User talk:Epicgenius/Archive/2024/Mar


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.

Newly maintained scripts

After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...


Without caching. Each script takes 400–500ms. A particularly large script takes 1.11 s! Internet download speed is 50 Mbps.
Without caching. Each script takes 400–500ms. A particularly large script takes 1.11 s! Internet download speed is 50 Mbps.
With caching enabled. Each script takes just 1-2 ms to load.
With caching enabled. Each script takes just 1-2 ms to load.


Improve a script

Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!

Requested scripts

New scripts

Edit-listings

Appearance-ricing

  • Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
  • Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
  • GhostInTheMachine/GraphicReplyLink replaces the [ reply ] link with 💬, which is some sort of rainy cloud I guess?[Joke]
  • Jonesey/common (pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
    • Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
  • Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
  • Phlsph7/ClassicalTOC (Vector 2022) reinserts the inline table of contents to pages under Vector 2022.
  • For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
  • Sideswipe9th/Vector 2022 Floating Tools Menu moves the Page Tools menu to the left and makes it float along with the table of contents.
  • Sm8ps/SectionEditing makes pressing Tab ↹ toggle the visibility of the tiny [ edit ] links next to section headings.. Not a great name, eh?
  • The wub/tocExpandAll adds a button on top of the floating ToC to expand or collapse subheadings.

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Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!

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Tue March 5: Wiki Gala NYC

March 5: Wiki Gala @ Prime Produce
Wiki-fashion show at last year's event

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community and visitors from the global Wikimedia Foundation for our Wiki Gala at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. All are welcome!

This is a sequel to the March 2023 Grand Central Salon and the March 2022 Wiki-Tent Brunch.

The event will feature lightning talks and a Wiki-fashion show, for which you are encouraged to dress in your finest Wikimedia clothing and accessories (bags, buttons, even books), or clothing connected to the topics you edit on wiki projects.

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Your GA nomination of Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Brooklyn Botanic Garden you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Grungaloo -- Grungaloo (talk) 18:22, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Brooklyn Botanic Garden

The article Brooklyn Botanic Garden you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Brooklyn Botanic Garden for comments about the article, and Talk:Brooklyn Botanic Garden/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Grungaloo -- Grungaloo (talk) 15:45, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Hamilton Grange National Memorial

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Your GA nomination of The Beresford

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article The Beresford you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Bruxton -- Bruxton (talk) 22:44, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Hope you are around. It is a good article and just needs a tiny bit of attention. Bruxton (talk) 23:05, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Bayard–Condict Building

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Bayard–Condict Building you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Grungaloo -- Grungaloo (talk) 23:25, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Beresford

The article The Beresford you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Beresford for comments about the article, and Talk:The Beresford/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Bruxton -- Bruxton (talk) 00:24, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Bayard–Condict Building

The article Bayard–Condict Building you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Bayard–Condict Building and Talk:Bayard–Condict Building/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Grungaloo -- Grungaloo (talk) 16:05, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Bayard–Condict Building

The article Bayard–Condict Building you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Bayard–Condict Building for comments about the article, and Talk:Bayard–Condict Building/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Grungaloo -- Grungaloo (talk) 18:04, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Van Cortlandt House

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Van Cortlandt House you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Ghosts of Europa -- Ghosts of Europa (talk) 05:24, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Lipstick Building

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Lipstick Building you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Bruxton -- Bruxton (talk) 01:23, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Van Cortlandt House

The article Van Cortlandt House you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Van Cortlandt House for comments about the article, and Talk:Van Cortlandt House/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Ghosts of Europa -- Ghosts of Europa (talk) 08:03, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

FA

I want to nominate the John Schrank article for FA and I need a mentor. I have a few GAs and this one was just promoted to GA today. I feel like you are one of the best editors I have seen on Wikipedia. If you are too busy I understand. Bruxton (talk) 04:04, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for reaching out @Bruxton. It's no problem - I can take a look later and give you some feedback and tips. Epicgenius (talk) 14:23, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
Thank you. Also please stop by the Lipstick nom when you have time. Bruxton (talk) 16:00, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

The NYC subway is confusing...

The MTA essentially treats Borough Hall a bit like an express station even though it is not configured as such...

Well, maybe because everything south from Fulton Street is treated as an extension of the Eastern Parkway line, even though it probably is not.

