User talk:Isaacl

FYI

FYI, I noticed that this manual archive you did got repeated later on by the archiving bot. So there are now two identical "தனீஷ்: May 21, 2021" sections in the archive page. --- Possibly (talk) 18:01, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for the note; I've removed one of the duplicated sections. isaacl (talk) 19:57, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Cheating in baseball has been nominated for Did You Know

Hello, Isaacl. Cheating in baseball, an article you either created or to which you significantly contributed, has been nominated to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page as part of Did you know. You can see the hook and the discussion here. You are welcome to participate! Thank you. EnterpriseyBot (talk!) 12:00, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you

very much for this. I'd been led to believe it was impossible to accomplish this kind of formatting without screwing up screen readers, and having spent 12 years doing it this way, I occasionally still forget. I'm really quite happy that there is a (relatively) painless way to achieve the formatting I want without screwing up screen readers. I bow to your superior wikitext/HTML/java-something/whatever-this-stuff-actually-is skills. Now I just have to figure out a way to actually remember this can be done, and find a place to save it so I'll remember the actual method to do it. Anyway, thanks much. --Floquenbeam (talk) 18:01, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

The most correct way to do it requires more HTML markup, which I know will be offputting for many. This way creates an empty list item which isn't ideal from a semantic point of view. (It also puts the last part into its own list item instead of continuing the original one, which is semantically different than continuing within the first list item. I imagine for threaded conversation, the distinction isn't significant.) However the MediaWiki software detects the empty item and gives it a style class so it won't be displayed, and Graham87 confirmed that screen readers thus ignore it. I can't claim credit for coming up with it myself; I saw someone else (Redrose64 perhaps?) use it. Glad to be able to help! isaacl (talk) 18:17, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

It wasn't me. RexxS (talk · contribs) probably, or maybe Pigsonthewing (talk · contribs). --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 23:09, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

Wasn't RexxS; I don't think it was Pigsonthewing. isaacl (talk) 23:15, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

As described in Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility § Multiple paragraphs within list items, the {{bulleted list}} template could also be used:

* Start first list item that is an intro for a list of points: {{bulleted list
|1=point 1
|2=point 2
|3=point 3
}} Continue first list item
* Second list item

Resulting output:

• Start first list item that is an intro for a list of points:
  • point 1
  • point 2
  • point 3
  Continue first list item
• Second list item

This method doesn't add any extra list items so is semantically more clean, at the cost of using a template instead of wikitext list syntax. isaacl (talk) 23:35, 22 June 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Cheating in baseball

On 1 July 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Cheating in baseball, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that pitchers are cheating in baseball with a glue invented for strongmen to hold Atlas balls? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Cheating in baseball. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Cheating in baseball), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:03, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

They cheat in baseball? For shame! --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:58, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

My question is about "strongmen holding Atlas's balls"? I had no idea!!!! ―Buster7 ☎ 12:18, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

I wrote the hook and tried to make it eye-catching :-) isaacl (talk) 00:45, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

My sig

Sorry for the slow reply but fixed with special:diff/1032477502 ~ RhinosF1_(Chat) / ^(Contribs) 17:33, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

(talk page watcher) @RhinosF1: It's now 264 characters, which is above the 255-char threshold permitted by WP:SIG#LENGTH. You can shorten it without altering the appearance:

<span style="color: #33cccc;">~</span> [[User:RhinosF1|<strong style="color: #0000ff;">Rhinos</strong><em>F1</em>]][[User Talk:RhinosF1|<sub style="color: #999999;">(Chat)</sub>]] / <sup>([[Special:Contributions/RhinosF1|Contribs]])</sup>

which is 238 chars. This works because all attributes that are valid on a <span> tag are also valid on all other opening tags. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 08:33, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Redrose64,  Done ~ RhinosF1_(Chat) / ^(Contribs) 14:48, 8 July 2021 (UTC)