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Happy holidays!
Hi Doug! All the warmest wishes for this seasonal occasion, whichever you celebrate - or don't, while I swelter at 27℃ (80.6℉), and peace and prosperity for 2020. And talkin' about being amenable, I would be extremely amenable to a beer in a quite little pub I know in Bangkok in August when it will be even hotter! So check how many air miles you've got 'cause it's a long way. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) |
Template:Sronly
Thanks for the advice yesterday on how to use this! I've added it across 31 lists + 3 developing in sandbox. Could you just confirm whether lists such as Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: A–B, where there is a table with a visible header followed immediately by another table with no header, will be dealt with properly by screenreaders; or should I add an sronly template above the main table? I have about 10 lists like that. Cheers, Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 15:41, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
- @Hassocks5489: I'm glad you found it helpful. We were talking about table captions, not table headers, though. The caption was what we were discussing yesterday and it uses |+ markup; a table header is the name of the column or row and the markup is ! (I've added proper headers to the columns in the main table to demonstrate). You should add a caption to every table and only hide it with {{sronly}} if it follows immediately below a section heading (markup == etc.) that it would duplicate. See if the edit I made makes sense. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 16:15, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
- Many thanks. Sorry, yes, I meant captions rather than headers; had a late night and my brain hasn't recovered yet! That edit makes sense; I'll apply that across the other lists in question. Cheers, Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 16:23, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
May
Thank you for article improvements in May! - DYK my list of people for whose life I'm thankful enough to improve their articles? - I have a FAC open, one of Monteverdi's exceptional works, in memory of Brian who passed me his collected sources. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:49, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
today a composer pictured who wrote a triple concerto for violin, harp and double bass, in honour of the composer who died and my brother who plays double bass. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:37, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
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What sanctions did I run afoul of?
Thanks for your comment. I've see the AN/I thread now. I'm trying to understand what sanctions I've violated if you'd care to chime in. -- Kendrick7talk 20:43, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
- @Kendrick7: I've commented at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard #Kendrick7 to avoid fragmenting the discussion. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 21:07, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
atorvastatin-associated myopathy
Please comment on this on the atorvastatin page. At present, we do not mention weakness anywhere in this article, even though weakness is the most common adverse effect. Sbelknap (talk) 16:05, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
- I've commented at Talk:Atorvastatin #Weakness as adverse effect of atorvastatin exposure. --RexxS (talk) 16:50, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
Outreach Africa editors
Thanks for explaining that. But I've seen some terrible sources and they've never been pointed to Help:Referencing for beginners or if they have I see no evidence of it in the ones I've reverted. Doug Weller talk 14:46, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
- @Doug Weller: I guess that's not unusual when there's an outreach initiative into areas where there is not a pool of experienced editors who can engage "on the ground". My experience is that explaining how to become discriminative with sourcing is the toughest part of training new editors. But as long as we are welcoming and willing to help – even reverting poor sources is part of the learning process – in the long run Wikipedia benefits. Thanks for engaging with them, Doug. --RexxS (talk) 16:28, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
- I despair, I don't know if they are doing more good than bad. Look at [1] and their talk page. This one should be blocked perhaps and all their edits just reverts, unless someone can check them all and get the editor to change their habits. Doug Weller talk 17:58, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
- It's a tough one, Doug. I think that it's an excusable newbie mistake to mistake a Wikipedia mirror like https://peoplepill.com/people/roger-milla/ for a reliable source. The problem comes if they don't take notice once it's pointed out to them. As for the revert suggestion, look at the source added to Ethnic groups in Ivory Coast: http://countrystudies.us/ivory-coast/20.htm. That's just an amateur site, but the content appears to be taken directly from https://www.loc.gov/item/90005878/, an obviously reliable source. IMHO, we need to explain how to use the best source, not to revert when a substitution would improve the article. I'll drop a note on their talk page. --RexxS (talk) 18:49, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
