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Bot problems

Please see wp:Women and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women. Your SporkBot has introduced thick black frames.--Ipigott (talk) 13:01, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, I replied there! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:33, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

Request revision deletion

Hi. I would like to request revision deletion of Special:Diff/1000938838 (addition), Special:Diff/1000953501 (removal), and any intermediate revisions between the two revisions that may contain the offensive material per RD2. – Ase1estet@lkc0ntribs 15:15, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi Aseleste, could you ask another admin? I haven't done complicated revision deletion before. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:34, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

what did sporkbot do...?

sporkbot changed something on my user page that i am confused what the point of was. I just copy pasted it from a user's talk page that was temporarily blocked that someone put on there, so if they did something wrong i'm sorry. link to edit is here [[1]]

thanks, Firestar9990 (talk) 03:11, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Firestar9990, the bot replaced Template:border-radius (which was deleted) with the equivalent inline CSS string. There is nothing to be concerned about. The border-radius template had been used on several thousand pages, but it was decided that it was no longer needed since typing "border-radius: 40px;" is easier than typing "{{border-radius|40px}}". Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:19, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Problem with SporkBot Bot Task 8

For the cleanup of Template:Infobox mountain, I was spot-checking the results of the bot, and found an unusual case at White Mountains (New Hampshire).

The previous version of the article had |region=New England and |region1=. The bot added |subdivision2_type=Regions. I think the bot should not have added |subdivision2_type=Regions because region1 was empty. Does the code check for the parameter name and not whether the value is non-blank? That might be what is going on.

Thanks for your help! — hike395 (talk) 05:57, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

hike395, thanks for spotting the problem! I created Category:Pages using infobox mountain with potentially incorrectly plural labels to find/fix any other bad edits (it will take some time to fill up the tracking category). You are correct, that it was incorrectly matching empty parameters when doing the logic for the labels, but it looks like it is doing the right thing for the enumeration part. I will fix the code before running it on any more articles. Thanks again! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 17:27, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
Thanks for adding the code for the tracking category! Would you like me to fix the infoboxes in that category? I don't know whether you need those examples to fix your code. — hike395 (talk) 17:58, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
hike395, you can go ahead and fix them if you want (I saved a list of one from each subcategory). Many are "false positives" where the label is plural but there is no data content. I can tweak the tracking to filter those out, but in some cases you may want to remove the label. The bot is currently slowly silently purging all transclusions of the infobox, so the tracking category should be filled in about 12 hours. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 18:28, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

To let you know, there was a data loss on Karakoram (which I've now fixed). It looks like your code assumes that parameters would be invoked in order, but on the old version of Karakoram, region (etc.) were non-contiguous. — hike395 (talk) 21:17, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Another example of data loss due to out-of-order parameters: [2]hike395 (talk) 21:58, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

hike395, that's bad! Thank you for finding it! There was a problem in how I was marking where to place the merged parameters which caused it to remove the merge point before the list was placed. So, it had no where to place the merged list and didn't report an error. I have fixed the code. I plan to review all the bots edits [3][4][5] and compiling a list of all bad edits for further code testing before running the bot again. Thank you again! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 16:43, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
I know fully automated bots are very difficult to get 100% right --- editors do all sorts of odd things that are quite hard to anticipate. Thanks again for all of your efforts on this Task!! — hike395 (talk) 19:56, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for translation - article is now live

Hello - just to let you know that the article is now in Climate change in Brazil so translations can be put in there rather than in my sandbox. If you have time I am sure you would be able to improve the article a lot, as I think the Portuguese one it is linked to is rather out of date. Also you might like to nominate it for DYK if you have an idea for a good hook. Chidgk1 (talk) 06:13, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

Those templates are missing because nobody has (yet) made them. —GoldRingChip 17:31, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

This is the 2nd time you helped edit my translations-[Long-term effects of alcohol consumption] and [Single-payer healthcare] especially in the part of references.(I recognized you'd helped some other time) I'm a retired person, used to work in the financial field, what you've done, to me, is sort of mysterious, but I can guess the modifications brought the dead reference to live. Maybe you can help enlighten me. Thanks. p.s. I've got another 76 translations waiting for me to edit, I started translating the healthcare and medicine related topics in March of 2020. ThomasYehYeh (talk) 23:25, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Impel News

Hi Plastikspork. I just blocked Sakwas and Dorcas007 as sockpuppets of Lagatinofficial per WP:DUCK. They have all created several now-deleted pages for Draft:Impel News. I was going to delete this under G5, but noticed it was once deleted by another admin and then restored by you. It should be re-deleted, but to avoid running afoul of WP:WW, I first wanted to bring this to your attention. Am I okay to proceed? ƏXPLICIT 13:09, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Explicit, yes, please go ahead. It looks like I moved "Template:Impel News" to "Draft:Impel News" as being a draft in the wrong namespace (didn't know about the sock situation). Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:21, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

"Template:要出典" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Template:要出典. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 February 3#Template:要出典 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Alcremie (talk) 13:11, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

Category:Articles using E without any arguments has been nominated for renaming

Category:Articles using E without any arguments has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. JsfasdF252 (talk) 22:34, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

Opera sidebars

Thank you for closing more Template:Composer opera. All have already a horizontal navbox, and four of the bunch have no transclusions. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:49, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Magnus Schwantje article

Hello! I wanted to publish a draft for review. The article is called "Magnus Schwantje". I'm not sure, if it is now successfully published to be review. Can you tell me, if I have to do anything further? Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.115.166.161 (talk) 14:56, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Hi, I have tagged Draft:Magnus Schwantje as submitted. It will eventually be reviewed, but feel free to continue improving the article. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:59, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Draft:BENA_World

Hello Plastikspork,

I hope you are safe and healthy at this critical time. You kindly edited the draft on 3 December 2020 and it was not yet mentioned in sources. The draft now is registered in "Maroof" E-platform, by the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Commerce. "Maroof" in Arabic language means 'famous', 'well-known', and to the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Commerce, BENA registered with "Marouf" E-platform means 'authentic' and 'reliably sourced'. I have reviewed and sent a request to publish changes. Kindly facilitate concluding the review and publishing the article. Eseelalsammarraie (talk) 09:15, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Data content is wrong in this page

Spark bot data is not appropriate — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.92.75.181 (talk) 05:51, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

Please stop reverting my edits....I'm doing the links now....I'll be done in half an hour....Pvmoutside (talk) 17:27, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Pvmoutside, my talk page is not the venue for discussing a dispute you are having with more than one editor. The place to discuss this is Talk:Gerald Ford. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 17:29, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Template:Td

Hi Plastikspork. Years ago you create-protected Template:Td after a TfD [6]; I'd like to recreate it as a redirect: {{td}} -> {{TextDiff}}. OK with you? Thanks, Levivich harass/hound 06:32, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

@Levivich: I can't see why not (not an ISO language code) so I have dropped the protection level. If someone else sees a problem with this, we can always continue the discussion. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:44, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
Awesome, thanks! Levivich harass/hound 18:41, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

State of Task 8?

Hi, Plastikspork. I notice that the bot just finished cleaning out Category:Pages using infobox mountain with multiple parameters. I've lost track --- what's the current state of the task? Recall that I found some data loss issues: did you ever check those? — hike395 (talk) 20:07, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

@Hike395: The 7 pages from today were all done in supervised mode with no data loss. As far as I can tell, before I fixed bugs in the code, data loss occurred when there were multiple parameters and those parameters were not in order. I am keeping a list of all the known problem cases so I can retest the bot on those pages to confirm that any bugs have been fixed. I still have to review about 650 edits from last month. Once I have checked all of those, I plan to restart the task. I will let you know before I restart the bot in any kind of unsupervised mode. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 23:03, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
I didn't mean to say that there was more data loss, sorry. I just saw that the "multiple parameters" category was empty, so can we get rid of the corresponding parameters? Or were you planning to revert or test the bot and still needed those parameters around? — hike395 (talk) 00:14, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Blocked user abusing talk page

Hello, sorry to bother you but user AlexBhatti32, who is currently blocked, appears to be abusing their talk page. Is it possible to revoke their talk page access? --Ashleyyoursmile! 19:51, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

Sure. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 19:54, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
Thank you very much. Ashleyyoursmile! 19:56, 5 March 2021 (UTC)

User:SporkBot is malfunctioning

It is mentioned that Jignesh Nevano belongs to lower caste from Indian caste hierarchy. This wrong it's Hindu religion caste hierarchy and not Indian caste hierarchy! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2409:4042:4D94:559D:0:0:438A:E11 (talk) 05:59, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

"Template:¬" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Template:¬. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 March 8#Template:¬ until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Elli (talk | contribs) 02:31, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for fixing up some errors at Draft:Macoto Takahashi.  :) --159.196.100.171 (talk) 21:01, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi there

Hi, could you please add the Area thing yourself if I did it mistaken? Thanks in advance. (talk)

@Holloman123:: If you look at the code there, you will see that each set is numbered, starting from 1 to 5. If you want to insert a set, you need to renumber the ones below it. You will know if you got it right if (a) you didn't erase the ones below, and (b) when you use "show preview" you don't see any errors at the top of the page. If you still can't figure it out, you can ask on the talk page. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:46, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Yeah brother, I saw that, but there are already 5 numbers and that's the problem. I tried putting 6 but it didn't work, and whenever I manually numbered 1 it also replaced the population section. Anyways, thanks for your help, ill just leave it there I guess. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Holloman123 (talkcontribs) 17:21, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Confusing section

Template:Confusing section has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. I'm letting you know about this because you were involved with the last discussion, which resulted in merge. DesertPipeline (talk) 05:49, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Editing another user's sandbox?

The Zortero citation drag-and-drop produced the error, which the script did not fix but made worse.--WriterArtistDC (talk) 02:04, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious
Eight years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:25, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

"Script assisted wikification"

Hello, I wanted to ask about your "script assisted wikification" that changed settlement infobox population density field value for municipalities and towns of Latvia from settlement where I had put density to be calculated from land area not total area. Is there any hope that it would be changed in future to calculating density per land area as it is also recommended approach by Eurostat (see https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tps00003/default/table?lang=en)? What is the policy of calculating population density outside EU for example in the USA? - Liinisx (talk) 13:09, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

Liinisx, USGS uses total area. The last thread that I know about this was here where it was basically decided that we should allow auto calculation using land area instead of total area. We really should let the infobox do the calculation if possible. I will start a new thread at Template talk:Infobox settlement. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 13:50, 26 March 2021 (UTC)

"Template:Citazione necessaria" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Template:Citazione necessaria. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 March 27#Template:Citazione necessaria until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Alcremie (talk) 12:37, 27 March 2021 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

Good contributor Cengizsogutlu (talk) 02:39, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

List of country names in various languages (Q–Z)

Hi Plastikspork,

Could you please have a look at https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/List_of_country_names_in_various_languages_(Q%E2%80%93Z) I saw you fixed this page before, but somehow 5 countries are not showing: Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia and Somaliland. I've checked the codes, even in an HEX editor, but I really can't find any reason why they are hidden from the front-end.

