User talk:Ahwiv

Salary — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:204:909C:7C3:FD46:D53A:7522:C92B (talk) 19:39, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

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Cedar Island Light

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Horse Island (Sacketts Harbor) Light

I'm reviewing new pages. I came across this article that you created. I don't know whether you realize, but in some sense this is a negative step: it causes someone else more work than you put in it. I presume you cut-and-pasted the material. But I'm not sure whether it was from a copyrighted source. That's a big problem, because it means to fix it (or even to mark it patrolled) I would have to do research. Then, there's the task of actually fixing the non-standard formatting and content. I'm not an expert on the subject, so again, I would need to work carefully. So, if it took you 15 minutes to create the page, it would probably take me an hour to fix it. Whereas, if I had created it myself, I could have created it in 15 minutes, just as you did. But it wouldn't need another hour's work. Marking the article as "patrolled" has been avoided by other editors for days, so there's a good chance this article will just roll into the not-so-good Wiki article status, and stay there indefinitely. All that aside, the information looks interesting, and certainly better than a lot of the stubs which give the reader pretty much nothing interesting, so I'd encourage you, who probably is in the best position, to do a little more spit-and-polish. Regards, Piano non troppo (talk) 17:52, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

The text is from the USCG site, the second link on the page, and I will clean it up as my time permits. I've had a few things delay that work. Ahwiv (talk) 01:19, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Re: Light vs Lighthouse

I will not. The discussion you linked hardly came to a definitive conclusion; you can see that the issue was re-raised in 2008, but the stated concerns were never really addressed. Furthermore, this particular article has a number of mitigating circumstances, primarily that it is a retired light and thus the Coast Guard doesn't have any authority over its name. Besides, the article is clearly about the building, not the light at its pinnacle. In sum, WP:COMMONNAME trumps a 3-year-old discussion on a talk page as far as having community support. Powers ^T 19:15, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

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RFC at WikiProject Freemasonry

While you are not listed as a project member, I thought I would extend the courtesy of notification, as this is obviously an issue you are involved with. See: WT:WikiProject Freemasonry#Dispute over instructions at Category:Freemasons. Best - Blueboar (talk) 12:23, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Removing "alt" from image

Thanks for your edit to Church of St John the Baptist, Frome but I wondered why you removed the "alt" label from the description of the image? Wikipedia:Accessibility dos and don'ts says it is good practice to "provide alt text and a caption for most images". My understanding this helps those use text to speech readers understand what is in the image.— Rod ^talk 07:11, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

User:Rodw The format used didn't support an alt text. didn't notice alt= parm is the proper way, but have resolved that. Thanks. Ahwiv (talk) 10:37, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

coordinates of Lancaster Cathedral

Yes, I'd just worked out that the coords have been presented in the correct way a bit further down the infobox - sorry about that. Something about the wording of your edit summary made me think you were just removing coords because the parameters weren't recognised! PamD 15:22, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Template:Convert

I noticed your edit at Omeena County, Michigan (diff). The parameter area_total_sq_mi requires a valid number. There must be no unit because square miles is assumed from the parameter name. Also, there must be no other text. That means it is not possible to have something like 600+ sq mi. If the infobox has a parameter such as area the following convert could be used:

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It is better to use the unit km2 rather than a superscripted unit such as km² because people learn how to use templates from seeing examples, and convert provides simple units that people can easily type. Johnuniq (talk) 08:06, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Please fix Omeena County, Michigan because there is an error in the infobox. I have not seen the sources, so my fix would be to either remove the information or revert the last edit. Johnuniq (talk) 05:26, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

Non-breaking spaces

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@JohnBlackburne: Funny. I fixed a bunch today that someone else had created. Looking at your contributions, looks like you found the same pages I found, but I didn't fix all the problems. How did you find the issue? Ahwiv (talk) 03:17, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

The pages were in the Category:Pages with script errors, and on visiting them were displaying errors; you can still see the errors if you look at an old version such as this. A visual inspection of the wikitext looked normal, so I copied the relevant table’s source into BBEdit and turned on show invisible characters which highlighted the odd characters. Once I had done one the rest were easy--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 03:48, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

@JohnBlackburne: Thanks. Didn't know about that category. Ahwiv (talk) 12:22, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Port of Gdynia

I don't understand the edit summary you left for this edit. You mentioned 'unknown parameter'. Unknown to who? It is part of the template. Is it unknown to you? Fob.schools (talk) 08:08, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

@Fob.schools:Actually unknown to the template. There is a section of the template that looks for unknown parameters, and this section was not updated when you added 'locode' to the template. When I searched the template, I misspelled 'locode' so I didn't see it. I've updated the template to check for the parameter, and reverted my update to the Port of Gdynia. Ahwiv (talk) 17:21, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

remember

Dont make unnecessary changes in any articles. Recently you changed UnovaRPG. Nepallove you 04:30, 7 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by NepalMyMotherland (talk • contribs)

@NepalMyMotherland: Yes I did change UnovaRPG, and it was a necessary change since 'wedsite' and 'website' are unknown parameters, and there is no alternative. Ahwiv (talk) 13:46, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Actually, it would have been better to fix the typo than to delete the parameter. —C.Fred (talk) 04:36, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

@C.Fred: I would have if 'website' was a valid parameter. It isn't. No one has added it back. Ahwiv (talk) 13:43, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

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