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need help resolving dispute on Yoani Sánchez article

hi, some editors won't let me mention clear statements of fact in said article nor will they let me include statements by three highly authoritative sources. i wonder if you could assist or direct me to someone who could. thanks--Huysmanii (talk) 21:04, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Dispute resolution for general advice. I'm not getting involved. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:25, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	For this particularly fine edit, which was a clear, concise, and quite nicely to the point explanation of the general principles for creating a wiki. If the question was asked just a bit more often, I'd suggest adding it to the Wikipedia:FAQ! – Philosopher ^{Let us reason together.} 16:41, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! PrimeHunter (talk)

Semihemidemibarnstar

A semihemidemibarnstar for your speedy response to my "annoying" question. Taks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lineagegeek (talk • contribs)

Thanks! PrimeHunter (talk) 01:15, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

In recognition

In recongnition of your work at Editor Assistance. Thanks! -- — ***Keithbob*** • Talk • 02:45, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! PrimeHunter (talk) 03:14, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

JSTOR

Thanks for your help I went to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_who_have_access_to_JSTOR but could understand how to add myself? I have access through my college.TucsonDavidU.S.A. 15:24, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Answered at the help desk: Add [[Category:Wikipedians who have access to JSTOR]] to the user page. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:31, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Congrats... You gave an awesome answer in the Teahouse!

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Rant

All I did was tag it.... Reading that lot, I thought I'd deleted it three times and then protected it. The earlier versions of the article are possibly interesting, by the way, as background to the rant. Thanks for answering so well. I don't think I could add anything. I've definitely had no email. Peridon (talk) 20:05, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

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	For helping me out at the help desk. Thank you once again Ushau97 ^{talk contribs} 05:59, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! PrimeHunter (talk) 13:37, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Pseudoprime vs. Probable prime

I did expect that my recent edit to pseudoprime would be rejected. 'Abuse of language' does seem a proper piece of information for the article reader who wants to follow the subject in the literature without difficulty. Don't you think some mention, perhaps using your words rather than mine (on authors using 'pseudoprime' where 'probable prime' is better), is a reasonable thing to put in the lead to the pseudoprime article?Julzes (talk) 17:55, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia has a neutral point of view policy. We shouldn't say some sources "abuse" language and others use correct language. Lots of terms are used differently by different reliable sources. My edit did put this in the lead: "Some sources use the term pseudoprime about all probable primes, both composite numbers and actual primes." That seems sufficient to me. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:13, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Oh, sorry to have opened this. I should have noticed the absolute values of our edits did not match.Julzes (talk) 17:36, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Super-prime

Different subject. I just noticed that you lost an AfD battle it appears you started--on an article I think should be named differently. Just bringing this (See talk there) to your attention.Julzes (talk) 20:03, 25 February 2013 (UTC) It's inevitable this will be resolved a way.Julzes (talk) 23:50, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

AFC declined templates

Further to this reply, I have wondered for while why the "click here to resubmit" functionality isn't coded into all the AFC declined templates. Don't you think it should be? Thanks.--ukexpat (talk) 21:54, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

I think it should at least be in the latest decline. If it is then the older are not needed, but all of them would be better than the current practice where it's only in the oldest. I don't work at AFC but I have seen several posts from people who had problems resubmitting more than once. It may be a factor when the latest decline does not have the link. The link is removed by the small=yes parameter to {{AFC submission}}. This parameter is normally used when a second or later submission is declined as in [1]. It's probably strange to many users that they have to click a resubmit link in an old box when they have already resubmitted since then and been declined in a newer box. I guess the place to suggest a change would be Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Articles for creation. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:43, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Unresolved help desk issue

Hi Prime. I just wanted to make you aware of this unresolved issue at the help desk initiated by Guy Macon. I thought perhaps you might be interested in giving your input. I mentioned to Guy that it would be good to hear from some editors with a lot of experience. Have a wonderful weekend. --76.189.111.199 (talk) 23:32, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

