User talk:Gadget850/Archive 2013#Cite ship register template

Happy New Year! You saved me an "Edit protected" request! --Funandtrvl (talk) 16:38, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

:You are welcome. I suspect you mean my update to {{tl|template shortcut}} which I was too tired to do last night. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 16:40, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

::Yes! I have one suggestion though, in regards to Template:Citation Style documentation#Section usage, the 'Description' section should really be changed to be in order of the way it is in the template. E.g., 'Anchor', which is the 'ref', makes more sense at the end, as it is at that place in most of the 'cite' templates. In fact, the way the sections are ordered in the further below "Parameters section" on that page, is following the template code order, and not the order described under 'Section usage'. I feel some consistency would be helpful, because the order described on that page in the 'Section usage' part, and the order actually used in the 'Parameters section' are contradictory; thus, the confusion. I mostly try to update /doc pages so that they follow the order of the code, which is often also pictured in the hard code examples of the related templates at the top right of the template pages; thus, my update [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ACite_AV_media%2Fdoc&diff=530769753&oldid=530729764 here]. --Funandtrvl (talk) 17:03, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

:::I am certainly open to suggestions on reorganizing. Whatever we decide, it needs to be done across the {{cs1}} series. Lets take this to Help talk:Citation Style 1 for transparency. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 21:42, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

::Yes, that's okay with me. --Funandtrvl (talk) 22:04, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Gadget850. Though I know you've worked so much in templates, in the case of {{tl|cite AV media}} I think it suffices to show only ONE shortcut, {{tl|cite media}} with {{tl|template shortcut}} rather than showing many; a tidy, well chosen display facilitates to remember. (This view is shared in Template talk:Template shortcut#Expand? by User:David Göthberg.) I'm not sure if it's better to list many redirects in "Aliases" section; some are unused at all, and others are purely historical. For example, {{tl|wiktionary}} has [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Wiktionary&hidetrans=1&hidelinks=1 this many aliases], but many are useless from practical viewpoint.

Obviously you don't have to delete (old) template aliases, but at the same time it's better to keep them well organized. See for example {{tl|Wiktionary templates common doc}} which is a part of the docs of {{tl|wt}}, {{tl|wtr}} etc. (I created most of these shortcuts and the table recently, but it may be an excess, I know. Let's see what will happen. Wikipedia is still in its cradle.)

I edited Template:template shortcut/doc promoting my opinion, but I'd be glad to discuss. Thanks a lot. --Ahora (talk) 05:19, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

:Upon reflection, the box is not listing shortcuts, but redirects, thus {{tl|template redirects}} is more appropriate. But we don't need to know what redirects to a template, so I have removed all and deleted the template.--— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 02:25, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Ok, but as pointed out at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_December_10#Template:Cite_video by User:delldot, the shortcut {{tl|cite media}} is nice; fairly general and descriptive, yet easy to remember and use, so I re-added it to {{tl|cite AV media/doc}} with {{tl|template shortcut}}.

At the same time, {{tl|template shortcut}} is sometimes used to show long but good aliases. (I can't cite a good example here, but in Japanese Wikipedia, templates imported from English Wikipedia often have a Japanese name, and the original name as redirects. In those cases, it's good to show English aliases, which are not necesarily short.) If you know some such examples too, changing the text "shortcut:" in the box of {{tl|template shortcut}} to "aliases:" may be good. But it's probably better to propose first at the talk page than discussing here between two of us. Thanks anyway. --Ahora (talk) 06:11, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Don't you mean [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cub_Scouting_%28Boy_Scouts_of_America%29#Webelos_Scouts "Webelos"] on your user page? Cheers. Swliv (talk) 00:15, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

:yes --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 01:41, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

...your help at WT:Citing sources and for creating {{listref}}. —  AjaxSmack  04:59, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

The first line of Wikipedia:Accessibility#Lists. Does the MediaWiki software not have that issue with definition lists? --Izno (talk) 21:25, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

:Good question. Let me check. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 21:41, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

::Yes, it does and thanks for pointing it out. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 21:44, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

:::I got sidetracked into that very matter at Template talk:Sidebar#Impressive... but dot size? (my post of 09:07, 5 December 2012 et seq, search for "An edit like this which introduces blank lines") --Redrose64 (talk) 22:04, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

:::No problem. I just noticed the edit via watchlist and attended to it. Didn't mean to create work for you on checking that MW does or does not fix the problem for DLs. --Izno (talk) 22:23, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

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Thanks for {{Diff|Template:Infobox settlement|532388128|528636656|this edit}}. There a are a number of infoboxes and other templates wuing a {{para|native_name}} parameter. Do we need a bot or other effort to track them all down? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:58, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

