en User talk:Encoded Archive 3

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Question from VampireEmpire mp3 (21:13, 19 November 2024)

this isn't really about editing I suppose, but could I write about myself? --VampireEmpire mp3 (talk) 21:13, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi, you can write an introduction on your page, or if you meet Wikipedia:BIO you can create an article about yourself, but I highly recommend reading Wikipedia:COI first. Hope this helps, Encoded Talk 💬 09:21, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hi Encoded!

Thanks very much for your help with changes to Dashun Wang's page. I really appreciate it. The article is much improved! I think I've tagged you on his talk page (Talk:Dashun Wang) in response to your question and in an additional request. Please let me know if you need any more information from me.

Thanks again! Moose181 (talk) 23:25, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi sorry for taking so long to get back to you! I'm about to head off to work so it may take me a few hours to get round to it but I'll take a look later today! Thanks, Encoded Talk 💬 09:55, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

Bybit

Hi, could you check the Bybit article? It was previously deleted through an AfD discussion that you initiated about a year ago. I'm wondering if the article's content has since been improved. Ckfasdf (talk) 23:20, 22 November 2024 (UTC)

A quick note in this topic. That article has now been renominated for deletion; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bybit (2nd nomination). I am notifying all participants in the previous AfD. Thanks. Dclemens1971 (talk) 18:15, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

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Question from RMLLx (04:24, 26 November 2024)

How do I write an article --RMLLx (talk) 04:24, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Hey @RMLLx so sorry for taking so long to get back to you, is there a specific element of writing you need help with? The welcome message I've placed on your talk page should have some links you'll find useful. Thanks, Encoded Talk 💬 00:38, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Dgonzal8nscc (12:40, 5 December 2024)

Good morning, I am wondering what I need to do to get some help on edits I am doing on an article for a college page. There is someone who continues to undo all my edits and the information that is currently there is not accurate. --Dgonzal8nscc (talk) 12:40, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Dgonzal8nscc, welcome to Wikipedia! Since you're an employee of the college you have a conflict of interest, and I highly recommend reading Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. I noticed that you've started a conversation with another editor on the talk page, and I'd advise you continue to work with them there to resolve the issues, if you need an extra pair or eyes please ping me a message and I'll drop by!

Since you have a COI, you need to request edits to a page that you're connected to. You can do this at Wikipedia:Edit Request Wizard, this will then be reviewed by one of the edit request reviewers (I'm one too, so if you have trouble please feel free to message me!) who will decide if it should be added, or provide feedback to improve it.

The welcome message on your talk page may also be helpful in starting out as well!

If you have any questions I'm here to help! Encoded Talk 💬 00:37, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Citation needed banners

You may think sticking such banners on articles is a useful thing, I do not. Essentially, it is just saying that something is incomplete, but I cannot be bothered to fix it. Instead I will stick a great big ugly banner on an article and some other schmuck can do the work. Try fixing problems, rather than just highlighting them. Then you will be doing something that is really useful. Urselius (talk) 17:34, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Hello, please may I ask which articles you are referring to? It may be that I did not have time to complete the section but still wished to flag it for later, which is what these banners may be used for. Instead of posting messages like these on my talk page may I suggest that if you have a problem with the banner, you may decide to resolve the issue, or instead place a polite message reminding me to go back over it, then you will be doing something that is really useful. Encoded Talk 💬 00:29, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from GalacticAlpaca (00:20, 11 December 2024)

How do you create a wikipedia page? I’m having some trouble. --GalacticAlpaca (talk) 00:20, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi, welcome to Wikipedia! You can create pages at Wikipedia:Article wizard. If you have any other questions please feel free to send me a message! Encoded Talk 💬 00:30, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Alex Espejel Calderon (15:06, 12 December 2024)

Hi there! I'm Alex and I've edited articles before but I recently created an account because I wish to provide a plot summary in the article for the film 'The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirriim' which I watched already. How can I request to be allowed to edit a semiprotected article? Many thanks in advance! --Alex Espejel Calderon (talk) 15:06, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi, you can request permissions or open an edit request at the Edit Request Wizard. Hope this helps! Encoded Talk 💬 12:34, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Igordimension (12:49, 20 December 2024)

Hi, thanks for being around to help. I am completely new to this, so have a lot of questions, my first area of ignorance is what the correct protocol is for references.

