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Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Should I call RPP?

Hi.

We have several IPs engaged in censorship in Windows 8 editions, possibly the same person. I gave an explanation in my original revert. ("Out of context and wrong. As explained later on, Windows RT can sideload apps too.") But apparently, this guy gets a kick out of content removal without edit summary.

Should I request page protection?

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 13:37, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Bad edit summaries aside, this is a content dispute: you should at least leave a note on talk explaining the issue. There's not really sufficient cause to semiprotect right now, as it's only two IPs and less than a handful of reverts. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 13:41, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

~~Bad edit summaries? Cheeky bastard is copying and pasting my edit summary. I'll do a re-write. Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 13:48, 29 May 2014 (UTC)~~

That's what I meant by "bad edit summaries". Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 13:56, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

(edit conflict)Wow! This is the first time someone's behavior made my mood change from very calm to very angry. But I guess there is always a first. I'll switch to patience mode. Sorry for the earlier message. Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 14:00, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Please take a look at the edit I reverted

at Talk:Frank Calvert.[1]. This editor hasn't changed since well before you warned him[2] some time ago. I'd block myself but I interact with Drmies quite a bit, maybe it wouldn't be appropriate for me to block? Dougweller (talk) 08:54, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) That's pure personal attack; i.e. no comment on the contribution itself. Yes, I'd say it does warrant a block if there have been other instances. Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 14:21, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

Block away. I dare say this sort of thing is water off a duck's back to Drmies, but the next editor to suffer Stevenmitchell's abuse may not be so lucky. I'm astonished his block log is thus far clean. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 16:38, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

I'll take that as a compliment, Chris. :) But you're right that it doesn't bother me very much; I'm more interested in them not making this specific article a soapbox for blackballing another person, even if they're all dead and gone for a long time. They are correct in that I did a lot of trimming to that article. Drmies (talk) 20:38, 7 June 2014 (UTC)

He's asking to be unblocked. I did miss the fact that another Admin had warned him but as you say, he's been lucky. Expecting to be able to act like that, just get a warning, and behave for a while until he does it yet again is not going to protect others. Dougweller (talk) 08:52, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

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Autoloader

Hi. I'd like to comment on these two things on the Autoloader page.

1) I don't agree with the statement that modern autoloaders bear the closest similarity to those fitted on aircraft. A number of modern vehicles use autoloaders. If you want to add an Air section after the Naval section and talk about aircraft that have autoloaders, I would be fine with that, but take out that existing statement. I'm also concerned that you may be confusing autoloaders with autocannons. The two are not the same.

2) The reason I think the sentence clarifying that autoloaders are not semi-automatic firearms is important is because I run into people who don't understand that the autoloader is not a part of the gun itself. They think of semi-automatic or automatic firearms. In every conversation, I have to clarify with them that an autoloader is a physical device, not a term for a self-loading weapon. Having that sentence in there has avoided a lot of unnecessary arguments. Having that statement also helps clarify the difference between autoloaders and autocannons.

---Trifler (talk) 14:48, 3 July 2014 (UTC) P.S. - My apologies for accidentally posting this on your User Page last night instead of your Talk page. --2602:61:7175:2D00:1579:CE25:BFE5:D4DB (talk) 00:00, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

The re-addition of the aircraft comment was a mistake: I misread the diff and thought I was removing it. It's now gone again. Sorry about that. As regards the clarification about semi-automatic firearms, the proper place for distinguishing between different subjects is in the hatnote, and solely in the hatnote: otherwise articles become a morass of caveats and "note that"s and other rubbish. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 11:29, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

I see where you're coming from now. Thank you for explaining. --Trifler (talk) 12:51, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Template:Language with name

Any thoughts on Template talk:Language with name#Suggestion: An optional literal translation? Yaris678 (talk) 16:18, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Wonder Boy in Monster Land

Thanks for cleaning up the lead and other stuff in the Wonder Boy in Monster Land article. I haven't touched the article in several years, but I put most of the stuff of what's in there right now. That said, maybe I did try to put too much unnecessary stuff in there :) --MuZemike 14:23, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

Hey, no worries. Thanks for all your work - the article as a whole is great. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 19:32, 5 July 2014 (UTC)

Template:Tab issues on meta

Hey,

I've been trying to import the Template:OpenTextBookOfMedicine to meta at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Medical_Translation_Header , but I'm running into problems. I saw you had written part of the Template:Tab, so I was wondering if you could understand what has been going wrong? Best -- CFCF 🍌 (email) 11:11, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

You need to import all of the various supporting templates. It looks like the current problem is due to {{number of defined parameters}} not having been copied across. I've added that and it's working now. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 14:52, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Wonderful, thanks a bunch for the help. Wasn't expecting it to be done so fast. :) -- CFCF 🍌 (email) 07:44, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Some bubble tea for you!

