This barnstar is awarded to everyone who - whatever their opinion - contributed to the discussion about Wikipedia and SOPA. Thank you for being a part of the discussion. Presented by the Wikimedia Foundation, January 21, 2012.
You have nearly single-handedly eliminated the minor planet notability problem, which had stood forseven years before you decided to tackle it, because nobody wanted to do the massive amount of work required. If this doesn't deserve a barnstar, I'm not sure what does.StringTheory11 (t • c)17:49, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
please help translate this message into your local language viameta
The 2016 Cure Award
In 2016 you were one of thetop ~200 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you fromWiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is auser group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joininghere, there are no associated costs.
Your diligent work in the area of redirect categorization and improvement is duly recognized and greatly appreciated. You are truly one of the unsung heroes of Wikipedia, and we hope you continue to enjoy your improvement of this awesome encyclopedia! On behalf of your fellow editors—and the millions of readers of our work—I sincerely thank you for your contributions that have improved the encyclopedia for everyone.Senator2029“Talk”08:33, 8 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
In recognition of your recent contributions to theLife Sciences onen:Wikipedia, analyzing and helping to improve the quality of articles, based on scientific data. Your efforts demonstrate tremendous potential into enhancing the scientific accuracy of The Free Encyclopedia.
I am tremendously appreciative of your efforts, especially on the preliminaryTaxonomic analysis.
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected asEditor of the Week in recognition of your constant positive demeanor. Thank you for the great contributions!(courtesy of theWikipedia Editor Retention Project)
I am always on the lookout for potential Editor of the Week candidates, for editors that fly under the radar, whose efforts are unknown except to a few. They don't make a splash, they don't emit a 'notice me' kind of behavior; they just quietly tackle the hard jobs. Tom.Reding is that kind of editor. A while back he "thanked me" via theThanks Notification for awarding the Editor of the Week to a fellow editor. So, I looked into him and found an editor that does many important WP improving things. He is a working editor (535,847 live and undeleted edits) that fixes, populates, corrects, standardizes, cleans, parses, tries, peruses, adds, formats, listens, expands, updates, corrects, creates, assigns and (my favorite) "consistifies". A member ofWikiproject Astronomy andWikiproject Tree of Life, he has recently been granted the page mover user right. He provides a human eye and understanding to "bot" problems that arise. In the area of redirect categorization he willingly puts his head together with other editors to work toward solution. A deserving recipient.
You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:
please help translate this message into your local language viameta
The 2016 Cure Award
In 2016 you were one of thetop ~200 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you fromWiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is auser group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joininghere, there are no associated costs.
Congratulations on being the seventh editor on the English Wikipedia to do over a million non-bot edits!ϢereSpielChequers12:14, 17 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
7&6=thirteen (☎) has given you aDobos torte to enjoy! Seven layers of fun because you deserve it.
To give a Dobos torte and spread theWikiLove, just place {{subst:Dobos Torte}} on someone else's talkpage, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.
In 2018 you were one of thetop ~250 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you fromWiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is auser group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joininghere, there are no associated costs.
please help translate this message into your local language viameta
The 2019 Cure Award
In 2019 you were one of thetop ~300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you fromWiki Project Med for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is athematic organization whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joininghere, there are no associated costs.
It might be better to make this an AWB general fix, since every WikiProject Bio started off with a living= and listas= parameter. It's really not worth the time and effort to remove a million or so such params. All the best:RichFarmbrough22:05, 25 September 2024 (UTC).[reply]
They've largely already been moved, with what's left being mostly matching params in Bio & WPBS with mis/matching values, or on inappropriate pages likeCategory:13th-century religious leaders.
