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The Signpost: 16 September 2023
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Request
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- Gallery: Before and After: Why you don't need to know how to restore images to make massive improvements
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- Traffic report: The calm and the storm
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November Articles for creation backlog drive
Hello DaxServer:
WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 2 months outstanding reviews from the current 4+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 November 2023 through 30 November 2023.
You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.
Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
The Signpost: 6 November 2023
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- In the media: UK shadow chancellor accused of ripping off WP articles for book, Wikipedians accused of being dicks by a rich man
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The Signpost: 20 November 2023
- In the media: Propaganda and photos, lunatics and a lunar backup
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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23
New year, new scripts. Welcome to the 23rd issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering around 39% of our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. That’s right, we haven’t published in two years! Can you believe it? Did you miss us?
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
- RefRenamer by Nardog is this issue's featured script. For whatever reason, the foundation will only give us better reference names in VisualEditor if we wish for it in the next survey. Nardog to the rescue! This script has a ton of options to satisfy almost anyone who wishes to use better refnames than ":0" and ":418".
- Nardog: MoveHistory can now look up the move history of any page from anywhere on the site.
- User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink now has a version that copies the Special:Diff link with square brackets.
- User:GhostInTheMachine/WatchlistTidy now moves the Active Filters panel to the right so that the Show/Hide button doesn't constantly jump.
- User:Alexander Davronov/HistoryHelper has now become stable with some bugfixes and features such as automatically highlighting potentially uncivil edit summaries and automatically pinging all the users selected.
- Wikipedia:AutoEd/unicodehex.js will no longer replace legacy MediaWiki dot-entities (dot followed by two uppercase alphanumeric characters) in article links, which caused several links to become broken.
- Many of our favorite scripts such as User:Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, User:Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and User:Bradv/Scripts/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
- User:Elominius/gadget/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
- To a lesser extent, the same goes for User:PrimeHunter/Search sort.js. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
- We want...
- ...a mark-as-read button for Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
- ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to User:TheJJJunk/ARA
- ...a fix/fork of User:DannyS712/SectionRemover.js to make it work
- A WP:3O requesting and responding tool, similar to Terasil's classic edit request tool
- A "bytes removed"/"added" filter on the user contribs page
- A review tool for WP:proposed deletions
- Mass patrol new pages by a user for use in WP:RFP/A
- ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests
- Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin is a rewrite of Ais's Watchlist Notifier with modern APIs and several new features such as not displaying watchlist items marked as seen (hence the name), not bolding diffs of unseen watchlist elements which doesn’t work properly anyways, displaying the rendered edit summary, proper display of log and creation actions and more links.
- Alexis Jazz: Factotum is a spiritual successor to reply-link with a host of extra features like section adding, link rewriting, regular expressions and more.
- User:Aveaoz/AutoMobileRedirect: This script will automatically redirect MobileFrontend (en.m.wikipedia) to normal Wikipedia. Unlike existing scripts, this one will actually check if your browser is mobile or not through its secret agent string, so you can stay logged in on mobile! Hooray screen estate!
- Chlod:
- Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
- Attribution Notice Template Editor (ANTE) graphically modifies content attribution notices. It is the successor to User:Chlod/Scripts/CopiedTemplateEditor and supports more templates than {{copied}} ones.
- Infringement Assistant allows a user to hide sections of a page for suspected copyright violations and report the page to the appropriate Wikipedia:Copyright problems noticeboard.
- Deputy is a first-of-its-kind copyright cleanup toolkit. It overrides the interface for Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations for easy case processing. It also includes the functionality of the following (also new) scripts:
- User:Elominius/gadget/diff arrow keys allows navigation between diffs with the arrow keys. It also has a version that requires holding Ctrl with the arrow key.
- Enterprisey
- diff-permalink-2 allows quickly copying wikilinks to diff and permalink pages from those pages, a variation of existing script User:Enterprisey/diff-permalink
- archiver is a fork of Σ's Archiver with several bugfixes.
- /parent-cats highlights categories that are a subcategory of a category already included in a page's categories.
- User:Guarapiranga/accessKeysCheatSheet adds an access key shortcut to display all shortcuts based on code provided by Nardog and NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh.
- User:HungKhanh0106/ProperDisplay loads a bunch of fonts to add correct rendering supports for "esoteric" languages.