Thanks again! --Igordimension (talk) 12:49, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Question from Vxvxd (05:59, 24 December 2024)

How do I do a citation? --Vxvxd (talk) 05:59, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 26

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 26th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 August 2024. At press time, over 94% of the world has legally fallen prey to the merry celebrations of "Christmas", and so shall you soon. It's been a quiet 4 months, and we hope to see you with way more new scripts next year. Happy holidays! Aaron Liu (talk) 05:06, 25 December 2024 (UTC)

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script

Very useful for changelist patrollers, DiffUndo, by Nardog, is this edition's featured script. Taking inspiration from WP:AutoWikiBrowser's double-click-to-undo feature, it adds an undo button to every line of every diff from "show changes", optimizing partial reverts with your favorite magic spell and nearly fulfilling m:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Partial revert undo.

Miscellaneous

Doğu/Adiutor, a recent WP:Twinkle/WP:RedWarn-like userscript that follows modern WMF UI design, is now an extension. However, its sole maintainer has left the project, which still awaits WMF mw:code stewardship (among some audits) to be installed on your favorite WMF wikis.
DannyS712, our former chief editor, has ascended to MediaWiki and the ~~greener~~ purpley pastures of PHP with commits creating Special:NamespaceInfo and the __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ magic word to exclude a template from Special:UnusedTemplates! I wonder if Wikipedia has a templaters' newsletter...

Improve a script

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 and PrimeHunter/Search sort work, yet have alien user interface design. Someone could improve them...
BilledMammal/Move+ needs updating to order list of pages handle lists of pages to move correctly regardless of the discussion's page, so that we may avoid repeating fiasco history.

Requested scripts

We need scripts that...

allow you to edit {{sfn}} references graphically a la Ingenuity/ReferenceEditor
copy specific named references from other pages to help with splitting and whatnot
make adding icons/links to the top toolbar (or other portlets) much easier
graphically generate a {{source assess table}}
award a Four Award
...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests. Thanks to the editors at US/R—including Nardog, User:Novem Linguae, User:Jeeputer, and many more!—for their work in processing userscript requests this past year.

Updated scripts

Andrybak/Unsigned helper forks Anomie/unsignedhelper to add support for binary search, automatic edit summaries after generating the {{unsigned}} template, support for {{undated}}, and support for generating while syntax highlighting is on.
Pour one out: DreamRimmer/User not around forks Andrybak/Not around to allow configuration precise to a number of days (from the original precision of years).
Red-tailed hawk/cv revdel forks Enterprisey/cv-revdel to automatically add CopyPatrol reports.
Polygnotus/Move+ updates BilledMammal's classic Move+ to add automattic watchlisting of all pages—except the target page(s)—changed while processing a move.

Newly maintained scripts

Administrators only! Novem Linguae/UnblockReview forks the now-broken Enterprisey/unblock-review to review unblock requests with a graphical interface.

New scripts

1AmNobody24: Find Link provides a shortcut to its namesake tool, Edward/Find link, which helps de-WP:ORPHAN articles.
Andrybak: Contribs ranger (pictured) generates links to a limited range of user contributions, log items, or page history. You see, it's not just contribs!
CanonNi/VoteVisualizer is a rewrite of Pythoncoder/voteSymbols that makes everything saner to configure.
When viewing Category:Articles missing coordinates with coordinates on Wikidata, Jeeputer/coordInserter adds links to automatically insert coordinates into the article selected.
To satiate archaeology and curiosity (the same thing, perhaps?), JJPMaster/AfC time logger logs the time it takes for a user to review each submission to Wikipedia:Articles for creation.
Natdog/InsertAnyChar adds a searchable list of all Unicode characters to the 2010 source editor.

Concern regarding Draft:Cuerden Valley Park

Hello, Encoded. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Cuerden Valley Park, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 09:06, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

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