Jonesey95

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Edit Space

Thank you for help fix my edit space! I actually was wondering how do you get that square space around your own profile that contains the about you section? Thank you again! Arberian2444 (talk) 21:11, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Arberian2444, I have added a frame to your user page. If you do not like it, you can adjust it or undo my edit. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:00, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much! Arberian2444 (talk) 01:43, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Volleyball res 51 template.

Hi, I see you were the most recent person the edit the res 51 volleyball template. So I wanted to if you had any idea how to put a attendance section (either permanent or optional) in it because I have struggled to do it? ILoveSport2006 (talk) 19:52, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

All I did at that template was fix some syntax errors. I see that there are many similar templates in Category:Volleyball templates; proposing a change to them at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Volleyball is probably the best next step. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:24, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for offering me advice. ILoveSport2006 (talk) 23:27, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Consider using a bot?

Hi! Thanks for all your work fixing Linter errors. I wonder: have you considered using a bot for the task? I'm not normally someone who gets distracted by semiautomated edits in my watchlist, but your fixes resurrect old pages of interest (old AfDs, for example). They always attract my eye in a way they wouldn't if it were a bot making them. There are so many of the edits, over such a long period of time, that it seems rather well suited for a bot task. Curious if you've considered it. Thanks. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 21:58, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

I do not have the programming skills to (1) create a bot or (2) ensure that it would edit in a fully automated way without errors. I check every edit before saving and frequently abandon edits without saving due to either failure to fix enough problems (hence requiring too many return visits, mucking up your watchlist even more) or script-proposed changes that would not actually be improvements.
I wish there were bots that did Linter fixes, but the good ones have all gotten tired or been blocked for non-Linter-related bad behavior. I apologize for the noise in your watchlist; if there were bots out there, I would definitely prefer that they did the work instead of me! – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:48, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

Infobox election row

I've no idea what happened there. I checked it in both the testcases (before implementing) and on a mainspace article afterwards (to make sure I hadn't messed something up when transferring the code) and the default 'Party' showed up... Thanks for fixing. Number 57 22:00, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Sometimes reloading a page does not thoroughly reload every template that is used in the page. I have no idea why it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Editing and previewing a page or section, in my experience, always shows you the right result (although saving that edit with no changes sometimes still doesn't, which is frustrating). – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:04, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

I did actually edit/preview as I'm experienced this glitch, yet it still worked fine at the time... Number 57 22:38, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

My sandbox edit

Thanks for your edit/corrections on my sandbox. No problem btw GRALISTAIR (talk) 23:12, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Articles containing Dogrib-language text

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Articles containing Dogrib-language text

A tag has been placed on Category:Articles containing Dogrib-language text indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:43, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Jonesey95,

This category keeps being tagged for CSD C1 because it's an empty category and it shows up on Empty Categories list as a category that should be tagged for deletion. If it is a category that is occasionally empty, you need to tag it {{emptycat}} so that it no longer shows up as an empty category. It's that simple. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:40, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

The speedy template instructions said to remove the CSD template, so I removed it, but then the speedy template was reinstated. That seems contrary to BRD to me. I linked to a relevant discussion in my edit summary. I think this category may have been emptied accidentally. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:02, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

We have database reports and Quarry queries that list all empty categories. Regardless of BRD, we can't have categories keep appearing on these lists daily and ignore one indefinitely. I just tagged it for you so this would stop happening. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:17, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

It wouldn't be indefinite, just until it the problem is resolved. We have similar situations in many other reports with things like redirects that are taken to RFD and so show up on unused template reports. We just put up with the temporary annoyance, knowing that those discussions are open for only a week. Now that {{emptycat}} is on there, it seems possible that this currently bogus but possibly valid category could be ignored forever. Maybe that sort of thing shows up in a different report. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:31, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	Good work Nameless (talk) 03:03, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

I don't know what a Linter error is but I don't want to make any

Hi Jonesey. Are you still up for taking a look at and/or helping me with a mass message? I need to send one for an LA Wiknic and I don't want to do that Linter error thing again. Thank you! Julie JSFarman (talk) 00:13, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Yes, any time. Send me a link to the page, and I'll check it for you. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:55, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

I appreciate it! It's here. I think the error may have something to do with the signature. (?) I know it can be wonky on mass messages. And! Will you add the the ? Every time I try to add an image I mess up the layout. (I know, shocking.) Thank you x 100000. JSFarman (talk) 06:48, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Did I somehow just add the categories field or was it already there? omg. JSFarman (talk) 06:51, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Done. I don't see any categories, which is good. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:34, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I just sent the message and the only mistake I made (as far as I can tell) is that my user name isn't included, which is fine for two reasons: a) there are editors who find mass messages very annoying and b) I would prefer they not direct their annoyance at me. Thank you again! (The categories still look like they're here, on your talk page, but I have been known to hallucinate.) JSFarman (talk) 15:29, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