- User:Jeeputer/highlightPiped will make piped links irresistible (or else).
- User:Jerome Frank Disciple/curlyfixer.js adds an WP:AutoEd function that straightens curly quotes per MOS. That's right! Such a module was only made in the 14th year of AutoEd's existence! Configure away!
- Frequently link to Wikipedia on your websites yet find generating CC-BY credits to be such a hassle? Say no more! User:Luke10.27/attribute will automatically do it for ya and copy the credit to yer clipboard.
- User:MPGuy2824/MoveToDraft, a spiritual successor (i.e. fork) to Evad37's script, with a few bugs solved, and a host of extra features like check-boxes for choosing draftification reasons, multi-contributor notification, and appropriate warnings based on last edit time.
- Nardog
- /CopyCodeBlock: one of the most important operations for any scripter and script-user is to copy and paste. This script adds a copy button in the top right of every code block (not to be confused with <code>) that will, well, copy it to your clipboard!
- /RCMuter: Hide specific users, perhaps User:MediaWiki message delivery, from the Watchlist and Recent Changes.
- /VitalTopicon makes you see the vital article topicon on WP:vital articles.
- m:User:NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AceForLuaDebugConsole.js adds the Ace editor (a.k.a. the editor you see when editing JS, CSS and Lua on Wikimedia wikis) to the Lua debug console. "In my opinion, whoever designed it to be a plain <textarea> needs to seriously reconsider their decision."
- Novem Linguae
- DraftCleaner fixes formatting of new articles.
- GANReviewTool quickly and easily closes good article nominations.
- ReviewStatus displays whether or not a mainspace page is marked as reviewed.
- SpeciesHelper tries to add the correct speciesbox, category, taxonbar, and stub template to species articles.
- User:Opencooper/svgReplace and Tol's fork replaces all rasterized SVGs with their original SVG codes for your loading pleasures. Tell us which one is better!
- User:Phlsph7/HighlightUnreferencedPassages adds a button to highlight all unreferenced paragraphs in reds, and can even do it automatically.
- Still hate Vector 2022's floating TOC? User:Phlsph7/UnfoldedNumberedTOC(Vector2022) might make you give it a try.
- Quite a bit of pages at Special:WantedCategories either exist now or got removed. User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/hideUnwantedCategories automatically hides those.
- User:SuperHamster's Wikipedia:Tools/View it! generates a gallery of images for a given subject on any Wikimedia project utilizing Structured Data on Commons. Images can then be added as needed.
- Terasail
- ArticleInfo displays page information at the top of the page, directly below the title.
- /HeaderIcons takes away the Vector 2022 user dropdown and replaces it with all of the icons within, top level, right next to the Watchlist. One less click away! There's also an alternate version that uses text links instead of icons.
- ...and any more, all available at WP:US/L.
Due to budget and procrastination limitations, we've only had time to review the first ~39% of the scripts since last issue. Help us out here! Aaron Liu (talk) 13:24, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
The Signpost: 10 January 2024
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Hi
I need your help bro, please reply me FI.214 (talk) 11:09, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @FI.214 How can I help? — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 18:18, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
- I'm getting the deletion bro in my articles and I use the correct information, please make the normal one. Please FI.214 (talk) 18:35, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
In reference to the recent revert of my edits on Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 page
The article had been vandalised by some troll and highly opinionated lines were added with no source which parroted the government/right-wing line. I merely edited these lines to remove the bias. I do not believe my edit should have been reverted.
However, upon checking back on the article, I have found that the problematic, biased lines that I removed/fixed have been changed so the article is neutral again. WatermelonSeller05 (talk) 08:30, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
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Regarding the revert made you in Babri masjid page
Hi DaxServer,
I have made an edit to the Babri Masjid page about Tulsidas mentioning the destruction of the temple. As you have reverted by suggesting not to use court documents, can you help in making that edit? Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you. Take care. Bsskchaitanya (talk) 11:10, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Bsskchaitanya I'd suggest researching for scholarly resources in Google Books, Google Scholar, JSTOR, etc.,. Since the work had been there for a long period of time and is an important one, there're certainly studies on it about the topic you want too add. Good luck! — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 12:59, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for your inputs. Found two articles which reported about Rambhadracharya whose testimony was recorded during proceedings of the Allahabad court.