I guess that is why you reverted me. I probably should understand the history better before editing more NYC Subway articles. Awesome Aasim 02:00, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

No worries, it's extremely convoluted, and I would've likely made the same edit myself a decade ago. The thing about the Eastern Parkway Line is that only the two current express platforms are part of the line at Borough Hall, as this was part of the original subway from 1908. The original subway widens to four tracks once it turns southeast of this station. The local tracks diverge to the Clark Street Tunnel east of the station and weren't completed until 1919, so that's why they're really considered part of the Broadway-7th Avenue Line and specifically the Clark Street Tunnel.
With regards to the map, I think the MTA shows Borough Hall as an express station for readability, but these really are two separate sets of platforms at a 60-degree angle to each other. I might try to make a geographic map of that later, though. Epicgenius (talk) 02:48, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
I think if it was built originally all the way back a century ago it would probably have been an express station. Once again, so many things that made sense then don't make sense now probably because they were built a century ago. Awesome Aasim 16:36, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Lipstick Building

The article Lipstick Building you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Lipstick Building for comments about the article, and Talk:Lipstick Building/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Bruxton -- Bruxton (talk) 16:44, 5 March 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Otto H. Kahn House

On 6 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Otto H. Kahn House, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a school in New York City occupies a Renaissance palazzo and a "French Renaissance hotel"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Otto H. Kahn House. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Otto H. Kahn House), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:03, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

DYK for James A. Burden House

On 6 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article James A. Burden House, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that a school in New York City occupies a Renaissance palazzo and a "French Renaissance hotel"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Otto H. Kahn House. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, James A. Burden House), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:04, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Benjamin Royal Sonesta New York

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Your GA nomination of The Benjamin Royal Sonesta New York

The article The Benjamin Royal Sonesta New York you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:The Benjamin Royal Sonesta New York and Talk:The Benjamin Royal Sonesta New York/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 05:44, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Andrew Carnegie Mansion

On 8 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Andrew Carnegie Mansion, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Andrew Carnegie Mansion in New York City was designed by "the only architects in the city who had not begged for the job"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Andrew Carnegie Mansion. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Andrew Carnegie Mansion), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:02, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The Benjamin Royal Sonesta New York

The article The Benjamin Royal Sonesta New York you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:The Benjamin Royal Sonesta New York for comments about the article, and Talk:The Benjamin Royal Sonesta New York/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 02:42, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

What is the South Bronx

The article for South Bronx has long been clear that "geographic definitions of the South Bronx have evolved and are disputed". It has listed neighborhoods that are agreed-upon components and some where there is disagreement. A very new editor has made a series of edits that removes some of the iffy neighborhoods and puts in a hard and fast definition that "most consider any neighborhood west of the Bronx River and south of the Cross Bronx Expressway the South Bronx". The editor did not include a source and it comes off worded as OR. I have found sources like this one in which "The South Bronx was defined as all communities south of the Cross-Bronx Expressway and west of the Bronx River" and other sources of varying reliability seem to exist that would support the claim. However, the edits conflict with some of the sources in the article and I wanted to check in with you on your sense of how this should be handled rather than make another revert. Alansohn (talk) 21:24, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for reaching out @Alansohn. As far as I can tell, there isn't any hard and fast definition of the South Bronx, as encapsulated by this NY Times article from 2006, which calls the region "perhaps the biggest area with debatable borders" - that article couldn't even decide on whether Fordham Road or the Cross Bronx Expressway was the South Bronx's northern boundary.
In any case, though, I would go with what reliable sources say. If the sources agree on a certain area being part of the South Bronx, but disagree on other areas, then we can include only the neighborhoods where the sources generally concur. For example, if most of the sources agree that Mott Haven and Port Morris are part of the South Bronx, you can say "Sources generally consider Mott Haven and Port Morris part of the South Bronx". However, the wording "Most consider" is likely to be seen as weasel wording, especially without a source. Even if the NYT comes out and says "Most people consider so-and-so to be part of the South Bronx", we'd have to attribute that claim to the source. – Epicgenius (talk) 21:34, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
If anything is clear, it's that we agree on the facts, sources and broad approach, but may I ask how you would handle the changes that have been made to the article? Alansohn (talk) 21:43, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
I would definitely remove "most consider" to start with, but if the sentences still don't match the sources, I would rectify that as well. – Epicgenius (talk) 21:55, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
I will go through when I have a chance. Alansohn (talk) 16:31, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

February 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award

Citation Barnstar

This award is given in recognition to Epicgenius/Archive/2024 for collecting 1 point during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's FEB24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing 14,300 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:26, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

WikiNYC: 3/14 Hacking Night + 3/16 Queens Name Explorer

March 14: Hacking Night @ Prime Produce

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for Pi Day Hacking Night at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. It is intended primarily for technical contributors, though newcomers are welcome as well, and pies will be served in celebration of Pi Day!

