User talk:JMF/Archives/2021/August

Computer keyboard/Sandbox

Hi, just to let you know I've moved to Computer keyboard/Sandbox from mainspace to User:John Maynard Friedman/Computer keyboard/Sandbox where you can work on your draft without interference. Regards. --John B123 (talk) 20:51, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

Londonistan

The origins of the term were a lot more about alleged tolerance by the UK authorities for terrorism outside the UK being organized inside the UK, than the "Islamification of London"... AnonMoos (talk) 00:34, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@AnonMoos: I struggled to write something that would fit within the dreaded 40 character limit. Feel free to replace. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 00:51, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

I had no idea there was a 40-character limit. (There certainly isn't one on Wikidata...) AnonMoos (talk) 07:46, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

(talk page watcher)@AnonMoos: See Wikipedia:Short description. Short description should be "no more than about 40 characters". Lots of other useful info on that page. PamD 08:37, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@AnonMoos: yes, I'm afraid so. See WP:HOWTOSD. See also template talk:short description#Conclusion re my attempt to get it increased.

Btw, my description is not wrong, just incomplete: I chose the more recent meaning. In the London mayoral election campaign, Johnson played the race card by using the word as a "dog-whistle". Londoners were unimpressed. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 08:42, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty

Dear John Maynard Friedman. Greetings. The A-Class review of the article Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty is still going. Recently, Gog the Mild queried the way how I used the {{Inflation}} template, to which you introduced me and which you called "one of my hobby horses" in your GA review of the article. You might remember, and thanks again for this review. It seems that the Inflation template is meant to be used quite differently and that the most recent year covered for pounds sterling is 2019 and not "today" as I had put it. Please have a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty. How are you doing? I am still in Irish biographies of the 17th century. Best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 05:29, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Johannes Schade: Perhaps for A-class you need to be especially precise? If you use the template without specifying a second date, it means "the most recent data available". So if and when the data for UK inflation is updated, every article that uses the default option is using the new info: thousands of articles don't need manual updates. So you will need to specify 2019 explicitly in the template if you are going to say 2019 in the text.

I guess you also should say (in yet another footnote!) which index you are using, CPI or GDP or other: there is a whole industry that attempts to determine what £10 could buy in 1641 etc. See the template doc.

I'm keeping well, thanks. Pleased to hear you are still intent on achieving that FA. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 08:58, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

ANI notification

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. JimmyGuano (talk) 13:22, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Answer to your question on the Teahouse

Ahoy there John, sorry for being late to answer to this question of yours. I was using an iPhone 11 to edit this page so it was most likely my phone's autocorrect(or some similar system) being a bit dumb and identifying the lengths as phone numbers since i wasn't even trying to edit that section. Again, sorry for being late and thanks for noticing this error --Aradd1 (talk) 11:55, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

@Aradd1: Not at all, no need to apologise. If I had thought it was anything unique to you, I wouldn't have raised it there: I suspected a general problem and I was right. Turns out that it was a problem with all iPhones, not anything you did. Someone at Apple was being too clever by half – see law of unintended consequences – their simple 'user-friendly' update causes widespread disruption. Wikimedia has put in a filter to stop it happening again. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:08, 17 August 2021 (UTC)