You may call me by my full screenname, "Caradhras" alone, or, rarely, "CA" and variants. Preferably not CA for obvious reasons, and definitely not "Aiguo". CaradhrasAiguo (talk) 03:42, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Weather templates

Hi! I see you reverted my template changes, apparently I was reading the wrong dataset. That's fine. What actually made me do the edit was the word "trace" in the middle of otherwise numeric values. I'm using the weather data in my application, and I now have to hard code the "trace" into the code, just to convert it to 0. In short, I do not think it's a good idea to have classified values in the middle of numeric values. --rdnk (talk) 14:16, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Rdnk: It's understandable...I had to hard-code against errors in even the NCDC sets as well. Just treat them as 0s in sums / averages as does the NWS. CaradhrasAiguo (talk) 18:19, 17 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Edit on Xianyang

Hi I rolled back the edit here because the editor didn't supply a summary and the editor had previously had an edit on the same article reverted. I will advise the editor what the edit summary area is for. Regards, Aloha27 talk 21:08, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Weatherbox

I'M THE ONE WHO ADDED THE MEAN MAX AND MEAN MIN PARAMETERS IN THE WEATHERBOX TEMPLATE AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO IMPLEMENT THAT DATA TO VARIOUS WEATHERBOXES FOR DIFFERENT CITIES. I just want to ask if you are retrieving the data manually from NOW data, or is there a different source for this? Koopatrev (talk) 12:21, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Koopatrev: Yes, NOWData, which uses XMACIS interface anyway. I just copy-and-paste the 1981–2010 tabular data into a spreadsheet, minimising the manual work. CaradhrasAiguo (talk) 14:12, 18 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Single use weather boxes

Hi, why are you undoing the merger with the articles? There has been significant consensus at TFD over years that single-use weatherbox templates should be merged with the article and deleted. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 23:30, 3 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Heads up

Hi CaradhrasAiguo, just a friendly reminder (in relation to your Long Island edits) that it is generally appreciated to avail oneself of the edit summary functionality when making edits in the article namespace. This is especially true on high traffic articles and when removing (or adding) many bytes of data. Ergo Sum 16:51, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Weather comparison tables

Hi! I personally like sortable weather comparison tables, which you have removed from a few United States climate pages. It allows the cities to be compared. It's much harder to do that with {{Weather box}}.

However, I recognize sorting by high temperature is silly. So perhaps I could make a template that takes max, min, and avg as input, and displays max and min while adding the mean as sortkey using data-sort-value="avg temp". It would confuse some people, but there could be an explanatory note. I think I'll experiment with that idea using the table in Climate of California, though first I have to add sources for the data, which I failed to do while I was adding cities to the table.

The other thing is that the tables should have color like the List of cities by temperature that I'm working on. — Eru·tuon 18:11, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple weather box templates in Central Valley breaks references

The transclusion of multiple weatherbox templates at Central Valley (California) has introduced multiple references with the same name, causing errors in the References section. Can you fix? thanks! —hike395 (talk) 01:24, 5 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Just noticed the same problem at Long Island. This may be happening whenever you transclude multiple weatherbox templates. Could you kindly fix? Thanks! —hike395 (talk) 01:27, 5 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Hike395: I had noticed this problem at Geography of North Carolina and {{South Carolina weatherbox}}, so fixed it there. Once I get back to editing, the other places will be first priority. CaradhrasAiguo (talk) 02:01, 5 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This has also happened at Climate of California. It would be good to check the references section whenever you add multiple weatherbox templates to a page. — Eru·tuon 02:11, 5 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Labeled section transclusion for Minneapolis weatherbox

Could you explain why you would prefer not to use labeled section transclusion? (Or perhaps I am presuming your motive and you simply reverted me because I made the change without discussing it somewhere.) I like having the weatherbox editable on the page of the city that it describes. — Eru·tuon 21:50, 21 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Erutuon: 1) It is against existing practise / consensus across multiple templates (e.g. all templates at Category:United States weatherbox templates that were not nominated on 4 Sept). 2) You mentioned the template option, not LST, at the Sept discussion, so it seems amiss to change mind that rapidly. CaradhrasAiguo (talk) 14:03, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@CaradhrasAiguo: I reserve the right to change my mind as quickly as I want. But in that TfD, I was commenting on what I thought other people's reasoning was. I was agnostic on the subject.

When someone mentioned labeled section transclusion, I had never heard of it before, and I thought it was a more elegant solution than creating a separate template. It's quite annoying coming to an article and discovering that you cannot edit the weather box, but have to go to another page. So now I think LST is a better solution than separate templates. I think it was never discussed when people were creating all these separate templates, and perhaps they would have chosen LST instead if they had known about it. — Eru·tuon 19:59, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Samsnow engaging in tendentious editing

Hi,

Can you please help me try to engage Samsnow in mediation to stop their tendentious editing? They keep deleting the majority of the criticism section or including clearly biased text explaining why the organization should not be criticized.

Thanks,

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Template:Columbus, Ohio weatherbox

Don't forgot to update the Template:Columbus, Ohio weatherbox. You must of forgot about that, but I just thought I let you know.

The all-time record February high temperature of 78°F was recorded on February 24, 2017 at John Glenn Columbus International Airport for Columbus, Ohio NOAA. The old all-time record February high temperature was 75°F on February 26, 2000. OHWiki (talk) 03:35, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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I recently found that you edited the page of my hometown Qinghe, thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kychn (talk • contribs) 16:15, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Regarding our editing war on PRC vs China

I'm afraid you have misinterpreted what MOS:NC-CN means. The original text states When discussing geography, those places within the territorial control of the People's Republic of China should generally be said to be in "China". I think it has justified my edits. So please refrain from reverting my changes. Thanks!--211.142.189.66 (talk) 03:06, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

And in the infobox, there is a strong case that the fields refer to political divisions, not mere "geography". There is no harm in 3 extra words in an infobox where everything is separated line-by-line.

