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Emphasis


Don't use capital letters for emphasis; where wording alone can't provide the emphasis, use italics.

Incorrect: Contrary to popular belief, aardvarks are NOT the same as anteaters.

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Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/China-related articles#Chinese equivalent for Template:Nihongo and Template:Nihongo2

Greetings! Could you please have a look at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/China-related articles#Chinese equivalent for Template:Nihongo and Template:Nihongo2? There's a discussion about creating a similar template for Chinese as there is already for the Japan-related articles (Template:Nihongo and Template:Nihongo2). I was wondering if you could help? Cheers! Jayaguru-Shishya (talk) 19:09, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Shout-out at the monthly metrics meeting

Wanted to make you aware that you and your scripts were acknowledged and praised at the monthly WMF metrics meeting! — MusikAnimal talk 19:32, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • Thanks for the heads up. -- Ohc ¡digame! 19:45, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • Check it out on YouTube :) https://youtu.be/cp9pbOUGU0w?t=2288 (can't link due to blacklist). That's right where you come in, but scan back a minute or two to get the preface, which is that statistically, your work coupled with other tools are proving that Wikipedians are more "productive" today than in previous years. Cheers! — MusikAnimal talk 22:47, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Stylistic questions

Hi there,

Hoping you can give me the shortcut explanation for a couple things in this edit (i.e. what specifically in the several pages cited I should look for).

Delinking -- especially "elephants" in the lead. It's a pretty central subject in the article that isn't otherwise linked in the lead. WP:SEAOFBLUE, sure, but shouldn't that be addressed by rewording rather than just not linking to something? Similarly, NGO, but less central and not in a sea of blue.

Why change some of the "work" parameters in the citations to "publisher", but not others -- and for those changed, why omit the work parameter? According to the template documentation "The publisher is the company that publishes the work being cited. Do not use the publisher parameter for the name of a work (e.g. a book, encyclopedia, newspaper, magazine, journal, website). Not normally used for periodicals. Corporate designations such as "Ltd", "Inc" or "GmbH" are not usually included. Omit where the publisher's name is substantially the same as the name of the work (for example, The New York Times Co. publishes The New York Times newspaper, so there is no reason to name the publisher). " (emphasis mine).

This is seriously minor stuff, but I get concerned when I see tool-assisted stylistic edits that conflict with what I understand as best practices (either because something is amiss with the tool/its use or because I misunderstand something). Thanks. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 15:38, 2 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your script now appears to be removing "publisher" data altogether now (eg this diff of Hard out Here). Surely that can't be intentional. Ibadibam (talk) 01:14, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ohc script (Jesus)

Hi there, Ohconfucius! I've got a question concerning your Ohc script. Whereas I completely agree that Jesus should be among the WP:OVERLINKed ones as the main character of the most wide-spread religion of the world, Christianity, there is now discussion at Talk:Mandaeism#A Wikilink for Jesus? about the issue. Could you please have a look and share your opinion? Thanks! Jayaguru-Shishya (talk) 22:18, 11 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Script fixes

Your script is "correcting" reference dates when they meet MOS:DATERET and MOS:DATEUNIFY. Specifically UTC dates are acceptable in refs. I'm also concerned it's dealing a little to harshly with overlinking in the case of UK counties. Blue Square Thing (talk) 14:05, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

OK - dates within references should be consistent. You've undone changes where they are either consistent (Leiston) or where the vast majority are UTC - the inconsistency is that the other should be changed (Beccles) as the mjority are UTC. Blue Square Thing (talk) 14:14, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
My reading of MOSNUM, but specifically MOS:DATEUNIFY, is that all publication dates should be of the same format, and all retrieval dates ditto. Where one reference contains day dates and another contains yyyy-mm-yy dates, these ought to be unified. This was certainly the case at Leiston before my edits. Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame! 22:15, 26 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Unified doesn't mean changing all the dates to the minority date style however. The implication is the opposite, change to the majority. Itlooks like a script simply acting to blindly change something - exactly the classic problem of scripts. Blue Square Thing (talk) 00:25, 27 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In order to

As an American writing on British topics, I find your script very useful. I'm not sure I agree, however, with always deleting occurrences of "in order to". It looks like this is based on a UK government style guide saying it's always redundant. But I found from this British source that it is a grammatically appropriate way to specify purpose. This seems more a style issue particular to that particular style guide than a local variety of English issue.--JFH (talk) 19:15, 30 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • Thank you for your comments. I'm happy to learn you find my script(s) useful.