- 1.Tulsidas’ testimony, Daily Pioneer, 18 August 2020.
Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya of the Ramanandi Sampradaya submitted in an affidavit before the Allahabad High Court on July 15, 2003, stating that in Shri Tulsi Dohashatak, the poet bemoaned the misdeeds of Babur and destruction of the Ram Temple by Mir Baqi. “The Yavanas (foreigners) filled with anger ridiculed the mantras, Upanishads, brahmanas and Puranas; after cutting the tuft of hair (shikha, choti) and yagopavit (sacred thread of Brahmins), they expelled the followers of Hari from their homes. Tulsi says this is a bad time for Hindus” (Bhad hari bhagaye desh se, TuIsi kathin kujog).
“Babur came with sword in hand in the summer months of Vikram Samvat 1585 (1528 AD) and created havoc (anarth). The beautiful Ram Janmabhumi temple was ruined and a mosque built; Tulsi felt aggrieved (Tulsi kinhi hai).” Further, Mir Baqi destroyed the temple and the murtis of Ram Darbar (family of infant Ram) as a broken-hearted Tulsi cried for protection (Trahi trahi Raghuraj). Tulsi continued, “Where there was a temple on Ram’s birthplace, in the middle of Awadh, Mir Baqi built a mosque.” In Kavitavali, Tulsidas laments, where are the ascetics (dhoot, avadhoot), the Rajputs and the weavers? He expresses detachment from society. Tulsi, he avers, is devoted to Ram, will eat by begging, will sleep in mosque (masit mein saibo).
- 2.Guru Rambhadracharya, Who Deposed On Behalf Of Lord Ram In Allahabad HC, Times of India, 23 January 2024.
He cited verses from two works of Tulasīdāsa – eight verses from the Dohā Śataka which describe the destruction of a temple and construction of mosque at the disputed site in 1528 CE, and one verse from Kavitāvalī which mentions the disputed site.
- Can you suggest if these sources can be used to support that sentence. Bsskchaitanya (talk) 13:27, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Bsskchaitanya Can you research for sources not connected to the SC judgement and from independent sources? It'd be better if the source is about the Tulsidas' work directly. — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 17:14, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you. Bsskchaitanya (talk) 17:48, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- I wouldn't consider Rambhadracharya to be a neutral and reliable source for Wikipedia — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 17:15, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Ok. Got it. Bsskchaitanya (talk) 17:50, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- I will revert the edits made in some wikipedia pages accordingly. As a general question I am asking this one. How to point out if some reliable source involved in highly opiniated and one-sided in reporting. Personally, it is noticed by me there is some bias against topics related to Hinduism and India by some reliable sources such as Al Jazeera. In that case how to counter that on Wikipedia? Any suggestions would be grateful. Bsskchaitanya (talk) 18:03, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Bsskchaitanya Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard is the venue to bring about and discuss such issues. — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 17:05, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you friend for the information. Some changes have made by me in the Ayodhya dispute page about proceedings at a district court during Britsh era. Can you verify if the sources cited to be neutral and valid? In the timeline of the dispute it is important to add the 1985-86 district court proceedings. Thank you. Bsskchaitanya (talk) 06:26, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Bsskchaitanya Happy to help! Unfortunately I don't have the time and energy to go a bit deeper into those sources. Good luck with editing. — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 10:54, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
- I understand mate. Me too in similar situation. Thanks for your inputs though. Take care. Bsskchaitanya (talk) 14:03, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
- @Bsskchaitanya Happy to help! Unfortunately I don't have the time and energy to go a bit deeper into those sources. Good luck with editing. — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 10:54, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you friend for the information. Some changes have made by me in the Ayodhya dispute page about proceedings at a district court during Britsh era. Can you verify if the sources cited to be neutral and valid? In the timeline of the dispute it is important to add the 1985-86 district court proceedings. Thank you. Bsskchaitanya (talk) 06:26, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Bsskchaitanya Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard is the venue to bring about and discuss such issues. — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 17:05, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
- @Bsskchaitanya Can you research for sources not connected to the SC judgement and from independent sources? It'd be better if the source is about the Tulsidas' work directly. — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 17:14, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
CS1 error on BRICS
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Maldives page move
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No one talks on the talk page, starting a discussion for the move will be very long and monotonic. Let the page move be and please dont revert Pharaoh496 (talk) 12:46, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
- @Pharaoh496 You can make your arguments in a Wikipedia:Requested moves as to why the page needs to be moved — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 17:50, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
- well but im autoconfirmed, and as of now face no opposition Pharaoh496 (talk) 18:09, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
- You did.. from me! Why did you think I reverted the move? Wikipedia:AUTOCONFIRMED doesn't mean you get to move pages but rather technically possible for you to move pages. Page moves are done as long as they're uncontroversial and adhere to the guidelines. From WP:RM -
A title may be disputed, and discussion may be necessary to reach consensus: see § Requesting controversial and potentially controversial moves. The requested moves process is not mandatory, and sometimes an informal discussion at the article's talk page can help reach consensus.
