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Standings Template...

Thanks... You came up with a better fix. See the Sandbox for the template, I was thinking the nowrap should be over the entire line? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:10, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00: I wasn't sure if there was ever a situation in which you'd want the team name to wrap, but if now, adding {{nowrap}} to the whole line would make sense. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 20:16, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

The issue isn't so much the team name wrapping but the additonal symbols wrapping. I can hold on "repairs" until the underlying template is fully fixed. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:23, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

I am assuming this is what's wanted

Team Name ‡

is what you get with a full line nowrap.

What you get if there's no use made of Nowrap:

Team 
Name‡

Team Name
‡

Is what happens with a niave fix of moving the end of the nowrap...

I'm not concerned as to what solution is used as long as it will work and be consistent..ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:23, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

See for example here - Template:2018 American Athletic Conference baseball standings on the entry for Connecticut. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 20:33, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

@ShakespeareFan00: The template in its current state is a bit fragile, so it will still wrap the symbols if there is a space before the closing "|". It's probably best to just put the nowrap inside the CBSB template as you proposed. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 20:35, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks to both of you for resolving, sorry if I came across as difficult - wasn't my intent. Billcasey905 (talk) 20:39, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

@Billcasey905: No problem, glad this was able to be worked out so quickly. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 20:42, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Replacement of Technical13's script

Hello Ahecht, I saw your request to make this old script forward to yours. Would you consider posting this suggestion at WP:VPT to see if people support this? I don't know how common it is to 'silently' replace old scripts, though there would obviously be some benefits. Thanks, EdJohnston (talk) 17:15, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Done --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 18:15, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

ERIC/sandbox

Hello, Your edit to {{ERIC/sandbox}} introduced an error to the template which is being replicated on any page that transcludes it. Could you check the edit please. I think it's caused by the double pipe before article-link thanks. - X201 (talk) 07:44, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

@X201: Thanks for the heads up on the extra pipe. However, no pages transclude {{ERIC/sandbox}} except for Template:ERIC/testcases, and I wasn't seeing any errors there before the change. Where were you seeing this issue? --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 13:22, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

It cropped up on Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, I saw the test cases page on there as well. The transclusion bit was in case there were other pages that I hadn't spotted, the duplicate arguments category can get very crowded at times and it's not easy to spot every occurrence. - X201 (talk) 13:45, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

@X201: Thanks, that makes sense — the space between the two pipes was being interpreted as a second |1= parameter. Should be fixed now. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 13:49, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

List of dramatic television series with LGBT characters

Hi! Would it be possible for you to add a "Page notice" template to List of dramatic television series with LGBT characters? Based on the persistent issues created by many editors who don't follow the hidden message instructions on how to add new rows and content to the table, this notice may be helpful:

Per WP:RELIABLE, please include sources that support the addition of a series and its character(s) to this list. If you cannot provide a source add the following in the Notes section: {{Citation needed|reason=WP:RELIABLE. Verify sexual orientation of all characters.|date=July 2018}}.
Rows are added as one single line from left to right: please do not add cells 2–5 with separate line breaks each. Use one pipe ( | ) for cell 1, and two pipes ( || ) between cells 2–5 as follows:

| Year || Title || Network || Character name/s || Actor name/s || Notes (comment about characters & citations)

Thank you for your consideration. Pyxis Solitary 10:55, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

@Pyxis Solitary: I just copied the entire hidden note in the wikitext into the editnotice. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 13:31, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, Ahecht. :-) Pyxis Solitary 23:51, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Editing the CBC News page

Hello Ahecht,

Thank you for your welcome note. As you correctly point out, I am an employee of the CBC News and have edited the CBC News entry. My goal is to ensure its accuracy. As a journalist, I am committed to transparency and have no use for spin. I am, however, new to editing Wikipedia.

I welcome any questions or comments you have on the changes I have made.

