I recently tried making the Wikicode to your userpage more readable by moving (almost) all the CSS to a different page. Here is my attempt (CSS)
Clearly something went very wrong with the background. I figured since you were brilliant enough to come up with all those gradients to make that pattern, you could probably also figure out what went wrong here QuickQuokka[talk • contribs]12:03, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Also sorry for not asking if I could optimize your userpage first, but you also did kinda open source it by posting it under a CC BY-SA license, which I did comply with. QuickQuokka[talk • contribs]12:04, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@QuickQuokka Okay that's absolutely amazing, right now I'm on mobile but when I get back to my PC I'll take a look! (Speaking of this I really need to make it mobile-accessible too) ChaotıċEnby(t · c)12:05, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Just back! It looks great, I think the only missing part is that the background doesn't repeat correctly, but that can easily be fixed! Can I try to? ChaotıċEnby(t · c)21:18, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Chaotic Enby: Sorry for not replying, I've been a bit busy!
Also a few more things I'm realizing could improve it:
On some systems, the Latin part of "Reem Kufi" is a separate font called "Josefin Sans" so that could be added as a fallback font
Fun fact, Reem Kufi was originally an Arabic (Kufic) font, with the Latin character set being added from Josefin Sans and both were merged into one font
The rickroll link doesn't have the brighter color and I'm wondering what went wrong (very likely a "!important" rule should do the job)
There's a wider space between "Chaotic" and "Enby", that's easily fixable too
Hi Chaotic Enby. I reached out a while back regarding the "Security incidents" section of the LastPass page. I disclosed a COI and said the sections was over-sized. You mentioned many of the sources are primary or mis-represented. I copy/pasted the entire section, then indicated suggested trims with strikeouts and offered explanations in highlights at: User:AmyMarchiando/draft.
You provided some feedback, but I think there was some confusion. I wasn't asking to delete the entire section - just the parts in strikeout. I wanted to check-in on if you would still consider reviewing. The section is still flooded with primary sources and no one else has responded. Appreciate it! AmyMarchiando (talk) 13:15, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The Userpage Barnstar!
The Userpage Barnstar
I tracked down this barnstorm just because your Userpage is that incredible! Seeing how you responded very well to recommendations about your Userpage and then crafted it into what it is today proves even more that you deserve this. WMrapids (talk) 18:35, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks a lot! I still have a few things to fix, including adding the CSS in a separate page, and more ideas for improvements to come! ChaotıċEnby(t · c)21:01, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I did not delete any article, I tagged them for speedy deletion (because, as I explained before, no claim of significance), and then admins deleted them. (I am not an admin) Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 01:19, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No worries! To write an article on Wikipedia, you need the topic to be notable. In other words, you can't write about any random person. For this, you usually need coverage in several independent reliable sources mentioning the topic in detail (more than a passing mention in one paragraph). If you don't have these sources yet, but have reasons to believe they exist, a claim of notability can help indicating that the topic is likely notable. For instance, if someone won the Nobel Prize, this alone justifies having an article on them, as sources likely exist. Significance is a lower bar than notability (see here for common claims of significance or importance), and is needed to avoid the article being speedy deleted. The idea being that, if the lower bar of significance can't be cleared, it is unlikely for the topic to meet the higher criterion of notability. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 03:09, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Well i wrote the musical artist article again but this time better hopefully you can review it and see if theres any failures or mistakes Endaxas (talk) 04:25, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Still no reliable sources, which are explicitly needed for an article on a living person. I can move it to draftspace if you want, so you have time to work on it without risking it being deleted again. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 04:40, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately, some topics might just not have reliable sources, and thus not be notable enough for inclusion on Wikipedia. Really sorry, but that's the criterion used here. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 06:09, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Someone claiming to be relatives with other people isn't enough to state it as fact, that whole section was relying on primary sources (her own book) and original research (often with citations not even talking about the connection). Furthermore, the main reason why you've been reverted to begin with was your attempt at removing an Article for Deletion template, which you are not allowed to do if the discussion hasn't closed. ChaotıċEnby(talk · contribs) 18:21, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
According to what I read on Wikipedia anyone can remove the template. It doesn't stop the discussion from continuing. A citation of the Mormon Family History Library which does contain, document, and back up her family facts was provided. Just because you don't like the facts, doesn't mean you should be covering up their existence. Your claim of not providing family details as the reason for deletion doesn't add up as you did not remove living family members from her article. Only dead ones. Hmmmm PenmanWarrior (talk) 18:34, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No, it doesn't have anything to do with me "liking" or not this person which I didn't know before today, and everything to do with you removing AfD templates (which, no, you are not allowed to do) and adding material with no reliable sources. ChaotıċEnby(talk · contribs) 18:43, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi - I'm Girth Summit. I don't think we've ever interacted before, aside from commenting once or twice on the same threads at ANI. I'm dropping by to share an observation with you - nothing more than that.