Kind regards,

Laurens — Preceding unsigned comment added by LaurensHuizer (talkcontribs) 07:45, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

UPDATE --- I've found the issue, it was in the curly braces — Preceding unsigned comment added by LaurensHuizer (talkcontribs) 08:24, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

User:SporkBot is malfunctioning

Deleted some important statistics from religion in Bangladesh page today — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2402:3A80:1AF4:40BD:0:0:67D4:5601 (talk) 16:48, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

This is the edit, which was not SporkBot. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 16:54, 16 April 2021 (UTC)

Template:Charmap/pstp

Hi Plasticspork, I'm not convinced creating this template was necessary. Unless there is something terribly wrong with Module:Charmap it will never be used. If there were something terribly wrong with Module:Charmap then anyone reverting my edits could have just recreated the original Pstp at the same time. I will probably nominate all the subtemplates for G6 deletion once the module is definitely finished and working. I'm not asking for it to be deleted now, just letting you know that you could have saved yourself some time! User:GKFXtalk 20:56, 19 April 2021 (UTC)

Creating it was trivial and keeps entries out of Special:WantedTemplates until the subpages are deleted. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 01:30, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Self-closed tags

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. You recently edited User:Benvatterott/USBI, User:Choess/List of Serjeants-at-law in England and Wales, and User:Evad37/Sandbox archive, to insert in {{columns-list}} the markup<span />. However, the <span> tag is not allowed to be self-closed and doing so causes a self-closed tag lint error. I replaced it with <nowiki />, which is allowed to be self-closed. Cheers! —Anomalocaris (talk) 06:44, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Editing bot-built pages

Hi, when you made this edit, did you read the editnotice? You got reverted: you need to fix the problem at source. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 15:46, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

I updated the source. Frietjes (talk) 16:28, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Question

Hi, what did your edit to Bugchasing do? Just so I understand for my future editing. It looks the same as before. Urve (talk) 16:18, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

@Urve: It's really dumb, but related to this edit. The bot takes the first line of the wikitext of the article and uses it for the summary. If there is a template that is split over more than one line, it only takes to opening part, which is then matched with the next closing braces (assuming there are no more opening braces between). In this case there was a combination of an unclosed pair of braces from the bugchasing article and a pair of unopened braces in the Permanent income hypothesis article. These were then being "matched" by the software, causing everything that was in between to be swallowed in the bot report. I probably could have just fixed the Permanent income hypothesis article, but by changing both the rendering looks much nicer. Note that as far as bugchasing goes, this was just a problem with User:SDZeroBot/GAN sorting and not a problem with the article. I hope that makes sense. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 16:31, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
It does. Thank you for letting me know. Urve (talk) 18:22, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Script conflicts

Hi, I've been notified of my MOSNUM script not loading, which I have traced to a likely conflict with AutoEd. Is there anything we can do to eliminate this problem? Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame! 20:01, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Mas madrid

Please could you stop posting mas madrid as far-left i don't think one article saying they are far-left is that reliable when even people from Madrid say they are center left to left wing and they don't really have any far-left policy? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Enricc1 (talkcontribs) 08:14, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on Category:2021–22 in Serbian football leagues indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 13:39, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Enquiry

Hi, this is Vishal. I was wondering why the following edit in this page was made since I complyed with the Wikipedia rules. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilaf#:~:text=Pilaf%20(US%20spelling)%2C%20or,grains%20that%20do%20not%20adhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vishal dd (talkcontribs) 20:16, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

It looks like the references were mangled. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 00:15, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Reply for deleting information which i wrote there before

Sir/madam why did you deleted the thing i wrote? i request you please rewrite the all information which i added it was my first edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rajdatt prasad pingale (talkcontribs) 16:33, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

I don't plan on re-mangle the articles back to the state that you left them. If you would like some assistance with editing, you should feel free to ask at WP:Teahouse. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 22:54, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

Param blindness

Lol, thanks for the fix at {{Campaignbox}}. I swear I didn't see it; chalk it up to a cousin of banner blindness? Btw, if you're gonna keep responding in just minutes, you might have to rethink that "Semi-retired" banner. Thanks again, Mathglot (talk) 01:43, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Script buttons

Hello, I'd like to ask you what makes some script buttons visible when in browse mode as opposed to edit mode. Buttons of my scripts universally only appear when in edit mode, and I'd like to configure it so that some of the buttons (let's say certain master buttons belonging to each script) appear in the side bar when in browse mode. Could you show me how can this be achieved? Cheers, -- Ohc revolution of our times 09:22, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

User:Ohconfucius, you should be able to check to see if the text box exists before adding the buttons. For example at the top of Wikipedia:AutoEd/core.js you will see the if(!document.getElementById('wpTextbox1')) return; which exits if there is no text box. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 12:49, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

Enrico Schirinzi

Hi, sorry that was one of my first edits in en.wiki, I came from it.wiki, the page in the italian version had the same uncorrect infos. Theese are the sources: transfermakt and calcio.com, where you can see that he was born in Bern and not in Cesena. I don't know your edit rules, so if you can help me to correct the page, it's very appreciated. Thank you.--Cicignanese (talk) 10:41, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

Cicignanese, do you have any more reliable sources? The consensus here is that transfermarkt is not a reliable source. But, since the sources at the foot of the article are inconclusive, I have made the change. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 12:40, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
I don't have any others, but there aren't for Cesena except for wiki. It seems to be an invention.--Cicignanese (talk) 14:40, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

Your close

While I accept your close of Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2021 June 13#OHL Templates because of wrong venue (even if WP:NOTBURO was written for this exact reason), the reason is completely wrong. There was not a "no-consensus" here (2v1 for delete), unless you count your close as a vote. Since this is also reflected in Template talk:2019-20 OHL standings (and the other 2) it makes it seem as there really was a no consensus result here, when in reality, if it wouldn't have been merged in the article out-of-process, it would have been subst and deleted as a single use template. I would appreciate if you could edit the close and notices to represent the actual reason. Gonnym (talk) 22:01, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

I don't really see a problem here, but I will relist it for someone else to close. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 13:22, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
As I said, I don't have a problem with the close, I did have an issue with the closing statement of "no consensus", as that isn't what it was. Gonnym (talk) 15:11, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Assam Vidhan Sabha constituency, Template:Infobox Kerala Niyamasabha Constituency, Template:Infobox Vidhan Sabha constituency and Template:Infobox state assembly constituency has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox Indian state legislative assembly constituency. You are invited to comment on the discussion at wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 July 14#Infobox Assam Vidhan Sabha constituency. Thank you. 122.167.185.249 (talk) 13:23, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics

The reference error (67) which you have created in the men's Rugby 7s section needs to be corrected.Drams707 (talk) 06:37, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Looks like it was fixed here. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 22:54, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

You've got mail!

Hello, Plastikspork. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

Liz Read! Talk! 23:48, 26 July 2021 (UTC)

Why did you delete this page? Dr Salvus 20:08, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

User:Dr Salvus, it was deleted per WP:CSD#G8 after Template:Calcio.com was deleted, and Template:Calcio.com was deleted after you tagged it with WP:CSD#G7. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 01:12, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
Plastikspork, could you restore it as a sandbox please? Dr Salvus 20:04, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
User:Dr Salvus, sure, I put it in User:Dr Salvus/sandbox/calcio.com Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 00:55, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Something has gone badly wrong with {{refbegin}}... - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 21:55, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

See Abd al-Rahman ibn Muljam... - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 21:57, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
Nope, I'm an idiot. Ignore me. Sorry. - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 21:58, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Signature (typography journal)

Hi, I'm new to this. You made a fix to my article and I think I might have undone it. I interpreted that it needed fixing not that it was already fixed. Sincere apologies if so. NeilWells (talk) 11:04, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Help please, with my MOSNUM script

A couple of fellow users have made this request of my script, but I don't feel competent to make the change. Can you help make the change for me? Regards, -- Ohc revolution of our times 21:40, 24 August 2021 (UTC)

User:Ohconfucius, the best option is probably to go ahead and insert it at the top of the page, and then swap the order with any "short description" template. So, between lines 791 and 792 (or somewhere else after 791?) you could add something like
regex(/(\{\{[\t_ ]*use[\t_ ]+(?:dmy|mdy)[\t_ ]+dates[^{}]*\}\})([\r\n\t ]*)(\{\{[\t ]*short description[^{}]*\}\})/gi, '$3$2$1');
which should cover the case where "short description" is already at the very top of the page. If you want to cover cases where short description isn't at the very top of the page, we could probably figure something out, but it would require more testing. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 00:44, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
Oh, I didn't realise it was as simple as that. Many thanks! -- Ohc revolution of our times 10:38, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

User:SporkBot is malfunctioning

the actual episode is season 6 ep 7 not 6; heres a link for reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Comes_Out_of_Her_Shell#Plot — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.19.123.90 (talk) 18:18, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

RAF Regiment Squadrons at RAF Celle, Germany

Between 1955 and 1957 the light anti aircraft role at RAF Celle was carried out by 17 and 18 LAA Squadrons, not 51 Field Squadron. I was a member of 17 LAA Squadron, 51 Field Squadron remained a Field Squadron — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.130.211.208 (talk) 10:48, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for merger of Template:Infobox former subdivision

Template:Infobox former subdivision has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox settlement. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. PK2 (talk) 20:50, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Editor's Barnstar
"thanks" for an edit on my user-page ਰਵੀ ਸਹਿਗਲ (talk) 11:03, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Question about {{trim}}

How did you do this? When I copied it, it became just {{{x|{{{1|}}}}}}. Thank you! — XComhghall (talk) 00:27, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

XComhghall, the <includeonly>...</includeonly> keeps it from being expanded. Other techniques are to use something like safes<noinclude></noinclude>ubst: or the version that I replaced with that edit. The problem with using {{{|safesubst:}}} is that if someone uses a bare equal sign, it won't work properly. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 19:32, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
Thnak you so much! Best, XComhghall (talk) 22:39, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

AutoEd Usage notifying

Hello, there, admin. I just wanted to let you know, that I am starting to use AutoEd on my User page common.js subpage as per AutoEd instructions. This is my first time doing this, i.e. informing a module's maintainer about using their module. Hope I am doing right. I haven't started using said module yet. Will get back to you if I run into any coding issues. Which I most certainly will, given I have never used any module so far.Qwerty284651 (talk) 05:36, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

TfD close

Hi Plastikspork! Looking at this TfD, it seems to be an instance where there was some confusion about TfD standing for "Templates for Discussion"—I was expecting !voters to read my nomination and support/oppose turning it into a talk banner, not !vote keep/delete, often without even giving their opinion on conversion to a talk page banner. Could you give some more detail in your close on how you evaluated the discussion and whether any consensus was achieved regarding my proposal to convert the format? {{u|Sdkb}}talk 18:45, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi Sdkb, I updated the close. The automated tools are the best for discussions that aren't the basic keep/delete/merge. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:54, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Barbadian presidential elections template TfD

Hello. I saw this was relisted, but I think there was a consensus in favour of a merge to {{Politics of Barbados}}, a solution which three of the four editors involved in the discussion had backed. It is too late to undo the relisting and just close? Cheers, Number 57 18:37, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Number 57, after the first 7 days, the discussion can be closed at any point in time. I will have a look at it later today. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 13:09, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
Sorry for the delay, but I have now closed this discussion. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:15, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

You protected this redirect in 2009 for vandalism. There has not been disruption to the redirect, is it possible to consider unprotection? Thanks in advance, Sennecaster (Chat) 03:51, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

User:Sennecaster, the page had to be speedy deleted three times due to vandalism. It's not clear if the semi-protection is the reason why it hasn't been vandalized, or if there is no longer any interested in vandalizing the page. I could consider unprotecting it. Is there is a particular reason for unprotecting it right now? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 13:08, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
I occasionally go through and request unprotection of long-ago and unobvious vandalism/disruption targets. I think this doesn't have any vandalism interest since it is now a disambig. Sennecaster (Chat) 14:31, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
Okay, now unprotected. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:16, 6 November 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

Hello, Plastikspork,

Thank you for helping sort out this Finland municipality template mix-up. I don't work much with template deletion because of the complications that exist with transclusions but I assume that if they are tagged for CSD speedy deletion, those complications have all been sorted out and the deletion is just a formality. At least, that assumption has worked out for me in the past.

