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Ah, ok. I actually wasn't in that view when I nominated it (and didn't see the button). I'll do that in the future, thanks! --Pokechu22 (talk) 03:16, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

188.31.7.154's talk page

Hi, I noticed that you recently reverted the IP's edit(s) on thei talk page. Per WP:REMOVED, "Policy does not prohibit users, whether registered or unregistered users, from removing comments from their own talk pages, although archiving is preferred. The removal of material from a user page is normally taken to mean that the user has read and is aware of its contents. There is no need to keep them on display and usually users should not be forced to do so.". Per WP:OWNTALK, "Although archiving is preferred, users may freely remove comments from their own talk pages. Users may also remove some conten". There was no reason to edit war for restoring the warnings when the IP didn't want to keep them. Please keep this in mind next time. Callmemirela {Talk} ♑ 18:31, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! I was actually trying to find what policies there were relating to blanking talk pages a few minutes ago (but was unable to do so). I'll keep that in mind in the future. --Pokechu22 (talk) 18:35, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Good job, though

Hi there! I ended up checking your talk page after a user mistakenly wrote to me instead of you (probably because they somehow clicked on my talk link from the welcome message I left you, or something). Anyway, I noticed that so far all we've done is to tell you what you're doing wrong -- so I just wanted to encourage you not to let that get to you. Wikipedia can be an incredibly complex place to volunteer your time, and I hope that we're not scaring you off or anything. Please feel free to ask me any questions you have (and don't forget to {{ping}} me if you write here). —Darkwind (talk) 23:21, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Wasp (comics)

I'm not so sure that User:69.123.55.110 edited the article to address the overly detailed message. The content was moved without attribution to Janet van Dyne. Attribution is necessary per WP:COPYWITHIN. — JJMC89 (T·E·C) 03:16, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

@JJMC89: Hm. That's more complicated than most of the stuff I've been dealing with. I don't think the template-based replies cover that; do you think you can explain to @69.123.55.110 what exactly needs to be done? (I'm not exactly sure either) --Pokechu22 (talk) 05:56, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

The issue needs to be discussed at Talk:Wasp (comics). In order to do what 69.123.55.110 was doing, Wasp (comics) would need to be moveed to Janet van Dyne for the page history to remain intact. Consensus needs to be obtained first though. — JJMC89 (T·E·C) 18:14, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Himachal Pradesh

The previous statement about cereals didn't have a source. It is very well known that hashish cultivation is important in Himachal Pradesh. In particular, I am suspicious about an article which states an Indian region is very prosperous, relatively, based solely on hydroelectric dams, tourism and agriculture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.15.31.145 (talk) 02:06, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Alright, I guess it probably is accurate. It still would be helpful to find a source. A quick search makes it seem likely, but I don't really know enough about that subject to make full decisions. As for the statement on cereals, it is sourced in the main article, Economy of Himachal Pradesh. I've copied over that source to the main article. --Pokechu22 (talk) 02:22, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Oops, forgot to add a ping. Should give you a notification now. @151.15.31.145: --Pokechu22 (talk) 03:18, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you for citation fix

Thank you for your citation fix on one of the articles I was working on for my university assignment. I had much trouble trying to fix this issue and my university teachers were quite confused with the problem too. I've finished the editting the article now but you've saved me a lot of headache as I am very new to Wikipedia editing. Thank you again! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lche0142 (talk • contribs) 04:48, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

Glad to help, @Lche0142:! Here's an explanation of each problem I fixed in my edit:

1. 97816160822601616082267 isn't a valid ISBN, but actually two separate ISBNs merged together (9781616082260 and 1616082267), both of which mean the same thing (one is the newer ISBN-13, the other is the older ISBN-10; the last digit differs due to different check digit algorithms; more info in the ISBN article). I've been looking for pages with ISBN errors lately (using Category:Pages with ISBN errors) and that's how I spotted the article.
2. The url field needs the protocol to be specified (https:// in this case, but there could be cases where ftp is used for example)
3. The doi field only needs the text after the url, so 10.2968/059001011 instead of https://doi.org/10.2968/059001011. The reference template automatically links it.
4. The date field wants a date formatted per MOS:DATES, which doesn't include slash-based dates.
5. Lastly, The named reference ":0" was defined multiple times with different content happened due to two references having the same name. Help:Cite errors/Cite error references duplicate key explains how that happens, but since you're using the visual editor, I don't think the names show up anywhere. I think that can only be fixed from the source editor (which I did by changing the reference name to :4, which wasn't used by anything else). I don't use the visual editor myself, so there may be a way to set reference names in it that I just don't know of, though.

