User talk:Ca/Archives/2023/December

Artineering draft

Hi Ca! Wanted to bring attention to the change I made to the Artineering page based on your feedback:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Draft%3AArtineering&diff=1185782200&oldid=1185773625

Subtle, but I believe it satisfies the necessary criteria. Thanks for taking a look! Brainstrormer (talk) 23:05, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

I don't think there is much to say about the company itself. Most of the sources are reviews of the company's product Flair. Maybe you should try writing an article about it. Ca ^{talk to me!} 08:25, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Tae-Kyun (T-K) Kim (03:21, 3 December 2023)

how do I publish my user or profile page? --Tae-Kyun (T-K) Kim (talk) 03:21, 3 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi, Wikipedia is not a place for posting profiles. Rather, we have articles. If you believe you meet the criteria laid out at WP:NPROF, you can submit an article through the WP:Articles for Creation process. This is mandatory for people with a conflict of interest. Ca ^{talk to me!} 12:40, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Bxbc531 on Ricky Hui (13:06, 6 December 2023)

how to upload pictures --Bxbc531 (talk) 13:06, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

You can use the WP:file upload wizard. Just make sure you own the copyright to the image. Ca ^{talk to me!} 23:56, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Unblock requests

Please don't give inaccurate information to checkuser-blocked editors requesting unblock, such as this. There are a number of checkusers such as myself who regularly patrol the unblock request queues, and are quite capable of accepting or rejecting such unblock requests. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 15:47, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

@Jpgordon Sorry, I did not realize that I was wrong. I thought my advice was correct because I saw a lot of checkuser block appeals get procedurally declined. Ca ^{talk to me!} 22:32, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. No big deal. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 22:49, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

Questions by Saeeol

(Questions moved here by Ca)

Question from Saeeol (16:22, 27 November 2023)

Hello how do I edit --Saeeol (talk) 16:22, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

@Saeeol Hello! I placed a lot of helpful links to get you started on your talk page. Ca ^{talk to me!} 02:20, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Saeeol (16:33, 27 November 2023)

Thanks --Saeeol (talk) 16:33, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Saeeol (11:54, 28 November 2023)

Hello what links --Saeeol (talk) 11:54, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello can you make my my user page

PLEASE! Saeeol (talk) 11:58, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

It appears you figured out how to make one :D Ca ^{talk to me!} 13:15, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

thank you! Saeeol (talk) 13:16, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Saeeol (12:24, 28 November 2023)

Hello can i ask what's a talk page and how can I ask on it. --Saeeol (talk) 12:24, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Your talk page can be found here: User talk:Saeeol, though it appears you already found it. Talk pages are place where other editors can talk with you about editing and such. Ca ^{talk to me!} 13:16, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Saeeol (13:20, 28 November 2023)

Hello can i post a album --Saeeol (talk) 13:20, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

All articles need reliable and independent sources to back up its claims. If the album you want to write about is not covered by unaffiliated people, you shouldn't make an article about it. This is because without good sources, a resulting article would be very short and not very helpful. +there might be neutrality issues if the articles depends way too much on one or two source(s).

Many people start head-first into article making and come back disappointed when they discover that they cannot make an article about a topic. To save effort, if you can provide me with some sources here, I'll tell you if you can make an article on that topic with the given sources. Ca ^{talk to me!} 13:22, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Can I write a article on dogs

please Saeeol (talk) 13:27, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

I am going to merge all your questions into a single section since there's a lot of questions. Ca ^{talk to me!} 13:28, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

See the answer above. You can write articles about anything as long as there is enough sources. Ca ^{talk to me!} 13:31, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

ok Saeeol (talk) 13:44, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Saeeol (14:46, 29 November 2023)

Hello are their game articles on the wiki --Saeeol (talk) 14:46, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Yes, you can find many articles on games in Wikipedia. Ca ^{talk to me!} 10:08, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Saeeol (13:02, 8 December 2023)

Hi Ca can you make my user page more interesting because I cant --Saeeol (talk) 13:02, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