But apparently, these templates were tagged prematurely and on my talk page I was asked to restore them. I see that you have looked over some that were restored and re-deleted them so I'm grateful that you are more familiar with templates than I and could assess whether they were serving a purpose or could be deleted. I have restored the remainder which you'll be able to see in the Deletion log and I hope that you and Jonesey95 can determine whether they should be redirected or deleted. Thanks for helping me with this mess. This is why I don't wander into TFD! Liz Read! Talk! 22:27, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

Thumbs up to both of you! – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:33, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

Antiandrogens marketed for clinical or veterinary use

Plastik, did you substitute this template, Antiandrogens marketed for clinical or veterinary use, as I said it should in my nomination? --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 15:40, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

WikiCleanerMan, no it was substituted by the author. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 23:07, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

Date of Birth of Composer Salil Chowdhury

@Plastikspork Thank you for the information that citing the Composer's passport is not enough to prove his date of birth of 19th November 1925 therefore I have shared the link of the book Salil Chowdhury Rachana Sangraha. Kolkata: Dey`s Publishing. ISBN 978-81-295-1952-8 which was released jointly by the Salil Chowdhury Foundation of Music, Social Help & Education Trust (SCFM) and Dey's Publishing Kolkata in 2013 to give validity to the same. Thank you! --Antarachow (talk) 09:02, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Template question

Hey, do you perhaps remember why your bot created Template:MILighthouseSources/sources and the others when their parent template was previously deleted at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2010 April 3#Template:USLighthouseSources? Currently they are all G4 and G8. Gonnym (talk) 12:18, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Gonnym, I have no idea. I have deleted it. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:47, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

November 2021

Information icon Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Cannabinoid. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. We do not use commercial websites for technical content, WP:PROMO. Find WP:SCIRS reviews. Zefr (talk) 02:50, 22 November 2021 (UTC)

SNES Games? What?

But I thought the Sesame Street show launched in 1969. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:6011:6004:DD00:99C9:2CD0:7D99:19BE (talk) 15:35, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

No, that column is the release date for the game. The SNES console launched in 1990. I seriously doubt the game was released in 1969. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:47, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
If you had a WP:RS for your edits, you would probably know that. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:47, 24 November 2021 (UTC)

Issue when removing MetroLyrics song

Hi there! When your bot is removing {{MetroLyrics song}}, it's great that the bot removes the "External links" header when there are no other links. However, in this edit, the removal of the section header was not correct. Could you please tweak your bot code? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 17:16, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

GoingBatty, yes, I will tweak the code. I had reviewed the first 1000 edits and didn't see this case, but there is always something. I will rollback that one and have the bot try again to make sure I have the bug fixed. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 17:30, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Roster templates

Was creating new articles such as London Royal Ravens roster what you intended? Gonnym (talk) 18:01, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Gonnym, yes, this is for a history merge in process. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 18:02, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
Ahh, makes sense :) Gonnym (talk) 18:03, 27 November 2021 (UTC)

Template:str rightmost

Would you have a minute to delete Template:Str rightmost? Someone cleaned up the user pages and I removed the last few transclusions. Thanks, User:GKFXtalk 12:05, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Reverts that aren't reverts?

I saw that you had done a few edits on articles that I'd recently edited (using JWB to format bare-text [whom?]s into {{whom?}}s etc), but the actual diffs don't show that they were actually undoing the edits. How is that even possible? Software glitch? jp×g 22:30, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

User:JPxG are you talking about the edits where you added links to Template:Whomst? to seven different articles (like Telugu language, Basal-cell carcinoma, Glowworm, ...)? Sounds like a problem with JWB. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 23:45, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Location map/old/decdeg

Template:Location map/old/decdeg has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Q28 remind you that pay more attention to TFD 01:20, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Single-use table templates

P, what motivates Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2021 November 28#Largest cities of? Is there a relevant guideline I need to learn about? Is there some harm from such templating of tables? Is there no value in consistency with the others like these that have multiple uses already? Dicklyon (talk) 05:36, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Probably best to keep the discussion at TfD. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 17:30, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
But you've been pretty silent there. I'm wondering what your personal motivation is in proposing such deletions. You probably have some way in which you think it will improve things, and I'd like to understand. Most TfD discussions aren't this puzzling. Dicklyon (talk) 05:01, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
I don't really have anything more to say that hasn't already been said there. I think the first bullet in the template guidelines explains it, which is already linked in the discussion. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:45, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Elizabeth Woodvilles page, under literature

Hi just a quick question, do you know why she’s listed as being “melodramatic and self-pitying” in the description of Richard iii? Without context for the scene it does seem like it, but Richard has basically killed everyone she loves, and is manipulating and blackmailing her into letting him marry her daughter, who she knows he’ll probably end up killing as well. She lost her very young sons, her father, her husband, and closest companions. I think she’s allowed to be a LITTLE dramatic. (ofc this is all in the context of the play) 52.119.121.168 (talk) 21:14, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:French politics/party colours

Template:French politics/party colours has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 20:36, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the help!

Hello their Mr. Spork what did you change? Ps: Sorry for my bad english i have a hell of a headache GrandCommander (talk) 16:03, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

It looks like I translated some of your user templates to the English versions. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:29, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

When this template is deleted, can you salt the creation of the template as well? I am half-expecting a sock to return to this template if it is unprotected. – robertsky (talk) 20:29, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Let me know when it has been deleted and I will take a look. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:29, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
I looked into the number of pages with the template being used, and realised that there were only 2 left. Many of the Singaporean BLP pages are already on the family hatnote template, which makes the substitution relatively fast. I have marked the template as ready for deletion. – robertsky (talk) 16:55, 17 December 2021 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Template:Advanced Direct Connect. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Klondike (talk) 01:57, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Draft:Panorangulata has been edited.

Hello, and I am Dubbdubbie. I have seen you edited my draft article Draft:Panorangulata. Please do not do it, or you will be totally blocked from Wikipedia entirely. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dubbdubbie (talkcontribs) 17:19, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

See WP:OWN. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 17:42, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

Gerard Tierney

Hi there, I want to update the website links to point to the new website. Also, an additional photo. Age at death of 55 is correct. Many thanks if you can help me make these edits.

Regards,

Órla Horn — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:CB19:89A8:CE00:4120:F1D3:87E9:68F9 (talk) 19:48, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Kimmelman query

Changed the Hughes citation in the Kimmelman entry from “blurb” to explain that it was excerpted from a Hughes review of the Kimmelman book. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nirgendwo (talkcontribs) 04:09, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Reverting Nedeljka McKinley

Thanks for correcting my corrections on a couple occasions. If you weren't aware of the vandal Nedeljka McKinley, who made a slew (100+) of reverts and other vandalizations in a matter of minutes, I just wanted to be sure you knew that I'm not an idiot or a vandal myself. I caught a couple of legitimate reverts that the vandal made by chance, but you found a couple more that I overlooked. Thanks. I think I'm done now, reverting the reverts. Cheers. signed, Willondon (talk) 18:59, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

The answer is no! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:AC00:1C20:2485:720:BD6C:9B9E (talk) 02:37, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Romanian politics/party colours

Template:Romanian politics/party colours has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 11:36, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

West Slavic Languages

Thank you I just looked over it and you were right but one thing , The ancestor of Czech and Slovak is called (Normally) Czech-Slovak not Czecho-Slovak ThatGeographyDude (talk) 11:24, 3 January 2022 (UTC)

The deletion of this template leaves me unable to find any reference to the correct TransLink (BC) line colors either on Wikipedia or externally. I am particularly confused by the deletion log (1.16), which appears to suggest that the content of five templates specific to TransLink (BC) are replaced by this more general template. However, the new template has no reference to the information previously accessible here, in particular hex colors for the TransLink-run transit lines in the Vancouver, BC area. Similar problems may exist for the other four templates affected by the deletion, however I am only familiar with the content in the specific template I've addressed here.

Forgive me if I'm missing something as I'm very new to how Wikipedia maintenance works, but if this information is still on Wikipedia, either in article or template form, could you provide a link to its location?

M4ln1997 (talk) 00:02, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

M4ln1997, these templates have been replaced by Module:Adjacent stations/TransLink (BC). You will find the colors in there. Let me know if you need any help. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 00:05, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
Plastikspork, thank you for your quick response, this solves my problem! M4ln1997 (talk) 00:11, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
However, there is the problem that none of the replacement sub-pages of Module:Adjacent stations have any of the documentation information that all of the deleted individual color templates had. Useddenim (talk) 05:27, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
I started some documentation. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:02, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Sir, help me make a page

Sir Please make my Wikipedia page I can't make it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agam_Riyandana — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.215.243.107 (talk) 20:46, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Template:Australian politics/party colours has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 13:41, 12 January 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Documentation/start box and /template page

Template:Documentation/start box and Template:Documentation/template page have been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. User:GKFXtalk 20:01, 14 January 2022 (UTC) User:GKFXtalk 20:09, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing my template edit

Thank you very much for quickly finding and fixing this.[7]

I was puzzled by my edit not having the desired effect at Category:1911 establishments in German South West Africa, which is now displaying the intended link after your repair. You evidently noticed either the bad template edit or a bad result on another category page, and fixed it before I got round to asking for help.

Following some success with the previous edit, I did not bother testing this one in the sandbox – I will know better next time.

