User talk:Sdkb/Archive 11
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Your draft article, Draft:Motley Coffeehouse
Hello, Sdkb. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Motley Coffeehouse".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 19:23, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Hunan Grand Theatre
Hello, Sdkb. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Hunan Grand Theatre".
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 19:23, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:Donald Bentley
Hello, Sdkb. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Donald Bentley".
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 19:24, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
Your draft article, Draft:White Pearl
Hello, Sdkb. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "White Pearl".
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 19:24, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
Incorrect Bot Changes
Hey @Sdkb. One of your bots made a change to https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/List_of_Blackburn_Historical_Plaques to correct some dates to Wikipedia standard format. The affected text was taken from the plaques in question, so the changes made the text inaccurate.
I'm pretty new to editing Wikipedia, so asked in Teahouse if there was a way to protect some content from automated bot alteration (https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse#c-Scooby359-20240714172200-How_to_protect_content_from_bots). They suggested raising it with yourself to let you know of the issue, and see if there's any way to resolve it.
I've now been made aware of the {{nobots}} tag. Is there any other way I could flag this content to protect it from bot alteration?
Thanks, Chris. Scooby359 (talk) 19:21, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Scooby359! Thanks for raising this. Those edits were part of the general fixes set, which is a collection of normally uncontroversial edits that my or many other bots will make in the course of other edits. Normally, GENFIX would recognize and ignore text in quotes, but in this case there are no quotation marks so it did not identify the quotes as such.
- @Mathglot's advice to use {{as written}} on the quotes rather than {{nobots}} on the whole article is solid, as it's a much more precise way to target the issue.
- Cheers, Sdkb talk 14:19, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Sdkb That's great. I've changed the page to use {{as written}} so hopefully should be ok going forward. Thanks for explaining and teaching me something new!
- Cheers, Chris Scooby359 (talk) 18:31, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
Hello. I'm reaching out because of your (semi) recent discussion at the article Talk page concerning the photo collage on the article, and changes being made to it without consensus. There's been a strange rash of revisions to the thing over the past four days, unilateral and without Talk discussion notwithstanding the request in the article source code, and my efforts to steer matters toward conversation and consensus. TBH I don't really care much one way or the other about the collage, but do believe that an FA deserves better than thrice-weekly revisions by editors who have decided that they like, or don't like, the photos at the top of the article. If you have the inclination I could use a bit of support on the issue of process at least - helping get interested editors talking about what the article's photo collage should look like, in the hope that we can find something agreeable to everyone, and stable. Thanks. JohnInDC (talk) 17:55, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for reaching out! I've found collages to be a notoriously hard area to maintain — for whatever reason, there's a strong tendency for editors to want to make changes to well-composed collages that make them worse. It looks like the stable version of the D.C. collage has been restored, and I commented briefly on the talk page. Best, Sdkb talk 04:48, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks. I don't much care if it's updated or not (though I think the existing version is *fine*) - but it does matter that changes be made deliberately and thoughtfully, taken from among suitable photo candidates, and not just something that caught a random editor's eye. JohnInDC (talk) 12:55, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
Culinary Institute of America photos
Hi Sdkb, I was able to get some additional photos for the Culinary Institute of America article. I've linked to them in my response on the Talk page. Was curious if you had any additional thoughts. Cheers, BINK Robin (talk) 20:49, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for arranging to have the photos uploaded! I added the one of students in the kitchen to the history section of the article, where I think it's a nice addition. I'll leave the task of integrating the criticism section into the history section to someone else, as I unfortunately don't have the capacity at the moment to handle it myself. Cheers, Sdkb talk 20:04, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Hey, thanks for adding that! And no worries, I appreciate the feedback and work you've put in, and I saw Melchior responded about the criticism section. Cheers, BINK Robin (talk) 15:29, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
DYK mistake
Hey Sdkb, there's a supposed image of Chopin floating around, which seems to be disproved as a fake ([1]); that is, an edited detail from a 20th-century painting.
It's been removed from the associated Wikipedia articles, but apparently it was featured on the main page as a part of DYK. See Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/January#9 January 2024. Do you think its worth starting a discussion on DYK about checking the chosen images more thoroughly? I don't know if this really relates to a larger issue or not. I suppose at the end of the day, its still an intended depiction of him, but I doubt DYK would have used it if they knew it was a forgery. Aza24 (talk) 00:23, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Aza24, I would absolutely bring it up. There is a prior instance in which a photo of the wrong person was used, so this isn't totally a one-off, and brainstorming about how to prevent it from recurring might be helpful. Sdkb talk 04:58, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, just got a conversation going here – Aza24 (talk) 03:29, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
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15:08, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
Possible issue with rmCloser?
Hey Sdkb, I noticed that on Special:Diff/1238025322, the rmCloser reverted the archive wrapper and re-added the RM dated template. I'm just curious if you noticed anything peculiar with that edit and are not surprised to see this message, or if you didn't and there might be something wrong with the script. Courtesy ping TheTVExpert. Best, Bobby Cohn (talk) 18:55, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- I didn't notice anything unusual when I made that edit, so yeah, there may be some sort of script issue. Thanks for noticing/fixing! Sdkb talk 19:17, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
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Question from Abdulrahman nura (16:19, 12 August 2024)
Hi mento how i create my wekipedia page indeed --Abdulrahman nura (talk) 16:19, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Abdulrahman nura — see Help:Your first article. Cheers, Sdkb talk 19:23, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
Question from Abdulrahman nura (17:08, 12 August 2024)
How do i create citation --Abdulrahman nura (talk) 17:08, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Abdulrahman nura — see Help:Referencing for beginners. Cheers, Sdkb talk 19:24, 12 August 2024 (UTC)