Wikipedia talk:Village pump (technical)

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Eyes on requested

Wrong venue. Please move to WP:COIN

 – The issue's being discussed at the conflict of interest noticeboard. BlackcurrantTea (talk) 10:53, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

For the last few weeks I have been trying to assist a determined Paid CoI who registered two days before a net 5,300 byte change (with a sizeable deletion of sourced prose) to an article based on a business, Manor Property Group.

At my request, a CoI declaration was made, confirming that the business had contracted Chelgate Local, a subsidiary of Chelgate to "to ensure the factual accuracy of its Wikipedia entry", "review the current entry, fact check and correct any factual errors", and "to add new content to create a comprehensive entry and include more up to date information on the organisation and its projects."

After considerable Talk discussion, this new editor has submitted a revised proposed change at Talk:Manor Property Group#Draft under two new subheadings. As I am the only contributor to Talk, I am requesting comments to form a consensus, and also to avoid any suggestions of WP:OWNership on my part.

One aspect includes the development of a free App for Android and iOS; I have no experience of such software hence unable to conclude if this constitutes WP:SPAM?

I appreciate this is beyond the normal scope, but I saw some weeks ago that a tool developer was posting (RADAR), so I hoped for some input via this portal.

Thank you.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 22:03, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

Rocknrollmancer, thank you for helping to keep Wikipedia neutral by working with an editor who has a conflict of interest. This page is for discussion of the VP/T page itself. I'm marking the thread as 'wrong venue' here; I see you're already at WP:COIN. There's no need for separate discussion of the app. Should you have questions or concerns related to the software Wikipedia uses, please post on the VP/T page rather than this talk page. Happy editing! BlackcurrantTea (talk) 10:53, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

Starting line-ups

Moved to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football § Starting line-ups

 – --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:03, 9 January 2022 (UTC)

Topic list

I have created a list of topics of this page. I wonder if this will help the discussion run more smoothly. Any comments would be welcome, thank you. Kanashimi (talk) 00:07, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

We already have a TOC, which I never use except to copy a section link. This seems like it would take up a lot more space for limited benefit. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:19, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Agree, this page is long enough already - that table might be useful if someone wants to transclude it to their userpage or something. — xaosflux ^Talk 00:21, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

FAQ addition?

It would be useful, at least to me, if you could provide a link in the FAQs to the page where it indicates whether there is a system lag that relates to the English Wikipedia. I find myself often searching for this information when there are delays to bot reports or other pages that see regular updating and the Wikimedia pages listed to not have this information. Thanks. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:28, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

@Liz, do you mean WP:REPLAG? ― Qwerfjkltalk 20:31, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Yes, I found it https://replag.toolforge.org/. I think of it as a "system lag", not a replication lag. And now I know there is a shortcut, I won't forget it! Thanks, Qwerfjkl. And now that I see that there is no lag, I must clear my cache as there are structural features that are absent from a page I'm working with that are usually there. Plus, I have way too many open tabs, so it's clearly my computer, not the database servers. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:40, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Vector-2022 blank regions

Now that I use Vector-2022 (default skin), and the TOC is moved away, it feels kind of weird for the huge white blank space on the left of centralised discussion template. Any redesigning ideas? Perhaps, bring the search boxes down to fill the void? —CX Zoom[he/him] ^{(let's talk • {C•X})} 14:46, 21 January 2023 (UTC)