All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Wikimedia's Technical Code of Conduct.

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March 16: Queens Name Explorer @ QPL Tech Lab

You are also invited to the Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Queens Name Explorer edit-a-thon at the Queens Public Library Tech Lab in Long Island City, which will be hosted in collaboration OpenStreetMap US, Urban Archive and the Queens Memory Project. This is an opportunity for the tech savvy to learn about Queens history and for the history savvy to hone their open data skills – plus, there will be refreshments and prizes for everyone!

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DYK for Henry Clay Frick House

On 9 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Henry Clay Frick House, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Henry Clay Frick would not take World War I as an excuse for delays in the construction of his New York City house? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Henry Clay Frick House (2nd nomination). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Henry Clay Frick House), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:03, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thanks for all your edits to the New York Public Library Main Branch. I also saw your edits to Downtown Brooklyn and Astoria, Queens. Your work is appreciated! Aliciama16 (talk) 00:40, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks! I appreciate it. Epicgenius (talk) 00:58, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Question on WikiCup scoring

Hi, just had a quick question on WikiCup scoring. How would Featured Article Reassessment reviews and rescuing be scored, or would they not be counted at all? In this sense I'm just talking about those reassessments which have active discussions going on. Could someone get 1/2 or 1/4th the points for a FA if they manage to rescue an FA about to be delisted? Looking forward to your response. Matarisvan (talk) 09:28, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

@Matarisvan, unfortunately, featured article reassessments, good article reassessments, FAR saves, and GAR saves do not count for points currently. I'm not 100% sure about the reason for that, but in the past, people have pointed out that it's hard to quantify how many points should be awarded for each reassessment or save. If there is a desire to change that, though, we can discuss this further at WT:CUP. – Epicgenius (talk) 14:38, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Frick Collection

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Your GA nomination of Frick Collection

The article Frick Collection you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Frick Collection and Talk:Frick Collection/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Simongraham -- Simongraham (talk) 15:21, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Wikimedia Apps newsletter – First quarter of 2024

Hello, and welcome to the app’s first newsletter in 2024!

It has been a long year; we published four editions of our newsletter, which you can go through all of them. In this edition, we will cover our work for the last quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024!

Android

  • Edit Patrol (also known as Patroller tasks on Android) has been released to Beta testers with rollback rights on Test Wiki and Indonesian Wikipedia. We had a productive meeting with Indonesian users to introduce and discuss the new patrolling tasks feature on the Android app, as we provided a detailed presentation on the feature, and collected valuable feedback from the Indonesian community to enhance the user experience.
    For those interested, a meeting recording is available.
    We conducted outreach to Spanish, and French Wikipedia communities during February 2024.
  • We hosted two synchronous community consultations & recorded a third where we shared the Edit Patrol suggested edit workflow, and showed designs for Saved messages and templates:
  • Places feature is back to the Wikipedia Android app!
    Places is a feature that allows you to discover articles by location.
    The iOS app was able to maintain the feature via use of Apple Maps, but it was necessary for Android audiences that we continue using an open source map.

iOS

  • Suggested Edits on iOS prototype is in the experimental build. Instructions to test the feature can be found on this FAQ page.
    Alt text is text associated with an image that serves the same purpose and conveys the same essential information as the image.
    The app's product manager presented our team's work and prototype (iOS suggested edits) to the GLAM conference audience. All details can be found in the presentation's deck.
  • It is now possible to donate using Apple Pay directly from the app.
  • IOS Native Editor Improvement Development is out!
    You will be able to edit, find and replace, and insert links and images directly from Commons without any performance issues!
    Additionally, it is now possible to edit a full article page and a talk page.

In the current quarter, we aim to engage with editors from LATAM, Spanish-speaking regions, North America, and the Caribbean to test Suggested edits and the new native editor features.

Community meetings

  • We participated in the GLAM conference in November 2023. All the details are mentioned in the iOS section of this edition from the newsletter.
  • On December 1st of 2023, The Wikipedia Android team met with Indonesian users to introduce and discuss the new patrolling tasks feature on the Android app. The team provided a detailed presentation on the feature and collected valuable feedback. A meeting recording is available.
  • We joined the Wiki Editoras Lx editathon on December 16th to gather feedback about an alt-text Suggested Edit task on iOS.
    Attendees were generally positive about the prospect of the feature. Experienced editors thought it could be a good task for on-boarding new editors, but also a more casual way of contributing for new editors.