I've yet to hear why — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 18:21, 7 February 2024 (UTC)- mate, when you reverted it back you didnt give a reason, you just advocated for a discussion.
- share now, how exactly is it disputed, lets discuss Pharaoh496 (talk) 04:29, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
- You did.. from me! Why did you think I reverted the move? Wikipedia:AUTOCONFIRMED doesn't mean you get to move pages but rather technically possible for you to move pages. Page moves are done as long as they're uncontroversial and adhere to the guidelines. From WP:RM -
- well but im autoconfirmed, and as of now face no opposition Pharaoh496 (talk) 18:09, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
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Template Change
Hi DaxServer, thank you for your warm welcome and sharing that information. After looking through the link provided I'm unclear what I have done that does not maintain an encyclopedic appearance. Can you please quote what in the Manual of Style specifically prohibits changing the a word in a template? Thanks, Hemmingweigh (talk) 13:34, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
Notice reg. revert of well supported edit
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
This edit is well supported by the cited ref and the edit summary your provided didnt justify your rv. Well, the How's behind your claim of WPUNDUE is more important here for this revert. BlackOrchidd (talk) 05:38, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
Promotion of Rashmika Mandanna article to GA-Class
Hi, I was just wondering how I could improve Rashmika Mandanna's article in order to get it promoted to GA-Class, any tips would be massively appreciated. Thank you! Iknowthingsaboutstuff1 (talk) 00:47, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Iknowthingsaboutstuff1. I wish I have the time, but I'd advise reaching out to our cine taskforce editors at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film/Indian cinema task force, they'd be of much help to you. Good luck! — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 17:22, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
- No worries, thank you for the help! Iknowthingsaboutstuff1 (talk) 22:07, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
Invitation to join New pages patrol
Hello DaxServer!
- The New Pages Patrol is currently struggling to keep up with the influx of new articles needing review. We could use a few extra hands to help.
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- Kindly read the tutorial before making your decision, and feel free to post on the project talk page with questions.
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Regarding Happiness Studies Academy
Hi Dax,
This is the first time I am editing on Wikipedia - maybe you can help me understand better what is wrong - I just submitted a more in-depth version. Saharm2 (talk) 16:54, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Relationship with Bhartiya Janata Party
Your recent actions and reactions vis-a-vis the writings made by me as regards Lalji Tandon, Rajnath Singh, Kalyan Singh and Kusum Rai seems to give a clear inference that you have close association with BJP.
Kindly state the truth in this regards please.
Flip
The table is in reverse order at Jeet filmography. DareshMohan (talk) 09:33, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @DareshMohan Sorry, I don't think I have enough time — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 08:55, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24
Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
- Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.
After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...
- Aaron Liu has created What redirects here from Guarapiranga/WhatRedirectsHere; his fork includes support for every MediaWiki wiki, corrected link positions, an access key, and some rudimentary translation.
- Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
- AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
- Mesidast/Tidy citations is a fork of Meteor sandwich yum/Tidy citations is a fork of Waldyrious/formatcitations. It configurably harmonizes whitespace and cleans up parameters in citation templates, descriptive edit summary included.
Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!
- Many of our favorite scripts such as Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and Bradv/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
- Elominius/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
- To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
- We want...
