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Today's TFA, Felix M. Warburg House, was written by Vami_IV and Epicgenius, introduced: "This article is about another of the great houses that once lined Fifth Avenue in New York. Specifically, this is the mansion of Felix M. Warburg, a Jewish financier who ignored fears of anti-Semitic reprisal to his decided to build himself a big Gothic manor in the middle of New York City. Although the Warburgs no longer remain, their legacy does: the museum is now the home of the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) and the building largely survives as they left it. It's a beautiful building and I hope you will all enjoy it."! - in memory --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:15, 10 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Today's story mentions a concert I loved to hear and a piece I loved to sing in choir, 150 years old OTD. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:31, 22 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
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hello Sdkb, can you please tell me whats the criteria are for uploading image? --Adnankhan2 (talk) 12:33, 27 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
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Hello, I have made a translation of an article. How can it be published? --Oanvoovad (talk) 15:58, 8 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
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i have made a sandbox about Dr. Dawood Suleiman Alsaadi, when will you think it will be reviewed? --Johnsamuels0 (talk) 01:48, 12 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Ahhhhh, okay, that makes sense. Frankly, I suspect that's the explanation for a lot of things that make me go hmmmm... Bearcat (talk) 23:03, 14 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hi there. Out of curiosity, did you ever finish Template_talk:Contentious_topics/talk_notice#When_an_article_deals_with_multiple_contentious_topics?
I am a bit rusty at templates, but would be happy to look at it if it's still blocked for some reason. I messaged you on Discord earlier as well, if that's a more convenient discussion place for you Soni (talk) 08:26, 15 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for your concern but what is the purpose of that MOS tool if it is cosmetic only? Cosmetic only has been defined as reordering reference fields if no others are added or a mdy/dmy date update if no further changes. That change you referenced was something I have done for years. The purpose of those changes are to get the reference date fields and other dates in the article up to date. That is the whole point of the script and tool. Not arguing because I do see where what I mentioned above and can only be comestic. I do not do those. If I preview the edit and nothing is changed, I do not publish. Red Director (talk) 20:15, 17 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hello again, just need to pick your brain on another topic when you get a chance. When redirects are created, does it make since to sync the talk page to the talk page redirect as well? The feature on the redirect helper tool provides that. Also, some redirect talk pages have banners. Do those need to be there? Best wishes. Red Director (talk) 17:47, 19 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Sdkb, you might like this. I created a userbox for contra dancing wikipedians. User:UBX/contra_dancing Paulmlieberman (talk) 14:17, 22 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Given your work with simplifying welcome templates, I was wondering if you had any ideas about the speedy deletion notices we give users when a page of theirs has been csd'd? I can't help but think there ought be something we could do better in regards to that. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 23:02, 28 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
the article appears to be about a real person or group of people that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is importantand the way a human might write,
the article does not indicate how or why she is important. It probably wouldn't be worth the complexity it'd require to figure out and customize for the subject's pronouns in order to use
shecorrectly, but we want it to sound a little more like that. Certainly the "or" statement in
real person or group of people, like any "or" statement in a notice, is a dead giveaway that it's boilerplate.
This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletiondoesn't have to be emphasized by placing it in the second sentence, and
Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any timewould read much better as
The article may be deleted at any time. And while we're tightening language, I also notice that the info is repeated later (
be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay), which should absolutely be avoided, as the longer a notice is the less likely folks will be to actually read it.
Hi Sdkb, thanks for writing the RfA debrief. I found your point on conferences and building trust there interesting. It's a topic that has crossed my mind quite a few times, and instinctually it makes me unsure, as I wonder how conferences might muddle the perception of on-wiki work, positively and/or negatively. For example, it comes at a slight cross-purpose to the anonymity and gender/pronoun point you make (which I happen to agree with and also try to practice, although I've never to my recollection seen anyone else say they do this before). Anyway, it's something that I would be interested in reading a fuller write-up on at some point, if there is more you have in mind on this brief bullet (noting I have also seen your comments on various pages about conference funding before). Best, CMD (talk) 01:42, 5 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
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Hello 👋 How do I create a good story --Boikemisetso mokase (talk) 20:24, 6 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
On8 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Reuben Solo, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during a comedy routine Reuben Solo drew a graph plotting the audience's reaction to his routine? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Reuben Solo. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Reuben Solo), 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.
Your ideas about reducing banner clutter in the Vital article Tfd merger proposal (which I only just now discovered) resonated with me, especially the part where you proposed the concise version, with your example of VA-3, and I wanted to link this up with something I've been thinking about and get your feedback on it, as there may be some beneficial cross-pollination avenues here.
I have long been thinking about how to efficiently represent article page characteristics (such as article quality, length, protection level, etc.) so that WikiProjects and other similar pages can have lists or tables of articles and economically represent such metadata without heaps of repetitive text bloating the list or table rows. This led to creation of Template:Article attribute decoration which uses icon images or unicode characters to graphically encode such metadata.