- I agree, but I just don't have time to check them all and explain, sorry. Thanks for helping out. Doug Weller talk 19:30, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
- Now another editor has come to my talk page to ask what can be done and say it needs stopping. Doug Weller talk 17:52, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
- I've commented at User talk:Kuru##AflibWk_editors, but I accept that if they don't slow down after explanations have been made, there's little alternative but to apply short blocks. It's a shame, but our other volunteers on RCP can only be expected to put up with so much. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 18:13, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
- Now another editor has come to my talk page to ask what can be done and say it needs stopping. Doug Weller talk 17:52, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
- I agree, but I just don't have time to check them all and explain, sorry. Thanks for helping out. Doug Weller talk 19:30, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
- It's a tough one, Doug. I think that it's an excusable newbie mistake to mistake a Wikipedia mirror like https://peoplepill.com/people/roger-milla/ for a reliable source. The problem comes if they don't take notice once it's pointed out to them. As for the revert suggestion, look at the source added to Ethnic groups in Ivory Coast: http://countrystudies.us/ivory-coast/20.htm. That's just an amateur site, but the content appears to be taken directly from https://www.loc.gov/item/90005878/, an obviously reliable source. IMHO, we need to explain how to use the best source, not to revert when a substitution would improve the article. I'll drop a note on their talk page. --RexxS (talk) 18:49, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
- I despair, I don't know if they are doing more good than bad. Look at [1] and their talk page. This one should be blocked perhaps and all their edits just reverts, unless someone can check them all and get the editor to change their habits. Doug Weller talk 17:58, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
Agnes George shauri
This editor is part of the librarian project, to address 'citation needed,' but I have asked this person to stop, as many of the attempts to provide citations have been completely wrong. David notMD (talk) 14:50, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
- @David notMD: I can understand that some of the efforts to provide citations turn out to be incorrect, but the article is no worse off for their efforts if they have been checked, and thank you for that. It would perhaps be better to encourage new editors to find better sources than to tell them to stop. For example, the sentence
Before 1935, the only source of vitamins was from food
isn't a biomedical claim and could perhaps be verified from a more general or tertiary source. I think in the case of Agnes George shauri, they are so prolific that checking can become a burden. I'll drop a note asking them to slow down. --RexxS (talk) 16:52, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
Medicine proposed decision
The Medicine proposed decision was posted --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 14:28, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
Risper Chemutai - another AflibWk editor in need of direction
I just spotted this unreliable source. Glancing at other edits, it looks like Risper is taking time between edits but needs direction on how to identify reliable references. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 18:07, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
- @Hipal: I've left them a note with some explanation of "reputation for fact-checking and accuracy"from WR:RS. Although I agree about The Famous People, it actually isn't any worse than half of the sources used on Ronald DeWolf. I guess we have to try to fix things one source at a time. --RexxS (talk) 18:47, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks. Yes, famousPeople tends to get added where there's lots of work to do, which is why I keep checking for it even after it was removed from use in 2018. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 19:11, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
The old Wikidata module
Hey RexxS, hope you're well.
I'm trying to update a whole lotta map dates to use Wikidata rather than local edits on wikis, but I'm having some trouble fighting the old Wikidata module that still exists on some of them (on many, Module:Wd has not yet been ported, and I'm loath to port an entire module just for one use case if I can avoid it). I was wondering if you might be able to help, seeing as it seems you know the dark arts of the module!
I'm calling it like this: {{#invoke:Wikidata|formatStatements|item=Q95963597|property=P585}}
This works fine, except for one small problem: on several wikis (namely, at least on cs: and el:) the date produced from wikidata:Q95963597#P585, which has day accuracy, is producing to year accuracy. I'm thoroughly confused as to why this would be - I've even tried specifying the |precision=
param per the code of formatRawValue over at el:Module:Wikidata/Formatters/time, but to no avail - it still produces the year.
Do you have any ideas why this might be, or how to fix it? Any insights you can offer would be greatly appreciated!
All the best, Naypta ☺ | ✉ talk page | 21:40, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
- @Naypta: The call you quote gives me script errors on enwiki:
{{#invoke:Wikidata|formatStatements|item=Q95963597|property=P585}}
Script error: The function "formatStatements" does not exist.