CBCJournalist (talk) 20:04, 19 July 2018 (UTC) CBCJournalist

Movie collection

Bajrangi Bhaijaan was earned 970 cr. Then how it could be 900 cr. I have seen few days ago... It's a wrong information please check it — Preceding unsigned comment added by Beingkhanshahab (talk • contribs) 21:23, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

@Beingkhanshahab: I have not information about the numbers on that page. I was only adjusting formatting. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 21:45, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thanks for your edit. Can you also change the text to read as follows? This is the Los Angeles area task force, a collaboration page for Wikipedians interested in improving coverage of Los Angeles and its ~~nearby~~ neighbors. New participants are welcome; please feel free to join!

BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 22:12, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Actually, delete "nearby." It's redundant. Thanks again. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 22:14, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

@BeenAroundAWhile:

Partly done That template automatically fills in the "this is the BLANK task force" and "coverage of BLANK" with the same value. However, I did update it to ready "Los Angeles area". --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 22:36, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Albinismus

Thanks for the Albinism RM. That had been bugging me for years, but the prior discussions and the trend toward making every "condition" article be about humans by default seemed like a rather uphill climb. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 03:55, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

@SMcCandlish: You're welcome. The outcome had looked favorable based on the comments on the Albinism in biology → Albinism (biology) move. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 23:56, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

A similar but more complicated case is Castration. As a general encyclopedic look-up topic, the mostly pertains to livestock, but the article is entirely about humans, aside from passing mention. The Neutering article has brief info on livestock castration, but mostly just refers to the Castration article as if it has the details, when it does not. It's more of an undeveloped information problem than an article naming one at this point, but it could become the same naming issue later if the content were developed. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 04:14, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

Fixing Lint errors

Hi, this was an incorrect fix. The  was opened inside the link, so it must also be closed inside the link, not outside it. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:08, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

@Redrose64: Thanks. Don't know how I missed that. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 22:09, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Switching R templates over to Module:Science Redirect

I see it's been done for R from alternative scientific name, R to scientific name (and probably, considering the subcat is functional, R from scientific name). However, the two monotypic taxon r-templates ({{R to monotypic taxon}} & {{R from monotypic taxon}} do have those same subcategories (and has had them for a year at least) but are not functional, which suggests to me no one's yet switched them over to said module in spite of what the Module page says. Any chance you could do so, or alternatively if it *has* been switched over, any chance you could figure out why it's not working? AddWittyNameHere 16:04, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

You're right. {{R to monotypic taxon/sandbox}} and {{R from monotypic taxon/sandbox}} were switched over, but not their main templates. They should be all set now. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 17:32, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! It'll be a fair while before I'm gonna get around to diffusing the bunch of unsorted redirects in there (handling r from alt scientific name first..."only" about 48k of redirs left to check and in most cases, sort to appropriate subcat. I'm gonna be surprised if I wrap that up before early-to-mid October) but it's good to know that once I eventually get around to it, those cats will work. AddWittyNameHere 23:04, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

@AddWittyNameHere: You might've noticed that the module also has hooks built-in for mammals (and sub-category rodents), amphibians (and the sub-category frogs), mollusks (and the sub-categories gastropods and bivalves), and arthropods. I put them in because those parameters were being used already on 500 or so templates, but I commented them out because the categories didn't exist. If you're diffusing redirects you might want to keep those categories in mind in case they're ever created. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 23:40, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

I noticed. For now I'm just leaving those alone entirely, as they amount to only a small portion of everything and there's plenty of stuff left to sort that does have an appropriate subcategory (*cough*insects*cough*). I figure once the stuff that can currently be diffused is diffused, it's worth taking a look which further subcategories might be worth the effort/have sufficient numbers. (Mollusks and amphibians almost certainly, not sure on their subcategories; mammals/rodents maybe; same with arthropods; and maybe birds, from what I've seen so far) AddWittyNameHere 23:48, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. (Purge)

Hello Ahecht, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules

New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

Editathons

Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

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Your BRFA

Hello Ahecht, your BRFA (Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Ahechtbot) has been approved. You will need to wait for a different bureaucrat to flag the account before you can start. It will appear in this log. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 02:42, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: Thanks. Shouldn't that link be in this log? --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 20:20, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Oops, yes, and you will be able to see it at Special:UserRights/Ahechtbot. If it goes un-actioned you may request at WP:BN. — xaosflux ^Talk 20:40, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Signatures