Hey there! I think you might want to consider applying for autopatrol, especially with the amount of pages you'll be creating using AWB. Having it would definitely reduce backlog. Thanks! Sincerely,Guessitsavis (she/they) (Talk)18:46, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Tom.Reding, since Danny's redirect autopatrol bot is down, I am going through your redirects and marking them as reviewed. As there are over 1,200 redirects, you will receive a lot of review notifications, so I just wanted to apologise in advance for the notification flood! –DreamRimmer (talk)09:15, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Tom, you redirected to anchors in most/all of these. I checked a few and those anchors didn't exist. You'll have to either create them or remove the section from the redirect target. -MPGuy2824 (talk)10:33, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Heya, I've seen you around minor planets articles (especially the creation of new minor planet list articles), and thought I'd give this a shot: I wondered if it would be possible to somehow autoedit the corrections into the articles that the minor planets are featured in. Because recently I've been adding new minor planet names into the list of named minor planets articles (from the websitehttps://www.wgsbn-iau.org/), and the bulletins (from volume 4, #7 onwards from what I've seen) also contain "corrected discovery information", which is also corrected on the MPC and JPL websites (the most recent bulletin has thirteen pages worth of corrections!). So I was wondering if somehow auto doing it was possible or whether it would have to be done manually. Appreciate the work you've done btw!Procyon117 (talk)02:14, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Procyon117: I mostly focus on updating theLoMPs &MoMPs since they are structured lists/data. Updating articles is a different story, since there is context to consider, freeform user input to work around, and irregularities from article to article. It's doable, but relatively slow & tedious, even withhelp. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)12:09, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah I thought something like that. I'll probably do it manually then, although it shouldn't be too bad anyway since it's only a relatively recent thing anyway. I don't mind doing tedious stuff anyway after all.Procyon117 (talk)13:20, 3 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Tom.Reding, I just wanted to let you know that I haveadded theautopatrolled user right to your account. This means that pages you create will automatically be marked as 'reviewed', and no longer appear in thenew pages feed. Autopatrolled is assigned to prolific creators of articles, where those articles do not require further review, and may have beenrequested on your behalf by someone else. It doesn't affect how you edit; it is used only to manage the workload ofnew page patrollers.
Since the articles you create will no longer be systematically reviewed by other editors, it is important that you maintain the high standard you have achieved so far in all your future creations. Please also try to remember to add relevantWikiProject templates,stub tags,categories, andincoming links to them, if you aren't already in the habit; user scripts such asRater andStubSorter can help with this. As you have already shown that you have a strong grasp of Wikipedia'score content policies, you might also consider volunteering to become anew page patroller yourself, helping to uphold the project's standards and encourage other good faith article writers.
I have seen that you are very active atWikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Tasks. You seem to have a lot of experience with AWB related changes and fixing. I am interested in learning more and doing a lot of AWB work to help the wiki. Do you have any specific resource, apart from the user manual, to learn about using AWB to the fullest? Thanks for any help!Bunnypranav (talk)10:46, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
To get the most out of AWB, I found that learning how to usecustom modules, C# 4.0, andregular expressions were the most important things (fortunately, I had previous experience with C, C++, andgrep). On-wiki resources like those are a good place to start, but I often find myself atdotnetperls orstackoverflow after googling to find specifics on how to manipulate dictionaries, lists, and other aspects of C#.
System.IO.File.ReadAllText() &Tools.WriteTextFileAbsolutePath() are quite useful for processing large amounts of data in C#.
Knowing what the final result should be is just as important as knowing how to do it, so I often refer toMOS:ORDER,WP:TALKORDER, and the documentation of whatever templates I'm working on/with, but that'll depend on the areas you choose to work on. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)12:32, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also, can you recommend so intermediate level task to do using AWB. I have already tried some CheckWiki error fixing, and new page cleanup.Bunnypranav (talk)13:29, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I do not, but I just googled "AWB custom module examples" and foundc:User:JarektBot/AWB Modules, which seems to have more examples than the en.wiki version.
"Intermediate level" is fairly subjective, so I would suggest doing something just outside of your comfort zone, whatever that may be.
Thereis an "intermediate" task you can do that will pay dividends in the future, one that I wish I had done much earlier on in my wiki-career. It doesn't involve editingper se, but will aid you in almost any area you wish to edit (it won't help as much if your sole interest is, say,typo fixing,delinting,categorization, etc.). Create a custom module that usesthis API call to output every redirect to{{WikiProject banner shell}} (or whatever template you want) to a file. Bonus points if the redirects in that file are in regex format and able to be directly copy & pasted into another custom module without compilation errors. Maybe that's more advanced than intermediate...but, regardless, worthwhile to do once you're able. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)16:19, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Got it. Last question, any editing tasks that you would suggest once the beginner tasks (cleanup, typos, tagging) are tried and experienced?Bunnypranav (talk)10:29, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps adding/removing parameters from templates, particularly infoboxes, which can be tricky due to whitespace management, nested templates, and freeform user input. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)15:12, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the replies. I appreciate your support and guidance towards learner editors.