    I was advised by my friend Tony exactly to the effect that "in order to" is always redundant and in any event its use is in rapid decline universally. I'm not aware that the source may have been the British government, but I think that represents a powerful source that tends to support its removal, except when it is uttered in the context of a quote. Indeed the source you cite says that it appears more frequently in writing than in speech. In a publication that is universal and demands concise prose of good quality, I also feel it redundant and occasionally unfashionable. As to whether my "authorities" legitimise systematic removal or whether the use is mere stylistic preference, your challenge is the first on this script action. @Tony1: please could you chime in? -- Ohc ¡digame! 20:21, 30 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    • It's redundant about 95% of the time. I read one the other day and as usual automatically tested the clause without it, and realised ... aha, you do need the hated "in order" there. The proof of the overwhelming majority is in the surprise. I zap these little fly-spots whenever I see them (unless the test fails, of course). "They fail in order to collect the subsidy" ... "They fail to collect the subsidy"—that fails the test. But people just spatter "in order" everywhere, and it makes me want to do a German salute from the 1930s. The script, regrettably, would require human testing of these before saving, so I think on balance it's better not to include. Tony (talk) 02:10, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I get it, it probably does more good than harm. It made me do some research to confirm it's not a British thing, but I guess that's not a bad thing either. --JFH (talk) 02:51, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Many thanks for the feedback. I just looked at the script, and it seems that I indeed referred to UK govt style guide. From the above example, I see that I'll need to remove from the script the action where it occurs in mid-sentence, but @Tony1: should I leave the removal where the sentence starts with "In order to"?-- Ohc ¡digame! 08:20, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Good point, OC: sentence-initial ". In order to", "; in order to"; ") in order to"; "—in order to"; "– in order to"; "- in order to"; and ": in order to". I can't imagine how there could be even a small chance of ambiguity with a direct connection with the preceding verb. So these additions to the script would all be valuable. Tony (talk) 04:59, 3 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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De-linking

Why did your "Script-assisted fixes" delink North Yorkshire and Lancashire in your edit to Bishop of Leeds? I don't see them linked elsewhere in the article, and it looks odd to have a list of counties some linked and some not. I've relinked them. PamD 11:13, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • The script is configured to unlink a county name when it is preceded by another linked term – which is more commonly the town or village to which it belongs. The principal reason is to de-fuse instances of WP:SEAOFBLUE in articles. Swathes of links in the same sentence are generally counter-intuitive in that they are rarely informative nor do they encourage clickthroughs. -- Ohc ¡digame! 11:35, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well I suggest that you need to manually over-ride your script in cases like this, where it's delinking alternate items in a perfectly reasonable list. You're responsible for your edits, and these aren't helpful. PamD 12:19, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • And I would also routinely link the county as well as the place name, deliberately, when identifying a location. Unlink the country, by all means, but have you any consensus for unlinking county names on this basis? Please stop unless you can show a consensus for this unlinking. PamD 12:20, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • When the location name is already linked, there is absolutely no reason for chain-linking the county immediately preceding it as well. To be honest with you, I had considering unlinking all the county names instead of just North Yorkshire and Lancashire. -- Ohc ¡digame! 12:27, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • OK, looking at a few FAs for buildings etc in UK, I note that countiess aren't linked where they immediately follow place names - in some cases Silverdale, Lancashire is a single link, in other cases it's Penwortham, Lancashire, and in others it's "Penwortham in the county of Lancashire". I'll change my own habit on that point. So the basic action of your script does indeed seem to follow consensus: but delinking half the items in a list was just wayward. Please watch your script to ensure you don't do that again. Thanks. PamD 16:10, 20 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I go further: unless English counties are of particular relevance, I delete them completely. Tony (talk) 07:53, 21 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