Cheers – Fayenatic London 17:13, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

No problem, it did add about 400 entries to a version of the database report, but that gets regenerated daily, so not huge problem. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 17:21, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox U.S. county/timezone

Template:Infobox U.S. county/timezone has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 11:11, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox U.S. county/TZ row

Template:Infobox U.S. county/TZ row has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Pinging you based on Template_talk:Infobox_U.S._county/Archive_3#Dual_time_zones. Thanks. —[AlanM1 (talk)]— 06:30, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Requested undeletion of User:Johnruby

Hi, I'm Johnruby, and I recently found out that my user profile page was deleted due to violation of U5. Is there any way for me to appeal against the deletion? Since I don't think it violates the guideline, and I'm currently unable to recover the page or access the snapshot of the original page. Thanks.

Relevant link: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/User:Johnruby

(talk page watcher) @Johnruby: You have made exactly eight edits in ten years, four of them to this page today; and four to User:Johnruby way back in October 2012 (Admins: see Special:DeletedContributions/Johnruby). How have any of these edits helped to build the encyclopedia? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:56, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
@Redrose64: I don't see where you get that statistics. I'm indeed not an active Wikipedia user or editor by all means, but I'm pretty sure I've done more edits than that. - Johnruby — Preceding undated comment added 08:22, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
@Johnruby: There are several ways of finding how many edits an editor has done. Here is one of them: if you follow this link you will find, amongst other information, that you have made a total of eight edits which are still live, and four which have been deleted. Four of those twelve edits have been made since Redrose64 posted the message above, at which time eight was indeed the correct total. However, the number of edits isn't really the point. The point is that you have never made any contribution whatever to work for the encyclopaedia, and have only used Wikipedia to host a personal page. JBW (talk) 09:37, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Paralympic Games Great Britain wheelchair rugby squad templates

A number of "Paralympic Games Great Britain wheelchair rugby squad templates" templates, at least one of which you created, have been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 January 26#Paralympic Games Great Britain wheelchair rugby squad templates. Nigej (talk) 19:15, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Spammer bot alert!

Hey, can you block that unknown user named 108.6.176.194, who is continuing to edit some pages for related to RatPac-Dune Entertainment. Marcel Ntim (talk) 15:14, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Marcel Ntim, I see only one warning on the IPs talk page. You should (a) issue more warnings to justify a block, and (b) report the user at WP:AIV since I am frequently off WP for several days at a time. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 21:53, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire

It has come to my notice that you have reversed a batch of my amendments to this article. Whatever your reasons for doing this I cannot believe that as an administrator you can find it appropriate to reverse out well intentioned good faith edits to improve the validity of an article and replace them with the obvious previous errors and omissions. If a non-administrator contributor did this it would rightly be considered malicious vandalism. Surely the unsuspecting enquirer deserves better than to be presented with known falsehoods. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.6.65.183 (talk) 19:23, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Your first batch of edits mangled the article. Feel free to try again, but try to make sure that the references are all working and the appearance isn't mangled. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 21:54, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Please instruct me as to how to provide confidential information.

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Mostapha_al-Turk

I am working for Mostapha to correct his Wiki page. He does not want to post his passport for all to see, or his license. Both of these documents display the information I edited as to his nationality and place of birth. Brisco62691 (talk) 18:02, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) replying here:
1) You have not made the mandatory disclosure of your status as a paid editor. That should have been your first step.
2) We cannot accept anything but published information from reliable sources as a source for items in a Wikipedia article. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:22, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

TfD subpages

Hey, this is genuinely out of curiosity, but I notice you and Explicit have been deleting TFD subpages (mainly mine, which is why I noticed) and moving their content back into the primary log page; what's the thinking/reasoning behind it? I have no particular issue with doing so, just... inquiring minds etc. (please ping on reply) Primefac (talk) 08:27, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

Primefac, thanks for asking! As you know, the main reason for creating subpages is to reduce the WP:PEIS while the page is being transcluded on the main WP:TFD page. Once it's time to close the discussions, the automated closing tools work best if the list of templates is in the section being closed. So, the idea is to move them back before closing to allow the automated tools work better. Once they are all moved back, there is no reason to keep the subpage. Also, each of the {{tfd links}} transclusions generates an anchor, which is helpful when referencing a particular template on the discussion page. Let me know if you see any problem with this approach. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:33, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) Thanks for the explanation. I was wondering the same thing myself. I assumed that the closers knew what they were doing, but this is a good summary of why. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:37, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

Deletion Review Template:Federal subjects of Russia image map

Template:Federal subjects of Russia image map (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (restore)

It was flagged as "Unused maps and not needed anywhere" by WikiCleanerMan but indeed it was an useful clickable interactive map, and I wanted to restore it in its original place on this page https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Federal_subjects_of_Russia , thank you. GFD (talk) 04:14, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

GFD, I think I see what happened. On January 1, 2019, labeled image map using File:Federal subjects of Russia (by number).png as a background was replaced by
{{Subdivision OSM map|subdivision_type_qid = Q43263|frame-align = center|plain = |text = |frame-lat = 66|frame-long = 105|frame-width = 960|frame-height = 500|zoom = 3}}
which used the now deleted Template:Subdivision OSM map. So, one question would be which version do you want restored? If you want the first version, then that would require undeleting the versions before the change on January 1, 2019. If you want the second version, that would require undeleting Template:Subdivision OSM map. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:54, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
Plastikspork Thanks for the quick and kind answer! I would like to restore the second version, the one with OpenStreetMap. GFD (talk) 21:00, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
GFD, I have restored it. Please put it to use soon. If it becomes orphaned again, it will probably be re-deleted. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 01:02, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
Plastikspork Thank you so much! Great support! I've already restored the map on that page in its original place. GFD (talk) 05:21, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

Question

Hello, and thank you for deleting Template:Elephant per my !vote. Now, I only have one question, did you speedy delete it as G7, or under a different CSD? Thanks. — 3PPYB6TALKCONTRIBS19:03, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @3PPYB6: It wasn't G7, or any other CSD criterion. It was deleted as a direct result of Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 February 11#Template:Elephant, as may be seen by clicking the redlink. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:07, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
@Redrose64 — It was listed on TFD as “speedy delete”. As is consistent with the link. — 3PPYB6TALKCONTRIBS19:33, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

Deletion review for Template:Hong Kong

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Template:Hong Kong. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review.

(Note: the template was deleted on the ground that it was inappropriate for country navbox template to be named as such due to possibility to confuse with country flag template, however Hong Kong is not just an entity with its own government, but is also a city, and it is extraordinarily common for city navbox templates to be simply named as Template:City Name, which the original deletion discussion did not consider this duality, hence I am requesting for review of this deletion decision.) C933103 (talk) 07:30, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Mid-American Conference standings

Why were all of the Mid-American Conference standings templates deleted? I cannot find any history on the or any reason other than unused? Were they complete? If so can they be recovered. I certainly know pages where the standings could be included. Old MAC tournament and team season pages are places where they would make sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by APocketJoker (talkcontribs) 16:43, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

APocketJoker, They were deleted as a result of this discussion, which I view as a "soft delete". So, if the articles have been written, then can be restored. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:17, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

Draft

Can you publish my Draft? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Quality Too Good Management (talkcontribs) 17:36, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Quality Too Good Management, the banner at the top of the draft has a button when you are ready to have the draft reviewed for publication. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 23:58, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Question about -very- old TfD

Hey, I know this is from 2014(!) but do you maybe remember why you moved the template instead of deleting it? Gonnym (talk) 15:03, 20 February 2022 (UTC)

Gonnym, I have no idea. I can certainly delete it if desired. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:17, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
Yes, please as now the rest of the set at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 February 14#Template:RxCOTWnom was deleted. Gonnym (talk) 08:41, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

This was created with a specfic function in mind. To warn about sites that required age checks to view certain types of content.

Since it was created, some sites now do apply age checks to specifc content, as a result either of EU directives or proposed law changes in the UK, in order protect vulnerable younger users from seeing material that's not intended for them.

YouTube for example, age checks on some videos even if the videos themselves are not what would be conventionally considered explicit. (One example I encountered as a video demonstrating why UK mains voltage was dangerous under controlled lab condtions!)

Therefore I am asking if you could perhaps consider reinstating this template and the documentation under a typo corrected name.

ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 13:28, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

ShakespeareFan00, I have restored the template with the typo corrected. There was no documentation page. Make sure you put the template to use fairly quickly or it will probably be deleted again. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:00, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
ShakespeareFan00, Template:Age verification required is still unused? If it isn't going to be used, it should probably be deleted. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:45, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
It's still unused, as the UK legislation that would have required sites in the UK to age check, is still in the process of being debated. I have no objections to a 'soft delete' until it's actually going to see use (provided a suitable comment is left in the logs). However I reserve the right to request another review if and when sites do start checking ages, and when sources cited on Wikipedia become subject to viewer age checks. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 14:57, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Doc subpage TfD

Hi and thank you for closing Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 February 18#Template:Indo-Aryan languages/doc. I'm a bit surprised by the result though. Would you mind elaborating your rationale? I gave what I believe to be cogent reasons why the proposal won't bring benefits, and I listed several of the practical costs. I don't believe these were substantially addressed by the other participants, and the overall impression I get out of it all is that the loud statement of personal preference has trumped a pragmatic examination of the actual costs and benefits. – Uanfala (talk) 01:24, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Sure, I read the arguments for and against deleting the /doc page and found the reasons for keeping the doc page (e.g., the ability to separate page protections) to be as strong as the reasons for deleting the doc page (e.g., simplicity). Having an untranscluded /doc page was viewed as the worst solution, since it would be confusing with no benefit. If you would like more people to look at the situation, or have the practice of having separate /doc pages for unprotected templates examined, I don't think that TfD is the best forum for making larger scoped decisions. These days, most of the discussions at TfD start with people combing through the list of untranscluded templates and nominating them for deletion (or putting them to use). If you would like to send this to DRV, I won't be offended. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:09, 26 February 2022 (UTC)

Template:Politics of Newfoundland and Labrador has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Nigej (talk) 19:22, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Prehistoric Reference

Thanks to fix one of my UserTalk page taxobox, I was confused. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prehistoric Reference (talkcontribs) 21:32, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

Template:Quebec City weatherbox

Do you mind if I restore {{Quebec City weatherbox}}. I have two articles, Quebec City and Sainte-Foy, Quebec City, to use it in. This is inline with Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2016 September 4#Single-use weatherbox templates. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 07:16, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

CambridgeBayWeather: Sure, go ahead and restore it if you plan to use it in more than one article. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 13:55, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
Thanks. I'll probably get at it tomorrow. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 13:59, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Antoine-François Peyre

FYI, you were editing a sandbox (work in progress). Thank you for the thought, anyway. WQUlrich (talk) 00:19, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Journey band member page edit

I don't know what happened, but when I viewed the page this morning the formatting was screwed up - it was showing a table within a table. When I edited the page there appeared to be some "|" and "}" marks missing. But it looks okay now even when I go back and view the old version. Maybe my browser screwed up and didn't load the whole page the first time? Ever seen that happen? Richferrara (talk) 18:12, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

No idea, just saw that you removed the </ref>. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 22:57, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

Template:Goa legislative assembly election, 2012

Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2021_August_3#Template:Goa_legislative_assembly_election,_2012 regarding Template:Goa legislative assembly election, 2012.

