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Hi! There's a merger proposal for {{for}} and {{for2}}: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2021 June 30#Template:For. I'm not invested in the outcome, but I believe it hinges on the big picture stuff, and I don't think anyone apart from you has worked on that. – Uanfala (talk) 01:57, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
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redirect hatnote bug[edit]
In this version that had three separate {{redirect}}
hatnotes, the third one did NOT redirect to the article and was not caught (Category:Articles with redirect hatnotes needing review). As an experiment, I deleted the first two hatnotes (which DO redirect to the article) and then the article was listed in the category. I've fixed this article by reworking the hatnotes. But there still appears to be an underlying bug that could be affecting other articles. It this enough for you to try to track it down? Thanks. MB 03:38, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
- I’ll take a proper look tomorrow morning. It "smells" like a static context error, or perhaps some quirk of
mw.title
objects that I’ve missed. {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 04:15, 8 August 2021 (UTC)- Just a reminder in case you have forgotten this. MB 15:21, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
- Looking at it again (I went over it silently earlier without finding any problem in the code) … I can't reproduce the bug. It appears that that third redirect still generates the Category:Articles with redirect hatnotes needing review tracking category, in previews at least. Could it have simply been category update lag? {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 16:49, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for looking into this. I've seen short category update lags before, but always less than a minute. Unless I was mistaken, I wouldn't have been looking at the category itself, but at the categories listed in the article. I don't see a problem now either, so I have no idea now if this was a real problem at the time or not. MB 18:25, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
- Looking at it again (I went over it silently earlier without finding any problem in the code) … I can't reproduce the bug. It appears that that third redirect still generates the Category:Articles with redirect hatnotes needing review tracking category, in previews at least. Could it have simply been category update lag? {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 16:49, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
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Hello, I believe the page Crocodile Society is a hoax. The only links I found via a Google search are Wikipedia and mirrors. Can anything be done about this possible hoax? 2600:1003:B8D8:F0F3:115:38F8:78A7:92E (talk) 04:14, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
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The Mute's Soliloquy ISBN[edit]
Thanks for the heads-up. I must have been careless when I was tidying up the references for the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies page. Regards Davidelit (Talk) 03:53, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
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Missing redirect check[edit]
There are a number of redirect hatnotes for special symbols. For visual clarity, editors have used various special syntax to make them stand out. Position tolerance is the latest example. This causes the missing redirect check to fail. My work-around has been to just use {{hatnote}}
instead of {{redirect}}
. There are probably 10-15 that I have converted this way. Just checking if you concur this is reasonable. This is so infrequent that I highly doubt it makes any sense to handle this in the check itself. MB 17:18, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
- @MB: Hmm, that's an interesting special case, and the workaround is okay for now. It looks like it should work normally if we stripped off the (de-)italicization, and handling (de-)italicized cases seems like something to look into either way. I'll try to think a bit about how that might best be implemented, so that we don't need the workaround. {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 17:27, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
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Berries[edit]
Raspberries and strawberries are not berries, as bbq they have seeds on their exterior — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.29.231.31 (talk)
- Okay. The relevant articles already identify them as not botanical berries but merely aggregate fruit. Is there any reason you mentioned this to me? {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 19:56, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
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Redlink hatnotes[edit]
The category is over 9,000 if you haven't noticed. It still seems to be growing very slowly - not sure if these are due to editors manually adding new ones or continued detection of old ones. Anyway, I have found some cases of a redlink in a {{further}} in one of a series of articles where a particular article hasn't been written yet. Instead of removing these, they could be changed to {{further if exists}} (we have {{see also if exists}}, but not one for {{further}}. MB 03:29, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
- Should I create {{further if exists}}? I agree that that solution makes complete sense for "series" articles in particular, where they're likely to include redlinks to articles that can't yet be written, but presumably should be written and referenced elsewhere later. Fixing the backlog will take time and effort, but I've both been personally busy and wanted to see stability in the category count before I did more work to fix them. One thought that's occurred to me is to integrate the "if exists" functionality entirely, though I'm not fond of the idea because the failure mode (missing output) is likely to be very confusing to new users. {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 19:22, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, create it since you agree it would be useful in some cases. I agree having the functionality always on could be confusing, if you made a typo and didn't notice that was the cause of your hatnote not appearing. I have fixed a few hundred of these so far, but it't not as satisfying when I can't see the count decreasing. It seems that most of the redlinks are to articles that never existed (perhaps some hanotes are brought over during translations). Others are deleted pages where the link was not removed. Some are moved articles that don't have redirects for some reason. So actually inspecting each one does lead to some "rescues". I have only found one oddball case so far, The Vanishing Race has a link to a FILE. MB 20:40, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
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Arthur Lewis (Art Director)[edit]
Hello, I work for Executive Writing. As part of my consultancy work, I've established this account to represent clients on Wikipedia. I am hoping you can "userfy" the Wikipedia page for Arthur Lewis (art director). It has been removed and I would like to see what was removed and try and work with editors to make it better and have it restored. I have asked the administrator who removed it and have not had a response. Thank you. EWChristine (talk) 16:36, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
- EWChristine, I'm sorry, but I'm not willing to restore or userfy the page for you. The page was originally deleted because it was created through undisclosed paid editing and a sockpuppet, so it's a bit too on-the-nose for me to support another paid editor seeking to restore it, even while you're disclosing your conflict of interest. Feel free to write a new version of the page from scratch—you need not taint your work with the misbehaviour of the other editor. {{Nihiltres |talk |edits}} 17:12, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
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