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May 25

Infobox books

I just had a look at Human, All Too Human and wondered whether it wouldn't be better to place the infobox headline at least on the same level as the introduction line – like in other infoboxes, too. otherwise you have this big spacing... What do you think?--Erdic (talk) 02:22, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Erdic, yes, it sounds a good suggestion and can be done technically. But my view would be that while the opening lines in the article (and in many other similarly designed articles like Orange (fruit)) are about other disambiguated articles, the infobox is specifically about the particular article. Therefore perhaps we should let it remain the way it is, so the infobox details are correlated with the specific article rather than with other articles. This becomes a bit more important in mobile views (for examples, here are the mobile views of Orange and of Human, All Too Human). Thanks. Lourdes 02:38, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Lourdes: Yes, in this respect you're absolutely right, of course. But what I would suggest is simply including the title in the box – as with probably the most other infoboxes. The aspect you mentioned has something to do with the position of the box as whole, but that would not be affected by my proposal, would it?--Erdic (talk) 02:53, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

AFD record

Where do I find a user's AFD nomination and !vote record? Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:15, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Roger, it is normally found at http://tools.wmflabs.org/afdstats/afdstats.py The site appears to be down right now. ~ GB fan 13:25, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks GB fan, yes I've noticed that wmflabs has been very flaky over the last few days. It also makes some mopping jobs difficult/impossible when the tools are unavailable. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:41, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2019 NBA All–Star Game article

Can you move the 2019 NBA All–Star Game article from the draft to the main article please cause it was announced yesterday. 2600:8803:7A00:976A:A098:D298:72D6:26DD (talk) 13:23, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Advice has been given previously to this editor, see #2017 Army Black Knights football schedule above (but glad to see a more polite request this time). --David Biddulph (talk) 14:51, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What's A More Polite Request 2600:8803:7A00:976A:A098:D298:72D6:26DD (talk) 17:10, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This statement "What no article Come on move it to the main article There's a reference I put it in and it needs to be moved now and stop being lazy." Is less then polite. Of course, you could create an account an then you could perform your own page moves. Until then remember that everyone here is a volunteer and no one is required to move anything. MarnetteD|Talk 17:21, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Userfication

There is an essay that I would like to propose moving from wikispace to userspace. If it I wanted to delete it, I would use prod or MfD, but is there some sort of template or procedure specifically for proposing the userfication of an essay in wikispace? --Guy Macon (talk) 15:13, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Guy Macon: See WP:USERFY. It has a list of steps to do when moving something from any namespace into userspace. RudolfRed (talk) 18:16, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That page describes how to just go ahead and userfy an essay whether or not the author objects and whether or not the community approves. I am looking for something like Wikipedia:Proposed deletion, but instead of me proposing deletion of the essay to see if anyone objects, I want to propose userfication of the essay to see if anyone objects, or something like Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion, but instead of me asking the community whether to delete the essay, I ask the community whether to userfy the essay. --Guy Macon (talk) 23:13, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

One way is to WP:IAR post it to MfD, clearly noting in your nom that you would want it userfied. I have put a couple of AfDs where the outcome I proposed was a redirect, but I could imagine others would rather keep or delete and wanted more input than by simply boldly redirecting. Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 08:57, 26 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! That would work. --Guy Macon (talk) 19:18, 26 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cory Stillman

In attempting to update the page of Cory Stillman, I seem to have created an issue where the summary shows up ahead of the infobox in the mobile version. Any help in correcting the issue would be appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.144.0.171 (talk) 16:03, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is intentional and not caused by you. See Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Infobox placement in mobile view. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:04, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@PrimeHunter: Thanks! I didn't realize this was the norm now. I'm just so used to seeing the infobox ahead of the summary in articles regarding hockey players that when it changed following my edit, I thought there was a problem.184.144.0.171 (talk) 19:14, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Syntax error introduced by AnomieBOT

User:AnomieBOT introduced a syntax error into reference [1] of HighScope on 2011-02-25T00:16:49‎: Before that edit, [1] was there without a syntax error noted. Since that edit, that note has ended with, “Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Epstein.2C_A._S." defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).”

The problem is that two different named references use the same name, <ref name="Epstein, A. S.">, referring to two different documents. As a result, the document indicated by <ref name="Epstein, A. S."/> is unclear.

Unless I misunderstand the history file, this syntax error has been there for over six years, and no one has taken the time to fix it.

I don't understand now AnomieBOT could have introduced such, but it looks to me like it did. DavidMCEddy (talk) 20:43, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"(see the help page)" has a link but these errors can be difficult. The software feature producing the error message was introduced in 2015. The error existed long before that and caused one of the "Epstein, A. S." definitions to be ignored without giving an error message. AnomieBOT fixed another error in [1], unquoted reference names with spaces. This caused the other existing error to activate. I have fixed it with [2] which gives another name to one of the two references. I had to figure out which of the two was intended when "Epstein, A. S." was later invoked without a definition. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:46, 25 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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