
Thank you, OVasileva (WMF), SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 12:27, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Template:Uw-test3/sandbox
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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice that the page you created, Template:Uw-test3/sandbox, was tagged as a test page under section G2 of the criteria for speedy deletion and has been or soon may be deleted. Please use the sandbox for any other test edits you may want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. WolfeReAds (talk) 21:12, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
- WolfeReAds, this seems to be an inappropriate speedy deletion request. Please see WP:TESTCASES about how /sandbox pages are used for testing changes to templates. And text in template {{db-test}} highlights this fact:
This criterion applies neither to sandboxes nor [...]. See CSD G2
. —andrybak (talk) 21:17, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
Update: Phase II of DS reform now open for comment
You were either a participant in WP:DS2021 (the Arbitration Committee's Discretionary Sanctions reform process) or requested to be notified about future developments regarding DS reform. The Committee now presents Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Discretionary_sanctions/2021-22_review/Phase_II_consultation, and invites your feedback. Your patience has been appreciated. For the Arbitration Committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:01, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
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A tag has been placed on Category:Arts award navigational boxes indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 01:09, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
Commons:Village pump/Header search
I haven't studied flex CSS yet. Please see if anything needs to be done with the search boxes here:
Also, please look at
- Help:Table#Side by side tables and the section that follows it. Should flex be used there? Is it only needed when there is a gap needed via gap:1em for example? See your diff.
--Timeshifter (talk) 16:44, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
- @Timeshifter: as per my edit summary, I used this particular CSS to simplify HTML. That is, to remove two hacks:
and<div style="height:5px"><-- hidden margin --></div>
which were used to produce the gap for horizontal and vertical layout correspondingly. Non-breaking spaces and empty elements are a bad way to control whitespace around HTML elements. Margins, paddings, and—nowadays with flex—gaps are the proper way for that. I don't have bandwidth right now to look at HTML used in similar template on Commons. —andrybak (talk) 16:52, 18 September 2022 (UTC)- Thanks for the explanation, and the fix. I am only responsible for one of the hacks. :)
- I have a lot to learn:
- https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_gap.asp
- https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_flexbox_container.asp
- https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_flexbox_responsive.asp
- and more of those flex instruction pages.
- --Timeshifter (talk) 18:30, 18 September 2022 (UTC)