User talk:Sam Sailor/Archive 15
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Please comment on Talk:Richard B. Spencer
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Me again
Well Sam, seeing as you are admin is there any chance too remove what I stated in NeilN talk page in relation too OReilly puppeteering thanks PjdW97 (talk) 00:47, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
- Actually, it's the other way around, NeilN is an admin, I'm not, so you should talk to him. I have removed the mention of L. from, well, you know from which page. I think the less we talk about the matter, the better. Very soon all messages will be archived and nobody will think about it. Take care, — Sam Sailor 03:35, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
- Your email address has been removed from almost everywhere. I've left it up to another admin to take care of their talk page. The post to my talk page will not be revdelled (hidden) as it contains no personally identifiable information. You will, I trust, think twice about what you're posting in the future. --NeilN talk to me 05:11, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
- And that admin has hidden it on their talk page now. Hopefully that's the end of it. --NeilN talk to me 05:23, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
SF9 Members
Hello!
The SF9 members (Rowoon, Taeyang and Dawon) do NOT have any individual activities besides being alongside their group, SF9. The too soon clause is enough, but I expanded the AfD rationales. They are NOT independently notable, so they can't have their own page as of now. Hope you understand!
Tibbydibby (talk) 05:51, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
- Hello Tibbydibby, I replied in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yoo Taeyang. Consider also for the other member articles if a categorized {{R from member}} to SF9 per alternatives to deletion would be useful search terms. — Sam Sailor 06:06, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
New Page Review-Patrolling: Coordinator elections
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This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2017)
Växjö surrounded by lakes, as seen from an airplane
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Wikidata weekly summary #248
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Past: GLAMwiki meeting in Paris, February 16-17th
- Incoming: Wikidata workshop in Grenoble (France), March 7th
- If Voltaire had used Wikipedia… using Wikidata to share knowledge about an author
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WMF open call for Project Grant proposals (Feb 13-Mar 14)
- Wikimania: the deadline for applying for scholarships is 20 February 2017 23:59 UTC. Submissions are running until end of March (see our discussions about Wikidata-related topics)
- Wikimedia Deutschland is hiring a fullstack developer and an engineering manager to work on Wikidata
- Editing Wikidata descriptions from Wikipedia app (beta)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: USA Gymnastics athlete ID, Tennis Archives player ID, Swimming Australia swimmer ID, Sambafoot player ID, International Weightlifting Federation ID, EPCR player ID, L'Équipe football player ID, Futsal Planet player ID, Fotbal DNES player ID, Football Federation of Ukraine player ID, Fora De Jogo manager ID, FootballFacts.ru player ID, Estonian Football Association player ID, DZFoot.com player ID, Croatian Football Statistics ID, Cross-tables.com Scrabble player ID, BDFutbol player ID, Chess.com player ID, ARRS runner ID, Kontinental Hockey League player ID, American Hockey League player ID, JMK film rating, IDEAS person ID, NatureServe conservation status, NBA player ID, Basketball Hall of Fame ID, All Blacks player ID, FFR player ID, significant environmental impact, ARCHON code, Uniform Type Identifier, National Drug Code, Key to English Place-Names (KEPN) ID, Oorlogsmonument ID, European Medicines Agency product number, PDB ligand ID, Peakbagger area ID, The Met object ID, British Museum place ID, British Museum thesaurus ID, Babelio work ID, Babelio author ID, stated age at event, British History Online VCH ID, Historical Gazetteer of England's Place Names ID, Australian Antarctic Gazetteer ID, Kirshenbaum, Common Weakness Enumeration ID, BadmintonLink player ID, rusbandy player ID, Darts Database player ID, Bwfbadminton.com player ID, ski-db.com skier ID
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- Newest external tools: wikidata-cli can now edit Wikidata, edit Wikidata from NodeJS
- Development
- Making final fixes to initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
- More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
- Fixed an error on d:Special:ConstraintReport (phabricator:T158183)
- Wikidata Query Service got additional servers, the data has been reloaded to fix a number of issues caused by missed updates and an increase of the time-out of 30s is being looked into.
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Akatombo - thank you
I just wanted to take a minute to thank you for your edits to Akatombo (and to Midsommer before that). It's pretty inspiring, and I'm learning a lot from watching how you work on these articles. Mortee (talk) 16:13, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks, that's very kind of you. I know the feeling; not a day goes by without seeing someone else here do things in a smart way, using a template I never heard of before, pointing to a WP shortcut that I didn't know existed, or just wording something in a way I wish I could have done half as good. Best, — Sam Sailor 17:34, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
- Good work. Ethanbas (talk) 17:26, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks, and it's free. — Sam Sailor 17:34, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
- Good work. Ethanbas (talk) 17:26, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
New Page Review - newsletter No.3
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An article you contributed to has been nominated for Did You Know
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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2017)
Parallel goods traders queuing outside Sheung Shui Station in Hong Kong
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Wikidata weekly summary #249
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- Discussions
- New request for comments: Proposal to include command line arguments to Command line tool
- We need your input on SPARQL federation
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Describing Wikidata items with OpenStreetMap tags
- Deadline for applying to Wikicite 2017 is February 27th
- Quora blog post about their collaboration with Wikidata. They are now displaying links to Wikidata items in their topic management pages - about 88K of them, so far.
