TeleComNasSprVen

T: template redirects

Hi, you participated in Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2010 December 29#T:, some of which I have relisted at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2013 November_18#T:WPTECH. Please come along and share your thoughts .. ;-) John Vandenberg ^(chat) 15:40, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Ah sorry, I just noticed this letter in my email today. Unfortunately if you have noticed I have not participated in any Wikipedia activities since almost three years ago, so I may be a little rusty at this. TeleComNasSprVen (talk • contribs) 21:35, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

I notified everyone who I saw was active somewhere; in your case it was on English Wiktionary. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this matter, and good to see you back here. Regards, John Vandenberg ^(chat) 03:26, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Article subpages

Hi. I was browsing your contributions, and I noticed that you created Ipse dixit/Archive (Bare assertion fallacy) and Flo Rida/Archive 1. Would you explain your reasoning? I can think of two possible reasons: convenience when navigating from the corresponding talk archive or preventing G8 speedy deletion, although talk page archives are already exempt. I was under the impression that these "subpages" (actually disabled in article space) should not be created, although I didn't find a prohibition in WP:Subpages. Flatscan (talk) 05:28, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Hello, and thanks for inquiring. Yes, I had both of those reasons in mind when I added the new redirects, and I'd forgotten the subpage system is not recognized by the MediaWiki software for the mainspace; I'd simply clicked on the corresponding link from the talk archives and redirect myself up one level, so to speak. Though perhaps, on having better thought of it, these things would be treated as articles and simply take up more room in the mainspace when they shouldn't be (inflating PAGECOUNT and/or ARTICLECOUNT etc), and my stance is usually against that stuff anyway, sort of like the pseudo-namespace issue. Anyway, and not just for my own sake of remembering, I'd like to see more clear policies about this, discouraging creation of such redirects, maybe written into Wikipedia:Redirect. This is good material for seeking wider discussion (RFC, VPR, etc). I'm considering deleting them for that but they are somewhat useful in navigating articlespace. TeleComNasSprVen (talk • contribs) 05:49, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Unrelated note: Archiving your talkpage is good practice as it makes it easier to follow your discussions and loads the page quicker for the less technologically inclined. TeleComNasSprVen (talk • contribs) 05:51, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your quick response and G7-ing the pages. WT:Redirect seems like the best place, with notifications at WT:Subpages and WP:Village pump (policy) per WP:Publicising discussions. I prefer the specific page over the village pumps due to the relative ease of finding old discussions and not having to worry about short auto-archiving. (I see your pseudo-namespace RfC at VPP.) Regarding my talk page, I have put archiving on my to-do list, but I came across a very old discussion that needs investigation. Flatscan (talk) 05:55, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Re: Editor review

Hello TeleComNasSprVen. Just wanted to drop a note to thank you for the review you left. I am grateful for the time you took to examine and put together your observations. I haven't been editing much lately, but your notes will be taken to heart when I am back. Happy Editing. Yazan (talk) 14:03, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

WP:ER

Can you review my one please? Soham (talk) 08:56, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

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Concerning That Category Spamming IP

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Thanks, I'll keep that in mind for my future reports. TeleComNasSprVen (talk • contribs) 19:21, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

r from plural is restricted to mainspace

Just to let you know that I changed the redirect template on Help:Conditional expressions because {{r from plural}} is only allowed in the main namespace.

You probably wouldn't have noticed this without checking the relevant category because the official MediaWiki preview function doesn't currently preview templates on redirects. (User:Js/ajaxPreview, however, does.)

Should we consider removing the namespace restrictions on the r from/to plural templates or creating new "r from/to plural in non-main namespace" templates? (Sorry if you're not the best person to talk to on this - who might be able to help better? I tried starting discussion on the former when I encountered this issue previously, but I didn't get much of a response due to the poor wording of my question.) --SoledadKabocha (talk) 19:44, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant Help:Conditional expression and {{r to plural}} (doc). --SoledadKabocha (talk) 21:54, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Sure, I'll ask around at relevant forums like the Wikipedia:Village pump. But yeah I didn't know anything about this so I'm not the best person to talk to. TeleComNasSprVen (talk • contribs) 18:29, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

Alright, so I asked around the village pump and here is the thread telling me that they use a template to check if something is in the main namespace or not and that if I want to change the way the R-template series works I'd have to propose changes to how the |main category= code for the template works. But I've also found another alternative that we could use to categorize such redirects in the meantime, {{R to help namespace}}. If you want to start up discussion about this let me know, but I think the {{R to help namespace}} template will solve this problem for the time being. TeleComNasSprVen (talk • contribs) 01:32, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Hello

Glad youre back. Do you remember me? —Soap— 13:14, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

