User talk:Anomalocaris#Please take note...

A bunch of your edits are just masking a cewbot bug. In some specfic (but not yet identified) situation, the talkpage banners get relocated partway down the page, which obviously makes a mess of lots of things. Please don't compound/hide that by making a subsequent edit that merely masks one symptom of it. See for example:

• {{lat|Boric acid}}

and the bug report at User talk:Kanashimi/Archive 1#Very strange change to project banner. DMacks (talk) 10:36, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

No response is needed, just a thanks for helping me on my page Draft:Josei Tennō, all help is welcome :) Camillz (talk) 21:56, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Dear Wikipedians! I have a dream to create an article about the Silesian School of Iconography because I started it 11 years ago, and now I have some time since my children are on vacation, allowing me to devote myself to my passion. I once encountered this community and can't believe they aren't present on Wikipedia. I'm not very skilled with all the tools, so please: help me. I have a few more days to create great articles, but I also want to include them in Wikimedia Commons, where I'll upload all available works of the Silesian School of Iconography. I created the category "Silesian School of Iconography," but it seems something is not quite right. Help me make such a category. I'm also writing articles about some members of this school, but I can't gather all the materials. Perhaps I'll create basic drafts for further development, which I believe is also valuable. Please, take a look at the links (note! some are drafts and I'll be modifying them), but most importantly, I care about the Silesian School of Iconography. If you can, please improve these texts. 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Silesian_School_of_Iconography 2) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Monika_Jerominek 3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Like_the_dewfall/Jolanta_%C5%9Awi%C4%85tkiewicz 4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Like_the_dewfall/Dariusz_Klejnowski-R%C3%B3%C5%BCycki I also have issues regarding licenses and copyrights, as some images have been blocked. In the meantime, I'm sending images available on the website of the Silesian School of Iconography here under the "WORKS" section at the bottom of the page, and I don't know how to manage this. Please help me with that as well. Like the dewfall (talk) 00:08, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for whatever you did on catalytic reforming. What is the motivation for adding quotation marks for ? Thanks, --Smokefoot (talk) 21:02, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

:Smokefoot: WP:REFNAME, taking its content from Template:Refname rules, says,

::Quotation marks are preferred but optional if the only characters used are letters A–Z, a–z, digits 0–9, and the symbols !$%&()*,-.:;<@[]^_`{|}~.

:I believe the original primary reason the quotation marks are preferred where they are optional is that the Wikimedia software processes things slightly faster with the quotation marks. But from my perspective, it's preferred because it's easier for editors to deal with ref names if they are all done the same way, in quotation marks. Let's say, for example, that an article has a reference to a 2020 study by Jones, coded as . Now let's say in addition to citing the 2020 Jones study, we want to cite a 2022 Jones study. So the editor inserting the reference to the 2022 study first wants to rename the existing Jones reference to "Jones 2020", before inserting a new reference to "Jones 2022". Since the new name is going to need quotes, it's easiest if the existing names already have quotes. —Anomalocaris (talk) 21:45, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi there,

You made a recent edit on my sandbox. Firstly, thanks for making the tables compliant with correct formatting. I guess I got lazy with closing bold quotation symbols as I was making lots of tables to see which actually looked best - they potentially will never see an actual published article.

Just wondering why and how you came across a sandbox of all places to edit? Especially considering they may never be published. Do you run scripts or something to alert. Genuinely interested as to how this all came about.

Again, thanks for the edit - it will be useful in case I bring those tables across to published articles so that they are in a complete state. Also, you don't happen to have any experience with creating templates do you? Eccy89 (talk) 14:22, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

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Eccy89: For the past several years, I have edited a lot of Wikipedia articles to fix Lint errors. Before I worked on it, your page User:Eccy89/sandbox2 showed up with at least one fostered content error. In a table, everything has to be in a cell, so, if there is something in the markup between the table start and the table end that is displayable but isn't in a table cell, it is considered fostered content, and it displays above the table. Fostered content is sometimes caused by careless markup like this:

This one-celled table is missing a pipe character in column one that would turn the rest of this line into a table cell

And sometimes it's caused by forgetting to close an otherwise valid table:

Here's a table that has only one cell
This is supposed to be after the table but somebody forgot the closing
, so we're still in the table and this is fostered content

Once I started editing your page, I saw the problem with the {{tag|small}} tags, and I kept going from there. I consider it worth spending time fixing lint errors in sandboxes because it helps create awareness about good and bad markup. Sorry, I don't know much about creating templates. I can create a template that's just a block to include in an article, but I don't know how to write templates that take parameters. —Anomalocaris (talk) 19:28, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

:{{U|Eccy89}}: contact me on my talk page for help with finding or creating a template. Explain what you would like it to do. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:17, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

:After going into the linked page above, i am surprised that there ONLY FIVE pages with the fostered content type of lint errors. I thought it would be much much higher. Although I'm not sure what my error was. I saw you changed my bgcolor=... to style="background-color:#..." and obviously the small as you stated. I didn't know that small couldn't cross two lines. Interesting. Eccy89 (talk) 10:09, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

::Eccy89: The reason there were only 5 pages with fostered content is that Wikipedians like me are constantly fixing lint errors. —Anomalocaris (talk) 16:17, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

:::Outstanding work! A thanks-less task really. Mind you, I and see many others have thanked you, so maybe not that thank-less after all :-) – Eccy89 (talk) 22:37, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I noticed you just took away some wikilinks that I had included in a web link. I assume that you meant well, and were enforcing some kind of policy.