- I only wrote the first half of Module:Wikidata; the rest was ported in later to duplicate code from other projects. The problem is that Wikidata modules are not standardised across projects, so you can't expect any particular call to be reproducible on another wiki. I wrote Module:WikidataIB as a standard replacement for the other modules. principally for use in infoboxes, of course. It's implemented on 82 projects including cswiki and elwiki, and is quite well localised "out of the box". You might have more luck using that. Here are some examples:
{{#invoke:WikidataIB |getValue |ps=1 |P585 |qid=Q95963597}}
→ 20 November 2022{{#invoke:WikidataIB |getValue |ps=1 |P585 |qid=Q95963597 |df=mdy}}
→ November 20, 2022{{#invoke:WikidataIB |getValue |ps=1 |P585 |qid=Q95963597 |df=y}}
→ 2022{{#invoke:WikidataIB |getValue |ps=1 |P585 |qid=Q95963597 |lang=cs}}
→ 20. listopadu 2022{{#invoke:WikidataIB |getValue |ps=1 |P585 |qid=Q95963597 |lang=el}}
→ 20 Νοεμβρίου 2022
- The date localisation is handled by Module:Complex date. The documentation at Module:WikidataIB/doc is rather lengthy and still not complete, but it should give you most of the functionality you will need. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 22:16, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
- [Update]: I just checked and el:Module:WikidataIB hasn't been updated since 2107, and el:Module:Complex date hasn't been updated since 2016. I can update the WikidataIB module without problems of attribution, but I need to ping Jarekt as the maintainer of Complex date to see if he can do an update. Sorry about that.
On elwiki, you can use:but that doesn't localise the date. I'll try to update now. --RexxS (talk) 22:37, 31 May 2020 (UTC)- [Update redux]: @Naypta and Jarekt: I've updated everything I could find on elwiki and el:Module talk:WikidataIB/testing seems to be giving the results I'd expect. The examples from above now work on elwiki. I'm not sure I've caught every single module that needed updating or creating:
- Jarekt: can you spot any that I've missed? It would be useful to have a complete list of dependencies for future reference. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 23:34, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
- RexxS, I found the following dependencies on Commons, some of them added using lazy loading:
- Which is a lot, I hope to be able to reduce that in the future. Module:I18n/or can be easily moved to tabular data, etc. Some of the modules might be quite different on enWiki and Commons. --Jarekt (talk) 03:34, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- @RexxS and Jarekt: you're both stars, thank you! I'm sadly aware of the fragmented state of the modules on the different wikis - so far I have the following different lines, all doing the same thing, on different Wikimedia sites:
{{#invoke:Wikidata|claim|item=Q95963597|property=P585}}
{{#invoke:Wikidata|formatStatements|item=Q95963597|property=P585}}
{{#invoke:Wikidata|formatStatementsE|item=Q95963597|property=P585}}
{{#invoke:Wikidata|getValueFromID|Q95963597|P585|FETCH_WIKIDATA}}
{{#invoke:WikidataIB |getValue |ps=1 |P585 |qid=Q95963597}}
{{Wikidata|property|Q95963597|P585}}
- Which is all a bit nuts! But it works, so hey ho :) Thanks so much for getting the modules updated, I can go and continue spreading the merry Wikidata joys now! Naypta ☺ | ✉ talk page | 10:20, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- Hrm, maybe not sorted yet actually :( cs:Wikipedista:Naypta/Pískoviště shows cswiki not working either with WikidataIB - it just returns blank. Any ideas? Naypta ☺ | ✉ talk page | 10:28, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Naypta: The version of WikidataIB on cswiki is from 2018. It doesn't recognise the parameter set
|ps=1
, so you have to use the actual parametersfetchwikidata (fwd)
andonlysourced (osd)
. I've left an example at cs:Wikipedista:Naypta/Pískoviště. If Module:Complex date can be imported to cswiki, we can easily update WikidataIB to the latest version. --RexxS (talk) 12:29, 1 June 2020 (UTC)- Amazing, thank you! Last thing I'll bug you about for now, sorry - cs:Modul:WikidataIB/i18n is set up, and looks correct to me, but the date still isn't localising. Best as I can see, it's correctly imported in cs:Modul:WikidataIB and should be overriding the i18n defaults - do you have any idea why it's not? No worries if not, you've already been super helpful Naypta ☺ | ✉ talk page | 13:21, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Naypta: The WikidataIB/i18n module was originally intended to localise dates as well as error messages, etc. but there were just too many variables in date formats for it to work. That's why I eventually decided to avoid duplicating work by using Jarekt's Complex date module from Commons, where everything has already been localised. If you import that module and its dependencies from Commons, the latest version of WikidataIB will do the localisations for you. I'm sorry there are so many modules to import for Complex date, but they do provide a lot of extra functionality with dates. --RexxS (talk) 16:24, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- Amazing, thank you! Last thing I'll bug you about for now, sorry - cs:Modul:WikidataIB/i18n is set up, and looks correct to me, but the date still isn't localising. Best as I can see, it's correctly imported in cs:Modul:WikidataIB and should be overriding the i18n defaults - do you have any idea why it's not? No worries if not, you've already been super helpful Naypta ☺ | ✉ talk page | 13:21, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Naypta: The version of WikidataIB on cswiki is from 2018. It doesn't recognise the parameter set
