User talk:Ebbedlila/Archive 1

Archive for 2021

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Content removals

Greetings,

I saw that you're removing some templates from articles about Canadian politicians [1]. You might have a good reason for this but I wasn't sure since there wasn't an edit summary. What's your purpose? Cheers, Cheerful Squirrel (talk) 23:11, 27 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

They were shifted to Template:Canadian federal election, 2015/St. Albert—Edmonton. The entire set of content is there. Ebbedlila (talk) 02:30, 28 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Electoral districts

Hey, can you please be sure to add the electoral district to the Canadian election templates you create? Like this. Thanks! Elli (talk | contribs) 03:03, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello sure I can do that. Ebbedlila (talk) 03:03, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve Bocchit Edmond

Hello, Ebbedlila,

Thank you for creating Bocchit Edmond.

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

Insufficient information about this person to meet general notability guidelines and biography of living persons.

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Whiteguru (talk) 13:13, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

July 2021

Hi Ebbedlila, I just wanted to give you a heads up that when you add section titles to articles, they should be added in sentence case per MOS:Head. For example, "Electoral History" should be "Electoral history". I noticed that you have added the incorrect format to a lot of articles, but I'll try to fix as many as I can to help you out here. Regardless of the formatting mistakes, you're doing great work to get the election results updated. Cmr08 (talk) 07:34, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Ebbedlila (talk) 00:51, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve Louise Charbonneau

Hello, Ebbedlila,

Thank you for creating Louise Charbonneau.

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

Both lines disambiguate to the same person/article

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JW 1961^Talk 16:44, 2 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Page edit description

Hi Ebbedlilia.

Most importantly, thanks for updating the wikilinks for Louise Charbonneau.

A minor quibble - when you do such updates, it would be less confusing to describe it as wikilink updated than page moved, which has a very specific meaning in page histories.

Keep up the good work with the wikilinks. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 16:45, 2 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Reason for reverts: King and Diefenbaker

Hi Ebbedlila, I've reverted your two additions to the articles on King and Diefenbaker. That's not a comment on the value of the templates you've done for Prince Albert; just that there are already two articles dealing with the electoral histories for those two PMs, covering their entire electoral histories, not just the PA riding. Each of the PMs has their own "Electoral history of" pages. Given the length of the electoral histories and the pages about the PMs themselves, the electoral histories have been split out. Please feel free to add to, edit, and improve those "Electoral history of" pages. Best wishes, Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 15:02, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Mr Serjeant Buzfuz oh thank you for the explanation. I appreciate it. Ebbedlila (talk) 15:06, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome! Please keep up the good work - hope you enjoy the wikipedia experience! Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 15:11, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, you might want to drop by the Wikipedia:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board now and then, to see what's happening about Canadian issues on the WP. Please feel free to contribute! Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 16:16, 7 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Teahouse invite

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Nomination for deletion of Template:2007 Manitoba general election

Template:2007 Manitoba general election has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 19:18, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Manitoba provincial election, 2016

Template:Manitoba provincial election, 2016 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 19:18, 8 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tag edits

Hi, could you please tag your mass edits to template date fields with the "minor edit" flag? Because you're hitting an entire subject area at the same time, you're effectively taking up the entire watchlists of quite a few Australian editors and we're unable to filter them out because you didn't mark them as minor edits. This may mean, for example, that vandalism that occurred before you started goes unseen and untouched because you pushed it out of the watchlists of everyone who had it on there. The Drover's Wife (talk) 22:12, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not to mention, an edit like [this one is not permissible because it's a cosmetic bot edit (i.e. it makes no change in output to the page). Graham87 02:40, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. I'll stop. Thank you. Ebbedlila (talk) 02:44, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Also, Graham87, please advise if adding short descriptions are ok via AWB? Ebbedlila (talk) 02:45, 13 August 2021 (UTC)Yes, that's fine, because that changes the way pages are displayed for mobile users. Graham87 06:04, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It would also be good if the people you tag were in fact Australian politicians. That's certainly not true for Joseph Dodson; I've changed a number of articles that I've got on my watchlist. Schwede 66 04:34, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Infoboxes

When making a politician’s page make sure to include an Infobox Bigmike2346 (talk) 14:20, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

template dates

In some of your recent edits, you have been changing dates on maintenance templates like {{use mdy dates}}. Please note the date can't be in the future (e.g September 2021) as there is no corresponding category for future month/years. MB 00:28, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

Hey, I appreciate your efforts to document past Canadian elections, but could you please make sure to cite your sources? This is very important, especially in templates that are going to be used in multiple places. It's nearly impossible for someone to look at a template like Template:Canadian federal election, 1867/Albert and see where the data came from. Thanks! Elli (talk | contribs) 05:30, 4 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please use preview

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to Terry Nylander, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history, as well as helping prevent edit conflicts. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the article will look like without actually saving it.

The *Show preview* button is right next to the *Publish changes* button and below the edit summary field.

It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Jessicapierce (talk) 17:11, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

(Same error at Thomas Irwin (Canadian politician), Jean-Thomas Richard, Yves Leduc, Yvon L'Heureux...) Jessicapierce (talk) 17:11, 23 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]