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Hi Ahecht, I've been using PageSwap for some time now, and have seen others use it too. But there is an issue which needs to be fixed. Let's say, we move Foo → Bar with PageSwap. The current condition is that Talk:Foo/Archive 1 exists, Talk:Bar/Archive 1 does not. It will move:
Here, in the whole process, Talk:Foo/Archive 1 gets deleted without any redirect to the new archive, causing several backlinks to get broken. Some incoming redirects also get G8ed. In other words, most of the times creating a redirect at archives is desirable, not always though. —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 10:57, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
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Hello. I noticed that you've added {original research} templates to dozens of articles about elections and politicians, generally in the context of sentences like "This remains the last time that a Republican has won a U.S. Senate election in New Mexico" or "He is the last Democrat to serve as governor of Nebraska", etc. I thought I should remind you that WP:CALC allows for these sorts of claims, because they can be easily "calculated" from the election results already sourced. As such, the "original research" footnotes aren't necessary and really only serve to muddy the waters, so I would appreciate it if you could stop adding them. Many thanks, Cpotisch (talk) 07:36, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
Hi, please remove the Nigeria/Lagos entry from User:Ahecht/Scripts/draft-sorter.json - the WikiProject banner was deleted more than five months ago (see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 May 16#Template:WikiProject Nigeria/Lagos), and the history of Wikipedia:Database reports/Broken WikiProject templates shows that people are still adding the template to talk pages. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:38, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
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Hello. You're probably already aware of that but the tool 'Random in category' does not provide the correct link if the article title ends with a question mark. For example, in sl:Kategorija:Članki o albumih, v katerih naslovnici manjka alternativno besedilo it provided the article sl:Še pomnite Kuzle, tovariši, but the correct title would be sl:Še pomnite Kuzle, tovariši?. I suggest this is documented at README. --TadejM my talk 17:56, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
Thank you for the quick improvement! --TadejM my talk 22:43, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
Hi Ahecht
I hope you're well. Just a quick note that the script that you wrote at User:Ahecht/Scripts/potd-helper doesn't seem to be working in the new Vector 2022 skin. The browser console seems to log the same messages as in the old skin, and no errors reported, but the usual fields and buttons for the POTD helper don't appear. If you have a spare moment, would you be able to have a look at it? Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 15:13, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
tall=yes
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Hi, How are you,
I want you to rename a page to its old name (i tried but gone in vain), I request you to help me By doing this, please please please,
Page name: Darra, Khyber pakhtunkhwa
old name(to change to):Darra, Swabi Ahmadkhanpk1 (talk) 02:49, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
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Hi, Dear Ahecht sir, please review my article Chandan Madan Hiyicam (talk) 13:11, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandan_Madan_(Indian_actor) Hiyicam (talk) 17:54, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
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Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.
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Hi Ahecht, I don't know if you're already aware or not, but it looks like https://ircredirect.toolforge.org/ isn't responding to requests at the moment. Please can you give it a nudge when you get chance? Thanks! stwalkerster (talk) 12:32, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I recently started using the User:Ahecht/Scripts/refresh.js script, and it has been extremely helpful for me when I change categories within templates, or disambiguate links on templates, so that WhatLinksHere gets immediately up-to-date instead of lagging behind, allowing me to easily complete my work. I have a feature request: When a mass-null-edit begins there is no way to predict how long it may take. Is it possible to add the number of transclusions/links/cat-members that will be affected in the first pop-up message, so that there is a rough idea of how much time I'd have to wait? Something like "This template has 56 transclusions" and then beginning to null edit one by one. Thanks! —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 05:41, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
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Hello. I just wanted to suggest a small change to the template: the "UNTIL" part be replaced by "UNLESS". Since in the other way it seems that it is something that will end up happening at some point with the characters mentioned as an example. BrookTheHumming (talk) 23:57, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
Hi, would it be possible to make the three moves in ns0. In itwiki we do that. --GryffindorD (talk) 07:57, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hi Ahecht, hope you're doing well. Thanks for making pageswap; it works fantastic! I'd like to suggest the feature of adding the {{R from move}} rcat to swapped redirects; I find myself doing this after every swap and it'd be great if it could be automated. Thanks so much! — Frostly (talk) 21:47, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi Ahecht! First and foremost, I wanted to thank you for your pageswap script. It's an incredibly smooth and user-friendly way to perform round-robin page moves.
There is one feature that I think would make it even better. In the current form of the script, when a swap is completed successfully, a button pops up linking to the user's contributions page, to assist in post-move cleanup. Would it be possible to also include links to the Special:WhatLinksHere results for the two swapped pages? I saw in the script documentation that automating the checks of the Template and File namespaces is out of scope, but I think providing direct links to WhatLinksHere would be a good compromise that'd make it easier to check those areas manually. Let me know your thoughts! :) ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 15:45, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
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WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.
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Your reason for rejecting the article submission
The comment the reviewer left was: This draft has been resubmitted several times without any changes. Since the submitter has shown no willingness or ability to address the issues, I am rejecting the draft as a decline would be counterproductive at this point. --Ahecht
is meaningless. I simply rejected over and over unsubstantiated disqualifications of the article content. On the article talk-page I put several explanations why I did it and never got a serious response to it. So avoid nonsense like "the submitter has shown ..." Bocin kolega (talk) 11:23, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
This seldom happens, but occasionally pagemovers would inadvertently, unknowingly, race each other in swapping the same page while processing the RM/TR queue. My most recent encounter was with Our Extended Play where @Doomsdayer520 and I were swapping the same page within second of each other. I wonder if it is possible to have the script to check for prior recent moves, for pagemovers to either be warned or check again if the prior move was of a pageswap of similar nature. – robertsky (talk) 05:02, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
A sincere thank you on your edits for the Agnes page. it's very much appreciated. 2607:FEA8:E1:3A00:3916:999B:D01B:B610 (talk) 19:40, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
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Module:Tlx has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:04, 19 November 2023 (UTC)