May 2024 GOCE drive award

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE May 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 09:09, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums/Album article style advice#"Release history" tables

Hey @Jonesey95: hope you're doing well. If you have time, your comments would be appreciated at WikiProject talk page. Regards. 113.210.105.64 (talk) 13:41, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Linking to template documentation vs template

Given your edit at Special:Diff/1228342855, can you review my related edits:

• Special:Diff/1227917571
• Special:Diff/1228478838

I don't understand your reasoning about linking to templates rather than template doc pages. I'm content to accept your preferences on these edits. Daask (talk) 13:17, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the links. I have made them all consistent. Linking to documentation pages is confusing for readers per WP:EGG; those subpages generally exist to support template pages and are meant to be viewed in the context of the Template-space page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:28, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Also, some template doc pages are shared by several templates, and vary their output according to which template they are transcluded to. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 14:02, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Lint error on Threadripper

What!? I specified the "div=yes" parameter in the collapsed infobox section begin template so that lint errors wouldn't occur, according to the template's documentation. Yet it still did?!

Also, I know hiding content generally goes against MOS:HIDE; I put those collapse templates there because the "transistor count" section was taking up an awful lot of space in the infobox. On the Ryzen article it was especially bad where the infobox would extend down more than an A4 page worth of length below and push down images, so I collapsed the cache and transistor count sections. Intel Core has a big enough such problem that there are complaints on the talk page there about it. — AP 499D25 (talk) 01:33, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

"Page information" will show you if there are Linter errors. There were six or seven caused by that unreliable collapsing template. If the infobox is too long, remove some of the content and just have it appear in the article. Infoboxes should be a summary of "key facts that appear in the article". – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:58, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Okay I didn't know about the page information containing lint error info, thanks for the tip. I looked at the Linter MediaWiki extension and I had no idea how to install it.

I have ended up deleting the transistor count section anyway, if someone wants to (re)add it later it should be added to some table or section in the article, rather than in the infobox IMO. I have given the Intel Core article the same treatment, just deleting outright trivial info (e.g. bus width and speeds), and trimming some stuff down like the brands, rather than hiding them all in collapsed sections. — AP 499D25 (talk) 05:21, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

HBLR (possibly River Line?)

The signs in the infobox - the text is too large (to compare to real life sign). That's why I was doing that to decrease the size. Sorry if that caused any trouble. Pedroperezhumberto (talk) 16:04, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

The infobox sets the size, and it is standard for all similar articles. There is no reason to make it smaller. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:06, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Sorry about that, it's because I thought they should be at least similar to the real-life size. Pedroperezhumberto (talk) 16:12, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

That doesn't make sense to me. This version before your edit and this version after your edit show only a small difference in the header size. The "real-life" sign labeling the station will be multiple feet across, not a few centimeters or inches like the infobox title. Meanwhile, all other railway station articles use a standard size. Deviating from the standard size introduces inconsistency among similar articles for no apparent good reason. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:34, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Fostered content (mostly) done

I think the remaining few dozen "42" Fostered content errors are beyond me (a little too templatey/functiony), so I'm done with that set. User:CaPslOcksBroKEn/sandbox (11 FCs) I know to be clean (Of all errors) as I've tested it in my sandbox twice in the last few months by saving it in 2-3 sections, but it's too damn big and won't purge or null edit for a clean result. Do you have any other ideas for clearing these ghosts? I've been aware of it for a few months, so not sure if waiting it out will allow it to self-correct, or if it needs to be pushed in some other way that I'm not thinking of.

Happy to have another bothersome error type pretty much eradicated from the list otherwise! Thanks for getting all of the pages you got to, hope you have a great weekend. Zinnober9 (talk) 18:20, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

That was a fun project! I will poke at the remaining 42 every once in a while. Sometimes I have to sit and let ideas come to me. We can probably get it down to a dozen or so with a few tricks. I cheated on a few by wrapping the offending template code in <includeonly>...</includeonly> tags, since the code was working when transcluded. That trick will probably work on a few more pages, but it fails when there are already includeonly tags inside the code. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:55, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

