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political controversies in australia seems to be too big, not sure if there is a toned down version, controversial development proposals in australia by state, smells better... happy new year by the way!!! JarrahTree09:52, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
HNY to you too! I'm not too concerned about categories. Something a bit more toned down may be a bit better, but its probably not worthwhile creating a new category - will probably be deleted for being too small, or for having the potential to be too large / open ended, or something else in the CFD rules. Anyway, because it is controversial, the article will be one to keep an eye on, in terms of bias / NPOV (from either/any side of issue). Cheers, - Evad37[talk]10:13, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
@JarrahTree: I'm also thinking of splitting Roe Highway § Stage 8 / Fremantle Eastern Bypass into a separate Fremantle Eastern Bypass article (leaving a short summary behind), so that it doesn't overwhelm the rest of the Roe Highway content. But there's few references in that section at the moment, so I probably need some more/better refs first, or at least sources for a Further reading section, before actually doing a split. - Evad37[talk]10:25, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
Fre bypass stuff is like archaeology [1]... it goes for decades on and off and up and down like the tide in the NT, youll need seasickness tabs for the reading the refs for that one JarrahTree10:58, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
slaughtered swine as talk page item (above), i have a small wardrobe malfunction, forgot to clothe my bare urls at 2016 tasmanian bushfires, you wouldnt have a clue where i find the clothing :( ? JarrahTree14:26, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Yes, TAFI articles don't always have the most pleasant images. Anyway, I think Reflinks is what you're after (its quick and dirty, but much less time than manually formatting {{cite web}} templates) - Evad37[talk]14:31, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
thanks for that, maybe dirty, but hey its quick, the idea of doing manually with cite web (damned to think that I'd forgotten) is enough to drive one to drink. Thanks for that. JarrahTree14:39, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
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Hi Evad37, I'm pleased to say I've finished my review of Architecture of Fremantle Prison for GA status and it has passed with flying colours. There's one minor quibble but nothing worth putting it on hold or failing it for. I enjoyed getting to know the article and the subject. Congratulations on this achievement and thanks for all your hard work. WaggersTALK21:33, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
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Not as yet; I haven't used it much in less than an hour since I discovered it, lol! I appreciate your asking, though.
Without even using it I actually do have some comments. Maybe change it to CamelCase: ToDo? It would also be great if it took up less room on the menu bar (mine's crowded!) Would it be possible to have it be a drop-down on the same menu as Read, Edit, etc., with the "Add to Todo" listed first? Additionally, is there a way to programmatically force the "View Todo" to open in a new page so as not to disrupt editing? Lastly, with or without the drop-down menu, perhaps +ToDo and →ToDo would shorten the space required. If none of this is possible, it's still an excellent addition to my toolkit, and I really, really appreciate it! Thanks again!
@D'Ranged 1: Thanks for the feedback. Some of your suggestions are already possible through the customisations described at User:Evad37/ToDoLister, such as specifying shorter labels for the links and placing them in a different part of the interface. Just to clarify, when you say change it to CamelCase: ToDo, do you mean in the add/view links or the location of the userspace subpage (or both)? The other suggestions seem feasible to implement as options (i.e. I've seen other scripts do something similar and/or I have an idea of how they can be achieved). Cheers, Evad37[talk]16:18, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
For the CamelCase ToDo, I'd do both, or at least create a redirect to the subpage if you change the display of the view. I hadn't yet checked out the customizations available and will do so. Thanks!
Okay, I played around with the script per the instructions and am generally pleased; thanks again. One small quibble. I can't seem to get the Add to ToDo link to display above the View ToDo link in the drop-down menu. Is this not possible, or have I missed something? I tried changing the order the customized names are listed in my common.js to no avail:
Sorry, I haven't yet made that (or any other) change to script. It should be possible in the near future, once I've coded and tested it. - Evad37[talk]00:07, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
@D'Ranged 1: I've added this option now, just put var todo_addfirst = "yes"; in your common.js (I know I could use {{u}} but I'm used to using {{ping}} now, which also allows you to ping multiple users) - Evad37[talk]01:21, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
Awesome sauce! Thank you so much; it works like a charm! This will prevent cluttering up my browser bookmarks even further and put all the WP pages in one handy-dandy place that's easy to get to. Bless you, bless you, bless you!
