User talk:Darkskynet/Archive

Seasons' Greetings

...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 22:33, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

ArbCom 2018 election voter message

Hello, Darkskynet. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

ArbCom 2018 election voter message

Hello, Darkskynet. Voting in the 2018 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 3 December. All users who registered an account before Sunday, 28 October 2018, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Thursday, 1 November 2018 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.

If you wish to participate in the 2018 election, please review the candidates and submit your choices on the voting page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Replacing USA with United States

Hello Darkskynet, I noticed you are editing some articles and replacing USA in infoboxes with a template that results in a flag icon followed by United States. This seems to conflict with MOS:INFOBOXFLAG. Gab4gab (talk) 23:23, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello Gab4gab, It appears you are correct in infoboxes cluttering the infobox being in conflict with MOS:INFOBOXFLAG. I will correct the edits I have made, and refrain from further use of the flag icon in infoboxes. Thanks for bringing this to my attention before I continued to make more changes of this kind. Cheers, Darkskynet (talk) 23:35, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Furthermore, the school infobox template accepts a COUNTRY CODE for the country, so USA is fine; the template translates that automatically. MB 00:20, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Your edits have been flagged in Category:Pages using infobox school with an unknown country if you need a list of ones to fix. MB 00:26, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

MB, Thanks for adding to the discussion. I'm guessing you are referencing the ability for the infobox to automatically convert "USA" into "United States"? But because of WP:NOTUSA I believe "U.S." or "US" is the best option, as it follows international standards for abbreviations, Even if the infobox changes the viewpoint on the article side of the page. I'm currently going thru the pages I have made changes to and fixing them from {{U.S.}} into "U.S.". Cheers, Darkskynet (talk) 00:40, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

I have completed the revisions from {{U.S.}} into "U.S." for the edits I had made earlier. Cheers, Darkskynet (talk) 00:53, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Please note that WP:NOTUSA does not require us to abbreviate "United States" in infoboxes: "US or U.S. may be used (with internal consistency) to abbreviate 'United States' in any given article" (emphasis added). So please do not cite that guideline as justification for making that particular edit; in most cases, it is personal preference or customary usage in a particular infobox or set of topics. In particular, we consistently use "United States" in the university infobox so unless you are planning to make this edit to all articles for the 4,000+ colleges and universities in the United States I strongly recommend leaving "United States" in those infoboxes. Thanks! ElKevbo (talk) 16:34, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello, This is an edit I planned on making to every school page in the en.wikipedia.org space. I'm currently looking at all schools by state, I expect this to take a few weeks to a month. I've not worried about he fact that there are thousands of pages to work on. As its only a simple change I can do in an automated way. I'm going to start a new section on this talk page with an RFC to get more opinion on the matter before I continue this task, As arbitration on the issue, is better than us having an edit war over it. Thanks for your comments, Darkskynet (talk) 18:05, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Should infobox have "country= " be consistent across all school pages on Wikipedia?

Should infobox have "country= " be constant across all school pages on Wikipedia, as there are currently over 10 variations that I have found for just the school pages alone. Some variations I have seen are: [[United States]] [[United States of America]] [[USA]] [[US]] [[U.S.]] [[United States|U.S.]] [[United States of America|USA]] as well as some of the same variations without linking brackets. The questions is, Should the "country=" be U.S. on every school page? Thanks, Darkskynet (talk) 18:06, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Please don't hold RfCs in user [talk] space. This is an issue that could potentially affect thousands of articles, so should be in a reasonably-central venue, such as WT:WPSCHOOLS. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:48, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Affirmative, I will move the discussion to there, and remove the RfC tag from here. Thanks, Darkskynet (talk) 19:55, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Discussion has been moved Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Schools Thanks, Darkskynet (talk) 20:01, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi

I appreciate your comment on Robert Keith Packer, the intention is not to idolize him and his likes. I specifically stated "gained international infamy." His noteriety is because he's so spalling.Wil1andar (talk) 00:49, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

I'm not in anyway saying you are attempting to idolize this man. Please continue this discussion on the talk page for the referenced article. Darkskynet (talk) 01:09, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

Pukkuksong-5 moved to draftspace

An article you recently created, Pukkuksong-5, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. ... discospinster _talk 16:49, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, there is still very little known about the new weapon, as it was only unveiled at a parade in the DPRK Thursday night January 14, 2021. I will attempt to gain more information about it to more flesh out the article over the following weeks. Have a good weekend, Cheers, Darkskynet (talk) 17:48, 15 January 2021 (UTC)