User talk:Train2104/Archive2018

Template:Db-u5

Hi Train2104, I hope you're well. Wonder if you could clear something up for me (yes, I'm easily confused!). In Sept 2015 this discussion allowed blatant CV's to be speedy-deleted as part of the WP:NOT policy, and you adjusted the template text a little later. What I've only just noticed is that the Twinkle CSD dialogue box (when you hover over the question mark next to the U5 radio button), says "...with the exception of plausible drafts, pages adhering to WP:UPYES, and résumé-style pages." Now, I must be misreading it somehow, but to me that looks an awful lot like CV's are still an exception—for Twinkle anyway! Hoping you can help :) Have a good weekend. Cheers! —SerialNumber54129 ^{paranoia /cheap shit room} 14:42, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

@Serial Number 54129: The descriptions are coded into Twinkle's code, I've already posted at WT:TW but nobody seemed to have ever responded. – Train2104 (t • c) 20:23, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Cheers Train; you suggest we follow the consensus rather than the twinkle code? Off the record, of course. Take care! —SerialNumber54129 ^{paranoia /cheap shit room} 20:37, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Upcoming changes to wikitext parsing

Hello,

There will be some changes to the way wikitext is parsed during the next few weeks. It will affect all namespaces. You can see a list of pages that may display incorrectly at Special:LintErrors. Since most of the easy problems have already been solved at the English Wikipedia, I am specifically contacting tech-savvy editors such as yourself with this one-time message, in the hope that you will be able to investigate the remaining high-priority pages during the next month.

There are approximately 10,000 articles (and many more non-article pages) with high-priority errors. The most important ones are the articles with misnested tags and table problems. Some of these involve templates, such as infoboxes, or the way the template is used in the article. In some cases, the "error" is a minor, unimportant difference in the visual appearance. In other cases, the results are undesirable. You can see a before-and-after comparison of any article by adding ?action=parsermigration-edit to the end of a link, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Foss?action=parsermigration-edit (which shows a difference in how {{infobox ship}} is parsed).

If you are interested in helping with this project, please see Wikipedia:Linter. There are also some basic instructions (and links to even more information) at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2018-April/001836.html You can also leave a note at WT:Linter if you have questions.

Thank you for all the good things you do for the English Wikipedia. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 21:18, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Deck Roof Car 3662

I noticed you went to the Shore Line Trolley Museum before, since you uploaded a picture of the R17 controls. I was wondering if you could possibly go back to the museum and take a picture of Deck Roof Hi-V Car 3662? The reason is because that is the only example of the Deck Roof Hi-V left, and it would be an excellent idea to have a picture of that car so readers know what the car looks like. Commons doesn't have a picture of that car yet, so you may be the first one to upload a picture of that car.

--Davidng913 (talk) 15:47, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

@Davidng913: Please stop spamming me with these notices. I'll get one when I get one. – Train2104 (t • c) 11:10, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Railfan edit notice

Could you also add it to Amtrak paint schemes? I've been trying to clean it up, but it gets an enormous amount of cruft and arguments. Thanks! Pi.1415926535 (talk) 23:42, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

 Done – Train2104 (t • c) 11:10, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

My error your fix

Thank you Affinanti3 (talk) 06:05, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Train2104,

Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top 100 reviewers.

Less good news, and an appeal for some help

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640 holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.

Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3 December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.

Training video

Due to a number of changes having been made to the feed since this three-minute video was created, we have been asked by the WMF for feedback on the video with a view to getting it brought up to date to reflect the new features of the system. Please leave your comments here, particularly mentioning how helpful you find it for new reviewers.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:14, 14 December 2018 (UTC)