- Community Digest: Using data to visualize Wikipedia knowledge gaps; news in brief
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There is now a Community for Wikidata editors on Facebook
- You can now make your Harvest Templates tasks run automatically. After you have generated a permalink to your task, add
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which will only prepare the task for running. - Wikidata description editing in the Wikipedia Android app for Hebrew, Russian and Catalan
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- Newest properties: GPnotebook ID, regulated by, NCMEC person ID, MEROPS enzyme ID, social classification, NISH Hall of Fame ID, Recreation.gov facility ID, category for value not in Wikidata, objective of a project or mission, Vanderkrogt.net Statues ID, Jewish Encyclopedia Daat ID, category for value different from Wikidata, PhDTree person ID, Gridabase glacier ID, RITVA Person ID, RITVA Program ID, KMDb film ID, JMDb person ID, Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts ID, incarnation of, NHF player ID, Transfermarkt referee ID, Tennis Australia player ID, SRCFB player ID, SRCBB player ID, SpeedSkatingStats speed skater ID, SpeedSkatingNews speed skater ID, ShorttrackOnLine speed skater ID, NCAA sports team ID, ISHOF swimmer ID, IFSC climber ID, ICF slalom canoer ID, ICF sprint canoer ID, ESPN NHL player ID, ESPN NFL player ID, ESPN NBA player ID, DriverDB driver ID, LFP.fr player ID, AOC athlete ID, ESPN FC player ID, statement supported by, stock market index, SA Rugby player ID, Wereld van Oranje player ID, National Bridge Inventory Number, Hans Christian Andersen Centre's work ID, Mutopia composer ID, film-documentaire.fr film ID, International Orienteering Federation athlete ID
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- Development
- Continued to finalize the initial version of Federation (needed to be able to use Wikidata items and properties to describe media on Commons in the future)
- More work on baseline for Lexeme entity type for Wiktionary support
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The Signpost: 27 February 2017
- From the editors: Results from our poll on subscription and delivery, and a new RSS feed
- Recent research: Special issue: Wikipedia in education
- Technology report: Responsive content on desktop; Offline content in Android app
- In the media: The Daily Mail does not run Wikipedia
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Please comment on Talk:Melania Trump
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Providence:
The old article for the New Religious Movement has been split into several articles. See:
- Christian Gospel Mission
- Jung Myung Seok
- Media Allegations, Criminal Charges, and Conviction of Jung Myung Seok
--Harizotoh9 (talk) 16:43, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks for notifying me, Harizotoh. — Sam Sailor 17:15, 27 February 2017 (UTC)
- Oh joy, the push is happening again. Look at the contributions for 어거스틴 (talk · contribs) - created on the 15th, then 10 small edits today and boom, big edits to Providence article. Surely no COI there, nope! Nooooo, not those articles. Ravensfire (talk) 03:04, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
- Jung Myung-seok was arrested in May 2007, and sentenced to 10 years in 2009. I don't think it's a coincidence that we, after a period of relative calm surrounding Providence (religious movement), see a big push now prior to what must be his expected release from jail. Buckle up! — Sam Sailor 10:45, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
About OmarGosh
Hey man, I saw you deleted my article on OmarGosh because it had been previously deleted. I just want to let you know that I fixed the initial issue of it not having a single relevant source, but this time I actually provided several news articles. I would appreciate if you would help me do all that I can to get this page back. Thank you very much! User: MrProEdits (talk) 14:40, 1 March 2017 (UTC)MrProEdits
WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 10
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This month, we discuss the new CollaborationKit extension. Here's an image as a teaser:
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This week's article for improvement (week 10, 2017)
Hello, Sam Sailor.
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Wikidata weekly summary #250
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- International Open Data Day was on Saturday, 4 March (tweets about Wikidata)
- Wikidata documentation sprint during the Wikimedia hackathon (May 19-21): We need your help to improve Wikidata help pages!
