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Hello, I notice you're using one of the {{motd}} templates, run by Wikipedia:Motto of the day. You may have noticed that some of the mottos recently have been followed by a date from 2006, or on occasion simply "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". The reason for this is that Motto of the day is in some very serious need of help. Participation in the project, which has never been especially high, has dropped considerably over this past summer, to the point we have had several days where no motto was scheduled to appear at all. Over the past several weeks, I've been the only editor scheduling mottos at all, but there aren't enough comments on some of these mottos to justify their use. If we do not get some help - and soon - your daily mottos will stop. In order for us to continue updating these templates for you, we need your help.
When you get a chance between your normal editing, could you stop by our nominations page and leave a few comments on some of the mottos there, especially those that do not have any comments yet? This works very simply; you read a motto, decide whether or not you like it, and post your opinion just below the motto. That's it - no experience required, just an idea of what you personally like and what you feel reflects Wikipedia and its community. If you do have past experience with the project, then please close some of the older nominations once they've got a decent consensus going. There are directions on the nominations page on how to do this.
If you have any questions, please let me know, or post on the project's talk page. I'm looking forward to reading your comments on the suggested mottos, and any additional suggestions you'd like to make. Until then, happy editing! Hersfold(t/a/c)01:59, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
OnionCat
Hey, thanks for editing OnionCat. It was on my watchlist as a new article, but I was perplexed as to how to edit it - the content seemed above my head. Anyways, thanks again! :-) --Iamunknown05:56, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
Please do not put the generic bot shut-off code on SB's page, it uses a simpler mechanism where any message on its talk page shuts it off. There is no need for it to ever be blocked.
Thanks, RichFarmbrough, 12:41 29 November 2008 (UTC).
The faster your respond, the better chance the article you created can be saved. This is because deletion debates only stay open for a few days, and the first comments are usually the most important.
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I was just trying to clarify that it is it that user's main account, not the overall one or something. I could have said his or her, but that is a bit clunky. Their is generally acceptable nowadays, at lease here in Australia. This, that and the other[talk]06:44, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed you'd decided to move everything to a /doc subpage, but you seemed to have forgotten to actually create content in the /doc page. I've copied what documentation there was in the original template to the /doc page.
Hi,
I accidentally just created a new Wikipedia page when I was trying to create a new Wikiquote page. It seems to have automatically changed to Wikipedia - I was previously working at Wikiquote and did not deliberately change sites.
I don't know why this happened!
Sorry.
I still want to create that Wikiquote page.--Tyranny Sue (talk) 07:32, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
Ok, did it! (I wish I knew how that happened!) I don't know how to delete a page but if you tell me how, I will. Thanks!--Tyranny Sue (talk) 07:39, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
I certainly do know what transclusion is. And I don't see any transclusion going on as such. In fact, the subpage and the main page are subtly different. Although I don't know whether this warrants the link I put in, now I look more closely. — This, that, and the other07:42, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
If you start reading the "Statement of principles" section of User:Jimbo Wales, you will see that the first few words are "As we move forward with"... . If you begin to read User:Jimbo Wales/Statement of principles, you will see that it says the same thing (except for the italic text that up at the very top of the document which is not transcluded because it is in "<noinclude></noinclude>" tags, as you can see from the source). -- IRP☎10:32, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
That is so. But it is not transcluded as such (i.e. {{/Statement of principles}}). I do not mean to be argumentative, but it is a minor (pedantic) detail. Also, if you run the texts through a diff program, you'll notice some differences between the two texts (not counting the different wikicode elements), as I alluded to before. — This, that, and the other10:39, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
As I said in my previous post, not all text is transcluded because <noinclude></noinclude> tags were used on some of the text. It is not necessary to see that text unless you are editing the section, which an edit link is already present to the right of the section header. -- IRP☎13:18, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
As I have said before, this is good content. Is it available elsewhere? A quick Google search for randomly-picked language names gives similar, but not exactly the same tables (so not copyvio; see, for example, [1]). It might be in order to ask the creator.
If it is decided that the content isn't worth keeping. I support a total and utter delete, with userfy as second-preference. If it is not readily available elsewhere or whatever, a transwiki might be in order (it would be useful for meta folks, I think). Can we transwiki to meta, or is copy-and-paste the only way? — This, that, and the other [talk]07:28, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
i don't know about Transwiking. So I guess we will let the Afd play out. Thanks for your response. Ikip (talk) 13:46, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
B&O merge with Bo
I thought about it a long time, but decided not to.