I have a most heinous and troublesome curiosity for information, however due to the limited notion of our time, we are often forced to choose. As such I have forced my self upon a most pragmatic path. As such, I came to the logical conclusion that the wikipedians with the most number of edits would possibly have a large category of horizontal thinking information, ie multidisciplinarianism. I would be most appreciative of having the opportunity to engage with you.PS I though "User communicates only in userboxes" meant there was a text box, so I read your entire expanded profile looking for it. My humanity is indeed lost
Well, I did start as a monodisciplinarian, as I think many do, but am definitely now a multi. As I so half-jokingly implied via userboxen, I'm not one for conversation, but if you have a question you feel I'm particularlywell-suited for, then ask away. Otherwise, theWP:Teahouse is a better place to start, as it's filled with multiple multidisciplinarians eager to help new (and experienced) editors. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)12:46, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, Tom. You appear to be the person setting up the redirects for all of the "Meanings of minor planet names: ######–#####" talk pages. On theWP:AST article ratings chart, historically we're having all redirects assigned an importance of 'na', whereas you are giving them a 'low' rating. The WikiProject Astronomy project has never rated 'redirects' for importance. I would appreciate it if you could set the importance to 'na'. Also, the banner shell should have the 'class' left blank since it is automatically given a 'redirect' class. That way, if it is ever set to an article, it will stand out on the chart. Thank you.Praemonitus (talk)16:18, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Once again, you are creating unnecessary talk pages for pages that were deleted weeks or months ago. If you are using some editing tool to find these pages, please adjust it. Here is the current list:
If you click on most of these links you'll see the original date of their deletion and the second deletion which happened today. This seems to keep happening, I think this is the 4th message I've left you about this. Please do not create orphaned talk pages that just require an admin to clean up. Thank you for adjusting your parameters of your search tool.LizRead!Talk!18:38, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The bot doesn't carefully add relevant WikiProjects, and last I checked doesn't perform some cleanup tasks outside mainspace despite being requested to. It is good at dealing with most mainspace exceptions though, which we're all very grateful for. I can try to avoid pages that I think it will handle well. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)13:41, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If you encounter cleanup tasks that it doesn't perform outside mainspace, please let me know. I try and track issues with the bot and report them toUser:Kanashimi so it gets better each cycle.Gonnym (talk)13:46, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Just a reminder that even if you're proposing a category for a speedy renaming, you can't go around preemptively moving content into the proposed new namebefore the renaming has been completed — redlinked categories are a problem that other people have to invest time into cleaning up, and it causes the existing category to become empty (and thus potentially vulnerable to deletion instead of renaming) prematurely. So even if you are proposing a category for renaming, you can't go around adjusting the template's category-generating codebefore the renaming is completed, the way you recently did with a bunch of "Alternative Views" and "Irish Republicanism" project categories: the necessary template changes will be performed by the closer of the discussion as part of the process of closing it, but the content has to stay in the existing categories until the category moves have actually been completed. Thanks.Bearcat (talk)14:46, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Understood. I made those changes while modifying the speedy tags to their eventual destination, and figured I might as well update the rest of the page. I'll let the process play out in the future. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)14:55, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'll go through it ~twice a day. Based on the current population of 145 pages (small sample size), ~55% of them have conflicts, which is much higher than the ~3% during the initial clearing. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)11:26, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
top: Category:Stub-Class articles with conflicting quality ratings: -Stub, keep Start)
Just out of interest, in what approx % of these do you keep the stub rating? It seems close to 0 for the ones on my watchlist. I suppose its useful work, though I wonder who looks at these ratings at all.Johnbod (talk)03:44, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I suspect "start" will be correct in the majority of cases, because articles generally go from stub to start rather than the other way round. So the start-class is usually the more up-to-date rating — Martin(MSGJ · talk)08:54, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Congrats on being the first editor to add a new block to the config! (I've tried to entice others to do that, but no dice) It makes me happy to see people using/expanding it as intended :) ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)13:21, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'd be careful when using.*, and instead use[^{}\|]* just in case. The leading^ may or may not work, so I think the safest bet would be^$|(?![Nn][Oo]?)[^{}\|]+. For|category= specifically, sinceyes is the only relevant value, I'd use^$|(?![Yy][Ee]?[Ss]?)[^{}\|]+. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)11:17, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Whoops...yes, you're right. I was stuck in category mode where people often mistakenly set|category=yes, and I mistakenly thought it was valid elsewhere. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)14:01, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Your edits seem to be purely cosmetic and are flooding the watchlist. Please indicate why they aren't cosmetic-only, or else stop making them.Fram (talk)18:09, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
