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I've posted on the talk-page there, but will say it here also: it's not acceptable to radically change the long-established reference format of a page without prior discussion, and it's definitely not acceptable to edit-war over it. Per WP:BRD, if your edit is reverted, the appropriate response is not make the same edit again, but to start a discussion (which in this case you should have done even before you made the first edit). Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:09, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
The lists of chancellors aare a good start on the topic. Now write the articles., using the criteria at WP:PROF. Although a good case could be made that they are effectively head of a university & therefore intrinsically nb, it would be helpful if they could be shown to meet WP:PROF as scholars. DGG ( talk ) 11:57, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
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The article Carillon you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Carillon for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Aza24 -- Aza24 (talk) 00:41, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
On27 May 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Carillon, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that during World War II, 150,000 carillon bells were stored in "bell cemeteries" (German: Glockenfriedhöfe) before being melted down to make shell casings and armaments? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Carillon. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Carillon), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
—valereee (talk) 12:02, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for quality articles around the carillon such as Altgeld Chimes, for updating related articles such as Thomas Rees Memorial Carillon, for the list of University of Illinois songs, for clarity in infoboxes, and cleaning up article talk pages, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
You are recipient no. 2601 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:26, 27 May 2021 (UTC) Congrats! I added Carillon to the stats, - next time you can do it yourself. - It's also featured on Portal:Germany. - I'm not sure what you mean by "missed DYK" on your user page: make them GA, and they are no longer missed ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:26, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
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Twofingered Typist (talk) 19:36, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
On25 June 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article De Gruytters carillon book, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an 18th-century carillon-music manuscript by Joannes de Gruytters was discovered at a book auction? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/De Gruytters carillon book. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, De Gruytters carillon book), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
Hello there. I’m concerned that category:Carillons is being too widely applied. Per WP:CAT it should be a defining characteristic of the articles it is applied too. This works well for articles on actual carillons or towers, but does not hold true for institutions as a whole. Especially large universities. I think this category should be limited to actual carillons or the structures that hold them. Grey Wanderer (talk) 23:01, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
For what it’s worth the category itself says “ This category lists articles about buildings and towers which house carillons or articles about the individual carillons themselves, if applicable.” Grey Wanderer (talk) 23:02, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
On7 July 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ronald Barnes (carillonist), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ronald Barnes was a major force in establishing an American approach to writing music for the carillon? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ronald Barnes (carillonist). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Ronald Barnes (carillonist)), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. 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.
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Thank you for the work around Carillon! Yesterday I had two interesting DYK (I think), and the day before was at a concert with Daniel Barenboim just playing piano, and afterwards he and the orchestra received last year's prize (pictured). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:32, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi, Thrakkx. I'm just posting to let you know that List of presidents of the University of Illinois system – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for August 16. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 22:24, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you, fellow Illini! Thrakkx (talk) 15:22, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for making the changes. We have thousands of subchannel tables like that in our TV station pages. Should they all be changed to match what you did with KTVK? Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 17:33, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
Hi Thrakkx. Congratulations on the award and thanks for nominating. As Triple Crowns are awarded in sets, your FL List of presidents of the University of Illinois system and your other DYKs have not been counted for this award. You will be eligible for the Imperial Triple Crown once you have a second GA to go with your additional DYKs and featured content. Cheers. Damien Linnane (talk) 04:12, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
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Thank you today for the article, introduced: "The carillon is an Old World musical instrument, emerging from centuries-old, interconnected traditions of bell-ringing, time-keeping, metalworking, and more. It is one of the only musical instruments that you cannot play in private—everyone in earshot must bear witness to your performance. There are fewer than 1,300 carillons worldwide according to the most generous counts; it is fascinating to learn about an instrument where the population is a critical component to its existence. One of the biggest struggles for those who love this instrument is to spread awarnesss of it. My teacher calls the carillon "the world's longest and best kept secret." What better way than to have a high-quality, encyclopedic article freely available for all!" A secret no more! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:19, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