User:Universal Cereal Bus' sig is causing problems. I picked out the first RfA I could think of and I looked up WP:requests for adminship/SoWhy and here it was. I will be looking for more in next couple days. L293D (☎ • ✎) 20:40, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

@L293D: Thanks. I added it to the list for Task 2. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 01:43, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

And also JohnHWiki. L293D (☎ • ✎) 02:21, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

@L293D: Thanks. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 02:39, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

Me again

Hello @Ahecht:, it's me looking for some help again. I will be directly, I want something to the previous thing I asked, but now with 3 different results.

When the following parameters are placed: {{{pole_país|}}}{{{pole_piloto|}}}{{{pole_equipo|}}}{{{pole_tiempo|}}}{{{vuelta_rápida_país|}}}{{{vuelta_rápida_piloto|}}}{{{vuelta_rápida_equipo|}}}{{{vuelta_rápida_tiempo|}}} shows: Resultados

When is {{{num_de_ediciones|}}}{{{primera_edición|}}}{{{última_edición|}}}{{{más_victorias_p|}}}{{{más_victorias_c|}}} shows: Resultados ({{{última_edición}}})

So far I made it, but the problem is now I need that when some parameter like {{{edición_resultados}}} the section shows Resultados ({{{edición_resultados}}}), when the parameters {{{última_edición}}} and {{{edición_resultados}}} don't show the same data, that parameter will be used very rarely. I hope you understood me, if you want to help me the actual code is {{#if:{{{pole_país|}}}{{{pole_piloto|}}}{{{pole_equipo|}}}{{{pole_tiempo|}}}{{{vuelta_rápida_país|}}}{{{vuelta_rápida_piloto|}}}{{{vuelta_rápida_equipo|}}}{{{vuelta_rápida_tiempo|}}}|{{#if:{{{num_de_ediciones|}}}{{{primera_edición|}}}{{{última_edición|}}}{{{más_victorias_p|}}}{{{más_victorias_c|}}}|Resultados ({{{última_edición}}})|Resultados}}|}}, and the template is es:Usuario:ShaGuarF1/TallerFicha.

Thank you. shaGuarF1 23:15, 14 August 2018 (UTC).

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Your BRFA

Your BRFA, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Ahechtbot 2, has been approved. Happy editing. — xaosflux ^Talk 18:08, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

Possible linter task for your bot?

I have been working in parallel with you to clean up the div-span-flip Linter errors, mostly working on templates. We have reduced the count in main space from about 17,000 to under 6,000. It looks like many of the remaining errors use <div>...</div> tags inside of Location map templates, in a format like this (from 2015 Thai Division 1 League):

{{Location map~ |Thailand |marksize=11 |lat=13.746323 |long=100.527413 |label=<div style="font-size:60%;">'''Bangkok Metro''' </div>|position=right|mark=black pog.svg}}

As far as I can tell, changing "div" to "span" in two places on lines like the one above fixes the problem. If that works and does not break the display of the maps, would you be interested in adding this change as a bot task?

Also, have you found a community of editors gathering at a Talk page to discuss finding and fixing these errors? I have figured out a few things on my own, but I would benefit from a place to discuss potential solutions. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 08:43, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: I modified the module behind the location templates so it shouldn't generate errors if a div is included. However, it may take a while for each of those pages to be purged from the server cache. If the problem lingers it would be possible to use a bot to manually purge each page with errors, but it's probably not urgent enough to warrant doing that.

I haven't found any centralized location where these fixes are being discussed, other than monitoring WP:VPT. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 15:09, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. That Location map fix looks like it worked. I have started a purge of all affected articles. It should take 15 or 20 minutes. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:56, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for August 28

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Appalachian Mountain Club, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Baker Mountain (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver).