- Getting to know Wikidata (from Bob DuCharme, author of the book "learning SPARQL")
- Tutorial to mashup Wikidata and government data with Dataiku DSS and Palladio (fr)
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Library of Congress updated their inventory of Format Description Documents to include Wikidata URIs
- Surfacing Wikidata objects with coordinates to match them with OSM
- The Wikiproject Welcome has been created to work on welcoming the new editors, feel free to participate
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: FIH player ID, seed dispersal, number of works, inflorescence, minimum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, maximum wavelength of electromagnetic sensitivity, Eurovision Song Contest song ID, Ghetto Encyclopedia ID, category for value same as Wikidata, MOOMA artist ID, PhilPapers record, Serbia cadastral municipality ID, next higher rank, next lower rank, New Zealand Heritage List number, Serbia municipality ID, Eu-football.info player ID, CEV player ID, USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia ID, USCG Lighthouse ID, Commons maps category, public key fingerprint
- Query examples:
- Countries with similar populations (source)
- Items that have "feminist art" as a value (source)
- Books, incipits, concatenating a sentence to the incipit (source and inspiration)
- Paintings by Vermeer depicting maps (source)
- Painters sorted by the number of Wikipedia articles about their works (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: WikiProject Fashion
- Development
- Finishing touches on the new geo shape data type. It is available on the first test wiki now (phabricator:T57549).
- SetLabel, SetDescription, SetAliases, SetLabelDescriptionAliases, SetSiteLink have been migrated to ooUI. Thanks, Ricordisamoa! (phabricator:T48248)
- Making progress on integrating the new Lexeme entity type with the wbeditentity API (phabricator:T155699).
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Please comment on Talk:Olivia de Havilland
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This Month in GLAM: February 2017
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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2017)
Hello, Sam Sailor.
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Wikidata weekly summary #251
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Ladies that FOSS, March 15th, 18:00, Berlin. Meetup dedicated to women who want to start coding for Wikidata, Mediawiki or other open source software
- Wikidata workshop in Manchester, March 17th, 10:00, at the Manchester Central Library (information)
- Wikidata workshop in Paris, March 17th, 20:30. More questions about SPARQL and the Query Service (information and registration)
- Would you like to attend to a Wikidata meetup in Berlin? You can choose the next date!
- Wizards, Muggles and Wikidata: The Room of Requirements for structured knowledge by Jens Ohlig, John Cummings and Navino Evans
- Wikidata for winners (in Economics) by Martin Poulter
- Des Successions à Wikidata : vers un réseau social des philosophes antiques ? (fr) by Pierre-Carl Langlais
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Do you want to help watching the recent changes? Have a look at this useful collection of links by YMS
- Watch the gender gap on Wikipedia and Wikidata with this tool by Envlh
- Play Stadt, Fluss, Land with Wikidata! (by Knut)
- Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
- WMF is hiring a program manager, a product manager and a community liaison to work on the structured data project on Commons
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: pole position, MIMO instrument ID, openMLOL author ID, IPv4 range, Iditarod musher ID, SAHRA heritage site ID, DOCOMOMO Ibérico ID, average space complexity, best-case space complexity, worst-case space complexity, average performance, best-case performance, worst-case performance, Shoftim BeIsrael judge ID, KMDb documentary ID, Google Maps CID, Israel Football Association player ID, SSRN author ID, Wildflowers of Israel ID, World Rugby Sevens Series ID, number of subscribers, ITU/ISO/IEC object identifier
- Query examples:
- List of female bioinformaticians/computational biologists (source)
- Most gender-imbalanced occupations in US citizens (source)
- Awards received by more women than men (source)
- Transgender characters played by trangender actors/actresses (source)
- The most famous astronomical objects in Solar System according to Wikipedia sitelinks (source)
- Natural arches around the globe (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Board Games
- Newest external tools: official first release of WikidataIntegrator
- Development
- Converted undo/restore interface to use OOUI. You can test it here (phab:T134643).
- Fixed an other rounding issue on geo coordinates (phab:T158772).
- Added thumbnail images to the Wikimedia Commons suggester (phab:T160319).
- Continued working on introducing Lexeme entity type.
- Finishing federation prototype.
- We are going to change all snak, reference, and qualifier hashes with the planned DataModel 7.0 release. If you are a tool developer, make sure you do not persist hashes, and never use them to request edits to entities. Statement IDs are safe (phab:T157965).
- Removed unnecessary CSS on ooui special pages (phabricator:T159702)
- Allowed example queries to be searched for SPARQL commands (phabricator:T154768)
- Converted Wikibase interface for undoing/restoring a revision to OOUI (phabricator:T134643)
- Converted image header user script to gadget (phabricator:T159929)
- Started writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (phabricator:T150785)
- Worked on providing API for constraint check (phabricator:T102757)
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This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2017)
![]() The long-legged buzzard is an example of a bird of prey.