:It does no harm, but it is redundant and it leads to reuse. I have cleaned up a handful, but a bot would be more thorough and efficient. See Template talk:Lang#xml:lang is now redundant for my original discussion. I noticed it was no longer whitelisted at {{sanitizer.php}} and did some testing. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 17:23, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

{{Wikipedia:Help Project/Newsletter/5}}

I know your always chipping away here and there, but your modest 'i've edited Help:HTML in wikitext' made me smile, thank you Gadget, you've definitely merit more kudos, so here's a little more:

:Thanks! --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 02:26, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

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...over at Wikipedia talk:Help desk#Suggestion for improvement. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:09, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

FYI, since you nominated the span template, you might want to look at {{tl|st}}. I haven't looked close enough to see if there is a substantial difference, but so far it appears is is being used as a substitute for {{tl|plainlinks}}. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 04:45, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

:An article in my namespace

Please undelete Camp Minsi/draft and place it in my namespace.

Thanks.

--evrik ^(talk) 20:45, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

:{{done}} User:Evrik/Camp Minsi --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 20:51, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Why isn't this working? I want to use it at the top of the Scouting in California page. --evrik ^(talk) 15:32, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

{{Infobox WorldScouting

|name=Scouting in California

|image= =

}}

:{{tps}} You're trying to get the {{para|image}} parameter to do something that it's not designed to do. {{tlx|Infobox WorldScouting}} expects {{para|image}} to contain the name of a single image (omitting the File: prefix), and nothing more, e.g. {{para|image|GirlScoutsatNASA2.jpg}} --Redrose64 (talk) 16:02, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

::Look at Eurasian (mixed ancestry), it uses {{tl|Infobox ethnic group}}. That infobox has the capability. Is there simple fix? --evrik ^(talk) 18:55, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

:::{{tlx|Infobox WorldScouting}} was designed to use the infobox parameters to format images, {{tl|Infobox ethnic group}} was designed to use image markup. Let me look at this in a bit- might be able to add a separate image parameter. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 19:08, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

• alternately, if you can think of a different way to display an attractive header box, I'm open to suggestion. --evrik ^(talk) 22:25, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

I added image2 and caption2. image2 can use standard image markup, table markup or preferably a template such as {{tl|multiple image}}:

{{Infobox WorldScouting

|name=Scouting in California

|image2=

{{multiple image

|image1 = GirlScoutsatNASA2.jpg

|width1 = 95

|alt1 = alt text

|image2 = BadenPowellMemorial 8432.JPG

|width2 = 95

|alt2 = alt text}}

{{multiple image

|image1 = Girl Scout Day Camp 2.jpg

|width1 = 95

|alt1 = alt text

|image2 = Tournament of Roses Parade scouts.jpg

|width2 = 95

|alt2 = alt text}}

|caption2= Girl Scouts at JPL, Baden-Powell Memorial

Corriganville Regional Park, Scouts at the Tournament of Roses Parade

}}

{{pre2|{{Infobox WorldScouting

|name=Scouting in California

|image2=

{{multiple image

|image1 = GirlScoutsatNASA2.jpg

|width1 = 95

|alt1 = alt text

|image2 = BadenPowellMemorial 8432.JPG

|width2 = 95

|alt2 = alt text}}

{{multiple image

|image1 = Girl Scout Day Camp 2.jpg

|width1 = 95

|alt1 = alt text

|image2 = Tournament of Roses Parade scouts.jpg

|width2 = 95

|alt2 = alt text}}

|caption2=

Corriganville Regional Park, Scouts at the Tournament of Roses Parade

}}}}

• Thanks! --evrik ^(talk) 20:47, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
• Could you please look at Scouting in California and fix the uncentered images? --evrik ^(talk) 17:45, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Any idea where I can get some more recent data for Local councils of the Boy Scouts of America? --evrik ^(talk) 17:45, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

:I was just going to discuss that on the article talk. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 17:49, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

• I'll look for that there. --evrik ^(talk) 17:51, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

We want to have both the 10- and 13-digit isbns with clickable look-ups. Please don't remove the 10 digit isbns. Kiefer.Wolfowitz 10:03, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

:Doesn't make sense, since they are the same ISBN. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 11:50, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

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:DYK nomination

{{Template:Did you know nominations/Local councils of the Boy Scouts of America}}

I could use some more hooks. --evrik ^(talk) 21:44, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

:File:Lis.gif --evrik ^(talk) 15:10, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

:I was just looking at it; it is of course the WOSM emblem. Do we really need infoboxes on the WOSM and WAGGS lists?