Yes, the page is "messy" (for many of the reasons disambiguation pages get that way, and that's after I took out the "first/last" initials entries) ... BUT a page that organizes/lumps all those different things on the same page ... is not going to be as "clean" as less complicated disambiguation pages.
NOTE: While there is no choice but to have the above on the same page ... we must remember that we should attempt to make it easy for people looking for particular forms to spot it easily. That is not a trivial information design problem.
-- Proofreader77 (talk) 20:22, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
B&O
The most well known (American, of course, and much more so historically) reference is B&O Railroad. (If you put quotes around it in a Google search, that's what you get.)
Bang & Olufsen — this may be too much a promotional link. In the public realm how well is it known as B&O? A Google search without quotes gives you this company, but that may just be SEO. (Note the different Google results for with and without quotes)
BUT we should be discussing this on the talk page(s). :)
Bottom line: As you can see, there are things to discuss. The B&O page should perhaps be redirected if we remove the (two) questionable entries... but then the redirect would be to Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, not to Bo(which is complicated enough). SO: For the moment, I'm undoing the merge to Bo.
-- Proofreader77 (talk) 20:22, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
B&O hatnote to BO etc
I left them off because anyone searching for B&O will not be looking for BO, and so will not need a hatnote. But it doesn't bother me if you want that hatnote there. :) Proofreader77 (talk) 08:39, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
P.S. hatnotes on disambiguation pages
The official line (apparently) is that a disambiguation page shouldn't have hatnotes.
I know this because I have recently spent a hundred hours and thousands of words to keep a hatnote on a disambiguation page that an administrator kept removing because he insisted a disambiguation page "shouldn't" have a hatnote.
As I indicated above, a hatnote doesn't offend me on a disambiguation page (although I do think you should ponder why someone might need a BO link if they had specifically searched for B&O). But others disagree. Just FYI. -- Proofreader77 (talk) 07:42, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
But to apply WP:IAR (and Break rules), one must be prepared to defend those rules against those who dismiss those rules (who always use the word "consensus" in the dismissal).
But it can be done—if you're willing to dedicate your life :) ... to the spirit of WP:IAR ... and the true meaning of "consensus" (which is not, despite what you will often hear, embodied forever in the guidelines). LoL Cheers. Proofreader77 (talk) 08:16, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
re: multiple edits in one day etc.
Due to the contentious nature of dab editing (smiling, but not kidding), I make one editing step at a time ... and carefully document why I'm doing each step. (I find that when someone makes sweeping changes with one edit, they rarely give an edit summary to cover everything they did, and the controversial change is most likely to be unremarked.)
Doing that produces a diff that can be discussed and undone (or analyzed by 3rd parties at a later time).
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Hello!
I am wondering - would a comma be cause for debate? Probably not.
Is it possible to default to Minor Edit when I make edits?
Not really used to this - thanks for the welcome note, too.
BFK (talk) 00:21, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
Note: I am also trialling a new signature.
How did you insert the notification box?
Can I use standard HTML tags when editing?
