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POWER10 ref
Greetings! I love your reference addition on the POWER10 page. I don't have access to such publications. But I surely would love to read some.. Can I pretty please? -- Henriok (talk) 17:35, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
- Erm thanks, but it was just a Google search that found it (as they've indexed it). A quick search for the title gives a free download here [1] . Enjoy. Widefox; talk 20:42, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
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Hello. Please do not change the importance of WPDOGS articles on the talk page unless you are a member of said project and are referencing the project's assessment criteria Wikipedia:WikiProject Dogs/Assessment - we have it covered. William Harris (talk) 09:59, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
- User:William Harris which article? If I did a bad job, I may agree it's a bad edit, but until I know what you're talking about I'm none the wiser. Have you made such a request to other editors? Please read the guideline WP:ASSESS#Assessing articles "...anyone can add or change an article's rating..." Widefox; talk 22:40, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
- No, its not a "bad edit" to Rabies virus, and yes I do advise other editors. The assessment policy (above) relates to class=, and not importance=. WPDOGS has its own importance scale, which we use to prioritise our articles for actions, as below:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide#Tagging pages with WikiProject banners: "Many WikiProjects use talk page banners to mark certain pages as within the scope of the WikiProject. This helps the WikiProjects to organize their progress improving pages within the project's scope......Consequently, pages should only be marked with WikiProject banners for projects that intend to support the tagged pages."
- Thanks, now I know what edit you're talking about (my advice is always include an edit link or at least the article name when talking about other editor's edits), and yes I'm aware a talk page edit is not an article edit. It isn't a "policy" but a guideline, and with that in mind, I'm sure you've seen that the article was originally assessed by a non WPDOGS member [2]. I guess my 9 month old edit [3] was about the disparity between WPdogs and WPcats, which now seems to be correct per the scales, seems I corrected in the wrong direction on further inspection. I would personally encourage non project members to edit, the exact opposite of your advice, despite you having to correct that rating twice, partly as there was clearly an issue with the ratings, but more importantly... to foster the bigger picture of collaboration with this being, you know what, a wiki that can be changed by anyone. Widefox; talk 00:39, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
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Evaluation of complex analysis
I support with the quality scale, but do you have any opinions about the priority scale? I was not able to evaluate the priority scale because I was told at the help desk that Vital articles and maths ratings are different criteria, so I decided to listen to them instead of immediately evaluating them based on Vital articles. If you don't have an opinion, I would like to gather opinions by WikiProject mathematics.(I mean, I can't decide.) Thank you for improving the complex analysis article.--SilverMatsu (talk) 15:54, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
- No opinion - the automated rater removed it, so I didn't even see it had changed it. I'm guessing that's correct, else it should be fixed. Widefox; talk 19:35, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you for your reply.--SilverMatsu (talk) 15:36, 20 March 2021 (UTC)
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Dab abbreviations project
Hi! Remember this discussion? It partly concerned one editor who was in the habit of mechanically removing any acronyms from dab pages that didn't happen to be mentioned in the linked articles. I was left with the impression that there was going to be a project to review those edits and add back inappropriately removed dab entries. Has there been any progress on that? I've had a quick look, and there were just over 1,000 such edits in the past two years. In the small sample I've examined, there were a lot of entries that should probably be added back. – Uanfala (talk) 13:53, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
- Hi! I've just re-lived the discussion. I don't remember any project, but the thought of validating n abbreviations on 1000 dab pages is something. It may be useful to bring up the subject again if it's still ongoing, to attempt to reach consensus on the edits. Widefox; talk 18:54, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah, that would be a massive undertaking. I'll bring it up on the project talk page at some point, though before that I think there'd need to be a good re-evaluation of the existing guidelines in WP:DABABBREV (its fundamental assumption, for example, is that articles will necessarily mention any acronyms – but that's often not seen in practice, and there doesn't seem to be anything requiring it). – Uanfala (talk) 21:19, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
- Yup, as I detailed on that page, in practice I suspect that users land on the dabs and add missing initialisms there, job done as far as they are concerned and they can then navigate on to their articles. Article editors may be unaware of the abbreviations. The freedom to navigate to articles outways the freedom from obscure (not not incorrect) initialisms in the spirit of disambiguation being about navigation only. To satisfy WP:V and keep editorial control where it should be at the article, a reference on the talk of the article would be suffice IMHO, where consensus could be reached for invalidation and would make checking validity on the dabs quicker when dab editors periodically clean dabs. Widefox; talk 22:37, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah, that would be a massive undertaking. I'll bring it up on the project talk page at some point, though before that I think there'd need to be a good re-evaluation of the existing guidelines in WP:DABABBREV (its fundamental assumption, for example, is that articles will necessarily mention any acronyms – but that's often not seen in practice, and there doesn't seem to be anything requiring it). – Uanfala (talk) 21:19, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