In mid-November of last year, I took a bit of a break from editing - I had a lot of urgent stuff going on IRL, and between one thing and another I ended up not logging in for about six weeks. When I got back, after clearing out my notifications (felt a lot like work, I can tell you), I took a look at ANI, and noticed that your username was everywhere. Maybe my memory is faulty, but I don't remember you being a 'regular' there before my break, but now you're all over the place, commenting on what seems like every thread. I know that it's not actually every thread - at present, there are 39 threads on the page, and Ctrl+F tells me that your username only appears 20 times - but that's still rather a lot. I haven't done an exhaustive search, but I think you are probably the most active non-admin participant there over the last couple of months. You might even be the most active participant overall, including admins.
So, that's my observation. Why am I telling you this? You're not breaching any policy, or even any behavioural expectation; there is nothing to say that you cannot do what you are doing. That being said, if you can stomach a little bit of patronising advice, then I'm not above offering it. I've seen newish accounts get too interested in the goings on at ANI before, and get drawn too far into the 'drama' side of the project before they're fully conversant with the rules, written and unwritten. I am not suggesting that you stop reading, or commenting, at ANI; if you are interested in my advice though, I would suggest that you keep half an eye on it while doing other (usually more productive) things, and only make a comment if you have something particularly insightful to say.
I was probably guilty of being a bit too interested myself in the goings on at ANI back in 2018ish, and would have been better advised to go write an article or two. I therefore hope you take this in the spirit in which it is intended - just some friendly advice from an 'middle-aged' hand (I can't claim to be an old hand at this quite yet...). Best wishes GirthSummit (blether)00:00, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You're right, I should probably cool down a bit from replying at ANI all the times. It's more about wanting to help editors but I agree that it's easy to get caught on the drama, and I acknowledged myself before that I've been spending a little too much time on it the last couple weeks. I'm not a very new editor, but I understand your advice and I'll try to at limit my participation there. ChaotıċEnby(talk · contribs) 00:05, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Update: Removed ANI and AN from my watchlist, this should help. I'll go back if I have something egregious to report (like persistent vandalism that's too complex for AIV or RFPP), but that should prevent me from looking at every thread. Thanks a lot for the reminder, it's absolutely good advice! ChaotıċEnby(talk · contribs) 00:12, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, saying 'newish' was maybe wrong of me - everything's relative, I guess. I see a vast amount of positive work from you in the ITN mainpage space, I'm not meaning to suggest you're a newb, I guess I just mean you ANI participation went from basically zero to massive in a short space of time. Please don't feel you need to de-watchlist it on my account - I'm just suggesting that you spend a bit of time thinking about each situation in the round, and whether your comment is really going to add anything, before making it. Cheers GirthSummit (blether)00:28, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, I absolutely get it. Don't feel like you were the one who pressured me to de-watchlist it, that was already something I had in the back of my mind for my own mental health. ChaotıċEnby(talk · contribs) 00:39, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! There's a comment in the infobox saying <!-- Please do not add any Indic script in this infobox, per WP:INDICSCRIPT guideline. -->. It's because of WP:INDICSCRIPT, which itself was because of many edit conflicts about which scripts to use for which places or people, with some infoboxes ending up with many scripts at once. While I admit it's more straightfowards for South Indian cities, with the four main languages being pretty well distinguished, the whole thing has been the source of a lot of debates already, unfortunately... ChaotıċEnby(talk · contribs) 02:22, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, thanks for your work my talk gape, I'd appreciate it if you took a look at it to figure out what's really wrong with it cause the "archive 2" is looking kind of funky. And if you don't mind, and tips on how I could learn how to code? I'm interested and I know it's hard work but I'm willing to give it my all Thank you. dxneo (talk) 20:58, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Just fixed it, there was a newline somewhere there shouldn't have been! To learn how to code, that's a pretty vast endeavor so I'm not too sure what to recommend, are you interested in webdesign or coding programs? Or something else? ChaotıċEnby(talk · contribs) 21:35, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for the late reply! There are a lot of different languages depending on your goals, with some like C++ being "closer to the machine" and, while teaching more about the inner workings of the code, can be less intuitive for a beginner. Python is certainly the usual choice for people starting to learn, and has a wide variety of libraries depending on what you want to do with it. ChaotıċEnby(talk · contribs) 21:12, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've been meaning to compliment your userpage since the first time I saw you around Artsakh-related pages, and it seems like every time I take a look at it you've made it even better! I've really never seen anything quite like it on Wikipedia! Much respect for raising the bar of what a great userpage looks like. Vanilla Wizard 💙21:06, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks a lot to you too for the compliments! I'm still planning to fix a few things, although they likely won't be too visible (finally moving the CSS code to a separate page, fixing bugs making parts unclickable, having a better mobile version). ChaotıċEnby(talk · contribs) 21:09, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi! I wanted to let you know that I went ahead and took off the various tags from Giuseppe Frassinetti. (It's a brand-new page that a new editor made just this morning, and I don't want them to be scared off by immediately getting a bunch of different tags on their teeny stub.) I've given it at least one reference to get them started, and put it in some categories. Notability I think is fine; the guy in question has articles in several other languages, which I've connected appropriately.
