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Hello Yobot,

Thank you for visiting the page, I created it 2 years ago and will update it from time to time, it is an important topic as my PhD is base on that! Thanks for help and reminder!

KSR — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.88.70.11 (talk) 08:27, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You are welcome. -- Magioladitis (talk) 04:56, 5 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Remove br tags in Image descriptions

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Hi, this edit breaks formatting in the image description. Magic♪piano 14:14, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads up. Page excluded until bug is fixed. -- Yobot (talk) 14:23, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wilhelm of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken, inexplicable and inappropriate Defaultsort

OK, I think I understand about the entries with dates. But now why did Yobot add the Defaultsort I removed from Wilhelm of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken in order to alphabetize it again under Palatinate? I think the mark in there is a minus sign. So it's not supposed to be a problem--or so it was explained to me. I'm doing rather a lot of work to improve these categories, and finding it mindlessly undone just a day or two later. This all came up when I accidentally noticed that I'd made exactly the same change to the same article about three times over a few weeks. Uporządnicki (talk) 18:34, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's a hyphen-minus, not a minus; but that's not the problem character. It's the ü in Zweibrücken which needs to have the umlaut removed so that it sorts correctly in English. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:46, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I'm afraid you have the advantage here. I used the key to the right of the number zero, unshifted. Did I use a minus or a hyphen-minus? And whichever that is, how does one type the other? And which one should be used here? Uporządnicki (talk) 02:32, 5 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

AzseicsoK The problem here is not the dash. It is a common one that trips up alot of people. The key to the right of the number zero is the correct one. The section that covers sorting is WP:NAMESORT. The main problem is the ü in Wilhelm's name. Only the standard 26 English letter alphabet is to be used. The sub-section that covers this is WP:MCSTJR and it's the 4th bulleted point.

German nobility names are especially confusing from about ~1780 to WWI with German nationalism. In Wilhelm's case, he was bared from inheriting his father's title. In history books, he is most commonly called Wilhelm von Zweibrücken. In all cases, he is Wilhelm von Zweibrücken (with and without Graf) in the American Revolution. I don't about naming articles of Germans, but my clueless self would guess Wilhelm von Zweibrücken as the title. In sorting, it would be Zweibrucken, Wilhelm von as this is the name he was known by. You can set the sort value in the category "Counts Palatine of Zweibrücken" as Wilhelm of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken. Bgwhite (talk) 04:39, 5 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Talk page layout

Hello. You're moving article history to below the wikiproject banners but Wikipedia:Talk page layout says they should be the other way about. DrKiernan (talk) 17:59, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DrKiernan can you provide me the page this happens? I'll fix the code. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:00, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I just saw it at Talk:Olga Constantinovna of Russia. Thanks. DrKiernan (talk) 18:01, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DrKiernan thanks for the heads up. I'll fix it soon. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:04, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This author is not a drug

Talk:Alexander McCall Smith had a banner describing and categorizing the page as "Start-class in WikiProject Psychedelics, Dissociatives and Deliriants". For some authors this would be appropriate, but there's no evidence of that on the page. The edit was made by Yobot.

I've removed the banner and noted this on the talk page. --Thnidu (talk) 22:38, 15 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It was a bot bug that happened 3 years ago. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:44, 15 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

References and punctuation.

It's a bit messy sometimes when the bot changes reference location around punctuations (reference moved to after punctuation) - sometimes the reference is to a part of a sentence and not the whole sentence, and there is no way the bot can really understand if it's the case. Ehsnils (talk) 18:43, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ehsnils You need to give an example. Also, per WP:REFPUNC, references go after punctuation. Bgwhite (talk) 19:08, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Bgwhite See my example here: User:Ehsnils/sandbox/Reference Punctuation Example. Moving the references to the other side of the punctuation will as I see it change how the reference shall be interpreted when reading. Ehsnils (talk) 20:58, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]