One thing you can do is to add WP:USERBOXES. Ca ^{talk to me!} 13:17, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

can u add it Saeeol (talk) 13:48, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Hello how do I add WP:USERBOXES

thanks Saeeol (talk) 13:43, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Pick one from here Wikipedia:Userboxes/Galleries Ca ^{talk to me!} 13:56, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

how do I get/download them Saeeol (talk) 14:05, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

You can follow the written instructions. Ca ^{talk to me!} 14:36, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Which instructions Vdft (talk) 14:38, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Draft:List of Syrian flags

Is CRW website reliable? FOTW and CRW are seperate. #bodyContent aFlag Creator { background-color: #ffa500; color: #ggggggg; font-weight: monoscope; } 10:11, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Probably not, CRW says "This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website". Ca ^{talk to me!} 10:37, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Oh also, I think you meant your signature to be formatted like this:

<span style="background-color:#ffa500;color:#ggggggg;font-family:monospace;">[[User:Flag Creator|Flag Creator]]</span> Ca ^{talk to me!} 10:41, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Castillo.221 (15:04, 11 December 2023)

Hello, I hope you are doing well. I am a mathematics PhD student and I recently came across a serious error on one of the Wiki pages. My advisor (Ovidiu Costin) actually pointed it out. How can we go about resolving this? I don't feel comfortable rewriting the page myself.

Take Care, Nick --Castillo.221 (talk) 15:04, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi, can you link the error here? It's hard to say without more context. Ca ^{talk to me!} 15:22, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Questions

Hey! On my draft which you declined, you mentioned that the CNN and Insider articles did not mention the term and said to replace those sources. However, the goal of those citations was to cite the origins of the “Black Mamba” nickname, so should they still be replaced?

Also, how does one determine if a thesis is reliable? thanks Jackvoeller (talk) 23:33, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, I should be more clear. The CNN and Insider articles are perfectly valid citations for the name "Black Mamba". However, they do not talk about the concept of "Mamba Mentality", so they don't really help us write an article about the concept.

For a thesis to be reliable, it should have been written by an expert(not bachelors graduate), or be published in a reputable journal. Ca ^{talk to me!} 00:00, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Feel free to ask reliability questions at WP:RSN Ca ^{talk to me!} 00:00, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from FallsK (02:30, 14 December 2023)

Hello, my first edit. Question for you. How does one link a URL code of the artist exhibition to the museum who has acquired their work? Example: Frye Museum acquired https://fryemuseum.org/exhibitions/living-legacy-recent-acquisitions-contemporary-art

Can I cite on The Frye Art Museum Page about this particular Artist?

Also I am trying to load images of the two pieces of artwork that were acquired by the Seattle Art Museum, and Wikipedia isn't allowing the works to be loaded. Can you help with that? /Users/kymmfalls/Desktop/Woman_Landing_on_Man_in_the_Moon_copy_f0ujpi.jpeg /Users/kymmfalls/Desktop/Screen_Shot_2023-08-25_at_2.33.07_PM_tgkwlo.jpg

Thank you! --FallsK (talk) 02:30, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi @FallsK, if you are using WP:Visual Editor, you can use the quotation button at the top to cite urls. Help:Introduction to referencing with VisualEditor/2 is a helpful guide to citations.

As for the second question, you cannot upload copyrighted artworks on Wikipedia. For more info, feel free to look at the guide WP:Uploading images. Ca ^{talk to me!} 09:07, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from SnehaAkhilesh (04:11, 14 December 2023)

"Yesterday, I inserted a link on a Wikipedia page, but it is not visible. Why is that?" --SnehaAkhilesh (talk) 04:11, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

@SnehaAkhilesh Because it was WP:SPAM. Philipnelson99 (talk) 04:53, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Do not add promotional vanity links to Wikipedia. Otherwise you will be blocked from editing. Ca ^{talk to me!} 09:07, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

REjection of my draft for Ita-Askonas award

There are only few scientific prizes specifically for women and I drafted an article for one such prize, awarded by the European Federation of Immunological Societies, which is a highly reputable organization. The prize has been awarded for a number of years now. Some Recipients have their wikipedia article themselves.