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- Just a comment off topic from the main: I'm not feeling heated about this, and I hope you're not either. I'm sensing some edge in your reply; I'm sorry if I'm misreading that. I'm about to drop off for the day, you might think about doing that too if this is bothering you. —swpbT • go beyond • bad idea 21:37, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
- Well feel heated, listen to feedback, live! Widefox; talk 21:55, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, I don't understand what that means. —swpbT • go beyond • bad idea 14:59, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
- I'm saying, I don't have a problem if you're annoyed about your edits being reverted. Widefox; talk 16:23, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
- I've been clear about my concern, and that isn't it. —swpbT • go beyond • bad idea 17:26, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
- I'm saying, I don't have a problem if you're annoyed about your edits being reverted. Widefox; talk 16:23, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, I don't understand what that means. —swpbT • go beyond • bad idea 14:59, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
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(snip) moved to, you know, the article in question. Talk:St Margarets railway station (Hertfordshire). Widefox; talk 12:43, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
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Hi. The graphs you made there are really informative. Do you know if anyone has similar graphs that are more up to date?
I've noticed we have crossed the threshold and now have fewer than 1000 admins and <500 active ones. --Dweller (talk) Old fashioned is the new thing! 13:58, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
- Hi. Glad they are of some use. I don't know of any others, but I still have original data. I will update it. I'm keen to compare the extrapolation with the new data. Widefox; talk 00:08, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
- Oh, terrific! --Dweller (talk) Old fashioned is the new thing! 11:20, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
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- Good news - last months data now in it, and yes the obvious is that we're at an all-time low. Technical glitch - the pre-release of LibreOffice has corrupted the graph, so I'm going backwards currently. Widefox; talk 21:14, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
- Oh, terrific! --Dweller (talk) Old fashioned is the new thing! 11:20, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
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Removed your tags from the Oberon-2 article which date back to over 10 years ago. They were arguably no longer relevant, but you may disagree. If so, perhaps you may want to create a discussion on Oberon-2's talk to discuss specifics on the need for any new tags. Thank you for your consideration in advance. Wukuendo (talk) 20:57, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
- I replied on your page. I suggest if you want further discussion, to have that on the article's talk. Regards, Widefox; talk 23:06, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
- Upon thinking about it, though I'm a fan of Oberon-2, it would probably better for me to excuse myself. Thus leave it to yourself and the other more experienced editors who have been involved with the article for years, and should be invested in its quality. This will likely be a better way to avoid conflict. Yourself and the others can lead and conduct the discussion on its talk page as you see fit and spearhead the effort to resolve the issues, so that the tags can one day be removed. Thank you for your time and service.Wukuendo (talk) 02:17, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
- Recuse because...you have a WP:COI ? Widefox; talk 12:07, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
- To excuse oneself is a polite English term for leaving or (as in this case) to refrain from getting involved any further. I have no COI regarding Oberon-2 or any parties connected to it. I'm not sure where this is coming from or going, but letting you know that is the case. Do not want to entertain any conflicts about the issue. It was my personal assessment that you wanted to keep such tags above the Oberon-2 article, despite the years they have existed. As mentioned, I thought it better for yourself and those more invested in the Oberon-2 article (with years of making contributions to it) to resolve the related issues to get the tags removed.Wukuendo (talk) 21:06, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
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- Upon thinking about it, though I'm a fan of Oberon-2, it would probably better for me to excuse myself. Thus leave it to yourself and the other more experienced editors who have been involved with the article for years, and should be invested in its quality. This will likely be a better way to avoid conflict. Yourself and the others can lead and conduct the discussion on its talk page as you see fit and spearhead the effort to resolve the issues, so that the tags can one day be removed. Thank you for your time and service.Wukuendo (talk) 02:17, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
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Hallo, I've just retargeted this redirect, which you made in 2018, from Iron overload to Hereditary haemochromatosis which appears almost certainly to be a synonym ... but checking in with you here in case there's something I missed and I've got it wrong!