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Hello. At first I wasn't sure if changing the page formats and color was a good thing but actually on reflection I think it looks better. Good job. Could you change the remaining ones though for each list by year for consistency? It dates back to 2008 currently and there is also the scheduled execution page. Thank you. Inexpiable (talk) 18:52, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
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Your recent bold edit has been reverted. Per the bold, revert, discuss cycle, after a bold edit is reverted, the status quo should remain while a discussion is started instead of edit-warring, and the dispute should be resolved before reinstating the edit, after a needed consensus is formed to keep it or an alternate version. --49.150.96.127 (talk) 05:24, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continued disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Please establish consensus on your interpretation and application of WP:INFONAT with respect to basketball players. At this point, you are a one-person show with these specific edits, and have been reverted by multiple editors on multiple pages. While consensus can change, the onus is on you to establish support before continuing further. Thanks. —Bagumba (talk) 22:45, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi there. Can you please discuss at WT:NBA your mass changes to remove nationality from the infobox? Per Template:Infobox basketball biography, the convention has been to not list country when its consistent w/ nationality. Feel free to establish a new consensus. Regards.—Bagumba (talk) 03:52, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
Hi, Bagumba Just so you know, per WP:CONLEVEL: Consensus among a limited group of editors, at one place and time, cannot override community consensus on a wider scale. The wider-scale consensus, WP:INFONAT, overrides any opinion that the NBA WikiProject may have on the matter. There has been a whole arbitration case, which is linked on the page I quoted. Cheers. Thrakkx (talk) 03:59, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
The wider consensus has already been established—no nationality listed for obvious cases. I will continue to remove the nationality, but for American players I will let the country remain omitted. Thanks. Thrakkx (talk) 14:23, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
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Wonder if you can fix this minor goof in the police interrogation section on Lee Harvey Oswald article: the current words, “went downstairs where he encountered Baker” give the impression Oswald said the encounter took place at the second floor lunchroom but Holmes clarifies that Oswald was talking about encountering the officer at the vestibule on the first floor by the front entrance. Holmes describes two set of doors which were in the building vestibule (which were a front lobby between two set of doors). I propose the paragraph could be rewritten to reflect Holmes’ testimony something like: “Oswald said he was at the first floor vestibule by the front entrance and wanted to see what the “commotion” was when he encountered an officer.” 213.107.87.105 (talk) 19:56, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
This edit broke this and four other citation templates (search for the word glishin§References. Same with this edit and this edit.
It is not necessary to remove |language=en
from articles at en.wiki. Remember that many upon many articles here are translated for use at other-language wikis where |language=en
has meaning. This is especially true of medical articles.
—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:52, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
|language=english
in the future. Thrakkx (talk) 15:01, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
|language=en
and |language=English
in the citation templates. They do no harm, there is no reason to remove them, and good reason to retain them.|language=en
does nothing on the German Wikipedia; they have to use |sprache=en
. Anyone translating a source from the English Wikipedia to the German, independent of the presence of |language=en
, will obviously know to add |sprache=en
. All the field does for us on the English site is add cruft to the article. Thrakkx (talk) 15:22, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
|language=en
to|sprache=en
may be necessary. But, there are approximately 180 other-language wikis that support some version of the Module:Citation/CS1 suite of modules and templates. Module:Citation/CS1/Whitelist contains the names of all parameters supported by cs1|2. Look at the contents of the various modules listed at Module:Citation/CS1/Whitelist (Q11679506) and you will see that many support the English-language parameter names exclusively. Some, like tr:Modül:Kaynak/KB1/Beyazliste support parameter-names in their own languages as well as in English. Doing so makes it easy to import a cs1|2 citation from en.wiki and have it render correctly at the local wiki and when |language=en
is present, cs1|2 can, if sufficiently up to date, render the (in English) annotation as it should using the local language's name for 'English'.|language=en
and |language=English
in a cs1|2 template caused Module:Citation/CS1 to populate a maintenance category. There were then automated or semi automated processes that trawled the articles in that category removing those parameters. As the result of discussion at Module talk:Citation/CS1/Archive 11 § Language parameter, we changed the module so that the when |language=
is assigned a value that matches the wiki's local language, the (in <language-name>}}) annotation is suppressed. Ultimately the automated processes stopped deleting |language=en
and |language=English
.|language=
parameter was useful for the WP:MED/TTF (now at https://mdwiki.org/wiki/WikiProjectMed:Translation_task_force). Editor Doc James does state at the bottom of the above mentioned discussion: I think it is good information to provide.