As I'm working on something international I think it best to give you something suitably exotic (I hope you're not too tired of it) for your help on the meta-templates. It's a jungle out there with all the templates. -- CFCF 🍌 (email) 07:46, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Template discussion

Hi Chris. We interacted yesterday, and on taking another look today i'm mortified to discover i misspelled your name. I am little more than a gnome, but as such pride myself on grammatical and typographical accuracy; to mis-type is bad enough, but to do so in the name of someone i'm talking to/about...well, i have no words. I apologise for my error. Cheers, Lindsay^Hello 12:33, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Don't worry about it. The awkwardness of trying to spell people's weird pseudonyms is part of the reason that I primarily go by my real name. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 12:34, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

TFD for Template:Distinguish

Hi Chris

I firmly believe that XFD should a genuine discussion rather than a series of write-only statements, but productive discussion needs a modicum of civility and AGF. At Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2014 July 6#Template:Distinguish, you are not doing so well on those two points of conduct:

I notice that the comments I have linked were all made within a few minutes of each other, so maybe that was a bit of an outburst at a particular point of stress. But it would be really helpful if you could strike those comments.

As the the discussion continues, please can you tone down the rhetoric, and make your case in a less combative style?

Thanks. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:22, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

I accept that they were pointedly incivil, but I think it's a little late in the day to strike them (I prefer to save that for occasions where I've made an unequivocal error). The damage is done (on both sides) and discussion on how to move forward is going on in spite of the early drama. I've basically disengaged from it for precisely that reason. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 15:47, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Standard width?

Hi Thumperward. Is there a standard-width for sidebars? E.G. 18em? Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 07:01, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

22em, which is the default. Once upon a time some philosophy sidebars defaulted to 18em, but that was long before we had sensible defaults elsewhere. In general there should very rarely be a need to manually specify the width if using {{sidebar}}. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 07:58, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Re: Linux kernel edit

Hi.

If you will excuse me, with the intention of (hopefully) making your life a lot easier, I'd like to offer you a piece of unsolicited advice about Special:Diff/617475341#Linux kernel edit: He always does that. This is not his first time and won't be the last. Invoking a talk page discussion and inviting five random experienced editors in computing rapidly yields unanimous consensus in your favor.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 18:53, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

In that case (and especially given the banality of the response this time) I'll be properly cluebatting this in future. He'd previously seemed pretty clueful in my interactions with him, but his talk page says otherwise. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 19:23, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

Not to mention the explanatory diagram skills - David Gerard (talk) 10:59, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

LIRR massacre

Hello, Thumperward. Would you consider moving Long Island Railroad Massacre to Long Island Rail Road massacre? First, Long Island Rail Road is stylized as such; and second, I don't see a reason for article title capitalization regarding this event. I wanted to ask you about the page move directly rather than go to WP:RM because these seem to be minor changes and I wanted to hear your thoughts about them first. Thanks. Tinlinkin (talk) 08:54, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

No problem. Done. Thanks! Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 10:21, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

And why the capitalization? Tinlinkin (talk) 10:23, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

Whoops.Fixed. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 19:48, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

Thanks! Tinlinkin (talk) 00:32, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Category:Link notes

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Template:Infobox comedian

I just noticed y'all recently changed Template:Infobox comedian from its normal blue state, to dark grey, and then blank. Can you please change it back to its usual blue state because when I saw it grey on Carl Reiner's article, I thought he died or something. So please change it back. --70.190.229.44 (talk) 11:18, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

The vast majority of infoboxes use the current style. Grey wasn't a great choice, but there's no reason to associate the current (lack of) colour with the subject being dead. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 14:00, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Template:Aside

any thoughts on template:aside? when I first saw it, I thought it was for A-side, perhaps showing my age :) Frietjes (talk) 15:15, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

I'm wary of using templates to enforce such simple typography. That said, it's great that the author has returned to WP after a long absence. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 17:02, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

yes, it's good he has returned to using his original account. not sure why there was a need to use CsDix for a year, and some time without logging in, but whatever. thanks for your input. Frietjes (talk) 16:13, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

He was CsDix?! How... odd. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 16:31, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of List of permaculture projects for deletion

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Three wheeler

Working on it so leave it be. Thx--Degen Earthfast (talk) 14:02, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

What was the RAMAC price and capacity?

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RTCA standard infobox

Is it necessary to lose the RTCA color scheme of the {{RTCA standard}} Infobox? I understand a reason to homogenize the Wikipedia appearance; but the coloration of organization publications, such as RTCA's provide natural visual cues. Is there a Template for Standards; that is, an Infobox vehicle that provides a Wikipedia branded appearance consistent to all articles on standards within which the recognized themes of the organization may be reflected, say a place to include a logo like {{Infobox non-profit}}? IveGoneAway (talk) 16:10, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

I'd say in this case that it was the right choice to remove the previous styling, as it was really quite a distraction for the sake of a very small amount of information. I'm not aware of any generic infobox for safety standards / regulations, though if such a thing were to exist then it'd obviously be logical to up-merge this template to it. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 16:21, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

{{Infobox technology standard}}, with which I have just replaced the only half-dozen instances. I've nominated the RTCA template for deletion. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:17, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