I added references for every winner of the prizes, including articles by the European Journal of Immunology.

Your critique was that I need references by sources who are not close to the winners, which I understand that you do not find reports of the institutes where they work (however old and respected) ok. Now what do I do, if no such source exist or can be found by me? It does not mean that the prize is a lie, or that the women who got it do not exist, or that the whole article is not of suitable for wikipedia. It just means that sometimes women do not get enough recognition in the press or mainstream media.

Maybe you can help me identify such sources?

Pünkelchen (talk) 12:22, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Hello, perhaps you can merge what's written in the draft into pre-existing article European Journal of Immunology? If there is not much to write about other than "x received the award", it may be better suited as a section in a related article. The award definitely exists and the recipients are real and verifiable. It is just that there are not much points of discussion to warrant a standalone article. Ca ^{talk to me!} 12:28, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

thanks and weird, I hope transient, math rendering problem

Thanks again for your review of Line-cylinder_intersection. It seemed fine when I first looked at it but now has a big red error inline message:

“...where r is measured in units of Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "http://localhost:6011/en.wikipedia.org/v1/":): {\displaystyle \lVert{\hat a}\rVert}...”

When I logged out, this all disappeared. When I logged back in it reappeared. Since that section of the article has been working fine for 13 years, I will assume it is some sort of transient problem. BananaSlug (talk) 17:18, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, it's probably some odd rendering quirk. It appears fine for me. If this persists, I recommend posting at WP:VPT, where many technical folks may assist. Ca ^{talk to me!} 11:44, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Saeeol (10:43, 19 December 2023)

Hi what is www...that's all it says --Saeeol (talk) 10:43, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

I am not sure. Can you tell me where it says "www"? Ca ^{talk to me!} 11:43, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

It sent me it on my notifications Saeeol (talk) 16:02, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Can you send a screenshot? Upload it to this site and send a link here. Ca ^{talk to me!} 04:39, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

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Oregon-Stanford rivalry

I updated the sources to secondary from the primary ones before, and removed unnecessary sources aswell. Is this enough, and if if resubmit do I run the risk of getting my draft deleted?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Oregon%E2%80%93Stanford_football_rivalry Char3290 (talk) 03:05, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

For the second question, don't worry about that! Drafts very rarely get deleted, and those that do are old(6 months) or just vandalism/advertisements.

If you submit the draft it ints current state, it very likely would get deleted. Everything in our articles need to be cited to a WP:reliable source, so a lack of sources means a poor and short article.

Therefore, you should search for reliable, independent sources that discuss this rivalry in a detailed manner(not just scores). Ca ^{talk to me!} 07:27, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! Char3290 (talk) 04:13, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Category:Free and open-source software programmed in C has been nominated for merging

Category:Free and open-source software programmed in C has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Deltaspace⁴² (talk • contribs) 18:59, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for participating in AfC November 2023 Backlog Drive

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		Thank you for your participation in the Articles for Creation's November 2023 Backlog Drive! You made a total of 203 reviews, for a total of 221.5 points. – robertsky (talk) 06:45, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Austinja (22:56, 26 December 2023)

Hi seawolf35 How do I research an article or subject Ie. schooner Jessie costa Thanks in advance --Austinja (talk) 22:56, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I think you mistook me for Seawolf35, but I can still answer your question. First thing you should try is common search engines like Google, DuckDuckGo, and Bing. Google Scholar, Google News, and Google Books are also a helpful repository of sources.

Folks at Wikipedia:WikiProject Sailing may be able to help you find ship-specific sources. You can find additional guidance at the help page Help:Find sources. Here is a useful template for finding sources:

Ca talk to me! 04:10, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Skibidi Toilet

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Skibidi Toilet you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Skyshifter -- Skyshifter (talk) 17:43, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23

New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script

RefRenamer by Nardog is this issue's featured script. For whatever reason, the foundation will only give us better reference names in VisualEditor if we wish for it in the next survey. Nardog to the rescue! This script has a ton of options to satisfy almost anyone who wishes to use better refnames than ":0" and ":418".

