Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I have reverted
this edit you made to my sandbox. While I appreciate the enthusiasm and welcome contributions to my sandbox, and can see your experience as an editor and good intent, I ask that you exercise a bit more caution with the formatting, a small change can really break the final rendering of the page. If you need to contact me, the best place to do so is on my talk page. Thanks!
CpX41 (
talk) 16:20, 21 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Please review
WP:USERNOCAT. It lists other ways of suppressing content categories in user space. One of them has to be applied. Paradoctor (
talk) 16:26, 21 February 2024 (UTC)reply
I see your reasoning, however, I want to point out explicitly that your new edit has negatively impacted how the page is rendered again. I recommend that you make use of the
preview button in the source editor before publishing changes to ensure your edits are displayed as you intend them to and possibly review it after you have published your changes, this is especially important outside the main article space. I would advise you to use commenting out categorization or replacing it with a placeholder as a method of suppression, since that has a lower chance of unexpected side-effects. Thanks!
CpX41 (
talk) 16:43, 21 February 2024 (UTC)reply
I recommend that you make use of the
preview button
You realize this makes you look like an arrogant twit? I don't know how far your IP work extends back, but your user page appears to indicate that you're not a complete n00b. You should know better than to talk to experienced fellow editors like that.
I'm well aware of the alternative methods. I don't use them because they don't catch all cases, and are sometimes harder to reverse for the user. You don't like what the template does? Understandable.
WP:SOFIXIT. Had you observed
WP:USERNOCAT in the first place, we wouldn't even have to have had this conversation. 16:59, 21 February 2024 (UTC) Paradoctor (
talk) 16:59, 21 February 2024 (UTC)reply
I can see some frustration here, and my intention was not to offend you with my suggestion, if I did, I
apologize, it's not a big deal, and I would appreciate you taking the heat out of this discussion. I have already addressed the issue and I do not wish to continue or escalate this discussion as it's resolved, let's move on. Thanks!
CpX41 (
talk) 17:43, 21 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Yes, I saw your edits after I posted my reply above. Apology accepted, no harm done. For future reference, I found this bit from
WP:FOC very helpful: comment on content, not the contributor. It's hard for things to get personal when nobody talks about persons. Paradoctor (
talk) 17:49, 21 February 2024 (UTC)reply
I find that things escalate very quickly when they get personal, so I stay away from it where I can. People will always disagree, and the advice of
WP:CIV works very well outside WMF projects and even offline. Otherwise, I do my best to understand all sides and draw some conclusion at the end when it's settled.
CpX41 (
talk) 10:51, 23 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Your revert
Hello Paradoctor,
you
undid my edit on
TR. Could you give a further explanation as I couldn't find one with your shortcut? Thanks!
Ankermast (
talk) 20:52, 7 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Of course.
MOS:DABMENTION:If the topic is not mentioned in the other article, that article should not be linked to in the disambiguation page, since linking to it would not help readers find information about the sought topic.
If you can find some source(s) supporting adding a mention of the initialism TR to
Transrapid, then do that. This will then permit restoring your edit. HTH Paradoctor (
talk) 21:03, 7 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Why I submitted it (Internationale der Kriegsdienstgegner/innen) for deletion
The user in question made a lot of vandalistic edits, and his username literally had the word "semen" in it. I don't think he intends to contribute.
Waylon (
was) (
here) 18:22, 27 March 2024 (UTC)reply
That does not justify indiscriminately speedying valid edits. At all. Paradoctor (
talk) 18:25, 27 March 2024 (UTC)reply