RE: LucienBOT

Hi, PrimeHunter. Please forgive my mistake. I was trying some new features of the bot and, for an own mistake, I run outdated scripts, thinking they were updated. I'll check everything and if you unlock the bot, it will edit. Thanks, --Lucien leGrey (m•en•es:Usuario discusión:Lucien leGrey) 18:50, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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	Udestående! (For creating an entire table that would have taken me a day...in minutes, in Nissen Award.) And now I can get all Dr. Evil Blofield and make a bunch of notable articles from the red links! ;-) TCO (talk) 01:03, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! PrimeHunter (talk) 01:34, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

more list conversion if possible

Can you do same thing as for Nissen, but for Visa Championships and with the list on these page? Sortable tables and wikilinks and all.

http://usagym.org/pages/pressbox/history/nationalchamps_men.html

and

http://usagym.org/pages/pressbox/history/nationalchamps_women.html

Note, there is some trickiness: around 1962-1969 were dual winners. Also, there are some missing fields.

note, I read through the Wiki lists copyrights guidance and these sorts of sports lists are not copyrightable. (Besides your table will make it look better).

TCO (talk) 07:12, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Congrats... You gave an awesome answer in the Teahouse!

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File Uploads

Hey there. I've tried uploading two images to wikipedia. Neither have showed up yet. Is there a problem with the upload wizard? They should be at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NHL_2K7_cover.png and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NHL_2K7_cover%2C_PlayStation_3.png. Thanks. MTG1989 (talk) 00:50, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

A Cyborg Manifesto

Thanks so much! Star767 (talk) 18:37, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

You're welcome. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:40, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Smile for you

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I want to thank you

for helping clean up after me at List of statues of Queen Victoria. I am carless these days so am subject to the schedules and convenience of various friends and loved ones, who should not be keep waiting while I fumble around trying to fix a wikiboo-boo. However I remembered that statue from my youth and wanted it in. Thanks again, Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 14:24, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

PS If you are the editor who added the sculptor, I just created a stub for him. Thanks again, Carptrash (talk) 15:05, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Hello

I have a question and thought that you might have an answer for this one. We, Teahouse hosts, are currently working on an edit notice and are trying to randomize the colors in a text. Right now, we are using this to randomize the text: {{#switch: {{#expr:{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}} mod 6}}. A user has said that this one works based on the number of edits by the reader. What we want is to randomize based on the current time, so could you help us out? And I have another question, is {{rand}} okay for this purpose? Thanks --Ushau97 ^talk 16:44, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

{{NUMBEROFEDITS:R}} is the total number of edits to the English Wikipedia. Edits by a user cannot be retrieved in wikitext. Any of NUMBEROFEDITS, time and {{rand}} will do fine. {{rand}} uses time and {{NUMBEROFARTICLES:R}}. You can just use {{rand}} instead of reinventing the wheel. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:07, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! --Ushau97 ^talk 04:30, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Eyes wanted at Help:Searching

I noticed your long conversation with the "owner" of the Help:Searching page. I'm trying to improve the article Intro. and organization (WP search and Google search info. was all jumbled together), and have run into what appears to be ownership issues. The "owner" has even proposed forking or moving the page, apparently so that he can retain total ownership. I have listed it at WP:3O, but would appreciate other eyes. LittleBen (talk) 04:56, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

I am trying to add a Little Einsteins DVD release to the DVD release list, but it isn't coming out like it is formatted.

I am trying to add a UK DVD release to the list of Little Einsteins DVD releases on the aforementioned page. I follow everything in regards to editing and hoping to include this the way that the DVD list is formatted in boxes, but every time I try to do this, it isn't coming out right. Before I click "Save Page", I click on "Show Preview" first to see how it will come out, but it isn't coming out in it's own box like all the other DVD releases are out as.