Looks like today's new set of fostered content errors all seem to be related to <onlyinclude> or <noinclude> tags, either on the page themselves, or calling the {{Ranks and Insignia of Non NATO Armies/OR/Blank}} template. I'm not making heads or tails out of any of them at the moment. These tags *shouldn't*? be causing these issues. Zinnober9 (talk) 18:37, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Me neither. I have seen those starting in the last few hours. They look like false positives. Post a new subthread at WT:Linter, in the "dark mode" thread I started at the bottom. I don't know if they are related to dark mode error detection, but something appears to have changed in the Linter detection and I think it might be a bug. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:38, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Ok. I had changed this page Opinion polling for the 2020 Polish presidential election due to this, but only since they were so oddly added with 5x of them at the start of every? table, and the other pages looked like legitimate usage of these. I've seen this popup on a few pages before, but they always cleared up before I got bothered enough to deal with them/ask about them. Zinnober9 (talk) 19:13, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

CaPslOcksBroKEn is now removed from the list. Might have been the two small templates that weren't closed correctly. Gonnym (talk) 12:46, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Hmm. Thank you, not sure why they didn't appear problematic in my tests. Huge pages are ripe pain. Appreciate your efforts.

As for User:Wtmitchell/Draft1 where you replaced all {{!}} code and the like with |, |-, etc ... my understanding is when things are transcluded, they have a habit of interacting with the calling page's code in odd cases. Using {{!}} tells it to stay in its lane and not mix and create mutants with the calling code. @Jonesey95 is there a better way to explain this since you have a greater knowledge of the more template-y language than I? Zinnober9 (talk) 20:02, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

When pipe characters for table layout are used inside of #switch or #if statements, they can trigger the statements' logic instead of acting as table layout. The hazard of using the same character for two important functions. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:42, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

Wtmitchell seemed to have known that as well, given they had written a note stating "NOTE: The templated aliases (e.g., "{{!}}") are needed for transclusion. Don not disturb them", and Gonnym changed the page to use pipes and removed that note. I feel that's against the user's intentions, and since it is likely possible to clear the lint and keep the {{!}}, this was the wrong way to fix the page. Had there been no way to fix it with {{!}}, or justification (beyond "I checked all the transcluded pages and they are fine"), I'd be more supportive of this correction. Zinnober9 (talk) 13:48, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

I just checked both of the places where that Draft1 page is transcluded, and the transcluded page looks fine in both places. I assume that Gonnym checked those pages as well and would have self-reverted if they had found any trouble. The page is three years old, so it appears to be no longer in active development. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:51, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

June 2024 GOCE blitz award

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Gallery display assumptions

Just a little FYI, the gallery pages of Charlesjsharp that you edited in April (Insects and Frogs) in a similar corrective way to my May edits for their Mammals and Birds galleries have a few undesired display issues based on last night's discussion on my talk page. I take comfort in seeing that we made the same assumptions in regards to the intended display of these pages with the thought of "User wrote it this way, so it's presumed intended display is this" with how the captions of each image display. Unfortunately, this is not how the user wishes their pages to be, and they (as I understand it) wish for the captions to be centered, and for them to display with black text for all image captions (other than the countries' names which are blue), and for any white lines crossing the page to be nonexistent. And they do not want the three images at the top (under the star) to have a white box encircling them (so don't make it two tables). End result desired is essentially a "do as I had originally displayed, not as I had written".

Would you adjust these two pages sometime when it suites or makes sense? I don't think Charles would be too happy to see I'd edited them all. You may wish to wait until after we know whether or not I've gotten the Mammal page all squared away for him and there are no additional issues found. That way you have a one and done with no back and forth and everyone's pleased.

Thanks, Zinnober9 (talk) 21:52, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I adjusted the pages. You are welcome to copy my edits if the editor is happy with them. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:13, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

You are welcome and thanks, we'll see how it goes. Zinnober9 (talk) 01:19, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

I give up. I realized I left a fostered content error, so I fixed that, only to see the unwanted white box returned again. ARRRRRRG.

