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FYI
Did/do you create a lot of test cases? FYI, I made this fix to one of yours. --Elvey (talk) 19:15, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
- I haven’t edited any templates recently. BTW, why are you bringing up that old edit of mine? – Allen4names (contributions) 05:19, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
- You created the test case. I brought it up so that if you create a lot of test cases, you can avoid the subtle bug I fixed... which was to a testcase page, not to a template (or template sandbox). I'm not complaining. Thanks for your contributions. I don't know how to search for other test cases that have the same bug.--Elvey (talk) 23:46, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
- The MediaWiki software replaced the space " " with the NBSP entity " ". A bot could grep for the
styleattribute in templates and then track down all the instances where this bug may appear (ie. withgrep 'style=\".* \;.*\"'). – Allen4names (contributions) 16:59, 29 March 2014 (UTC)- Thanks but I still don't know how to search for other test cases that have the same bug, or ask someone to. I'd be happy if you did, but WP:VOLUNTEER... Wikipedia:Creating_a_bot#Overview_of_the_process_of_developing_a_bot feels overwhelming; maybe I'm misreading it, but it seems to be in conflict with WP:NOTBUREAUCRACY --Elvey (talk) 02:20, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
- Unfortunately a bot will be needed for this as search engines look at content not code. I have a good idea about the steps needed (not limited to test cases) but creating a bot is beyond my skill level. – Allen4names (contributions) 17:53, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
- Thanks but I still don't know how to search for other test cases that have the same bug, or ask someone to. I'd be happy if you did, but WP:VOLUNTEER... Wikipedia:Creating_a_bot#Overview_of_the_process_of_developing_a_bot feels overwhelming; maybe I'm misreading it, but it seems to be in conflict with WP:NOTBUREAUCRACY --Elvey (talk) 02:20, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
- The MediaWiki software replaced the space " " with the NBSP entity " ". A bot could grep for the
- You created the test case. I brought it up so that if you create a lot of test cases, you can avoid the subtle bug I fixed... which was to a testcase page, not to a template (or template sandbox). I'm not complaining. Thanks for your contributions. I don't know how to search for other test cases that have the same bug.--Elvey (talk) 23:46, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
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Your reversion of my edit to "Andromeda Stories"
Greetings and felicitations. I noticed that you reverted my edit to Andromeda Stories, and am wondering way you feel that I added an "unneeded extra link". The article's info box includes the film adaptation of Andromeda Stories, for which there is no stand-alone article, so it seems to me that the A.S. article also implicitly covers the film, and therefore a link to the ANN Encyclopedia's entry for the anime is completely pertinent.—DocWatson42 (talk) 06:16, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
- The ANN encyclopedia articles are linked to each other therefore the extra link is unneeded. – Allen4names (contributions) 14:36, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
- But that is not apparent to the casual Wikipedia user, who may pass the manga link by because it (apparently) does not relate to the anime. Placing the anime link in the Wikipedia article makes it clear to the user that there is a specific entry in the ANN Encyclopedia, something that is not always the case.—DocWatson42 (talk) 04:23, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
- Hello?—DocWatson42 (talk) 03:10, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
- Hellooo?—DocWatson42 (talk) 00:14, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
- I take your continued silence on this matter as tacit agreement and will re-add the link in question in the near future.—DocWatson42 (talk) 22:42, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
- Don't forget to add
the kitchen sink andall the other reindeer. You do want Wikipedia to be what? – Allen4names (contributions) 02:53, 14 August 2014 (UTC) - P.S. I am a little annoyed at myself as I have not been logged in as often as I should. I should have noted that there are no "manga" links but links to web pages. If needed the
noparenproperty can be used with {{Ann}}. If you are going to add a bunch of ANN links you should not neglect to add IMDb and BCDd links (et al.) as well. I would not per WP:NOT and WP:LINKFARM. – Allen4names (contributions) 03:04, 14 August 2014 (UTC)- I want Wikipedia to be user friendly. And I would not add links to the Internet Movie Database or the Big Cartoon Database because the former isn't very useful for most anime (no Japanese language support and often non-Hepburn romanization, among other things) and the latter merely licensed the second edition of The Anime Encyclopedia, so linking to the last would be better. In any case, the third edition of TAE will be released in December, which will make the BCDb obsolete.—DocWatson42 (talk) 23:21, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
- "User friendly" does not quite answer my question. What should Wikipedia be? An online encyclopedia? Spam site for ANN? What? I should also note that I can not justify excluding the other links (including "et al.") if there are to be a bunch of ANN links in articles (up to 4 for Andromeda Stories). – Allen4names (contributions) 07:00, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
- I want Wikipedia to be user friendly. And I would not add links to the Internet Movie Database or the Big Cartoon Database because the former isn't very useful for most anime (no Japanese language support and often non-Hepburn romanization, among other things) and the latter merely licensed the second edition of The Anime Encyclopedia, so linking to the last would be better. In any case, the third edition of TAE will be released in December, which will make the BCDb obsolete.—DocWatson42 (talk) 23:21, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
- Don't forget to add
- I take your continued silence on this matter as tacit agreement and will re-add the link in question in the near future.—DocWatson42 (talk) 22:42, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
- Hellooo?—DocWatson42 (talk) 00:14, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
- Hello?—DocWatson42 (talk) 03:10, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
- But that is not apparent to the casual Wikipedia user, who may pass the manga link by because it (apparently) does not relate to the anime. Placing the anime link in the Wikipedia article makes it clear to the user that there is a specific entry in the ANN Encyclopedia, something that is not always the case.—DocWatson42 (talk) 04:23, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
Presumably this discussion is at an end. If you wish to continue it may be best to do so at WT:ANIME. – Allen4names (contributions) 03:07, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
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- I know. :p — Jeraphine Gryphon (talk) 14:30, 3 June 2015 (UTC)