I see that this was deleted. But cant see if this was substituted. I have recently created Sixth Goa Legislative Assembly, the article for the legislature that was formed as the result of this election. Can you please check the Template:Goa legislative assembly election, 2012 and let me know what it contains, so that I can judge if it has usable materials. Thank you. Venkat TL (talk) 15:34, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

please ping me when you reply. Venkat TL (talk) 15:34, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
Similarly Template:Goa legislative assembly election, 2017 for Seventh Goa Legislative Assembly Venkat TL (talk) 15:38, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) Venkat TL, see [8] and the transclusion in 2012 elections in India#Goa via WP:LST. as far as I can tell, the 2017 template was not substituted (probably because it duplicates the results but I can't see the content to know for sure. but, you could probably use LST there as well like this. you would just need to add the <section /> to the results section. Frietjes (talk) 15:44, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
@Frietjes thank you. I agree. your diff shows that the members from 2012 elections were included. I will use your diff to create the list in the article Sixth Assembly. The election for seventh Goa assembly happened in March 2017. Those elected members will be different from the winners in 2012 election. Lets wait for Plastikpork to check and comment. Venkat TL (talk) 15:48, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
Venkat TL, yes, I understand the results are different in 2017 vs 2012, but you can use {{#section:2017 Goa Legislative Assembly election|Results}} to include the 2017 results (assuming that the table in the results section is correct). Frietjes (talk) 15:54, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
Indeed. Thank you. Will use the transclude template as you suggested. Your response resolves my concern for both election years. Venkat TL (talk) 15:58, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
Summary of the Goa Legislative Assembly election, 2017 result
Party Seats contested Seats won Seat change Vote share Change in Vote Share
Indian National Congress 36 17 Increase 8 28.4% Decrease 2.38%
Bharatiya Janata Party 36 13 Decrease 8 32.5% Decrease 2.18%
Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party 34 3 Steady 0 11.3% Increase 4.58%
Independents 3 Decrease 2 11.1% Decrease 5.57%
Aam Aadmi Party 40 0 Steady 0 6.3% Increase 6.3%
Goa Forward Party 4 3 Steady 0 3.5% Increase 3.5%
Nationalist Congress Party 18 1 Decrease 5 2.3% Decrease 1.78%
Goa Suraksha Manch 3 0 Steady 0 1.2% Increase 1.2%
United Goans Party 2 0 Steady 0 0.9% Decrease 0.27%
Goa Su-Raj Party 0 Steady 0 0.6% Increase 0.53%
Goa Vikas Party 0 Decrease 2 0.6% Decrease 2.9%
Total - 40 -
Turnout: 83%
Source: Election Commission of India
Venkat TL, here is the contents of the 2017 template if you want it. Thanks! 04:31, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious
Nine years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:00, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

Deletion review for Template:Movenotice

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Template:Movenotice. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 15:40, 20 March 2022 (UTC)

When you deleted {{METROKIEV stations}} you left redlinks behind. Please fix. Useddenim (talk) 01:34, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:METROKIEV_stations shows no transclusions? Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 04:39, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

I used the similar code like you did previously on my page for the Southern League for the Western League to just show the table, of {{:1900–01 Western Football League|transcludesection=Division One|showteam=TOT}} but it didn't work, it seems to have added the whole thing, was wondering if you can help. Regards. Govvy (talk) 17:04, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) the <onlyinclude>...</onlyinclude> and |section= weren't in that article, but now fixed for you. Frietjes (talk) 19:47, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
That should help, thank you Frietjes, much appreciated. Cheers. Govvy (talk) 20:20, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Kyushu dynasty theory

https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Draft%3AKyushu_dynasty_theory&type=revision&diff=1080717768&oldid=1080717641 Why did you do this edit? MaitreyaVaruna (talk) 00:45, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Looks like I was removing the page from Special:WantedTemplates. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 17:08, 3 April 2022 (UTC)

Munsters forth

Thanks for catching that. My eyes glazed over editing the word soup posted by Essanay Guy, and I missed that.Plummer (talk) 17:41, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

Administrator activity policy update

Hello, Plastikspork. This message is to let you know about a change to the administrator policy:

The administrator policy has been updated with new activity requirements following a successful Request for Comment.

Beginning January 1, 2023, administrators who meet one or both of the following criteria may be desysopped for inactivity if they have:

  1. Made neither edits nor administrative actions for at least a 12-month period OR
  2. Made fewer than 100 edits over a 60-month period

Administrators at risk for being desysopped under these criteria will continue to be notified ahead of time. Thank you for your continued work. — xaosflux Talk 20:31, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Hey

I told you to stop talking to Josh — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:387:F:4516:0:0:0:4 (talk) 20:37, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Query

Hello, Plastikspork,

Since I see you as the TFD Guru, I have a question for you! I did some editing on template pages that are redirects to other template pages that have no incoming links and could probably be deleted. Do I nominate them at WP:TFD or at WP:RFD? TFD has the participants who have expertise in template use and are familiar with these kinds of pages but these pages are technically redirects. Thanks for any insight you can offer! Liz Read! Talk! 01:50, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

Liz, the guidelines say that all redirects go to RFD, but I have seen people send redirects to TFD when bundled with non-redirects. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 04:32, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for the info, I should have read the policy page but sometimes I'd rather just ask someone knowledgeable.
I appreciate you re-closing Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 April 11#South Africa rugby sevens squad templates, I kind of flipped yesterday when I saw a new editor had closed this TFD discussion and tagged dozens of template and template talk pages for speedy deletion and they were sitting in CSD categories. But I managed to revert everything before an admin took action on those pages. The editor is now blocked from Wikipedia space so no more unexpected closures at XfD discussions. Liz Read! Talk! 22:57, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
Liz, no problem, and thank you for averting a disaster! Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 23:00, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

Sir check my article

Sir my article is in DRAFT https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:THE_VESIGN . Please Check it sir. Thankyou Have a nice day — Preceding unsigned comment added by Writer42724 (talkcontribs) 02:47, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Sock drawer at User talk:Sergecross73/Archive 89#Vesign. Certes (talk) 09:40, 23 April 2022 (UTC)

Sporkbot

Hi, can you alter the settings for this bot so it is not patrolling users work-in-progress pages please? Skullcinema (talk) 10:25, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

I use the bot to orphan templates deleted at TfD, and in this case, Fn was deleted. I don't really understand why you need to use it, when it isn't a valid template. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 13:44, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
I am using it as an aide-de-memoir so that I don't forget to add in the actual code when I get to that part of writing the article. It's on my personal page and is supposed to be draft only so the only person that it bothers is me. If the bot put a note that it needs to be changed that's fine, but it just deletes it and with it my working marks. Skullcinema (talk) 08:15, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
Skullcinema, can you please use a valid template like {{Expand section}} instead? Per WP:REDNOT, nonexistent templates should not be transcluded anywhere. It is not true that the only person bothered by transclusions of deleted templates is you; Wikipedia:Database reports/Transclusions of non-existent templates is patrolled daily by multiple editors looking for errors, and intentional transclusions of nonexistent templates make that work harder. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:55, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
Jonesey95, actually WP:REDNOT refers to articles, it is an overextrapolation to claim that it applies everywhere; this is a working draft on a personal page. As for editors looking for something to improve, there is plenty to be done in the main namespace without anyone needing to get involved in editing draft articles, user talk pages, etc. As I have worked through WP's catalogue of malformed {{Cite patent}} transclusions (including using your page [9] - thank you for setting this up) it never occurred to me to go into other user's pages to edit them. Given that, I can't see why you would think that other editors would be unduly concerned. Skullcinema (talk) 15:48, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
From WP:REDNOT: do not add a template to pages unless and until the template has been created. "pages" means all pages, not just articles. Thank you for your gnome edits. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:21, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
From WP:REDNOT: Articles should not contain red links. "articles" means articles, not all pages. The page in a nutshell section mentions articles four times and pages 0, the policy applies to articles and rightly so. Skullcinema (talk) 09:28, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
That's in the lead (summary) of WP:RED, not in the detail of WP:REDNOT. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:59, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Speedy deletion request for a module page

I have never had to tag a module page for speedy deletion before, and I don't think it worked when I did it at Module:Adjacent stations/Rapid Metro Gurgaon/testcases. Can you please take a look? The author created it by mistake and requested deletion on my talk page. I am not an admin. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:27, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Jonesey95, I deleted it. I have seen Modules tagged before, but I don't recall if they had to use a doc page to do it. In any event, asking an admin to delete it is probably the easiest. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 04:08, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:59, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
@Jonesey95: All you need to do is to tag the module itself, in the normal way, except that you precede the double opening brace with two hyphen-minus characters, as in
-- {{db-author}}
The space is optional. For some real-world examples, admins may care to examine Special:Undelete/Module:Sandbox/Redrose64/Delete test or Special:Undelete/Module:Sandbox/Redrose64/sometest. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:04, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
Interesting. I tried the instructions provided on the speedy deletion page, which make no mention of using what appears to me to be a Lua comment. Maybe those instructions should be amended? – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:27, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

не счастлив

почему ты отменил мою правку на озере байкал? Я очень недоволен этим и передам администраторам википедии. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.224.240.114 (talk) 16:15, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Your edits on Lake Baikal were vandalism. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 13:43, 14 May 2022 (UTC)


A tag has been placed on Category:Washington (state) rail succession templates indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz Read! Talk! 16:43, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Editing the fields that define the "Personal details" in the infobox officeholder Template

I noticed that many years ago you were able to edit the spouse field to become spouse(s). Please could you explain how this was done. I am trying to translate corresponding fields in a Northern Sotho wikipedia but I am unable to find the definitions of the fields that appear in the Personal details section of the infobox. These would include "Born", "Political Party", "Spouse(s)", "Children", "Parents", "Alma mater" and "Website". Thanking you for your help, Phillip (talk) 15:51, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Phillip, some templates do allow for you to use either |spouse= or |spouses= and the infobox then adjusts the label. For example, see Template:Infobox character. In most templates, like {{Infobox person}} and {{Infobox officeholder}} the label is always Spouse(s). I don't know if this answers your question. You can always look at the code for {{Infobox officeholder}} by opening it up in edit mode. The personal details are near the bottom of the template. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 22:34, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
Thank you so much. I had not noticed the field labels near the bottom of the template. Most the field labels were in {{Infobox officeholder/office}} but these ones were in {{Infobox officeholder}}. Phillip (talk) 15:39, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
Thank you so much. I had not noticed the field labels near the bottom of the template. Most the field labels were in " https://nso.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_officeholder/office " but these ones were in " https://nso.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_officeholder "
I still do not seem to be able to get the square brackets and the curly brackets to work properly and hence my first reply seems incomplete.