User:Charlesjsharp/Featured pictures of birds on English Wikipedia, User:Charlesjsharp/Featured pictures of mammals on English Wikipedia. Help. I know I can fix it and how to fix it, but I'm getting too into my head to perfect it that I've screwed it up again. Zinnober9 (talk) 04:07, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

 Done. Sometimes it's not your day. You'll be able to return the favor for me someday. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:14, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm mad at myself at letting it occur and ticked off that such a simple little thing tripped me up. I appreciate you greatly today. Hopefully I'll sleep it off and tomorrow will be a better day. Zinnober9 (talk) 04:54, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you both for attempting to resolve this. Looking at the Charlesjsharp/Featured pictures of reptiles and frogs on English Wikipedia: Revision history page it was Jonesey95's edit on 29 April that removed the align center layout not Zinnober9. The error has not been fixed. Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:57, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

And thanks for putting up with our edits (so far). I have tried five different things to get the snake gallery at User:Charlesjsharp/Featured pictures of reptiles and frogs on English Wikipedia to be centered, and I have had no luck so far. It looks like a bug so far, but I am going to try to make a simpler case to figure out what is going wrong. The documentation clearly states that mode="packed-hover" should center the gallery images, and copying that gallery to my sandbox results in centered images, but somehow, within the rest of the layout, the images are aligned to the left. It's frustrating. I'll keep working on it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:11, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Does this give you the desired outcome? I added the statement text-align: center; to each gallery's style parameter, like I had with Birds and Mammals and that centered things up.

A small side note: I see the page has some duplicate style="color:black;" statements in some of those galleries (you may wish to clear those up). Zinnober9 (talk) 21:20, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

See, I told you that you would be able to return the favor. That tweak should DEFINITELY not be necessary, but it works. F*** me. [edited to add: It looks like taking away class="wikitable" also works around the problem.] – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:39, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Ah, that works too. Kinda figured there was something external to gallery dictating that, but class="wikitable" would not have come to mind. I kept running into centering needs with the removals of the tons of obsolete <center> tags used to center tables when I was clearing fostered content the last few months, so got used to using text-align: center; fairly often. Zinnober9 (talk) 01:30, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:WikiProject TikTok/doc

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Articles containing Dogrib-language text

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Edit to Template:AmFootballScoreSummaryEntry

Just a quick question for you - a couple of days ago, you made this edit to {{AmFootballScoreSummaryEntry}}. I recently was looking over 2022 Liberty Bowl and saw that the score summary template's formatting was messed up, specifically in the vertical alignment of the home team's score in every row, making each row of the table significantly wider than it was normally. I didn't want to revert your edit just to see if that would work and so figured I'd just ask. Do you think something in your edit would have changed the way this template is formatted? Sorry to bother and thanks for your help! PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 16:15, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

My edit did cause that extra whitespace, even though it should not have. I have fixed it. Thank you for coming to ask rather than simply reverting or freaking out. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:25, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the fix and for such a quick response! Much appreciated. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 16:30, 2 July 2024 (UTC)

Infobox

Hello, Your last contribution to Infobox royalty have made a major change to the template. After the edit, the infobox looks very ugly on Mobile app. I suggest you to revert it because from desktop, the above (name) text in black however, in mobile app it is white and does not match with the background color. MAL MALDIVE (talk) 15:21, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

From desktop, it may look good but in the app it's not you expect. MAL MALDIVE (talk) 15:23, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

This mobile view looks fine to me. I'm not sure how else to troubleshoot it. I have reported the problem at this thread. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:51, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Your mobile view is on light mode? It works on light mode. Mine is on dark mode it's because of that. No worries. MAL MALDIVE (talk) 18:43, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Cite ****ing Q

Hi Jonesey95, I come here because you are one of the people who know everything about references and templates. I'm looking at Gwendolyn Grant (activist) where the {{sfn}}s are broken because the references are using {{cite q}}, which is rendering the references with |author= rather than |last= and |first=. I would like to fix this by substituting the calls to cite q so that I get the call to {{citation}} that they're producing, and then fix them by hand, but I can't work out how to do that – simply substing the calls to cite q just gives me the invocation of the LUA (?) module, which isn't helpful. Do you know a way, or does this have to be fixed in a different way? Thanks in advance, Wham2001 (talk) 23:30, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

{{cite Q|Q126281915|expand=yes}}

{{Citation |id=[[WDQ (identifier)|Wikidata]] [[:d:Q126281915|Q126281915]] |language=en |publisher=Urban League of Greater Kansas City |title=Urban League of Greater Kansas City - Our Team |url=https://www.ulkc.org/our-team-xxx}}

That is citing a website so |publisher=Urban League of Greater Kansas City should be changed to |website=Urban League of Greater Kansas City.