I have declined a couple of your nominations, because when a sockpuppet is detected its talk page is suppose to be redirected to their user page. Some one for got to stick in User: in the recirect and then there were redirects to dud non existent articles. You can detect this by looking at the history of the page. A user talk page that is a redirect is probably not a candidate for deletion. I also noticed that some double redirects were fixed, after the middle recirect ahd been deleted and you nominated the userspace page to go. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 09:31, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
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Because there's no reason you can't have two barnstars for the same thing! ;) Thanks for your efforts and for showing people that the backlog is actually manageable, thus encouraging them to help reduce it even further! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 21:19, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the barnstars! It was indeed a long job, and I saw both some bad newbie-biting and some very positive guidance to new users along the way. That blocked user JavaScript will be quite useful; it's a pity it isn't installed as a gadget here at enwiki. — This, that, and the other (talk)00:29, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
Doubledbarf
The bot flags the string, and in this case I felt the intent was plausibly the vomit meaning. Enough people find that offensive that it comes under that section of the policy. But since I don't think it should be block-on-sight (as some other admins would have done), I merely issued a concern (i.e., if the user were to want an RFC over it, we could probably decide the matter further). Daniel Case (talk) 16:49, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
Just wanted to make you aware of the Post-expand include size problem pointed out by the IP, and further comments on my talk page here. I think you are doing a great job, identifying these templates, and proposing them for deletion. But, if there is anyway that you could see to proposing at a slightly slower rate, it would be much appreciated. Sure, we could restructure the way that the discussions are displayed, but there is the broader issue of trying to create a manageable workload, and not create fatigue for the folks who comment. By the way, if you find very obvious ones, you can always use prod or CSD-T3, which should close in the same amount of time. If you find that there is a backlog of prods or CSD-T3, just drop a note on my talk page and I will see what I can do. Just a suggestion. Thanks! Plastikspork―Œ(talk)23:21, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
Templates are not eligible for prod, I believe. I have been using T3; sometimes the supercession/supercedence or redundancy is not "obvious", though, and discussion may be warranted. A lot of the things I am sending to TfD are pretty uncontroversial - they would have fit the T1 sriteria (IIRC), but that's now repealed. The TfD relisting process should handle the non-obvious ones. Also, Plastikspork, you can close uncontroversial TfDs without relisting - you relisted a whole bunch of orphaned templates recently that probably could have been scrapped without discussion. Thanks for admin-ing TfD, by the way. It's a great help. — This, that, and the other (talk)01:52, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Oh, I neglected to answer your main point! Sorry. It is a problem, I suppose. I will keep it in mind when nominating TfDs. I personally use the date pages for viewing TfDs, so I never see such issues occurring. I guess days with 100 TfDs (there was one recently) don't help the situation, and once again I will consider this issue. — This, that, and the other (talk)02:49, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hang on}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion, or "db", tag; if no such tag exists, then the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate and adding a hang-on tag is unnecessary), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, you can contact one of these administrators to request that the administrator userfy the page or email a copy to you. — This, that, and the other (talk) 00:28, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
My apologies, it seems you are an admin yourself! I didn't realise; copying the user warning notice here seemed something more typical of newer users. I suppose WP:DTTR applies here. — This, that, and the other (talk)11:07, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
I noticed you TfD'd that template - it hadn't been forgotten about actually, cos it was still actively in use by about 10 users over at WP:ACC - and the bot that did the welcoming for the account creators still had links to it, so was posting broken code on newbies talkpages :S. All fixed now though, that template was removed from the list, and to stop this happening again, I'm gonna list with links all the templates that are used by ACC - mainly so they show up in Special:WhatLinksHere. :)
I guess what I'm saying is that if a template has no links to it, subst:ed or not, it's not necessarily forgotten about, and might be used elsewhere. :P
Thanks for letting me know. There is so much stuff in template space that should not be there, and it doesn't help that a lot of it has absolutely no documentation whatsoever. It helps greatly if the template {{substituted}} is transcluded onto all templates that should have no transclusions due to substitutions. And, of course, creating a directory of links to used templates helps out a lot too. Thanks. — This, that, and the other (talk)05:37, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
I have commented at the page you linked. I don't see what you think can be gained from the template being deleted; it was made to match up with other existing food WikiLove templates, e.g. the cheeseburger template/s. Are you going to nominate those for deletion as well? Wikipedia may not be a site for daily ceremonies like those Twitter or Facebook things, but it's not a site for monotone work in which people stick to writing and maintenance without any association with each other except on projects, nor without different users giving gratitude to each other. Even Jimbo Wales is in support of WikiLove templates, based on what I've read. Wilhelmina Will (talk) 05:39, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
The template seemed a bit silly at the time, that's all. You're welcome to vote keep on the TfD. Personally I don't see the point of WikiLove food templates - giving someone a virtual burger, salad, etc. seems a bit strange to say the least. I'd be horrified if I received one. But others, I'm sure, won't agree with me. — This, that, and the other (talk)05:42, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
(In reply to your withdrawal comments) I think I must also apologize for getting a little hot-headed; I guess for those on either side of a discussion, it's tempting to get "over-zealous", as you put it. I hope we can both put this past us and be on good terms; after all, in any situation, Wikipedia benefits best if the users remain peaceful. Cheers! Wilhelmina Will (talk) 06:52, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
This that and the other, You need to butt out of Indiana Affairs unless you are a member of WikiProject Indiana. One deletion is one thing but you are responsible for the deletion of numerous Indiana Templates just in the last month and it needs to stop, Now. Before you go mass-deleting stuff, I suggest you at least join WikiProject Indiana and least try to come to a concensus with the people actually running the project. There are people who put hours of work into these templates and although incomplete, they were in the process of being improved when some of us who work anywhere from 45-60 hours a week can get around to them. ~~ 20:55, 23 January 2011 (CST)
First of all, my apologies for causing you this inconvenience. I have been clearing out old, unused templates, and I must have unexpectedly come across some Indiana-related ones in the course of my work.