Thanks! If you're documenting this on your script page, holding down the shift key forces a new window rather than a new tab. Unfortunately, this works great, but the Add link is no longer functional. :-(
@D'Ranged 1: I'll add a note re the shift key. Can you explain what happens you try to add a link - does it come up with an error message or anything? (It's still working for me, so I'm not sure what's happening here) - Evad37[talk]05:05, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
I commented out all the customizations so it's back to showing up in the top menu (same place Watchlist, etc. show up) rather than the drop-down under More. The View ToDo works fine. If I hover over Add to ToDo, the link is underlined, but rather than my cursor changing to a hand with pointing finger, it's an I-beam cursor and clicking results in nothing happening at all—no error message, no dialogue box, nothing. Sorry!
I don't know what magic is afoot. The latest version, with all the customizations, seems to be working perfectly now. I swear I purged the page over and over previously to ensure it was reading the right thing, but to no avail. Anyway, all's well now. Thank you, and sorry for the extra investigation/testing/whatever I caused. What a pain!
great sources!!
Please look at cathedral square category and pier street - I think I am looping again. There is so much to cleanup and add in this lot!! JarrahTree00:51, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
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roads in country towns - ok to start streets in Kal (or wherever), western australia as parts of larger cat roads in western australia? your advice would be appreciated as am doing some in albany and other towns later... JarrahTree05:50, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
@JarrahTree: You may run into problems with WP:SMALLCAT - how many notable streets are there going to be in most towns? What I would do is have categories for the regions, and then only create further categories for towns if/when there are enough articles. So the structure would be something like:
@JarrahTree:I would have waited till there were a few more articles in the Great Southern cat before creating the Albany cat. If there's not many articles to go under the region cat, then having 'in town' subcats doesn't really help reader navigation (especially in this case since the articles are disambiguated with ", Albany"). But if there are going to be more articles forthcoming, as expected, I'm not sure its worth the bother changing things now. - Evad37[talk]08:57, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
Category:Australian road articles using deprecated parameters only listed 6 articles that use route_image, and only 2 of those were using the parameter for a route logo. However, I knew there were more articles with logos so I added some more tracking code and identified a few articles, like EastLink (Melbourne), that were using image for the logo. I've added logo as a field specifically for route logos so we can get all of these in the one field. There are still probably more articles with logos in the image field, so we'll have to fix these as we find them. --AussieLegend (✉) 12:06, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
Your scripts are simple and unglamorous, but they're extraordinarily helpful when closing discussions. Thank you! ~ Rob13Talk14:53, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
I have one more feature request, if you're still taking them. Currently, the entire comment is bolded, but for difficult discussions I often provide multi-sentence rationales explaining the result. Could the script be altered so it won't insert the final ''' to end the bolding if I insert it earlier? i.e. if I type "delete'''. Blah blah blah blah closing rationale.", the script sees the ''' and doesn't close the bold tag. ~ Rob13Talk15:28, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
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was gutted some weeks back and the replacement looks very very slowly coming, - suggest the cafe at the new Perth City Library, if not that, maybe some careful thought about where the majority of the open buildings are... JarrahTree05:57, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
Anthony Road, and Orr Street, Queenstown are two very different types of roads of western tasmania, it would be good to capture in a category - your suggestions would be of value - I have thought of roads of western tasmania - ie in towns and in the bush - or something else. your thoughts would be appreciated JarrahTree11:20, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
I think Roads in... would be a better match to existing categories, rather than Roads of... – as per Category:Roads in Australia and its subcategories. I don't see a problem with having a region-level category that includes both "bush" and "town" type roads. - Evad37[talk]11:41, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
elevated shot of the horseshoe bridge taken allegedly in 2014 (probably open house day) you are the only real world photographer acknowledged in the book :) JarrahTree06:12, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
