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I think it's fine to put the articles in question into both categories. For example, diazinon is an "organophosphate pesticide" but it's also an example of a phosphorodithioate compound. So while I reverted your removal of Category:Organophosphate insecticides from these articles, I also retained Category:Phosphorodithioates for them. I think this is a good way to handle this situation. It might be worth putting a note on top of the page for Category:Organophosphate insecticides, that says something to the effect that this category is for those pesticides generally referred to as organophosphates, but that some members of the category not are true organophosphates in the strict chemical sense.YilloslimeTC23:56, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
FWIW, there was recently some similar confusion with Category:Organochloride insecticides. See User_talk:حسن_علي_البط#Hi. I think the issue is that many of the names of the standard pesticide classes (organophosphates, organochlorines, n-methyl carbamates, etc) have chemical sounding names, but the classification system itself is only partially based on chemical structure. YilloslimeTC00:01, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I think your idea about putting a note on the Category:Organophosphate insecticides page is good. However, we still need to decide what this category is to include. Phosphorothioates and phosphorodithioates follow the same formula as phosphates, just that one or two oxygen atoms are replaced by one or two sulfur atoms, respectively. Phosphonothioates, however, do not follow this general formula, but these too have been labeled 'organophosphate insecticides' and/or 'organophosphates' here on Wikipedia. See [3], for instance. Hence, we need to decide whether to include phosphonothioates in Category:Organophosphate insecticides or not.Nirmos (talk) 00:41, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
WIth regard to [4], VX isn't a pesticide, so it definitely doesn't belong in Category:Organophosphate insecticides. And it probably doesn't belong in Category:Organophosphates, since it seems that that category is reserved for compounds that are true organophosphates in the strict chemical sense. (But Category:Organophosphate insecticides is itself as subcategory of Category:Organophosphates, which is confusing. I've got no opinion about what to do about that.) As for what should go into Category:Organophosphate insecticides, I think it should only be insecticides commonly referred to a "organophosphate [or organophosphorous] insecticides," in reputable, authoritative sources like, for example, those EPA and IRAC documents I cited above. Doing a chemical category search on [5] generates a pretty comprehensive list that includes obsolete pesticides not included in the EPA/IRAC documents. YilloslimeTC01:06, 5 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
CSD is not automatically for foreign language articles
Hello. I noticed that you tagged Jonathan Segerholm for CSD as "cross-wiki spam not in English". Please note that this applies only to articles that really exist anywhere on foreign language wikipedia servers (CSD A2, {{db-a2}}). Because in this case it turned out that there is not corresponding article on the Swedish WP. And to apply such a tag you should be sure that the article was copied from somewhere else. Otherwise, please use {{notenglish}} and list the article at WP:PNT for translation. If the article is then still not translated after two weeks it will be proposed for deletion, but again, foreign language entries are not an automatic criterion for speedy deletion. Regards, De728631 (talk) 19:51, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Ok sorry, but when I looked it up, the article there had been deleted and I didn't see the deletion log. Anyhow, next time please post a link to the external article or the deletion logs so as to avoid such misunderstandings. De728631 (talk) 00:27, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
On another note, I came across your link to the new Swedish wiki version of Born of Hope. While reading that article on sv.wiki I noticed that the author wrote in the "Produktion" section that it cost 17k pounds to make the trailer. That's not true though, Madison and her crew got donations of £17k by posting their trailer online (cf. "An extra £17,000 was generated..."). My Swedish is just good enough for reading but I fail at writing text, so maybe you could fix that fact over there? And apart from that, the Swedish text looks very much like it was translated from the English version. I don't know how attribution is done at the Swedish wiki but to maintain the licenses, the source version should be credited somehow. Cheers, och god Jul! De728631 (talk) 00:27, 24 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Amazing you spotted that. I've corrected it.
I don't know whether the article was translated from another language version or not, but seeing as I used the English version as a source when I corrected the misinformation on svWP, it should have this template. I've fixed this as well.