these were not ones from that category though, all you did was move the parameter from one position to another, producing the exact same input.Fram (talk)18:42, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That discussion gives me no explanation as to why you made these edits. Please don't use AWB to make any further such edits.Fram (talk)18:54, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That's more than 400,000 pages. Please use a bot for this. Or change bannershell back to again accept these alternatives, as these weren't errors in the past .Fram (talk)14:48, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
..."[it] should not be removed from talk pages simply because it is there". And yet...you do so anyway? This ismostly a snarky comment (I definitely don't care enough to revert) but if you're going to rationalise with a template's /doc, probably shouldn't cherry-pick the section you're linking to ;-)Primefac (talk)12:29, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I know you're busy a lot with talk pages and banner shells. I noticed that a lot of pages in 'Category:Human name disambiguation pages' only have a 'WikiProject Disambiguation' and not the 'Wikiproject Anthroponymy' such asTalk:Zhang Hui for example. This might be a nice AWB task for the future.Coldbolt (talk)21:08, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I see. There are then about 10,000 pages that have Wikiproject Anthroponymy misassigned in the banner shell. Not because of you, but even prior to that. Just because people tend to associate a full name with anthroponymy and not because of the project's scope.Coldbolt (talk)10:11, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Heya just a heads up As you put in the BRFA on wikispecies I decided to set your local confirmed and autopatrol flags there so as to avoid a mass population of the unpatrolled list. CheersScott Thomson (Faendalimas)talk17:33, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry if I am too impatient (I am sometimes lol), but will you soon be starting work on the LOMP for 740001-756999 minor planets? I see that the MPC numbered a batch of more minor planets.
I don't see the sense in this either. I asked (aboutHenry Matson Waite) over at theWP:WikiProject Anthroponymy talk page, and someone there said it was appropriate. But I can't see the logic in it. And now you have changed that one to WP:Biography instead. I don't think that makes any sense either - it's just a disambiguation page. Why would any other project have any real interest in it? There's literally nothing on the page except the links and short descriptions. Why pad their lists of pages to look after with pages they have no real interest in? I'd leave it at just WP:Disambiguation.Brianyoumans (talk)00:46, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for pointing out that discussion.
Templates which contain links to biographies are tagged with{{WP Bio}}, and categories of templates which contain links to biographies are also tagged with{{WP Bio}}, so I don't see why a dab would be treated differently. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)00:57, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Eh, I guess I can see how a template which links to biographies would be of interest to the Biography project. It is something the people who write biographies might have written and would be interested in maintaining. Hmmm. Maybe I've talked myself into justifying the link to WP:Biography, since you could make the same argument about biography disambiguation pages. However, I don't see the reason for tagging these things for WP:Anthroponymy. These are articles about people, not about their names.Brianyoumans (talk)01:36, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Tom.Reding, I see you're making a large number of edits to "listas" in talk pages. Please be aware that in some cases, likeLi Haonan (Special:Diff/1263488337) orChen Shiyuan (Special:Diff/1263490915), theorder is the opposite of what you entered. If you're setting listas, I think one thing you should be looking for is to check for consistency with the sort key of the mainspace page. Although, to be honest, I'm not sure what is the point of this system of manually setting talk page "listas" to non-default values, yet requiring separate maintenance from mainspace sort keys.Adumbrativus (talk)04:52, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I've been trying to control for Eastern name order by ignoring names that begin with X, Y, Z, or if the main page mentions any country listed in that section or its demonym. Checking for existing sortkey consistency is a great suggestion. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)11:09, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
{{Title number}} uses{{BASEPAGENAME}}, so any # beyond a title's/ is ignored. FWIW,{{Title number|page=User:Naraht/John's Foo season 4 contestants}} returns4, which is to say that the|page= parameter is not constrained in the same way as{{BASEPAGENAME}}, but I don't think it's necessarily worth changing the code around|page= for though. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)16:51, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The change from BASEPAGENAME is simply for the examples which I had to put into Userspace, the difference between it working and not working is whether there is an apostrophe. If you look atCategory:RuPaul's Drag Race season 11 contestants (for example) and remove the work around that I had to do (Putting page={{#titleparts:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}}), it comes out as 39 regardless of what season it is because the apostrophe comes out as a ' which gets taken as the first number (with 11 becoming the second).Naraht (talk)17:28, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. I'll remove the work arounds when I have a chance. I don't know if asking on the talk page for the template would have been better. I would *not* have tried to be bold, while I saw that the work around could be trusted, I *really* don't trust myself with changes for templates other than infoboxes.Naraht (talk)19:16, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I guess, as the items listed there are bio articles, but the same banner is already on the Talk page of all the people listed in the disambig page. It strikes me that this clutters up the list of articles in the Bio project, and I wonder if other Wikiprojects will want their banners on every Disambig page that could be said to be "relevant" to any of the items listed in the disambig page.... All the best, --Ssilvers (talk)21:43, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