- ...a mark-as-read button and watchlist notices support for Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
- ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to TheJJJunk/ARA
- ...a fix/fork of DannyS712/SectionRemover to make it work
- A simple script to second or archive proposed deletions
- A script to auto-expand V22 ToC sections like this demo
- A WP:3O response tool that can automatically remove the relevant request from the 3O dashboard
- A byte filter to be split from Nux/LongTableFilters
- ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests
- DannyS712/AbuseFilterMessageLinks add links to the "warn" and "disallow" messages in edit filters.
- Diegodlh/Web2Cit/script adds an option to use m:Web2Cit (which WP:ProveIt also uses) instead of mw:Citoid to generate citations in the Visual Editor.
- Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!
- Doǵu/Adiutor (pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.
- Eejit43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
- /afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
- /ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
- /redirect-helper (pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
- /rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.
- Guycn2/UserInfoPopup (pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
- Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
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Regarding recent revert made by you
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Hi,
I notice that that you have cited mention of Adi Sankara's visit to Ayodhya has no due weight while reverting an edit made by me in that article. However, I would like to bring to your notice that Adi Sankara holds high importance in the history of Hinduism and its revival. He is credited with identification of many teertha kshetras such as Jyotirlingas, setting up Dasanami sampradaya, writing commentaries on many important Hindu works, propagating Advaita etc. He visited many holyplaces across India (and Pakistan). From a scholarly perspective it can indicate for existence of such site in that area and how Ayodhya was revered by Hindus from other parts of India. For example, he visited Draksharama (nearby my hometown) which indicates the ancient Siva temple there was prominent even during 8th century. We can notice inscriptions by Cholas in that temple. However, this temple being in South survived the vicissitudes of time unlike the temples in other parts of India which suffered from iconoclasm and sometimes complete destruction. Therefore, information that Adi Sankara visited Ayodhya way back in 8th century indicates it was an important pilgrimage site even during that era. In that section of the article, my intention was to provide information about Rama's significance and subsequent importance of Ayodhya as a pilgrimage site owing to its relation with Rama's life events. So, it is my request to consider your reversion. Any suggestions are welcome. Thank you and have a nice day. Bsskchaitanya (talk) 06:08, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
Truthfindervert
Have you looked at their contributions? Their article edits obviously, but also [1] [2] And I love this category, "Ruler's" [3] They can 't spell. So no surprise that [4] is copied from [5] Which is whee JANTI KALAN was copying all of his stuff. Hell, now I've got to see how much is copyvio, I've got better things to do. Doug Weller talk 17:08, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
- I had a glance at their contributions but didn't dig deeper. Thanks for looking into them. I wish I had the time and energy but had back-to-back stressors last week leading to a breakdown on Friday. Focusing on intense activity is quite challenging and limited for the time being :/ — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 19:49, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
HI pls intervene in the above article and stop his Wikishovel nonsense and false alarms. This is not the first time he is doing it, this has become a habitual to him nominating speedy deletions, and creating double work to other editors.(talk). Fostera12 (talk) 13:16, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
Article on Rajnath Singh
Kindly do not remove the contents of Rajnath Singh page, which would be highly improper. I have not added any defamatory content to Wikipedia, as in case of Rajnath Singh. Every thing I have stated is based completely on reliable and respectable magazines articles, already in public domain. Every statement is based on facts, with definite evidences in public records. Similarly there has been no violation of copyright infringement. The material written by me needs to be presented in the article because it is based purely on public documents of extremely reliable acceptability. Removing them would be shielding truth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Goodwikie (talk • contribs) 11:45, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
Relationship with BJP
I have very strong apprehension that you have a very close relation with BJP and your reactions to my edits are primarily governed by that relationship.
I would request you to kindly clarify yourself in that count. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Genuinewikiuser (talk • contribs) 13:56, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
Non-neutral actions
I am waiting for your response to disclosure of your relationship with Bhartiya Janata Party. Your extra-ordinary interest in selective subjects gives a very strong indication that you are not working in a neutral manner but are working here to keep certain hard truth away from Wikipedia readers, on behalf of someone, most probably BJP. My submission is that you kindly come out with truth in this regards. It is once again prayed to kindly not come in the way of truth and delete those articles written/amended by me which are based purely and completely on facts and reliable evidences. Such an act comes in the way of truth and justice, and also hampers the basic purpose of Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Genuinewikiuser (talk • contribs) 01:31, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi there, just to let you know it doesn't seem like this script shows up anymore in the toolbar. I can't find the portlet link anywhere. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 20:40, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Neveselbert Thanks for bringing this to my notice :) It seems the new Vector theme has hidden a lot of portlet links for me as well. I'll look into what's changed and will try to resurrect the script, and maybe improve it a bit as well while I'm at it — DaxServer (t·m·e·c) 09:09, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
Controversies section of Yogi Adityanath page
As stated in reply to the query/comment/act of Mr DaxServer, it has been completely established that the two major controversies related with Yogi Adityanath are an essential, inalienable and necessary part of his life journey, whether anyone likes it or not. They are both uncomfortable and unsavoury facts related with his life journey, but have helped shape his political rise in the immense complexities of political scenario of Easter Uttar Pradesh, and hence cannot be taken away, and need to be necessarily presented.