::I wasn't writing about the content. I was curious of the image is on the commons as free, but we use it locally as fair use. --evrik ^(talk) 15:57, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

:::Looking at that as well; World Scout Emblem states this version was introduced in 1955, so it is still trademarked even in Europe. And I don't even want to get into the BSA's claim: "Fleur-de-lis (when used in conjunction with a Scouting activity)". [http://www.scouting.org/sitecore/content/Licensing/Protecting%20the%20Brand/Boy%20Scouts%20of%20America%20Trademark%20Listing.aspx] --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 16:02, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

::::Put it up for deletion on Commons. -- — Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 16:11, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

:::::I'm not a big deletionist. :-D BTW, I am in favor of infoboxes and nice graphics in any article where it will fit. 16:37, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

::::::I really don't have a problem with the infoboxes, so restore the with the proper images and flsh them out a bit if you like. I am both working and sick and those aren't good combinations to begin with. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 16:40, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

• It's on my list of things to do. --evrik ^(talk) 17:39, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

FYI: Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/May 15

--evrik ^(talk) 16:15, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

In 2007, this image was removed, :File:BSA scouter dress uniform.jpg from this page, Uniform and insignia of the Boy Scouts of America#Scouter dress uniform because it was "Replaceable fair use." Six years later, it hasn't been replaced. Could you please restore the image? --evrik ^(talk) 16:47, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

:It is an image from a catalog. We just can't use it, and there is still every possibility that you can just walk up and snap a photo. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 16:51, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

::Why can't that be fair use? --evrik ^(talk) 17:13, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

:::Because it was clipped from a copyrighted catalog. And just because no one has taken a free photo doesn't mean no one can. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 17:42, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

::::This is a perfect example of fair use. We should use it until a free photo is found. This takes nothing away from the Boy Scout brand. --evrik ^(talk) 18:05, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

It took me a month ... but I finished revamping and cleaning up the page to include the history list on the talk page. I am now going to move on to some of the smaller states. I would appreciate your input. --evrik ^(talk) 15:21, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

In December 2012 you added {{tlx|cite ship register}} to :Category:Citation templates not conforming to an established style. I have since rewritten that template to use {{tlx|Citation/core}}. Ok to remove {{cite ship register}} from Category:Citation templates not conforming to an established style and return it to :Category:Citation templates?

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:09, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

:It now conforms to {{cs2}}, thus it belongs in :Category:Citation Style 2 templates. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 19:48, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

::Thank you.

::—Trappist the monk (talk) 21:53, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

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I've merged the soundtrack page into Firestarter (film), making this image redundant to the film poster. I wonder if you have objections to deletion of this image. --George Ho (talk) 04:52, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

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The page Francis Brown produces a validation error:

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…itle/enwiki/Francis Brown" title="Edit interlanguage links">Edit links

Syntax of IRI reference:

Any URL. For example: /hello, #canvas, or http://example.org/. Characters should be represented in NFC and spaces should be escaped as %20.

I hope you can help me correct this problem. Wikfr (talk) 19:23, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

:Fix is on the way; see {{phab|47708}}. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 19:26, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

::Thanks for taking care of this so quickly. Wikfr (talk) 21:21, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi. Can you offer your opinion on the matter discussed at the bottom of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scott_Allie#Infobox.2520consensus.2520discussion this discussion]? Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 02:23, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

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I'm curious about [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scouting_in_Arkansas&diff=next&oldid=270504106 this edit] and this information, "The 1974 settlement between the BSA and the NAACP over racial discrimination required the BSA to issue its first non-discrimination policy regarding race (Stipulation and Order, NAACP, et al. v. Boy Scouts of America, et al. (Civil No. C-74-329): U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, Central Division, 1974.)" I've never heard of this court case, have you? --evrik ^(talk) 19:08, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

:Yes. The short story is that LDS Church did not allow black youth to be leaders such as SPL. I think some details are wrong but let me look.

:And this inclusion in every southern state bugs me. Neither Chicago nor Tulsa are considered southern, but the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 and the Tulsa race riot were particular low points. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 19:17, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

A 12-year-old boy scout has been denied a senior patrol leadership in his troop because he is black", Don L. Cope, black ombudsman for the state, said Wednesday.

Mormon 'troop policy is that in order for a scout to become a patrol leader, he must be a deacon's quorum president in the LDS Church. Since the boy cannot hold the priesthood, he cannot become a patrol leader.' "

Shortly before Boy Scout officials were to appear in Federal Court Friday morning on charges of discrimination, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a policy change which will allow black youths to be senior patrol leaders, a position formerly reserved for white LDS youths in troops sponsored by the church. An LDS Church spokesman said Friday under the "guidelines set forth in the statement, a young man other than president of the deacons quorum could (now) become the senior patrol leader if he is better qualified". - (Salt Lake Tribune, August 3,1974).