It seems you are confused to distinguish the difference of spam and non-spam. Why do you think each and every external link is spam? The link you removed from Hans Orberg page is the link to the official website of Hans Orberg himself. Please don't remove it again as this is not a spam nor a self-promotion link. Nimasdj 08:51, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
Looks like a mistake, check the article's history and you'll see. On talk pages, please write new posts at the bottom of the page and sign your posts with four tildes. Nirmos (talk) 12:48, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! Why are estradiol and alfatradiol not phenols? Phenols says that they "are a class of chemical compounds consisting of a hydroxyl group (-OH) bonded directly to an aromatic hydrocarbon group", which is what I've learned at university, too. Estradiol and alfatradiol meet that definition if I'm not much mistaken. Could you clarify that? Thanks, ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 07:26, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I'm pretty sure the carbon skeleton to which the hydroxyl group is attached has to be that of benzene for a compound to be called a phenol, otherwise there wouldn't be things such as naphthols, anthrols etc. Estradiol and alfatradiol are derivatives of estrane, so they would be estranols. Nirmos (talk) 09:05, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, the aromatic part of estradiol is a benzene, with some aliphatic rest that happens to form some additional rings. Furthermore, the Category:Naphthols is a subcategory of Category:Phenols, which would support my opinion that naphthols, anthrols etc. are special kinds of phenols. As far as I know, the term "phenol" (as opposed to "alcohol") is primarily used because OH attached to an aromatic ring has quite different chemical properties (higher acidity etc.), and for that purpose it doesn't make much difference how large the attached ring system is.
Ok, thanks! But then the estrogen article is wrong. In the first sentence it says they ”are a group of steroid compounds”, and in the first sentence in the fourth paragraph it says ”Like all steroid hormones”. Nirmos (talk) 16:24, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
This does beg the question, though: Why is this option enabled by default? I mean, redirects exist to make sure that when a user searches for something in a normal browser, the user can easily find the correct page, usually to read it. But with AWB you want to edit pages that match your search. Why would most people want this feature enabled by default? Nirmos (talk) 10:30, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Nirmos when we created this option (many years ago), most people wanted to edit pages with actual content and AWB provided very few on redirect fixes back then. Some of the options should have changed (sometimes even renamed) but we are afraid this would break ties with older versions and cause compatibility problems. I have switched the option off in my settings. I advice that you do the same. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:02, 28 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Yeah, my thought is that if we open it up to discussion by the general public, there will be a bunch of ill-informed commentary from people lacking understanding of how gadgets work. St. claires fire (talk) 18:17, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@St. claires fire: I know very little JavaScript and don't work on gadgets but you should be able to use the Swedish gadget here with this in your common JavaScript:
OK. I only previewed the code in my common.js and saw it added a "Saved wikitext" link which opened a box with three buttons when I clicked it. I stopped there and don't know how the script works. I know little JavaScript as mentioned. Could it get what it needs by adding something like this first:
PrimeHunter: No. mw.loader.load is asynchronous, so the dependencies would not necessarily be loaded by the time the script is loaded. If you really want to use this as a user script – which I cannot recommend – you would have to lazy-load the dependencies and then execute all other code in a callback with mw.loader.using. Nirmos (talk) 20:41, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hanging pages
Hi, hope you don't mind my pasting this here, it seems inappropriate to paste something that long at the Pump, and you can just delete it here:
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Thanks. I've decided just to blank my global.js page, I don't need that at the moment. I'll try to get error messages next time I have a hangup and determine when it takes place, I can see that I'm not being very helpful. Doug Wellertalk19:02, 17 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
This might help - the "failed to load" had the red circle with an x, the next 4 had yellow warning triangles. I seem to get the first two of those, .widget and .position, virtually all of the time, and the other two on some pages, eg my watchlist.:
Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CONTENT_LENGTH_MISMATCH
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Still hanging. Craig Keener only partially loaded, with the message "Craig_S._Keener Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CONTENT_LENGTH_MISMATCH" 10:29, 21 May 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doug Weller (talk • contribs)
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