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A kitten for you!

Cute or what?

GhostInTheMachine (talk) 12:11, 14 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for coming along!

Hi, Just want to say a big thank you for all your help at the YMT Luminaries edit-a-thon. You can read a report of the event here. Tweaks are welcome and you can comment on the talk page. Cheers! PatHadley (talk) 13:25, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Special Barnstar
	For the brilliant observation of the difference between 'notable' and 'noted' with ref to Wikipedia's fundamental critieria of notability, which opens doors to major change for underrepresented groups on Wikipedia. BessieMaelstrom (talk) 11:59, 17 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Precious

water preservation

Thank you for beginning quality articles around natural water, such as Eccup Reservoir and American Whitewater, for gnomish work with short descriptions, for wishing a kind recovery, and for "It can also become a challenge to keep AGF in mind." - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2451 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:14, 12 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:57, 30 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Modest flowers

Thank you for a beer for RexxS --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:18, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:41, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your User page

Hello @GhostInTheMachine: I am new to Wikipedia editing and came across your user page and have a few questions. How does the nav bar template work? How does the user box homepage work? What and where are the categories from? and why does it say you are a new user on a banner in the talk section, but says you have 15+ years in the other section? I have a few other questions but I don't want to bombard you, to much :) DannyHatcher (talk) 11:55, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome aboard @DannyHatcher:.

How does the nav bar template work? — Templates are a way to include some common piece of text into many articles. A wikitext link uses square brackets but a template is included into a page using curly brackets. Normally the "master" template will be kept in a page which is in the Template namespace, but the curly brackets can include text from anywhere else. In my case, I created my personal navbar in a sub-page under my user page: User:GhostInTheMachine/t/nav — / for sub-page, t for template (just my way of grouping the templates together), nav for navigation bar. The navbar is then included at the top of my other pages by using the curly brackets {{User:GhostInTheMachine/t/nav}}. Templates need not be plain text or just wikitext, they can include code — in this case {{ #time:Y-m-d H:i:s|{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} }} which gets the date and time when the page was last edited.
How does the user box homepage work? — User boxes are just small templates that display in a rectangle of a fixed size. There are a lot of them already — see Wikipedia:Userboxes and Category:Userboxes. I have also created a few of my own, such as User:GhostInTheMachine/UBX/Polite to cats. My "home" page then has a table of these boxes using {{Userboxtop}} and {{Userboxbottom}} at the top and bottom of each column to keep things tidy.
What and where are the categories from? — Many of the categories are a side-effect of adding a userbox to the page. The userbox template generally sets a category which then list the users who display that userbox. See Category:Wikipedian web developers. Any page can add categories as well — normally at the bottom of the page by adding a special "link" to the category. For example, the page for York has lines like [[Category:County towns in England]] at the end.

Thank you for your questions. Happy to help further if I can. If I am not around, then you can also ask general questions at the Teahouse — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 21:04, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thankyou for all of that! I was looking at the edit view and was trying to figure things out. I will keep looking around and will copy that text into my own space for ease of location.DannyHatcher (talk) 21:22, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Christmas!

		Season's Greetings
		Wishing everybody a Happy Holiday Season, and all best wishes for the New Year! Adoration of the Kings (Bramantino) is my Wiki-Christmas card to all for this year. Johnbod (talk) 14:50, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Happy New Year, GhostInTheMachine!

Happy New Year!

GhostInTheMachine,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Abishe (talk) 12:22, 31 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

TalkHelper

Thank you for the very useful script! Unfortunately, whenever I'm reading on mobile, it pops up a warning that I don't have commentsInLocalTime enabled every time I load a new page. Is it possible to disable that somehow? Rusalkii (talk) 17:23, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Rusalkii: The TalkHelper script needs the commentsInLocalTime gadget to be enabled as well. See TalkHelper #Use and #Prerequisites for how to do that (and why) — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 19:09, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Right, and I have it enabled on desktop, but either it's impossible to enable on the mobile version of the site or I'm missing something. Rusalkii (talk) 19:12, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. I never use the mobile version - even on a tablet. I will see if I can replicate that — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 19:23, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tban

I don't want to do this myself, and I'm asking you to strike your vote. That isn't even an RfC to begin with and most importantly, you're tbanned from the article. This is the 3rd time I'm reminding you of your tban. Please don't test my patience. ZaniGiovanni (talk) 17:30, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

GhostInTheMachine, disregard that, you're fine. There is no WP:TBAN, only a p-block. El_C 18:32, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I was aware that there was no Topic ban, but thanks for confirming. However, the p-block is itself blocking my library access.