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 09:19, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Template modification

Hello,

Would you please modify Template:Infobox event to be able to contain the information from the official police report from the Shooting of McGlockton? We have waited 13 days from my discussion on the talk page. The time is now to modify the template.

Thank you,
--Wyn.junior (talk) 20:41, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

I noticed you haven't replied. Are you still interested in modifying this template?--Wyn.junior (talk) 19:47, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

I replied on the template talk page. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 21:37, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

Template:GTA table

Need some assistance when you have a minute. I recently made changes to Template:GTA table to update it with a 2018 entry and ref, however, I noticed a minor issue. When I'm in a roller coaster article using this table, the Retrieved date for any citation listed in the table references an old date. For example, if you look at Millennium Force#Rankings and hover over one of the citations, you'll see "Retrieved September 12, 2016". That's how it appears in every steel coaster article. If you go to a wooden coaster article such as Phoenix (roller coaster)#Awards and rankings, it says "Retrieved September 24, 2015".

Do you know where it's pulling that date from? Every entry in the template has the same format for the parameter accessdate, and I'm not well-versed enough in this area to understand how to update that. Also, is it possible to give each entry its own accessdate? Wasn't sure if I could just type that in manually. Thanks in advance! --GoneIn60 (talk) 05:29, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

@GoneIn60: In the call to {{GTA table}}, there is a row that looks like | accessdate = September 12, 2016 (on the Millenium Force page) or | accessdate = September 24, 2015 on the Phoenix page. Updating that on call to the template in the article will update all the access dates for all the references in that table in that article. I have updated the template so that you can override that on a per-row basis with |accessdate2018= (or whatever year you are overriding). --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 17:18, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

More possible signatures for your bot's Task 2

The "Multiple unclosed formatting tags" category contains a number of pages affected by user signatures that your bot may be able to fix. Here are some regexes or signatures to search for:

insource search: insource:/\<small\>Heke!\]/ (170 pages)
insource search: insource:/\#009900\"\>R\<font color\=\"\#00AA00\"\>\l/ (73 pages)
full sig: [[User talk:Roger Davies#Checkuser|Ping!]] --[[User:Roger Davies|<font color="maroon">'''R<small>OGER</small> D<small>AVIES</small>'''</font>]] <sup>[[User talk:Roger Davies|'''talk''']]</sup> 06:10, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm sure there are more. I found these while I was doing something else. – Jonesey95 (talk) 11:15, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Thanks. I have two of those two on my list for Task 3, which I plan to submit for approval sometime next week, and I'll add the third. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 12:31, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Here's a sig with a misnested tag that (according to my insource search) appears on 4,600 pages across all namespaces:

''[[User:WereSpielChequers|<span style="color:DarkGreen">Ϣere</span>]][[User talk:WereSpielChequers|<span style="color:DarkRed">Spiel</span>]]<span style="color:DarkOrange">Chequers</span>'' 18:20, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Fun! – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:27, 8 September 2018 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Thanks. I just got back from vacation an am trying to get caught up. I am only finding 461 results when I search for insource:/Chequers''\</span\>/ (and that is a mix of signatures using #CC5500 and DarkOrange). Either someone cleaned them up while I was away, or you had a looser search than I did. In any case, I added those 461 pages to my next run--Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 17:04, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Search link (7,000 pages, different patterns, but always misnested italic markup and closing span tag, AFAICT). – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:02, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Thanks. Looks like I forgot to escape one of the /s. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 18:11, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Sportsguy17 (277 pages)

Another one (misnested tags, 277 pages in all namespaces):

[[User:Sportsguy17|'''<font color="Blue">Sports</font><font color="Orange">''guy17''</font>''']] <small>([[User talk:Sportsguy17|<font color="Blue">'''T'''</font>]] • [[Special:Contributions/Sportsguy17|<font color="Orange">C</font>]])</small>

More to come. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:39, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, I've added it to the list. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 17:04, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

the_ed17 (207 pages)

