User talk:Ged UK/Archives/2014/April

Help with SPI

Can you comment at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/TheGeneralofWar. There is some confusion regarding your block of Urfinze (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) and whether the sockmaster is User:Фаиз Махмудов or User:Jakandsig. Thanks.—Bagumba (talk) 20:06, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

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Don't wrry about it now. I took it up to ANI. I know you would respond, but it be too late because of timezones which I just realized right now. --THNX--Jerm729 (talk) 22:28, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

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Hydrogen Breath Test

If you look at the page for Hydrogen Breath Test it is an obvious commerical message for Commonwealth Laboratories. Why hasn't this been removed?98.216.34.164 (talk) 12:53, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

I see that you have now removed the spammiest section; well done, that's exactly how wikipedia is supposed to work! GedUK  11:25, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

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Sorry for the impersonal nature

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. -- MisterShiney ✉ 15:29, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

As it's been archived now, I'll reply here, and sorry, I'm seldom on WP over the weekend. There were several reversions that weren't sourced, and on a reasonably quick look through it wasn't obvious that the sources were in another section. It got three months because it was the fourth protection in 2 months, each longer than the previous. At this stage I think protection is wise, but if there's consensus on the talk page that it should be unprotected, I'll look at it again. Alternatively, you're welcome to request another admin havea a look at it at RfPP, I've no problem with that. GedUK  11:32, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

RT edit block

Hi Ged,

Could I ask you to look into this again? I'm not saying it shouldn't blocked but the current situation isn't ideal. The current wording has been changed by an IP who's (IMO) trying to fake a consensus on an active RfC. The current wording also has issues relating to the use of a mission statement, and the the assertion that the criticism is limited to the western media. Thanks --Trappedinburnley (talk) 13:03, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Any protected version is the wrong one. It shouldn't affect the RfC because people can link to diffs of different versions in teh discussions, and people can also of course run through the history as well. GedUK  11:34, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

At the time it seemed like an error had occurred as the protection was requested to prevent a rule breaking editor from persisting and ended up leaving their changes in place. I'm not so offended by the situation to make a big deal out of it. I'm sure the RfC will still be unresolved by the time the edit protection expires, the associated SPI request seems to have postponed the argument for the time being. I confess that I don't have much experience with edit protection but I'm off to find out more because it seems that this article is a candidate for long term semi-protection.--Trappedinburnley (talk) 18:38, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

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VisualEditor newsletter—April 2014

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor team has mostly worked on performance improvements, image settings, and preparation for a simplified citation template tool in its own menu.

• In an oft-requested improvement, VisualEditor now displays red links (links to non-existent pages) in the proper color. Links to sister projects and external URLs are still the same blue as local links.
• You can now open templates by double-clicking them or by selecting them and pressing  Return.  This also works for references, images, galleries, mathematical equations, and other "nodes".
• VisualEditor has been disabled for pages that were created as translations of other pages using the Translate extension (common at Meta and MediaWiki.org). If a page has been marked for translation, you will see a warning if you try to edit it using VisualEditor.
• When you try to edit protected pages with VisualEditor, the full protection notice and most recent log entry are displayed. Blocked users see the standard message for blocked users.
• The developers fixed a bug that caused links on sub-pages to point to the wrong location.
• The size-changing controls in the advanced settings section of the media or image dialog were simplified further. VisualEditor's media dialog supports more image display styles, like borderless images.
• If there is not enough space on your screen to display all of the tabs (for instance, if your browser window is too narrow), the second edit tab will now fold into the drop-down menu (where the "Move" item is currently housed). On the English Wikipedia, this moves the "Edit beta" tab into the menu; on most projects, it moves the "Edit source" tab. This is only enabled in the default Vector skin, not for Monobook users. See this image for an example showing the "Edit source" and "View history" tabs after they moved into the drop-down menu.
• After community requests, VisualEditor has been deployed as an opt-in feature at Meta and on the French Wikinews.

The drop-down menu is on the right, next to the search box.

Looking ahead:  A new, locally controlled menu of citation templates will put citations immediately in front of users. You will soon be able to see the Table of Contents while editing. Support for upright image sizes (preferred for accessibility) is being developed. In-line language setting (dir="rtl") will be offered as a Beta Feature soon. Looking further out, the developers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments. It will be possible to upload images to Commons from inside VisualEditor.

If you have questions or suggestions for future improvements, or if you encounter problems, please let everyone know by posting a note at Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback or by joining the office hours on Monday, 19 May 2014 at 18:00 UTC. If you'd like to get this on your own page, subscribe at Wikipedia:VisualEditor#Newsletter for English Wikipedia only or at meta:VisualEditor/Newsletter for any project. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:23, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

PC-protected pages expiring this month

Can you extend PC time or upgrade to semi for Oscar the Grouch and United States Air Force Pararescue?

 Done GedUK  11:20, 25 April 2014 (UTC)