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Weekly Summary #252
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- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin on March 31st
- Upcoming: Datensummit in Berlin, April 29th. We're looking for Wikidata editors to help :)
- Upcoming: Wikidata Workshop in Rennes, March 22nd
- A successful Wikidatathon about women's history in Puri, India
- Wikidata as information source to support the Dutch elections
- Quora: Adding Locations via Wikidata
- Quora: Identifying Topics about People
- How to quickly generate word analogy datasets with Wikidata by Finn Arup Nielsen
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Deadline for submitting a presentation for Wikimania 2017 is March 30th: discuss about ideas or ask for help
- SWAT4LS 2016 poster Linking Wikidata to the Semantic Web
- Mix’n’match interface update
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: FFA ID, European Athletics ID, All-Athletics.com ID
- Query examples:
- Development
- Fixing a bug on the save button (phab:T159244)
- Fixing a bug with the link to the Query Service on an ember query (phab:T156013)
- More work on Federation (phab:T157442, phab:T158169)
- Fixing a bug on geoformats (phab:T158772)
- Fixing a bug on the treemap view (phab:T160320) Thanks EdouardHue for the patch!
- More groundwork on Lexemes (phab:T157791)
- Show thumbnails in commons suggester (phab:T160319)
- Fixing a bug on coordinate (phab:T153429)
- Applying WikimediaUI color palette to Wikibase (phab:T151194)
- Writing spec for technical data model for Wiktionary support (phab:T150785)
- Working on providing API for constraint check (phab:T102757)
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Please comment on Talk:Andrew II of Hungary
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This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2017)
Hello, Sam Sailor.
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Wikidata weekly summary #253
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This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2017-03-27.
- Events/Press/Blogs
- Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Berlin, Friday, March 31st at 19:30 in Neukölln
- Upcoming: Wikidata IRC office hour, April 5th, 16:00 UTC, on #wikimedia-office connect
- A tool to estimate gender gap on Wikidata and Wikipedia (source)
- (fr) Odonymie rennaise : que nous apprend Wikidata sur les noms des voies de Rennes ? (source)
- Wikidata's excellent sample SPARQL queries by Bob DuCharme
- 10 steps to integrate CIViCdb with other public data in Wikidata
- Other Noteworthy Stuff
- RFC: Wikidata → OSM lookup table
- Participate to the definition of the Wikimedia movement's strategy
- The deadline for Wikimania talks submission has been extended to April 10th (check what we're planning around Wikidata)
- Conceptual documentation for the Lexemes and examples (feel free to help translating)
- Did you know?
- Newest properties: FI WarSampo army unit ID, KMRB film rating, FI WarSampo person ID, film script, volcano observatory, BoF person ID, Bivouac.com pass ID, Elle.fr person ID, Evidence & Conclusion Ontology ID, Parks.it ID, YerelNET district ID, The Numbers movie ID, S2A3 Biographical Database ID, Mapa place ID, Tax-exempt heritage asset ID, TV Guide show ID, original film format, Launchpad.net project ID, INEGI municipality ID, Safsal coach ID, Safsal player ID, Star Wars Databank ID, autonomous system number, Bureau of Meteorology station ID, Flora of Israel plant ID, Dictionary of Sydney ID, IPv6 routing prefix, rate of fire, Art Renewal Center ID, AnimeCons.com ID, Telegram username, BNA author ID, danskefilm silent film ID, danskefilm person ID, danskefilm film ID, CiteSeerX ID, Christie's work ID, Artnet artist ID, has active ingredient, active ingredient in, negative allosteric modulator of, positive allosteric modulator of, antisense inhibitor of, inhibitor of, disrupting agent for, blocker of, antagonist of, agonist of, activator of, PeakFinder ID, It's Rugby ID, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain Book ID
- Query examples:
- Newest database reports: film scripts
- Showcase items: Wressle Castle (Q8037764)
- Development
- Fixing a bug that prevented users to edit descriptions in some non-latin alphabets (phab:T161263)
- Worked on Special:NewLexeme which will be used to create new Lexemes for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T157973)
- Aligned some more colors with Wikimedia color palete (phabricator:T151194)
- Added more autocompletion for the Wikidata Query Service (phabricator:T150950)
- Started working on support for Forms of words in the UI for supporting lexicographical data (phabricator:T160520)
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- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Comment on property proposals: all open proposals - proposals needing attention
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Please comment on Talk:Samaritan Pentateuch
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DYK for Akatombo
On 2 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Akatombo, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Akatombo, or "Red Dragonfly", written by poet Rofū Miki and composed by Kosaku Yamada, is one of the most-loved Japanese songs according to a 1989 survey? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Akatombo), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.
— Maile (talk) 12:03, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
Precious
care to not delete
Thank you for quality articles such as Csokonai Theatre and images, for rescuing Akatombo and others from deletion, for expanding Le Crocodile, for the wealth of information hidden on your seemingly concise user page, for helping with articles for creation, - Sam, you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:21, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
- Ganz herzlichen Dank, liebe Gerda, das war wirklich sehr nett von Ihnen. MfG Sam Sailor 22:36, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
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The edit summary for this edit says "Removed unsourced per my talk page comment; tidy".
