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August 2012

Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (films)#Foreign language and articles’ titles

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Since your User:SMcCandlish/Logical quotation was briefly mentioned in support of a distantly related point, the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (films)#Foreign language and articles’ titles and, on the same page, Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (films)#Moratorium on foreign language page moves/Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (films)#Discussion regarding moratorium on foreign language page moves may be of interest.—Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 17:51, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Mediation Committee

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Declined. I don't see that our mediation system works at all anyway. Every time I've used it, no resolution actually resulted.

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A kitten for you!

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– Just a chat.

Cute huh?

Misa-chan (talk) 06:21, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. See also Template:Kitten. :-) — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 00:15, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Article Feedback/Guidelines

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Declined. I don't presently have any opinion on this, pro, con or in the middle.

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Glossary templates question

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– Dealt with to the extent possible.

Hi. I've recently been learning about and implementing the glossary templates at a few articles, and am greatly appreciative. So first off, thanks! (They've been happily received at Glossary of chess and Glossary of chess problems, and nobody has objected to them at Glossary of botanical terms.)

There's a complication at Glossary of ancient Roman religion, where, the editors are very receptive to the possibilities, but are wondering if it's possible to retain the per-entry [edit] links, that they currently enjoy from having each entry in a ====sub-header====. Any suggestions? -- Quiddity (talk) 04:23, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

I think these modes of layout are going to be fundamentally incompatible. An HTML heading cannot be inside a DL glossary list item, or vice versa. I would not be surprised, however, if someone has implemented some template somewhere to put an "edit" link on things other than H# headings, perhaps on DIVs or any block element. Something like that could work. If not yet, it surely can be done, but might have to be done at the MediaWiki developers level, since it's something that will require back-end Javascript. Maybe ask on Village pump (technical)? — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 05:47, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

PS: The last sentence of Template:Edit section#Usage explains what the problem is. We'd need a way to forcibly generate a MediaWiki page section number on a per-block basis, or there's nothing for the &action=edit code to refer to. Small price, really; it's not that hard to edit the "J" section instead of the "Jupiter" entry. If the entries are so incredibly detailed and long that this would be a problem, then template-structured glossary markup isn't a good idea anyway, and the entries really should be sections. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 05:56, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

PPS: I've raised the issue at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Forcing creation of a section without a heading. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 06:06, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Much thanks, particularly for the detailed explanation. I'll leave the decision up to that page's primary editors, and if they choose not to use the templates now, perhaps revisit the decision in a year or two, or if FL status is sought. Enjoy the rest of your vacation (shooo!) -- Quiddity (talk) 06:18, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Airports

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section

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Declined. The current discussion is just a chat, and unfocused on any particular proposal; nothing to really comment on that hasn't already been said.

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TfD for new Cite_web/smart

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I am contacting you, per wp:CANVAS, after contacting other negative or positive editors, as a user previously opposed to quick, fast citation templates, in considering the latest TfD discussion. In this case, the template {Cite_web/smart} is finally the big upgrade to entirely replace {Cite_web} with a faster version that carefully checks the parameters to only invoke the massive {Citation/core} for any rare parameters, else quickly formats a cite. See TfD of 11 August 2012:

WP:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_August_11#Template:Cite_web.2Fsmart

This notice is only an FYI, as announcing the discussion under way. Feel free to oppose the template, support the template, ignore the discussion, or even delete this message. The TfD just started, so there should be, at least, 7 days (18 August 2012) to consider the issues. Thanks. -Wikid77 (talk) 21:38, 11 August 2012 (UTC)

Cite4Wiki and Highbeam

Moved to Wikipedia talk:Cite4Wiki

Hello, I was wondering if you're still working on cite4wiki? If you are, would it be possible to update it to recognize it's on a highbeam.com URL? They have a few meta tags that include all the information needed for a cite. It would be very helpful. No More Mr Nice Guy (talk) 05:36, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

User_talk:MarkAHershberger was talking about porting it over to a JetPack codebase, but I'm not sure where that's gone. I've dropped him a line about it. I haven't touched Cite4Wiki since that discussion was raised. If it's not going to be ported, it could certainly be updated to do something special on Highbeam, but you don't have to wait for me. Just open the add-on (rename it with a .zip extension and it will unzip), and edit the rules file yourself. It's pretty much self-explanatory if you look at the extant examples. Then zip it back up, and rename the extension back, and restart the browser. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 05:52, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Kosovo

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Declined. This looks as complicated as Northern Ireland or Palestine, and I don't know enough about former-Yugoslav geopolitics to get involved without probably making an ass of myself again.

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Jetpack plan

Moved to Wikipedia talk:Cite4Wiki

You asked what I've been doing. I got started a lot on it, but got discouraged. I'd like to get some feedback on it, though, if you have some time. -- ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 13:04, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Where should I start? — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 20:11, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

I'll try to get you some information tonight. (Making a note here so that you can remind me if you don't hear from me for a bit.) -- ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 20:16, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

No hurry. I'm in the process of moving cross-country, actually. If we deal with this in September, no worries. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 22:36, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

Since I didn't get to it last night, I appreciate the timeline you've given me. I'll try to put it on my schedule, but, yeah, right now is kind of hard. -- ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 13:10, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

I feel ya. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 23:40, 14 August 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on User talk:CityMorgue

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– No such RfC.

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Identifying reliable sources

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– Didn't see it in time.

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GOCE news and September drive invitation

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Record charts

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Declined. I don't know enough about this topic to participate meaningfully.

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Article titles

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Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Dispute resolution noticeboard

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Yay! — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿¤þ Contrib. 10:50, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Wikipedia talk:Official names

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