Yeah, there is a bug in the expansion; |url= should not include the template's closing }}.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 23:48, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Excellent, thank-you very much Trappist the monk! Wham2001 (talk) 23:56, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks TtM. Cite Q is junk. Expanding it so that articles can comply with CITEVAR is usually a good fix. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:42, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, my general experience of Wikidata has been "this is a good idea which has been implemented so badly that it's a giant net negative", and cite q is a major part of that. Meanwhile, the article's author has reverted all my citation fixes 🙄 Best, Wham2001 (talk) 20:32, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Well, your changes did contravene WP:CITEVAR, so the revert was justified. Cite Q is still a blight. I provided some options on the talk page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:57, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments; they're helpful. Yes, I know that my changes weren't strictly defensible given CITEVAR – I was half expecting the revert, tbh. Best, Wham2001 (talk) 21:06, 5 July 2024 (UTC)

Discussion about "Label" or "distributor"

Hi Jonesey. In the recent discussion of "Release history" table, Andrew318 said that those are distributors, not labels. So if you have any further comments. Regards. 2001:D08:2960:6C1:17E0:21DE:4238:7DE2 (talk) 07:13, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

July 2024

Hello, Jonesey95! You recently made an edit to another editor's user page despite the presence of a notice instructing otherwise. Please be mindful of page notices when contributing to Wikipedia — especially in another editor's user space.

9t5 (talk) 09:04, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I did make this minor edit, as indicated and explained in my edit summary. I fixed ten syntax errors, including one high-priority error. Please let me know if I broke anything, and I'll be happy to fix it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:37, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Warsaw central stations/doc

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ty for linting

This diff was really confusing but I was reading it backwards -- don't know how the hell I managed to leave out the closing tags for those. Anyway, thanks for letting me know, I am currently reworking the render script so I will make sure to get this cleaned up. 👍 jp×g🗯️ 05:21, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

I'm glad you figured it out and didn't get grumpy with me. It's all teamwork. It would be great if you could fix that script; it would fix hundreds of missing end tag errors. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:25, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

I think everything is good now, take a look and lmk if anythings busted jp×g🗯️ 21:05, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Oh, besides the center tags, I will fix those later jp×g🗯️ 21:07, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

That page is still busted. This is the fix. And here's a list of all User/JPxG pages that are missing end tags. It should be pretty small after the bot is fixed and runs through the pages again. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:34, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

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Template:Format price broken for certain large numbers

Hi there, Jonesey. We are watching Reno 911! lately so I think of that when I see your name. I'm sorry your computer is sad but I thought I'd let you know I posted you a message here. FYI. Is Template:Format price supposed to start with a big red error? Thanks! — Smuckola(talk) 20:09, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Template talk:Infobox journal question

I've run across a slight quandary with a page due to Template talk:Infobox journal and the lint error on American River Review. The Website parameter does not allow "extras" to be written, just the website address and nothing else (a common theme of delinting for me the last few days). The stated website for ARR is now a dead link, so someone logically just added the {{Dead link}} template, but that is triggering a Link in link error.

The easy thing to do would just be to comment it all out, but I was wondering if a parameter like current_status = Active/Inactive like that on the {{Infobox website}} template would be beneficial, or if there was a better way of handling this one. Thoughts? Zinnober9 (talk) 22:02, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

I just did a web search and found the new URL. It was the first hit. I'm not sure why Conkaan couldn't find it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:58, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Had seen that site in the external links section, and thought that it was a supplementary link or a mirror and not the official. I see now that it was just added by Scott Crow in the edit prior to Conkaan (changed from a Facebook link) so possible Conkaan had the same thought I did. Thanks. Zinnober9 (talk) 00:15, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Your question

" Brazilian Romantic painting‎ diffhist −4‎ Jonesey95 talk contribs (Fix Linter obsolete tag errors. Where are people finding this invalid syntax? It has been removed from all articles.)" I expect the answer may be that this is an OKA machine translation from pt:wp. Johnbod (talk) 15:54, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

That makes sense. Some Wikimedia sites are doing better than others at removing obsolete syntax. We still have three million total errors here, but only about 65,000 left in article space after six years of consistent work. German Wikipedia is essentially free of errors, of course. I did some work over at Commons a while ago and fixed a few million errors by editing a handful of templates, but there is a lot of bot work that needs to happen if that site is to get cleaned up. Other sites are even more neglected. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:47, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

Nearly there

The remaining few link issues in Userspace (minus Marine 69-71's that I'll get to) are cases I'm not coming up with a clean solution for. They are predominantly a userbox situation that doesn't accept linked text, but the user has dictated a different pagelink instead. The quick and dirty answer would be to just remove the user linking, but I was wondering if you know a way to cleanly keep them the way the users intended.
For Jtmorgan's three pages, it's a difference scenario and is related to Wikipedia:Teahouse/Question-form. There are also three Wikipedia:Teahouse pages with similar issues. Feel like it's probably at the template and not the end user, but it isn't apparent to me. And for Disco's errors... well, who knows if there really was a cat at all. As for the remaining 550-some in Talk, I assume they won't put up much of a fight, but we'll see by the end of the week. Zinnober9 (talk) 00:49, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