It is for these reasons that they have been brought back, based solely on the genuineness of the need of these two issues.
I would request Mr DaxServer not to remove these Edits, because his interactions so far give a very clear indication that he is not a neutral editor but works for the political party BJP. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Genuinewikiuser (talk • contribs) 11:44, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
Request
Do not again and again revert my edits and put it as sock, some mistakes could be possible but not every possible edit. BhandupAamche (talk) 07:58, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
- @BhandupAamche I just realized that was uncivil putting that in edit summaries. Apologies for that. — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 20:54, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
- "This account is a sockpuppet of Ayushmaan14 (talk · contribs · logs), and has been blocked indefinitely." Doug Weller talk 14:41, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
Genuinewikiuser blocked as sock master of Goodwikie
Who I also blocked. Doug Weller talk 18:24, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks @Doug Weller ;) — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 18:59, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
RE: AfD closures
Hey Dax, thanks for the feedback. I was looking at old AfDs and wanted to help. I was going to do no consensus.
One question, should I just never close an AfD? Comintell (talk) 02:03, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Comintell I think you just need more experience on our policies and guidelines. I'd recommend editing and improving articles as a way to get familiar to those. Good luck. — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 11:15, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
Jayam Ravi
His father Editor Mohan's born name is Mohammed Jinnah Abdul Khader. So his sur name naturally is Mohammed. I am aware that Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people. Zolgensma (talk) 07:14, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
Have a look
You edit was reverted on 11 March 2024. Thought, I should notify. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 13:02, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
My ping failed
Here.User talk:BlackOrchidd#Extended confirmed user rights revoked. There also an interesting discussion about his use of AI on my talk page. Doug Weller talk 18:37, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Your edit war message
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Re: Your edit war message on my talk page. Noticed that you did not post this message to the guy who did two reverts (a serial reverter if I may say so), instead you chose to pick on the guy who did one revert. Kindly explain your decision. Cheers. PastaMonk 17:42, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
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Mohammed Zubair (journalist)
FYI - you're at three reverts and I've gotta be fair and warn everyone on that article. I'd hate to see you get caught up by the 3RR report, when it's really likely they'll get a block for the edit-warring and hopefully disruptive editing in genera. If they keep pushing it, just let it stay until the EW report is handled. Fun stuff, I know. Ravensfire (talk) 17:16, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Ravensfire Thanks for the note. It is WP:NOT3RR#7 for the reverts you and I made. — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 17:29, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- I was wondering if I should ask for ECP protection or just wait a tad bit longer for an admin to be available to act on the 3RR report — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 17:30, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- Probably falls under that, but you want to mention that in your edit summary so a reviewing admin knows what you're doing. I think ECP isn't needed right now - it's one disruptive editor, so block them and it's resolved. If they try the IP route, then semi-protection. Hopefully they are getting the point - I know, not likely given their talk page comments where they steadfastly ignore the main points being made. Ravensfire (talk) 17:34, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
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The retaliatory and utterly bogus EWN reports have pushed this well passed disruptive on their part, so reported them to ANI and mentioned you as the other target. Hopefully this gets a quick block. Ravensfire (talk) 18:32, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- And the smacketh was layeth downeth. Ravensfire (talk) 18:46, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks @Ravensfire. It seems like everyone is on the Easter holiday! — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 18:49, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- Ah, @ToBeFree is here! — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 18:51, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- Heh. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:51, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- Egg-cellent! And I'll just show myself out... Ravensfire (talk) 18:54, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- <throws easter eggs at Ravensfire> ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:58, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 19:00, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- Oooh, that's a cool icon! ~ ToBeFree (talk) 19:38, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 19:00, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- <throws easter eggs at Ravensfire> ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:58, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- Egg-cellent! And I'll just show myself out... Ravensfire (talk) 18:54, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- Heh. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 18:51, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- Ah, @ToBeFree is here! — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 18:51, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks @Ravensfire. It seems like everyone is on the Easter holiday! — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 18:49, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hi one editor is deliberately moving this film article Family Star (film) to draft space repeatedly and creating confusion among reviewers only to make it declined. The film is going to release on April 5 2024. Request you to review the article and fix the issue once and for all.Zolgensma (talk) 07:43, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
