User talk:Floydian/Archive/2021a

Recent reversion (WP:CAPFRAG)

Hi Floydian,

I see that you reverted a couple of my edits, with the explanation usually we take that to mean "no period unless there is multiple sentences in the caption".

But, with all due respect, a careful reading of WP:CAPFRAG will show that that is not the case. How? Please consider the following:

They are careful to give three examples.

The first ("The Conservatory during the festival") is not a sentence. So no period, because it's a fragment.

The second ("The stage was spotlit for the festival.") is a single sentence. Notice that it does get a period.

The third ("The Conservatory during the festival. The stage was spotlit for the occasion." is a mix of both types. The first part is not a sentence; it is a fragment. The second part is a sentence, but both parts get periods.

This third example is merely a way to illustrate what they meant when they said "If any complete sentence occurs in a caption, then all sentences, and any sentence fragments, in that caption should end with a period or full stop.

This is probably where you thought that only multiple sentences in captions get periods, but that's not the case. :)

If I have explained it sufficiently, can you please restore my edit?

Thank you. Have a nice day, and a happy new year! Sincerely, 1980fast (talk) 07:45, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

You are correct, although perhaps that guideline could use some revisiting. In several of the community reviews I have taken other articles through, the periods have generally been removed from all but captions with multiple sentences. For this reason I have that standardised across most of the articles of WP:ONRD. Perhaps you might consider checking through similar articles and make adjustments as warranted. Happy New Years! - Floydian ^τ _¢ 00:40, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

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I figured out something

It will be entirely possible to have different infobox shields and Jct/Jcon shields in the same module.

Highway 401

Highway 401

Obviously, everything is flipped around for now, but it's a proof of concept! –Fredddie™ 23:47, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

Cool cool, getting very close to the point where jcon and jct can produce identical results. I need to do a sweep through every ONRD article, so I'll try to jot down a bunch of testcases that are non-standard or extreme examples. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 00:14, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

The IBR CAN testpage has a few errors wrt county/regional roads. I'll fix the MB error as I make the rounds. –Fredddie™ 00:36, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Ooooh its getting there! - Floydian ^τ _¢ 06:14, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Yeah I'm pretty happy with how it's coming. Basically I need to figure out the CR/RR shield situation and then go through each country's IBR shieldmain and name templates and make sure they're reflected correctly in the string modules. Then I have to figure out the color module. I want to get it to use Wikipedia:TemplateStyles somehow. –Fredddie™ 08:15, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

I'm such an idiot. The CR/RRs weren't working because the infobox uses |type=CR whereas Jct uses |type=County. I made some aliases and everything's good. –Fredddie™ 04:32, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Image changed again?

The image was changed again for the front page news box?OyMosby (talk) 16:03, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

I suppose. When I looked yesterday, the Serbian church guy was blurbed, but the Mars image was still up. Today it is Rasputin. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 17:49, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

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ITN recognition for Walter Gretzky

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SVG maps

Hello!

Apologies for the intrusion. I noticed that you swapped out the map on Ontario Highway 407 from an interactive one to an updated vector file. Since I'm assuming that this is the norm with 400-series highways, I wanted to ask if you were interested in making versions for Highways 412 and 418 if you weren't doing so already.

Thank you! TextClick (talk) 22:26, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

My sincere apologies. I was originally not going to ask you this, but would you also be able to help me with this as well? On the page Ontario Highway 407, User:Transportfan70 created raster files for the junctions with Highways 412 and 418 in the infobox. User:Fredddie has already created some vector versions based off Ontario MOT's traffic manual here: . Since I lack the knowledge and expertise necessary, could you help me add them to the road data string module here: Module:Road data/strings/CAN/ON?

Thanks again! TextClick (talk) 23:41, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Fredddie has been actively rebuilding the templates, so I believe he will get that inserted shortly enough. As for the maps, as much as I like interactive, the static image they display for an infobox is often pretty terrible. I've updated several of the 400-series recently, but I'm working on a map with a better zoomed inset of the GTA for the 404, 407, 409, 410, 412, 418, and 427. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 01:39, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

I see, thank you! TextClick (talk) 02:12, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Looks like I got it to go... the {{jcon}} template actually runs off another parser at this time. You can now set {{jcon|Toll|412}} and get  Highway 412 - Floydian ^τ _¢ 02:20, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Great! I've also gone ahead and replaced all the jcons on all of the highway pages which intersect Highways 407, 412, and 418. Thanks for getting it to work! TextClick (talk) 03:13, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Welland

Its interesting that the point about geographical bias with Google came up in the 1st RM. I normally acknowledge this bias in my nominations (such as at Talk:Bellingham#Requested move 25 April 2020) but forgot this time. There was a RM in 2018 where I noted I got almost no results for a place in Scotland when Googling from England. Crouch, Swale (talk) 21:39, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

There once was ways of changing Google results to get rid of geographical bias. Now your only bet is a VPN/proxy or an alternative search engine. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 04:42, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

WP:DPT gives a modified Google string that used to return non-geographical biased searches for me years ago however after a while I started getting personalized searches again. What do you get if you search for Lewis in Google and would you have supported my RM there? Crouch, Swale (talk) 19:48, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

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Precious anniversary

Precious

Seven years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:17, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

And hey, I'm actually here this time! What a coincidence, I was just thinking about this after I reviewed you DYK nomination the other day. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 13:28, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Lower Thames Crossing

When you're done with GTA West, do you fancy helping with rewriting/reworking Lower Thames Crossing? It's... not in the best shape for an article about the biggest road project in the UK... Turini2 (talk) 17:37, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

I doubt I can offer too much. I have neither historical nor engineering expertise when it comes to Britain... and that's before getting into the muckluck British terminology. I'd be driving a lorry straight into a subway on my way to the petrol station! - Floydian ^τ _¢ 18:58, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Ontario Highway 105

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Sussex Drive

Your DYK was pulled from the queue and placed in prep 6 by Amakuru on April 8 with the edit summary, "swapping Sussex Drive and Thousand Islands Highway, per query I will raise about Sussex Drive hook". The query hasn't happened yet...and I tried to help out by asking Amakuru about it on their talk page on April 9, but I haven't heard anything back. SL93 (talk) 05:12, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

The hook is now in the queue again in queue 6. SL93 (talk) 05:14, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Pinging queue updater Cwmhiraeth. SL93 (talk) 05:15, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Should get the lead hook for that :P (seriously though, 19 DYKs without a picture used... and this one has a coat of arms instead of the several nice historical pictures I have in this article on one of the primary ceremonial thoroughfare of Canada?) - Floydian ^τ _¢ 05:20, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

I'm fine with that. I didn't add your image though because I was hoping to hear back. SL93 (talk) 05:22, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth How do you feel about switching the images? I mean Amakuru had plenty of time to voice their issue and it's in the queue again. SL93 (talk) 05:28, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

@SL93: I have moved it to be the lead hook in Prep 6. This gives Amakuru extra time to raise issues if they wish. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:20, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

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