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My bad 🥴. I searched it up and it's not as common as I thought it was. Sorry about my bad suggestions recently, I was using a laptop and was suggesting more for the sake of it from successful requests.
1ctinus (
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Bill Wurtz userbox
heya! if you'd like to make the link green (or some other color) as well, feel free to use this: [[Bill Wurtz|{{font|color=#0f0|text=bill wurtz}}]] (
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Sounds.. plausible. i will make it a lighter green.
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-1ctinus📝🗨 02:04, 22 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Short descriptions
Hey there, I wanted to ask: what do you feel is the utility of a short description like the one on
Foreign relations of China? I realize I might've spent today undoing a lot of your work, and I want to cool it immediately if I'm not helping.
Remsense诉 12:30, 22 February 2024 (UTC)reply
The utility is to differentiate between articles that are missing a short description and don’t need a short description. Some articles don’t need a short description if their titles are self-describing, such as “foreign relations of china”. see
this page for more information
-1ctinus📝🗨 12:48, 22 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Right, I agree! I ask because you re-added a short description to that page a few days ago, and I was about to set it to "none" before I noticed.
Remsense诉 12:50, 22 February 2024 (UTC)reply
My basic criteria is that if i can’t make a short description that isn’t just the title arraigned in a different way with the same words, it should be blank.
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Hello - re your addition of a default description of simply 'referendum', would it not be better to follow
WP:SDNONE and have a short description which was the same as the article title (which in all cases, will be more detailed than just 'referendum'). Cheers,
Number57 00:13, 4 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Not all Referendums have "Referendum" in their title name.
WP:SDNONE would not apply for those articles. That being said, with referendums that have "referendum" in their title it would, and that could be coded into the template to have a switch case for "none" for articles with "Referendum" in their title, and a year to go alongside it. I might program both but dealing with the wikitext code is super annoying and time consuming.
-1ctinus📝🗨 00:47, 4 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Having mulled it over some more, there are other quite important issues, the first one being quite serious:
The infobox is used on quite a lot of non-referendum articles (like
51st state or
Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C.) and you are giving such articles an incorrect short description if there is not one there already
Articles that use the infobox include referendums, plebiscites and ballot measures. A short description of "referendum" is not appropriate for plebiscites as in some countries that has a different legal meaning to a referendum (and will look weird in other cases – readers may be thinking 'Why is the article title 'plebiscite' but the description 'referendum'?')
I'm also not sure 'referendum' is an appropriate short description for ballot measures?
Based on these issues, I think it might actually be best to abandon using the infobox to add a short description?
Number57 01:50, 4 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Number 1 is addressed in the code by Is infobox in lead. Number 2 and 3 are serious concerns that I don't know how to deal with since I do not know the difference between those terms. A more broad term might be useful. It also might be more useful to put this discussion in the Template talk instead of my user page.
-1ctinus📝🗨 02:06, 4 May 2024 (UTC)reply
WT:E&R is probably the best place to discuss, but for now I would advise removing it from the template code. Cheers,
Number57 02:16, 4 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Re: matches against Portugal
Not a problem if there was a mistake, but the row for Portugal in the table now reads: played 2, won 2, lost 1. Please clarify and adjust as appropriate, making sure that the totals at the foot of the columns are also consistent. Thanks.
Ehrenkater (
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Oh dear. Which article? I was running batch edits to add short descriptions and I made a huge mistake by forgetting to filter out articles without short descriptions. I ran a batch reverter to revert the most recent edits on the page, so any edits that may have been made in the last hour have been reverted to fix the fuck up I made. that may be why.
-1ctinus📝🗨 16:49, 14 May 2024 (UTC)reply
My mistake is now fixed, I reverted everything that needed to be. I act in good faith and I add short descriptions to a lot of sports articles, and fixing batch edits is pretty simple if I can figure it out and not be the greatest dev.
-1ctinus📝🗨 16:54, 14 May 2024 (UTC)reply