If we have a difference of opinion, I'm open to discussing it if the issue is meaningful, significant and worth my time. I ignore comments containing hyperbole, profanity, nonsense, attacks, and attitudes/behaviors I personally find offensive; I also ignore ones that I don't think are worth the time to respond. If you do not like this,
click here. I have very strong feelings about the importance of notability, policies and guidelines, sources and evidence. Best wishes from Los Angeles, //
Timothy :: talk
post-1992 politics of the United States and closely related people
Eastern Europe or the Balkans
governmental regulation of firearm ownership; the social, historical and political context of such regulation; and the people and organizations associated with these issues
articles about
living or recently deceased people, and edits relating to the subject (living or recently deceased) of such biographical articles
There seems to be ignorance and confusion at
AfDs, and in general discussions, as to the purposes of outlines. Like, what they are for, how they are used, and so on. I'm trying to update the outline guideline and WikiProject page to address these problems and issues, and I'm reaching out to you to learn about your perceptions and attitudes toward outlines.
How do you imagine Wikipedia users will make use of it?
How do you use outlines?
Why not just use categories instead?
If an editor said to you that readers can navigate just fine from the main article on a subject and that outlines are just redundant, what would your answer be?
Great questions, I want to think on them for a bit to give a better reply, and I may answer the questions in parts, to help give better feedback.
I was thinking about you recently, I have a simple Python script that gathers items in a cat name you have copied into your clipboard and formats them eg: *
Name of article/n and outputs to the clipboard to easily paste into an article. I use Visual Studio Code to create articles, so this works well for me. I was going to add it to a git repo, if you would find this helpful I can send you the link. I have a few others, but they have to be customized for the job at hand atm. Fair warning, they work well, but I am definitely a hack not a pro :)
Hope you are well, greetings from Los Angeles. //
Timothy ::
talk 08:35, 25 April 2024 (UTC)reply
That reminds me, another question is: Why do we need outlines when we have search? — The Transhumanist 23:52, 26 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Fatih Yıldız
Thanks for your participation late in this debate. Unfortunately there wasn't enough input in total to close as anything other than 'no consensus' given the way the debate had gone. Just a heads-up in case you want to consider an immediate re-nomination based on your rationale, I explicitly noted in my close that it was with
NPASR. Cheers,
Daniel (
talk) 05:14, 26 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Your edit summary makes no sense
[1] editor was removing content, not adding it. The content is partly supported by the body though. (
t ·
c) buidhe 23:14, 27 April 2024 (UTC)reply
War of Ceraja and Slatina
Whats the problem? Some call it a war some call it a battle, and actual document calls it a war instead of some news
Prizrenali.berisha (
talk) 09:11, 28 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Drafts that haven't been edited in 6 months get deleted from draft space. This list lets us see if any drafts are getting close to the 6-month danger date. Once an edit is made to an outline draft, the date for it in this list automatically updates.
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Hello! You said that you removed unsourced material on this article, but I created it and definitely linked two reliable Indian government sources. What's the problem?
PolarClimates (
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The newsletter will not be returning to a monthly format (mainly because the author is busy failing every exam imaginable) and is on a bimonthly schedule for the foreseeable future.
The second round of the WikiCup was very competitive, requiring the highest points total to advance since 2014. Two TOL editors, AryKun and Fritzmann2002, advanced to the third round.
The March edition of our
monthly rolling contest was won by simongraham, who amassed 118 points from 21 articles on various species of jumping spider; in second place was Quetzal1964 with 109 points from 53 articles on marine ray-finned fish.
Quetzal1964 and simongraham were also the top two in the April edition, although Quetzal was ahead this time, with 68 points to simongraham's 48. In the annual leaderboard, Quetzal and simongraham are in first and second place respectively, with 291 and 246 points; in third place is Snotoleks, with 76 points.
