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Edwin Hubble#No Nobel Prize

Hello, I'm Oshwah. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —the one you made with this edit to Edwin Hubble— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 00:54, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Hi Oshwah. The heading has been "No Nobel Prize" since 2012, reflecting that the section is about Hubble not receiving the prize. (I guess my edit summary was crappy.) So I hope you don't mind if I restore that heading again (with a hidden comment pointing out the "No"). --Pipetricker (talk) 07:29, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Out of order

I think that this edit to Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) was out of order. As an uninvolved editor you can use {{HAT}}, but you should not remove other editors comments. I suggest that you revert the edit (and then HAT it if think that to be a good idea). -- PBS (talk) 21:03, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

OK. I should have checked the guidelines first [or thought about it for a second]. Thanks. --Pipetricker (talk) 22:55, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

Just one point

None technical observations should go on the template talk page
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
I think that was a revert. Just one point {{HAT}} takes an unnamed parameter as a title that allows you to explain why you have "hatted" comments. -- PBS (talk) 11:40, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Also consider using {{Archive top}} as an alternative (it is similar to HAT but does not collapse the conversation). Its advantage is that it the text within it is searchable which is helpful when the section is archived. -- PBS (talk) 11:40, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

Yes. I decided to use {{archive top}}. --Pipetricker (talk) 14:58, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you

Thank you for clarifying when to remove the template that says {{REMOVE THIS TEMPLATE}} at Wikipedia: Articles for deletion. I was not sure when to remove this, I thought that the information was ambiguous and did not really clarify whether it meant to remove the template after putting in your own entry. Vorbee (talk) 09:29, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Per: (Archive) in Village Pump (technical)

@Pipetricker: Good morning, I have come to let you know that I do nplan to archive the example I provided for Conveince. Before I can do that though, I've tried to archive something before, and found that unlike Wikivoyage, Wikipedia doesn't have an "Archives" space, or I just haven't found it yet. Do you know if there is an archival space besides my userspace, or of something else? Thanks. Sincerely, User: Zanygenius(talk page) 17:47, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Good evening, Zanygenius. Topic sections at the Village pumps are automatically archived a few days after the latest comment (for the Tech pump it's 10 days). No other archiving should be done, normally.

The automatic archiving is done one section at a time. Therefore, a section heading at the Village pump or on a talk page shouldn't split a topic or a table in two parts, because then the topic or table will be broken if the sections are archived separately at different times. For this reason, I changed the heading within the table to a subheading, making that section a subsection. Subsections are archived as part of their superordinate section, not separately. --Pipetricker (talk) 18:56, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Evening? You must live in Europe or Asia, @Pipetricker:! So I understand that I don't nessicarily have to do anything (with the inclusion of archival), in-spite of the message in your edit review. That does sound reasonable to me. Thanks for the clarification!

Sincerely, User: Zanygenius(talk page) 19:08, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

(I have updated my comment above.)

What I meant with the (think about archiving) comment was that you should think about what will happen with the table and with the discussion topic if that section and the section above it are separately archived at different times.

Now when I write this I realise the comment can easily be misinterpreted to mean that you should be thinking about or make a plan for actively archiving the section. So I will phrase it differently another time.

(By the way, when you comment on a user talk page, you don't have to ping the owner of that page; as you know, when someone writes on your page, you are automatically notified.) --Pipetricker (talk) 09:36, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Regarding subsections on talk pages: There's a catch with subsections: It isn't possible for a section to have content after a subsection but which isn't part of any subsection. So if you add a subsection, that should be for content that is separate from the above section, so that the conversation can continue above the subheading. Because of this, I changed the heading again, from a subheading to a "fake heading" (see Template:Fake heading). --Pipetricker (talk) 10:22, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Scale-invariant feature operator

I have moved user:Ipb.uni-bonn/Scale-invariant Feature Operator to draft:Scale-invariant feature operator. That way, if it gets abandoned again, it will be deleted after six months instead of lurking for six years. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 11:31, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Makes sense. Thanks. --Pipetricker (talk) 12:27, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	Thanks for your ongoing help at WP:VPT. I appreciate your technical answers (like this one) as well as your friendly way of cleaning up formatting. Thanks for helping to make that busy page stay functional. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:17, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

Wow, thank you. That was unexpected! (I'll be thinking about paying it forward!) --Pipetricker (talk) 18:58, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

WP Finance

Thanks for tidying up the redlinks left behind at Template:WikiProject Finance & Investment. Special:PrefixIndex/Category:WikiProject Finance & Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:WikiProject Finance reveal a few more pages which may need a considered opinion. Hope that helps, Cabayi (talk) 17:08, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

