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16:01, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Complaint

Hi Jackmcbarn

I have seen wikipedias rules, the question is if you have? First of all I was given 2 weeks to translate my article into English by one of your editors? How come, if you agree that Iridescent based on that reason can delete the article? I guess you now have to see which editor you like the most :)

Second, the algorithme was proven to be working perfectly, with the code provided, so there shouldn't be an issue there.

Third, the only thing you had to check was if it was true I invented the algorithme, and that I am sure one of your editors with lots of knowledge about algorithmes could have given you an answer to.

If you still thinks that Iridescent shouldn't be removed as an editor, then provide me with your supervisors phone number, so I can talk with that person about this issue.

Regards David Hyldkrog — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cop77 (talkcontribs) 20:58, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

@Cop77: You would have got 2 weeks to translate your article if being written in the wrong language was its only flaw. However, that was not the case. Nobody cares whether the algorithm works. See WP:42 and WP:N for rules about what's allowed on Wikipedia. Also, the fact that you invented the algorithm is actually a strike against it; see WP:COI and WP:A11. Wikipedia is self-governing, so none of us have "supervisors". In fact, both Iridescent and I are both administrators here, and any other administrator you ask will also agree with us. Jackmcbarn (talk) 21:11, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

1. So how come the language part was mentioned as a reason for being deleted. 2. An obvious reason why it does matter if the algorithme works or not is that it can help software developers who face mutual exclusion problems. 3. At least you are honest enough to admit that editors protect each other no matter what, which is a big flaw in the way wikipedia works. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.23.49.240 (talk) 23:24, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

1. When things are wrong with an article, correct procedure is to mention all of them, even if they're not all necessary to get it deleted. 2. That's not important to Wikipedia. 3. The fact that people agree with each other and disagree with you doesn't mean that they're protecting each other. Jackmcbarn (talk) 23:29, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

Tech News addition

Hi! Thanks for your addition to the current Tech News draft. Since Tech News goes out to a lot of non-native speakers of English, I've tried to simplify it a bit, hopefully making it a bit more accessible for non-technical en-2 editors. Please edit/tell me if I've misunderstood something. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 21:48, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

@Johan (WMF): That still seems accurate. Thanks. Jackmcbarn (talk) 22:43, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

18:40, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

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19:14, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

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15:42, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Location map switcher logic

I just noticed the "switcher logic" at Module:Location map. Thanks for implementing that! As far as I can tell, it's not documented anywhere, but people are starting to quietly use it in infoboxes (which settles at least one recent disagreement)

I am not very good at Lua --- could you explain the feature to me, so that I can write some documentation? As I understand it, if you specify more than one location separated by a #, then the first one will be displayed, but the reader can select from any of them with a switcher UI element. Is that right?

Thanks! —hike395 (talk) 06:16, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

@Hike395: Your understanding is correct. Jackmcbarn (talk) 15:54, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
I added documentation to {{Location map}}, and noticed a bug where the radio button selector does not line up with the map. If you'd like to take a look, see Template:Location map/doc. —hike395 (talk) 11:06, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
@Hike395: Yeah, I see what's going on. Apparently I only ever tested this inside of infoboxes, where the radio buttons look nice outside the map. I'll try to make it look good standalone too. Jackmcbarn (talk) 15:17, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

Sorry to say, I found another bug, and this one is more urgent. Take a look at Mono Mills, California. Ser Amantio di Nicolao has been running AWB on articles with {{Infobox settlement}}, changing the map parameter from (e.g.) California to California#USA. However, this particular article uses the |AlternativeMap= parameter to {{Location map}}. The switcher logic doesn't work when this is supplied -- as a short-term fix, the logic should ignore |AlternativeMap= and |overlay_image= for the second and subsequent maps.

As I said above, I am a terrible Lua programmer. I can try to fix this, but am not confident that I will do it correctly. Could you put in a fix?

In the longer term, I fear that feeding a #-separated list of maps is not a robust way of specifying multiple maps. The common way of doing this is to use extra parameters, such as |map1= or |map2=, and hence allow extra control parameters such as |AlternativeMap1= or |overlay_image2=. If we do decide to add extra parameters, we'll need to surface them in infoboxes (such as in {{Infobox settlement}}, where I just hacked out these parameters today!). We would also need to run AWB to redo the work that Set Amantio has been doing over the last few days.

