User talk:Buidhe

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Sig style

Hello, buidhe. Would you consider changing the color of your username in your signature ? It looks indistiguishable to me from the dark red of a non-existent page link, although that is misleading, because you have a user page. Comparison:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 05:22, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mathglot You really can't win. I only changed to this color because someone complained that my previous sig with black was hard to see in dark mode :( (t · c) buidhe 05:40, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm so sorry! Well, if this one is less problematic than the other, then keep it. Mathglot (talk) 06:52, 18 November 2025 (UTC) Wait—there is a style you can apply so that those using dark mode get white letters (or whatever light color you want, but those using normal mode get the dark font. I'm not up on that, but if you can't figure it out, there are a bunch of people who can help. Or, just post at VPT and you'll get help for sure. Just say you want a sig that also works in dark mode, and mention your original preferred hex (or named) color. Mathglot (talk) 06:54, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As of this August comment, you were using black font in your signature. I think Jonesey95 knows about this sort of thing, and might be able to help you add a style to your sig so it works in dark mode as well with a white or near-white color. Mathglot (talk) 07:18, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Like this: <span style="color: var(--color-base, black)">buidhe</span>. The "color-base" says "make it show as the normal text color in either light or dark mode", and the "black" is a backup option that says "if a browser doesn't do weird variables, just show black". – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:19, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hopefully no one can complain about the new color :) (t · c) buidhe 05:42, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I like the latest colors! Mathglot (talk) 04:58, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

thanks Mathglot! (t · c) buIdhe 05:57, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just saw your signature at ANI and came here to comment how much I love it, haha. Hope it sticks around! Also, the photography on your user page is beautiful stuff. While I'm here, congrats on the recent Nuremberg TFA, and hope you're well! 🌸⁠wasianpower⁠🌸 (talk • contribs) 18:06, 29 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CS1 error on One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Eric Gilbertson (climber)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Eric Gilbertson (climber) has been accepted

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(t · c) buidhe 14:43, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Eric Gilbertson (climber)

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Gilbertson

Wikilinking to the bio? I failed to find any non-formal mentions of him in wikipedia. --Altenmann >talk 16:45, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Question

Could I ask your opinion on Talk:Gaza genocide#186,000 death toll estimate?

You seem to have a good understanding of what makes something a good academic source or not.

Thank you, IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 22:06, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Denali non move contested

Your non move at talk:Denali gave absolutely no reason. Since you can't go by show of hands in the decision and the only sources given were heavily one-sided for Mt. McKinley (including two sets of Google ngrams, and along with numerous current websites), I need to have some good reasoning for this result. Saying don't move or things haven't changed is not valid without proof. Fyunck(click) (talk) 08:38, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Snow close that you were on the wrong side of. At least try to lose with some dignity intact. Zaathras (talk) 14:03, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A snow close of "I don't like its." That says a lot of your own integrity. Fyunck(click) (talk) 17:59, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see how this could be closed any other way since other editors didn't agree with your evidence or reasoning. (t · c) buidhe 15:39, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There was pretty much no other evidence shown except mine. I used the the type of evidence we use at all these discussions, ngrams, sources across the world, etc. Everyone else was mostly "I don't want it to move." How is anyone ever going to get something to move if people simply don't want it to move regardless of sources? That's not the way wiki is supposed to work. It's not a show of hands and I showed up with sources to back the move. A closer is supposed to weight the strength of argument. Fyunck(click) (talk) 17:59, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Could you at least give a reason on the Denali closing talk page? Show of hands, strength of argument, etc... That way if I have it checked by administration at least administrators and posterity will know your thoughts behind it. Right now it just says closed. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 01:39, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

El Alma al Aire source review request

Hello there, I have nominated El Alma al Aire for FAC, and was wondering if you could do a source review for the Spanish-language sources. I saw your username listed at foreign language reviewers. Erick (talk) 14:08, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Magiciandude sorry but I don't have enough familiarity with Spanish language entertainment media to give a good assessment here. (t · c) buidhe 15:39, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Border death

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History of the Jews in Dęblin and Irena during World War II scheduled for TFA

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Talk:Nazi concentration camps

In April 2022 you added a list of references to the top of the talk page at Nazi concentration camps that is still there. Did you mean to use Template:Refideas? It is unusual to have references listed in this fashion. Thanks. Celia Homeford (talk) 14:24, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Could you look at the lead for the Myth of the clean Wermacht, please?