Sorry, I spent over ten minutes looking on your talk page, for a comment related to Marianne Ihlen -- without success.
Next time you leave an edit summary, like that, could you put the relevant URL between a pair of brackets?
Thanks! Geo Swan (talk) 22:07, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
- Sorry, Geo, but you are mistaken here. This page is a user talk page, technically that's in namespace 3; my talk page comment to the unsourced material in Marianne Ihlen is found on the talk page associated with the article, Talk:Marianne Ihlen, technically that's in namespace 1. Sam Sailor 11:55, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
- People routinely refer to the page associated with their wiki-id, in the "User talk" namespace, as their talk page. I suspect most contributors would interpret your comment as referring to a comment you left on your talk page -- ie what you would refer to as "my talk page". "Per my comment on the article's talk page...", or "per my comment on Talk:Marianne Ihlen..." would be better choices. Why include the link? What if, the talk page becomes long enough to require archiving of old comments? What if you make additional comment(s) at some future date?
- Fwiw, I shared your concern over the Lena connection, and put a {{cn}} tag on it several months ago. But you undermined the utility of the revision control system, but combining a genuine change to the article's editorial content -- what our readers see, with purely cosmetic -- and frankly unnecessary -- refactoring of how the article's raw markup source appeared in the editor.
- The revision control system depends on linefeeds to recognize the addition of new paragraphs. So the unnecessary addition of cosmetic line-feeds, or the cosmetic elimination of line-feeds, obfuscates the actual editorial change. You did this here. If you had shown restraint, and had merely changed the editorial content you and I were concerned about, your editorial change would have clearly stood out. The revision control system would have recognized just your editorial change, and highlighted your editorial change.
- However, by combining a genuine editorial change with "tidying", the revision control system saw, instead, the deletion of one whole paragraph, and the addition of a brand new paragraph. "Tidying" masked your relatively small editorial change.
- When a paragraph is made up of multiple adjacent lines, eliminating the internal line-feeds, making the paragraph one long logical line is a bad idea, for the same reason, and it confuses the revision control system the same way. And adding internal line-feeds to a paragraph that was one long logical line, also confuses the revision control system.
- When is this kind of purely cosmetic tidying a good idea? I dunno. Rarely. One problem is that different people have different ideas of what is cosmetically pleasing, when viewed in the editor.
- If you absolutely cannot resist "tidying" the internal appearance of articles, would you please try to make sure edits that "tidy" articles don't also contain genuine changes to the article's editorial content -- what our readers actually read?
- Thanks Geo Swan (talk) 22:37, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
- I never before encountered an editor who would go looking for a talk page comment on a user page, so I suspect they are perfectly capable of understanding that "my talk page comment" does not mean "a comment on my user page", but means my comment on the talk page. That is where we put comments related to pages in main space. There's a difference between "my talk page" and "my talk page comment". When you searched in vain for anything regarding Marianne Ihlen here on my user talk page, you should have asked yourself if you were mistaken. A lot of time can be saved with a bit of common sense.
- General fixes, corrections typically done by script to common MOS errors or to clarify formatting, are routinely done concurrently with editorial changes, and I have never before heard anyone making a big deal out of it, please also see WP:COSMETICBOT. I will however, whenever I notice we edit the same article, in the future make it a habit to separate edits.
- While MediaWiki incorporates aspects of revision control systems we simply refer to the page history on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects running MediaWiki, we don't call it "the revision control system".
- When you last edited Marianne Ihlen in 2016 on 12 November, you left the LDRs as an inconsistent mixture of horizontally aligned references, e.g.
- Thanks Geo Swan (talk) 22:37, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
<ref name="Scotsman2016">{{Cite web | title = Obituary: Marianne Ihlen, Leonard Cohen’s muse | last = Davidson | first = Phil | work = scotsman.com | date = 13 Aug 2016 | accessdate = 2016-08-14 | url = http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-marianne-ihlen-leonard-cohen-s-muse-1-4201857 | quote = | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160822233848/http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-marianne-ihlen-leonard-cohen-s-muse-1-4201857 | archivedate = 2016-08-22 | deadurl = No }}</ref>
- and vertically aligned references, e.g.
<ref name=IrishTimes2014-08-06> {{cite news | url = http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/leonard-cohen-s-quest-for-something-higher-1.1888286 | title = Leonard Cohen’s quest for something higher | publisher = [[Irish Times]] | author = Kevin Courtney | date = 2014-08-06 | accessdate = 2014-08-06 | archiveurl = | archivedate = | deadurl = No | quote = And it brought him to the Greek island of Hydra, a haven for poets, writers and artists. One of those was a young Norwegian writer, Axel Jensen, who had moved to Hydra with his wife, Marianne Ihlen, and their infant son. Abandoned by the volatile and capricious Jensen, Ihlen met and began a relationship with the fascinating young Canadian writer with the gentle, measured personality. }} </ref>
- although it is probably preferable to aim for formatting consistency.