Updated scripts

• Nardog: MoveHistory can now look up the move history of any page from anywhere on the site.
• User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink now has a version that copies the Special:Diff link with square brackets.
• User:GhostInTheMachine/WatchlistTidy now moves the Active Filters panel to the right so that the Show/Hide button doesn't constantly jump.
• User:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper has now become stable with some bugfixes and features such as automatically highlighting potentially uncivil edit summaries and automatically pinging all the users selected.
• Wikipedia:AutoEd/unicodehex.js will no longer replace legacy MediaWiki dot-entities (dot followed by two uppercase alphanumeric characters) in article links, which caused several links to become broken.

Screenshot of RefRenamer, a user script that assists in replacing non-descriptive reference names

Scripts++ Newsletter

Improve a script

• Many of our favorite scripts such as User:Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, User:Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and User:Bradv/Scripts/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
• User:Elominius/gadget/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
• To a lesser extent, the same goes for User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
• We want...

• ...a mark-as-read button for Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
• ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to User:TheJJJunk/ARA
• ...a fix/fork of User:DannyS712/SectionRemover.js to make it work

Requested scripts

• A WP:3O requesting and responding tool, similar to Terasil's classic edit request tool
• A "bytes removed"/"added" filter on the user contribs page
• A review tool for WP:proposed deletions
• Mass patrol new pages by a user for use in WP:RFP/A
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

New scripts

• Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin is a rewrite of Ais's Watchlist Notifier with modern APIs and several new features such as not displaying watchlist items marked as seen (hence the name), not bolding diffs of unseen watchlist elements which doesn’t work properly anyways, displaying the rendered edit summary, proper display of log and creation actions and more links.
• Alexis Jazz: Factotum is a spiritual successor to reply-link with a host of extra features like section adding, link rewriting, regular expressions and more.
• User:Aveaoz/AutoMobileRedirect: This script will automatically redirect MobileFrontend (en.m.wikipedia) to normal Wikipedia. Unlike existing scripts, this one will actually check if your browser is mobile or not through its secret agent string, so you can stay logged in on mobile! Hooray screen estate!
• Chlod:
  • Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
    • Attribution Notice Template Editor (ANTE) graphically modifies content attribution notices. It is the successor to User:Chlod/Scripts/CopiedTemplateEditor and supports more templates than {{copied}} ones.
    • Infringement Assistant allows a user to hide sections of a page for suspected copyright violations and report the page to the appropriate Wikipedia:Copyright problems noticeboard.
• User:Elominius/gadget/diff arrow keys allows navigation between diffs with the arrow keys. It also has a version that requires holding Ctrl with the arrow key.
• Enterprisey
  • diff-permalink-2 allows quickly copying wikilinks to diff and permalink pages from those pages, a variation of existing script User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink
  • archiver is a fork of Σ's Archiver with several bugfixes.
  • /parent-cats highlights categories that are a subcategory of a category already included in a page's categories.
• User:Guarapiranga/accessKeysCheatSheet adds an access key shortcut to display all shortcuts based on code provided by Nardog and NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh.
• User:HungKhanh0106/ProperDisplay loads a bunch of fonts to add correct rendering supports for "esoteric" languages.
• User:Jeeputer/highlightPiped will make piped links irresistible (or else).
• User:Jerome Frank Disciple/curlyfixer.js adds an WP:AutoEd function that straightens curly quotes per MOS. That's right! Such a module was only made in the 14th year of AutoEd's existence! Configure away!
• Frequently link to Wikipedia on your websites yet find generating CC-BY credits to be such a hassle? Say no more! User:Luke10.27/attribute will automatically do it for ya and copy the credit to yer clipboard.
• User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft, a spiritual successor (i.e. fork) to Evad37's script, with a few bugs solved, and a host of extra features like check-boxes for choosing draftification reasons, multi-contributor notification, and appropriate warnings based on last edit time.
• Nardog
  • /CopyCodeBlock: one of the most important operations for any scripter and script-user is to copy and paste. This script adds a copy button in the top right of every code block (not to be confused with <code>) that will, well, copy it to your clipboard!
  • /RCMuter: Hide specific users, perhaps User:MediaWiki message delivery, from the Watchlist and Recent Changes.
  • /VitalTopicon makes you see the vital article topicon on WP:vital articles.
• m:User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AceForLuaDebugConsole.js adds the Ace editor (a.k.a. the editor you see when editing JS, CSS and Lua on Wikimedia wikis) to the Lua debug console. "In my opinion, whoever designed it to be a plain <textarea> needs to seriously reconsider their decision."
• Novem Linguae
  • DraftCleaner fixes formatting of new articles.
  • GANReviewTool quickly and easily closes good article nominations.
  • ReviewStatus displays whether or not a mainspace page is marked as reviewed.
  • SpeciesHelper tries to add the correct speciesbox, category, taxonbar, and stub template to species articles.
• User:Opencooper/svgReplace and Tol's fork replaces all rasterized SVGs with their original SVG codes for your loading pleasures. Tell us which one is better!
• User:Phlsph7/HighlightUnreferencedPassages adds a button to highlight all unreferenced paragraphs in reds, and can even do it automatically.
• Still hate Vector 2022's floating TOC? User:Phlsph7/UnfoldedNumberedTOC(Vector2022) might make you give it a try.
• Quite a bit of pages at Special:WantedCategories either exist now or got removed. User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/hideUnwantedCategories automatically hides those.
• User:SuperHamster's Wikipedia:Tools/View it! generates a gallery of images for a given subject on any Wikimedia project utilizing Structured Data on Commons. Images can then be added as needed.
• Terasail
  • ArticleInfo displays page information at the top of the page, directly below the title.
  • /HeaderIcons takes away the Vector 2022 user dropdown and replaces it with all of the icons within, top level, right next to the Watchlist. One less click away! There's also an alternate version that uses text links instead of icons.
• ...and any more, all available at WP:US/L.

