User talk:SD0001

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2025 AFC Beach Soccer Asian Cup

Hello. I see you reversed my move of this article to draft space because I had not given a reason. I chose a reason in reason dropdown menu; it is certainly not clear that the "other reason" field must be filled in unless "other reason" is selected in the reason dropdown. I apologise if I should have done, though I note I have performed a number of similar moves without it being a problem in the past. I will write something in the free text reason field in the future.

I did post a message to the creating editor's talk page with the reason, which is that it's completely unsourced. And as a newly written article, better off incubating in draftspace. Cheers, SunloungerFrog (talk) 18:08, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

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Happy Christmas

Merry Christmas, SD0001! Or Season's Greetings or Happy Winter Solstice! As the year winds to a close, I would like to take a moment to recognize your hard work and offer heartfelt gratitude for all you do for Wikipedia. May this Holiday Season bring you nothing but joy, health and prosperity. Onel5969 TT me 23:26, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Promotion

Hello, Hope you're good. What to do when the Name of creator looks same as the created draft or article, like this one you declined to delete Draft:Faheem Ul Islam created by User:Faheemulislam1. A response will help me, Regards. Taabii (talk) 12:05, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

I see you've already placed {{uw-autobiography}} on the user talk page, which is appropriate. But the COI is not a deletion reason by itself. Although the draft is promotional and unlikely to be accepted via AfC without several rounds of revisions even if it's notable, I don't think it's egregious enough to meet WP:G11. – SD0001 (talk) 13:02, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

@SD0001 Thank you for the clarifications. Taabii (talk) 16:24, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

G13s

Hello SD! Is there a reason you are not deleting the G13 noms I made? The reason you are declining or removing the g13 speedy tag does not appear to be valid per WP:G13. Are you trying to preserve them just as a dummy edit will do? Vanderwaalforces (talk) 12:11, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Anyone can remove a G13 tag with a dummy edit. I have deleted the pages you nominated which didn't look likely to be ever accepted through AfC. – SD0001 (talk) 13:06, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

I sometimes delay deleting promising drafts that are due to expire. But, generally, if the draft creator is no longer actively editing, it's highly unlikely that another editor will stumble upon an old draft and work on improving it. So, unless you, yourself, want to work on a draft article that is going to be CSD G13, it doesn't make a lot of sense to delay deleting an expiring draft. This is also because, if an editor wants to return and continue to work on a draft, it can easily be restored by making a request at WP:REFUND. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:18, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

DYK helper needs fixes

Hi. There have been several unresolved fixes at User talk:SD0001/DYK-helper, some years old. Two of them (including mine) would help benefit the use of QPQs with multiple linked articles. You may wanna respond to them as soon as possible. ミラP@Miraclepine 03:56, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Heron's formula calculator

When you simplified the formula in the calculator on Heron's formula, you replaced the formula from the section of the article on numerical stability with a simpler formula that is not numerically stable, causing your version to produce very inaccurate results for some inputs. I restored the stable formula with a long comment explaining why it needs to be used. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:43, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

modules chessboard and pgn

hi.

i just now noticed your addition to module and template chessboard, to support pgn (back in 2022...)

i happen to be the author of the latter, and contributed a bit to the former (i actually the original "founder", but it grew a lot, and in reality i can only claim responsibility for a tiny part of current module - i started it as "chessboard from fen", which i wrote as my first exercise in lua/scribuntu).

i do have a comment/critique of your integration of "from pgn" into chessboard: the line fen = moves[#moves] limits the functionality and usability of this mode, as it "hardcodes" displaying the very last board of said pgn.

i suggest adding a "ply/move/some_better_name" parameter to specify the actual move, and let the template display any desired board from a given game. this should not break anything if you default to #moves when no such param is passed, so this line would be something like fen = moves[ply or #moves]

it would be even nicer if the editor could use notation like

ply = 12d

or

ply = 21l

instead of straight number (with straight number, for ply 17 for white the editor has to say ply=33 and for ply 12 for black "ply=24" - not very intuitive), like Module:Chess from pgn does (this module is meant for displaying multiple positions from the same game). you could relatively easily take and modify moveToIndex() from said module such that when "match" fails, it returns false instead of -1, and then the line i quoted above becomes something like

fen = moves[moveToIndex(ply) or #moves]

peace.

קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 18:16, 21 January 2025 (UTC)