- I did so as part of my tidying up on 28 November 2016, I ran the fine Tidy citations.js that harmonizes the whitespace in citation templates, resulting in e.g.
<ref name="Scotsman2016">{{Cite web | title = Obituary: Marianne Ihlen, Leonard Cohen’s muse | last = Davidson | first = Phil | work = scotsman.com | date = 13 Aug 2016 | accessdate = 2016-08-14 | url = http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-marianne-ihlen-leonard-cohen-s-muse-1-4201857 | quote = | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160822233848/http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-marianne-ihlen-leonard-cohen-s-muse-1-4201857 | archivedate = 2016-08-22 | deadurl = No }}</ref>
- and
<ref name=IrishTimes2014-08-06>{{cite news | url = http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/leonard-cohen-s-quest-for-something-higher-1.1888286 | title = Leonard Cohen’s quest for something higher | publisher = [[Irish Times]] | author = Kevin Courtney | date = 2014-08-06 | accessdate = 2014-08-06 | archiveurl = | archivedate = | deadurl = No | quote = And it brought him to the Greek island of Hydra, a haven for poets, writers and artists. One of those was a young Norwegian writer, Axel Jensen, who had moved to Hydra with his wife, Marianne Ihlen, and their infant son. Abandoned by the volatile and capricious Jensen, Ihlen met and began a relationship with the fascinating young Canadian writer with the gentle, measured personality. }}</ref>
- But between 21:27 and 21:45 on 5 April 2017, you returned to the article making 11 individual edits to Marianne Ihlen with the obscure and repeated edit summary "please don't unnecessarily rewrite references, it erodes the utility of the revision control system". Let's just take IrishTimes2014-08-06 as an example that formatted with Tidy citations.js looked like this
<ref name=IrishTimes2014-08-06>{{cite news | url = http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/leonard-cohen-s-quest-for-something-higher-1.1888286 | title = Leonard Cohen’s quest for something higher | publisher = [[Irish Times]] | author = Kevin Courtney | date = 2014-08-06 | accessdate = 2014-08-06 | archiveurl = | archivedate = | deadurl = No | quote = And it brought him to the Greek island of Hydra, a haven for poets, writers and artists. One of those was a young Norwegian writer, Axel Jensen, who had moved to Hydra with his wife, Marianne Ihlen, and their infant son. Abandoned by the volatile and capricious Jensen, Ihlen met and began a relationship with the fascinating young Canadian writer with the gentle, measured personality. }}</ref>
- but where you chose to spend two minutes to make it look like this:
<ref name=IrishTimes2014-08-06> {{cite news | url = http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/leonard-cohen-s-quest-for-something-higher-1.1888286 | title = Leonard Cohen’s quest for something higher | publisher = [[Irish Times]] | author = Kevin Courtney | date = 2014-08-06 | accessdate = 2014-08-06 | archiveurl = | archivedate = | deadurl = No | quote = And it brought him to the Greek island of Hydra, a haven for poets, writers and artists. One of those was a young Norwegian writer, Axel Jensen, who had moved to Hydra with his wife, Marianne Ihlen, and their infant son. Abandoned by the volatile and capricious Jensen, Ihlen met and began a relationship with the fascinating young Canadian writer with the gentle, measured personality. }} </ref>
- The changes are
- (a) adding a line break after the opening ref tag before the template's curly brackets
- (b) removing the two indenting spaces before the pipe characters
- (c) adding a line break after the template's curly brackets before the closing ref tag
- I am all for clarity of the code by e.g. using LDRs and vertically aligned citation templates, but your changes add nothing in that respect and are a waste of time compared to what can be done with Tidy citations.js in seconds.
- 11 edits like this are not only a waste of time, they are clogging up the page history.
- And finally, you do not even apply your preferred formatting to all references. When you are "done" with your 11th edit here, some references are still in the format made by Tidy citations.js. If you attempt to do a job, try to do it properly. It is, ironically, you who "unnecessarily rewrite citations".
- Please make edit summaries that describe your changes, not edit summaries that cast doubtful aspersions on other editors. For this purpose, please acquaint yourself with H:ES.
- You go on to make two edits here and here with the repeated edit summary "removal of linefeeds has to be done with care, or it erodes the utility of the revision control system". Again you are casting aspersion instead of describing your edits. Please become aware that a blank line after a section heading is optional, read MOS:HEAD. Paradoxically this kind of edits fully qualify, in your own words, as
purely cosmetic -- and frankly unnecessary -- refactoring of how the article's raw markup source appeared in the editor
, and again, your edits are applied without any consistency: you add a blank line after the headings Relationships with Axel Jensen and Leonard Cohen and Legacy but the headings Early life, Later life, and Illness and death are left without a blank line after the section headings (edit view). - I am going to re-apply consistent formatting, and hope we are not going to spend more time on such matters in the future. Sam Sailor 02:20, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
- You find that the tidy citations.js script is helpful to you, when you fill out a new {{cite}} template? That's great! Please keep using it on the new {{cite}} templates that you create!