Due to budget and procrastination limitations, we've only had time to review the first ~39% of the scripts since last issue. Help us out here! Aaron Liu (talk) 13:24, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

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Question from Sureshen (05:44, 31 December 2023)

Thanks for being my mentor! Sorry for not reaching out sooner, I have just been making minor edits to pages as I've come across them.

I've just come across a page with an issue I thought I'd ask your thoughts on, if I can! The page in question is "Estonian partisans" - which, incidentally, is quite poorly written and poorly cited throughout. I had originally intended to make a small amendment to one section, and dug into reference [2] - which led me to a research paper whose title translates to "Vocabulary and text comprehension in the first and second grades of primary school". Suffice to say, nothing related to the topic - and I've translated much of the article itself to corroborate this.

With an issue like this, and this page in general, ... where does you begin? --Sureshen (talk) 05:44, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

As for the out-of-place paper, it seems to have been mistakenly added by the editor called EestiEnthusiast who created the article from an redirect. It's probably a copy'n paste accident. Every page's edit history can be viewed by clicking the "See History" button at the top of the page.

One thing you can do in situations like this is to contact the editor using their talk page. Since EastiEnthuaists seems to have been active until November of this year, I raised a notice at User talk:EestiEnthusiast.

For your general question, first thing I would do is to obtain as much of the listed sources as you can and add inline citations to the claims without one. Claims that do not should be removed unless you can find a source for them. I would also check the article to see if any major areas of discussion/information are missing based on reliable sources.

For further questions, WikiProject Military history is an active WikiProject full of people who are more familiar with this topic, so try checking it out! In particular, the A-class review tab may be helpful to see what issues editors look for in an article. Ca ^{talk to me!} 12:46, 31 December 2023 (UTC)