User talk:Anderjef

Welcome!

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You also may find it helpful to read WP:MINOR which explains what edits count as minor and which as major. From your contributions, it seems you are incorrectly marking your edits as minor. Hope this helps! SamWilson989 (talk) 19:05, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for your feedback @SamWilson989! I saw that WP:MINOR page earlier, and I'm not sure where I went wrong. If you don't mind, could you provide an example or two of where you think I could have improved so I can avoid such mistakes in the future? Anderjef (talk) 22:06, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

No problem. WP:MINOR states that "Adding or removing references / citations, external links, or categories in an article" should not be marked as minor changes. This is because sometimes those additions (or removals) can be erroneous - an editor might add references that are unreliable. It is always a bit of a grey area what counts as minor and what counts as major but it's always safer to not mark it as minor if there's ever any doubt. You may find another editor comes along and tells me that I'm wrong. But in the case of your CGP Grey edits or your edits to History of Turpan (where you were adding lots of cleanup tags), I think it would be better if they were marked as major edits. Thanks! SamWilson989 (talk) 22:18, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Got it. Thanks so much! I see my error now in CGP Grey, but in History of Turpan I would have expected to fall under "Adding or correcting wikilinks", but I can keep in mind I should hedge if I'm modifying a significant number of them. Anyways thanks again! Anderjef (talk) 22:29, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

Just to clarify, it wasn't the wikilink adding that made it a major edit but your addition of lots of various cleanup tags. Keeping those as major edits especially helps in flagging up to page-watchers that an article is in need of improvement as well as helping those editors in the future work out who added them and why. SamWilson989 (talk) 22:41, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

I see. That helps. Anderjef (talk) 23:12, 24 May 2022 (UTC)

List of common misconceptions

Ten citations is a bit much for one sentence. More than two is a tad excessive. Bkatcher (talk) 04:31, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

I agree. I was just taking from the source which was condensing even more citations into that space. Feel free to reduce. :) Anderjef (talk) 04:34, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

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Special:WantedTemplates

Hi, I have been cleaning up Special:WantedTemplates and noticed that your javascript page is showing up in Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Anderjef. It looks like you do have <nowiki> at the top and </nowiki> at the bottom in comments, which is great. But, I think these are being effectively disabled around lines 155 and/or 176 and/or 269. So, by line 269 the {{formatnum:{{Template:Anderjef}}|R}}/1e6 round 0}} is being incorrectly parsed. It looks like it is the result of an expansion of a PAGENAME? One method that I have used to fix these premature substitutions is to breakup the string, so use say '{'+'{subst:PAGENAME}'+'}' instead of '{{subst:PAGENAME}}' which works the same, but the backend software doesn't prematurely expand it in the script. It would be great if you could fix this so we can reduce the entries in Special:WantedTemplates. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 21:29, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I think I have solved the problem by doing what you suggested but with the closing nowiki tags I had in the code. As I said, I think this has solved the problem, but I'm not sure it has, so let me know if it still needs correction. Anderjef (talk) 05:32, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Yes, that worked. Your page is no longer showing any transcluded templates. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 15:40, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

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Democratic backsliding

Hi. I have reverted an edit of yours on this article, and would like to remind you about WP:BRD. When your Bold edit has been Reverted by another editor, the recommended next step, if you continue to think the edit is necessary, is to Discuss the dispute on the article talk page with other editors, but not to re-revert it, which is the first step to edit warring, a disruptive activity which is not allowed. Discussion on the talk page is the only way we have of reaching consensus, which is central to resolving editing disputes in an amicable and collegial manner, which is why communicating your concerns to your fellow editors is essential. While the discussion is going on, the article generally should remain in the status quo ante until the consensus as to what to do is reached (see WP:STATUSQUO).

Please remember that as the person attempting to make a change to the article, the WP:ONUS is on you to justify the change, and to get a consensus if it is disputed; and, again, please do not edit war. Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:57, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

WP:BRD, of course, is optional, though I agree it has merits. Here, seeing as no edit summary justification or mention on the talk page was left (also see WP:BRD and WP:ENGAGE :P), I could only assume the revert was, at worst, accidental (I do not assume malicious just as I would hope you didn't assume I wanted war). Assuming you or someone else reverted me again (as you did), I would indeed bring it up for discussion without myself re-reverting. Anderjef (talk) 18:01, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

• I withdraw my objection. Beyond My Ken (talk) 17:32, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

  Thank you. You have saved my trust in Wikipedia. I'm sorry if I could have been more conducive to your arriving at such a decision. Anderjef (talk) 18:26, 8 December 2022 (UTC)