::I copied that from an old email. Need a reliable archive or other source.--— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 19:30, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

:::Related bibliography.[http://www.paxtu.org/Paxtu_-_BSA_Bibliography_-_Part_G_-_100822.pdf] --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 19:51, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

:I am eventually going to try and clean up all the state pages. It should probably be on the controversies page. along with this, {{quote|In 1914, the BSA gave local councils the power to ban African Americans from Scouting. Macleod, David Irving. Building Character in the American Boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and Their Forerunners, 1870-1920. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, WI, 1983. P 213. Until 1974, some southern councils of the Boy Scouts of America were still racially segregated. The Old Hickory council did not integrate until 1974. "Camp Timeless; Raven Knob Marks 50 Years as Boy Scouts Still Enjoy Its Wonder." Winston-Salem Journal, July 17, 2005, B1. The 1974 settlement between the BSA and the NAACP over racial discrimination required the BSA to issue its first non-discrimination policy regarding race.Stipulation and Order, NAACP, et al. v. Boy Scouts of America, et al. (Civil No. C-74-329): U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, Central Division, 1974.}}

--evrik ^(talk) 21:25, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

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• http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&dat=19740911&id=F-pdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=R18NAAAAIBAJ&pg=2292,1643551
• http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=799&dat=19740803&id=uZdPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=W1IDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3061,2571987
• http://books.google.com/books?id=xw6hBEEKVhQC&pg=PA100*
• http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/african-americans-boy-scout-movement

I don't see anything that states this lead to the first race-related non-discrimination policy. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 22:53, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

:*I don't either. I removed it from Arkansas. I think it still would be good on the controversies page. --evrik ^(talk) 19:17, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

::Of the three references you listed, I have Macleod and have not found the other two. The articles I found can replace the third, but I am iffy on Old Hickory Council. I had heard that Pee Dee Area Council was the last to integrate in 1972, but I don't have a good ref. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 19:28, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

I could use your input please: User talk:Werieth#Scouting in California. --evrik ^(talk) 19:31, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Hey there, there may have been some confusion earlier. I was trying to create a placeholder article. I wasn't necessarily trying to take the article live yet, or short cut what you were working on, which is why I didn't use your title of List of defunct local councils of the Boy Scouts of America. So I'm not sure what's going on with Defunct local councils of the Boy Scouts of America or User:Gadget850/List of defunct local councils of the Boy Scouts of America. I'm signing off for the day. --evrik ^(talk) 17:11, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

:Well, my question is answered ... :-) I wish you hadn't "moved" the page, but started it fresh, it would have been nice to not see the editing history. I kinda like the Wikipedia:Athena effect. --evrik ^(talk) 17:15, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

• Thank you for all your work in this. --evrik ^(talk) 17:16, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Gadget850,

I would appreciate to know your opinion in the case of merging {{tlx|Infobox settlement Chile}} to {{tlx|Infobox settlement}} as proposed in {{tlx|Infobox settlement/sandbox}}. The discussion is in Template_talk:Infobox_settlement#Infobox_settlement_Chile. Feel free to ask more information that isn't given in the discussion.

--Best regards, Keysanger (what?) 18:49, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

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|text = On 16 March 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Local councils of the Boy Scouts of America, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the majority of local councils of the Boy Scouts of America have gone through thousands of name changes, merges, splits and re-creations since the establishment of the organization in 1910? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Local councils of the Boy Scouts of America. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, [http://stats.grok.se/en/201303/Local_councils_of_the_Boy_Scouts_of_America quick check]) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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I'm trying to make Template:harvnb for the Croatian Wikipedia, but for some reason I can't do it right, though I copied everything from the English Wikipedia...

See this article... hr:Savezna Država Austrija... can't make ref (like 1, 2, 3), but insted I get the whole citation with the text and nothing appears in references... --Wustenfuchs (talk) 06:12, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

:The harvnb template is working: see my home page there. You need to create an example for me to see what you are doing. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 10:22, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

::I updated my example and it works. You need to use a cite template as shown. Your version of {{tl|cite book}} does not support {{para|ref|harv}} so you have to create it manually. You also don't have the CSS on your site to highlight the full citation; since it is a short example, it won't appear to jump to the full citation. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 13:20, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

Ok, this is what I done on the Croatian Wikipedia:

[http://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predlo%C5%BEak:Citiraj] (Predložak means "template"). --Wustenfuchs (talk) 18:50, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

:Yes, that is the Croation version of {{tl|harvnb}}. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 18:55, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