I'm currently falling down a rabbit hole from adding a link to the longlist of Lakeland Book of the Year to writing about a poet who says she has "Genetic Haemachromatosis" ... when the article is ready I'll drop her an email to point out that there are at least two dead links on her "about" page! PamD 14:13, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
Hi PamD, yes I concur. We still have this problem: Looking at Iron overload#Non-classical hereditary hemochromatosis and the hatnote at Hereditary haemochromatosis, looks like we may not be disambiguating Hereditary haemochromatosis / Genetic haemochromatosis i.e. there's a primary topic Haemochromatosis type 1 (aka "classical" hemochromatosis, aka HFE-related Hemochromatosis) and the other genetic causes of hemochromatosis (2-5) are potentially non-primary topics? I can't remember if that was my reasoning to target the broader topic rather than main genetic subtopic, but mirroring as a synonym seems better. In the absence of knowing more about it, I'm not sure what should be done, but we seem to be doing better than, say https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/haemochromatosis/causes/ . Congrats on Polly Atkin, very interesting read. Widefox; talk 22:33, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
Your summaries say you cleaned this dab up "according to WP:MOSDAB". Just a reminder, WP:MOSDAB incorporates MOS:LONGDAB, which includes MOS:NOORPHANS and MOS:DABOVERLAP, which says "For one or two items that fit in multiple sections: duplicate these entries in each appropriate section." Readers may reasonably expect to find a publishing imprint like Zephyr Books in the "Businesses" section, even if it isn't strictly speaking a business itself. —swpbT • beyond • mutual 15:13, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Swpb. I think there's two topics raised. 1. Zephyr and 2. MOS:LONGDAB:
- 1. The Books entry was listed twice, consecutively [4] which doesn't seem useful to readers to me, does it to you? At the top of all guidelines it says "common sense". So I'd say either way isn't a big thing for readers.
- 2. As you're the main author of MOS:LONGDAB, I'm not sure if you're really inviting other dab editors such as myself to participate in shaping it? Widefox; talk 18:21, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
- 1. It doesn't matter that the entries were consecutive, because there is a header between them – if a reader expected the entry to be in "Businesses" and so clicked "Businesses" in the ToC, the heading "Businesses" would be at the top of their screen, with the "Arts and media" entry off screen and the reader having no clue to scroll up to find it.