Hope this helps with any future problems! --Pokechu22 (talk) 05:53, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

ISBN error

Thanks for the fix on Synonym. It turns out that the ISBN listed on the copyright page of the book didn't include the check digit, though the one printed on the back cover (with the bar code) did. I should have noticed that it was too short! Thanks again, --Macrakis (talk) 14:36, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

"Django's Gypsies" ISBN problem

Hi Pokechu22, I was interested in your statement and recent edit on the page Gypsy jazz:

• Ian Cruickshank (1994): Django's Gypsies - The Mystique of Django Reinhardt and His People. Ashley Mark Publishing. ISBN 0-872639-06-2, OCLC 32394702 -- other possible ISBNs are 1-872639-06-2 and 0-87263-906-1 but these do not give results on WorldCat --

I believe I added that ISBN from my personal copy that I have in front of me. The same ISBN is given on the copyright page and also the back cover (with spaces instead of dashes, same in both places). I must confess it never occurs to me to wonder whether the printed number is correct, I just write what I see! Thanks for checking. So in this case do we presume that the printed one is incorrect, or maybe that it was never registered? New area for me... Regards Tony 1212 (talk) 19:30, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

@Tony 1212: If it's the one that's printed on there, it's probably fine. ISBNs have a check digit that's designed to detect typos, but sometimes the publisher makes a mistake with it. {{isbn}} performs a check on these and adds pages to Category:Pages with ISBN errors if the check digit doesn't match; I've been keeping watch on that category lately. Normally I try to check them with Google Books, but Django's Gypsies doesn't have a scan there (only two catalog entries). If you've got the book and can confirm that the ISBN is that one, then there isn't anything else that needs to be done (the invalid1=yes parameter moves the page into Category:Pages with listed invalid ISBNs, and I added a link to WorldCat for convenience). Hopefully that helps :) --Pokechu22 (talk) 19:49, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Well, actually, there is one other thing to do; I've been recently making note of such invalid ISBNs over on the Open Library; since you have this book, it might help if you could fill in additional data for its record there (that I just created). --Pokechu22 (talk) 19:54, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks Pokechu22, I do not have a login for Open Library, probably do not want one :) but I can confirm the book's dimensions - A4 (30 x 21 cm nominal). There is a description of the book on the inside cover etc. but it is probably copyright - same on other sites (Amazon or wherever), so probably best not to copy this in... Cheers Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 20:11, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Description on Amazon here - although you have probably already visited that page. I don't know where their stated date of 1997 comes from, though, possibly a reprint or just an error. Cheers Tony Tony 1212 (talk) 23:05, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your help on ISBN problems

Thanks for helping with the ISBN numbers. I am a *real* stickler for accuracy, and insist that at least the numbers are accurate. 170.75.140.124 (talk) 23:27, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Internazionale (magazine) moved to draftspace

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@Mccapra: I don't plan on improving that draft. If there's a way to delete it, I'm fine with it, since the only content is my own rough translation from French (though the only one I see in WP:CSD is after letting it languish 6 months; it doesn't fit under X2 since it's not a pure machine translation). I only created it to resolve a dead link next to some other error in an article. For whatever reason, I do see two citations on Internazionale (disambiguation), though. --Pokechu22 (talk) 17:33, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

A cupcake for you!

Thanks for creating the categories! (I'm beat after so much tagging so I'm glad I can take a break now ) — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 02:45, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

@Alexis Jazz: Glad to help! I saw it added to one page and realized that it would probably be a massive pain to create them after the fact if there wasn't a list of them, so I made sure to create them as you added them. And thanks for tagging the pages; they'll probably be helpful. --Pokechu22 (talk) 02:59, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Ledger Art

Hi Pokechu22, I see that you tagged a citation I added to Ledger art for "failed verification". While you may not be able to verify via online resources, I happen to own a hard copy of the book in my private library. If you do not believe me, I can post an image of me holding the actual print book itself in my hands. I will be untagging the "failed verification" tag, and wanted to reach out in advance to let you know I will be doing so. Please do let me know if you want visible verifiable proof that I own the book itself. Thank you. Netherzone (talk) 22:11, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi Netherzone, the specific thing I failed to verify was that the book used the phrase "ledger art". I was able to find and verify the existence of the book online (and that it seems to be relevant); it just doesn't seem to specifically support the specific statement that "Ledger art is a term for Plains Indian narrative drawing or painting on paper or cloth". (See Template:Failed verification#When to use). The book does seem to be a perfectly appropriate source for other things, and I'd be fine with the citation being moved to a different place (ideally with a page number), or to the further reading section. The plainsledgerart.org reference seems be enough to confirm the term (which I didn't see before), but based on my understanding of MOS:LEADCITE there probably doesn't need to be a citation at all. Hopefully that clarifies things; note that I know nothing about ledger art itself (I've just been doing a search through articles where LCCNs were tagged in a way other than the lccn parameter on {{cite book}}). --Pokechu22 (talk) 22:22, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I've temporarily uploaded a photo of the first page of chapter 1 in the book, to prove I own the book and that the term art and artist is used to describe ledger book drawings. I also move the citation to a different section. I will be deleting the image soon, therefore I would appreciated hearing back that you have seen it. The book is from 1967 and was never digitized online, and I doubt it will be since it is a niche field of history and art history. Also, the book does not have an ISBN number assigned, because I think it's before there were ISBN numbers were invented or widely used. Thanks in advance, and nice meeting you here. Netherzone (talk) 22:59, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the image, Netherzone. I think the source of confusion was that the book actually was digitized (here by the Internet Archive), which is what I was basing my statements off of (I had also added that link into the citation). Entering ledger art in the search box there gives no results, which is what caused me to add the tag. But, as your image shows, the first chapter is titled "The Artist and His Work", so, yeah, it does make sense that it's called ledger art (and that's something that anyone doing more than my quick check would have spotted). Hopefully this clarifies things! --Pokechu22 (talk) 00:31, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

