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I have a very clear notice that states you are not to edit my user page unless you are me. Do not edit the user pages of other editors. Thank you. 9t5 (talk) 12:31, 1 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Per WP:UOWN: pages in user space belong to the wider community. They are not a personal homepage, and do not belong to the user. They are part of Wikipedia, and exist to make collaboration among editors easier – making the collaboration easier includes avoiding polluting the maintenance categories, such as Wikipedia substituted templates.
Other popular issues on user pages to avoid:
misuse of HTML and wikitext causing so called lint errors
pollution of the category tree of User namespace templates due to copy-pasting of wikitext, which most often happens with userboxes.
Latest comment: 3 months ago12 comments2 people in discussion
Hey, I noticed you're an active editor, perhaps you can help me out. How can I have a template call a specific string from a given article using the start and end position number of the string (which I get using the findpagetext function)? JoeJShmo💌03:56, 26 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Say the Monkeys page has a 10 character string that is placed 150 characters - 160 characters from the start of the article. How can I call that line to my template? Say I wanted to use that line as a string in a function, how would I do that? JoeJShmo💌08:39, 26 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
JoeJShmo, this is a strange thing to want to do in a Wikipedia article, that's why I asked for a clarification.
Sure, I'm happy to explain. I have a template for the lead of a specific kind of article that is written about every president of the U.S., and I want the template to automatically grab certain information from the main page of the president, such as the file for his signature and his years in office. I can get the position of these bits of information using the findinpage function, but I don't know how to actually call the information itself. JoeJShmo💌08:58, 26 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
It's a template designed to work for every president. The point of the template is to automate the information and to avoid copy-pasting. I believe I'm to understand that you don't know how to implement my request, and that's fine. Thanks for the response, and for the wikidata info! JoeJShmo💌10:22, 26 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
JoeJShmo, I do know, but I'm choosing not to tell you, because you shouldn't try to make such a template by parsing pages in the way you've described in the first message. If the template is needed on many pages, years can stored as data in a template or a Lua module.
Interesting. Can you explain why? Also, it isn't feasible to store all the information in the template, as every article needs different information to be parsed. JoeJShmo💌10:57, 26 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Because it's brittle and hard to maintain. There are more robust and maintainable alternatives.
I'm not sure its that brittle. I suppose it depends how you write it. The function I wrote checked for the signature using the signature parameter in the infobox. JoeJShmo💌20:55, 26 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
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Hey there, welcome to the 25th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 March 2024. We've got a ton of wonderful editors taking back their pitchforks today. Don't worry, for they come in peace, to forcibly fix and extend existing scripts you use with sheer passion. There's so many, them forks have got what's basically their own column now! gift us with some rows before it's too late Aaron Liu (talk) 04:00, 1 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
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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.
An easily configurable script to add a link to the #p-vector-user-menu-overflow portlet with a name, target, and icon. This one should be a relatively easier one. I would do it myself, but I'm too busy rotting away on Celeste (video game).
After the ＲＩＩＪ update, Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin has a dismiss button that allows you to mark an item as read in one click and cycle to the next Watchlist item.
Lordseriouspig/StatusChangerImproved is just like Enterprisey's script, except you select your status from a dropdown instead of cycling through them with a button. The WMF operates out of car-centric infrastructure anyway. Shame!
Aaron Liu has created Duplinks from Evad37/duplinks-alt; his fork adds a config variable to automatically highlight duplicate links on the loading of any page where the portlet link would've appeared.
Tired of staring at a bunch of filtering text and waiting for darn filter logs to load? Msz2001/AbuseFilter analyzer can parse abuse filters into a visual syntax tree and evaluate locally on-demand!
Polygnotus/DuplicateReferences finds references with the same link and displays the number of them along with a button to add the {{duplicated citations}} tag under the references section. Being lazy has never been easier!
fastest gun on the net Ponor/really-quick-block really quick add to contribution lists three buttons awesome
Latest comment: 29 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hi Andrybak. Thank you for cleaning up after my work.[1][2] For me it's often a guess as to what is the optimal way to format such things so occasionally I just copy similar code from somewhere handy.
Regarding the content category Category:Occupational safety and health: I had added that to the new template category partly because I had just got through removing it from the existing navbox cat (now a subcat) here. But also I was under the impression that it was okay to include template-containing categories in content cats based on an RfC from a while back. I dug back and found it I think here but I must have either seriously misunderstood or misremembered something because that was not the consensus at all, or I was thinking of a different discussion. Anyway, you were correct to remove it. Well done:)
Possibly a helpful note on the shortcut link: I often get the feeling that, within my edit summaries, the shortcut "WP:CAT#T" gets ignored by editors who aren't aware of what those characters point to, or that they point to anything useful at all. "CAT#T" doesn't give much of a hint as to what it's about really. The # symbol nestled among the letters is an unusual shortcut. It's quite small and sometimes I think people think it's a typo or something. Lately, in my own personal experience, it seems the full "Wikipedia:Categorization#Template categorization" gets the attention desired and it's certainly far more descriptive. Even pipe-labeling the shortcut as "Template categorization", as I've been doing more recently, is better I think...fwiw --DB1729talk20:38, 5 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
DB1729, thank you. Other editors not being familiar with the guideline and possibly being confused by the shortcut is an excellent observation. I've adjusted my scripts to make edit summaries more readable. —andrybak (talk) 21:18, 5 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
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On your user page you say you've publicly revealed certain conflicts. I'm wondering if you've considered linking to such public statement(s). I've wrestled with maybe similar issues, as with "I'm an ex-banker" from 2012 on my user page. I'm less active with editing currently but appreciated your help with one of my recent edits, visited your user page, and had my old wrestling brought back to mind. Swliv (talk) 00:29, 11 October 2024 (UTC)Reply
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