I do like the multiple map feature -- {{location map}} is just tricky to get perfectly correct. —hike395 (talk) 07:11, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

@Hike395: I added an emergency fix for now that disables AlternativeMap when using the switcher. I'll come up with a solution that lets you specify different AlternativeMaps for different maps. As for why I used #-separated names instead of multiple parameters, I did that because of the sheer number of infoboxes that currently wrap location maps, to avoid all of them having to be changed. Jackmcbarn (talk) 16:12, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
And it's fixed properly now. Jackmcbarn (talk) 16:32, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Module:Protection banner/sandbox

Hi Jackmcbarn, was there any reason your updates to Protection banner weren't synced to the main template? I've added awareness of the extended-protected level for edit request links on top of your changes, which should go in itself regardless at some point. I think your edits can go live as well, right? Thanks, let me know. — Andy W. (talk ·ctb) 23:18, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

@Andy M. Wang: The only reason I didn't add them was that they were too inconsequential to edit such a widely-used template for. Now that a more important change needs to happen, by all means, please add them along with it. Jackmcbarn (talk) 23:54, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

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12:01, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Pakistan location map

Hi. Can I ask you why you moved Template:Location map Pakistan to its new name? Mar4d (talk) 06:25, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

@Mar4d: The move log history is a little bit misleading. I actually converted it to Module:Location map/data/Pakistan, but this had to be done as a C&P move for technical reasons. See Template:Location map/doc/Converting map definition templates to modules for details. Jackmcbarn (talk) 16:16, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

19:54, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

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21:48, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Karabakh

Unprotected. Thanks for bringing it up :) --Golbez (talk) 15:07, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

15:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)


Pasterski Dear Jack McBarn,

Thank you for preventing vandalism on so many wikipedia pages. However, you locked the barn door on the Pasterski article after the horses were already stolen.

Can you please revert the page to what it was before the Greek and Netherlandian physics post-docs gutted it?

One appears to be Pasterki's former officemate and was turned down, if you know what I mean. The other tried to prevent her from joining their group in 2013—when she did join, she was the ONLY female—since then 8 other females have joined. They are livid with Pasterski for bringing in so many females.

The Greek one has been upset ever since he added his name to the Strominger page as a Doctor and then the strominger page was completely gutted. He seems to think Pasterski did it. It does not appear that she did.

Everyone outside of Harvard/Cambridge thinks the reason why Pasterski is getting media attention is because Hawking cited her. When in fact, it is because Strominger and Hawking and Perry mis-applied her Triangle and Memory Effects. She gave a Harvard Faculty Conference talk that Lubos Motl helped set up, where she warned, six months before the paper was published, that her ideas should NOT be applied to black hole hair. Lenny Susskind agrees with Pasterski—that is why Susskind and Pasterski were cited, as a 'different way to approach' the problem.

Hawking came to Harvard and had the strongest reactions to Pasterski (uncontrolled jaw movement and shaking) asking her to leave just about anytime he noticed her near him. Pasterski was then invited to Cambridge (by two physicists with a sense of humor that don't agree with Hawking) to talk to the issue. In those two talks, she called Strominger, Perry and Hawking's application of her work “naive” !!!https://www.newton.ac.uk/files/seminar/20160705100011002-732789.pdf

That resulted in Perry giving an afternoon talk to rebut. He was not originally on the schedule. He cited her work 7 times, cited her by name 7 additional times, and then invited her to spend Spring semester at Cambridge to 'work this out.'

Recently, Hawking deleted his citation of her in the PRL article by dropping the last arXiv digit of her completing the triangle for EM single author paper.

If the page is allowed to survive (Pasterski would be the first to admit that her ideas are not as great as Hawking thinks they are) please revert it to the point just before the two Greek edits (IP addresses, no names then -eg UVAL now, they point back to the Greek university where the post-docs father is a professor of computer science.)

Thank you,

Course 6 guy

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Please comment on Talk:Noël Coward

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16:01, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Reference given to add Christianity as a religion in the page "vellalar"

Vellalar's are also Christians from the early 16th century.

Missions and Empire (Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series) 1st Edition by Norman Etherington. page 112. ISBN-13: 978-0199253487.

Caste, Catholic Christianity, and the Language of Conversion: Social Change ... By S. Jeyaseela Stephen. page 97. isbn=8178356864.--Chronicleof COGRLAHEPETA (talk) 05:03, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

@Chronicleof COGRLAHEPETA: If you want an article to be edited, post an edit request on the article's talk page, not on mine. Jackmcbarn (talk) 17:42, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Yeah. Sorry. readdressed accordingly.

@Jackmcbarn:

Request for edit posted on the page.

Thank you. --Chronicleof COGRLAHEPETA (talk) 18:03, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

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