In any event, I really would like our readers to be able to find out, by visiting our articles, who Peter Schreier and Walter Olbertz are. Can you advise what would be a format by which I could do this? Thank you for your help.

Sincerely, Opus33 (talk) 05:46, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

:Oops, never mind, somebody has fixed it already, answering my question. Opus33 (talk) 18:27, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

::Opus33: Links in links do not work. If you have a Wikilink inside an external link, the external link stops working when it comes to the Wikilink. You can see this in the {{Oldid|Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel|1250886796#External_links|version}} of Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel from before I edited it. Since my edit, Michael Bednarek fixed it another way, so the external link intentionally ends before the first Wikilink. I completed the task by removing the stray closing bracket (]). (I began this message before your "never mind" and decided to post it anyway.)—Anomalocaris (talk) 18:36, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

::::::Thanks, this was very helpful. Opus33 (talk) 19:59, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

I have corrected the citation problems as requested by you. Can you please verify and let me know what else to improve ? Fuzayl1 (talk) 06:33, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

: Fuzayl1: I haven't looked up the references in the book, of course, but the page numbers are in as needed. I reformatted them slightly and combined identical references. I expect other editors will make suggestions on further improvements. —Anomalocaris (talk) 07:13, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

::Thank You Fuzayl1 (talk) 12:07, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

It was a copy and paste response because a set of Takashi Miike articles are all giving false disambiguation links but only if 5 apostrophes are used. Once those apostrophes are turned to 3 though it goes back to linking to, Pages that link to "Over Your Dead Body (film)". The only thing I can think is that somehow 5 apostrophes interacts with Takashi Miike template on each of these articles.

I'm going to change the redirect Kuime page to redirect strictly to the Film, placing a note in its talk page, and place a link at the top for those looking for the Japanese book. After which I will self revert my edits so those other articles can have their proper font back. RCSCott91 (talk) 21:33, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

:@Anomalocaris The disambiguous links have been resolved and I reverted the changes. I apologize for alarming you.

:I was trying to make those changes quickly to find out which page or article was causing it. I'm going to leave a note at Takashi Miike template talk page, hopefully someone smarter than me can find out why the presence of a redirect page going to a disambiguation page where one of the articles linked on that disambiguation page has that template: it causes all other articles with that same template to link to the disambiguation page. RCSCott91 (talk) 22:44, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

::This was about Black Society trilogy, which I edited to restore two apostrophes for opening bold italics. Now I edited Over Your Dead Body (film) to fix the hatnote. —Anomalocaris (talk) 23:41, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

:::Thank you. I just made that same edit for the "Over Your Dead Body (novel)" article. RCSCott91 (talk) 02:02, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

Anomalocaris:

Thank you for the page tweaks.

Is the page being reviewed by someone else for whether it gets published?

Hoping it "sees the light of day."

Thanks again.

--Mark (M.mk) M.mk (talk) 15:45, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

:M.mk: If you want a review of Draft: False or misleading statements by Bob Dylan, insert at the top {{subst:submit}}, which will turn into {{AfC submission}} or a slight variation thereof. —Anomalocaris (talk) 18:24, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

::Anomalocaris:

::Thank you.

::"insert at the top" -- I don't know what is exactly meant by this. I tried adding it to the URL and also to the search field and get nothing.

::I must have to put it somewhere else. But where?

::--Mark M.mk (talk) 23:51, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

:::M.mk: Edit the draft. Edit in regular mode not visual mode. Insert at the top {{subst:submit}}. Save the draft. —Anomalocaris (talk) 04:29, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

::::Thank you. M.mk (talk) 15:11, 1 November 2024 (UTC)

Please, stop your decades-long campaign to delete {{para|url-status|usurped}} from citations. This is one of the worst things I have read all week. I have spent years repairing usurped domains. Detailed at WP:JUDI. The flag has a purpose, it exists for a reason. Try: https://bcsportshalloffame.com/ .. it is a usurped domain. Every instance on wikipedia needs to have {{para|url-status|usurped}} .. there are over 700 domains like that. And that's just for Asian gambling sites. It doesn't include all the other usurped domains. If you don't understand how the system works, ask for help, but don't undo things you don't understand. -- GreenC 02:40, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

:GreenC: I replied at Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 96#clean up usurped / unfit / deviated. —Anomalocaris (talk) 19:30, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