What's the point of adding an inactive Wikiproject to category talk pages? Just seems like page bloat and watchlist spam with no actual benefit.Fram (talk)18:53, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Lots of WikiProjects are inactive, but that doesn't mean new pages should not be tagged for them:
inactive ≠ defunct
talk page inactivity does not necessarily mean project inactivity
new pages might be enough to revitalize a project, and limiting or removing pages from a project is a surefire way to defunct it
I frequently find myself using inactive projects' categories for projects I'd never consider myself a participant of
Your points 2 and 3 are extremely unconvincing. No projects will be revitalized by having more categories added to it, and the project is tagged as "inactive", not just the talk page. The difference between inactive and defunct is minimal (point 1), which leaves us with that you somehow find it useful in some vague way. This doesn't seem sufficient to make so many edits with so little value.Fram (talk)20:28, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I'm just curious about the addition of {{CatAutoTOC}} to categories that have significantly less than 200 entries and are therefore filling just 1 single page? Also, at sometimes more than 20 such edits in just one minute, that's one every three seconds. Are you using some kind of automatic process? Thanks and Happy New Year! --Randykitty (talk)22:41, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
{{CatAutoTOC}} displays a TOC on any category with > 100 pages, so I scanned for categories with > 100 pages,so they should all span more than single page, unless the category count dropped from yesterday. It's a small diff, so scanning them is easy. I'll raise the count threshold & slow it down. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)22:59, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You commented on the how, but my question was more about the why. I agree withNorthernhenge that these TOCs don't seem useful on cats with less than 200 pages (and even cats with 295 pages, as in Northernhenge's example above). And you didn't answer my question on how you can do this at a rate of 20/minute. --Randykitty (talk)09:54, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You're not serious, are you? To make an edit there's more than "clicking save". And what about the issue of cluttering category pages? --Randykitty (talk)12:47, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
And the code I wrote, of course, and the page selection/filtering processes, which arguably should have been for categories > 200 pages. However,{{CatAutoTOC}} produces an output at > 100 pages, so there's clearly some desire for it, otherwise the lower bounds would've been set to 201. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)13:48, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oops again, I mentally transposed "how" and "why" in your question. It's a little hectic here. I recently noticed{{CatAutoTOC}} being placed on cats with< 100 pages, and in a weird order on the page:under categories. Rather than complain, I decided to just place it correctly on all pages on which it produces an output. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)14:49, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It does if{{subst:WikiProject Rwanda|class=Start}} is used, but not if{{WikiProject Rwanda|class=Start}} is used, in which case AnomieBOT takes care of it. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)19:25, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I never noticed that it doesn't leave a correctly transcluded template behind. As a side note, I fully believe these wrappers are abominations that do more evil than good.Gonnym (talk)12:31, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It wasn't showing properly because the transcluded template never technically got called; there was all of the bracket nonsense that was futzing with the transclusion. I haverearranged the parameters, so when placed the template should appear correctly (beforeand after the bot subst's it).Primefac (talk)07:26, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you Primefac! It would be great if one of you could document how to do this properly, because each wrapper template seems to be set up slightly differently — Martin(MSGJ · talk)08:24, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I wanted to tag talk pages in Category:Music by country and subcats with {WikiProject Regional and national music} but I found out it's too much work on my own (I'm not using AWB or anything). Maybe you can help me out. All these pages are about either national or regional music and I found out that {WikiProject Music} doesn't exist as a tag.Coldbolt (talk)11:41, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Should we set up a tracking category for bad asteroid numbers passed to the minor planet modules? I'm not sure if anyone will notice or check them. —hike395 (talk)18:02, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Departure– has given you somecookies! Cookies promoteWikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. You can spread the "WikiLove" by giving someone else some cookies, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.