If you can help me and point out to me what I am doing wrong and what I can do right, please let me know. Thanks very much. Frschoonover (talk) 19:01, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

I left you my response on the Little Einsteins talk page. I just thought that I would let you know.Frschoonover (talk) 13:24, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

I am trying again to add another DVD release to the Little Einsteins article, but I am a having a hard time like the last time I tried. I am trying to follow everything as directed by another Wikopedia editor, but so far, nothing has been showing up and also, I had to undo my last editing attempts as they removed the bottom portion of the Little Einsteins article in regards to external links and the sections on Playhouse Disney and Disney Junior. You can read everything under the "July 2013-Episode List question" section on the article's talk page. Thanks in advance for any advice and help provided.Frschoonover (talk) 18:25, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

You missed "delete the <!-- that appears before the row" in the talk page instructions. I have fixed it. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:09, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Re alveolates

The redirects should never have been made in the first place (IMHO). The navboxes will be needed when I get around to working on these pages. Probably the next thing these pages need is a taxobox. These are all on my ToDo list.DrMicro (talk) 08:02, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Trans-Siberian Railway

I fixed template:Trans-Siberian Railway, so I think we can delete template:Trans-Siberian Railway/Expanded? the issue was with the top level template which "expands" the map several times. Frietjes (talk) 16:38, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

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	Thank you very much for the help on the Takashi Miike page. UltraIce (talk) 20:35, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! PrimeHunter (talk) 09:35, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Not a troll

I am not a troll! And yes this account is 2 days old, but I am very much not a troll, unless you have me confused with someone else. --AlldiRessie (talk) 20:34, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

About User:AlldiRessie

I'm not quite sure how to handle this but I have reason to believe that User:AlldiRessie is a sock of User:Technoquat, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Technoquat/Archive#27 May 2013 and take a look at their edits at my talk page including the racist comment in Afrikaans as well as forging Jimbo's signature. I need to get to bed now. Thanks Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 21:02, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

More of Technoquat's socks

Is there a central page for listing User:Technoquat's socks? I believe I've found another one - User:WantingToBeDresnok. Thanks Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:41, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

The box at User:Technoquat has links to categories of suspected and confirmed socks. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:58, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 11:27, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Because it's cute and you like math

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I figured you might enjoy a novel barnstar, and you obviously like math. μηδείς (talk) 01:05, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! PrimeHunter (talk) 01:11, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Redirects from \X redlinks

See User talk:Anthony Appleyard#Popular redlinks with \x. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:39, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Help desk

Sorry bout that :) I didn't know there was an admin actively patrolling that today, or I'd have left it to you instead of begging for one :P Charmlet (talk) 23:38, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

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re: VEKiller stopped working?

Thanks. Matma Rex talk 08:35, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

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		Thanks for your help at The Ref Desk :) Miss Bono^[zootalk] 16:30, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Ambiguous categories

Hello Prime.

I noticed that you reverted my removal of a category from 2013 World Allround Speed Skating Championships, namely Category:2013 in Norwegian sport.

These categories – YYYY in Fooan sport – are ambiguous, to say the least. To me, they represent what events have occurred that involved Fooan (only) athletes and teams during a specific year, which is not necessarily the same thing as sporting events that are/were arranged in Foo that specific year.

In this case, I would think that the 2012–13 and 2013–14 GET-ligaen seasons would fit into the category (or a sub-category), as would for instance the women's football team's participation in the UEFA Women's Euro 2013, specifically the subpages covering the group play for Group B, the knockout stage, and the Final (although they would probably be placed in "2012–13 in Norwegian football" and "2013–14 in Norwegian football", which would then be subcategories of "2013 in Norwegian sport").

The "World Allround Speed Skating Championships" page should in my view not be placed in it, as it is not "Norwegian sport", it's international.

I think the motivation in your edit summary is weak: a category is not defined by which pages are placed in it; it's the other way around. You define a category with a suitable and unambiguous name, and then you place articles in it.

Where do you suggest that this is best discussed?

Best regards.

