User talk:Izno/Archive 7

Request help with new Council for WikiProjects

Hi. I am trying to create a forum where various WIkiProjects can exchange ideas and information about their best ideas, efforts, methods, and accomplishments. I am the Lead Coordinator at WikiProject History. I tried to create an active exchange at WikiProject Council, but did not get very far when I tried to do so.

I would like to get some interested editors together who might be interested in helping with this idea, either with getting WikiProject Council moving again, or creating a whole new WikiProject to do so.

You can sign up to help at Wikipedia:WikiProject Editors Forum/Members. Right now, this page is a redirect to a draft in my user space; we will move it to the project space as soon as we have ten people signed up.

eventually, the goal would be to have a few people from a wide variety of WikiProjects and various topical areas, working together at WIkiProject Council, to help us create a forum and an exchange for ideas and information.

Would you be interested in helping with this? Please let me know. If you wish, you can simply comment on my talk page to let me know any comments or thoughts on this. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 02:46, 26 January 2020 (UTC)

Requested edit

"can you please tell me which is the correct talk path?" :I am so confused" ZorbaKiki (talk) 15:03, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

@ZorbaKiki: You need to request your edit on Talk:Opera Solutions. Please ensure you have reliable sources to back up the changes you want to make, and make sure the text that you are requesting is not promotional. --Izno (talk) 15:30, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Minor Linter error left behind

I don't always fix all of the possible Linter errors in a given page, but I try not to leave new ones behind. If you are using a script to do edits like this one, please be aware that it left behind some Linter stripped tag errors in that particular case.

If you don't know what Linter is, let me know and I'll drop off a couple of links. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:35, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

@Jonesey95: I am surprised you don't recognize me from WT:Linter :). I was of course using AWB for those, but I had some weird regexes that I ended up removing, probably after that page (when I decided I shouldn't be trying to sort arbitrary smalls on the pages of interest, just the ones wrapping references). There's also a possibility that one was one of the ones I did it manually, in which case also user error but dumber. :) (That particular case could stand with removal of the smalls in toto, not least because there is a much more efficient way to make an entire table small. [Not that I advocate for that solution since small text is inaccessible / prior chreaching ;)]. --Izno (talk) 20:05, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

I recognized your username, I just didn't remember where I had seen it amidst the many gnome/tech forums I frequent, so I didn't want to blindside you with unfamiliar techspeak. As for small tags, I, like you, am sometimes tempted to just take a flamethrower to all of them, but in the interest of avoiding drama on my talk page, I try as much as possible to preserve editors' formatting intent when de-Linting. I do upsize text that drops below 85% (per MOS:FONTSIZE) if I notice it, however. – Jonesey95 (talk) 22:06, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

MP

See User_talk:Jon_(WMF)#Temporary_Main_Page_Banner for some preliminary work that is going on right now. — xaosflux ^Talk 02:41, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Draft of ideas for project page

Hi. Some editors had asked me to prepare a proposal to present to others at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council, to explain the changes that i wish to make, and to get their feedback and input, on what they think of the ideas.

I have prepared a brief, concise draft below.by the way, I have made a sub-section break for this draft, just to make it easier to edit; obviously, if you wish to remove the section break, that is totally up to you.

could you please let me know what you think? thanks!!

title:draft of ideas to suggest at WikiProject Council, for changes to the page

Make page more accessible for editing; make it more inviting for members of active WikiProjects to come there and participate remove decorative images on section breaks on main page; replace them with regular section breaks which allow users to edit easily Provide links to web pages, databases or resources, that provide data on which WikiProjects are active. Provide links to specific WikiProjects, or names of specific coordinators, where editors can obtain input on how to manage WikIprojects Provide links to the WikiProjects that are most active group WikiProject links by subject area Provide names of a few of the WIkiProject coordinators who are most active, in order to enable others to request their feedback Provide sections or pages where WikiProjects can provide updates on their efforts, or hold discussions about current methods and developments this could be a sub-page of the project page, or it could be a shared workspace on a talk page.

ok. what do you think? I have deliberately kept this very concise. I can add to it if you wish.

Also, for discussion of this proposal, there are various options as to where to discuss this. if you wish, I could set up a shared talk page in my own user space. or I could make it a sub-page of the WikiProject Council; however, before I would add any pages there, I would need at least some other editors who wish me to do so. Any options for this is fine with me.