Phillip (talk) 15:46, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

No problem, let me know if you have any more questions. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 20:30, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Nice delete and move

I am just here to say thank you for this elegant move and delete and template code adjustment. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:16, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 01:02, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Wayback

Template:Wayback has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. GreenC 03:25, 6 July 2022 (UTC)

Premature deletion closure

You recently closed a discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2022 July 26#Chess variant boards and deleted all of the chess variants. Your closure said "These have been merged with Module:Chessboard", but in fact only one of the seven - Hia Shatar - had been successfully merged into that module, and there had been no further progression in the discussion from the relisting on any of the other template/modules. It would be good of you to undelete the six that haven't progressed so that the process that resolved Hia Shatar can continue on the rest of them. VanIsaac, MPLL contWpWS 19:24, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

User:Vanisaac, checking Special:PrefixIndex/Module:Chessboard shows more than Hia Shatar. Two of the unused merged modules were deleted here. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 16:24, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
Ooh, that changes things. Only Hia Shatar actually got mentioned at the actual TfD discussion, so I was concerned. You might want to add in your closure that the others also had gotten implemented with module:chessboard. But thanks so much for the update on that - I didn't want that utility to just get lost before we found the right way to implement them. VanIsaac, MPLL contWpWS 19:06, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
The closing statement says These have been merged with Module:Chessboard, please feel free to renominate the merged submodules if you still think they should be deleted. Seems pretty clear to me that more than one has been merged, or I would have said "this" and "submodule". Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 22:54, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Template:Knight's Cross recipients of JG 26. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. MisterBee1966 (talk) 07:47, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

Can you please delete them

I was going to request deletion for the template since they are meant to be experimental and they are supposed to be temporary:

Is it okay if you can delete my templates? Thanks. SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 16:32, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

That is what TfD is for. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:51, 12 August 2022 (UTC)

User:Plastikspork/citetools.js

Hi Plastikspork

Per WP:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2022_August_3#Template:Cite_article, {{Cite article}} is to be deleted. I have bypassed nearly all the redirects, but there two I cannot edit, and one of them is your User:Plastikspork/citetools.js.

Yo may want to update it. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:05, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

@BrownHairedGirl:, now fixed. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 22:35, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

Pride of Mid-America Marching Band page

Hello,

You have recently removed a lot of information from the Pride of Mid-America Marching Band page. As a former member and alumnus of Ball State, I still have very close contact and relevant information for the page and I ask that you stop removing it. Thanks 2600:1015:B006:13B1:44EB:BADB:8319:21F0 (talk) 12:57, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

"Template:Notodntidae-stub" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Template:Notodntidae-stub and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 August 29#Template:Notodntidae-stub until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. AddWittyNameHere 01:01, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

"Batman 4" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Batman 4 and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 August 31#Batman 4 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Regards, SONIC678 04:47, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Hi

Hello Nick John User (talk) 06:13, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Indian Railways color

Template:Indian Railways color has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:37, 10 September 2022 (UTC)

Americas next Topmodel season 3

Please stop to delete episode 1 in the call out order and leave Magdalenas name in it in the color white. Her background in the call out order is dark and not readable if you make her letters black. And Kristis name is Laura and Yayas name is Camara. Kristi and Yaya are only nicknames. DDKay (talk) 10:49, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

Axe grinding

Hiya I'm in a weird slow edit war with Levithe gd at Squatting in Zimbabwe, where they are deleting referenced info and not engaging on the talkpage. Checking their edits they seem to have an axe or perhaps multiple axes to grind, and over at Sena language they have replaced the article with a strange genetic history. I see you protected the page back in August, but they've done it again since. What's a good move forwards? Could you perhaps article ban Levithe gd from editing those two pages, if you think that's a good idea? It's not particularly urgent, it's just a bit frustrating to deal with an editor who doesn't want to collaborate. Cheers! Mujinga (talk) 10:59, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Mujinga for disputes between only two editors, you can request a WP:3O. For edit warring, you can post at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring, but if you are engaged in the same reverting pattern, you could be blocked as well. Article bans are typically discussed at WP:ANI, which can also have a boomerang outcome, where you get article banned as well. So, I would suggest starting with WP:3O and see if that helps. After that, I would try posting on the talk pages of the various Wikiprojects associated with the articles. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 21:59, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
Wow, what a bizarre answer to suggest 3O with an editor who doesn't respond and whose edits you already termed "persistent disruptive editing". Thanks for the laugh though and happy editing. Mujinga (talk) 17:11, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
I see, you were really just asking for a block outside of the normal process. Good luck with that. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 17:15, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
Nope I was asking you to take an interest in a page which you had already protected which is still being vandalised. See Talk:Sena_language#This_article_needs_drastic_replacement. But I get it, you're very busy Mujinga (talk) 17:18, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
All of my advice still stands, no matter how funny you think it is. Getting a topic ban from ANI is a process, and the first step is showing that you are trying other avenues. Trying to quickly without seeking opinions through 3O and Wikiproject pages usually results in a boomerang. But, I am sure you already know this, which is why you have already posted at WP:WikiProject Languages and WP:WikiProject Africa and contacted User:Harsimaja directly. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 17:46, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

UK Rail service boxes

Hi, thanks for your edits to these boxes. As standard practice, please could you make sure that - if you do edit one - that (if it isn't already) it is moved to the section entitled "Services", rather than being in the External Links section. Thanks again. Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 15:08, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Sure, if there is such a section, I will try to do that. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:09, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
Thanks. Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 15:41, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Is increasing WP:MASSMOVE beyond 100 at a time feasible?

In this discussion, we are in talks about moving 1600+ pages. Can the code, provided for page movers and admins, be increased so it moves more than 100 pages with one click, without redirects? Qwerty284651 (talk) 22:25, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Qwerty284651, I wasn't aware there was a 100 page limit. If I recall, the script iterates over the list, rather than requesting the entire batch to be moved at once. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 00:37, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
@Plastikspork, per WP:MASSMOVE there is. What do you mean by "the script reiterates over the list." Qwerty284651 (talk) 00:48, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
Qwerty284651, I said that the script iterates over the list, not reiterates. If you read the code in User:Plastikspork/massmove.js you will see a for loop around line 85. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 04:12, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Fixing of bug in the align parameter of Chart

The Template Barnstar
To User:Plastikspork, for fixing the bug in the "align" parameter of the Chart template. It bothered me for 5 years until you came along! Thank you so much! Johannes Schade (talk) 15:12, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Another bug: shared text on the 3 Lord of the Rings articles

Plastikspork, since this edit on FotR, and the matching edits on TT and RotK, the 3 articles that make up The Lord of the Rings, we've had constant trouble with whitespace. Specifically, an extra blank line appears at the end of the "template section", i.e. the bit that is shared with the main The Lord of the Rings article. It seems that whenever someone makes any edit to the text that is shared, a blank line magically appears, and it's rather hard to delete again, one has to edit the whole article to remove it; and as soon as someone makes another edit, the white space reappears. Can you find a way to do the sharing without this "feature"? The way I had arranged it with a template worked correctly, by the way, but apparently that offended The Powers That Be (tremble, shudder, cower, grovel). Help appreciated. Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:27, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Chiswick Chap, I believe the key is to make sure there are no line breaks between the comments or between the <onlyinclude> tags and the comments. I am not seeing a problem right now, or am I missing something? Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:37, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
It looks as if Frietjes spotted the problem and solution yesterday. Many thanks, Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:40, 26 October 2022 (UTC)

JJ Food Service Ltd

Hello I would like to start a page for JJ Foodservice. I have been told that you already tried to start one and it was rejected. Is that correct? Please share details. Thanks Rowland 1981 (talk) 15:14, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Not that I am aware of, but there is Draft:JJ Foodservice Ltd? Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:21, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

Liberal Republican Party (United States)

Thanks for catching my edit error in Liberal Republican Party (United States). I have redone the edit, this time correctly, as it should have been. Mea culpa. Truthanado (talk) 00:19, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

Dash script

Hi, any chance you could fix a glitch in spacing? User_talk:Tony1#Date_range_to_present,_again Tony (talk) 22:34, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Lakshmi

Recently you reverted my edits Why you reverted my edits? Bhagruti (talk) 14:31, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

Bhagruti, you need to add non-broken citations. You can find help for using citation templates in Wikipedia:Citing sources. If the citation creates a link to a missing template, then you have not added the citations correctly. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:37, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
Also, linking to Googal is not really helpful! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:39, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

Googal or Google is son of Lakshmi devi Bhagruti (talk) 11:29, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Citation [1] Bhagruti (talk) 11:30, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

[2] Bhagruti (talk) 11:51, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

[3] Bhagruti (talk) 11:54, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

So it shows you wrongly remove my edits because the name I removed in that page does not belong to Lakshmi devi because of some confusion to understanding sanskrit they wrote like that so that's why I removed it. Bhagruti (talk) 11:58, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

MadhuDaitya, Malti,PrachiEast,Viroopa Shurparnkha, Bhagruti (talk) 12:08, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

Bhagruti, did you try clicking on the link Googal? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 13:57, 22 November 2022 (UTC)

References

Hi how are you? You've already edited in the past Template:Year in various calendars, I opened in discussion section a thread about a consensus for a flaw I identified in the template that goes back to 2006. There I explain better.

Jvbignacio9 (talk) 20:55, 25 November 2022 (UTC)

Source tags in your scripts

Hi, some of the AutoEd scripts in your userspace have deprecated <source>...</source> tags, which is putting them in Category:Pages using deprecated source tags. These tags are unnecessary in js pages now because they have inbuilt syntaxhighlighting. Will you mind removing them from these:

  1. User:Plastikspork/AutoEd/basic.js
  2. User:Plastikspork/AutoEd/core.js
  3. User:Plastikspork/AutoEd/core2.js
  4. User:Plastikspork/AutoEd/dev.js
  5. User:Plastikspork/AutoEd/extrabreaks.js
  6. User:Plastikspork/AutoEd/fullwidth.js
  7. User:Plastikspork/AutoEd/headlines.js
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Thanks. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 11:57, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Sure, now deleted or fixed. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:57, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Hi Plastikspork,

I believe think the edit protection of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is a bit of an overreaction. Looking at the history, I think it's fairly stable without any persistent disruptive editing. I myself reverted a couple of revisions, but those edits were done in good faith. The one blatant vandalism edit you reverted was the first of that nature since August. Is an edit protection necessary at this point? soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 09:53, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Soetermans, I agree, I have removed the protection. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:36, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Transclusion request

Hi, I see you are currently working to delete the US representatives templates. If you find a template without any usage, can you kindly subst it at User:CX Zoom/TestPage37? Thanks! CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {CX}) 15:41, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

CX Zoom, they were all used on either a "FOO's congressional districts" or "United States congressional delegations from Foo" page or both. If they were used on two pages, then the "United States congressional delegations from Foo" is now transcluding the content from the "FOO's congressional districts" page. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:44, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
Alright, thank you very much! CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {CX}) 15:46, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Commonwealth Games template categories

Hello, Plastikspork,

I saw that you emptied some categories involving the Commonwealth Games templates. Sometimes I see CSD G6 used for template categories so I was just wondering if that would apply to the ones listed in Category:Empty categories awaiting deletion. If not, we'll just stick with the regular CSD C1. Thanks for any clarification you can provide. Liz Read! Talk! 21:10, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

Yes, all of those were previously occupied by templates deleted at WP:TFD. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 04:50, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for taking care of those and closing so many TFD discussions. I'd like to help out there on occasion but the template world has its own rules with which I'm unfamiliar. Best to stay within my areas of competence than make some colossal mistake! Liz Read! Talk! 06:35, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

I am sad as...

