User talk:ActivelyDisinterested

Revert

My bad for this edit. Rollback buttons are always hard to miss. Sarrail (talk) 22:41, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

No harm, no foul. Thanks for letting me know. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 22:42, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

Request

Hey @ActivelyDisinterested, I need some help formatting the references in an article I am currently working on (John Hart Ely). I was wondering if you could format the references similar to how you did the article on Boethius? I'm not much very good with all the technical fixes and the way I do them manually takes more time than I think it needs to. GuardianH (talk) 14:11, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

Of course, give me a few minutes it doesn't look like a lot of work. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 14:24, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

All done, anything else just ask. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 15:05, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

You are a saint! Thanks so much. GuardianH (talk) 04:12, 24 November 2022 (UTC)

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Undo at Conversion_therapy

You have Undone my edit at Conversion therapy.

The original text is gibberish which does not make any sense in English. It looks like a speaker of English as a second or foreign language was trying to write "step-mother" but mangled it. I adjusted this so that the sentence made sense.

By Undoing my edit, you have made the article say:

requesting the mother the step back,

which again is complete gibberish. If you don't like my suggested fix, please suggest your own fix. Don't just leave it broken. Thank you. 14.200.84.79 (talk) 14:35, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

It's asking the mother to (metaphorically) take a (literal) step back. It's a perfectly acceptable English idiom. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 14:38, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

There are probably better sources, but this s the first one Google gave: take a step back -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 14:40, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

So if I understand you correctly, your suggested fix is to change the page to instead say:

requesting the mother take a step back,

If so, that works for me. Having read the rest of your current talk page and seeing "once they start their not bad," I realise now that you might not be sufficiently familiar with English to see there's a syntactic error in "requesting the mother the step back". Would you see a syntax error in "requesting the dog the sit"? That's the same structure. 14.200.84.79 (talk) 14:47, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Ha my brain must have autocorrect the "take" into the sentence, yes you right it's missing a word. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 14:55, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

FYI try out {{tq}} templates, if you use them your text becomes "requesting the mother take a step back". And you don't have to break the flow of text. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 14:58, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

I've updated the sentence to read requesting the mother take a step back. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 15:11, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the template tip: good to know! I see your edit improved the article. Good working together!

As for missing the error, I wonder if that is related to: "Also if it doesn't work on mobile it's becoming increasingly irrelevant". Such an impoverished interface with a tiny screen and no keyboard doesn't do you any favours when scanning text for errors. I really think that if (for example) a text file doesn't open on a mobile, that isn't ASCII's fault; it's the mobile platform's shortfalling. Or if a JPEG doesn't open to the desired zoom / scaling / orientation on a mobile, that isn't JPEG's responsibility; it's the mobile platform's onus to read the data and present it appropriately. By the same token, if websites (for whatever reason) "don't work on mobile" that isn't the fault of Apache or the W3 consortium; it's the mobile platform's job to retrieve the content and present it sanely, and if it can't do so, it's the mobile which is the inadequate component. I haven't got a solution for trying to fit an entire computing interface onto a postage stamp but I salute you for persevering! 14.200.84.79 (talk) 15:18, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Not in the slightest, look at my editting history. I completed thousands of highly detailed and technical fixes without issue. The cause of this error is block reading. As to "Also if it doesn't work on mobile it's becoming increasingly irrelevant", mobile makes up most people reading the site and most editors (although not most edits as script tools only work on a proper desktop). As to images the main problem is editors setting default thumbnail sizes way out of line with policy, the Wikipedia software does a great job of scaling things correctly otherwise. You have to remember the browser running on the operating system of a mobile phone will be very similar to the browser running on a desktop. As to things like a text file, if a text editor can't open a text file the issue is likely one of formatting not whether it's being opened on mobile or desktop. The keyboard issue is also just not an issue, I remember watching someome beat a touch typist on one of the old telephone keypads (and that was decades ago). It's much more to do with what you're used to, and increasing that isn't a full desktop setup. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 15:30, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Also I should note the desktop PC across from where I'm sitting has a screen resolutions the same as my phone. The only time I've used it for editting Wikipedia is when I had to copy a truly huge amount of text in an edit, it's the only time the power of a desktop has been necessary. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 15:41, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Woah! I use a Nokia E72 but without conveniences like Ctrl-Backspace, Shift-Home, insert/overwrite, etc. my typing on it is far slower than it is on a computer. But you make a good point that practice makes perfect (or at least, practice makes one faster!). 14.200.84.79 (talk) 15:46, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Nothing makes one perfect, as the time need to reach perfection must be infinite. Speed means you can correct your mistakes before anyone notices, and if noone notices then you never made a mistake ;). Honestly though things like pinch to zoom and long press to highlight/copy a sentence make many tasks far simpler on mobile. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested ∆transmissions∆ °co-ords° 15:52, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

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