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test — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 04:10, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
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Oh shoot, never mind. The local IPBE expired. Could a watching admin add IPBE to this account? or, perhaps I'll email CU later. cc @GeneralNotability: who added IPBE in 2022. Thanks! — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 04:26, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
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An apology for edit warring
DaxServer, I apologize for the recent edit warring and curt communication with you and other editors at A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and thank you for your edit aimed at improving the article in question. Will be more mindful about Wiki's guidelines and cooperative spirit. Regards, Cinosaur (talk) 14:56, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Cinosaur I'm delighted to hear from you. At times, we all make mistakes. It is the heading to the feedback that sets up apart! — DaxServer (t · m · e · c) 11:23, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, DaxServer. In the meantime, I tried to address some of your and other editors' feedback in the draft, reported my revisions of the draft on the talk page and, per consensus there, am rolling the draft out into mainspace, one section at a time. Will be grateful for your further comments and revisions. Happy editing. Regards, Cinosaur (talk) 11:36, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
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Can you add italics to Sivakumar filmography? DareshMohan (talk) 04:36, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
- @DareshMohan Done — DaxServer (t·m·e·c) 05:55, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot. Can you move to italics to before the year for Satyam Rajesh filmography? DareshMohan (talk) 23:14, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
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Can you un-italicize the years of Satyam Rajesh filmography? DareshMohan (talk) 06:48, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
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你好,先生。我想谈谈帕基扎的事。电影的维基中有三次提到卖淫,我刚刚查了这三次提到卖淫。引用的三处文献都没有提到卖淫。 清风与明月 (talk) 12:10, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
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A cheeseburger for you!
I am giving you these to eat fast and get back to wiki work. Don't waste your time eating this small food I can afford. It's little but from a deep heart, I am grateful for your outstanding 'saviour' act on my TP. Your contributions is superb. Happy Sunday from my time zone. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 09:27, 2 June 2024 (UTC) |
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Italicize Anubhav Mohanty filmography. DareshMohan (talk) 07:00, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
- @DareshMohan Done — DaxServer (t·m·e·c) 07:10, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
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Cut the drama here and stop using threatening language
That passive agression you are showing on my talk page, "you are warned, don't do this again" stuff like that, just cut that already. Instead, explain to me in a civil manner what is the issue you got with my edits. That link leads to disambiguation page and I only fixed that. Stop assuming that other people who edit are doing disruptive edits, and only you hold the beacon of righteous authority here. — Hemant Dabral (📞 • ✒) 09:18, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
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- So are we supposed to leave the links unfixed that lead to a disambiguation page? Inauguration of Narendra Modi is a redirect that leads to Oath of office ceremony of Narendra Modi which itself is a disambiguation page. The SAARC members were invited to the First oath of office ceremony of Narendra Modi as it's mentioned in it's WP:DYK nomination. — Hemant Dabral (📞 • ✒) 10:03, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Hi This Id 60.243.160.114 is involved in disruptive editing of the Amaravati article. Pls look into it. Thanks Ustadeditor2011 (talk) 11:17, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
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Recent changes
- The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [11]
- The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
- The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the
mw-reference-text
class, Parsoid now also adds thereference-text
class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [12]
Problems
- There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [13]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [14][15]
- The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a
<span class="mw-cite-backlink">
wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [16] - On multilingual wikis that use the
<translate>
system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [17]
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Tech News: 2024-25
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [18]
- The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future. [19][20]
- The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [21]
Problems
- Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [22]
- Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [23]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [24][25]
- Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [26]
- Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [27]
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