User talk:GrapesRock

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Happy editing! Schazjmd (talk) 22:06, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Jlahorn (talk) 13:18, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Demographics section changes[edit]

Per Your Contributions, why are you changing demographics information to estimated non-Decennial years, such as 2022, instead of 2020? 2020 was the last official census, every year since then is an unofficial estimate. If you going to start making this type of change in community articles, then you should probably discuss at Wikipedia:USCITY. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 17:41, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for linking the guideline! I tried asking over at WP:WikiProject United States and went ahead with editing since I didn't hear anything. I'll work on updating my code over the next couple of days to be more in line with the guideline and then ask for feedback over on the US City talk page. Is it chill if I ping you in that message? Of course I won't go using my script until it's modified :-).

I chose to use solely ACS data mainly since I didn't want to bother mixing data sources. It seems to be an official estimate (I think extrapolating from ~1% of the population for 1 Year and 5% for 5 Year) from the Census Bureau and I saw other pages using it a lot (or saying that they're using Decennial Census Data, when only the ACS had that data).

Looks like I replaced 2010 Census Data (as in deleted 2010 Decennial data and added in 2022 ACS data) 3 times, should I add that back in? How about the 5 times I replaced 2000 Census Data? More generally, should I revert all of the changes that I made with the script, or keep them in since they do indeed add information? GrapesRock (talk) 18:25, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I remember that one or more groups have already upgraded city articles in one or more states to official 2020 census text, which is why you need to look at what they did. As for myself, I would prefer "2020 census" section, then maybe "2025 estimate" section, then "2030 census" section. Adding sections for one or more of the following 2021 / 2022 / 2023 / 2024 / 2026 / 2027 / 2028 / 2029 is probably overkill. If estimate data is added, the section name should be simplified, such as "20XX estimate". We'll find out more how other people feel after you post on USCITY. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 11:07, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

disambiguation pages with links counters[edit]

Hi GrapesRock! Nice work with the disambiguation links that you have been fixing. I noticed that you've been updating the list when you finish an entry, but it would be helpful if you also updated the 2 counters at the top at the same time, so that the progress bars are accurate (or at least mostly so - they'll always be a bit off based on partially-fixed entries, etc). Notice in this diff where, since I was moving two entries, each with two links, to the bottom, I updated the number of entries that have been fixed from 1309 to 1313 in two locations - one for the text, one for the progress bar.

I'm still relatively new to doing these myself, so there may be more procedures I'm unaware of, but I figured I'd mention it. Cleancutkid (talk) 20:30, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, huh, thanks! I'll make sure to do that going forward. I've gotten somewhat spoiled with tons of automatically updating progress bars that I figured this one was too :-) GrapesRock (talk) 20:35, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a problem at all - I know from experience that it can sometimes be a bit confusing figuring out how processes operate on here. There are some counters and lists that are automatically updated on the toolforge pages for the project, too, if you find that helpful. Cleancutkid (talk) 04:14, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]