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Hello BrownHairedGirl: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, Katniss May the odds be ever in your favor ♥ 21:20, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
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- Thank you! BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:51, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
Merry Christmas!
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- Thanks, @Rlink2! Merry Christmas to you too, and best wishes for the new year. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:09, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
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| Happy New Year, BrownHairedGirl! In 2022, other editors thanked you 1110 times using the thanks tool. This places you in the top 6 most thanked Wikipedians of 2022. Congratulations and, well, thank you for all that you do for Wikipedia. Here's to 2023! Mz7 (talk) 23:37, 31 December 2022 (UTC) |
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Happy New Year, BrownHairedGirl!
BrownHairedGirl,
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Hey, BrownHairedGirl. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! Chris Troutman (talk) 06:39, 7 January 2023 (UTC) |
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Happy First Edit Day!
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Perhaps Wikipedia:Bot requests#Accelerated Mobile Pages link eradicator needed is something in your wheelhouse
Everyone agrees that "amp" links are a bad thing (see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 202#Accelerated Mobile Pages links), but automating their removal requires a two-step that you might be able to figure out. Basically, we need a bot that can test to see whether a link with the "amp" component removed works just as well, and if so remove that component. If not, it should check to see whether the Internet Archive has an archived version of the url to switch to. BD2412 T 00:03, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks for the pointer, @BD2412. It sounds like a very good idea, but I will leave its implementation to others. That's partly because because the test step is beyond my current toolkit, but also because of a wider disillusionment.
- My willingness to devote time to Wikipedia declined massively last September, when the vindictive mediocrities piled on yet again to denounce me for challenging failures to uphold policy. In this madhatter's tea party, there is no concern whatsoever that an admin asserted demonstrable falsehoods with bolded and underlined emphasis because they had not checked their facts, but outrage that someone challenged the folly.
- That was about the tenth such pile-on, and I see little point in risking another. There are several possible explanations for this decline in Wikipedia culture, but the result of it all is that intellectual rigour is treated as a grave sin, while unexamined folly is held up as a virtue. I don't want to waste my time challenging this anti-intellectualism, or to face more of the rage of people who think that robust critique of error is a mortal sin, rather than the essential basis of any collaborative intellectual endeavour.
- For example the dominant notion is that contributions to discussions should be brief assertions, and that rebuttal with evidence is unwelcome because it is necessarily much more verbose. That principle rigs discussions in favour of glib pile-ons and against rigorous assessment, which is the complete antithesis of everything I have spent four decades of adult life trying to achieve. The venom with which this vindictive anti-intellectualism is upheld makes it dangerous for me to participate much here: I don't want to expose myself to the pile-ons of the vindictive mediocrity who now dominate Wikipedia.
- Seventeen years ago, Wikipedia appealed to me as an open venue for intellectual collaboration, but a generation later the balance of talent has shifted markedly. It seems to have deteriorated into a mutual support club for people who have never been through the painful but vital process of relentless intellectual challenge which I learnt in undergraduate tutorials forty years ago, people who are still at the "well tried, kid" stage of being coddled by a teacher with low expectations.
- The result has been that since September, my appetite for Wikipedia has largely waned to the point where I have made less than 50 edits in the last two months, instead of my previous average of tens of thousands per month. That loss of appetite may change down the road, but for now every time I think about resuming work on my long to-do list or on bulk maintenance tasks, I decide that my energies are wasted here and that I would be much better doing some solid writing elsewhere, working with people who actually value robust critique.
- Bless you for sticking with it.
- Best wishes, BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:04, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
- I appreciate your position, and hope you feel better about things in the future. BD2412 T 00:53, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks, @BD2412, but I think that depends on whether there is a change of culture here, which seems extremely unlikely. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:53, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
- Can I ask if you feel that misogyny is a part of this. I have been an editor for just on 10 years with 1500+ well researched edits and I have had a new page rejected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:DiJones_Real_Estate The person rejecting the article suggests resources 'for new editors'. The article is about a company started by a (now deceased) female entrepreneur and has a history section dealing with her achievements, most of which were in the 1990's. The basis for the rejection was 'advertisement'. I have created and greatly expanded articles about several male entrepreneurs and their companies with no trouble at all. I feel the same as you at the moment.PinkAechFas (talk) 05:57, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks, @BD2412, but I think that depends on whether there is a change of culture here, which seems extremely unlikely. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:53, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
- I appreciate your position, and hope you feel better about things in the future. BD2412 T 00:53, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
Help with Draft
Hello! I was wondering whether you could help and improve this draft I started? I am very new here!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:George_Jackson_(conductor) Jacksogh1987 (talk) 17:35, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
- Sorry, @Jacksogh1987, but I have no interest in the topic, and no expertise in it. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:49, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
- Not to worry, and thanks! Jacksogh1987 (talk) 13:39, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
- Hey there! you should definitely ask around in the wikiportals linked in the talk page of your article. I'm more then sure that they'll lend a hand to a new editor. Also, welcome to wikipedia! I hope you enjoy your time here! - MountainKemono (talk) 15:20, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
Thomas Hibernicus / Thomas of Ireland
Dear bhg, happy New Year et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis from Germany.
Problem: It seems that both above mentioned persons are either identical or the context was mixed, because in both lemmata appear next to similar works as author's reference. As it is a truly Irish question it would be nice if you could help to solve the riddle. Carpediem192931 (talk) 17:55, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
- @Carpediem192931: I might have a look if you bothered to post links, but I am not going to go on a fishing trip. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 02:47, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
- Good morning and a prospective good weekend,
- here are the two lemma:
- Thomas of Ireland and
- Thomas de Hibernia
- Please look for 'Manipulus florum' as identical source.
- & thank you for the reply. Carpediem192931 (talk) 08:12, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
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Documentation re missing country names
Hi BHG, hope you are having a happy new year! – At least in real life. I'm sorry to read of your recent experiences described above to BD2412.
Anyway, I came here to mention that {{YYYY disasters in countryname category header}} and {{YYY0s disasters in countryname category header}} did not do well when Zimbabwe categories were renamed to e.g. Category:1970s disasters in Rhodesia. Each showed only an error like this:
- Template:YYY0s disasters in countryname category header cannot find the adjectival form of the noun "Rhodesia".
- For more info and suggested remedies, see Template:GetAdjectiveFromCountryName#Country name.
Well, there is nothing at the second link. You can test the template at, say, Category:1970s disasters in Rhodes.
I dug around and eventually found my way to Module:CountryAdjectiveDemonym/Adjectives, where I added a line of standing data which fixed that instance.
Is there a place with "info and suggested remedies", please? Rather than fix just one template, I thought I should report this to you as it probably affects a family of similar templates, and there might be a centralised place to fix them all.
Also, please note that I put some {{resolve category redirect}}s into both those templates. If you return to template maintenance & creation, their sibling templates & future similar ones could probably benefit from the same. – Fayenatic London 21:13, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
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