This fix usually does the trick for pre-linked userbox parameters where the editor missed the documentation or the template is not documented well enough. I fixed a couple of other pages. I posted a note at User talk:Discographer about their too-large page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:24, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

A little surprised it was only Various–Music on that list since others of theirs I've come across have been too big for linthint unless I view the page in sections. As for the Good Article userboxes, thanks. That's a nice fix. Zinnober9 (talk) 06:12, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Any idea why this bot's addition of a correctly written parameter is triggering a link in link error? The bot is adding it correctly as stated on Template:Infobox radio station, so I don't feel the issue's at the bot/page's end of things. Suspecting the template needs a minor adjustment given the language used in the descriptions for the |licensing_authority options all stating links. Zinnober9 (talk) 03:08, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

One fix is to remove any wikilinks from the Facility ID parameter. There may be better fixes. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:48, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you!

I just wanted to give you a massive THANK YOU for correcting the issues on my User Page, and for leaving such a kind comment. You are a fantastic user. Thank you. - Mike Longfellow (talk) 08:17, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

{{Infobox radio station}} errors

Hey,

Thanks for the ping. I think the majority of these are actually the FCC ID field being filled in incorrectly (and this can now be blanked, as the bot is adding the relevant data to Wikidata so it should also be pulled through). I think technically these fields containing values other than a number should be a linter error anyway in these cases, just it's not flagged up by the template.

I'm happy to take out flagging the licencing body if needed, however this is what causes the data to be pulled from wikidata, so it's not a perfect solution. I don't want to mess with the FCCID field in the infobox, but may be able to blank this (but with 90% of the task done, I don't know what this buys at this point) Mdann52 (talk) 05:31, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

I'm guessing that a tweak to the template, like using {{delink}} on the facility ID parameter, might help, but I haven't looked at it yet. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:01, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

Mdann52-- considering I've seen only 3 or so pages popup this month while you've been running this task, and I've been focused on this Link in Link error type for the past few weeks and fully eliminated it yesterday (had been 900 some userspace pages completely unrelated to you or Radio Stations), I don't see any need for the bot to stop or be adjusted at this point. Since it's a single run task with a limited population remaining, and very few popup cases, keep going and we'll address any few that do pop up (if any).

Jonesey95 and Mdann52-- Your reply to me, Jonesey95, (in the section two above this) surprised me a bit, but after some testing and thinking today, I've found that I had the culprit parameter wrong last night and it's a two pronged issue (sort of). This error exists in only two states-- If both the FACID and the licensing_authority parameters are wikilinked, or if FACID is wikilinked and LA contains anything. All other states have no error, so yes, delinking the FID parameter sounds like a valid course of action to prevent these errors since LA is intended to be populated and linked.

Summary of cases:

Both linked, ERROR

FID linked, LA gone, no error

FID linked, LA plaintext, ERROR

FID linked, LA empty but present, no error

FID plaintext, LA linked, no error

Both plaintext, no error

The only lingering question I had this evening was if there were any pages with FID linked and LA either gone or empty that could be a triggering case later that the bot might have left behind. However, you state above that the bot is adding a populated LA parameter for empty/nonexistant cases, so I believe there won't be any potential trigger cases later on (unless created later on by the random perfect storm editor), and that this bot task will have found all cases by the task's completion (correct me if any part of this understanding is incorrect).

Regardless of the bot, wikilinking of the FID parameter, if possible, should be disallowed or dissuaded in the use of this template. {{delink}} as you mentioned, Jonesey95, looks like a nice solution if it'll work well within this template, but I have no preference of how it is done so long as it's clean and effective, and I trust both of you in this regard. Zinnober9 (talk) 05:03, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Reports

The "nonexistent category" report is at Special:WantedCategories. To be honest, I genuinely don't recall ever having asked for it to be made daily; it runs every three days and thus isn't too onerous to get through. A daily version wouldn't be unwelcome, but isn't nearly as pressing as the polluted category reports (Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories for userspace content and Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories (2) for draftspace), because those only run once per week — I do recall having asked for them to run more often than they do, because running only once a week means that they feature hundreds of pages by the time they update, and thus require me to set aside hours and hours to get through, whereas a run of the redlinked category report rarely takes me more than 30-45 minutes to clean up.