HandsomeFella (talk) 18:33, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

When I said "We categorize sports events by year+location", I didn't refer to that specific category. That's how we do it everywhere as far as I know. The link to Category:2013 in Norwegian sport was only a demonstration. Here are three randomly chosen year+country combinations: Category:2012 in Belgian sport, Category:2009 in Brazilian sport, Category:2006 in Chinese sport. It's exactly the same. If you want to change this then it might affect thousands of categories. I suppose it could be discussed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sports. I would oppose a change. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:59, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

In my view, "Norwegian" is not a location, it's a nationality. Thanks for the tip though. See you there. HandsomeFella (talk) 19:06, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

There is now a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sports#Ambiguous categories.

HandsomeFella (talk) 16:59, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you

For helpful comments here. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:06, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Miss Bono

Hello,

I am mentoring Miss Bono, who lives in Cuba and faces significant access challenges. Our article Internet in Cuba will give you a better idea. She has no easy access to Google, Wikimedia Commons or the broader internet. Cullen³²⁸ Let's discuss it 06:09, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Gadget-mySandbox.js

Hi PrimeHunter, I want to make some changes to the Gadget-mySandbox.js of Hindi Wikipedia to prevent IPs to not have their own sandbox. It's almost impossible to keep track of such pages and, in many cases, we find blatant copyright violations that remain unnoticed for a long time. What changes do I need to perform on the above code to do so? Thanks. — Bill william compton^Talk 17:26, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

I don't know what you mean. Only logged in users can have gadgets so the code in hi:मीडियाविकि:Gadget-mySandbox.js is never run for IPs. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:54, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure it does. Open [2] without unified login, on the right side of the screen you'd find "मेरा प्रयोगपृष्ठ" (My Sandbox). One solution is to use 'user.getName()' function but for IPs we want to provide WP:SAND link. — Bill william compton^Talk 01:55, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Oh, right. It was enabled by default for everyone including IPs in [3] where I guess you copied |default|rights=createpage from the English Wikipedia. IPs don't have the createpage right at the English Wikipedia but they do at the Hindi Wikipedia so you need another right to omit IPs. See [4] and pick a right held by Users (last group) but not by all (first group), for example sendemail. Then replace |rights=createpage with |rights=sendemail at hi:MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. I think that should do it. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:26, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

This assumes you don't want the code to run at all for IPs. Do you mean you want it to run for everybody but the link should be different for IPs and logged in users? PrimeHunter (talk) 03:33, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Yes, logged in user should have his/her own sandbox, while for IPs link must be of general sandbox. — Bill william compton^Talk 03:59, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

OK. I don't know much JavaScript but you can try starting with the below and adapt it to the Hindi Wikipedia. The only change I made in the else-part is "Wikipedia:Sandbox" instead of "Special:MyPage/प्रयोगपृष्ठ". You want a Hindi name and probably also to change some of the other parameters but I don't know Hindi and don't know which pages are available for preload and editintro. Remember to not have |rights=sendemail when the code should also run for IPs. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:46, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

userIsInGroup = function ( group ) {
  return $.inArray(group, mw.config.get( 'wgUserGroups' )) !== -1;
};

$( document ).ready( function() {
  if ( userIsInGroup('user') ) {
    mw.util.addPortletLink(
      'p-personal',
      mw.util.wikiGetlink( "Special:MyPage/प्रयोगपृष्ठ" ) + '?action=edit&preload=Template:User_sandbox/preload&editintro=Template:User_sandbox',
      'मेरा प्रयोगपृष्ठ',
      'pt-mysandbox',
      'अपने प्रयोगपृष्ठ में जाएँ',
      null,
      '#pt-preferences'
    );
  } else {
    mw.util.addPortletLink(
      'p-personal',
      mw.util.wikiGetlink( "Wikipedia:Sandbox" ) + '?action=edit&preload=Template:User_sandbox/preload&editintro=Template:User_sandbox',
      'मेरा प्रयोगपृष्ठ',
      'pt-mysandbox',
      'अपने प्रयोगपृष्ठ में जाएँ',
      null,
      '#pt-preferences'
    );
  }
});

