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Hello Redrose64, I asked for help on how to get rid of the Georgia font on Wikipedia namespace and talk namespace pages. Is there any way? I haven't got a response yet. Thanks, Nearly but not perfect (talk) 15:28, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@I'm not perfect but I'm almost: Where did you ask? Always provide a link when referring to an existing discussion. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:18, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Redrose64: I asked at the Village Pump but no one has responded and that thread has since been removed. Here Nearly but not perfect (talk) 18:44, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You didn't link the final pre-archive version of the thread. If you had, you would have seen that I did answer, fifteen minutes later. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:14, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Drummond[edit]

What is the problem with the origin of the surname DRUMMOND in Scotland and in Portugal? I included the references. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2804:7f3:858e:34c5:50f2:4df5:ebb3:b29d (talk) 00:11, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation pages are not articles, think of them as a list of related articles. Content and references belong on those related articles. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 10:54, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. 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 Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 7 § Category:Establishments in Danish India by year on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –Aidan721 (talk) 18:02, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. 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 Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 7 § Category:Establishments in Danish India by year on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –Aidan721 (talk) 18:04, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pro tip requested[edit]

I would like a way to modify a time-date stamp such that it's still recognizable by humans but not by the archive bot. Very occasionally, there is a need to time-stamp something without extending the retention of a discussion that is approaching auto-archival. Can you suggest the best way to do this? ―Mandruss  01:47, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It would depend upon the bot - at least one uses the most recent timestamp in the thread, at least one looks at the times in the page history. So, which page are we talking about? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:04, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Talk:Donald Trump. ―Mandruss  00:00, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That uses lowercase sigmabot III (talk · contribs). I'm fairly sure that this bot can be defeated by using a timestamp that doesn't exactly match the format used by the standard four- or five-tilde signature. You could try rearranging the date to be in U.S. format (Month day, year), leaving the time and timezone alone. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 10:08, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, that sounds like it should work. I'll have to save it for future reference; someone else has commented subsequently in the discussion, making my time stamp moot in this case. ―Mandruss  11:00, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The rfc template must not be placed inside comment tags[edit]

Talk:Joe_Flacco#Etymology_for_"Stint" I don't get how that's a problem if I'm not using it to request comments at the moment. I imagine it's just a misunderstanding. ProofCreature (talk) 15:26, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ProofCreature: Please see Template:Rfc#Inactive usage. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:44, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ahha.
So many policies - it's dizzying. Something to do. Keeps one busy, I guess.
Thanks for the explanation. ProofCreature (talk) 18:49, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

David Lammy RFC[edit]

Hello Redrose64, I saw your comment on David Lammy talk page RFC. Should I restart a new RFC and use that question?

Are the list of references not important to answer the question, I believed it was because this is a contentious issue and the references reveal a potential preference of David Lammy in the article. Can you briefly explain why they are not?

Also one user has dropped their objection, changing from a no to neutral, what advice do you have if the 3rd user doesn't engage?

Trying to learn, thanks. Erzan (talk) 12:51, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Erzan: There shouldn't be a need to restart the RfC. Just make sure that the existing {{rfc}} tag is directly followed by a brief and neutral statement, optional signature, and mandatory timestamp. A statement containing nineteen inline external links is no way brief. You might like to read up on WP:WRFC but that's not binding. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 00:25, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]


At the moment it looks like just the two of us. What do you want to do?©Geni (talk) 19:48, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Geni: Check again in the morning? How much notice do you need? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:39, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Need to know by before 8:30.©Geni (talk) 20:42, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Geni I am hopeful, but I will still be in bed art 0830 whether I'm coming or not Awkward42 (talk) [the alternate account of Thryduulf (talk)] 23:22, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Geni and Thryduulf: OK, I'll go ahead and be there. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 00:36, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Cool. Been wanting to re-vist the Ashmolean for a while.©Geni (talk) 08:24, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, but I'm not going to make it to Oxford today. Thryduulf (talk) 12:07, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

CS1 error on South London line[edit]

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Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 19:50, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Help to find line number[edit]

Please can you help me as to how to find a line number in an article. So far I have found no method. The difficult situation arises in differences between revisions when there is no context to search on and there is repetitive material in a table eg in [1]. How can I find the line 690 in the article? Best wishes.SovalValtos (talk) 17:59, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Personally I never bother with the line numbers. To find the line concerned, I mark some of the text in the diff - sufficient to uniquely identify the text but not spanning into a second line. I copy this to clipboard, then I go to the relevant section (in this case Preserved locos) and open it in source editor. Then I use the browser's find feature (usually Ctrl-F) and paste in the text from the clipboard. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:12, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, that is what I usually do. But what in the example would you search on? All there is is N/A or No which give several results.SovalValtos (talk) 03:52, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Awaiting restoration - geograph.org.uk - 1887942 --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:01, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Maryland cookies[edit]