- That's one navigation path, yes, but not the only one. In fact, last time I checked the majority of our users were on mobile, and there's no ToC on mobile (both app and browser), so simple analysis would say that's a minority case (caveat: mobile browser has closed sections, so there's at least merit there). I return to my point. I also stick by my edit summaries, MOSDAB was and is correctly used. I just don't know what you mean by "incorporates". Widefox; talk 00:05, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- Why would a navigation route have to be the only one, or even the majority one, for it to make sense to help readers who do use it? Navigating from the ToC is hardly an obscure approach. "Incorporates" in the sense of incorporation by reference: MOS:DABGROUPING starts by directing to LONGDAB, which would be part of MOSDAB but for its length. It has the same weight as the rest of MOSDAB, so if you are claiming to be making changes to meet MOSDAB, that entails following LONGDAB too. "Following" doesn't mean "no exceptions", but it does mean that changes directly counter to the guide should be explicitly justified. —swpbT • beyond • mutual 14:44, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- That's one navigation path, yes, but not the only one. In fact, last time I checked the majority of our users were on mobile, and there's no ToC on mobile (both app and browser), so simple analysis would say that's a minority case (caveat: mobile browser has closed sections, so there's at least merit there). I return to my point. I also stick by my edit summaries, MOSDAB was and is correctly used. I just don't know what you mean by "incorporates". Widefox; talk 00:05, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- 2. It's completely irrelevant how much of LONGDAB I wrote; what's relevant is that it is an official guideline, and became one through explicit consensus like every other guideline. And so, like any other guideline, any part of it can change if there is consensus. —swpbT • beyond • mutual 20:46, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
- I'm sure we're both aware that until recently it was your essay. Do you think it's at all appropriate that you are reminding me about it like this, as if it's policy, which even MOSDAB isn't? Widefox; talk 00:05, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- I'm reminding you that it's a guideline, since your summaries cite a guideline that includes it by reference. I know you don't go around ignoring all guidelines just because they aren't policies, and I know you know that's not how Wikipedia works. If you want to challenge part of any guideline, you know the way – and you know that "this used to be an essay" isn't going to work as an argument against something that was promoted to guideline status by the community. —swpbT • beyond • mutual 14:44, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- I'm sure we're both aware that until recently it was your essay. Do you think it's at all appropriate that you are reminding me about it like this, as if it's policy, which even MOSDAB isn't? Widefox; talk 00:05, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- 1. It doesn't matter that the entries were consecutive, because there is a header between them – if a reader expected the entry to be in "Businesses" and so clicked "Businesses" in the ToC, the heading "Businesses" would be at the top of their screen, with the "Arts and media" entry off screen and the reader having no clue to scroll up to find it.
- (talk page watcher) I looked at Zephyr out of curiosity, noticed that it started with "Zephyr may also refer to...", wondered what had previously preceded that line to justify the "also", and reinstated the opening line which has been present since 2016 and puts the rest into context, but was removed on 10 May. WP:IAR perhaps; I think it improves the dab page. It's also the meaning which comes to my mind first, though I know this doesn't mean it's the primary topic (but I'm female, UK-based, and a child of the 1950s, so not what's perceived as our typical reader or editor). PamD 07:30, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- oops, I must have overlooked removing that "also" with that diff above ...[5] yup, I missed it.
- There's a few such dabs with dictionary type definitions at the top, which I generally consider legacy / in need of routine dab cleanup per MOSDAB. AFAIR I typically try to convert such "ledes"/ dictdef entries to an entry at or close to the top. OK, as to the merits of this one on Zephyr, I agree that it doesn't feel right to put those two entries in the bulk and at the bottom in the Other uses section. Would you be happy with the two entries like this:
1. Zephyr commonly refers to:
- Zephyrus or Zephyr, one of the Anemoi and the Greek god of the west wind
- West wind or light wind, in European tradition
Zephyr may also refer to:
Widefox; talk 10:56, 14 May 2024 (UTC) (edited)
- Hmm, I'm not quite sure about "commonly" as it may be a bit of an exaggeration. Could you put "traditionally" or "originally", in a slightly WP:IAR way, but which would be helpful and accurate? PamD 14:23, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, that's the conundrum when the dictdefs aren't obviously the most likely / highly likely items but are more obscure words so seemingly useful to define at the top. Per MOSDAB we just rely on Wiktionary links and there's no special accomodation for the etymology...There's two other styles I've seen:
- 2.
Zephyr often refers to:
- 3. least common, possibly only this dab, our "highly divergent" example Congo:
Zephyr may refer to:
- I'd personally want to avoid "traditionally" or "originally" as it's veering into etymology, covered by our Wiktionary links. Widefox; talk 16:59, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- Yes, that's the conundrum when the dictdefs aren't obviously the most likely / highly likely items but are more obscure words so seemingly useful to define at the top. Per MOSDAB we just rely on Wiktionary links and there's no special accomodation for the etymology...There's two other styles I've seen:
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