... that the cherry blossom was used symbolically in Japanese World War II
propaganda, with falling petals representing "young soldiers' sacrifice for the emperor"? (8 March)
... that the Kīlauea lava cricket disappears from a lava field as soon as any plants start to grow there? (13 March)
... that
Julian Assange's lawyer argued that the rules set by the
Ecuadorian embassy requiring Assange to take care of his pet cat Michi were "denigrating"? (13 March)
... that
mule deer sometimes prefer the flavor of one Rocky Mountain juniper tree, like "ice cream", over another? (21 March)
... that the skeleton panda sea squirt was known on the Internet for its skeleton-like appearance years before its formal description? (26 March)
... that only one fruit but several thousand seeds were known when Allenbya collinsonae was named? (26 March)
... that while named for
alliums, the fossil Paleoallium(pictured) was not necessarily directly related to any allium species? (27 March)
... that the extinct genus Mixtotherium, meaning 'mixed beast', has traits of both extinct primates and
hyraxes? (28 March)
... that the fossil fern Dickwhitea was described from a single block of
chert? (28 March)
... that only six years after its 2016 discovery, the Meratus blue flycatcher(pictured) was found being sold in Indonesian songbird markets? (30 March)
... that the spirit liverwort is called such because of its proximity to the Māori afterlife? (31 March)
... that cultures of the fungus Lentinus brumalis have been flown on three different satellites? (31 March)
... that the English herbalist
Nicholas Culpeper claimed that eating alkanet leaves would make a person's spit deadly to serpents? (31 March)
Eufriesea purpurata
Korowai gecko
Paleoallium billgenseli fossil
Male Meratus blue flycatcher
April DYKs
... that despite its name meaning 'unscented', Hypericum × inodorum can smell strongly of goat? (1 April)
... that color-changing cats(artist's impression pictured) could help us communicate with the future? (2 April)
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Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found
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Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services.
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When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs".
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Hello, can you please revert the speedy deletion of
Soviet and Russian aerial bombs, I have explained why it should not be deleted in the talk page. I ask you to look at this case soon, as in 3 days i will be away and wont be able to mount a defence. Thank you.
F.Alexsandr (
talk) 23:01, 13 May 2024 (UTC)reply
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On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word __EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list.
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If you use the
user-preference "Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template (
what's this?)" will now also work without reloading the page.
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Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the alt= attribute. This is identical in usage to the alt= attribute in the
image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive.
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New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people.
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The
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In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022.
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Two columns of the pagelinks database table (pl_namespace and pl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new linktarget table instead (lt_namespace and lt_title). In your existing SQL queries:
Replace JOIN pagelinks with JOIN linktarget and pl_ with lt_ in the ON statement
Below that add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
Hi there,
A large portion of this article lacks proper sourcing, yet it has been marked as reviewed without any tagging. May you revisit it? Regards
Hitro talk 22:44, 16 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Nomination for speedy deletion?
Hello Timothy. I just received a notification from you, as I am loading content for Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines (WEDG). This page is providing info on a design process. It is NOT a product but a community-sourced credentialing process that waterfront communities are using around the country. I am wondering if it was flagged because I haven't yet loaded up hyperlinks? The manager of this verification process is a non-profit and does not make money on this assistance. Communities pay modest fees to cover professional consultation. If you have some suggestions, I'm open to hearing them. Thanks for your guidance.
(BTW, I like your page and your moods!)
JulieNYNJ (
talk) 02:12, 17 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Arbitration case request declined
The case request Persistent WP:IDONTLIKEIT behavior in WP:NCROY discussions, where you were listed as a proposed party, has been declined by the committee. You can find an archived version of the case request
here. For the Arbitration Committee,
Dreamy Jazztalk to me | my contributions 18:32, 19 May 2024 (UTC)reply
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The HTML used to render all headings
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Hey, brother, take a couple weeks off at WP and come commiserate at Wikipediocracy. Don't let Vogonism get you down, everybody needs to rest and recharge now and again. —tim ////
Carrite (
talk) 21:39, 21 May 2024 (UTC)reply