And you can subscribe to this newsletter.


~~ARamadan-WMF04:42, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Frick Collection

The article Frick Collection you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Frick Collection for comments about the article, and Talk:Frick Collection/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Simongraham -- Simongraham (talk) 18:45, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

Li'l help

Greetings, EG. Besides being seemingly the only guy on Wikipedia with a pompous name who actually lives up to it, you are also equally exceptional both in your constructive, compromising approach to advancing the encyclopedia and the help you offer others allowing them to give their best. That said, can you help me out a little bit, please. I know you know how to "condense" multiple citations (in a rare case where a whole posse of them actually isn't citation overkill...I'm good with that template), like the one in the Early life and education section of the article on Sam Ervin. You'll see it...it jumps right out, a whole batch of identical citations for the various sessions of the North Carolina legislature he was elected to early in his political career.

How does one "collapse" them into a single "numbered" citation? I promise I will try to learn and remember the mechanics if you'll only show me how. Puhleeeeease. 2601:196:180:DC0:D898:A82A:B33E:184F (talk) 20:37, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Good question. There's actually a few ways to do it:
  • One method I've used is to remove the </ref><ref> tags between the citations you want to bundle, then wrap the whole set of citations with {{unbulleted list citebundle}}, and put each citation in a different parameter (e.g. <ref>{{Unbulleted list citebundle|Citation A|Citation B}}</ref>). The benefit of this is that each citation will be separated by a line break. The downside is that the entire cite bundle will be indented quite a bit if you decide to use the cite bundle multiple times in an article.
  • Another way is to replace the </ref><ref> tags between the different citations with <br/>. It's less elegant than the above solution but doesn't require a template.
  • The final way is to replace </ref><ref> with semicolons. If you are combining CS1 cites though, you would need to add the parameter |postscript=; to all except the last cite. In addition, there won't be any line breaks between each citation, making them look squashed together.
I hope that helps. Epicgenius (talk) 21:26, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
I also forgot to say, thanks for the thanks. I appreciate it. Epicgenius (talk) 21:36, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Hotel Wolcott

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Hotel Wolcott you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Bruxton -- Bruxton (talk) 03:40, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

RFA2024 update: no longer accepting new proposals in phase I

Hey there! This is to let you know that phase I of the 2024 requests for adminship (RfA) review is now no longer accepting new proposals. Lots of proposals remain open for discussion, and the current round of review looks to be on a good track towards making significant progress towards improving RfA's structure and environment. I'd like to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has given us their idea for change to make RfA better, and the same to everyone who has given the necessary feedback to improve those ideas. The following proposals remain open for discussion:

  • Proposal 2, initiated by HouseBlaster, provides for the addition of a text box at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship reminding all editors of our policies and enforcement mechanisms around decorum.
  • Proposals 3 and 3b, initiated by Barkeep49 and Usedtobecool, respectively, provide for trials of discussion-only periods at RfA. The first would add three extra discussion-only days to the beginning, while the second would convert the first two days to discussion-only.
  • Proposal 5, initiated by SilkTork, provides for a trial of RfAs without threaded discussion in the voting sections.
  • Proposals 6c and 6d, initiated by BilledMammal, provide for allowing users to be selected as provisional admins for a limited time through various concrete selection criteria and smaller-scale vetting.
  • Proposal 7, initiated by Lee Vilenski, provides for the "General discussion" section being broken up with section headings.
  • Proposal 9b, initiated by Reaper Eternal, provides for the requirement that allegations of policy violation be substantiated with appropriate links to where the alleged misconduct occured.
  • Proposals 12c, 21, and 21b, initiated by City of Silver, Ritchie333, and HouseBlaster, respectively, provide for reducing the discretionary zone, which currently extends from 65% to 75%. The first would reduce it 65%–70%, the second would reduce it to 50%–66%, and the third would reduce it to 60%–70%.
  • Proposal 13, initiated by Novem Lingaue, provides for periodic, privately balloted admin elections.
  • Proposal 14, initiated by Kusma, provides for the creation of some minimum suffrage requirements to cast a vote.
  • Proposals 16 and 16c, initiated by Thebiguglyalien and Soni, respectively, provide for community-based admin desysop procedures. 16 would desysop where consensus is established in favor at the administrators' noticeboard; 16c would allow a petition to force reconfirmation.
  • Proposal 16e, initiated by BilledMammal, would extend the recall procedures of 16 to bureaucrats.
  • Proposal 17, initiated by SchroCat, provides for "on-call" admins and 'crats to monitor RfAs for decorum.
  • Proposal 18, initiated by theleekycauldron, provides for lowering the RfB target from 85% to 75%.
  • Proposal 24, initiated by SportingFlyer, provides for a more robust alternate version of the optional candidate poll.
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TFA nomination