A million thanks

Many thanks for your advice on what to do with respect to my loss of ability to get tildes at Wikipedia: Village pump (technical). I have done as you say and now appear to be getting tildes when I press the normal tilde. Thanks a million for your help - it is appreciated. Vorbee (talk) 16:46, 27 May 2018 (UTC) What is more, the "" key and the @ key seemed reversed, but now they are back to normal. Thanks again,Vorbee (talk) 17:06, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

I'm glad it was so easily solved once Redrose64 told us what the problem was. --Pipetricker (talk) 21:34, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Template:FYI

Good idea! [1]. I should have done that years ago.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  16:47, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Ha!, I thought you maybe would do that, but didn't expect it that quickly and thorough. --Pipetricker (talk) 17:30, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

When I realized how much time I've spent typing out that phrase, I was like DAMN, fix this right this second. Heh.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  17:53, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

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Oswald Boelcke RFC

Hello,

The transclusion of the RFC onto the GA nom page is accidental. I have never before posted a RFC, and am bumbling my way through the procedure, learning from my screwups. Apologies.Georgejdorner (talk) 15:11, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

That's what I guessed, and no need to apologize! I mentioned that mostly in case someone more knowledgeable than I would think it's a problem. --Pipetricker (talk) 16:54, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

I moved the RfC from the GA review page to the article's talk page proper, which was good because the transclusion of the review page has now been removed from the talk page. --Pipetricker (talk) 12:49, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Many thanks for your assistance.Georgejdorner (talk) 16:47, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

WP:RD1 at Pachamama

I see that you placed a request for copyvio deletion as it had a 69.8% match with a YouTube video. I just wanted to bring up the fact that the revision (7 February 2008) which introduced this content predated the YouTube video (13 April 2008) by 2 months. Given the CC licensing that Wikipedia operates under, it is a common practice that YouTube uploaders copy text from Wikipedia and it appears that this is what happened in this case. If you have any objections or I missed something, please advise. That aside, thank you for bringing this up and please do tag any potential copyright violations that you see in the future for review. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 05:06, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi! I didn't refer to the YouTube video, but to the ISBN number which was included with the added text, which leads to for example Google Books where the book is dated 2002, or Amazon.com where it's dated 2004. --Pipetricker (talk) 08:54, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping, my apologies then. I cannot verify the result myself right now as it appears the link is either broken or the API down, but will try again later and see if I have any better luck. In the meantime, I have restored the template. Thanks for clarifying and I'm sorry I missed that. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 16:24, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

My fault: For the "url =" parameter to the revdel template, I submitted an ISBN link template (thinking it qualified as "a text explanation"). If you follow that ISBN number link, under "Online text" on the "Book sources" page you should find links to the Google Books and Amazon pages which have publishing years. --Pipetricker (talk) 23:39, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

• I Found the text on the book author's website and have updated the template with the URL. --Pipetricker (talk) 01:10, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

JJMC89 got it by the looks of things. Thanks again for tagging and explaining. --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 06:55, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

DTour

Thanks for fixing that for me! You were correct; that was the only edit I meant to revert. :-) Cheers - ~Oshwah~^{(talk) (contribs)} 10:38, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Talk:Triple parentheses

Thanks for adding the inside-the-collapse-section sig in this edit at Talk:Triple parentheses. Btw, if IP 2605---59E ever shows up there again, they are likely a sock of indeffed troll JSBrackett (talk · contribs). Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 07:19, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

Possible bug in reFill: Space changed to NBSP (in template parameter assignment)

Moved from User Talk:Zhaofeng Li/reFill

Good morning, @Pipetricker:, this may not be my space to intrude, however I assume that when reFill inserted those spaces, then the map wouldn't work right? I would almost take that over to WP:VPT, but for now I have a version that might work for you.  (See right)  Zanygenius_{(talk to me!)(email me!)} 15:34, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for trying to help, but as I don't want to digress this thread from the report of a possible reFill bug, please don't reply to this reply. In the edit I linked to, the only effect on the map was the text " " being added to one of the tooltips, and this has since been fixed. --Pipetricker (talk) 18:06, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Okay then. Good to know that the tooltips have been fixed! Zanygenius_{(talk to me!)(email me!)} 18:43, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for moving this away from there! --Pipetricker (talk) 18:54, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Hopefully I understood what you said right. Your welcome, anyway. (Thanks for sending me a thanks) Zanygenius_{(talk to me!)(email me!)} 19:03, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

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Thank you! --Pipetricker (talk) 09:30, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

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