Somewhere along the way, I discovered Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist working on a table summarizing which language Wikipedias have articles on Transgender history or trans rights, to be added at some point as a monitor or progress tracker perhaps at the WP:LGBT WikiProject or somewhere, and I proposed some ideas that might be useful to her table idea using the {{Aad}} template. Since then, there's been an on-and-off collaboration going on, and the single-table idea has morphed into more of a platform idea to assist editors who want to develop any kind of table or list of related articles as a tracker for their WikiProject. Having short symbols or icons, like your VA symbol, fits right in with this scheme.
And that's where you come in. I think you are ideally placed to be a third member of a small dev team geared to developing some tools or a platform or whatever it ends up being, to lower the bar of entry for others who might like to build tables or lists to track or monitor groups of articles, in the way that, say, Trans articles by region2 tracks and compares trans history and trans rights articles across Wikipedias. For a glimpse of the power of the (then current) version, see the (surprisingly brief) wikicode, and the config file at {{Trans articles for region/config}}.
I've been away for a bit and just got back, so YFNS may have updated it or taken it off in a different direction by now, but it's still very much a work in progress, afaik. Anyhow, if any of this intrigues you, I know I'd welcome your participation as you have a lot of strengths in envisioning what would be most useful for a project and coming up with just the right approach, and critiquing current ones or seeing the essential points in something of this nature, and I think YFNS would agree. Have a look around, and see what you think; would love to hear your thoughts about it. YFNS may have some newer/better links for you. Mathglot (talk) 00:54, 9 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Template:Escape page link from within has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 06:26, 9 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
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Hello! I just made some edits to the page of Lynn Conway. Sounds like there's a lot of that happening right now as she died over the weekend. Just wanted to make sure I did all right! (I've done some editing in the past, but I just established a username.) --DandelionFluff (talk) 04:16, 12 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
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At 03:25, 17 June 2024 in [1], you undid my {{off topic}} tag, saying it was an "unexplained tag." However, I already explained it 2 hours ago at 1:39, 17 June 2024 in [2]. Since you do not feel the section is off-topic, could you explain, on the actual documentation page, the relevance of all those namespace IDs? 184.146.170.127 (talk) 04:09, 17 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
see [wikilink to talk page thread]). I did not see your talk page comment and did not understand the removal, thus the revert. Cheers, Sdkb talk 19:00, 19 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hi there - I see you cc'ed me. Is everything all good? It seems like you did some redirects but I don't quite work a ton on that part of Wikipedia. As you can see I've been trying to work cleaning up the page and also giving more nuance to the incorrect assumption that Catholic (and other religious) seminaries are always men's only colleges. The reality is some are, some aren't. Jjazz76 (talk) 17:54, 19 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
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Hi --Kang Ticino X Fabi (talk) 21:13, 23 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
I don't actively object, but I still ... I guess "passively" object to people altering the way I chose to add myself. As far as I know, there is no policy, guideline, essay, or even good reason not to add the vote count. I certainly didn't boldly add it for others, without their OK, even though I think it's useful. Yet you and someone else (who I won't look up to avoid getting annoyed again) felt fine just overruling my choice. It's not like I accidentally did it and you're fixing it (for example, I love it when people fix my near-constant screwups). I know it wasn't the intent, but it sure felt disrespectful. I'm honestly not sure if it's a problem with your approach or mine. Probably mine; I'm increasingly annoyed at more and more stuff I see here. Anyway, the "Floq" part i don't actually care about, so feel free to change to "Floquenbeam" if you prefer. Floquenbeam (talk) 12:36, 24 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hi Sdkb, hope you're well. I've just cleaned up Musopen, which really took off after funding from a Kickstarter campaign. I'm trying to link to two Kickstart links from 10+ years ago, which include important information on the nature of the projects. Alas, it seems the links are on Wikipedia's blacklist. Is there anyway around this? Aza24 (talk) 02:56, 27 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
I don't have a strong opinion about the edit either way, but to provide the backstory to my edit that you reverted: I added the additional text because that page is transcluded in another page (WP:REFBEGIN) where another editor redundantly added a link to WP:RSP in the "See also" section (which I reverted) despite the link being in the transcluded text, which led me to wonder if the transcluded text needed to be clearer. Apparently not! Biogeographist (talk) 13:03, 29 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for your contributions to Thomas A. Moore. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and there is another person with the same name at ASUA who has a high h-factor (if there are no overlapping papers) so there is nothing to demonstrate his publication notability. His page shows no significant, peer recognition awards. Please establish these and go the AfC route rather than creating it directly.. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.
Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Ldm1954 (talk) 12:14, 30 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Happy First Edit Day! Hi Sdkb! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 06:42, 1 July 2024 (UTC)Reply |
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 19:24, 11 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Hey @Sdkb. One of your bots made a change to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Blackburn_Historical_Plaques to correct some dates to Wikipedia standard format. The affected text was taken from the plaques in question, so the changes made the text inaccurate.
I'm pretty new to editing Wikipedia, so asked in Teahouse if there was a way to protect some content from automated bot alteration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse#c-Scooby359-20240714172200-How_to_protect_content_from_bots). They suggested raising it with yourself to let you know of the issue, and see if there's any way to resolve it.
I've now been made aware of the {{nobots}} tag. Is there any other way I could flag this content to protect it from bot alteration?
Thanks, Chris. Scooby359 (talk) 19:21, 14 July 2024 (UTC)Reply