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MediaWiki message delivery 01:58, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
On my first (non-WP:ROUNDROBIN) redirect suppression
[edit]I'm the person you granted temporary page mover rights yesterday, and I wanted to ask if this move, where "Viceskeeni2" was the username of the page author, was a correct application of that criterion. JJPMaster (she/they) 02:48, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
- @JJPMaster: The way I understand that criterion (WP:PMRC#3/{{db-error}}/the second bulletpoint of WP:G6) is that the redirect can be deleted/suppressed if the user who selected the title Draft:Viceskeeni2/Selimiye Mosque (Deggendorf) obviously didn't mean to select that title. (For example, if they moved the page to Draft:Viceskeeni2/Selimiye Mosque (Deggendorf) and then followed that with a move to Draft:Selimiye Mosque (Deggendorf), then I'd be confident they hadn't intended the first move.) I'm not confident that this move was unintentional (that is, I'm not confident that they actually intended to move it to Draft:Selimiye Mosque (Deggendorf)), so I'd just move it normally without suppressing the redirect.
- I can only speak for myself on that, and I wouldn't say it's unreasonable to conclude that the criterion applied.
- Either way, redirects are WP:CHEAP, and redirects in draftspace are particularly harmless (perhaps with some exceptions), so it would be fine here to just leave a redirect.
- When you do suppress a redirect (other than in a round-robin swap), you should check for incoming links. (From the granting message: "
Please remember to [...] make link corrections where necessary, including broken double-redirects when suppressredirect is used. This can be done using Special:WhatLinksHere.
") In this instance, User:Viceskeeni2/Selimiye Mosque (Deggendorf) was a redirect to Draft:Viceskeeni2/Selimiye Mosque (Deggendorf) but broke after the draft was moved without leaving a redirect. So the broken redirect was deleted per WP:G8 (incorrectly, since G8 notes that "Redirects that were broken as a result of a page move or retargeting [...] should instead be retargeted to their target's new name
"). Also, by moving the draft without leaving a redirect, it redlinked the link at the creator's userpage, User:Viceskeeni2. SilverLocust 💬 07:07, 23 November 2024 (UTC)- I think the reason I suppressed that redirect was because I thought that the continued inclusion of the username and forward slash indicated that they accidentally forgot to delete the part of the title that made it clear the page was in userspace (inspired by this move I took before being granted page mover access). However, my use of {{db-error}} might have made it a bit unclear—I think that what is more clear than that Draft:Selimiye Mosque (Deggendorf) was intended was that Draft:Viceskeeni2/Selimiye Mosque (Deggendorf) was not intended. I was also considering moving the page back to User:Viceskeeni2/Selimiye Mosque (Deggendorf) over redirect, but decided that that was unlikely to be the intended title, since it had just been moved therefrom. JJPMaster (she/they) 16:24, 23 November 2024 (UTC)
Concern regarding Draft:Equity power of United States courts
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Hello, SilverLocust. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Equity power of United States courts, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.
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MediaWiki message delivery 22:39, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
Move MediaWiki:Tag-Nuke to MediaWiki:Tag-nuke
[edit]As the "nuke" tag is now called "nuke" instead of "Nuke" following phab:T379168, you should move MediaWiki:Tag-Nuke to MediaWiki:Tag-nuke (without leaving a redirect behind). GTrang (talk) 23:45, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
- Done, thanks. There wasn't actually an option to leave behind a redirect (as with an MMS list). SilverLocust 💬 23:48, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| Thank you SilverLocust for your contributions. Baqi:) (talk) 10:03, 29 November 2024 (UTC) |
- @Jannatulbaqi: Thank you, though I'd rephrase that as the "tired contributor" barnstar. I've been a tad bit busy in real life recently. SilverLocust 💬 08:13, 30 November 2024 (UTC)
Hi, thank you for acting as closer in this discussion. Note that Category:Hip hop, several articles within, and related subcategories, will need to be moved to be consistent with the hyphenated spelling. 162 etc. (talk) 08:21, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
your Editnotices help
[edit]Again thanks for trying to help, but just as a future heads-up, even though I consider myself fairly conversant in technology, I don't have the faintest clue why I would be helped by you offering me to start up draft articles, nor why I am benefited from your choice of two. They are (as far as I can see) completely blank: the boilerplate code claims there are drafts but there's nothing there. Furthermore when I expand each thing, I'm greeted with more boilerplate for "You are editing Wikipedia right now!" and obviously false claims these drafts are " today's featured article." The boilerplate goes on and on, for a reason that completely escapes me.
I'm not writing this to ask you what all of this means; I have abandoned my hope my request will get implemented in the short-term. Instead I am humbly asking that you reconsider before trying to help another editor the same way. Bluntly speaking, your "help" is likely just as incomprehensible to them as it is to me. Maybe add a short explanatory note so the editor understands what you are offering, or something. I genuinely don't know what's missing other than you gave me something I have zero clue how to use, and I'm thinking of the next editor you want to help.
Anyway, have a nice day, and again, I am not expecting or asking for any response on your part. Thank you for wanting to help out, even if I am clearly not competent enough to appreciate it. Regards, CapnZapp (talk) 10:53, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
- @CapnZapp: I've already added links per your request. You made an edit request to Template:Editnotices/Namespace/Main. The five notices that are included in that template are {{Draft at}}, {{TFA editnotice}}, {{Refideas editnotice}}, {{BLP editnotice}}, and {{Disambig editnotice}}. The examples I showed were of what those five notices would look like with links. SilverLocust 💬 11:18, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
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