PH, I replaced |rights=createpage with |rights=sendemail (for testing purpose) and it works fine for the most part, except the MainPage. 'My Sandbox' link is still visible for IPs there. It's been disabled on all other pages, so I'm wondering why it's still there.? — Bill william compton^Talk 05:06, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

I don't see it on the main page when logged out. Try to purge or bypass your cache. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:51, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

User:Bonkers The Clown/sandbox/Niggars in the White House

Greetings PrimeHunter, I have finished my nigger sandbox article. Have a look, and please help me to move it. Cheers, ☯ Bonkers The Clown \(^_^)/ Nonsensical Babble ☯ 07:52, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Done. PrimeHunter (talk) 12:26, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks and kangaroo primes

Thanks for Wikifying digit-reassembly number and I hope it's ok to ask about another base-dependent category: what I call kangaroo primes, where prime1 + digit-sum(prime1) = prime2, p2 + digit-sum(p2) = p3. E.g.:

11 + 2 = 13 + 4 = 17. 277 + 16 = 293 + 14 = 307 + 10 = 317. 37783 + 28 = 37811 + 20 = 37831 + 22 = 37853 + 26 = 37879.

97397 = 17,C75₁₆ + 32 = 97429 = 17,C95 + 34 = 97463 = 17,CB7 + 38 = 97501 = 17,CDD + 46 = 97547 = 17,D0B + 32 = 97579 = 17,D2B + 34 = 97613 = 17,D4D + 38 = 97651 = 17,D73.

Do you know of this class of prime under another name? Either way, can an article be created for it on Wikipedia by some means? Thanks. MagistraMundi (talk) 08:41, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

I don't know a name but I found two pages about it: [5] and oeis:A090009. I don't think it satisfies Wikipedia:Notability (numbers), and I wonder about digit-reassembly number. Do you have other sources? Does the source use the name? PrimeHunter (talk) 12:25, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the pages. No, the only source I have for DRNs is David Wells' Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers, which is then mentioned on 132 (number). MagistraMundi (talk) 09:09, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Many thanks

Jacobisq (talk) 10:41, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Professionals - notice of discussion

You may be interested in the deletion proposal related to Category: Professionals. Regards, XOttawahitech (talk) 18:04, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

For pointing this out. It was pretty late when I wrote that, and when I saw my mistake, I facepalmed. Howicus (talk) 16:47, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Removed unrelated history

I did a minor screw-up, which I think is easily fixed, but I'm blanking on how.

Created an article in my sandbox, then moved to article name.

New Article Hartford Hawks women's basketball

The problem is all the history is there, including edits on 14 September and prior, which have nothing to do with the article.

I started to revdel, then decided that isn't really the point of that tool. There must be a clean way to do this, but it is escaping me.--SPhilbrick (Talk) 20:00, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

thank you!

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		For your help on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). Very helpful! Igottheconch (talk) 15:22, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Talk:David_Herzog

Thanks for that. He sent us an email but your answer was better than anything I could have written to try and explain! Daniel (talk) 23:01, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

HD

Yes, thanks for the fix I posted about on the HD. CTF83! 01:29, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Wieferich prime: Serdica J. Computing link

A few hours ago I was unable to access the entire site of the journal. The link now works again for me as well. Thanks for undoing my tagging. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 11:04, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

Template:2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group B

Hi

Do you think there is any idea to ask for a semi-protection for the Template:2014 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group B and perhps some of the other templates? QED237 (talk) 20:44, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

They are good faith mistakes and some of them are by autoconfirmed users. I don't think semi-protection is the way to go. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:03, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to provide thoughts

Hi, PrimeHunter!

Since you provided comments on this discussion, I invite you to look at the discussion for a system of automating article requests I have been working on independently.

Thanks much! ~ Matthewrbowker ^{Make a comment!} 18:34, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Primecoin

Hi PrimeHunter,

I don't know how much you've been following Bitcoin and Primecoin, but for our purposes what you need to know is that the "advantage" of Primecoin over Bitcoin is that, if successful, it will lead to huge amounts of resources spent on finding increasingly difficult Cunningham chains (those funds would otherwise be "wasted").