But the draft report is currently broken, so I've been working around it with an ad hoc report that I can regenerate on the fly, and might keep using because that makes it better than the official report. (Wikipedia:Database reports/Drafts with categories helps somewhat, but I've found that it isn't consistently reliable at catching all categorized drafts, so it's never been my primary tool for that job, while the version I was given at WP:VPT when I reported that Dannybot hadn't updated the official report in weeks seems to work better.)

So, I mean, a daily version of the WantedCategories would certainly be appreciated, but it's never been the #1 thing on my wishlist; it's the polluted category reports where I've been more outspoken about wanting more frequent updates, while WantedCategories running every three days has been tolerable. Bearcat (talk) 22:12, 25 July 2024 (UTC)

Plants vs Zombies lint outcropping

Skip the Plants vs Plants outcropping of errors, (or really any page created by User:Ergobus). The pages will all be nuked soon. Zinnober9 (talk) 00:09, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

I saw. I fixed a few typos in the user name, to reduce confusion among any admins who might be checking things before deleting. Copy and paste is every editor's friend, but sometimes we forget about our friends.... – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:11, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Ok. I saw you had touched the China Template related to that, so thought it was worth mentioning the nuke conversation before you got invested in clearing the other pages. Zinnober9 (talk) 00:42, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

They are gone now. BTW, the fostered content bug has been fixed, so there are a few new errors to fix now. I found a lot of junk edits that needed reverting in article space. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:44, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Oh good, it was ticking me off that I had just cleared those off to 10 "unfixables", for it to balloon over 1000 on non-errors. I'll join you with those in a few moments. Zinnober9 (talk) 00:49, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Pendennis Club fixes

Sorry, accidentally rolled back your reversions. Fixing references; please leave for the next 15 minutes while I fix them! —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 01:26, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Ok, should be all fixed as of [1]: no harvtxt, all footnote links work. —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 01:35, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Much better. Nice fixes. Thanks for leaving a note. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:52, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

OK, but...

The changes in and of themselves were fine, but next time you do things to someone's user page, give them a heads up. Just a courtesy thing, as people usually consider their user page as more of their personal space (as much as one can have here anyway.) Vjmlhds (talk) 17:52, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind message. You received a heads-up in your Watchlist, and possibly in your notifications. I and other editors are fixing syntax errors in tens of thousands of User pages; it is simply impractical to notify every editor, many of whom are no longer active. Talk page notifications would create far too much noise for the affected editors as well as for anyone who is watching their talk pages. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:55, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

At the end of the day, no harm, no foul...carry on. Vjmlhds (talk) 18:16, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello

Hi Jonesey95. Thanks for the minor cleanup. I wondered, if you could do some some more work here? It would help a lot. Cheers. — Sadko (words are wind) 22:36, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

I did some cleanup there. I don't have all of the tools that I need on sr.WP, but my edits may have helped a bit. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:59, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you kindly. — Sadko (words are wind) 10:04, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

Q3 1911

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mary_Bonham-Christie RobinClay (talk) 15:33, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

Oh, and No, I did not cut & paste - I transcribed part of images.

Amd please rephrase in English you comment "Mark claims as needing" Who is this "Mark" ? Do I know him ? RobinClay (talk) 15:44, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

I can't tell if you are trolling me, but I will assume good faith. I marked some claims. It's a verb. If you are curious about the {{full citation needed}} templates that I added, it may help you to read WP:FULLCITE. Linking to a page where someone can do a search does not count as providing a verifiable citation. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:49, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

Template:Ronnie Wood

Hi, did the template look like this:

when you nominated it for speedy deletion as a test page? ★Trekker (talk) 13:11, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

No. It just said "Template:Ronnie Wood". I come across stuff like this in the template space a few times per week. I have no objection to a real template at that location. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:14, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. Seems the original creator made some kind of mistake then.★Trekker (talk) 13:35, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Edits to my user page

That's fine. I copied all those photos from somewhere else, and if they were done wrong there, they should have been fixed.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 21:58, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

July 2024 GOCE drive award

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Jonesey95 for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE July 2024 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Dhtwiki (talk) 02:48, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks!

Its funny, I have been using Wikipedia for over 20 year, but there are still so many things I don't know how to do. I'd like to add some user boxes and make my page more informative, and to organize my images better. Would you be willing to help me or to make suggestions? Needsmoreritalin (talk) 01:18, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Sure, I would be happy to help you. Post a note on your talk page and link to userboxes that you would like to include, or you can just say "I want the userbox about chess that I see at User:Example's page". I will see what I can do for you. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:18, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Edit count data. No show.