The atari lynx nav template got deleted, I found that really helpful for navigating between the games. Does wikipedia not care for ease of navigation at all?? O well, back to the wiki-dark ages! (watches a tumble weed blow past!) .... Govvy (talk) 11:30, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks!

Hi,

I have noticed that you cleaned up the mess I created after modifying the Warsaw SKM module. I forgot that I deleted a line and it made all of the templates broken.

Thank you! PRmaster1 (talk) 19:50, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Plastikspork!

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

Abishe (talk) 18:21, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy New Year, Plastikspork!

   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

Moops T 20:48, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Query

Hello, Plastikspork,

Since you do so much work at TFD, I thought I'd ask your opinion on a template issue. 罗放 registered their account some time ago but has become recently active, creating templates having to do with the war in Ukraine. This seems like an unusual activity for a new editor so I was hoping you could check out their contributions and see whether these templates that will be useful or not. Thanks and I hope you have a happy and healthy 2023! Liz Read! Talk! 01:37, 2 January 2023 (UTC)

These don't look entirely un-useful, but very few transclusions. Many are still unused, which may lead to discussion at WP:TFD since there are many editors who patrol the unused template list. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 12:41, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi Liz: these templates are intended to be use in pages describing the battles and soldiers participated in the current war. However most of the pages needs extended confirmed user to edit and I haven't got that privilege yet. 罗放 (talk) 16:23, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Instead of reverting the IP's edits with the inaccurate edit summary "Format", it would have been more constructive to tag them as unsourced (or find the sources) and to fix the broken ArtUK template. Please take care to support constructive newbie editors rather than reverting them with no explanation. Her name does indeed appear to be Chloë, with the diacritical, so I have moved the page. Thanks. PamD 08:46, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Template:US-novelist-20thC-stub has been nominated for deletion

Template:US-novelist-20thC-stub has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the stub template guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the template's entry on the templates for discussion page. Thank you. PamD 23:08, 11 January 2023 (UTC) (Corrected links: discussion belongs at TfD not CfD) PamD 23:45, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

Quarry

So I'm a bit out of practice.... This quarry query used to work, but keeps throwing errors now. What am I doing wrong? Please helppppp! -- Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 05:35, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Zackmann08: I'm more of a quarry consumer than a quarry writing expert. I would suggest asking MZMcBride and/or reading this thread and/or asking at www.mediawiki.org? I personally use Wikipedia:Database reports/Unused templates (filtered) when looking for unused templates. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:32, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Z – You'll want to take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates/Unused Templates Task Force and its talk page. We did a ton of work while you were gone. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:19, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
Hi. This is an example commit that fixes the tl_title issue. You can also review Wikipedia:Database reports/Unused templates (filtered)/Configuration or Wikipedia:Database reports/Unused templates/Configuration. --MZMcBride (talk) 18:14, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Template:Saint Petersburg Railway Division color has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 13:44, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi Plastikspork. Could you please elaborate on your reasoning for closing this discussion as delete rather than redirect to Template:GP3 Series Drivers' Champions? Thanks. A7V2 (talk) 22:58, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

A7V2, you are free to create a redirect right now if you want to create one. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:25, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

removing WiR creation tags?

Hey, Plastikspork! Is there a reason we're removing these? Or replacing...confused lol. :D Valereee (talk) 19:58, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Valereee, People are adding |class= and |importance= to these when the project doesn't support these. See Category:Pages using WIR with unknown parameters. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 00:54, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
Ah, thanks! Couldn't we have a bot do that? Valereee (talk) 12:15, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

fakaua

Hi. I hope you are doing well. Regarding this edit, I was editing using AWB. AWB showed me:
{{DEFAULTSORT:Taumoepeau, {{fakaua}}Alisi Afeaki}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Taumoepeau, {{fakau'a}}Alisi Afeaki}}
I thought AWB knows the best, trusted it, and saved the edit. I apologise for the similar multiple inaccurate edits. See you around :-) —usernamekiran (talk) 23:21, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

SporkBot

Hi Plastikspork, thanks for creating SporkBot, it noticed a column error that I had not seen. I am impressed so thanks for your good work. Pyeongchang (talk) 10:53, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I noticed that you closed this RfD, but did not remove incoming links from other templates. This is best practice for most deletions. I have removed the links in this case.[10]

Forgive me if you normally do this part of the task but overlooked it on this occasion. Otherwise, I hope this is a useful pointer. Best wishes – Fayenatic London 17:10, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

I do normally do this, but unfortunately {{tfd links}} only provides links to transclusions, so it requires several extra clicks to check. The automated TfD closer also doesn't warn you if there are a lot of links. But, it would be difficult to automate the process due to links in various "del sort" templates. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 17:00, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
OK, thanks! as it happens I've also just found a category redirect left from your deleting Category:Swedish Hockey League roster templates under G8. Also sorted. – Fayenatic London 17:09, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Re Template:Taxonomy/Acanthothecis

Hi Plastikspork,

The template details of the lichen/fungi are out-of-date ! I was attempting to change them to the new stuff. Maybe heavy-handed ! Still have not got my template editing skills refined. I add with this note the ref that I and a lot of other editors are using.

[1]

RegardsDavidAnstiss (talk) 23:01, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

References

  1. ^ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8.

Re: reverting articles due to name change

Hi Plastikspork, I'm curious to learn more about why articles are reverted due to name changes. Does Wikipedia have a police on "name" vs "full name"? In the case of "John Doe Smith" should that be the name or full name? Thank you! PseudoNova (talk) 18:33, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

PseudoNova, I believe you are asking about Mahassen Fattouh? That was my fault. I didn't see the full name in the first sentence. Sorry about that. As far as I know, there is no official policy on which name should be at the top of the infobox, but typically it's the name by which the subject is commonly known, which is typically the same as the article name. Thanks for bringing this to my attention! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:38, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
Gotcha thank you! PseudoNova (talk) 18:33, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

deleted pages (Template:PVL)

Hello, This is regarding the deleted templates of the PVL, there are now empty sections in which the deleted templates were connected. Please try to restore the contents/information of the templates it represented in all of the articles that are affected. Thank you. Rick (talk) 10:34, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

@Rickt11: Could you be more specific? I checked all the templates in the February 9 discussion and none of them are linked in any articles or other templates. I checked the Template:PVL referenced in the section heading, and neither of the redlinks every existed in any articles. As far as the contents of the templates are concerned, it looks like that was merged with the articles in edits like these: [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] ... by Frietjes. If you notice the section tags, those are for WP:LST which allows those sections to be used in other articles like 2017 Premier Volleyball League season (search for the #lst: in the source). Does this answer your question? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:12, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
yes, all the content was merged, no information was lost. Frietjes (talk) 18:29, 19 February 2023 (UTC)

Db-p1

could you delete Template:Editnotices/Page/Template talk:Db-p1 per G8? Frietjes (talk) 17:59, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Done! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:22, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Rollback in Johiya

Hey sir nice to meet you I've changed and corrected the Joiya history and spent 2 hours to write and give references but you didn't did good to me.Officialy I am also belong toJoiya.I wrote the real history of Joiya which joined Jatoi baloch tribe in balochistan.These are the true words told by our grandfathers.We still belong to Jatoi Baloch tribe and all the person call us Jatoi Baloch so why you reverted my article.So please don't roll it back and keep my edits published  103.153.117.126 (talk) 16:28, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

Sorry for the rollback, but your changes were poorly sourced, had lots of redlinks to missing templates and articles, etc. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 21:41, 11 March 2023 (UTC)

Reverted

Hi,I do not know the difference between reverted or removed or deleted. All of those remove edits. I am trying to place a correct word definition on Wiktionary and cite it. How can one do that politely without stepping hard on other editors and being "reverted" by someone. Thank you valjean1969 ida1925 the reason I have two is because I forgot the password of ida1925 and did not know how to go about finding it. I asked if it can be combined. thank you again. Valjean1969 (talk) 01:50, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Always precious

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:54, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Edit - 14:04, 25 March 2023‎ Plastikspork (Rollback)

Hi Plastikspork, just contacting you about the changes to edits made on the 25th March.

1 - The credit Love & Marriage (contributor 2001) ref 7 was removed. The writer wasn't writing in 2001. If you check the reference given you'll see the writer wasn't a contributor to this.

2 - Messiah, I added a co-writer's name and dates 2019/ 2020. The play was produced then. This can be checked with the three references below which are all dated.

https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/messiah-review-at-stratford-circus-london--playful-and-potent

https://theatreweekly.com/review-messiah-at-stratford-circus-arts-centre/

https://www.streathamspaceproject.co.uk/whats-on-calendar/2020/messiah

3 - The Women's Prize for Playwriting was added. Proof of finalists can be confirmed by 3 sources below.

http://womensprizeforplaywriting.co.uk/2021-finalists/

https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/womens-prize-for-playwriting-announces-shortlist-_55747.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=19January2022

https://www.westendtheatre.com/108217/news/finalist-scripts-announced-for-the-womens-prize-for-playwriting-2021/


Is it okay to revert back to the changes that were made? 89.242.89.31 (talk) 19:49, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

The problem is that your edits broke the other citations on the page. I have no problem with you making changes, but you should make sure you don't break the other citations by splicing text in the middle of the citation templates. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 18:14, 8 April 2023 (UTC)

Edit to my user page

What exactly did you do on my user page. The edit comment says "Remove page from Special:WantedTemplates" could you just explain what that means because I honestly have no clue. Batgirl-Awsomeness (talk) 10:01, 19 April 2023 (UTC)

@Batgirl-Awsomeness: Once a month the Special:WantedTemplates page is regenerated by the server. It lists all missing templates that are being transcluded. Your page was transcluding Template:Country data ntl_team, Template:Country data ntl team2, and Template:Country data ntl team3. By changing the ntl_team to {ntl_team} this fixed the transclusion on your page because curly braces aren't allowed in template names. Demonstration templates like Template:Parameter names example uses curly braces for this reason. I hope this answers your question and sorry for the short edit summary. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:01, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
Oh, well thanks for fixing it. I've been taking the already in-use sports player infobox templates, filling all the fields/parameters, and putting it side by side with a table that I'm making to mock up a potential updated version of the templates with the goal of then proposing them to a template editor who will take those tables and update the infobox template accordingly. The result will be a more streaamlined and better overall infobox for players. Because currently all the inboxes don't have all the necessary fields and don't fully capture the player. Just a little side project I'm working on. Thanks again for fixing the fields and I will now make the fields on the current templates on my page to have curly brackets. Batgirl-Awsomeness (talk) 01:15, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Pharaoh Infobox