Could you please tell me exactly which templates you are concerned about, so I can look back at my deletion nominations? I have nominated hundreds for deletion over the past few weeks, and I cannot recall any specific Indiana-related ones from memory.
If you want the templates undeleted, go to WP:DRV.
I'm not especially interested in Indiana, and I don't intend to join the WikiProject. However, I am happy to collaborate with WikiProjects on deletion-related matters. If an unused template has a WikiProject tag on its talk page, I will normally ask the WikiProject about the template's purpose.
My main point is: please, please make sure you provide documentation on your templates. Without it, no-one (other than the creators and maintainers) has any idea what the templates are for, and they are very likely to be deleted. In addition, if you have any templates that will not have any transclusions due to substitution, you can add the {{substituted}} tag to your templates, which prevents them from showing up in most "unused templates" lists.
My mistake. I had to add the {{tfd}} tag to over 100 templates, and too late I realised I should be using the parameter to provide a link to the correct discussion. Sorry for the inconvenience. — This, that, and the other (talk)08:48, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
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tfd message
I didn't see your message "If you still want them, could you please document them?? No-one has a clue what they are for if there is no documentation." until you edited it because I ignore the details of tfd spam, having seen it too many times. --NE206:21, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
That's alright. For some unknown reason, I posted this on User talk:Ludwigs2 instead of this page. Per your TfD comment, I would like to help fix them, but I really don't have a clue what they are for and and what's wrong with them. — This, that, and the other (talk)06:24, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
This establishes a placeholder to continue discussion of some questions that User:Thparkth was answering on another site. I had followed up questions that belonged on that site with further questions that belong to different topics, in expectation I would be rerouted, which I was, to here. I will return to this site after checking some sites that may deal directly with a security concern that I left hanging. Michael P. Barnett (talk) 14:31, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
This is my user talk page. You are most welcome to continue discussion here, by all means, but it does seem like a strange choice.
To communicate with an admin privately, choose one, and use the "E-mail this user" link under "toolbox" on the left side of the page. You need to have an e-mail address set up in your preferences for this to work, I think. For less sensitive matters, see this page: WP:AN.
I suppose so. I get worried about G2, though, because WP:G2 has no wording whatsoever. I always imagined G2 to be narrowly construed (i.e. intentional tests of editing like [[File:Example.jpg]]'''Bold text'''''Italic text''). I'll keep that in mind for future, though. Thanks. — This, that, and the other (talk)23:35, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
I've removed {{LSR/syntax}} and {{LPR/syntax}} from /Unused templates. I would suggest also excluding subpages which are preloaded (although these can be very difficult to detect) and subpages of the various citation templates. Many of the citation template subpages are retained for attribution or historical purposes. There are also regression test subpages such as {{Cite IETF/regression tests}} and {{Cite book/regression tests}} which go along with the sandbox and testcases subpages. I would also advise care for subpages of WikiProject banner templates, especially those which make use of {{WPBannerMeta}} (and also subpages of {{WPBannerMeta}} itself). Sometimes such subpages are used in surprising ways and occasionally left in place for future use or reference when the parent template is modified. We had a number of these for WP:COMP which did article assessment quality/importance category intersections which I finally fixed this last year (those should be transcluded now).
While I see quite a number of stale subpages of Template:Latest stable software release/ and Template:Latest preview software release/ (including some that just need to be renamed to follow the parent article), many of these are/were also transcluded from software comparison articles. Within the last year we had a SPA who was fixated and hell bent on removing entries for multimedia player software. When challenged, he then retaliated by targeting and bulk removing material from other articles I had worked on. Giving these subpages a quick overview, I would estimate that about 40% of these should and will eventually be re-transcluded as those comparison articles are repaired. At least this list gives me a better idea of the scale of the damage this individual did. --Tothwolf (talk) 12:32, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the message, Tothwolf. The list of templates is intended to be a raw list of unused templates. I personally have not been manually removing templates from the list when they no longer satisfy the inclusion criteria (i.e. they are in use, or have {{substituted}} applied to them) - I have only been removing obvious redlinks, mainly because the page's huge size (> 800 KB) means any edits take a long time to be processed. I also plan to regenerate the list every so often. However, you are welcome to remove templates that have been put in use.
