User:NQ/Archives/Archive 5

A bowl of strawberries for you!

Welcome back! Jeez that was harrowing . Don't do that again without some warning/explanation/suicide note. OK? Softlavender (talk) 10:28, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

@Softlavender: ha. I did reply to your email before I resumed editing. :) - NQ (talk) 10:36, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

Other accounts

(From here)

Hi NQ, I'd prefer to keep discussion of your accounts here. I can't review those edits from months ago as the sandbox was deleted (and I don't have deleted page access permission) and the talk page oversighted (and that's way above my pay grade). So, it appears that I was assuming you were the IP editor of the oversighted edit. From the undo chronology it appears you undid the IP, so I was incorrect, sorry. Why didn't you disclose your account before getting involved in that, and do you have additional accounts? Widefox; talk 07:54, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

@Widefox: Ok, so here is what happened. I was travelling at the time and made a random account to test some scripts for others at WP:VPT. While logged in, I saw an outing attempt on Greg’s talk page which I reverted immediately and reported to the OS team via Ticket#2015092510023054 and Ticket#2015092510023171. Since I was on a break, I saw these warnings only now and left you a note. - NQ (talk) 10:12, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Thx. Regards Widefox; talk 10:15, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks

Ergo Sum has given you a Cheeseburger! Cheeseburgers promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a Cheeseburger, whether it be someone you've had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy eating!

Thanks for the help with CSS code at the help desk.

Spread the goodness of Cheeseburgers by adding {{subst:Cheeseburger}} to their talk page with a friendly message, or eat this cheeseburger on the giver's talk page with {{subst:burger-munch}}!

Ergo Sum  22:14, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Parameter changed

You may have noticed that two of your userpages are presently in Category:Fix. This is because that category is used temporarily to track deprecated usage of a certain parameter.

On User:NQ/nqup.css please replace the 1 instances of "icon_nr" by "sortkey", and your pages will disappear from that tracking category and template usage will be optimized. Debresser (talk) 11:05, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the note, Dovid. - NQ (talk) 01:24, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for the edit. Debresser (talk) 07:22, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Script problem

Because you were so helpful in resolving my last technical problem, I thought you might be able to help me with this one. See here. The culoghelper script is no longer working. I can't remember the last time I used it, but I'm fairly certain it was before I started using Chrome. I'm wondering if this problem is also Chrome-related. Any ideas? Thanks.--Bbb23 (talk) 15:32, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

@Bbb23: unfortunately I have no way of checking this since it requires the CU permission to view Special:CheckUserLog where the script works. You'll have to ask another CheckUser who has this script installed. I did however find User talk:Amalthea/Archive 7#User:Amalthea/culoghelper.js where AGK ran into the same issue with Chrome years ago. - NQ (talk) 15:50, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

The problem as described by AGK in 2012 is exactly the problem I have. Unfortunately, there apparently was no resolution to it other than not to use Chrome. I'm trying to get away from Firefox, although I could still use it. There is a workaround in Chrome, but it entails extra steps. I don't think you have to be a checkuser though for the script. Amalthea is an administrator but not a checkuser. Do you know any admins who are script-knowledgeable and use Chrome?--Bbb23 (talk) 16:13, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Perhaps Mr. Stradivarius could take a look at the script? Or you could leave Amalthea a note on his talk page, he is fairly quick to respond to messages. Also pinging Mike V, DoRD and Ponyo who has the script installed. - NQ (talk) 16:32, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

I no longer have access to CU, and was using Firefox back when I wrote the script. I assume I did /try/ it in Chrome when AGK approached me, but it's been a few years so I'm no longer sure about anything. :)
My /guess/ is the problem is with Date.parse in Chrome. How exactly are those timestamps listed in the log? Amalthea 20:11, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

@Amalthea: 07:36, 8 April 2011. And it's not hyperlinked, which of course is the main problem. As an aside, I was fairly certain you used to be a CheckUser, but when I looked at your rights management, I never saw it given to you or taken away. I've seen that problem before, but I don't remember why it occurs sometimes and not others. Is it because it doesn't happen en-wiki?--Bbb23 (talk) 20:17, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Ok, that seems to be indeed the problem, if I run Date.parse("07:36, 8 April 2011") on Chrome I'm getting 'NaN'. I'll try and figure out what's going on there tomorrow -- but wouldn't mind someone else fixing the problem in the meantime. ;)
And yes, see Meta for the user right changes.
Amalthea 21:08, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

