User talk:Headbomb/Archives/2021/April

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You are in dangerous territory

I read this and laughed so hard I wound up snorting my tea. So it goes to prove that endashes are also a hazard causing respiratory distress. Very wise of you. Risker (talk) 01:43, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

2-step bibcode removal

Why remove bibcodes by converting {{cite journal}}s to {{cite arxiv}}s (Special:Diff/1015945496 -> Special:Diff/1015946624)? ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 14:35, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

@Tom.Reding: Well first because these are citing the arxiv |journal=arxiv:..., and not a journal article. But also I'm basically preparing them for a citation bot run, so the final result is something like this. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 14:38, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Ambient Science

Hey Headbomb : I've been following up on your edits at the Predatory publishing page. And thought you may be the best adviser re the journal Ambient Science : have you ever seen this pop up in any of the post-Beall's lists? -- BhagyaMani (talk) 18:53, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Not sure which journal exactly that is. If you have the website, I can take a look. But from a quick search, there's a flimsy journal called that, which is indexed in a bunch of fake citation databases and fake impact factors. So my guess is that it's not reliable and predatory. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:55, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

See at https://www.caves.res.in/journal.php -- BhagyaMani (talk) 18:56, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Yeah that's the same one I found. I wouldn't trust/cite that journal at all. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:58, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks a ton!! -- BhagyaMani (talk) 19:03, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

BTW: since you are interested in publishing : perhaps you like to read this http://shankarraman.in/2021/03/31/why-i-will-not-review-or-write-for-elsevier-wiley-and-other-commercial-scientific-journals/ -- BhagyaMani (talk) 19:08, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Formal request to stop maligning my user script

Hello friend. I'd like to request that you stop maligning my CiteHighlighter user script, which you have now done in multiple places on Wikipedia. I don't go around Wikipedia poo pooing on your user script, and I would ask the same respect in return. A little bit of background: I currently have 165 edits to WP:NPPSG, and I probably spent around 10-20 hours adding external links to every entry in NPPSG so that it could be scraped by my script. To my knowledge, my script is the only user script that incorporates NPPSG into it. Edit summaries such as there are several such scripts, and adding a link on this page does not magically make that script use it are just flat out incorrect: my script does "magically" use NPPSG, and other scripts do not. I created an offline tool that does the conversion, and I update my script's database manually with NPPSG data about every two weeks. Thank you for your attention to this matter. –Novem Linguae (talk) 21:51, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

"there are several such scripts, and adding a link on this page does not magically make that script use it" is absolutely true. That you don't know of them does not change the reality. And no, your does does not magically use these links. Like all other such script, you manually input domains at User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/CiteHighlighter.js. Your script does not automatically sync with WP:NPPSG. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:54, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Before I made my edits to NPPSG, none of the websites had domains, so I find it unlikely that other user scripts were able to scrape useful data from the list. I would suggest that if you know of other user scripts that use NPPSG data, that you provide details, so that we can get into sync on this issue. –Novem Linguae (talk) 22:02, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Doubochinski's pendulum

Clear edit summaries

This is just a note of thanks - I always find your edit summaries really clear and constructive. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 01:02, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Well, good to know! Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:23, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	I saw your mention of this WP:UPSD script at RSN and installed it today. This is awesome, thank you for your work! GorillaWarfare (talk) 00:49, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

@GorillaWarfare: Thanks! Always nice to know others find it useful. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:07, 28 April 2021 (UTC)