Hi, 40 Wall Street has been listed for TFA at pending for May. I have tentatively reserved a date for it, but if you would still like it be considered you will need to nominate it at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests, which is now open. Cheers. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:07, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I will nominate it today or tomorrow. – Epicgenius (talk) 16:09, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

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Willett Advisors

Hello, I work for Steven Rattner and I'm looking for someone to implement some changes I've proposed at the Talk page of Steve's investment firm Willett Advisors, which handles Michael Bloomberg's personal and philanthropic funds (see Talk:Willett Advisors#Updates to the article). I see that you belong to WP:NYC and that you've contributed to Michael Bloomberg's article over the years, so I thought you would be an appropriate person to take a look at my suggestion. Initially an editor responded and asked for clarification, but he has basically been inactive over the past two months and has not followed up. I would appreciate if you would take a look. Thank you, E at rattner (talk) 15:46, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

@E at rattner, thanks for the message. Unfortunately, I cannot look at your request fully, as it's out of my area of expertise.
I think your first requested edit, requesting an update to the company's headquarters, is supported by the sources. It seems the infobox image has already been removed. I can't comment on your second and third requested edits, though. – Epicgenius (talk) 16:06, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for your response, Epicgenius. I was really just looking for someone with a good understanding of WP:COATRACK and WP:V. I don't think this requires special knowledge of finance, so I would be grateful if you could give the remainder of the request a shot. But I respect your decision either way. E at rattner (talk) 15:54, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
Thank you for the clarification. I do generally agree with the premise of the rest of your edit request - when I looked at the sources earlier, the information in question did appear tangential to the topic of the article.
Ironically though, this brings up another potential issue, as I have a conflict of interest with a NY-based institution (as declared on my user page). Although I don't foresee my institution coming into any conflict with Willett Advisors, I do think it would be best to let a completely uninvolved editor handle the rest of the request. Epicgenius (talk) 17:36, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:MBTA Platform Layout Back Bay Station

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"Bronx, New York"

You reverted my addition of "City" to "Bronx, New York", saying it did not add anything. Probably not to New Yorkers, but not everybody knows that the Bronx is part of New York City (and not its own city). It's best to keep Wikipedia understandable by its worldwide audience, an effort that seems to get harder by the day. (I do appreciate your contributions, BTW.) Minturn (talk) 17:19, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

@Minturn, thanks for the message and for the note of appreciation. You are correct that not everyone knows that the Bronx is part of NYC, but in short descriptions, conciseness is key. The name "New York" can refer either to the state or the city. If we were talking about something in Buffalo, New York, it would be a little less clear that Buffalo is not part of NYC. However, in the Bronx's case, both are correct, which is why I thought it's not really necessary to make a distinction in the short description. (It also might not be of utmost importance that we mention that the Bronx is part of NYC, or that Buffalo is not part of NYC, in the short description in either case. As I said above, short descriptions are meant to be as concise as possible.)
I actually have a slightly longer essay about this, User:Epicgenius/NYC short descriptions, where I explain why I favor either "borough, New York" or "New York City" over "borough, New York City" in short descriptions. – Epicgenius (talk) 17:27, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

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Felix M. Warburg House scheduled for TFA

This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 10 May 2024. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 2024, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/May 2024. Please keep an eye on that page, as comments regarding the draft blurb may be left there by user:dying, who assists the coordinators by making suggestions on the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks and congratulations on your work! Gog the Mild (talk) 16:36, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

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Belmont Plaza Hotel

Hi, I started this. I know you're always busy writing, but if you can find anything more I'd be grateful. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:47, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I could probably take a look later. – Epicgenius (talk) 14:48, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

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DYK for Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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DYK for Frick Collection

On 31 March 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Frick Collection, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Frick Collection is not allowed to lend out some of its art? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Frick Collection. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Frick Collection), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 31 March 2024 (UTC)