I know I have many of these minor errors in my past, but if you have any systematic way of finding [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3AWikiProject_Mountains%2FArchive_7&diff=1078777832&oldid=1072710622 incomplete fixes like this one from 2022] (opening font tag replaced without replacing the closing font tag), that would be helpful. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:13, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

:Jonesey95: Thank you for pointing out my incomplete fix of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mountains/Archive 7 on 07:57, 23 March 2022 (UTC), which I have fixed properly now. I don't know a systematic way of finding such errors. —Anomalocaris (talk) 19:04, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

::Thanks. They'll turn up in the stripped/missing tag lists. We'll get to them eventually. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:06, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

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My dear, thank you very much for your help for my first draft...

now can you help me to finally published it? because I have no idea, I don't know how to do... Can you do it for me?

pleeeeease. Thea20071 (talk) 13:11, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

:Thea20071: I edited Draft:Gian Maria Aliberti Gerbotto on 4 December 2024. In that edit, I inserted a comment saying, "Please see {{Tlx|MedalTableTop}} for usage instructions. I inserted the required missing {{para|medals}} parameter, not necessarily the right way, and there are several parameters used here that don't belong." Please follow that advice. I also lot of {{para|title|...}} in cite templates. I thought this would make it really obvious that these references need titles. As it happens, on 5 January 2025, Citation bot edited the article and stripped out my inserted {{para|title|...}}. But the need is still there. Every reference needs a title. Click the link and copy as much info as you can from the web page, including author, date, and title. If the link no longer goes to a valid web page, then find an archive URL at http://archive.org/, or find a link to a working reference, or remove the bad link altogether. These are some things that you should do to improve the quality of the article. —Anomalocaris (talk) 01:53, 5 January 2025 (UTC)

::perfect. thanks very much. I will do it... see you soon. Thea20071 (talk) 13:44, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

::My dear, I followed your suggestions doing my best, as best I could, also keeping in mind that these are the first times I've moved to Wikipedia.

::I proceeded to remove all "Title" links to external internet sites that no longer exist, replacing them with new and functioning links. but I was unable to remove the red annotations "{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)" made by the correction of the bot into edit source, I think. Can you please delete them? I'm not capable of it.

::A thousand thanks.

::Then, having made these corrections, I think my draft is ready for publication, right? And can you please give me a hand in this regard, since I have no idea how to then transform a draft into a public article on Wikipedia? I thank you again for the invaluable help you are giving me in this first project of mine.

::Afterwards I promise that I will try to learn better and then proceed independently without disturbing you too much. Thea20071 (talk) 13:25, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

:::Thea20071: I edited the draft again, improving a few references with author, title, date, publisher, newspaper, access-date. Also, period and comma go before, not after, {{tag|ref}}. These changes can be a model for the work you should do on this draft. Again, references with cite templates need titles. I edit Wikipedia pages, and I give advice, but I do not have a role in approving drafts to become articles. Cheers! —Anomalocaris (talk) 06:08, 12 January 2025 (UTC)

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@Anomalocaris, thanks a lot for taking the time to improve my draft page. I added each book's page rages as you noted. Cheers Bagnacan (talk) 22:14, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

@Anomalocaris Thanks for repairing the faulty citation in the Cleveland-Cliffs article. I added the new content to make the paragraph more relevant to the article. The way it existed just popped in out of the blue, with little context. I rewrote it to reflect that Gonclaves was speaking at a press conference on the purchase of US Steel. He did say (and I left it in) those remarks that Japan was evil and worse than China. His reference to “not learning anything since 1945” was that Japan had not learned “…anything since 1945. You did not learn how good we are, how gracious we are, how magnanimous we are, how forgiving we are." Which I condensed to “American benevolence.” The “crusty” comments of the CEO need to relate to the context of the article in an encyclopedic way, not just showing up like a tabloid headline. If you have some suggestions on how that might be accomplished, I’d be grateful for them. Hamish barebones (talk) 19:59, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

:Hamish barebones: I don't have any ideas about this. If you are satisfied that there's nothing in the commented out paragraph that you want to put back in, I suggest removing the commented out paragraph. —Anomalocaris (talk) 21:18, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

::Anomalocaris: Thanks for all your help on this. I'm not certain what you mean by a "commented out" paragraph. A little more help please. Thanks in advance. Hamish barebones (talk) 19:31, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

:::Hamish barebones: HTML is the underlying markup of the World Wide Web, including Wikipedia. In HTML, comments are entered using . Comments are information for someone looking at the markup, that don't affect the display. For example, the markup

:::

Have a nice day

:::displays as

:::Have a nice day

:::Cleveland-Cliffs has a full paragraph commented out this way. If you use the visual editor, you can see the paragraph just below the paragraph that begins "In January 2025, Goncalves called Japan". There's an icon that looks like an exclamation point inside a gray square, indicating an "invisible comment". Double-click on the comment to bring up a dialog box allowing you to edit or remove the comment. If you use the regular editor instead of the visual editor, just search for