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Orphaned templates

Hello. Thank you for removing "deprecated" as a speedy criteria. You say there is no consensus that orphaned should not be a speedy criteria. I had another look, and I see 5 in favor and one making a joke. Perhaps you could have a look again, or explain to me what I am missing. You may post here, I'll watch your talk page. Debresser (talk) 12:40, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

User:Kephir doesn't seem to support the removal of the orphaned template yet, but he may change his mind. Consensus has been pretty clear though for removal of {{db-deprecated}}. Maybe we could ask him to just use G6 (general maintenance) as a speedy tag in the future. TeleComNasSprVen (talk • contribs) 03:39, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Three editors posted below him and disagree, and two others in other places in the discussion. And even he doesn't seem to be seriously opposed, just would prefer to have a speedy alternative to Tfd for orphaned templates. Debresser (talk) 10:05, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

AN

Hi,

It looks like you've posted twice you latest !vote on AN. Someone not using his real name (talk) 06:38, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

I've just noticed that; I guess MediaWiki's being slow again... TeleComNasSprVen (talk • contribs) 06:55, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

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Cosmo Wright

Hi TCNSPV, you recently detagged the Cosmo wright speedrunner article on the basis that he is a record holder. Firstly, I'm not sure that his record counts. It doesn't appear to be ratified by Guinness, for instance, which I would assume is the usual arbiter in this case? Secondly, the page's author and assorted associates are now attempting to use that article as a wedge to include other speedrunner articles (e.g. Werster) "because other speedrunners have wikis". danno_uk 03:01, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for contacting me. I detagged the article on the grounds that it does satisfy WP:CSD#A7 which states: "An article about a real person, individual animal(s), organization, web content or organized event that does not indicate why its subject is important or significant...may be deleted under this criteria." However, because the article clearly stated that the subject held "the world record for the fastest time completing [various games]" it therefore does not fall under the purview of A7. Whether or not his record counts is only relevant to notability; to satisfy the 'claim of significance' criteria, which is a different standard and much lower than notability, all an article has to do is make a claim that the subject is significant in some way, without needing to justify that significance. As I explained to the creator of the article, it may still be deleted due to lack of sourcing to prove its notability. If you wish, you may take it to WP:AFD or use WP:PROD for it. TeleComNasSprVen (talk • contribs) 03:04, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

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Turkish Wikimedia chapter wiki

I should probably email Vito Genovese about this matter too, though he's been inactive since September of 2013 but I wanted to ask you whether or not you plan on participating any longer in the chapter wiki or that we should leave it up to the stewards to handle requests. Basically, in this edit a fellow steward told me to leave it up to the heads of the chapter wiki, but I do not know exactly who the founder is and whether he/she has the time to manage and take care of the wiki, so instead I have to write to the system-operators of that wiki. Oh by the way, that comment in the thread was regarding this userpage which appeared to be spam, though again I leave it up to your judgments. TeleComNasSprVen (talk • contribs) 17:09, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

I deleted that specific page as it was spam (self promotion; potential BLP-vio), I have been quite busy with real-world affairs (mainly my thesis which seems to drag on). Thank you for notifying me though. The wiki and the progress of the chapter isn't ideal but I think both needs time. That said we may wish for an "approval" type registration for the wiki assuming the community approves or perhaps that may be counter productive. -- A Certain White Cat ^chi? 08:50, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

FYI

A proposal has been made to create a Live Feed to enhance the processing of Articles for Creation and Drafts. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/RfC to create a 'Special:NewDraftsFeed' system. Your comments are welcome. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 06:39, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll keep the page watchlisted and read it over but no promises on me commenting, I'm quite busy IRL and on other Wikimedia projects. TeleComNasSprVen (talk • contribs) 09:48, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Faritz Abdul Hameed

You certainly would have been within your rights to BLPPROD, but a better way is to try and find a source yourself, as I have done, which shows notability per WP:NFOOTBALL. GiantSnowman 10:28, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

updated since my last visit

what is this "updated since my last visit" in green that's started to appear on History pages? What makes it happen, and what's the point? It appears next to your recent edit on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). —Anomalocaris (talk) 07:52, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

I think that that message simply shows the number of changes by revision entries starting from your last visit to the page. For example, if you viewed Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) as it appears on revision 595055757 (found at the top in the URL field) you will see that it has this message: "This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Anomalocaris (talk | contribs) at 15:42, 11 February 2014." Now if you closed the tab or window on the page, it will record the changes by revisions that have appeared since you last viewed that revision, so revisions 595059316 and 595106424 will have the green bar highlighted next to them. Perhaps this should be better documented somewhere at Help:Page history, but you can always ask some of the more technically minded people hanging around Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) to help explain it to you better. TeleComNasSprVen (talk • contribs) 09:00, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Your shared-account RFC

I have some ideas about this. Where would you like them: on its talk page, or at WP:VPI? JohnCD (talk) 21:11, 20 February 2014 (UTC)