Would you say that the research that will thus be encouraged will be of significant scientific value?

Thanks, -- Meni Rosenfeld (talk) 15:57, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

SidebarTranslate

discussion moved from Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 119#Make SidebarTranslate into a gadget

I suggest moving this to Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals and leave a notification here and possibly other places. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:03, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

I would have, if that page ever got any use. Proposals there tend to look very pretty for a very long time because they're not messed up by things like participation. Yes we could try and force it with notifications, but I think this page is appropriate enough. I actually think the gadget proposal page should be deprecated, but that's a discussion for another time. equazcion → 11:08, 8 Nov 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals) is a more visited page for proposals. This page is for technical issues and is archived faster. Wherever the discussion is, at least post a notification to Wikipedia:Gadget/proposals. PrimeHunter (talk) 11:25, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Answered on your talk page. I don't want to muddy this up with meta-talk. equazcion → 11:46, 8 Nov 2013 (UTC)

moved portion ends here

I first considered the gadget proposal page, then actually started the proposal at VP Proposals, and then moved it to VPT when I realized it had gotten a little more technical in its rationale than I felt was appropriate for the proposals page. I feel it will speak more to the technically minded people who frequent VPT. I hope that makes at least a little sense. I will post a notification to the gadget page. But now that that's explained, would you mind if we moved the meta-discussion at the VPT section to another page -- possibly here to your talk page, or to the VPT talk page, so as not to distract from the actual proposal? equazcion → 11:31, 8 Nov 2013 (UTC)

I moved our exchange to above. I hope that's acceptable, and hope you can understand not wanting to confuse the proposal with talk about the appropriateness of the venue. equazcion → 11:53, 8 Nov 2013 (UTC)

File:Emily Dickinson screenshot.jpg listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Emily Dickinson screenshot.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Kelly ^hi! 00:00, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Taiwan Railway Administration/Taiwan Railways Administration

Please explain why you chose to revert the edits that were suggested in the following? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions

To say it was annoying to see, would be an understatement.

Wicks Steve (talk) 12:49, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

As explained at Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions#Rename an article to one of its redirects I reverted an illegal cut-and-paste move and then performed a correct move. The correct move deleted the target history but I saw you made two edits. nowiki is not required around isolated '<' and '>' signs, and it clutters up the edit box. I have repeated your two other minor changes.[6] PrimeHunter (talk) 13:14, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

I think there might be a bug on that Teahouse page, my last two entries has posted the comment to the question above the intended one.Wicks Steve (talk) 14:37, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

The reason for the nowiki edits was because of the BracketBot notice, on my talk page.

Why is there no easy to find reference why editors should not cut and paste, being as it is important? Wicks Steve (talk) 14:45, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

The problem in [7] and [8] appears to be that you wrote your post above the == ... == heading on the first line of the edit box. That makes your post a part of the preceding section. I can understand your BracketBot confusion. It wrote "may have broken the syntax". In your case it didn't break the syntax. Bots are poor at understanding text and it could not see that those '<' were meaningful mathematical less-than signs and not syntax errors. A syntax error like <ref with no ending > can destroy the whole remaining part of the page, so the BracketBot coder may have thought better give too many than too few warnings. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Mathematics#Less-than sign suggests to use < but it's rarely necessary to do anything. Wikipedia has hundreds of "important" (depending on what you do) help pages, policies, guidelines and so on. We cannot predict who might make cut-and-paste moves and should see a page about it. It was easy to fix and I have fixed many. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:58, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

By the way, the bottom of user contributions pages has a "User rights" link where you can see whether a user is an administrator, for example [9] for me. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:05, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

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WP:VPT

I've just responded to your comment about "Links next to citations in reflist" at WP:VPT, but I thought you might miss it if I didn't let you know, since the thread's been moved to thirty sections up. Nyttend (talk) 17:30, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Please replace our Course Page