Just as an aside, the theoretical aim is to hugely reduce the size of the list by either deleting templates, putting them into use, or applying the {{substituted}} template. There are still going to be some left behind, but hopefully far, far fewer than the 14,000 or so there are now. The aim is not to "delete them all", but rather to establish why they are unused, and act accordingly. I'm glad you find the list useful. — This, that, and the other (talk)06:18, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
The trouble is you are going at this, apparently, without a care. Templating me for Xrefx which clearly says "please do no delete" indicates that you didn't even look at the edit history. It also is annoying to get "Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and the page that you created has been or soon will be deleted." as an established editor, the first few times it is amusing. After that it smacks of disrespect - surely you could leave me a note saying "is this template needed", knowing that I would either confirm that it was or delete it? RichFarmbrough, 17:34, 11 February 2011 (UTC).
Now, I can't argue with you, Rich; you have warned me to "not template the regulars" in the past... The template is now deleted, so I cannot review the page history to see if I did indeed look at it. But the template contained only three characters ("ref"), and it was unused, which seemed to me like a good enough reason to delete it. I apologise for this instance and previous instances of my carelessness, and will endeavour to be more careful in future in cases where an established and active editor is the creator. — This, that, and the other (talk)23:52, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, and thanks for adding the chunk of templates to the holding cell. I had asked for some assistance with merging the French Calendar templates, and it was subsequently forgotten. Thanks again. Plastikspork―Œ(talk)19:40, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your note on my talk page. I don't understand your message. Can you explain, please. My wiki lei barnstar is my personal user one to say thanks when I remember to helpful users. I don't remember creating a template for my barnstar. Another user cleaned up my original barnstar and maybe he created a template? teinesaVaii(talk)04:12, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
I'm very sorry about that. The template was in a poor state (it was broken in some way - I don't remember the specifics), and so I thought it was not worth keeping. However, if you want it back, you can ask the deleting admin, Sphilbrick, to userfy it for you (that means, put it into your userspace, from where you can still transclude or substitute it onto other pages). — This, that, and the other (talk)06:22, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
You mean I can't use my lei barnstar anymore? 'cos the code is broken? Can you plz tell sphilbrick and put it back to 'normal' for me. It always takes me too much time figuring out what to say and techie speaking...Thank you. teinesaVaii(talk)06:39, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Speedy deletion of Template:National parks of Azerbaijan"
Yes I accidentally created two identical templates (instead of one) for the National Parks of Azerbaijan page. I realised my mistake on the day after I created it (them). Since there is already the same one for the article I created, you can certainly erase the duplicate one where you added speedy deletion tag.
That's the first time anyone's called me "knowledgeable" around here! Anyway, I find this sort of rubbish sitting around in template space occasionally. I've had these deleted under G6, because they are "articles in the wrong namespace". I nominated this particular one for G6 with rationale "article in template namespace - basically a copy of TEIMUN - no use keeping this unused template". (Using {{db|CSD G6 - article in wrong namespace, and CSD A10 - duplicate of TEIMUN}} could work too.) — This, that, and the other (talk)06:02, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
File source and copyright licensing problem with File:Image page sandbox.png
File Copyright problem
Thanks for uploading File:Image page sandbox.png. I noticed that the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content, so the copyright status is unclear. If you did not create this file yourself, you will need to specify the owner of the copyright. If you obtained it from a website, then a link to the website from which it was taken, together with a restatement of that website's terms of use of its content, is usually sufficient information. However, if the copyright holder is different from the website's publisher, their copyright should also be acknowledged.
As well as adding the source, we also need to know the terms of the license that the copyright holder has published the file under, usually done by adding a licensing tag. If you created/took the picture, audio, or video then the {{GFDL-self}} tag can be used to release it under the GFDL. If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use.
