User talk:Colonies Chris/Archive/2022/Jan

2014–15 Málaga CF season

Hello Colonies Chris, would you take a look at the outcome? Looks lik totally screwed up. thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 14:46, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Sorry about that - fixed now. Colonies Chris (talk) 15:25, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

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Eight years!

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reporting some problems with your awb script

In this edit, your awb script did some things that it ought not have done:

• work=Reuters → agency=Reuters: when Reuters is the direct source, see the url, |work=Reuters is correct; use |agency=Reuters when the source has republished work provided by Reuters.
• work=CNN → publisher=CNN but publisher=ABC News → work=ABC News:
  • |work=CNN was correct and should not have been changed to |publisher=CNN
  • changing |publisher=ABC News to |work=ABC News is correct, except in this case where the original was |website=ABC News |publisher=ABC News Internet Ventures; in this case, |publisher= should have been deleted because 'ABC News Internet Ventures' is substantially the same as 'ABC News', {{cite web}} renamed to {{cite news}}, and |website= renamed to |work=. It was this citation that caught my attention because |work= and |website= are aliases of each other and only one 'work' parameter is allowed in a cs1|2 template.
• New York Times| → |work=New York Times| (the script's edit summary creation mechanism appears to breakdown here so perhaps some attention to that is warranted?):
  • The change was |newspaper=The New York Times to |work=The New York Times. This was an unnecessary change because The New York Times is a newspaper.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 15:15, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

• Clearly some errors in my edits here. but I disagree on several points.

1. Reuters is not a 'work' i.e. not a publication. It is always an agency, and in some circumstances, such as this one, can also be considered a publisher (though in this case I don't see that the distinction is important) but it is never a publication.
2. CNN is a publisher, not a publication i.e. a |publisher= not a |work=.
3. The same applies to ABC News - my edit was incorrect. I agree I should have deleted the existing publisher.
4. |newspaper=The New York Times to |work=The New York Times. Agreed, this was unnecessary (though not actually wrong). I'll fix the bug.

Colonies Chris (talk) 19:56, 16 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi Colonies Chris,

I am a university student who plans on editing the 'Department of Labour (Australia)' wikipedia page. It would be greatly appreciated if you could provide feedback on my writing style and structure once I've begun editing.

Many Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mariposa124 (talk • contribs) 01:52, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Category:Royal Navy ship names

Don't understand what you are trying to do on these pages but I don't think the results are what you intended. Same applies to all the cats you have changed on articles List of ship names of the Royal Navy Lyndaship (talk) 10:44, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Trying to get consistent cat keys - what exactly are you concerned about? Colonies Chris (talk) 10:47, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Should be self evident if you check. Look at the Alphabetical order and also how these are no longer in a block Lyndaship (talk) 11:24, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

In Category:Royal Navy ship names, the lists that appear out of sequence (List of ship names of the Royal Navy (D-F) onwards) are in fact redirects (from the hyphenated version to the actual title using endash), not the articles themselves. Only the A, B & C lists have ever been in that category. That's a problem, but not one that I caused. For some unknown reason, those redirects are in that category, but the actual list articles are not. That's what needs fixed. In other words, all the articles from List of ship names of the Royal Navy (D–F) onwards need to be added to that category, and the redirects should be removed from it. Colonies Chris (talk) 11:48, 20 January 2022 (UTC)