And while you've been whizzing through Devon, I spotted three cases of unwanted de-linking: at Tetcott (where Uffculme was delinked), and at Iddesleigh and Holcombe Burnell (where the first instance of Devon in the text was delinked). Based on the above, I can understand how the first could have happened if done automatically without overview, but the other two remain puzzling.  —SMALLJIM  12:28, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Script-assisted over-enthusiastic edits

Hallo, while most of the changes to Ashurst Wood were improvements, your script-assisted editing left two problems:

  1. while piping Mid Sussex (UK Parliament constituency) to hide the disambiguator, you didn't add back any wording to show it was a constituency, leaving the sentence as "which is mostly covered by the Mid Sussex."
  2. you removed capitals from the proper noun Independent Schools Inspectorate, which also broke a link to it in a reference.

I've fixed the article now. Just a heads-up on a couple of possible problems with the script (in particular I'd have thought that changing caps to lower case in identified publisher fields, or in links, was a bad idea). PamD 16:03, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hamilton, New Zealand

Why have you taken out several valid references and replaced ’ with '?Johnragla (talk) 19:42, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • The vast majority of the links removed were spam links or formatted as such. There is no value to the reader to linking CTC Aviation or 1953 Water Pollution Act in the way these were included in the article. If you intend to retain any for citation purposes, I would refer you to WP:CITE as to how to format these correctly. Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame! 19:48, 9 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've just tried them and 6 out of the 7 work fine, the exception being http://www.ctcaviation.com/nz/. It seems to me that most, if not all, of the others are valid and useful, albeit not following WP:CITE. Rather than deleting them and leaving their statements uncited, is it not possible for you to distinguish between those that work and those that don't and, using automatic citation in visual editing, reformat them correctly?Johnragla (talk) 11:29, 10 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
(talk page stalker) Johnragla, see WP:ELPOINTS, number 2. Also see MOS:QUOTEMARKS, "Reasons to prefer straight quotation marks and apostrophes", for the reason that the quotation marks and apostrophes were changed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:49, 10 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you. Confirms my prejudice that there are good reasons for not using Internet Explorer!Johnragla (talk) 11:29, 10 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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with respect

is there any conceivable reason why engvarB is being imposed upon Au subjects/topics? franglais perversity? JarrahTree 11:55, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    • If I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Strong_national_ties_to_a_topic - there are numerous Australian topics subjects and articles that have had engvar B applied where they really should have Use Australian English then JarrahTree 12:21, 22 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
      • Yes but the script doesn't drill down sufficiently according to the various intricacies of the Australian code, but merely targets those words which are common to all the varieties of non-American english according to my understanding. "{{EngvarB}}", whilst starting off life as a "British" script, was never meant to be nationalistic any more than to understand the differences between British and American English as far as WP:ENGVAR was concerned. It's now the blanket template for the script action because it's otherwise too complicated to implement. I would prefer a wholly code-neutral name but the project has been going on for some time and it's become too complicated to change. If it is of any consolation to you, there are other users who now go around with a bot to change these to {{use Australian English}} where appropriate. You may already have seen this in some articles. In time, they will get around to that article if you left the EngvarB tag unchanged. -- Ohc ¡digame! 09:37, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much to take the time to explain - I see what sort of beast the whole engvar thing is, and really in the end, no big deal. I can see what it is all about, and will leave you in relatively unhindered peace, albeit a somewhat complex one if I suspect where you must be in residence, I promise I wont use any words of any of the issue raising languages you must have to bear - thanks again for taking the time. cheers JarrahTree 09:43, 23 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
        • merde! - there in front of me on my watchlist, western australian places with engvar B again, oh well the likelihood of finding a bot or awb enthusiast in the current australian project area is hard - we are in cold snap at the moment, theyre in front of heaters or tv, not on keyboard :) JarrahTree 00:09, 1 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Romanized Cantonese Tool