Optional: change the font tags to span tags. I haven't been bothering, figuring that a bot could do all of those later. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:10, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. I've only been changing fonts to spans where it makes the wikicode shorter (in this case it helps get rid of the tag):

<span style="font:bold 85% Viner Hand ITC;color:#2F4F4F">Ed [[User:the_ed17/Newcomers|<font color="00008B">1''7''</font>]] [[User:the_ed17|<font color="#2F4F4F">for President</font>]] <sub>''[[User talk:the_ed17#VOTE FOR ED|<font color="#2F4F4F">Vote for Ed</font>]]''</sub></span>

--Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 17:04, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Your BRFA #3

Your BRFA, Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Ahechtbot 3, has been approved. Happy editing, — xaosflux ^Talk 10:52, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Just a question about you bot

I'm just wondering where do you run your bot? Please {{ping|User:BrandonXLF}} me when replying, Thanks, – BrandonXLF ^(t@lk) 15:52, 15 September 2018 (UTC)

@BrandonXLF: The bot's current tasks are all one-time runs with AWB, so I just run them on my regular home computer. I did some earlier bot work on Wikimedia Commons that was done with Pywikibot, and that was run on toolforge, but toolforge is linux based so it can't run AWB. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 02:54, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

Ok cool, thanks! – BrandonXLF ^(t@lk) 03:36, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Ahecht, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news

The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.

As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.

There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.

Other

A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.

Moving to Draft and Page Mover

Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js^(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget.
In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions.
MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues.
User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js^(info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page)
User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js^(info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50).
User:Primefac/revdel.js^(info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you.
User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js^(info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link.
User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion.
User:Evad37/rater.js^(info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:11, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

Help

Hi, please may you add the template Football box to my wiki please as I'm struggling to make it. Cheers — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lennie.teague13 (talk • contribs) 23:59, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Ahecht, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018^[update], there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist Proposal

There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!

Project updates

ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.

New scripts

User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js^(info) — A new script created for quickly placing {{copyvio-revdel}} on a page.

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Can you help me to crate wikipedia page which already exist but to complete ?

Djaladjala (talk) 16:49, 24 October 2018 (UTC) Can you help me to crate wikipedia profile for football player who already exist on wikipedia , but to put information Djaladjala (talk) 16:49, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

@Djaladjala: If the player already has an article, and the information you wish to add comes from a reliable source, you can just add that information to the article and then add a citation. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 18:26, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Weird edit

Why did you do this . Kpg jhp jm 17:21, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

@Kpgjhpjm: I'm not sure what happened. I was using Twinkle to revert the addition of a bunch of extra "o"s, and it seems to have grabben the wrong revision. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 17:25, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

List of asexual, non-binary, and pansexual characters in television and radio

Hello! Would you be so kind as to add to the above-referenced list the same "Note to editors" Page notice template that you added to the List of LGBT characters in television and radio? The "citation needed" notice does not need to be included at this time. Thank you so much. Pyxis Solitary yak 10:07, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

@Pyxis Solitary:

Done. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 16:47, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Un milione di grazie. :-) Pyxis Solitary yak 08:07, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

C.T.R. Hayward

I have added information to the C.T.R. Hayward page to show his significance in his field of expertise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Phoenixpreacher (talk • contribs) 16:13, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

talk page link

Just dropped by to say you got the coolest talk page link I've seen yet!

Seahawk01 (talk) 05:45, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

@Seahawk01: Thanks! --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 15:00, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Ahecht :-) Seahawk01 (talk) 00:16, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Ahecht,

Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW

Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.

If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.

We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.

With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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Another signature with Linter errors

I am finding just over 600 of these erroneous SNUGGUMS signatures in all namespaces.