Dear PrimeHunter,

It looks like you have deleted my course's page, Georgia Institute of Technology/Introduction to Neuroscience (Fall 2013). I assume this was a careless error. Please restore it. Thanks, Steve M. Potter, PhD -- Georgia Inst. of Technology (talk) 01:50, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

PrimeHunter, can you please update me on where we are at with restoring my course page? I see you uncovered a bug in the Undelete function of course pages, and they may have fixed that, but the course page is still gone. WE NEED IT! This is the end of my semester and I have 97 students' hard work to grade. If I am mistaken, please forgive me and point me to the course, because I can't find it. To my perspective, this also revealed a "bug" in that it was so easy to delete a course page by accident without getting lots of warnings like "Are you sure you want to delete this page? There are 97 students enrolled and it is active this semester." Have you are anyone addressed this issue? Thanks for promptly attending to getting my course page back online. Steve M. Potter, PhD -- Georgia Inst. of Technology (talk) 09:02, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

recapping the deletion

Can you recap for me where you found a link labeled "remove" that deleted the course, and what steps you took leading up to it? I'd like to get a clearer picture of what we need to change to avoid similar accidents and make deletion behave the way people expect (even though the accident should have been totally reversible anyway). All of the ways of deleting a course that I can think of are labeled "Delete", while there are "remove from course" buttons (if you're an admin or have course-related user rights) next to individual usernames on a course page that remove students from the course without deleting the course itself. There is also a Disenroll option in the tab dropdown (right below the Delete button, if you have a standard configuration), which is the primary one for removing oneself as a student. Pressing the Delete button (either from a course page, or from Special:Courses) should bring you to an intermediate page or popup prompting you for the deletion summary and warning that "You are about to delete course Foo. This will remove all associated students!" (The warning should probably be styled more boldly, so that it's a little more clear that it's actually warning the user about something.)--Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 14:57, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for cleaning up my incomplete reversion of vandalism on Body composition. Donner60 (talk) 04:35, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Premier league table template

Hi. You are one of the editors involved in the Premier league table template at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 121#Displaying a part of the table. The work is very close to the end and the template now loks like the one currently used at 2013–14 Premier League. I just wanted to see if you could take a look at what I did last night at Template:2013–14 Premier League table/sandbox so that the code looks okay. What I did was that previously there was "Qualified for champions league" on three rows (1,2 and 3) and the same for relegation, so now i wanted it to span over all these rows (as in 2013–14 Premier League) using the rows-parameter in the template used inside our template.

My idea was that when teams 1,2,3 are shown (for the first 3 teams in table) there should be a span over three rows and when the table should show teams 2-6 (for team on pos4) i wanted it to be a span over 2 rows. Hard to explain in writing. I used switches and ifeq for that. The result can be seen at User:Spudgfsh/sandbox. Please take a look at it and comment on the result. Then it is only to decide if we should highlight the team or not and then we should use it. Discussion about that on Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Highlighting or bolding.

I would also like to thank you for all the work you have done with this table. Thank you!. QED237 (talk) 11:28, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

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Out of interest, what was the problem with the spacing? Thanks, Mat ty.007 15:19, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

The space was in noinclude tags so it was displayed on the template page but not when you used the template, for example in [10] where I saw it. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:23, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing it. Mat ty.007 15:29, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

You have the first fixed version! Mat ty.007 15:30, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

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Re: Mersenne prime publication year in infobox

Regarding diff: At the time I added the infobox, that was the earliest year of a publication discussing Mersenne primes I found, though I did not verify it had been the earliest. The table at the page titled Epitome Lib. I I exactly lists the first five Mersenne primes, which means Regius identified the Mersenne primes before Mersenne himself (Mersenne's Cogitata Physica-Mathematica is from 1644 according to the entry at The Prime Glossary). If the values of the infobox parameters should be corrected, I am open to suggestions. -- Toshio Yamaguchi 19:52, 29 December 2013 (UTC)