A belated congratulations for making edit 1,250,000,000 to Wikipedia -an automated edit to Talk:Indium-126n on 7 October 2024. This milestone is 1/8th the way to 10 billion edits, which will likely be achieved before the next global ice age, and your nearly four million edits are getting us closer every day to that goal. Cheers!
To spread the goodness of cookies, you can add {{subst:Cookies}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message, or eat this cookie on the giver's talk page with {{subst:munch}}!
I'm coming across more pages likeCategory talk:December 1996 sports events in Russia, orphaned category talk pages of deleted category pages that you recreated again today. This just creates extra work so, if you are going to create talk pages, please make sure that the main page exists and hasn't been deleted. It looks like these were all pages created with AWB. Thank you.LizRead!Talk!19:45, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Loving this cleanup. Some ancient watch listed pages from closed AfDs that I can now happily prune from my watchlist. I like a smaller number!StarMississippi14:46, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, when you're removing the class from redirects, it could also be useful to remove the needs-x (needs-image, attention, etc.) parameters as redirects don't need those and could help projects clear out some of the categories.Gonnym (talk)11:00, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I really hate those subst banner wrappers. I think at one point, there was an elegant fix to these, but out of the 200+ wrappers I don't really remember where it was.Gonnym (talk)16:23, 9 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hey Tom, I've seen you have been doing a lot of wikiproject additions to pages using AWB. I am currently running a bot task for doing the same, and would appreciate if you could share the regex/custom module code you use for tagging. It will help me make my existing regex less error-prone. Thanks in advance!~/Bunnypranav:<ping>13:46, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Well, the code is very complex, currently ~23k lines, yet it's only really meant to be run on categories due to their relative simplicity & cleanliness compared to mainspace, which is littered with many more irregularities, exceptions, unexpected/weird/tedious formatting, and all of the associated errors that come with all that. If you intend to do this for a significant amount of time, it's best to develop your own code to understand its limits and nuances, and tailor it to the task at hand. I could help you through a specific problem though, if I have a working solution for it. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)16:02, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Correct task. Currently I'm using(\{\{(?:[Ww]iki[Pp]roject[Bb]anner[Ss]hell|[Ww]iki[Pp]roject banner shell)[^\n]*\n(?:\|[^\n]*\n)*) and$1{{WikiProject Latino and Hispanic heritage}}\n. It basically adds the banner in a new line after the banner shell.
It works in most cases, but I did find one issue, affecting very little pages. In case the shell's starting code is split it multiple lines, it breaks the class params. Seepastebin.com/raw/YryBQcbE for an example. I cannot enforce it to only match and add after1= since half of the pages do not use it. GenFixes adds that, but I guess the regex happens before the Genfixes, so effectively misses half of the pages from the tagging. Any help regarding this issue is appreciated. Thanks!~/Bunnypranav:<ping>05:29, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
One of the preliminary steps that should be taken to make all following steps simpler is to standardize the relevant template names, so
The(?<!\n==.+) are used to avoid making changes in any talk sections further down the page, so make sure singleline mode is turned on, so that. matches newline characters.