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

GhostInTheMachine (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I have no intention of ever editing the Turkish_War_of_Independence article — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 19:01, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Accept reason:

Okie dokie. El_C 19:08, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

notice

Template:Introductory pages has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. --Sm8900 (talk) 21:55, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Short description

I noticed your edit on Nehru. As you seem to be a programmer, I might as well ask the questions I've waited for years. What is the use of short descriptions? Are they somehow involved in Google rankings; if so how? Why is it recommended that they be short (< 40 char)? Thanks! Fowler&fowler «Talk» 00:24, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Fowler&fowler I am not GhostInTheMachine, just stopping by, but the short (no pun intended) version is that they are used on mobile and some other views as brief blurbs. For example, here the text under the article names are the short descriptions.

The long version is at Wikipedia:Short description. Rusalkii (talk) 00:54, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I see. They are very helpful then, as is your explanation. Your screenshot also explains why long descriptions don't help. Thank you! Fowler&fowler «Talk» 01:21, 22 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for being objective and unbiased.

There is heavy lobby workings in Wikipedia both from funded by Iranian goverment itself and Armenian lobbies to manipulate history. And you tbanned short after you tried to implement real Wikipedia rules, but it was against their manipulative policy. I hope you could contiune to your wikipedia works without paid lobbies. Have a good day! 78.190.4.26 (talk) 18:05, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Guitar amplifier

Wasn’t that edit you reverted the same one I made? Ffffrr (talk) 17:59, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The edit I reverted was the one you made. I then re-imported the Wikidata version and made it suitable by making it shorter. You imported it, then left it too long but instead changed the first letter to lower case, which is incorrect for a Short description — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 18:10, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ok thanks for making it briefer than before I guess. Ffffrr (talk) 18:14, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Part of the challenge (and indeed the fun) of creating Short descriptions is to devise a short phrase that says enough to serve as a decent Short description, but also does not include extra detail and so creep too far over the 40 character limit — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 18:26, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello and thanks

I just thought I should say Hello (in a non-canvassing and calorie-free way) to thank you for commenting on that infobox thing. I do realize that it might be a dead-horse/stick job etc but I thought it was at least worth a try.

Because you popped up to comment I looked at your userpage and was tickled by the geography and a few familiar items of tech. I am exiled in the far far distant South but I used to live (in what I think was then the same county? Ah maybe not quite ... it says York wasn't in a Riding??) about 63 km almost due N of you and I still have strong associations with even further North.

Anyway, enough waffle and thanks again. Best wishes, DBaK (talk) 18:59, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Variant template names

Thanks for your work on improving short descriptions. I noticed that this change to Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication was a swap of one valid template name for another one. This is a cosmetic change to the wikicode that has no real-world effect, and is contrary to MOS:VAR. (Same thing for capitalization.) Put another way, every edit should improve the article in some way, no matter how small, but this one didn't. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 22:57, 23 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

York Castle

Re [1]: Come on!--217.155.32.221 (talk) 10:30, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That is better, although you could state the intended opening date — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 10:34, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the prompt response. I'm trying to avoid the [[MOS:CURRENT]] problem, which would have resolved itself in just two days' time.--217.155.32.221 (talk) 10:42, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Cornish places

Hi, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Cornwall/Guideline. The "Cornwall, England, UK" wording was adopted after a lot of disruption and edit warring as a way of avoiding the same in future. DuncanHill (talk) 14:52, 31 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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 :That is better, although you could state the intended opening date — [[User:GhostInTheMachine|GhostInTheMachine]] <sup>[[User talk:GhostInTheMachine|talk to me]]</sup> 10:34, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
 ::Thanks for the prompt response. I'm trying to avoid the <nowiki>[[MOS:CURRENT]]</nowiki> problem, which would have resolved itself in just two days' time.--[[Special:Contributions/217.155.32.221|217.155.32.221]] ([[User talk:217.155.32.221|talk]]) 10:42, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
+== Cornish places ==
+Hi, please see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cornwall/Guideline]]. The "Cornwall, England, UK" wording was adopted after a lot of disruption and edit warring as a way of avoiding the same in future. [[User:DuncanHill|DuncanHill]] ([[User talk:DuncanHill|talk]]) 14:52, 31 March 2022 (UTC)