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I can't imagine that any of the medals aren't replaceable, but did any of them include source links? If so, can you give me the links so I can see what we're dealing with so I can explain to Evrik why they can't be kept? Ryan Vesey 02:50, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks, but don't bother. --evrik ^(talk) 03:54, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

You seem to be following behind me and changing my edits. I caught it with [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ACITELABEL&diff=546721249&oldid=546696580 this edit] and was going to let it slide. I just thought it was a waste of your time as well as mine. Then I came across [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AREFGROUP&diff=546721344&oldid=546696744 this edit], where you actually broke the shortcut category by using uppercase letters. Gadget850, don't you even check your edits to see if they do what you want them to do? Now you need to go back and check your recent edits to see if you've broken anything else. And please explain why you feel the need to alter my edits. Do you have some wasteful intent to unpopulate the Redirects to sections cat in favor of the Redirects to anchors cat? – PAINE ELLSWORTH ^CLIMAX! 06:06, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

:I just fix stuff on my watchlist; I have no idea what you do elsewhere. I checked each one as I updated; I rechecked Wikipedia:REFGROUP and it is working. Let's look at that one: someone before you changed it from the anchor to a direct link, but I didn't catch it at the time. The linked page includes a {{tl|shortcut}} template which creates an anchor: in this case named WP:REFGROUP. When you create the redirect, you should link to the shortcut anchor, not the section name. If the section is renamed (which happens), the shortcut anchor remains the same and the link still works. You edit wasn't broken, but linking to the {{tl|shortcut}} anchor is more robust. Indeed, your edit to Wikipedia:EXPLNOTE undid my standing edit. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 12:38, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

::I see your POV, however it really makes no sense to me to alter a perfectly good shortcut that works. If a header is changed in the future, then those who change it need to learn to anchor the old header in order to not break links to the section, to include shortcut links. In my opinion anchoring the shortcut to the shortcut is just one more reason for editors who change section headers to fail to anchor the old section names.

::But all that aside, what this is really about is your changing several of my recent edits without letting me know what you think I'm doing wrong. If I'm doing something wrong, then I need to know it so I'll stop doing it. When you come behind me and change my edits like that, it makes me feel like it's a waste of time to make the edits in the first place. Can you follow what I mean here? – PAINE ELLSWORTH ^CLIMAX! 20:57, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

{{od}}

See if you go for this, Gadget850... I've been catting redirects gnomishly for some time, now. The vast majority of the shortcuts I find that go somewhere besides the TOP go to section headers, and the vast majority of those are not pointed at a shortcut anchor, but to the section header itself. Every once in awhile I come across shortcuts that go to embedded anchors where there were no section headers. Someone occasionally uses the semicolon for headers

;like this line that begins with a semicolon in the code.

For those, I never hesitated to cat them with {{tl|R to anchor}}. Up to now, just so there would be standardization, when I came across a shortcut that targeted an anchor that was also to a section header, I would alter the redirect to target the section header. A few minutes ago I came across one like that, and rather than alter the target, I just slapped the {{tl|R to anchor}} Rcat on it and kept going. That's what I'll do from now on, since it's faster and works just as well. I hope that meets with your approval, and you won't feel you have to alter any more of my edits. If this does not set well with you, please let me know why. My main thrust here is to improve Wikipedia without wasting a lot of time on edits that will be almost immediately altered by another contributor. And thank you for listening and putting up with me. – PAINE ELLSWORTH ^CLIMAX! 01:24, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

• "where you actually broke the shortcut category by using uppercase letters" Yes, I broke that, must have hit caps lock.
• "those who change it need to learn to anchor the old header in order to not break links to the section" And that is what the {{tl|shortcut}} template does: it creates an anchor. If you link to the shortcut anchor, then the section header doesn't matter.
• "changing several of my recent edits without letting me know" I apologize for that. I actually started to, then got interrupted and never came back to it.
• No worries, then? --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 12:57, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

::I'm good – thank you for letting me vent a little. My point about the anchoring is that contributors need to anchor the section-header changes they make, whether or not there is a shortcut to the section. The broken links are the ones that go to that section, both from internal and external web pages. There is a bot that finds these, but it doesn't fix them – it just places a message box on the article's talk page, and editors have to check the finds and fix the broken links. I've fixed a lot of these whenever I've come across them. Thanks again, and good fortune to you and yours! – PAINE ELLSWORTH ^CLIMAX! 13:41, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

:::Well, that is the very intent of {{tl|shortcut}}. BTW: Using the definition markup (;) to bold a line is improper. HTML 5 now requires that every definition have a list. The W3C validator give an error. --— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 14:14, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

:::::I just realized that there are several of those semicolon-bolded lines on the MOS page. You say it's improper. I'm not sure I understand, but I'm sure I'll need to cite a policy or guideline when I go changing all those lines. Can you point me to a reference? – PAINE ELLSWORTH ^CLIMAX! 01:50, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

::::As I said, not all section headers have shortcuts, but their old section names should be anchored with at the very least a ==New name== type anchor (or the {{tl|Anchor}} template). The semicolon subheaders have become rare and I seldom come across them. I did some a couple of days ago, so I'll see if I can't find those and upgrade them. – PAINE ELLSWORTH ^CLIMAX! 01:11, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

::::PS. Found them – they were on an MOS subpage, no less.