Are you saying, however, that you think it is a good thing to make unnecessary changes to existing templates? You seem to be saying that. And your recent edits seem to have made unnecessary changes to templates that worked already worked fine.
- I leave references in the form I found them, unless they are broken. If they are broken, or are archaic bare-url references, I fix them in my preferred style. But if I add archiveurl fields to an existing {{cite}} template that someone else wrote, all on one line, I add those fields in the least intrusive way I can, so the reference remains on one line, and doesn't erode the value of diffs. I did that here.
Yes, I left some of the article's references with all fields on one line -- because that is how they were first drafted.
- There is a well-known principle in practical engineering, and other practical activities, often paraphased as "If it is not broke, don't fix it."
- You seem to be labouring under the misconception that I made unnecessary changes to the article's {{cite}} templates, when I instead restored them to their original condition. You wrote:
- You find that the tidy citations.js script is helpful to you, when you fill out a new {{cite}} template? That's great! Please keep using it on the new {{cite}} templates that you create!
- The changes are
- "And finally, you do not even apply your preferred formatting to all references. When you are 'done' with your 11th edit here, some references are still in the format made by Tidy citations.js. If you attempt to do a job, try to do it properly. It is, ironically, you who 'unnecessarily rewrite citations'".
- Yes, yes, yes, if we try to do a job, we should do it properly. On November 11th, I added eleven new references to this article. Subsequently someone rewrote them, lapsing from the principle of "if it is not broke, don't fix it." No, I did not change the form of any references. So, what you point to as an inconsistency, on my part, is nothing of the kind, thank you very much. The job I set myself was to restore the references I added, to their original state, which I knew worked. Some of them had not only been refactored, they had had minor edits made. I had used google translate, for the translated titles of some of the references to Norwegian papers, and someone had replaced them with improved translations. If I had blithely pasted my original factoring back in, all at once, I would have disrespectfully have thrown away the improved translations. That's why I restored them one at a time, so I could individually check each reference, one at a time, to see if any actual improvements had been made.
- No, I didn't unnecessarily alter any of the {{cite}} templates I didn't create myself. I didn't do this because, if I had done so, I would have been undermining the utility of diffs for everyone else.
- You asserted:
- "11 edits like this are not only a waste of time, they are clogging up the page history."
- Let me help you out. Go take another look at the article revision history page. Over on the left hand side of the page there are two columns of circles. Did you know you can look at a whole sequence of revisions by clicking on those circles! Click on the circle next the first revision you want to look at, in the left most column; then click on the circle, in the other columen, next to the last revision in the sequence, and hit enter. You get shown a combined diff amalgamating all the revisions in that sequence. I hope this information helps you.
- I have been contributing to the wikipedia since its golden age. Sadly, there are fewer and fewer people adding new content, and keeping existing articles up to date.
- I routinely return to articles that I worked on, many years ago, because I have an update. Well, the first thing I do, is ask for a diff, usually between the last version I edited, years ago, and the current version. Alternately, between a version I know I read carefully, and the current version. I do so to look for genuine changes to what the article tells readers. There is no point adding an update to an article about new developments, if someone else had the same idea, and already added an update.
- What I have found, in recent years, is that I will return to an article I started, and, when I look at the article's revision history, I'll see dozens of other editors had edited the article. Well, that sounds good, right, since this is a collaborative project. Then, when I do that diff, practically the whole article lights up. On closer scrutiny of that diff, there will be clues that many of the edits were merely cosmetic -- what you call "tidying" I find that, to really check for genuine editorial changes to the article's actual content I have to step through each individual revision, one at a time.
- Increasingly, what I have found, is that although lot of other contributors made edits to the article, all of those edits were either replacing the templates the article used with more modern templates, or the tidying you seem to think is a good idea. I routinely find that the article's actual content, what it tells our readers, hasn't been altered at all.
- That so many of the people who enjoyed adding new content, and enjoyed keeping articles current and up to date have been driven away is heartbreaking.
- Now, if those dozens of people who made all those changes to the article's metadata had been more careful, the diffs I tried to use to look for genuine changes to the article's content would have shown me that their had been no editorial change.
- You made a big edit, that included adding unnecessary linefeeds, justifying your edits saying:
- "Please become aware that a blank line after a section heading is optional, read MOS:HEAD."
- Please feel free to place a blank line after any new section heading you create. Or not. As you say, it is optional. Unfortunately, that MOS page is silent as to whether you or I should add a blank line after a section heading, to an existing section. IMO that MOS page should urge contributors to be careful to resist the temptation to add a cosmetic linefeed to an existing section heading, as you did in your big edit.