- Hrm, maybe not sorted yet actually :( cs:Wikipedista:Naypta/Pískoviště shows cswiki not working either with WikidataIB - it just returns blank. Any ideas? Naypta ☺ | ✉ talk page | 10:28, 1 June 2020 (UTC)
- RexxS, I found the following dependencies on Commons, some of them added using lazy loading:
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Can you help me with a template issue for Wikiproject COVID-19
Hi
Thanks very much for coming to the workshop on Friday, it was really helpful to have your suggestions for improvements. I feel like I need to find a solution for not getting lost on the page, if you have any ideas do let me know.
One issue I have is as you saw there are some big tables on the pages and a lot of people find VE helpful in editing them (including me). Unfortunately the standard Wikiproject COVID-19 header template has something in it to make the background green which breaks VE on the page (VE opens but just shows boxes of wikicode). So I created a new header template for the new pages which some people didn't like so they nominated it for deletion. Is there a way to make the standard COVID-19 header template not have the green background? Maybe either by just adding a bit of code to the top of the page under the template to 'close' the green background or by having an option in the template to turn off the green?
John Cummings (talk) 12:20, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
- @John Cummings: I'm always glad to help, but you haven't given me links to the templates you're concerned about and I can't find them from your contributions. If you can let me know where you want me to look, I'll do my best to sort the problems. --RexxS (talk) 17:27, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks very much @RexxS: so the header template they are keen on using is the one on this page Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19, as you can see the whole background is green which means that VE breaks, I created the header template on this page Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19/Reference_sources which they are not happy with and want to delete. I think what I'm asking is for a way to make the header on Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19 work with VE, I guess there are a few options to do this, whatever works easiest/best. Thanks again, John Cummings (talk) 18:04, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
- @John Cummings: I'm able to edit Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19 with Visual Editor using this link:
- I don't normally use VE, but I'm not seeing where it's breaking on that edit. There doesn't seem to be a problem with the green colour (that seems to be a green herring), but template {{start tab}} is known to cause issues with Visual Editor, and we'll have to wait for that to be fixed if we want tabbed pages to be 100% editable with VE.
- The TfD was no consensus, so the template can exist while waiting for a resolution of the VE problem.
- Nevertheless, there are multiple problems with your template. Take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19/Reference sources on a mobile phone, or follow this link to the mobile version of the page:
- On the link above you can see that the icons run onto two lines. On my mobile phone, the icons take up five lines. The text is squashed into the right half of the screen because of icons on the left side. As more than half of our pageviews now come from mobile visitors, it's really not a viable layout. Of course the layout on the main project page isn't much better. --RexxS (talk) 21:16, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks very much for looking at it, yes I agree the new template is not ideal. I don't feel like I've done a good job of explaining what 'breaking' means. So what I mean is that whilst VE loads on a page with the 'green header template' you can't actually use it to edit things in VE, whatever you click on just brings up boxes of wikicode in a window because it thinks its being transcluded. Its probably easiest to show you,
- On this page VE works just fine Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19/Main_messages.
- But if I replace the header with the green one User:John_Cummings/Rexxtest and you try and use VE you get a whole load of wikicode boxes which say transclusion.
- I hope this makes sense, I'm sorry if I'm not being clear.