Help:Wiki markup#Definition lists --  Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 01:59, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

:{{tyvm|Gadget850 (Ed)}} – PAINE ELLSWORTH ^CLIMAX! 01:29, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

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Gadget850 - Yesterday I thought I would help with disambiguation so I went to the disambiguation page and randomly picked Girl Scouts. I spent an hour reviewing all the groups on that page and then I checked some of the articles that linked to Girl Scouts. About 95% of the links to Girl Scouts were looking for an organization NOT on the Girl Scouts disambiguation page. What they were looking for, of course, was the Girl Scouts of the USA. Now I had read the talk page and I saw your comment about not putting the individual national organizations on the Girl Scouts disambiguation page, but, I decided you were wrong. And I put the Girl Scouts of the USA on the page. You have reverted me. I have become BOLDER and have now made the correction to the page I should have made in the beginning. What do you think? GroveGuy (talk) 07:04, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

I really need some help, and it seems like you your right person to ask. I want to add the same column options used in {{tlx|Refbegin}} for {{tlx|Palmares start}}, so it can be set like this {{tlx|Refbegin|3}} or {{tlx|Refbegin|30em}}. The default is two columns and there is another parameter for a source. The problem is that when viewed on a small screen (mobile) the lines split and it becomes impossible to read. I've set up a sandbox and the appropriate testcases. Hopefully you can help me out, as I'm struggling. If you can't, could you point me in the right direction. Cheers. BaldBoris 22:06, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

I saw your feedback at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk#Extremely_long_list_in_an_article help desk] about using the {{mem}} template for the notable alumni list at Hollywood High School. That's pretty damn cool. Unfortunately, though, I didn't see your comment until long after I had already spent hours creating a collapsible table using the method advised by the other admin (Yunshui). That [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Mem page you referred me to] even has a section specifically about using the template "For lists of notable alumni"! You're very good; I'll bet there aren't too many editors who even know about. Anyway, I used the method Yunshui explained at the help desk and the table looks very similar to your way. I created three columns (Name/Class year/Notability), but now I'm not sure (after seeing your template) if there will be any problems with the way I did it. If you see anything wrong with it, please feel free to make any fixes. Of course, the sole problem which prompted me to go to the help desk in the first place was the excessive length of the list; it was just overwhelming the article because it was so incredibly long compared to the rest the article. So as long as the table is collapsed by default, I'll be happy with whatever template is used. So again, if anything needs changed, I won't mind one bit if you do it. In fact, I'd appreciate it because I'm sure that's easily the biggest notable alumni list of any high school article. Anyway, thanks a lot for educating me on that mem template. Even though I still have no idea how to use it, it was really cool to see a template that is specifically meant for tables like the one I've been working on. :) --76.189.111.2 (talk) 15:20, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

:You are welcome. Sorry I didn't see your question earlier, but you can certainly use any bits you need. The template is just a table formed in chunks. --  Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 15:28, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

::No problem at all. I apologize, maybe I should've waited for a few hours, but I really liked the clear instructions Yunshui gave me and it looked like it would a perfect fix to the problem. And it appears that it is. Again, I don't know if the way I did it is still OK or if it needs to be changed, but I'm totally lost about how to use that mem template anyway. And your "chunks" comment confused me even more. Haha. (And I don't have any energy left to spend hours changing what I already did. :p) I'm just a little concerned now because I don't want anything I did to cause a problem. So if you need or want to change anything, be my guest. 76.189.111.2 (talk) 15:42, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Module:Footnotes is still being used for {{tl|harvnb}} and {{tl|harvard citation/core}}. It is only {{tl|sfn}} that has a problem due to the bad interaction of with frame:preprocess. Dragons flight (talk) 19:09, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

:Ah. --  Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 19:44, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

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I want to revisit a topic we breifly discussed earlier this year.

Today I added {{tlx|cite ship register}} to the list of templates that use citaion/core because it does. As part of that I reread Help:Citation Style 2. That document says that CS2 citations are based on {{tlx|citation}} which seems to be born out by the other templates in :Category:Citation Style 2 templates. {{tld|Cite ship register}} is not based on {{tld|citation}} so isn't it now mis-categorized?