Dear Plastikspork I am writing you concerning Template:Infobox_pharaoh, which you have edited, to get your help on a long running issue with the infobox used in pharaoh articles.There was a community discussion in the Ancient Egypt project then a discussion at the village pump, see here. This was about editing the [Show] button in pharaoh infoboxes. After the discussion it was decided that the [Show] button could be replaced by [Click to show] button, or be written in bold or be put to the left to help readers see the button which is almost always missed and has led to people complaining that the info wasn't in the article or editing to put the info already there. Now in spite of the technical advises I was given, I don't see what to edit to change the template. Could you please help me by precisely telling me how to edit the code (and which code) to make the [Show] button appear as [Click to show] or be put in bold and/or left ?Iry-Hor (talk) 09:37, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Iry-Hor, I believe the show/hide words are controlled by the text in MediaWiki:Collapsible-collapse and MediaWiki:Collapsible-expand, which cannot be changed without changing everywhere (navigation boxes). So, it's very unlikely to have that happen. However, it is possible to put it to the left. If you look in the source for the infobox you will see that {{Hidden}} is being used to collapse the content. If you add |toggle=left to that template it will move the showhide to the left. If you need help with other options, I would suggest contacting the people who commented at the Village Pump thread. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 04:21, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
Thank you !Iry-Hor (talk) 12:27, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Zelenskyy articles

Could you restore 2022 visit by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the United States and 2023 visit by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the United Kingdom? They were deleted wrongfully by another admin who responded to my prod of an article that shouldn't have been created and were only done so by one editor instead of a consensus among many. But she probably didn't the exact wording. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 14:17, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Did you ask Liz who deleted Foreign visits by Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:20, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
Yes, but hasn't done so. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 15:27, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
It's been restored. Just keeping you posted. Thanks. --WikiCleanerMan (talk) 20:37, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Ludwig Ross

Appreciate your edit on the misplaced dash (an artefact of going through the article using find-and-replace; I'd obviously clicked 'replace' when the machine wasn't where I thought it was), but "that was pretty dumb" seems a little uncivil when correcting somebody else's mistake. We're all volunteers, and the last thing we want to do is discourage people who are doing their best purely for the enjoyment of it. UndercoverClassicist (talk) 06:41, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Help

Hi @Plastikspork,

I noticed that you deleted the banner page template that I was trying to create. I know it was a test page, but I'm struggling to create this template which is a copy from a WP:FR template. If you have experience or know someone who can help me create it, I would be so grateful.

Sincerely,

Riad Salih (talk) 16:11, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

Riad Salih, where are you going to use it? Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 16:57, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
@Plastikspork in portals like : Portal:Algeria which I try to update.
Here is an example in the WP fr  : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portail:Alg%C3%A9rie Riad Salih (talk) 17:07, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
Riad Salih, is there a reason why you can't put it in Portal:Algeria/Banner like Portal:Catholic Church/Banner and Portal:Russia/Intro/Banner and many others? Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 17:09, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
Actually, I was not aware that it was possible, but I am attempting to utilize a modern template. I will attempt to use it. Could you kindly refrain from removing the page? If I am unable to resolve the issue, I will inform you, and you can proceed with deleting it possible. However, I will persist in my efforts until this template is fixed.
Thank you Riad Salih (talk) 17:15, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

Hello, Plastikspork,

I restored this page you deleted, at least temporarily. The other day, I deleted a lot of redirected talk pages that pointed to this target page (see here). Since these templates are being actively used and Template talk:WorldCat id contained some discussions, I think this talk page should be CSD G8-exempt. Or, we should find a new target talk page that these deleted talk pages can be redirected to. Since these are widely used templates and editors might have questions about their use, it seems like we should have one common talk page where they could go to post any questions they have. What do you think about retaining this talk page? Or can you think of an alternative WorldCat talk page that these broken and deleted template talk pages could point to? Thanks for any help you can provide. Liz Read! Talk! 22:05, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

@Liz: Thanks! I moved it to Template talk:WorldCat subject, but it looks like both Template:WorldCat subject and Template:WorldCat author may be deleted next for the same reason that Template:WorldCat id is being deleted. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 23:33, 29 April 2023 (UTC)

Please edit page Anas Yan

Draft:Anas Yan Darifi11 (talk) 21:25, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

Bonjour frère, je veux que vous m'aidiez à corriger certaines choses sur la page de l'artiste et ajouter la catégorie Darifi11 (talk) 21:42, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Whodatttt:

Regarding Special:Diff/1154435355, in this case what you did was fine, but in general, it's better to query the CU to bring the error to their attention. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:01, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) this is a much kinder message than I would have left had someone who is not a checkuser edited one of my public comments reflecting private data they don't have access to, to make it look like I said something that I hadn't said. If you think we've made a mistake you should let us know, or you can email the functionaries list or contact the Arbitration Committee, but don't assume you know what we intended - you don't have all the information. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 14:47, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
RoySmith, there is no template:suspected. If you would like to create it, go ahead. I was just removing the page from Special:WantedTemplates. I have reverted myself to let you fix it. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 16:48, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

Nomination of The Daily Campus for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article The Daily Campus is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Daily Campus until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

Chances last a finite time (talk) 14:06, 23 May 2023 (UTC)

Requesting a closure review or update,if possible.

Hello! There have been discussions regarding challenging the closing statement of the merger discussion: Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2023 January 22#Template:Infobox aircraft begin

The outcome of the discussion was to merge to {{Infobox aircraft}}. However, the conclusion regarding the merger of {{Infobox aircraft engine}} was met with opposition from several editors on the talk page. This led to another discussion about whether to maintain Infobox aircraft engine as a standalone or not.

So in this matter: Is it possible to update the closing statement of the merger discussion or close the ongoing discussion? If not, could you please provide a formal comment on the current discussion and bring it to a conclusion? Thank you very much. Prarambh20 (talk) 16:06, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

I thought the closing summary was pretty clear, so I don't see any reason to update it. I fully expected that the discussion would continue elsewhere. It looks like the editors opposing are basically the same editors who opposed in the TfD. I think your best coarse of action is to continue the discussion and get as much input as possible. You could possibly start an RfC if you don't think you are getting enough input. If the ultimate consensus is to maintain a second "aircraft engine infobox", then that's what happens. My closing statement was based on my reading of the discussion at TfD. If more input is needed, then there are ways to solicit more feedback. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:12, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
All right! Thanks. Prarambh20 (talk) 05:54, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Template:Medieval Lands by Charles Cawley

Hi, you closed the deletion discussion Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2023_May_25#Template:Medieval_Lands_by_Charles_Cawley, and now a bot is removing the template from articles. As a result, those articles are being added to Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. Is it your responsibility to replace the refs that called it with {{cn}}, or the nominator's, or is it left to idiots like me? DuncanHill (talk) 08:15, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

DuncanHill, I should be able to get SporkBot to fix the ones that it removed. Can you provide a link to an example page? That category has over 12k entries, and my bot only changed about 375 pages. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:01, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
It looks like ActivelyDisinterested is taking care of the problem and removing the rest? Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:24, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
I fixed the articles with harv errors earlier, I'm now going through and removing any other uses of the template. The removal of unreliable cites causing harv errors is, unfortunately, not something just caused by bots. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested transmissions °co-ords° 14:28, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
ActivelyDisinterested, thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:30, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
Battle of Harim and Constantine Lekapenos were the ones that caught my eye - but looking at them now it looks like @ActivelyDisinterested: has been sorting them out. DuncanHill (talk) 14:47, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
I've cleared harv errors upto H, so I spotted them this morning. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested transmissions °co-ords° 14:50, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

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Please improve the straight line article by adding reliable source of information.

Sir,today I noticed that you reverted my edit in the article of the straight line.I appreciate your feedback but I think straight line as a curve is an important concept.And I think we should add it in the straight line article.As you mentioned my mistakes please improve these mistakes and improve the article.I am a new editor please help me.You are a mathematician and you are capable to improve this article. Thank you Yuthfghds Yuthfghds (talk) 04:06, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

User:SporkBot is malfunctioning

This edit of yours [19] is completely unacceptable. You can't substitute user boxes with ones of your choice. I don't identify with the box you put on my page, so stay away from other users' boxes. You may be allowed to fix template names after page moves, but that's not what happened here. Est. 2021 (talk · contribs) 18:16, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

Protecting from whom?

You have semi-protected Abir Hossain Angkon, but no non-autoconfirmed editor has edited the article since July 2022. 🤔 JBW (talk) 08:41, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

I see, I thought the edit warriors weren't autoconfirmed. It should probably be fully protected at this point if the edit warring continues. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 20:49, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

RFPP

Hello Plastik, I see you're currently active, could you please consider actioning this request, IP is being very disturbing. Thanx, - FlightTime (open channel) 16:18, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

The redirect Template:Infobox Musique (artiste) has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 July 5 § Template:Infobox Musique (artiste) until a consensus is reached. SWinxy (talk) 22:19, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

In ICZN Case 3603, both Icthyophaga (bird) and Ichthyophaga (worm) were conserved, which means they are both valid name, so Ichthyophaga should no longer be used in bird names. IOU resurrected the genus Icthyophaga in IOC bird checklist 13.2 with its right name. If you believe this template should still be used for birds, it should be redirected to Template:Taxonomy/Icthyophaga instead of a separate page. ——🦝 The Interaccoonale Will be the raccoon race (talkcontribs) 01:44, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

I was just fixing the fact that your version was clearly broken. Please use "show preview" before saving! Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 14:28, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

The redirect Template:Country data Türkiye has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 July 19 § Template:Country data Türkiye until a consensus is reached. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:55, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Khafji battle

Why did you not agree to my amendment, even though it is correct, and the anonymous amendment by adding the Bahraini Air Force is false and erroneous? مبارك النعيمي (talk) 19:25, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

مبارك النعيمي, please add a WP:RS and use "show preview" before saving to ensure that you didn't break the infobox. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 16:15, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
I did not understand what you want to amend the information for the third time مبارك النعيمي (talk) 18:58, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:IPA chart/undefined

Template:IPA chart/undefined has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:10, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Alison Spittle additions removed

Hi plastikspork,

I can see you have just removed something I added to Alison Spittle's page because the citation was broken.

This is the first time I have ever edited anything on Wikipedia. I saw that my attempt to copy another citation on the pahasn'dn't worked, so I went away and tried to learn how to do a proper citation. By the time I came back you deleted it already.

Please can you be patient with me while I'm learning?

I am going to put it back up and try to put the citation in according to the tutorial I'm using. This might take me a little while but I will definitely make sure I give it a proper citation by the end of today.

Out of interest, how did my post come to your attention? Are you a fan of Alison's too?

Thanks, Susie SusieNineToes (talk) 16:29, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

SusieNineToes, You can use "show preview" to make sure you aren't saving something that is broken. Your edit produced a broken citation, which is how I found your edit. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 16:39, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

Request

Hi, could you please move the redirect اللغة العرب to اللغة العربية without leaving a redirect because the current redirect is meaningless. --Karim talk to me :)..! 08:55, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Karim185.3 Have you tried WP:RM? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 13:53, 18 August 2023 (UTC)