- John Cummings (talk) 21:31, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
- Yes John, that's clear. When VE tries to edit a page that contains a template, it tries to use the TemplateData for that template to render a popup that can be edited. Otherwise it tells you that a page is being transcluded and creates a popup giving you the content to edit. Unfortunately, Template:Start tab is transcluded and that in turn transcludes the pages that the tabs will link to in an unintuitive manner. That's a bit too much for VE to figure out and it fails to show you the content of the transclusions inside the transclusion. When you try the same with your header, which doesn't transclude anything (it just links to pages, rather than pre-loading them), it works as you would expect. Does that give you a better idea of where VE is hitting a brick wall? --RexxS (talk) 21:53, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, yes that's very helpful in understanding what the issue is, I just don't know how to stop it happening, it seems unlikely that the new header I created will continue to exist so there seem to be three broad options:
- Find some way to add an option to the 'green header' to make it so you can use it with VE (I don't know how to do this)
- Find some way to add some additional code to the page so the green 'stops' at the top of the page and so VE will work (I don't know how to do this)
- Make an identical looking version of the 'green header' but with no green (I don't think this would be super popular but might be ok, not sure if I know how to do this, but seems the least technical option)
- What do you think is the best option?
- John Cummings (talk) 22:54, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
- @John: The green isn't anything to do with the problem you have. It would exist no matter what colour was used for the background. The problem is how the current page loads the other pages it references in the tabs. The way to fix it is to use a set of tabs that simply link to other subpages, not transclude them. The page needs a new layout anyway because of the way it renders in mobile view; see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject COVID-19 #Mobile view. The best option is 4. Completely redesign the entire page to be mobile-friendly. That should more or less guarantee it works with VE. --RexxS (talk) 23:27, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
- I do notice that the COVID-19 pages are missing {{End tab}}, so I've wondered if that might be affecting something. I'll try adding it at the bottom and see if that affects VE or anything. It'll be hard to keep it there, though, since it'll get moved away from the bottom every time someone adds a new section. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 01:14, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Sdkb: The start tab opens a
<div>
to set background colours, etc. (what John calls the "green" part), so that the editable page content lives inside that div, but of course without the {{end tab}} (which is little more than a glorified </div>), it has to rely on the MediaWiki software to close the opening div when it finishes parsing the page. A lot of fancy user pages rely on that automatic fix to make pretty borders, etc. That may cause hiccups in VE, but I think the real problem is the way VE handles the transclusions inside transclusions. It's certainly worth adding the {{end tab}} and seeing whether that improves matters for VE. If necessary, put a hidden html comment above it saying "All content goes ABOVE this line". It won't help, but it'll make you feel better knowing you've done everything you can. --RexxS (talk) 11:20, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Sdkb: The start tab opens a
- I do notice that the COVID-19 pages are missing {{End tab}}, so I've wondered if that might be affecting something. I'll try adding it at the bottom and see if that affects VE or anything. It'll be hard to keep it there, though, since it'll get moved away from the bottom every time someone adds a new section. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 01:14, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
- @John: The green isn't anything to do with the problem you have. It would exist no matter what colour was used for the background. The problem is how the current page loads the other pages it references in the tabs. The way to fix it is to use a set of tabs that simply link to other subpages, not transclude them. The page needs a new layout anyway because of the way it renders in mobile view; see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject COVID-19 #Mobile view. The best option is 4. Completely redesign the entire page to be mobile-friendly. That should more or less guarantee it works with VE. --RexxS (talk) 23:27, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, yes that's very helpful in understanding what the issue is, I just don't know how to stop it happening, it seems unlikely that the new header I created will continue to exist so there seem to be three broad options:
- Yes John, that's clear. When VE tries to edit a page that contains a template, it tries to use the TemplateData for that template to render a popup that can be edited. Otherwise it tells you that a page is being transcluded and creates a popup giving you the content to edit. Unfortunately, Template:Start tab is transcluded and that in turn transcludes the pages that the tabs will link to in an unintuitive manner. That's a bit too much for VE to figure out and it fails to show you the content of the transclusions inside the transclusion. When you try the same with your header, which doesn't transclude anything (it just links to pages, rather than pre-loading them), it works as you would expect. Does that give you a better idea of where VE is hitting a brick wall? --RexxS (talk) 21:53, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks very much for looking at it, yes I agree the new template is not ideal. I don't feel like I've done a good job of explaining what 'breaking' means. So what I mean is that whilst VE loads on a page with the 'green header template' you can't actually use it to edit things in VE, whatever you click on just brings up boxes of wikicode in a window because it thinks its being transcluded. Its probably easiest to show you,