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your name is wrong, it actually pikachu22, fyi, so u can correct it. - sicneryly, mr. moo

p. s. ur welcome :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.85.177.38 (talk) 05:17, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

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In the edit summary of this edit, you surrounded a word with underscores as a way of emphasizing it, as documented in "Underscore § 'Simulated' underlines in plain-text" as a technique applicable "[i]n plain-text applications ... where emphasis markup is not possible". You many not be aware that underlining is usually possible in edit summaries using the "combining low line", U+0332. Rather than entering in_this_article, you could have used

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which would have yielded "in t̲h̲i̲s̲ article". If you have AutoHotkey, I have suggested a shortcut here, but putting ̲ (or ̲) on your clipboard and inserting it after each letter of "this" isn't much harder.

The technique doesn't work so well with wide letters — m's or capitals. Using this technique, one has to omit underlining letters with descenders. For a word like "this", the technique works well.

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@Peter M. Brown: Thanks for the tip! I actually usually use underscores to indicate italics for some reason (I think JIRA's markup triggered the habit and several markdown variants support both underscores and asterisks for italics so I've kept it up). But it's useful to know about this for future edit summaries, and italics vs underline don't have that much of a difference in meaning. One problem I can see happening is that some of my edit summaries get right up to the character limit, and this technique would double the amount of characters for each emphasized word (I'd assume at least), but that's probably not that big of a deal. --Pokechu22 (talk) 03:18, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

With my AutoHotkey script, I do add one more to the character count for each emphasized letter. But pasting the six-character string ̲ after each letter would increase the character count by six times the number of emphasized letters. (Using ̲ would make it seven times.) This edit summary would have been impossible using this technique. I wondered: isn't there some way of putting the combining low line on the clipboard so that one could just paste it?

Assuming that you have Windows and the numeric keypad, typing Alt+818 using the keypad in Wordpad, followed by Ctrl+A and then Ctrl+C, sets up the clipboard so that one can underline a letter in an edit summary by positioning the cursor right after it and typing Cntl+V. Oddly, this doesn't work so well in non-Wikipedia text, e.g. in Wordpad itself.

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Joshua T. Owen

Yeah, that was an XfDcloser fail as a result of some weirdness that seems to occur when you have redirect markup in an article that also contains article content and wikilinks. I'm in the process of self-reverting the rest of it -_- ♠PMC♠ (talk) 22:41, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, and that's an odd bug for sure. Quoting what I originally wrote on your talk page, perhaps XFDCloser naively assumes that if a link to an article being deleted is found on a redirect, the redirect targets that article and thus links to that redirect should also be removed (but the redirect itself doesn't need to be deleted?) — it at least seems like a plausible explanation to me. --Pokechu22 (talk) 22:52, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

That was my guess as well. I imagine it's got to be a super-rare occurrence, since redirects aren't supposed to contain any other content. I'm glad I caught it and was able to self-revert without causing any further noticeable issues. Thanks for fixing the redirect issue on the Chestnut Hill article :) ♠PMC♠ (talk) 04:26, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

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Hello; I’m about writing my first enwiki page as a page linked to its Persian ones. I’ve read about the policy which may takes 3-4 months for a confirmation. Also this page was deleted for a few times. Now I need some help about the reason of deletion and also to guide me how to make one. BTW the Persian page is ارشا اقدسی. Looking forward to your answer thanks. Atena ak2 (talk) 12:36, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Atena ak2, unfortunately I don't think I can help you. I'd recommend asking over at Wikipedia:Teahouse instead. (Note that to link to an article on the Persian Wikipedia from here, you can write [[:fa:ارشا اقدسی]] which produces fa:ارشا اقدسی; see Help:Interlanguage links for details.) --Pokechu22 (talk) 17:50, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

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Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp

Dear pokechu22,

Thanks for your efforts to make Wikipedia a better place. However, I must say that your deletion of the Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp page was unfortunate.