After that,
({{WikiProject banner shell[^{}]+)(?<!\n==.+) ->$1{{WikiProject Latino and Hispanic heritage}}\n
It would be good to have a "skip if contains" "check after"{{WikiProject Latino and Hispanic heritage[\s\S]+{{WikiProject Latino and Hispanic heritage to catch any cases where multiple templates have been placed by accident, like when multiple{{WikiProject banner shell}} exist, which is rare, but non-0. The[\s\S]+ is used instead of. as a way to unambiguously force singleline mode, since I haven't checked/can't remember if "skip if contains" is singleline or multiline. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)11:01, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you so much! One small request, could you help me with a regex for the bio banner swapping? I have made \{\{WikiProject Latino and Hispanic heritage\}\}\s*\n*(\{\{WikiProject Biography(?:\|[\s\S]*?)?\}\}) but it does not work if all the params are in a newline, of if the closing }} is in a newline to the last param. Thanks again for your detailed help!~/Bunnypranav:<ping>13:27, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sure:({{WikiProject Latino and Hispanic heritage[^{}]*}})\s*({{WikiProject Biography(?=\s*[\|}])[^{}]*}}(?=\s*(?:{{|}}))) ->$2\n$1 ({{ &}} don't need to be escaped "most" of the time). To keep the example simple, the trailing(?=\s*(?:{{|}})) is used to avoid moving WP Bio when a<!-- comment --> or other unexpected text exists after it. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)13:43, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
PLease, is it possible to combine edits likethese two? Seems rather straightforward to combine them when they are so close in time and similar in scope.Fram (talk)14:04, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, you madethis edit (and I have seem similar ones, too), and I was wondering if it was a mistake. You cleared a class parameter of "stub" from a stub article with the edit summary of "-redundant class param". Thanks.StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me05:21, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hey again. I think I figured it out. The articles had been redirected at the time you removed the parameter but then they were recreated. Keep up the good work.StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me05:39, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, my watchlist is again flooded by your edits, likethis one. Is there some discussion which decided that this was the way to go (and in which case, why not simply change the template to this format?), or is this a personal style preference? If the latter, then please stop it, tools like AWB are not supposed to be used to convert one style to another like this.Fram (talk)13:06, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
But that's not what that page says (and it explicitly says its descriptive, not prescriptive anyway). The order is "15: Attribution history templates: [...] or "Translated page" (when full-width)" and then "17; Smaller, right-aligned banners, including "Translated page" (if not used full-width among attribution history templates)" It says nothing about changing one to the other.
So please stop it, and next time you start on such a run, please make sure that you are doing something actually required and not just some personal preference or misinterpreted guideline.Fram (talk)13:42, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi -- I noticed that inthis edit you moved a misplaced tag, and in the process changed its meaning from "this article is notable" to "this article may not be notable". I wanted to check to see if you had any actual issues with the previous editor's assessment.
I'm planning to add some material to the article, and at the same time flip the tag template back to "notable". No action required unless you object to this -- just didn't want to unilaterally revert your tag. Regards,NapoliRoma (talk)19:43, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Huh... that's certainly a change, right there. I guess the RfD didn't take "this might confuse people looking through old edit revs" into account. Thanks for clearing that up.--NapoliRoma (talk)21:07, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, I hope you are doing well and having a lovely week. I noticed that you have been adding the WikiProject:Biography and WikiProject:Genealogy to family categories. However, some of the families you have added it to have been fictional families (e.g.Category:Ashworth family), so I removed the Biography Wikiproject banner. However, I was wondering about whether the Genealogy WikiProject applies to fictional families – since they technically are families, just fictional, so I am not sure. I wanted to ask you for your opinion first before removing.DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk)19:25, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Tom, I was surprised to findRichland Creek (Nashville, Tennessee) showing up as a GA when it hadn't been through the usual process. I kind of liked the article but I never thought about nominating it---but somebody else evidently thought it should be. So I want to ask you if it's worthy to pursue GA; or what it needs to help it. I'm a little nervous because I have never been in the presence of aGrand High Togneme VicarusEagledj (talk)22:15, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not comfortable assessing articles above C class. I think I've only participated in 1 GA many years ago to save the article from demotion, which I'm sure was a lot easier than initially getting it to that level initially, but it was still a fair bit of work. GA is not something I'm interested in doing, and even if I were, I'd have to be interested in the subject. NightWolf1223 pointed you in the rightdirection, that isWP:GAN/I, if you're up for the challenge. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)23:14, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, of course! When I click article, I go to the target page, which is big, so I am confused, because I did not pay attention that I came there from redirect. Thx. --Altenmann>talk17:04, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! BTW I looked source code of the css and it shows warning "element ... overqualified", with advice. I followed the advice to fix, and css still works. --Altenmann>talk
Hi Tom, I don't know if you are aware, but setting a Defaultsort on an article now applies to the talk page, unless it's overridden. I'm not sure if listas are worth doing now, except maybeen-passent. All the best:RichFarmbrough17:31, 14 May 2025 (UTC).[reply]
Turns out I was (mis-)remembering thisT154346 ticket. Once it was filed I stopped doing listas as they were effectively dead letter. I hadn't counted on how long these things take. All the best:RichFarmbrough10:19, 15 July 2025 (UTC).[reply]
Hi Tom. Thank you for becoming involved in the page about me. I strongly avoid editing my own page (unless there is an ad hominem attack on it, as there was a couple of years ago). But looking for your advice, on an unusual matter. (The page is:Victor Vescovo, undersea explorer and investor)
For biographies of living persons, it is usual to have at least some mention of their 'Personal Relationships/Married Status.' Thankfully, I have been able to avoid that, but I had an ex-girlfriend I lived with for 7 years accuse me of being married to her via common law marriage law in Texas. It was a preposterous claim, and I took it all the way to a jury verdict after a 1.5 year trial. Jury found that, no, we weren't married in a 12-0 unanimous verdict in 30 minutes . . . but she keeps claiming that we were married on social media.