Doesn't {{tlx|cite ship register}} really belong in :Category:Citation Style 1 specific-source templates.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 14:31, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

:No comment? Should I take that as tacit agreement that {{tlx|cite ship register}} doesn't belong in :Category:Citation Style 2 templates?

:To further muddy the water, :Category:Citation Style 1 specific-source templates might not be the right place either. Except for {{tlx|cite IETF}}, every template I looked at did not directly use {{tlx|citation/core}} – they all used one of the CS1 templates. What to do?

:—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:48, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

{{user|Evrik}} is un-merging a large number of local councils into their own articles because state wide articles cannot support individual logos. My question is do the individual council articles pass the general notability guide? For example I have no clue why Pacific Skyline Council should have its own article. Werieth (talk) 19:20, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

:I truly have no control over his actions. If you have a conviction on this, then AfD is the forum. --  Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 19:23, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

::I am unsure of the issue, since you are the lead on WP:SCOUT I thought you would be able to give me some insight. Werieth (talk) 19:28, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

:::I think Wikipedia:Village Pump (policy) is the best forum for this, create a notability guideline first then go to AfD. Absent any notability guideline, I'd support the creation of individual council articles. Ryan Vesey 19:40, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

::::Local councils are notable, but the article has to demonstrate it per WP:ORG. I have always disliked the state articles, as the BSA does not operate that way. --  Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 19:46, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

:::::FWIW, this is exactly what I said I would do. I would be willing to merge them back into the one state article, but that would involve a compromise. --evrik ^(talk) 19:48, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

::::::Evrik, or I can just AfD the individual articles as failing ORG, and have the contents sans logo merged back to the state articles and we go back to status quo, of having state articles minus large numbers of non-free files. Werieth (talk) 19:54, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

:::::::Go ahead and AfD the articles as failing ORG. They'll pass that test. Do you really want to waste everyone's time like that? I would like to find a compromise. The large state article without the logos is the worst off all the options. I'm listening. --evrik ^(talk) 19:57, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

:::::::A general AfD request to merge the articles will succeed, Piedmont Council (California) and San Diego-Imperial Council really have no assertion of notability. If you think you have a compromise I am willing to hear it but the two options that you have suggested really are not that feasible. One violates WP:NFCC the other violates notability. Please take this to my talk if you have something workable, otherwise I will start a mass AfD for merging in a few days. Werieth (talk) 20:05, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

::::::::I'm okay with leaving the discussion here. We are at impasse and there is no consensus. Why don't we get an independent arbiter to settle this difference of opinion. --evrik ^(talk) 20:56, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

::::::::I see you now did the same thing to Scouting in New York. I am going to revert that change while we further discuss this. You're not happy with the long article pages, nor are you happy with splitting them up. Surely there has to be a middle ground? --evrik ^(talk) 18:08, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

:::::::::I was suggesting taking this to one of our talk pages because poor Gadget850 is getting emails for every post we make here. I am fine with the long conglomerate list article, In fact I think that is the best option as each one of these smaller articles lacks independent notability for the most part. Just like countless List of Characters from X. And in similar cases the usage for a logo per item is not acceptable. If you want I can can reference multiple debates and discussions that codified that point. I am open to having one or two images, Have you looked for an image that already combines the individual emblems into a single image? (Note: you cannot create this yourself). Werieth (talk) 18:29, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

::::::::::I’m like a bad party guest. I’ll stay here until Gadget850 kicks me out. ;-) Seriously though, Gadget mentioned earlier that he is not a fan of the long state article, and back in 2006, neither was I. I had just started the long project of trying to clean-up all the state pages when I was sidetracked by the discussion on the images. I disagree that the smaller articles lack independent notability. I think each of these articles has a lot more potential, and are not like the List of Characters from X, because of the 100 year history of scouting. They have had an impact on their community. Maybe by breaking them apart they will flourish?

:::::::::: Listing references to the debates won't get us anywhere as I disagree on the premise that the article is a list. I think the long state articles are ugly, but they are not necessarily lists. Now that all the content has been stripped out of Scouting in California, it's a list. Really though, this only affects the larger state articles, and not the smaller state articles. I’m searching for a middle ground. --evrik ^(talk) 20:51, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

{{talkback|Help talk:Link color|Confused}} --Redrose64 (talk) 16:30, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Hi, I know little about templates, but [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Blockquote_paragraphs&curid=34584930&diff=549725484&oldid=549590870 this edit] would seem to change the sense of what the page is talking about. The examples seem to outline indents, not citations. You made a comment on the talk page, so I wondered if you might have some insight into this change. The new editor has made many odd changes on other pages. Please advise. Thanks Span (talk) 19:12, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

:Most of the edits are minor non-visible style edits. But I am utterly baffled by the use in citation in this context.