Hello Mr Ohconfucius,


Could you try This Cantonese Tool and tell me what you think of it? --JackonLee54 (talk) 09:49, 3 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You have no comments? --JackonLee54 (talk) 23:13, 4 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I am really impressed that you were able to develop such a tool, which I think might be very useful for people to learn Cantonese. I actually know very little about Yale, but I tried out the tool using paragraphs from two zh.wp articles. I suspect there may be some minor bugs with the phoneticisation, but really dare not comment anymore at the risk of demonstrating my total ignorance of the subject; what's more, the diacritics mean absolutely nothing to me. I will try using the tools with other articles, firstly to work out how Yale works and then to try evaluating the tool. I will let you know if I come across anything certain. Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame! 11:38, 5 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
What do you think of this Penkyamp tool? Do you think it is a more accurate portrayal of Cantonese (when compared to Yale Romanized Cantonese)? --JackonLee54 (talk) 06:32, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Names of the functional constituencies

Hey Ohconfucius, thanks for your contributions and it has been very pleasant working with you. But I just want to raise a question about the names of the functional constituencies, for example the Commercial (First) or District Council (Second) FCs are actually the official names so I think we should better leave them instead of changing them to 1st Commercial or 2nd District Council. Lmmnhn (talk) 21:12, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Voitto Hellsten/Hellstén

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👍 Like I've sent a note to sports-reference.com, and they will look into the issue with the accent with their data provider.--Paracel63 (talk) 13:08, 8 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Script - changing upper case to lower case

Hi, I noticed a couple of little errors your script made:

  • Changed "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" to "The Texas Chain Saw massacre"
  • Changed "Businessman" to "businessman".
  • Changed "Businesswoman" to "businesswoman".
  • Changed "Chef" to "chef".

Thought you might like to know. Otherwise keep up the great work! anemoneprojectors 09:33, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Texas Chain Saw Massacre is now a string protected in my script, and there ought not to be any further changes to this wherever these may appear. As to the down casing inside info boxes, I have had some problems with sporadic down casing of professions and occupations, and I have now added a new line of regex to try and make this more uniform. Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame! 14:37, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Idea?

[Diff https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3AManual_of_Style%2FDates_and_numbers&type=revision&diff=736818400&oldid=736809355] Tony (talk) 08:40, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

EngvarB script should not overwrite existing ENGVAR templates

I have begun to do some consistency editing and have tried your script EngvarB. Thanks for providing that script to the community! I have noticed that it always inserts the EngvarB template (which is fine), but it also overwrites existing templates that document a specific variety of English. For example, in Driving licence in India, your script replaced the "Use Indian English" template with the EngvarB template. But the "Use Indian English" template was there for a reason and you shouldn't just replace it. Useful information gets lost this way. I have no problems with the EngvarB template being added if you need it for maintenance purposes, but please amend your script, so that it does not overwrite existing templates. EngvarB consistency (talk) 18:54, 2 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The script also overwrites {{Use British English}} as noted previously but has not yet been corrected. Keith D (talk) 09:00, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Script edits

Hi, I'm confused by some script edits.[1] Particularly the choice of when to use work, publisher and agency.