As I said at the TfD, G8 was probably the wrong criterion. G6 is better - there are no articles to which this navbox can be added, since they don't exist. So it is a useless template. — This, that, and the other (talk)09:01, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Administrators have deleted many similar templates (which are filled with redlinks) in the past under G6. Could I please ask that you refrain from removing speedy deletion tags from such templates in future, and leave the judgment to deleting administrators? Often, they will interpret the speedy deletion criteria in a broad sense. Actually, strike that; it appears that an admin has in fact declined the speedy. My apologies. It just seems so silly to wait a week for a TfD outcome, and fill up the process page unnecessarily with a nomination whose outcome is pretty obvious. — This, that, and the other (talk)01:01, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
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It's not a vanity page... it's a testbed for various changes to Twinkle that are happening at the moment. Sorry for breaking your little run of fun :) (For future reference, the page does say "Feel free to manually remove any {{db}} tags if they are troubling you", so you could have removed the {{db-vandalism}} if you had wanted to. Thanks for not deleting it, though.) — This, that, and the other (talk)08:52, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
But the patrolling won't work!! :( Anyway, thanks so much for doing that. Wikipedia.page must be nearing completion, mustn't it? (btw, I'm on IRC for a few minutes.) — This, that, and the other (talk)10:48, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
Thanks very much for finding those. It's easy to miss these broken nominations. I can't even remember my rationales for those, but I'll think of some new ones. — This, that, and the other (talk)00:37, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I am curious why you decided to create Lead to, especially as wiktionary does not even have an article on "lead to". Yoenit (talk) 10:44, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
I'll do it eventually. I can see the benefit of having all CSDs logged, as contributions is useless for this.
But let's not let this hold up Twinkle development. We absolutely must ensure backward compatibilty with all scripts using morebits, including Tim's, even if it means putting morebits v2 at User:AzaToth/morebits2.js or something. — This, that, and the other (talk)07:44, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
Great work!
Twinkle Barnstar
For the many hours of fantastic, dedicated work you put into organizing and executing the Twinkle rewrite, I decorate you with the Gold Vitruvian Barnstar with Twinkle Head, custom-built for the occasion. Thanks! Amalthea22:19, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks very much! It's taken a long time, but we're getting there. And it's not finished yet... we haven't even added the Friendly files to the github tree, let alone begun to update them. — This, that, and the other (talk)00:53, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
An award for your service.
Having had a look through you total edits and service record, I have noted that you have earned (and a bit more):
This editor is a Yeoman Editor and is entitled to display this Service Badge.
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Templates created by Sfan00_IMG
Thanks for adding the substitution template on the Commons related one.
Could I be very bold and ask you to look over all the templates I've created with a view to getting them
tagged appropriately and documented.
I've also sent a number of the templates I've created to WP:TFD on the grounds I'm not sure they quite
meet the purpose they were created for, or in compliance with other policy.
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Twinkle, possible bug, or am I doing it wrong?
Tagged an an artcle with Cleanup and Copyedit, and hit cancel for the cleanup detail box. Once refreshed, the following was there:
"{{cleanup", followed by the copyedit tag.
When I removed this, however, something truly bizzare happened - the "}}" from the copyedit tag, which previously was fine!
Please give an option for administrators to suppress that from showing up. I would prefer to use Mr.Z-man's script for now, as Twinkle's is apparently buggy (when I tried to use it on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrew W. Saul, it told me the affected article was "Edit section: Andrew W. Saul" instead of "Andrew W. Saul". NW(Talk)22:06, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
The new Twinkle project has clearly been a mammoth task, and this is my recognition of everyone involved (and if I missed anyone, please let me know). The new look and feel, the new features, the prefs GUI, are all great, and rewriting it to use the API sets us up for HTML 5 (if not infinity) and beyond. And considering the wide impact, the implementation went remarkably smoothly - main teething issues solved quickly, and it finally inspired me to upgrade to Firefox 4 -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 18:03, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
OK for starters, this talkback now reloads the recipients talk page which isn't really necessary - I don't see a need to check that the tb template has been placed. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:53, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
OK. I've been so confused I didn't realise. No a priority, but could it be made an option not to reload?
More important: On all user warnings, the field for optional 'more' comments: Would it be possible to place the italicised optional additional comments in italics before 'Thank you'?
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That list is informative only. The list consists of custom scripts which are most likely used by the particular user only, ... so they effectively own them. Besides, the list is now largely irrelevant, and should be ignored. — This, that, and the other (talk)22:38, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
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Hello. You have a new message at User_talk:UncleDouggie#twinklecommon.js's talk page.
-- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 18:03, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