I noticed the spaces were not removed when I made this edit, so I removed the spaces from the template usage in that article, but then (given that such spaces are usually not significant in templates) figured that the template should have removed them for me. Mitch Ames (talk) 11:48, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
last night created
some more tassie roads - what would be the best art to reverse engineer added info for them ? Anthony Road was an earlier one (ie not last ngth) - but the newer ones like Zeehan Highway has the box, but I was bit unsure where to check inf as to filling the box JarrahTree01:09, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
@JarrahTree: Easiest way for any Australian road article is to preview the article, then check the links that appear (during preview only) at the bottom of the infobox. The documenttaion at Template:Infobox_Australian_road#Parameters is always a good starting point to figure out what the not-yet-filled-out parameters do (and I recently sorted the parameters into groups based on the parts of the infobox they apply to). The Preferred usage guidelines has example code with short explanations at the bottom of the page (and more complete explanations above). Otherwise, check the Examples page, which has example of code and resulting infoboxes side by side. - Evad37[talk]01:36, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi! Looking at BRFA, I can see, that you can simplify 1st and 2nd point there. This query does the job. It should be possible to simplify it even more, by replacing SPARQL with "Uses items/props" field (at "Wikidata" tab), but hmm, that isn't quite working. --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 07:30, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
Thanks Edgars2007, that will be simpler. I did try putting a SPARQL query into Petscan before, but couldn't at the time work out how to get Wikipedia articles in the output rather than Wikidata items. - Evad37[talk]01:49, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
Hi, I've reviewed your latest Tech Report -- looks excellent as always. I did add a few inline comments where I had questions -- if it's possible for you to review in the next hour or two, that would be helpful (but not mission-critical). Planning to publish soon. Also, thanks for the suggestion to combine; we also have a Community Wishlist piece that could potentially go in the TR. Still trying to figure out the best configuration. -Pete (talk) 21:31, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
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If you feel the need to get into something that doesnt have calories and isnt fattening, my recents on Freo streets and things might be to your taste :) JarrahTree01:21, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
Hi Evad37, I noticed you started the next tech report with sections about the tabular data project and community wishlist survey results. I also wanted to write up a "2016 tech in review" recap/retrospective and a little lead in to the upcoming developer summit. Do you think that would be OK to fit all of that in one issue? Legoktm (talk) 05:54, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
@Legoktm: Sure, go ahead! Just make a new subheading, and we'll see how it goes (if it is looking too long, then there are other options like splitting part off to a separate 'Special report' or something). - Evad37[talk]06:17, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
Hey Evad, would you be interested in taking over maintenance of User:Mr.Z-man/closeAFD2.js? You did a fantastic job with the other scripts so I thought I'd ask. A lot of editors use it, but it hasn't been updated in a long time... It has some bugs and I have feature ideas with nowhere to put them. Eh? czar07:27, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
@Czar: I can certainly look into it... but it may take some time, because what I think I'd like to do is a substantial rewrite of this and my other xfd closing scripts. That way, they could share more common code and features, and many bug fixes / additional features would only need to be applied once. Anyway, what features do you have in mind? - Evad37[talk]00:50, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
Of course, but I wouldn't let the burden of a full rewrite stop incremental updates, but that's for you to determine. I'll start compiling a list (I don't know where I put my old list) but the most glaring issue right now is unlinking deleted articles. For instance, a discussion closes as "delete" and the closer almost always should remove redlinks created by the deletion (articles that linked to the deleted article). There is a Twinkle tool for this but (1) it requires navigating to the deleted page to click the "unlink" tool, (2) the unlink rationale is not automatically filled, and (3) the linked pages are not clickable, so it's hard to verify whether it's appropriate to remove the link (it usually is). But that's just one idea, if you have any suggestions czar07:07, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
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