Looking at these four changes:

  • 1. |work=Cincinnati.com |agency=USA Today -> |work=USA Today |publisher=Cincinnati.com
  • 2. |work=Reuters -> |agency=Reuters
  • 3. |work=[[Yahoo! News]] |agency=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] -> |work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |publisher=[[Yahoo! News]]
  • 4. |website=janegoodall.org |publisher=The Jane Goodall Institute -> |publisher=janegoodall.org

It seems almost random on when to use agency vs publisher. Or why in #4 it dropped the publisher and replaced it with the website URL. -- GreenC 15:29, 9 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

MOSNUM dates script

It seems this does not work on newer versions of Firefox. No matter which button I click, the edit is always no difference and the script does nothing. Some buttons don't even do that, and do absolutely nothing. I've tried it in several articles with the same result. Am I missing something? Thanks. Adam9007 (talk) 23:55, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Adam9007, great to know you're using the script(s). He'll be back when he has a chance. :-) Tony (talk) 09:22, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I just loaded FF 49.0.1 and I have no problem with any of the scripts. What version are you using? -- Ohc ¡digame! 20:29, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Ohconfucius: I'm also using FF 49.0.1 Perhaps it's a conflict with another script or an extension? I also tried the EngvarB script and the same thing happens. Adam9007 (talk) 21:05, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I think that AutoEd might occasionally cause conflict; I've examined your monobook and found nothing that I know will affect it adversely. The standard procedure is to remove all the other scripts and reload them one by one, purging your cache each time until you find the culprit. Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame! 10:58, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I found the problem: it was wikiEd. I had to disable it in preferences -> gadgets. Seems to work now. Adam9007 (talk) 21:19, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

CITIC Limited

Please leave the page title as it was. Many Chinese paired company had its parent call "XXX Group" and subsidiary "XXX Limited" as intended (as well as many "XXX Group" remain unlimited company). Moreover, CITIC Pacific was the old name of the company. Matthew_hk tc 06:18, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • Well, @Matthew hk:please put it to its new namespace, but leave the "Limited" out of it, because it doesn't belong. Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame! 20:30, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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EngvarB script

Does the British Oxford option change all words that happen to end in -ise to -ize? Using this script on The Lord of the Rings changes unrevised (correct) to unrevized (incorrect). The whole -ise -ize thing only applies to words whose ise/ize if of a Greek (the ise/ize meaning, roughly, to make) etymology, and revise is not one such word. Adam9007 (talk) 22:04, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Causeway Bay Books disappearances

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Article is presently on hold but there is only one issue that needs fixing - Reference #51 needs to be filled-out more completely. Then I will be able to pass the article to Good Article status. Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 16:01, 27 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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question about phrase "German association football club"

On or about January 5, 2011, you made edits to numerous articles about Football clubs in Germany (e.g. 1. FC Heidenheim), in which you used the phrase "German association football club". I am unclear what you intended by this phrase, can you please explain the intedned meaning?

Is this intended to refer to a club that's affiliated with the DFB? Or could there be one of several "German associations" that the club is affiliated with? In particular, if this is intended to mean the former, then "German Football Association club" would seem to be the right phrase to use. Fabrickator (talk) 17:20, 27 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Association football is known in Europe as "football" and in the US as "soccer". Calling it "association football" serves to distinguish it from American football. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:50, 27 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Causeway Bay Books disappearances...

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Use of British honours

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Tell me...

Please tell me, why don't you update your script which removes the {{wikinews}} templates?
Agastya Chandrakant (talk) 18:39, 22 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Gui Minhai

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Nomination of Billy Koh for deletion

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Sources script

Hi, I think your script is inserting colwidth=30em into the reflist. This coding is deprecated. 30em does the same thing. This is minor but I thought I'd let you know. --Jennica✿ / talk 13:48, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

Two years ago ...
style fixes
... you were recipient
no. 1066 of Precious,
a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:30, 18 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank you for your scripts they are extremely useful for those of us who edit wikipedia Jonnymoon96 (talk) 04:07, 20 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Merry, merry!