- Ideally, the paragraphs in the before and after columns should line up, be adjacent. When the diff system places the same paragraphs adjacent to one another, it is smart enough to provide detailed inner highlighting of those paragraphs, showing individual changes to spelling, punctuation, and rephrasing. A reader can easily see where a sentence has been removed, or a new sentence added. They can see when a sentence has been rewritten.
- But, because you added unnecessary linefeeds, for purely cosmetic reasons, the paragraphs DON'T line up. The diff engine can't help us by providing that detailed highlighting of the small scale changes. Consider the paragraph that begins with "She fell in love with Norwegian writer Axel Jensen when they were both teenagers." How can a reader tell if you altered that paragraph. They can't rely on diff to tell them. They have to visually recognize the paragraphs are the same, or similar. Are they the same? Or merely similar? Because you eroded the value of the diff engine with your extra linefeeds it place a very considerable -- and unnecessary -- cognitive burden on other contributors to recognize that you changed the references to use the {{r}} template. Maybe you made other changes? Maybe your purposely, or accidentally, changed the spelling of some words, or purposely or accidentally, changed some punctuation.
- By adding unncessary linefeeds, motivated soley by a concern for the cosmetic, you changed checking your changes from seconds, to minutes.
- I suggest that, from now on, when you read MOS:HEAD saying a blank line following a section heading is optional, you should interpret this as,its optional for the person who first adds the section, and the first paragraph. If that person placed a blank line after the heading, every subsequent contributor should leave that blank line, even those who don't like how it looks. And if that person didn't leave one, even though some of us might prefer one, we should honor the principle of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Geo Swan (talk) 11:28, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
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I notice that in no instance above do you point to a guideline that supports your ideas of editing and formatting.
The spirit of WP:MOS is clear: "The goal is ... consistent and precise language, layout, and formatting." When it comes to formatting citations, a script like Tidy citations.js does a good job by and large, but if you want to uphold some sort of opinion that citation formats should not be changed from how they were first drafted
- it is to me obscure what it is you really want - then your next step should be to open a RfC on the appropriate project page to get community feedback. I understand you better when in regards to MOS:HEAD you write If that person placed a blank line after the heading, every subsequent contributor should leave that blank line
. I guess that theoretically could be done, but to avoid having to look through the entire page history it could only be done by adding a hidden message similar to {{anchor comment}} saying something to the effect that <!-- Please do not remove the blank line following this heading.-->
or <!-- Please do not add a blank line following this heading.-->
, and that to me seems so overly complicated that I doubt it will gain much traction if any. WP:KISS comes to mind. Feel free to open a RfC also in this regard, but please post no more personal opinions regarding formatting on my user talk page.
A few more comments:
Let me help you out. ... Over on the left hand side of the page there are two columns of circles.
Cmt.: Let me help you out with terminology again: those "circles" are called radio buttons. Did you know that loading responsiveHistoryCompare.js makes revision selection even easier? I notice that your global.js and your common.js are both redlinked, and that your monobook.js contains only one entry, but why not start by installing Tidy citations.js: Add{{subst:js|User:Meteor sandwich yum/Tidy citations.js}}
to either your common.js or your skin script file, save the file and bypass your browser cache. For help on usage refer to User:Meteor sandwich yum/Tidy citations.You made a big edit, that included adding unnecessary linefeeds
. Cmt.: Wrong again, I removed your unnecessary blank lines. Check out WP:WIKEDDIFF and see if that could possibly eliminate some of the misreadings.IMO that MOS page should urge contributors to be careful to resist the temptation to add a cosmetic linefeed to an existing section heading, as you did in your big edit.
Cmt.: You are repeating yourself and you are still wrong, I removed your unnecessary blank lines, I added none. If you want the wording of MOS:HEAD changed, bring it up on the project talk page, but that's weird since you have added blank lines.Because you eroded the value of the diff engine with your extra linefeeds it place a very considerable -- and unnecessary -- cognitive burden on other contributors to recognize that you changed the references to use the {{r}} template.
Cmt.: I suppose we are now talking about this diff, but again, no extra line breaks were added, so if you find it difficult to recognize the change of e.g.<ref name=Nrk />
to{{R|Nrk}}
perhaps the reason is something else.By adding unncessary linefeeds, motivated soley by a concern for the cosmetic, you changed checking your changes from seconds, to minutes.
Hmmm. I "changed checking my changes from seconds, to minutes"? Right. Sorry, such nonsense is not productive and calls for a wrap. Consider this section closed. Sam Sailor 08:40, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
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could you please be more careful...
In this comment you wrote: "We would appreciate a source for your above mentioned claim." Did I add the assertion that Lorca Cohen had a second child? No. I did not.
It was added in the first of these four minor edits, made by someone else. Geo Swan (talk) 00:01, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
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