And stop shopping for editors to join in on a WP:POINTless edit war that you began, per WP:BRD. It does not reek well, especially when you interpret their drive-by "welcoming" as an endorsement or support of your edits; it should be very apparent from the mass Twinkle template usage that (s)he was driving by. CaradhrasAiguo (talk) 07:47, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox flags

Please don't change/remove the PRC flag and 'China' in the infobox on the Wuhan page until you have successfully changed the infobox on the Beijing and Shanghai pages. Most major cities on wikipedia have the flag of the country followed by the name of the country in the infobox- see New York City, London, Mexico City, etc. Geographyinitiative (talk) 07:07, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I do not think WP:OSE is a convincing argument here, since the vast majority of the mainland settlements do not have a flag. Per WP:MOSFLAG, there is nothing to add here, unlike with sportsperson articles where the relevant MOS seems to override WP:MOSFLAG. CaradhrasAiguo (talk) 04:29, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

As with MOS:INFOBOXFLAG, the relevant MOS you are speaking about that overrides for sportsperson's articles also overrides for cities. Waddie96 (talk) 18:53, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Revert

Hey

Regarding the revert diff to Beijing:

According to WP:DWS:

<quote> It isn't necessary or desirable to try to revert every single article edit the sock puppet has ever made. If they have the most recent edit and it isn't adding anything to the article, or is vandalism or clearly disruptive, then you should revert it as you would any other unhelpful edit. If they have recently created articles and the master account was previously blocked, you can tag them for speedy delete with criteria G5 using Twinkle. Sometimes there are reasons why the articles aren't deleted and why edits aren't reverted. Do not edit war with admin over this. You can always ask, but the procedure for when and if to delete is complicated and not always obvious at first glance. Again, the goal isn't to punish the sock puppet, it is to take away the reward for violating policy. At the same time, we aren't trying to be pointy about it and there is no simple set of rules telling us when to and when not to delete, so experience and good judgement are required. </quote>

Is this one of those complicated procedures? If not, why revert an edit that is legitimate and fully supported by MOS:INFOBOXFLAG? Otherwise, please explain... Waddie96 (talk) 16:54, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@CaradhrasAiguo: Simply writing see my talk and reverting my revert (diff)? I've read the above but it does not answer my question as above. Once again, it is a legitimate edit; it has nothing to do with the sockpuppeteer's political stance on WP, the edit is valid. Waddie96 (talk) 17:24, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Waddie96: The sockpuppet is displaying a disruptive (covered under or is clearly disruptive) pattern of harassment by following my edit history, enough to the extent that Shenyang ([1]) and Chengdu ([2]) have both been protected. Allowing this sockpuppeteer to circumvent these protections by answering WP:POINTy edit requests is not sound.

Nope, consistency across articles in a particular region (here, mainland China) overrides any excessively nationalist whims of sockpuppets like Whaterss. Note there was no frivolous flag at Beijing's infobox until a single-purpose IP added it. CaradhrasAiguo (talk) 17:27, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Explain to me how replacing People's Republic of China with China and their flag is nationalistic? They're synonyms, and the flag assists readers in identifying the country. The consistency was flags until you removed them from Shanghai here. As with most major cities – see New York City, London, Mexico City, etc. as mentioned above. Waddie96 (talk) 18:47, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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@Waddie96: I already pointed out the flag was absent from Beijing's infobox continuously until July 2016; a similar situation exists with Shanghai as I noted at Talk:Shanghai. Your summary (The consistency was flags until you removed them from) is a misleading description of the timeline of events here. Harbin and Lhasa are yet more major cities without the flag.

This edit summary is not welcome, presenting the flags as an established convention, when WP:MOSINFOBOXFLAG does not mandate their use (and never has, likely never will) and neither does WP:MOS-ZH.

The sockpuppeteer has been blocked for taking edits excessively in favor of the CCP line, and note the edit summary here; he regards my removal of a redundancy to be "censorship". So everything he does should be regarded in a nationalist light. CaradhrasAiguo (talk) 19:48, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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ISO 3166-2:CN

The ISO 3166-2:CN codes for China has been updated it is no longer numbers they are now aligned with the GB/T 2260-1995 CSBTS. — ASDFGH (talk?) 20:32, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@ASDFGH: I took the ISO-3166-2:CN from each of the provincial articles. So do you mean Administrative division codes of the People's Republic of China (GB/T 2260-2007)?

Ah, I see, you have simply replaced the digits XX with the two-letter abbreviation. I'll take care of my previous edits via AWB then. CaradhrasAiguo (talk) 20:35, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Manchu people

Sorry, I recently reverted the new user Uavanaz's lengthy and irrelevant edit of Manchu people, but I believe I accidentally reverted your constructive edits as well. How do I only restore your edits in this case? Thanks!--Šolon (talk) 00:10, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Šolon: Sorry for not seeing the history of Uavanaz's edit in AWB. I just edited from my last revision and removed that which Uavanaz inserted after Cluebot. CaradhrasAiguo (talk) 01:45, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

David Chu (Hong Kong politician) =

Just wanted to thank you for your ongoing work cleaning up Chinese-language-related formatting issues. Too bad that manual formatting inside citation templates (like this) is still necessary, what we really need is "script-journal" and "trans-journal" parameters inside CS1 templates (like the already-existing script-title and trans-title parameters). Happy editing! quant18 (talk) 01:53, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]