From the icy Canajian north; to you and yours! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 02:10, 27 December 2016 (UTC) [reply]

Editor of the Week seeking nominations (and a new facilitator)

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New page for you if your interested

Hi I'm a fan of Confucius too :o) I have put in a lot of work and found all the necessary references for an Eric Oram wikipedia page. You can find all the work I've done here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gryllida/sandbox/1 If you are interested in being the page's owner/admin that would be great I already have several pages and I am very new to wikipedia and since the Eric Oram page is so imporatnt in its message of Wing Chun Kung Fu being vital in the treatment of drug addiction and sobriety I would preffer that it be created by an experienced person like yourself. (Australianblackbelt (talk) 05:56, 2 January 2017 (UTC))[reply]

(talk page watcher) @Australianblackbelt: You are a new editor, and perhaps don't understand how things work around here, but two things worry me about your post above:
  1. No Wikipedia article has an "owner", let alone an "admin". Anyone can edit anything; anyone can add any article to their Watchlist to keep an eye on it. Which editor first creates a page affects who gets notified automatically if there is a deletion proposal, but that's it. You say "I already have several pages" - you perhaps means "I have already created several pages." There is a big difference.
  2. In general a sandbox is a user's own workspace, so why are you working in Gryllida's sandbox? Most unusual. Are you the same editor? If not, why are you not using your own sandbox to avoid any confusion? PamD 08:50, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I understand everything you say but Gryllida created that template on his/hers sandbox so I could create new pages, its a process Gryl advised me to take for me to improve. I only have one account and like to follow ALL the rules in wikipedia to the T. (Australianblackbelt (talk) 10:30, 2 January 2017 (UTC))[reply]
Seeing as you spent time writing all that about my work PamD perhaps you can give me some feedback on the page I would like to write; Eric Oram.(Australianblackbelt (talk) 20:33, 3 January 2017 (UTC))[reply]
@Australianblackbelt: I've never come across Gryllida and their template for article development before, though it's an interesting approach, but you seem to have misunderstood it. Where they say "One-paragraph summary (300 characters maximum)", that does not mean "One-paragraph passage lifted from the article (300 characters maximum)" I only looked at your source 9, but can see that not one word of your "summary" seems to differ from the source text. It looks as if you need to learn about writing stuff in your own words. But I am not at all interested in martial arts so suggest that you get feedback from editors in that area. PamD 21:58, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
PamD Thanks point taken I haven't written it out properly yet my main concern is will the article stand up to notability given its current sources, much appreciated. (Australianblackbelt (talk) 02:23, 4 January 2017 (UTC))[reply]

DYK nomination of Gui Minhai

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Please see new note on your DYK nomination. Yoninah (talk) 16:54, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

MOSNUM dates.js

Hello Ohconfucius, I wanted to make a request for User:Ohconfucius/script/MOSNUM dates.js. I love using this, but I work with {{start-date}} and {{end-date}} quite a bit as well, and those templates have deprecated the "df" parameter (see Category:Start-date transclusions with invalid parameters, for example), which your script automatically adds. Would you be willing to deactivate that function in the script so folks won't need to manually follow behind and remove them? Cheers! — Huntster (t @ c) 09:34, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Gui Minhai

On 15 January 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gui Minhai, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Gui Minhai, whose four bookseller colleagues also disappeared in mysterious circumstances, reappeared three months later on Chinese television confessing to killing a girl in a 2003 DUI accident? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gui Minhai. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Gui Minhai), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. 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.

Schwede66 00:02, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

FAC: House of Music

Hello there. Would you care to review or comment at my nomination of House of Music for featured status? The previous nomination did not gather enough commentary, so anything at all would be appreciated. Dan56 (talk) 23:56, 16 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill 2017

Your scripts-assisted editing of the article on the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill 2017 would appear to have been faulty, certainly you had messed up with the UK legislation Template until I fixed it. (And PS: Are you actually some kind of a "Chinese Government man"?! Don't you think you are little too politically-involved in Hongkong Chinese politics, both generally and especially when you start editing other Countries' articles, especially when they have nothing to do with China and Hong Kong?!) -- 87.102.116.36 (talk) 11:38, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