My edit count data for August 2024 has not registered on my page. Been editing since the beginning of the month. Seems odd. Can you explain? Lord Such&Such (talk) 17:25, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

High replag means that all sorts of stuff that should update will not update until the replication lag goes back to zero. That is my first thought. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:27, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

So it can't be induced? Or just let it go?--Lord Such&Such (talk) 17:51, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

It's slowed by a server update task that is taking far longer than expected (T367856). Once that ends, the server traffic should start catching up. Nothing we can do about it in the meantime. I'm waiting for something to display updated data that hasn't changed since the wee hours of Saturday also. Zinnober9 (talk) 18:41, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

You can count your edits manually at Special:Contributions/Lord_Such&Such until the server catches up. That page shows 68 edits in August. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:51, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Welcome messages

Hello there @Jonesey95. Thank you for fixing the lint error that was introduced while welcoming a new Wikipedia user. Just to clarify, I used the automatic welcome tool in Twinkle to do that. I was unaware of any lint errors. I also chose not to send a standard welcome message beause the editor that I welcomed has an apparent interest in physics. Currently I have scarce knowledge about what lint errors are; would you be willing to explain that to me? Also, can you please check if using the {{welcome-phys}} tag produces a lint error. If so, then it should be fixed in the template's source. Thank you. ❯❯❯ Raydann^(Talk) 20:23, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Raydann: As I expect you know, in HTML, each element has a opening tag and a closing tag, they normally occur in pairs like <b>...</b>. For some elements, the closing tag is optional (as with <li> or <td>) or even invalid (as with <br /> or <img />). But for most elements, the closing tag is mandatory; and moreover, when one element is nested inside another, each element must be closed in the opposite order to which they were opened. That is, <b><i>Some text</i></b> is valid, whereas <b><i>Some text</b></i> is not. Lint errors are, generally speaking, cases where a required tag is missing, or where closing tags occur in the wrong order. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:04, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @Redrose64

(misunderstanding, nonissue. See below)

<br /> was, to my knowledge, the preferred, and correct, usage of the break tag. If I am incorrect, I'll stop my usage of it. (I also know </br> appears in red with the editor's syntax highlight tool on, while the above appears in green, and </br> can interrupt some tags causing strippage). Break is one of the rare clean cases of a tag written as <foo/>. Nearly everything else written this way is a self closed error (and all known cases of self closed errors on en.wiki have been addressed).

While closing <li> might be optional, leaving off a closing </ol> is not, and it's just safer to be in the habit of closing everything. I've seen and cleaned up enough table errors that I strongly object to the suggestion of not closing <td>. If they don't automatically cause a fostered content error, they often contribute to this, or other errors when things are not properly closed.

@Raydann I see how you did that, and it was with the expected actions, so there's something broken here that needs fixing. @Jonesey95, Do you know why going to the Twinkle Welcome menu, selecting/sending that template creates this Fostered content error? I see it does not cause an issue when the template is written manually as {{welcome-phys}} for some reason, but I also see that the Menu route writes the full text, when it could just add the shorter {{welcome-phys}} and get the same display result for less text on page and no error. Zinnober9 (talk) 21:51, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

@Zinnober9: I didn't say that <br /> was invalid, I said that a closing tag is invalid for that element: that is, it is incorrect to write <br></br>. I'm not getting into the "<br>-versus-<br />" thing here, that's way off-topic.

I didn't mention the ol element at any point: of course </ol> is mandatory, it pairs with an opening <ol> tag. It's <li> for which a closing tag is optional - whilst a li element is explicitly closed by a </li> tag, it is also implicitly closed by (i) a <li> tag within the same list; (ii) a </ol> tag; (iii) a </ul> tag.

The td element is explicitly documented as one for which the closing tag is optional, so I don't know why you feel that it's an error. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:08, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

@Redrose64 Oh... I didn't read it that way and thought you were saying <br /> (by itself) was an issue. My mistake. I agree with you on this then, so I've struck it above. I have no real opinion on "<br>-versus-<br />", just against the usage of </br> for the odd cases where it strips something. I mentioned <ol>, since I often see cases where the people who left <li> open left <ol> open also, and not closing OL is an issue. I just think the habit tends to cause some unintentional collateral damage in forgetting in which cases things are optional. Similar thinking behind my <td> stance. The people who I've seen leave them unclosed tend to not to close other tags that are important/required, or forget they need <tr> in addition to <td>. The other reason I close them all is it's also easier to identify where something went wrong when looking at linty pages using syntax highlighting turned on; pages that did close the optional closer tags don't have trailing correct tags displaying in red. Zinnober9 (talk) 00:28, 9 August 2024 (UTC)