:As I have noted on the talk page, there is a really simple solution to replace the solution that uses HTML comments. --  Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 19:31, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

::Thanks Span (talk)

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A fascinating tidbit on Railroad scouting. It could probably be developed and seeded across several articles. --evrik ^(talk) 02:37, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

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I just left [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Werieth&oldid=552003623#Edit_warring_2 this message]. --evrik ^(talk) 19:08, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

:You have it under control. --  Gadget850 ^talk 19:11, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

::What is the best way to fix the template on this image: :File:Savez Izviđača Srbije.png for multiple articles? --evrik ^(talk) 19:45, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

:::Presuming they meet non-free content criteria #3, then see Wikipedia:WikiProject Scouting/Images#Non-free media rationale. --  Gadget850 ^talk 19:52, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

::::A new discussion [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Non-free_content_review&oldid=552285468#Savez_izvi.C4.91a.C4.8Da_Bosne_i_Hercegovine here]. --evrik ^(talk) 17:34, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

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You might want to !vote or comment at talk:Harry S. Truman National Historic Site. Nice FAQ. – Wbm1058 (talk) 05:19, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the citation tidying! — Scott • talk 13:46, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

:You are welcome. Scot (2006) is tagged as missing the full citation. --  Gadget850 ^talk 13:58, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

::It would be one that shares my name, wouldn't it? Fixed now and replied to you at the talk. — Scott • talk 14:50, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Gadget, there is a discussion at User talk:GoingBatty#Edits in Windows 8? that could benefit from your expertise. Regards, -- Ohc ^¡digame!_{¿que pasa?} 06:36, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

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You deleted this while it was in use at 11th Canadian Scout Jamboree. Please restore it-it was not unused as your summary stated.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 07:34, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

:That article needs to use the jamboree logo, not the Scouts Canada logo. --  Gadget850 ^talk 10:41, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

::So that's a valid reason for you to have used a false rationale to delete it while it was still in use in the article, claiming it was unused? I can read the timeline as well as anyone. Dirty pool. I'll bear it in mind. You haven't responded to me in years, time to give up on you. Randy's wrong about you.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 10:09, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

:::It was inappropriate for use in the article. Have you looked at the article lately? --  Gadget850 ^talk 10:38, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

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:fix table class; discussion on talk - On which talk page? Pdfpdf (talk) 11:23, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

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Can you move the history of Camp Pioneer to Camp Pioneer (Oregon)? Thanks! --evrik ^(talk) 15:40, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Gadget, comment for you [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3ACiting_sources&diff=559653228&oldid=559652289 here], in case you miss it. Best, SlimVirgin ^(talk) 01:48, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Gadget, thank you very much for making [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rafael_Nadal&diff=559770749&oldid=559732710 this edit]. I'm not sure if you saw it, but I expressed my gratitude to you in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk#Creating_notes help desk thread], also. I had been trying for hours yesterday to find someone who knew how to fix those footnotes. Thanks for improving on Yunshui's fix. Btw, I left [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yunshui#Footnotes this message] for Yunshui a few hours ago, asking whether the five sources at the end of the first paragraph should also be footnoted. If you know, or would be willing to footnote that one also, if needed, that would be great. It's really nice to have technical wizards like you available to help novices like me. Thanks, again. --76.189.109.155 (talk) 20:14, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

(BTW, I've fixed the additional bundle of refs mentioned above. Yunshui 雲‍水 22:26, 13 June 2013 (UTC))

:I second Yunshui's commendation. I think both of you are awesome. --76.189.109.155 (talk) 01:32, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

I got an email a while ago telling me that my sandbox had been deleted. Following the link in the email, I arrived at an empty sandbox that had the following notification:

"This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log for the page are provided below for reference. 19:18, 17 June 2013 Gadget850"

However, after I signed in I went to the sandbox and everything looks normal (i.e. nothing gone that I hadn't removed myself).

So what does that notification mean? Akhooha (talk) 21:59, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

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Sorry, never mind.... It pays to read carefully. Looking at things again, I realized it was the "Help:Cite errors/Akhooha/sandbox" page that got deleted, and not the sandbox itself. Never having been aware in the first place of the "Help:Cite errors/Akhooha/sandbox" page, I don't miss it. But now I'm curious: what was it's function? Thanks. Akhooha (talk) 13:59, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

:I figured you had misplaced a sandbox edit somehow. It was quite short and had not been edited in a long time. --  Gadget850 ^talk 15:15, 18 June 2013 (UTC)