3D Printing Course Project Feedback

Hi Thumperward! I am Cw585, a student in course called INFO 3460: Crowds, Communities, and Technology. A huge component of our course was to contribute some valuable edits to a Wikipedia article. We decided to edit 3D printing, and we noticed that you had contributed some edits to the page in the past. We were wondering if you could take a look at the edits we have made (we have described our edits in this section of 3D printing's talk page). We would really appreciate any form of feedback! --Cw585 (talk) 17:14, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Tambayan Philippines/History of the Philippines (citations)

given that template:cite isbn and template:cite doi are now both deprecated, I think it may be time to revisit the deletion of this template, which is basically a 'cite isbn', but less transparent. Frietjes (talk) 17:56, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Precious again

lack of barnstars
Thank you for quality gnomish work on templates even I came to you use, including moves, for your better "purpose here as collecting trophies", and for recognizing delicious projection and a good chuckle, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:07, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Two years ago, you were the 289th recipient of my Pumpkin Sky Prize, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:34, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Template:Ctr

Hi.

{{Ctr}} is nominated for deletion and unfortunately, I noticed late. (The TfD started on 29 October.) You see, this template has the potential to join the family of table template to help create simpler tables but this alternative to deletion is rather unexplored. Please see Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2014 October 29 § Template:Ctr where my proposal can be discussed.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 18:19, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

Eeek. I'm really not a fan of trying to simplify creating of wikitables piecemeal like that. I'd rather they were either replaced in their entirety by templates or left as table markup. The point about having two templates with similar names doing different things is also a good one. I think the TfD is going in the right direction to be honest. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 12:18, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Date format in Linux articles

Hello! Any chances, please, for you to have a look at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Software § Date format in release history sections of Linux articles and possibly comment there by providing your point of view? The whole thing is pretty much poorly discussed with only a few editors actually discussing it, while it seems to be affecting more than a few articles (and the date format seems to be extending beyond the tables into references, please see history of the Linux distribution article). Any contributions to the discussion would be highly appreciated! — Dsimic (talk | contribs) 02:45, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you

Hi,

I haven't been here for a while and thought I'd check things out, especially this little gem. Having created it with the best of intentions, I'm thrilled others have found it useful (over 1000 transclusions). However, I particularly want to say thank you for keeping an eye on it and making it work better than I could have achieved. Regards, Claret Ash 08:06, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

My pleasure! :) I'm not as active as I used to be, but if you ever want any advice on template stuff I'm happy to help out. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 09:08, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Thank you, but I've sworn off WP. Too much drama. I only logged back in to post the above. Thanks again. You're a credit to WP :-) Claret Ash 10:01, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

History merge

Hey Chris,

Could you please do me a favor and do a history merge between BK Chicken Fries and Coq Roq? These two articles were originally separate and I merged the two together because the latter is just a part of the former. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 09:41, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Complicated history merges aren't something I've done before, and I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to pick that knowledge up quickly; I'd ping Anthony Appleyard, who is the master at this sort of thing IIRC. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 11:28, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Question

Hi Thumper,

Looking at you picture and profile you may be just the guy to help.

I've raised a question at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 132#An "Allegiance to" parameter in Template:Infobox war faction. Is there any chance you can look into this?

TY Gregkaye ✍♪ 11:07, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Yep, should be simple. I've replied over there: if my suggestion works for you then let me know and I'll add it. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) (talk) 11:11, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

That's fantastic and all in place. This feels bad considering my late placement of thanks which while genuine was delayed by page involvements. I'm hoping you can help with another couple of issues.

(Added in: and I'm really glad you've been offline as the issues have changed lol. Content below has been edited with edits in italics lol. Gregkaye ✍♪ 15:15, 24 November 2014 (UTC))

A fellow editor Legacypac has raised a question on my talk page User talk:Gregkaye#Overriding Government asking about the designation of the Government section of Template:Infobox geopolitical organization as will be applied to the ISIL page. (a non immediate issue relates to the issue ~~The problem is~~ that the group is still categorised with the status of being a Rebel group controlling territory" and is not defined as having a government. I don't know if you have any better ideas of acceptable title but, on the basis that the suggestion "Hostage administration" may not be encyclopaedic, something like "structure" or "governance" might fit the bill. That's the best we've come up with. however, since legacy has started using the geopolitical organization template this may not even be an issue)

~~Also~~, if it is at all possible, it would also be great to get a hand with Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Flag mouseovers and links from flags at Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. But can this be done in relation to Template:Infobox geopolitical organization which, at the time of writing, has content at User:Legacypac/sandbox. This is another less important issue but it seems to have had editors stumped. A solution to the problem was worked up on the project page but, for some reason, it didn't work right in the article. Any help appreciated. Cheers Gregkaye ✍♪ 21:31, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

What were your views on the referendum? he asked tentatively to the man with the sword and the traffic cone on his head. Gregkaye ✍♪

I dug into the Infobox country template talk and found suggestions for changing Government to something else, but they were (in my opinion) rightly rejected. The geopolitical organization box is very flexible and more appropriate for ISIL,, though it seems to be built for cases like EU (the example) they are functioning more like a multinational org all the time. in Geopolictical organization the word Type will proceed Rebel group controlling territory instead of "Government".Legacypac (talk) 15:28, 24 November 2014 (UTC)