- Thanks very much @RexxS: so the header template they are keen on using is the one on this page Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19, as you can see the whole background is green which means that VE breaks, I created the header template on this page Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19/Reference_sources which they are not happy with and want to delete. I think what I'm asking is for a way to make the header on Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19 work with VE, I guess there are a few options to do this, whatever works easiest/best. Thanks again, John Cummings (talk) 18:04, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
- I have gone ahead and just removed the tabs as we now have other nav options. Someone fell free to put up for deletion.--Moxy 🍁 11:37, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
- Had removed the tabs ...bur they we added back ...as some point accessibility should be the main concern. Not sure ever seen someone go out of there way to make it hard for readers and editors at every turn.--Moxy 🍁 21:20, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Moxy: I agree that lack of prior consensus isn't a viable reason to revert, but I'm loathe to start edit-warring, as it sets such a bad precedent. I'd advise you to simply stick with the case you've made - accessibility and functionality - on the talk page and wait to see if more opinions are added. We don't win these sort of battles quickly. --RexxS (talk) 23:04, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
- @RexxS: I've added the end tab as a work around to use the standard header, thanks very much for your help. John Cummings (talk) 08:50, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Moxy: I agree that lack of prior consensus isn't a viable reason to revert, but I'm loathe to start edit-warring, as it sets such a bad precedent. I'd advise you to simply stick with the case you've made - accessibility and functionality - on the talk page and wait to see if more opinions are added. We don't win these sort of battles quickly. --RexxS (talk) 23:04, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
- Had removed the tabs ...bur they we added back ...as some point accessibility should be the main concern. Not sure ever seen someone go out of there way to make it hard for readers and editors at every turn.--Moxy 🍁 21:20, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
Your block of Citation bot
Hey, I noticed that you blocked this bot with the "block account creation" flag set. Was there a reason for doing so? Just curious is all... It obviously won't affect anyone other than the account, since you didn't enable autoblocking (the correct action in this instance). Just ping me in your response; I have so many pages on my watchlist that I can't keep up with them... ;-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 01:28, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
Hmm, I just realized that you may have used the "shut off bot" button to do this block. Did you? If so, then there's (most likely) my answer: It has this option enabled by default. :-) ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 01:29, 12 June 2020 (UTC)Nevermind; the "emergency shutoff" button doesn't link you to the block page with options; only to a subpage with instructions. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 01:32, 12 June 2020 (UTC)- @Oshwah: I only recall checking the autoblock was off. The "block account creation" flag would have been at whatever the default value was, and I doubt it makes any difference, as I don't expect the bot to log in and start creating new accounts. If it does, we've got a lot more to worry about! --RexxS (talk) 12:54, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
- Indeed! Cool, I was just curious and thought I'd ask. :-) You're right; the flag makes no difference outside the account itself, since you disabled autoblock. Thank you for your time! :-D ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 13:01, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
- @Oshwah: I only recall checking the autoblock was off. The "block account creation" flag would have been at whatever the default value was, and I doubt it makes any difference, as I don't expect the bot to log in and start creating new accounts. If it does, we've got a lot more to worry about! --RexxS (talk) 12:54, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
30 days archive
RexxS Im leaving you this note b/c you are involved in WP:MED and are an administrator, [2] in the link you will find an editor has archived several posts before the 30 day archive set for by the top header[3] I would revert them myself or ask Doc James, however due to Doc James absence(who knows for how long) your the best choice , thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:53, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
- Hi, Ozzie10aaaa. I really don't think it's something to be worried about. If archived posts need to be reopened, it's quite easy to bring them back from the archive. The number of days to archive was changed from 10 days to 30 days just last week, so I think we need to experiment to find the best compromise. I'll leave a note on the talk page. --RexxS (talk) 14:09, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
- thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 14:10, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
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... cube ... forgotten what I was about to post here ... — GhostInTheMachine talk to me 16:59, 12 June 2020 (UTC)