There are concrete references regarding the game and a general release time frame. In fact, April 3 2022 is a presumed global release date.

If your main reason for deleting my article was due to the game not being released yet, the I would suggest you also inspect other games that have Wikipedia pages such as Horizon Forbidden West and Star Citizen. Both games are to be released in the future (I'm not so sure about Star Citizen though).

I look forward to your reply and your reconstructionof deleting the Re-Boot Camp Wikipedia Page Fah112778 (talk) 05:47, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

@Fah112778: Hi, I actually wasn't the one that removed the article; that was instead @Scope creep (my name appeared in the edit message because I was the last person to edit the redirect before you; I understand why that confused you).

I don't know the details of the policies on upcoming video games, but there certainly are several articles on them (see Category:Upcoming video games and Category:Upcoming video games scheduled for 2022). Most of these seem to have more detailed development sections, but I don't know how much information is available for Re-Boot Camp.

I think anyone would agree that there should be an article after the game releases (when presumably more sources exist); I'm not sure what the right threshold for creating one is.

One other option is to put the page at Draft:Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp until the game releases, at which point it could be moved back; see Wikipedia:Drafts for more information. --Pokechu22 (talk) 06:02, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I still fail to why it was deleted. @Scope Creep argues that even the upcoming game pages should be deleted.

He refers to WP:FUTURE, but that primarily focuses on really vague news.

I still think the Re-Boot Camp deserves a proper page. Fah112778 (talk) 11:49, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

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Wintergatan youtube link

It's confusing to me too, which site is which. At https://wintergatan.net/ the More...WINTERGATAN ONLINE menu first entry is to https://www.youtube.com/user/wintergatan2000, which appears to be the same as the https://www.youtube.com/c/Wintergatan you added. I don't know about the other channels at all. But I also don't feel strongly about its exclusion from our article. DMacks (talk) 06:22, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing out that page (https://wintergatan.net/pages/follow-wintergatan) - I tried to find a page like that, but the closest I found was the contact page, which only has an email address. The link I was referring to was the one on the main page under "DESIGN OF MARBLE MACHINE 3 LIVESTREAMED HERE", which goes to a second channel. My statement about prominence was only considering that link, not the "Wintergatan online" page; with that in mind the inclusion is a bit more borderline but I still think it's useful enough to readers to include it.

To clarify the phenomena you're seeing, YouTube has 3 different channel URL formats. The /channel/id one is unique for every channel, while /user/name and /c/name are both custom ones; /user/name is an older one that can no longer be created, while /c/name is still possible to create (the name does not have to match between the two). In this case, the primary channel is /user/wintergatan2000 = /c/Wintergatan = /channel/UCcXhhVwCT6_WqjkEniejRJQ and the secondary channel is /c/Wintergatan2021 = /channel/UCskyt8vo4SRDs4lKF7_ObSw. The best way I know of to go between these is that clicking on the channel from a video gives the /channel/ URL, and then changing a tab while on the /channel/ URL changes the URL to a /c/ one if it exists. Not that it matters as much here, as {{YouTube}} requires you to chose exactly one of them, but it's still good to know. --Pokechu22 (talk) 06:57, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

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Avoided double redirect removal

OK, I take your point and won't do more of those. I was working on clearing things from Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations, in which that redirect category tagging causes a link-to-self to show up, so I can't get Novint falcon cleared out. Better ideas are of course welcome. Dicklyon (talk) 21:23, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

@Dicklyon: Hmm. Probably the best thing to do would be to exclude instances of a page transcluding itself from the report. I think that would be a simple change to the code that generates it (a copy of which is at Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked miscapitalizations/Configuration and Wikipedia:Database reports/Linked misspellings/Configuration, though I assume those pages are only for reference and editing them wouldn't change behavior) to not include it in the category if p1 == p2, but I'm not 100% sure. I'll bring it up on Wikipedia talk:Database reports; presumably someone there knows how to change it. --Pokechu22 (talk) 21:31, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

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I see you have added a warning template to the talk page of 64.150.135.43, and categorized the edit as humor. How do you find the most accurate template and not just "vandalism"? Apollogetticax|^talk 21:17, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

I set up Wikipedia:Twinkle a long time ago and use its template picker (which also shows a preview of what the template will look like). Generally for first edits I use {{uw-test1}} or {{uw-joke1}} if they seem appropriate, or {{uw-vandalism1}} otherwise, but if it persists I'd generally use {{uw-vandalism2}} unless it particularly looks like a joke or test edit. For edits that look like actual spam, I usually start with {{uw-spam2}} instead of {{uw-spam1}} due to spam2's mention of the nofollow attribute (though that's pretty situational). Hopefully that helps! Pokechu22 (talk) 21:49, 24 June 2024 (UTC)

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