Thanks for the tipoff where I could find a couple more flavours.©Geni (talk) 16:20, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. I see you fixed something at Talk:Fani Willis#RFC: alleged misuse of funds. Would you be willing to close the discussion? It seems to have run out of steam, and there also seems to be a consensus. Thanks! Magnolia677 (talk) 21:26, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Magnolia677: It's an RfC, and RfCs typically last 30 days. This RfC began at 16:33, 10 February 2024 (UTC) so in the normal course of things Legobot will list it until 17:01, 11 March 2024 (UTC). If you really need it to be closed after just half its scheduled duration, please make your request at WP:Closure requests, or see WP:RFCEND. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:38, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You fully protected this redirect for vandalism back in 2007, and I highly doubt that it is still needed. The article it redirects to is only semi-protected. Would you mind removing or downgrading the protection? QuicoleJR (talk) 14:54, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@QuicoleJR: I wasn't an admin in 2007, indeed I wasn't even an editor back then, so I can't have done what you claim. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:48, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I misread the page history. Sorry! QuicoleJR (talk) 23:26, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your Constants Template[edit]

Just sending this to be polite, but do you mind if I nick your constants template? Sneezless (talk) (contribs) 21:11, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's very out of date, I've not updated it in years. Mainly because I don't edit other Wikipedias (except Welsh) any more. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:31, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Heading to London in May[edit]

Hey, I'll be in London in a couple of months as part of a European trip with my mother ... hopefully we'll see you at the Wikipedia meetup then! Today we've started the mammoth task of printing out tickets and so forth for the trip (mobile phones aren't the best for either of us, for different reasons), so that reminded me to let you know. Graham87 (talk) 11:49, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Graham87, the provisional dates for meetups are: London, 12 May; and Oxford, 19 May. Please note that these pages have not yet been created. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:44, 9 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, I've swung the trip for the London one (I'd already put the page for it on my Meta watchlist). I didn't actually know that Oxford meetups had become more regular; I'd been looking deeply at this in 2022 (as you might remember) and it seems their times became re-standardised around early 2023. Oh well, this way we can take mainland Europe at a more leisurely pace. Graham87 (talk) 01:01, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Graham87: It seemed to be irregular because we always skip December - Oxford meetups are eleven times a year, third Sunday of the month, i.e. one week after London; but the third Sunday in December (15 through 21 December inclusive) would be too close to Christmas. Around that time, the pubs are typically full up, often with of people on their workplace's Christmas drinks or dinners, and we can't get a table let alone a quiet one. Some people (myself included) get extra work in December, being the busiest time of the year in shops, and that can include Sunday work. In fact regular Oxford meetups resumed in October 2022, some months after COVID-19 restrictions had been totally lifted. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 10:53, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah yes, all makes sense. Oxford 86 being on 26 February through me for a loop (seems you changed it due to being unavailable on the regular date). I was looking deeply into UK meetups back in July 2022 so there's that. :-) Australia in general and Western Australia in particular managed to dodge a ridiculous number of bullets re COVID due to being locked shut for a while, so I sometimes don't take into account how horrifically it affected the rest of the world. Graham87 (talk) 11:52, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Graham87: Quick update: the first UK meetup page for May has been created, it is at Leeds on Saturday 4 May, that is, eight days before the London meetup. Leeds is about 185 miles from London, but there is a direct rail service that is frequent - twioe an hour; regular - trains are every thirty minutes; also quite fast - it takes about two hours and ten minutes. I really don't think that I can get to that one though, I would need to take three trains with a much longer journey time. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:25, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, yeah I'll be leaving Australia on 6 May so I don't think I'll be making it to that one either! :-) Just to clarify, I'll be in London from 8 to 16 May and in mainland Europe after that. Graham87 (talk) 18:20, 24 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding WP:CR[edit]

Hi, I see you reverted my edit on WP:CR where I archived a load of discussions. I did this because I saw some discussions that have been marked as done but not archived for 2 weeks now, and the fact that other editors have done the same thing - although now I see you also reverted their edits. I definitely think some form of notice regarding the manual archiving, like the note at WP:ANI, would be a good idea. What do you think? JML1148 (talk | contribs) 06:30, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JML1148: ClueBot III would have archived them, given time. This bot doesn't act like lowercase sigmabot III, there are several differences. In essence, lowercase sigmabot III carries out a cut-and-paste, but ClueBot III does a lot more than that. The most important difference in this case is that it maintains an archive index (see example edits here and here), something that is not done by either manual archiving or by one-click-archiver scripts. A second is that it deactivates all of the {{done}} and similar templates. A third is that it selects threads to archive based not on timestamps but on activity as read from the page history. This is what's holding it up: each time a thread is restored, the clock for that thread is reset even if no new posts were added and none of its timestamps were altered.
The notice at WP:ANI is in small type, and it's often overlooked or ignored. There's so much clutter at the top of WP:CR that anything extra there would probably be ignored too. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 10:40, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@JML1148: Done, done and done. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 00:39, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oxford[edit]

Looks like its just the 2 of at the moment but I need to visit to get an image for the Shrine of Taharqa article I'm planning.©Geni (talk) 17:44, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Geni: Just setting off now. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 11:46, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Editor experience invitation[edit]

Hi Redrose64 :) I'm looking for people to interview here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 09:58, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]