I've just changed the date parsing logic in User:Amalthea/culoghelper.js to make it independent of browser quirks, but this is still pretty horrible.
Could you please take a minute to test it? Maybe play around with your date appearance and timezone settings, too? :)
If its not working it might be easiest to have someone with access to the page debug it -- User:Timotheus Canens comes to mind. :)
Cheers, Amalthea 10:46, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

@Amalthea: Nothing changed at my end. I didn't play around with my settings because I wasn't sure if you wanted me to do that only if it worked or what exactly you wanted me to do.--Bbb23 (talk) 12:46, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the change broke it for even Firefox. What I know about javascript would barely fill a thimble, so I don't have a clue what's wrong, though. —DoRD (talk) 14:35, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Ok, could you try once more? I tested it best as I can without having access to a log page. If it still breaks in Firefox please revert; In that case I'll either need the page source of an inconspicuous log page, or someone else needs to fix it.
Ping Bbb23, DoRD.
Amalthea 19:08, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

@Amalthea: Now works for me as designed. Keeping my fingers crossed as to DoRD. Thanks!--Bbb23 (talk) 19:42, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Yes, it still works for me as well. Thanks, Amalthea. —DoRD (talk) 19:58, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Sure, happy to help. And thanks NQ for letting us use your talk page. :p Amalthea 08:41, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

Why, of course! My talk page is now prime real estate on Wikipedia. - NQ (talk) 12:58, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

		The Technical Barnstar
		Like Sure Shot "you can't, you won't, and you don't stop" until you found a solution to my script woes. Cheers,_ Jezebel's Ponyobons mots 16:13, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

haha thanks! you do realize I merely pointed you to an earlier version of the script and did absolutely nothing else, right? - NQ (talk) 11:08, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Uh oh, the recent change broke the script for you, Ponyo? Amalthea 15:55, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

@Amalthea:, there's a conflict somewhere, but reverting back to the old script works fine.--Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 17:57, 6 July 2016 (UTC)

Question

What is my promotion? Foleo (talk) 02:27, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Unfortunately, a block. - NQ (talk) 03:32, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		For helping me with that script! You made it all so easy. Thank you! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:52, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. I guess I'll accept this for the 'replace-this-with-this' presentation but the script authors deserve all the credit. - NQ (talk) 04:16, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks

I greatly appreciate your help with the "fl." issue.... Thanks so much for your kindness. Alan Charles Kors - 98.115.14.78 (talk) 20:43, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

Thanks for your swift help! It was a dark and stormy night. (talk) 20:16, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Hey! Happy to help. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to convince you to edit more often. ;) - NQ (talk) 20:23, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for the stroopwafels *_* Ikcir (talk) 21:29, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	For the information in the village pump. :) Pyrusca (talk) 19:03, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thank you for helping at VPT VarunFEB2003 07:26, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Vandalism

Can you please explain why my latest piece of information on Old Hill railway stationn is vandalism. Cheers :D

Lewis C (talk) 16:07, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) Lewis C Clearly because by telling readers to get a ticket 'further down the line' you are encouraging fare evasion.

Or do you think it could have been " ...struggles with anything beyond a peak ticket between 'X and Y"? _Muffled ^Pocketed 16:16, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

I see, I had not realised that "further down the line" was encouraging fare evasion but I am aware of that now. By saying " ...struggles with anything beyond a peak ticket between 'X and Y" is the literal truth, for it took 35 minutes to renew an 'n train term plus season ticket' last year with Dave. So if I include no truths and only facts I would be eligible to continue editing? My apologies, Lewis C — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lewis C (talk • contribs) 16:37, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

If you add verifiable facts which are bached by third party, independent, reliable sources, and not trivia about some character who would doubtless be having a cup of tea than selling you season tickets, then yes. _Muffled ^Pocketed 16:45, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

I have talk page watchers? - NQ (talk) 22:26, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

Too right. When edits like these show up on my watchlist, I go off to see what else the perp has been doing. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:29, 16 September 2016 (UTC)