Thanks a lot, sorry! I'll try to wait a little more to tag new articles, didn't want to scare them off but more to guide them about what the article needs but I realize how it can be scary, thanks! ChaotıċEnby(talk · contribs) 16:42, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Re: Obelisks
obelisks are genetically completely unrelated to any lifeform known previously
Hi, what's a "CIR block"? I hope it's not a permanent block, I can still be useful to this encyclopaedia. I will do my best to take a break for at least a week, in which I will think about how to solve my various shortcomings that have been explained to me for months, I hope I can. The Jack (talk) 00:51, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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As a new page patroller, remember to give a content creator at least an hour after they have stopped editing a new article before tagging it for deletion or taking any drastic action on it. I haven't evaluated the tagging to see if it is appropriate, I'm just commenting about the timing of the tagging.
Thanks! Didn't see they had been editing more recently, I thought it was one hour after the creation of the article itself. Sorry for that, I'll know it for next time! The last two barnstars might or might not be due to people making inside jokes on the Wikipedia discord server :p Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 00:12, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Words
I don't know how much advice means coming from someone who has mostly done wiki-janitor work (99% of the edits in my /32 were me) - but I just wanted to say that most of the time when people start saying obviously wrong things, and it's in a place where you don't have to answer, and it's a statement that is riling you up - that it's better to just ignore it and maybe watch as it reaches it's boring conclusion from afar.
Be it a troll trying to rile you up, or someone trying to appeal a block by saying that others are wrong, if it's a situation that is definitely going to be solved by others anyways (as is this one) then it's good to recognize that fact and maybe take advantage of that freedom to do something you enjoy instead. – 2804:F14:809C:9001:DDFB:94F6:6529:2AC0 (talk) 11:36, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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March 1850
We went back? How far back?
Oh no…
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For context I didn't "significantly contribute" to that article, I removed a bunch of copyvio and the first revisions were revdel'd, making the bot think I was the first contributor to the article. Yayyy for chaos! Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 03:49, 5 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Oh sorrý. Á section was deleted which i was editing, and í guess Wikipedia guesed us editing at the same time as an edit conflict. Sorrý for the misunderstanding. Blackmamba31248 (talk) 01:20, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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I'm very confused by the rejection of my edits to the anacaonda article; they are accurate summaries of the two papers published in Bionomina; Rivas et al. did literally refuse to acknowledge that Latreille's name was available, as noted by Vásquez-Restrepo et al., and quoting the ICZN is very much relevant to the argument provided by Dubois et al. It makes no sense to add the fact that the availability of the name is being contested without explaining how and why the name is contested. That is not OR, and I would appreciate it if you would restore the edits. If you feel I am using weasel words, then I can change the wording, but the section challenging the nomenclatural availability needs to be restored and reinforced. Thanks. Dyanega (talk) 21:36, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The fact that the availability of the name is contested should be pointed out, but you shouldn't cite the ICZN directly and make the argument yourself (that's the OR part) or say that Rivas refused to acknowledge Latreille's name (a loaded word). The best thing to do would be to explain the argument (and claims) of Vásquez-Restrepo et al., but without taking sides or claiming that one or the other is correct. There is a difference between saying "Vásquez-Restrepo et al. contested the avaliability of the name" and claiming, in wikivoice, that the ICZN proves the name isn't valid. As the article is currently a GA, this is even more of a requirement, and (several) paragraphs should be written carefully to detail the arguments being made without bias. Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 21:41, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I understand the weasel word bit, but not the OR part - very specifically, Dubois et al. say the new name violates Article 13. If I put that into the WP article, readers will not know what ICZN Article 13 is, what it means, or what it says, unless I quote Article 13. That is not OR. Citing Dubois et al. is going to look pretty meaningless without establishing that context, but I'll give it a shot. Dyanega (talk) 22:08, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi. With all respect. He is a YouTuber focused on music in Venezuela where the content is popular. I invite you to reconsider the decision and investigate the YouTuber's articles. Benito Ocasio (talk) 01:43, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks for your contributions to Avalon assemblage. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because the article is incomplete and lacks context.
I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.
@Stifle I'm contesting the draftification, the article establishes context (one of the three Late Ediacaran biota assemblages), references are enough to establish notability, and an article being a stub alone isn't a reason for draftifying. (cf. WP:DRAFTIFY, criterion 2a-i). Plus, I'm already planning on expanding it further (cf. the {{Under construction}} template on the page). Chaotıċ Enby (talk · contribs) 13:50, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You can move it back whenever you feel it is appropriate for mainspace, but I would suggest doing that after you've completed your plans of expanding it further. At the moment it is borderline A1 speedy eligible (not enough context to identify the article subject). Stifle (talk) 14:10, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Francois Stemmet notability issues
Hi I am trying to add a page for Francois Stemmet( marked for speedy deletion). Notability seems to be the issue. He is clearly notable, having been on tv,radio etc. for over 50 years. He is well known, however I cannot find specific articles other than a bio on tvsa, google books and countless other external sources. Any ideas on how to proceed from here. NiekieM (talk) 14:28, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]