Could you please let me know what you think of the ideas above? does this accord with what you wish me to present there? you had indicated a while back that you had some agreement with some ideas. I am willing to adjust or revise these in any way that you might wish. feel free to let me know which parts need changes, or need expansion, or need condensing; whatever you prefer is totally fine. I appreciate your help. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 18:29, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Kalyani Natarajan

Why is this actress not notable? Unlike the deletion discussion, I have included a reference (Kalyani Natarajn: My base is home) that is from a notable source (The Hindu) and talks about her career. --DragoMynaa

DragoMynaa, I deleted the article because it was nearly the exact same as the article that was deleted at the discussion about deletion. I have not myself made a judgement about whether the actress is notable either way (aside: administrators only assess a group consensus when using the tools). If you think that the actress is notable, then you should consider drafting the article, making it clear that the page was previously deleted. --Izno (talk) 02:44, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Recent block

Hello Izno, hope all is well. Just a heads up, Embedded Systems Engineer is LTA vandal so you might need to revoke talk page access. They have been abusing their talk page privileges. -- LuK3 (Talk) 17:48, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Help_talk:CS1_errors#Unknown_parameter_%7Cxxxx=_ignored

I was wondering how to include detailed technical information in addition to the English text you included. I have a talk started at Help_talk:CS1_errors#Unknown_parameter_|xxxx=_ignored .

Maybe hiding the gory details in a submenu, available to the user to click on, might work. Something like in the Visual Editor:

--Lent (talk) 06:28, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

On the automated side of things, I made a suggestion for an automated suggestion for the now removed, previously deprecated, dead-url and deadurl, to url-status.

See: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Automated_suggestion_for_|dead-url=_|deadurl=_to_|url-status --Lent (talk) 10:03, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Tsirelson's page

Hi, you have reverted the edit to Tsirelson's page. Have you looked at the referenced user page of his? I am really uncertain how one should proceed here - it is a fact that he passed away, as he wrote himself, and it is not clear to me how to confirm this "publicly" (I have confirmed with friends who saw the death certificate). Please advise. 132.76.61.51 (talk) 14:07, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

IP135, we require reliable sources to confirm a living person's death. His user page is not sufficient. Please be patient as we wait for an obituary or similar. --Izno (talk) 16:24, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi, is the following https://en-exact-sciences.tau.ac.il/math/Tsirelsonborisen formal enough? If so, I will edit the page and add a link to that. Please advise. 132.76.61.51 (talk) 06:49, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

I think Izno will agree that's plenty good enough. EEng 11:52, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry but you make terrible mistake. solahutte and kozubnik are two different places with different history.please contact me p.smolarek@gmail.com and i try clear history of this two places for you from my personal experiences of this places. best regards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.43.125.137 (talk) 08:20, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

IP 178, I am not the person you are trying to contact. I did not do anything to conflate the two concepts. You will need to look elsewhere in the history of the page. --Izno (talk) 14:50, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

How I can estabilish a consensus and where I should advertise a change?

This time when I turned on my computer, I read my Wikipedia notifications out of curiosity. You said that "Edit requests are for when consensus is established. Please consider advertising the change elsewhere." at Wikipedia_talk:Risk_disclaimer.

As a newbie, I don't understand how and where I should estabilish consensus and advertise the change. Sorry if I'm asking in wrong place, but it's really easy to get lost within tens, if not thousands of help pages. Fortunny (talk) 20:12, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

@Fortunny: You can use the RFC process, or you can advertise the discussion at WP:VPPOL, or both. I think those are probably the best places in this context. Be mindful to make the message a neutral one if you advertise the discussion. Let me know if you want more help. --Izno (talk) 02:56, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

please help translate this message into your local language via meta

The 2019 Cure Award

In 2019 you were one of the top ~300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a thematic organization whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:35, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Page move revert

Would you review and handle Talk:Command_(series)#Page_move_revert? This short discussion is concerning the need to revert a contested BOLD move. I think it's clear where the discussion is going. Command (series) should be moved back to Command: Modern Air Naval Operations. -- ferret (talk) 14:51, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

So you requested someone with no context to the conversation at large to simply supersede the discussion process to implement the decision you're arguing without coming to a conclusion on the discussion on the talk page, nice, a very productive use of this person's time and an even further excellent interpretation of the guidelines for Wikipedia regarding page changes and discussions regarding said changes. Furthermore Izno I've pinged you on that talk page with additional questions as you stipulated. Tookatee (talk) 03:45, 10 March 2020 (UTC)