My AutoEd code for fixing these misnested tags looks like this:

str = str.replace(/(\[\[Special\:Contributions\/SNUGGUMS\|\<b style\=\"color\:\#454545\"\>edits)(\]\])\)(\<\/b\>)/gi, '$1\)$3$2');
str = str.replace(/(\[\[Special\:Contributions\/SNUGGUMS\|\<b style\=\"color\:\#454545\"\>edits\))(\]\])(\<\/b\>)/gi, '$1$3$2');

They appear to come in two slightly different flavors, hence the two regexes. If your bot can fix them, thanks in advance. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:05, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Thanks. I'd been meaning to do another run soon. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 21:21, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

Since you've submitted a bot request, I'll look around for more. Here are a few. A blank line represents a new single-line or multi-line string to search for. I did not include any strings containing blank lines. I found these all in User Talk space.


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*After being temporarily sidelined with a knee injury, [[WWE Diva's Championship|WWE Diva's Champion]] [[Maryse Ouellet|Maryse]] made her return to WWE television on the January 23 episode of ''[[WWE Friday Night SmackDown|Friday Night SmackDown]]''.

*18 - [[Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre]] (CMLL) presents their '''[[CMLL 76th Aniversary Show|76th Aniversary Show]]'''

**March 14: '''[[Octagón]]'''

*16 - [[Asistencia Asesoría y Administración]] (AAA) presents '''[[Verano de Escandalo (2009)|Verano de Escandalo]]'''

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**Wrestling Legend: '''[[Kamala (wrestler)]]'''

! colspan="2" valign="middle" style="width: 60%; border: 3px black solid; background-color: #66CCFF; padding: 1em;" | <center>Thank you for reading WikiProject Professional Wrestling's 20th Newsletter Edition</center>

The last nine are all from WikiProject Professional wrestling newsletters; each issue was delivered to hundreds of talk pages. I assume that you will see the resolutions to each error; if not, I can provide them, or you can paste the text into Special:ExpandTemplates and run LintHint to see the errors and test fixes. Let me know if you want help. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:50, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: Thanks. I'll put those in the next batch. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 22:34, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

FYI

See Talk:2018–19 UEFA Europa League#Category:Pages where template include size is exceeded Hhkohh (talk) 21:17, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Warhats long.jpg

That image was created by me. Why are you trying to delete it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iamkasai (talk • contribs) 19:48, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

@Iamkasai: See WP:NOTSTORAGE. Please upload only files that are used (or will be used) in encyclopedia articles or project pages; anything else will be deleted. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 00:09, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

@Ahecht: I did upload to use it on an article, my article was deleted for the dumbest reason.

@Iamkasai: Your article was deleted because it was about a group that didn't meet Wikipedia's guidelines on notability of groups. Wikipedia doesn't include articles on every possible subject, just on subjects that meet certain guidelines. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 18:26, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Request on 18:29:42, 10 December 2018 for assistance on AfC submission by 196.212.63.27

196.212.63.27 (talk · contribs)
- User:Pvanhelden (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi Ahecht,

Thank you for you prompt response, it is greatly appreciated.

The primary purpose for listing Toni Crichton is for her the work she has completed as a music consultant/coach here in Cape Town, South Africa. The main citation in her biography is with IMDB which has its own validation process to ensure all claims are checked against the official movie credits. Toni has worked on some noteworthy movies with some renowned actors such as Jeff Bridges, and Meryl Streep. Toni taught Jeff Bridges to play the piano pieces in the movie The Giver. Although I understand her significance in the world may pale when compared to many of the famous people list on Wikipedia, I still believe she deserves a mention as somebody who has stood out in the field of music even if it is in a less clamorous way.

Based on the advice given in Wikipedia's Notability for Music under the section 'Criteria for musicians and ensembles'[[1]], I would have thought she at least qualifies for paragraph 10. 'Has performed music for a work of media that is notable, e.g., a theme for a network television show, performance in a television show or notable film, inclusion on a notable compilation album, etc.' This is verified by the IMDB website

Any further feedback, would be greatly appreciated.

196.212.63.27 (talk) 18:29, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

@196.212.63.27: Unfortunately, criteria 10 is intended for artists whose actual recordings or performances were featured in a TV show or movie, not someone working behind the scenes. It's not that the work isn't important, it's just that that sort of work doesn't tend to result in coverage reliable sources such as in the news or in books. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 19:35, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

Hello Ahecht,

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.