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Rolf acker, good luck, and have fun. Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 09:59, 3 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Done. --Rolf acker (talk) 09:51, 29 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Ennio De Giorgi

Hello, I removed the speedy deletion tag on Ennio De Giorgi because WP:G14 does not apply to that page. From your edit summary it seems there was some sort of maintenance you were trying to achieve, but it's unclear and I'm not a mind reader. If you are trying to do a complex set of moves, you should make a listing at WP:RM/TR. 2601:5CC:8300:A7F0:415:A71A:FE37:9BB5 (talk) 17:21, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's unclear to you? So, why did you revert? According to WP:SWAP, this makes the overall swap sequence really confusing to others. Okay, I'll try {{Db}} since {{Db-g14}} is not accepted... --Rolf acker (talk) 17:44, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

At the top of that section it literally links to Wikipedia:Requested moves/Technical requests. The reason to use that page is because WP:PAGEMOVERs watch it and they have the permissions and experience to do it, much better than confusing things with a DIY. Next time please read the CSD before you tag. All CSD are for specific and narrow situations, and the only redirects WP:G14 ever applies to are those ending in "(disambiguation)" and even then only a very specific subset of those. 2601:5CC:8300:A7F0:39CF:2897:C5A7:E43A (talk) 17:52, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Rolf acker,

You misunderstand WP:CSD. They are limited and specific. You can't just make up your own reasons. Select an appropriate criteria for speedy deletion or, even better, go to WP:RM and make a request for a page move. I will not untag this page again but I doubt anyone will take action on your request because you are not making a proper request. You are ignoring what people are telling you.

If you need further help, go to the Teahouse. But I will not delete this page because I have no clue what your explanation means and it is not a valid criteria for speedy deletion. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:26, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Take care

I see you are labelling <ref name=xyz> as a syntax error and replacing as <ref name="xyz"> This can be incorrect as it can break pages. Unhappily there are certain constructs, probably due to how wiki reference syntax has evolved over time from its php beginnings that break horribly when <ref name="xyz"> is used while <ref name=xyz> works fine. Most pages will be fine but if you get masses of red Lua warning messages one day and so totally roger a page, do not say you have not be warned. Decades ago now on a mediawiki wiki I helped to maintain the php ref system as we improved it over what was on en.wikipedia at the time, so was not surprised when I came across breaking code in the now Lua version. I have made the discovery several times, and never bothered reporting as a bug as I know how the name function in the php ref module was implemented originally to be quote agnostic. ChaseKiwi (talk) 23:45, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ChaseKiwi: Thanks for your advice, but I hope I didn't call missing quotes in ref names a syntax error anywhere. That always referred to other erroneous constructs; most recently, for example, to template endings with three curly brackets. The formatting of references is only an accessory, which in my understanding is correct and desirable. Although <ref name=xyz>...</ref> works fine with the current software (and unfortunately does not cause any error messages or warnings), <ref name="xyz">...</ref> remains the syntactically correct spelling. So, I can't understand your concerns about ref names in quotation marks; that would have to be much more specific. It would also be helpful to have examples of where problems have already occurred. --Rolf acker (talk) 07:54, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

diff. Sorry no examples to hand, but has happened with certain infoboxs and where reference and note styles are mixed on a page. Just what you would expect given WP:IAR. As to curly brackets please do not talk about coding legal json so the wikipedia interpreter does not break a page using data objects. ChaseKiwi (talk) 08:26, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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