It would be very helpful to have a very simple, brief, section on my page that says I have never been married and have no kids. If it would be helpful, to clear up the confusion, to add that a "previous girlfriend" (I'd rater not name her which would give her prominence in the search engines) claimed she was married to me, but a Texas court ruled that the were not. I can provide a pdf of the jury and judge verdict and order dismissing the case. Just not sure how to work this within the rules of Wikipedia as I always want to do the right thing in terms of editing. I love your engineering background, and you seem very fair, so just looking for advice on how to handle this, as I think the information is now pertinent and Wikipedia is such an authoritative source on things like this.
@Vlvescovo: did you write this? If so, I'll move this discussion toTalk:Victor Vescovo, as that is the most relevant, centralized location. It is best to log in to Wikipedia before leaving a message (if possible), so that the message can be attributed to your verified account, and not a random IP address. ~Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)12:10, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It has been brought to my attention that my athlete wiki page “Barry Nobles” has been deleted. When I see the history, you’re the last one to have edited that page. I’m not sure how all of this works so I figured I’d reach out to you. Do you know how can I get this page back running? Thanks!Bikeman2000 (talk)16:05, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
For the LoMP (which I thank you for your outstanding efforts on them), asteroids 811001 to 811552 were numbered but has not yet appeared on the LoMP. Can you please fix that? Also, it will be appreciated if the remaining info (group, diameter, categorization) are added to the recent batches! Thank you!Elios Peredhel (talk)08:59, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, you seem to have made a lot of edits like[3] or[4] which serve no purpose at all as far as I can see, but unnecessarily pollute watchlists and edit histories (and may even have a negative impact when pages get moved). I don't know how many times I have had to ask this already, but please don't make such edits (which are not allowed by the AWB rules of use anyway).Fram (talk)08:51, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That's not a good reason. Cosmetic edits to remove things which don't need maintenance from maintenance categories indicates a mistake with the way the maintenance cat is populated, not countless edits that need to be made. We have plenty of maintenance cats where actual maintenance is necessary.Fram (talk)15:30, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello I'm a student from LUISS university in Rome and I'm working on a presentation based on wikipedia's crowdsourcing process and one part of the work is to put myself in the shoes of a wikipedia contributor and find out some feeling he receives when editing or writing pages. The questions I would like to receive answers on are the following:
What does the editor think and feel:
What does the editor say and do:
What does the editor hear and see (about its surroundings):
What are his pains (what type of frustration does the user feel when contributing):
What are his gains (what does make him feel good when contributing):
Hello! Voting in the2025 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 1 December 2025. Alleligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
TheArbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting theWikipedia 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 imposesite bans,topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. Thearbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
Hello Tom.Reding, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on thisseasonal occasion. Spread theWikiLove by wishing another user aMerry Christmas and aHappy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2026. Happy editing,
.jpg)
Restored all 104 (and made the conditions much more obvious in the/doc). ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 22:37, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
.jpg)
Thanks! —hike395 (talk)18:35, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 20:03, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The redirectChlodwig has been listed atredirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets theredirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect atWikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 July 5 § Chlodwig until a consensus is reached. --MYCETEAE 🍄🟫—talk20:58, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Template:Taxonbar/exists has beennominated for discussion. You are invited to comment on the discussion atthe entry on the Templates for discussion page.Gonnym (talk)10:45, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
_transparent.png)