Hi Buidhe, I noticed something in the lead for the Myth of the clean Wehrmacht that I think is wrong, but thought best to ask you to look at, as you know so much in this area. It's this line: "...the verdict of the International Military Tribunal (1945–1946), which released many of the accused..." My understanding is that the only defendants who were acquitted were civilians (Fritzsche, Krupp, Ley (party official but not Wermacht), von Papen, and Schact), and all of the military accused were convicted, at least in the first and major trial. Were there other trials later that acquitted some of the military? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:26, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's right, the wehrmacht was too loosely organized to be an organization and this was misrepresented as an acquittal of criminality. I'll fix it later (t · c) buIdhe 02:53, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Knew you would have the answer. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 02:56, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done (t · c) buIdhe 16:08, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

looks good thanks. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 01:51, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Shortening title of AB-Aktion

A belated thank you for doing this and bringing the title into compliance with ... oh, just about every other language Wikipedia. This made sense to me a long time ago when I began expanding the article with material from the Polish version, but per this old discussion I wasn't sure if there was a reason for the seemingly redundant title here that I was missing. Daniel Case (talk) 18:57, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Revert of DYK review

Care to explain why you reverted this, with the rationale "I don't think this a valid review ". It seemed perfectly valid to me. Assas CHEUNG (talk) 00:21, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Brand new editor doing a DYK review on their second edit? Questionable formatting and language somewhat indicative of AI use. Some misconceptions indicating unfamiliarity with wikipedia (official websites aren't usually good sources, for example). I still might not have reverted if it didn't say, "It has proper structure and French-language formatting." (t · c) buIdhe 00:34, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the clarification. User:2560Elona is a student of mine working on a school project. While it's true that there are some issues (the reference to French formatting may indeed be a bit telltale, but she's French after all), I'm not sure it warranted a hostile unexplained revert and a "I don't think this a valid review" type edit summary, but instead a friendlier comment on her talk page would have been more appropriate, no? Regards, Assas CHEUNG (talk) 11:15, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination of Eric Gilbertson (climber) for deletion

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DJ Cane _(he/him) (Talk) 17:55, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

about your edit

This edit to add {{excerpt|Gaza genocide denial}} resulted in this broken short-form reference. Please fix.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 19:33, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

missing <ref>s

Your edits today of Herero and Nama genocide resulted in ref names being used without being defined. Fortunately, other users including Cdjp1 and AnomieBOT came along and restored the definitions of the ref names, and that is good fortune. Meanwhile I spent about 15 minutes researching the problem, but AnomieBOT had already solved it. Every time you edit, you should preview before you save, and you should look for warnings at the top, as well as reference errors anywhere on the page, and if you've introduced any problems, you should fix them before saving. Also, it's good that you sometimes leave clear edit summaries like "contrary to this map, it happened at a variety of locations", but sometimes you leave no edit summary at all. Every time you edit, you should leave a summary saying what you did. Cheers! —Anomalocaris (talk) 20:36, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see the point of wasting a lot of time trying to move references around, when it's more efficient to wait for AnomieBot to run before checking back to see if there's an ongoing issue. I know how AnomieBot works and it always fixes the refs for me. (t · c) buIdhe 20:51, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it is a good idea to leave an article broken on the expectation that a bot will fix it. The bot might not fix it, and meanwhile other editors may spend time they could spend improving Wikipedia in other ways, instead fixing your broken article. There are a lot of articles out there with undefined ref names that AnomieBot did not fix. I came to Herero and Nama genocide in the first place to fix a misnested {{lang|de| ... <p> ...}} ... </p>, and my editing practice is that if I edit an article for any reason, I clean up all the errors I can find, including red Wikipedia warnings. It's not nice to the Wikipedia community to leave red warnings in an article, even if they will probably be fixed soon. —Anomalocaris (talk) 21:21, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Added some tags to Eric Gilbertson (climber)

Hello Buidhe,

I took some time to improve the Gilbertson article. However, I have a massive headache and cannot continue the cleanup presently. I added some inline tags to the survey section that I would appreciate if you would address. Thank you! Revolving Doormat (talk) 01:03, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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