|language=en
. Without you create a bot to exclusively remove |language=en
and |language=English
, you will have no chance of ridding en.wiki of that cruft.
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questions? Probably best to use my talk page for that?Hello pal. I made a bold edit to this page recently: List of people executed in the United States in 2022 and I would like your input as you are an experienced editor who has previously worked on these pages. These executions by year pages have always normally included scheduled executions for the year in a separate table beneath the ones that have occurred. Understandably, these scheduled executions are usually always changing. The issue is that these scheduled executions can already be found on the List of people scheduled to be executed in the United States page. It seems silly to me to have two pages saying the same thing so I have remodified the page with this edit: [1]
Do you think this makes sense or should it go back to how it was? This is how it used to be to give you an example: [2]. You had the execution list followed by the scheduled execution list. The problem is that this info is already found at List of people scheduled to be executed in the United States. So when an execution is stayed or cancelled, you would have to modify both tables on both pages. I summed up my reasoning on the talk page here: [3] But I wanted to get others input on this. Thanks. Inexpiable (talk) 18:53, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi Thrakkx! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. --Cerebral726 (talk) 13:52, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
Also, per WP:SHORTDESC, please try to keep short descriptions you are adding to 40 characters or less. Regardless, thanks for adding in all those short descriptions for articles that are needing them!--Cerebral726 (talk) 13:56, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi. In the infobox education parameter of Alan Ritchson, the『А』in "Associate of Arts" was a "CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A" (U+0410) instead of a normal Latin "A" (U+0041), causing a redlink as of your edit here. I fixed it. Are there more of these? Thanks. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 07:09, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Thank you so much. I was going crazy trying to figure out why it was not linking before I became distracted. Thrakkx (talk) 13:01, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
The phoneme /ær/ is respelled arr, /ɛr/ err, and /ɛər/ air. You might need to read H:RESPELL and Mary–marry–merry merger before undoing my edit. serioushat 21:48, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi Thrakkx, I have reverted your edits on mma fighter regarding the above. You dont need to put the DoB on the short description (sd) as sd is just a very very brief description of the subject as it is not like the disamb pages. Cassiopeia talk 01:23, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Why are you removing short descriptions from LGBT articles like you did here?Funcrunch (talk) 21:37, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
Delicious and unrepentant, the spy gave no quarter.
Noiselessly she stole the sheet of music from the magic box.
Nerves of gold wire ran back from the wooden keys,
growths mooring the sudden and shorter notes.
Acceptable and perceptible, the silence quavered.
Handshook deliverance, unnatural purity:
a Friday custom roused their hearts.
Bells ring serenity and discipline.
Who doesn't love a good carillon? Joe (talk) 12:57, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
I see the guidelines you're using to change Robert White (Washington, D.C. politician)toRobert White (Washington, D.C., politician) but I think you're missapplying them. The column after a geographic series is only a parenthetical when it's placed in a sentence, not a page title Bangabandhu (talk) 22:42, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for fixing that on the LGBT representation in American adult animation page. I've definitely done incorrect bolding at the beginning of pages before, I think because I thought it was the way "things are done" on pages. I did go through a number of pages I created in the past to fix that this morning, so thanks for your edit on that page. --Historyday01 (talk) 17:07, 10 March 2022 (UTC)