User talk:Musiconeologist/Archive 1

Archive 1

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September 2021

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edits to Comte AC-4, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history, as well as helping prevent edit conflicts. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the article will look like without actually saving it.

The Show preview button is right next to the Publish changes button and below the edit summary field.

It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Jessicapierce (talk) 16:39, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

@Jessicapierce:Please be assured that I obsessively preview while editing and before saving! I'm not sure what happened here.

This was a suggested edit in the Android app, which presents articles with no short description together with a small box for entering one. Unless you open the article itself for editing then save from there, the only change that's possible is the automatic insertion of the {{short description}} tag, with whatever text is typed in. What puzzles me is that there's a change outside the tag, which shouldn't be possible. And the edit is tagged SuggestedEdit, so can't have been done manually in the article.

The normal sequence in the app is: enter the description and tap Publish; check the preview which appears; tap Publish again to save the edit.

At one point while adding descriptions the app unexpectedly saved the edit (without showing me a preview) and went straight to the next suggested edit (possibly as a result of my accidentally catching the Publish button while trying to put the cursor at the end of the text?). I think it may have been with this article. There was another occasion where I inadvertently missed a preview by double-tapping. But either way, the edit shouldn't have affected anything outside the tag.

Anyway this looks to me like a bug in the app. If you've any idea where to report that, it would be very helpful. (I've had a few other problems with it and couldn't find any indication where to report them.) Musiconeologist (talk) 18:46, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your reply! This is way outside my area of expertise, unfortunately, so I have no idea where to report the issue. I may send an email about it to the general Wikipedia help email, though. I'm unfamiliar with the app, but to me, it looks as if the lack of line break here:

{{Short description|1920s aircraft}}{|{{Infobox Aircraft Begin

...is what caused the broken infobox. I've been finding many instances of this error today, and they all display the same way. I have no idea why the formatting would be so sensitive as to crumble because of a missing line break!

Anyway, no harm done, and I very much appreciate your input, from one obsessive Previewer to another. :) Jessicapierce (talk) 19:29, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

@Jessicapierce: Thanks for that! Now that I'm either remembering more clearly (or constructing a more convincing false memory—who knows?) I think I actually went in to the article to correct something as well as add the description, then wanted to put it on a separate line but had trouble getting the cursor in the right place and suddenly found I was no longer editing . . . I don't know. I need to keep more of an eye on what the app's up to when I use it, I think. Musiconeologist (talk) 19:58, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

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Fluctuation Spectrum

Hi, I read your comments on the Fluctuation spectrum article. As far as I can tell, "Fluctuation spectrum" is just a less common synonym for the Fourier spectrum. Do you have any objection to my simply blanking the article and redirecting it to Fourier transform? PianoDan (talk) 17:21, 15 December 2021 (UTC)

@PianoDan I'm sorry I never replied to this—I'm very happy that you went ahead soon after and redirected it to Spectral density, which seems exactly right.

As I remember, I was randomly presented with the article when adding short descriptions, but it was in such a bad state that I couldn't add one without trying to make it comprehensible first. An interesting editing challenge, but maybe one it was unwise to accept . . . Musiconeologist (talk) 14:18, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Computer Peripherals

The article Computer Peripherals has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unnecessary redirect per WP:ONEOTHER

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@StreetcarEnjoyer I'm happy for it to be deleted. The only (non-)reason to keep it would be the one incoming link I was unable to edit because it was on a page containing a 17,000-line list. My main concern was that initially, entering computer peripherals in the search box went straight to the company article. Once I'd moved the article to Computer Peripherals (company), I couldn't really keep Computer Peripherals as a redirect to it, so changed that to a disambiguation page. But deletion is a better option. Musiconeologist (talk) 03:24, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Peripheral

Hi, thank you for your contributions. I note your recent revert here [1]. Computer peripherals in fact redirects to Peripheral, so I'm definitely puzzled as to why you thought this hatnote to be inaccurate.

I also note your recent creation of Computer Peripherals (disambiguation). Such a dabpage is unnecessary, per WP:ONEOTHER, and I can't say I understand why you object to its deletion. 162 etc. (talk) 21:52, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

The history of the disambiguation page is more complicated—it was left over from the original page move, and I changed from being a redirect to the company. Another editor later renamed it as part of the process of getting everything to land in the right place after the move was reverted. There was agreement, I think, that nothing should get redirected to the company article. My objection to the deletion at this point is that even people typing the capitalised version are more likely to want peripherals than the company page. At the time I first objected, it was still called Computer Peripherals. Without it, the only search result for computer peripherals was the company page, which made no sense.

My undo of the hatnote was a mistake, and I'll undo my undo. Apologies for that one.

As for the reverted move of the company article, I'm going to make an RM request for that if I've the energy, as I do feel it's important for the natural meaning of an article title to match the subject. If it does get changed to something less misleading, I think the disambiguation page will then be redundant, as per my struck-through text on the talk page.

I hope that clarifies things a bit. For now, everything seems to be pointing where it should. Anyway I'll undo my undo of the hatnote. Musiconeologist (talk) 22:37, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Now done. Musiconeologist (talk) 22:41, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

I should add that I'll have an easier time opening the RM discussion for Computer Peripherals if the structure of the various redirects and disambiguation pages stays stable for a few days. I think they should all be discussed together. Musiconeologist (talk) 00:05, 28 March 2024 (UTC)