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Interwiki problems
Just curious, but regarding this edit (and the previous ones), how was the interwiki problem fixed? — Huntster (t @ c) 01:08, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
- I forcefully changed all the other wikis, so that the linkage was the same across all languages. βcommand 01:09, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
- Ah, I was worried about that. Well, not really possible to do anything else, I guess...in that specific situation, the other language articles themselves were wrong, using one binomial name but describing the other type of fish, or mixing details of both fish into a single article and failing to differentiate. Don't be surprised to see the problem resurface, because of Ghost Catfish, which is the other half of the equation. — Huntster (t @ c) 01:17, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
- If that happens just poke and I can re-fix the problem. It wasnt that hard to fix. βcommand 01:18, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
- Ah, I was worried about that. Well, not really possible to do anything else, I guess...in that specific situation, the other language articles themselves were wrong, using one binomial name but describing the other type of fish, or mixing details of both fish into a single article and failing to differentiate. Don't be surprised to see the problem resurface, because of Ghost Catfish, which is the other half of the equation. — Huntster (t @ c) 01:17, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
nobots
I add this because when I'm copy-editing, I end up with edit conflicts with the bot who arrives to correct something that appears to it to be an error, or that is being fixed in the edit the bot prevents. I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't remove it. SlimVirgin talk|contribs 14:44, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
- if you leave it temporarily i have no issues, but if its there for more than a week there is a problem. βcommand 15:02, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Slip of the fingers at ANI?
Did you intend to remove this section from ANI? Lack of an edit summary leads me to think it was a mistake, but would appreciate confirmation. LessHeard vanU (talk) 18:19, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
- I was archiving several older stale threads due to the size of ANI, (over 400kb) I forgot to make an edit summary there in my haste to avoid an edit conflict. βcommand 18:21, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
- I reverted the archive page as when Baseball Bugs reverted your change it created the same information on two pages. You may want to revert that change. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 18:30, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
- I'm not going to bother to look, but I am fairly sure that one of the issues that surrounded previous discussions about your activities regarding editing WP is that you really need to ensure you have consensus for such actions as pre-emptive archiving. There is a bot that archives ANI pages, which obviously works to the general consensus of when archiving is appropriate. I remember the rationale from those old discussions, that very big pages take ages to load on dial up internet and navigation can be frustration - I don't recall a consensus arising that unilateral archiving may be performed at an individuals discretion. If there is or was a consensus for your actions, would you please direct me to it. LessHeard vanU (talk) 20:12, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
- MediaWiki:Longpagewarning states that talkpages over 70Kb It may be helpful to move older discussions into an archive subpage. See Help:Archiving a talk page for guidance. when a page reaches 400Kb (5.7 times that limit) it might be worth taking a look at what can be done to make it manageable. By archiving stale threads I reduced the load by 25% to make it a little more manageable. when pages get too large they start affecting all users. (I had about a 15-20 second page load) and I have a very good internet connection. βcommand 20:56, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
- I am not going to pursue this matter after this post, but I would remind you that previous issues regarding your interactions included your acting upon interpretations of policy without reference to other parties - and not responding to polite queries, which is obviously not at issue here. Since I am the only person posting here regarding your action, I am going to assume that this is not an instance where "der kummoonitee" is particularly concerned in what you did and I shall then withdraw. LessHeard vanU (talk) 21:17, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
- There is already an archiving bot for WP:ANI, so there is no need to be doing it manually. And with no edit summary, I had no clue what the editor was up to, so I reverted it. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:01, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
- I am not going to pursue this matter after this post, but I would remind you that previous issues regarding your interactions included your acting upon interpretations of policy without reference to other parties - and not responding to polite queries, which is obviously not at issue here. Since I am the only person posting here regarding your action, I am going to assume that this is not an instance where "der kummoonitee" is particularly concerned in what you did and I shall then withdraw. LessHeard vanU (talk) 21:17, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
- MediaWiki:Longpagewarning states that talkpages over 70Kb It may be helpful to move older discussions into an archive subpage. See Help:Archiving a talk page for guidance. when a page reaches 400Kb (5.7 times that limit) it might be worth taking a look at what can be done to make it manageable. By archiving stale threads I reduced the load by 25% to make it a little more manageable. when pages get too large they start affecting all users. (I had about a 15-20 second page load) and I have a very good internet connection. βcommand 20:56, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
- I'm not going to bother to look, but I am fairly sure that one of the issues that surrounded previous discussions about your activities regarding editing WP is that you really need to ensure you have consensus for such actions as pre-emptive archiving. There is a bot that archives ANI pages, which obviously works to the general consensus of when archiving is appropriate. I remember the rationale from those old discussions, that very big pages take ages to load on dial up internet and navigation can be frustration - I don't recall a consensus arising that unilateral archiving may be performed at an individuals discretion. If there is or was a consensus for your actions, would you please direct me to it. LessHeard vanU (talk) 20:12, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
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