  • Thanks for the fix. I cannot see where it could have come from, and it didn't show in the diff before saving. It seems to have taken you a while to find it yourself. Anyway, thanks. -- Ohc ¡digame! 13:59, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    The problem was in changing the hyphen of |year=2016-17 to a dash. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 17:50, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    Interesting to know. Thanks. -- Ohc ¡digame! 10:42, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Reference errors on 5 February

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Birth year and age template

Hi! I noticed you updated the articles Alastair Storey and Sanjay Jha to conform to the manual of style, and as part of that you've added "df=yes" to Template:Birth year and age. However, df/mf aren't valid parameters for the birth year and age template, so it caused an error with the template. I found the error because I've been working to clear out and keep clear the maintenance category Category:Pages using birth year and age template with unknown parameters and these articles were automatically added because of the df parameter. I don't know if you're already aware of this and mistook the templates for the birth date and age template, which does use the df/mf parameter, but I thought I should drop you a note just in case. Thanks for your time. Marianna251TALK 05:10, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

  • @Marianna251:Thanks for alerting me to the error. I wasn't aware of the error as the error doesn't show in the diff, but you are right. It was a careless piece of coding and I have now fixed it in the script. Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame! 23:01, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Flags from presidential pages

Hello, I have noticed you have been removing the flags from pages depicting state visits by heads of state. I do not really have a problem with that. However, would it be possible to maintain the internal link to the country's pages? Sputink (talk) 16:27, 1 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Are you working for HK01?

It was not funny.[2][3]--QBear (talk) 16:50, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

  • I must have been eating peanuts while dreaming. Wake me up when it's over -- Ohc ¡digame! 12:06, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Replacement of Use Indian English tags

Can I enquire of the rationale behind this edit? I am referring to the removal of the Use Indian English tag placed in May last year and replacement with an Engvarb tag. WP:TIES states "An article on a topic that has strong ties to a particular English-speaking nation should use the (formal, not colloquial) English of that nation. For example Mumbai (Use Indian English}" AusLondonder (talk) 08:52, 12 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Mlpearc ping

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MOSNUM script

Hi Ohconfucius, the MOSNUM script doesn't appear to be working for me--it doesn't load in my toolbar. I removed everything from my common.js file and it still doesn't load in my toolbar. I'm curious if you think it could be conflicting with one of the things I have engaged in my Preferences or some gadget or something. Are there any known conflicts? I tried disabling the wikEdDiff, but that didn't do anything. If I could find a history of my changes to my preferences file, I could probably track down the change by cross-referencing against the default edit summaries the tool produces. Any thoughts? I know, it's vague. "My tool doesn't work, figure it out against a thousand possibilities!" Thanks... Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:02, 2 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks mate. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 16:22, 2 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, a follow-up question--I just spent 15 minutes deactivating gadgets in my Preferences trying to figure out why the "Use DMY dates / Use MDY dates" links no longer appear under my tools sidebar. Did you change the interface to just say "Foreign dates"? Thanks, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 23:04, 16 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
That all seems rather bizarre. There's nothing in your Commons.js that I recognise as causing potential issues when installed with my scripts. I haven't changed anything in the MOSNUM script in over two months, so there's no reason at this end for the script to have stopped working so suddenly. In any event, the buttons are present when I load it. "Foreign dates" is one module in the MOSNUM script that transforms dates like 12. Dezember 2007 (German format) into 12 December 2007, and I can't really explain why one module is loading and the others aren't, although I suspect there's still a conflict with one of your gadgets if all your other scripts have been disabled.

One suggestion: try loading only MOSNUM script into your vector file and switch to the Vector skin in Preferences, and see if it appears in the sidebar in edit mode. Regards, -- Ohc ¡digame! 21:37, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I just figured this out! I have the EFF Chrome extension "Privacy Badger" installed, and it was suppressing the script for some reason. I whitelisted Wikipedia, and now it works fine. Probably should have started with the extensions... Thanks for your brain power on this, though! Cyphoidbomb (talk) 14:45, 20 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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